A glass tumbler on a grey quartz counter, holding a single large ice cube with a purple flower frozen at its top, floating in a light amber liquid.

Right now, in another timeline, a very different variant of the person I used to be is sitting down at a table for one with a brutally hoppy IPA and an equally bitter sense of ennui.

I hope she works it out. 💕

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Feels like he wanted the alto line SO BAD that he was willing to sacrifice the tenors to get it, maybe. Or maybe he really wanted that tenor color on the F#? Or maybe he was tired.

Telling impressionable young minds that Bach had a rhyme and reason was something I once felt weird about every day.

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I'm particularly excited for @siobhandougall.com and David Saldaña's new pieces, plus a new beautiful arrangement of Stevie Wonder's "Tree" by @jenwang.com . Come hang with us if you like plants and/or music!!

V v excited to be making music with these wonderful folks again!! Apparently TreePeople liked our Plantamonium program last year so much they asked us to come do it again, so that's what we're doing this Saturday, with some new bonus tracks.

This is my favorite new Mo Willems book.

Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Also:
— We thought it was fixed and then it did it AGAIN soon after.
— We didn't want to make our composer guest feel bad, but it was also SO FUNNY and it hurt to try that hard not to laugh.
— It'd been a long quarter, this was the final concert, & when that alarm went off it was like sure, why not.

Electronic music concert in grad school featuring music for Disklavier (player piano); at the end of a contemplative work, nobody was at the piano but it spontaneously burst out in “Surrey With A Fringe On Top” from “Oklahoma!”. Later in the same show, the fire alarm went off.

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Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets

Is it just me, or does the guy on the left appear to be wearing a camo baseball cap that says “PETUNIA”?

Saying the Pope is weak on crime is like saying "the pope is weak on crime" (there are no good analogies for how fucking stupid that is; it's a category that contains exactly one example)

Text reads: Olympics / The International Olympic Committee’s recent decision to reintroduce ‘sex testing’ for athletes is more likely to exclude women identified as female at birth than trans women, experts have said, as opposition to the policy change grows. Athletes, governments and experts have been objecting to the genetic sex testing that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) plans to reintroduce – including the scientist who originally identified the SRY gene that the tests check for.

The French government opposes the ban, saying enforced genetic testing is an invasion of privacy

Read more 👇
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This Xennial grew up alongside refugees of the Vietnam War so what the actual fuck

don't @ me about the syllable count here

"That's AI."

As an 8th grade teacher, this is a new insult the kids have been using this year, even on things unrelated to writing.

Someone does something stupid, or ridiculous, or cruel: "Ugh, you're AI."

from the Guardian 'Unhinged madman': US politicians react to Trump's expletive-laden threat to Iran Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing 'open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards'

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My gift to you, early transition woman, is some advice I wish I had received: anytime someone in our community pushes against your identity and appearance, investigate the people they date and their interests and behold, in horror, when it aligns exactly with what they’re telling you to do.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency
me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news
operator: is it a news site
me: not really
operator: why don’t you go to a news site
me: i don’t know
operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want
me: 75

music is not apolitical

A roped off area of the Boston Common with backpacks and little lid shoes and supplies. A sign reads In memory of 165 Iranian schoolgirls who were killed in a US airstrike.

#NoKingsBoston had a roped off area, in memoriam.

Tens of thousands of people walking the Boston Common, and yet everyone was respecting this space.

#NoKings

The jalapeño 🥰

It’s the caramelized onion and bacon together that makes the memory of them haunt you if you walk by.

Happy birthday! You're such an amazing person and I'm truly glad to know you.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Scrappy the marbled black and white cat for #Caturday
Scrappy was a black cat, whose coat started getting white at the age of 7, due to vitiligo, which is a genetic mutation causing skin or fur to lose its natural pigment.

FWIW I read it the same way as you; just that she wants to make sure to center the welfare of families and would-be renters, not the profits of the companies building complexes.