Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81

MTT #RIP [gift link]

grrrrrrrrrr auto-correct in alt text ugh

Aged white guy with very little gray hair wearing a beige T-shirt with a woodcut image of guitarist Derek Bailey and the caption Improvisation: It’s Nature and Practice in Music.

Bought myself a shirt.

I don’t know if I can say that out loud with a straight face… 😅

BLT on wheat toast with mayonnaise and avocado.

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”.

RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

CDC refuses to publish valid study detailing the effectiveness of COVID vaccines - Lawyers, Guns & Money Because spreading this information is inconsistent with the homicidally eugenicist goals of the current head of Health and Human Services: The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

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wtaf stupidest damn timeline

Intriguing new discovery: “Founded in 2026, VIDE is a selective guide to art in New York City. We share monthly listings of exhibitions, performances, and events.”

Check it out at vvvide.com.

Dave Mason, Traffic Co-Founder and “We Just Disagree” Singer, Dies at 79 The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and guitarist also had a hit with “Only You Know and I Know.”

The goods on Mason from the redoubtable Roy Trakin.

WE JUST DISAGREE: Dave Mason YouTube video by Dave Mason

Not incredibly well versed in Dave Mason arcana, but what a life… and what a song. youtu.be/jtap1eLYEYg?... #RIP

Federal judge calls RFK Jr. an “unsafe” leader in order protecting trans youth health care The broad ruling was designed to deflect future attacks on gender-affirming care for kids.

NEW: In a scathing ruling describing RFK Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals, and the transgender kids they treat.

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it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

The central theory of the tech bro manifesto is the conflation of masculine insecurity with generational fear of obsolescence, both produced within the capitalist machine. Our role is to subserviently empower them to use their secret skills that are beyond our comprehension, or else we are doomed.

*Company named after Device That Turns You Evil releases evil racist manifesto* I mean that seems a bit on the nose.

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

"The answer would remain secret for generations, legal experts predicted. “We’ll never know (at least, until our grandkids can read the justices’ internal papers from that time period),"
"The New York Times has obtained those papers and is now publishing them," -- www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

World Rhythms, by Annea Lockwood 3 track album

"…a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was."

Always a pleasure to spend time with Annea Lockwood.

Symphony No. 5 in D Major: I. Preludio Provided to YouTube by Warner Classics Symphony No. 5 in D Major: I. Preludio · Sir John Barbirolli Bax: Symphony No. 3 - Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 ℗ A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1944…

A rather charming Hallé Orchestra recording, complete with crackles, from 1944, to take you into the weekend...

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D Major: I. Preludio · Sir John Barbirolli

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RIP Berlioz you would have loved a loud-ass symphony for 100 electric guitars

SO MUCH rain beforehand. I recall viewing the pools of standing water with absolute terror.

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now WIRED tracked down some of the most prominent figures of last year’s DOGE invasion. Here's where they are now—in government and beyond.

NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...

June 12, 2026 David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center Branca Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) for 100 electric guitars Artwork by Robert Longo Conducted by Reg Bloor

Coming to @lincolncenter.bsky.social on June 12: an event that will "likely be the loudest show in the history of Lincoln Center" (their claim): Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13 "Hallucination City" for 100 electric guitars, conducted by Reg Bloor. Details here: lincolncenter.org/series/summe...

I definitely pondered Marley in this context, but confirmed that I would not been of sufficient age or enlightenment on the two occasions he played Houston (May 1976, July 1978).

I've always lamented that I /could/ have seen Elvis—but I would have been 8 years old, and my parents were NOT hip.

Jerry Garcia will forever top my all-time "coulda seen shoulda seen didn't see" list, along with James Brown, Fela Kuti, Frank Sinatra, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and D. Boon.

More wondrous and terrifying than I'd dared to hope.