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America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

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I’m deeply embarrassed and ashamed to be an American. I felt disgusted watching the video from the White House today. The administration might stand with dictators but I don’t. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

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Forget the awful news for 10 minutes and discover some things you maybe didn’t know about a really talented composer: youtu.be/QYiJNDRVX1w (well done @orchestraoftheageofenlightenment !)

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Well, to begin with today: 21 years ago, Facebook was founded. And everything’s been great ever since.

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What could be better than plagiarism software thieves complaining that some other, better thieves have used that software to make better, cheaper plagiarism software?

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I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it

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One piece of breaking news from today's newsletter that we don't believe has been reported elsewhere: György Kurtág, 99, is learning Chinese.

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Some 2024 photos

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The Slovenian flag is now flying alongside those of @esa.int's other Member States, after #Slovenia formally became our 23rd Member State on 1 January. www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

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The steps get easier via gravity but then get much harder when you try to exceed electron and then neutron degeneracy pressure.

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Uncannily self aware? Or executing a preprogrammed response to that specific question? The problem is that we’ll never know.

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2024: Water

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Ligeti giving a short public talk (with performed excerpts) on his Etudes for solo piano in NYC in 1986. Very entertaining. I had no idea his English was so good. youtu.be/GHexbh1_Y50

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The Guardian has a genius headline writer.

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Scelsi’s actual Ondioline improvisation that became his masterpiece Anahit. Absolutely fascinating. youtu.be/K0pq1GvBBsA

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Luigi #Nono: The Sound of Utopia is a must-see on Arte TV (mostly in German, subtitled in English). Interviews with Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Helmut Lachenmann etc, lots of extracts of Nono's work and wonderful images of #Venice www.arte.tv/en/videos/11...

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Hello furrends!! Remember us? It’s Bao Bao and his giant fluffy baby Cassie Pie (Cassie: I’m small baby here too Bao Bao). We’d just like to say we have joined this place - we were previously @bao_bao_bun and I’m hoping to connect with our wonderful friends here too #catsofbluesky #catsoftwitter

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I can't decide what to do tonight. I'm trying to choose between watching the presidential debate and pouring pure hydrofluoric acid into my ear canals. 50/50

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NGC 247 and Friends - ©Eric Benson - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

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We are now on Bluesky! We're an independent online classical music magazine based in Berlin, publishing new articles in English and German every week. If you're interested in #opera #musicology #journalism #classicalmusic give us a follow. van-magazine.com

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Joe, just drone strike Mar-A-Lago and save us all the heartache. Please. And send the SEALs to take out six SCOTUS Justices while you're at it, please? It's all legal now.

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Say “rigged election” ONE MORE TIME…

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RIP Donald Sutherland. I always enjoyed his work…. He was a damn fine actor. On a related note- dammit god wrong Donald!! 😏

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Almost - almost - makes one wish there was a god who could come down and act as a higher authority and make some fucking order.

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Who called a JAWS rip off set in France 'Under Paris', and not 'Shark de Triomphe'?

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Extraordinary

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Bluesky is officially “open” now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybody’s timelines. So block and give no oxygen.

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HOLY. SHIT. The Hawaii Supreme Court quoted Slim Charles from THE WIRE in their decision

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It is one of mine. All of the ones I've written so far are up at journal.neilgaiman.com/2020/12/a-ne...

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Composers whose music enters the public domain in the EU & US as of today, 1.1.2024: Arnold Bax, Albert Coats, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Joseph Jongen, Emmerich (Imré) Kálmán, Sergei Prokofiev (!), Roger Quilter and Django Reinhart. Still 3 more years for Sibelius, though.

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Human creativity never ceases to amaze. youtu.be/GFG70gFbvOg?...

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This needs more views. The piece is great and the performance is wonderful! First time I LOLd at a piece of new music in a long time. youtu.be/6Bh1jcSovjg?...

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