violanorth.bsky.social
musician, arts administrator, Quaker, baker, Granite Stater; he/him
"A curmudgeonly joy" — @doodlyroses.com
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Ooh, love an Italian pastry 🤤
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Um, wha happen to the 9?
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Yes, I ran out of normal parchment paper, shut up.
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Actual live footage
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Viola 2 in a sextet, no less! BUT... Dvořák. Soooo the left hand stretches are probably gonna be a little beasty.
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They do.
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Quite literally. Unfortunately, I do not get to shed my executive director duties while stepping back into being an actual musician, but we'll make it work somehow lol
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Sure, but the nation is wrong.
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Love an Iowa tenderloin sandwich!
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Also, should this not be “which is best?” or is this one of those classic Minnesota Public Radio things where the style guide indicates that you should use poor and confusing grammar whenever possible?
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My latest seeks to answer the question, which is better: ice cream, cake, or a smooth pile of dog poo?
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If it makes you feel any better, these types of lists always and without exception include every single Democrat from New Hampshire, not just one.
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I see.
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But there is a chasm of a difference between allowing for the possibility that peaceful and less-than-peaceful protest can coexist in a productive way, and being the type of person who just wants to slaughter your enemies.
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Mm, I don't know that I agree with that. I think that discussions pointing out the limitations of non-violent protest and the way it gets disingenuously held up as the only appropriate way to oppose anything are extremely legitimate, and I say that as a Quaker committed to non-violent solutions.
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I'm not going to start naming specific accounts so people can argue each individual case into the ground.
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If there was really a circle of ideologies, you'd see far right figures joining the far left as often as the other way around, but of course, that never, ever happens, because the far right would never discourage anyone who just wants to kill people.
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This was not about Gaza.
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I don't believe in the circle theory where far left and far right eventually meet, but the reason that theory has legs is that there is always a contingent of people on the left far more interested in violence than in ideas, and they'll happily switch sides if their interest in violence is blunted.