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singer/songwriter, concert host, and drink slinger. HIS, REL, and folklore nerd. adoptee. dual citizen 🇮🇹. she/her. 🌈 ATL>AVL> Bull City. I am writing you love notes. https://bio.site/julianafinch
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Could not be more thrilled to say tickets are live for Séance Listening Room's 2025 season premiere - Flamy Grant! This babe is everything and her show will heal your heart: www.julianafinch.com/merch/p/sean...

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Could not be more thrilled to say tickets are live for Séance Listening Room's 2025 season premiere - Flamy Grant! This babe is everything and her show will heal your heart: www.julianafinch.com/merch/p/sean...

On the plus side, I'm having some amazing conversations with industry* folks about how to imagine a more generative, creative, and sustainable way forward. It won't be overnight but many of us want it. *I realize I'm part of it but I have Feelings about this even being an "industry".

This week at FAI has really driven home that wonderful, relevant music is alive and well and there are a ton of great artists, but the industry meant to "support" and promote the work is failing them and not keeping up. Kill hustle culture and replace it with cultivation.

At Folk Alliance International this week, feeling both proud and comforted to be sharing space with artists who consider speaking truth to power, bolstering community, and activism important parts of the work.

"We serve neither king nor kaiser...”

Salut, Montréal! Happy to be here for the first time this weekend. Please tell me your favorite cocktail bars and restaurants.

I just

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want to read books, drink tea, and eat pastries in a humble seaside cottage during a raging storm?

If you're in NYC, please go. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

‘noblesse oblige’ i whisper to the raccoons as they gather beneath my deck for the weekly pizza party

Sunset in Durham was pretty last night, though.

Consider that organizations quickly bending to the DEI elimination "requirement" are not, in fact, obeying in advance, but are psyched to have the opportunity to go back to doing A Racism without consequence.

Happy Lupercalia! Honor the she-wolves in your life with flogging and feasting and maybe some public nudity, as a treat.

Done - you can do it, too! "Contact Us" > "Email Us" > an email form.

There is a lot of talk about blue states resisting, etc. and this educator would humbly suggest that this is not the way forward. I refuse to leave our people in red states behind. The Civil Rights Movement came from the Deep South. Red state progressives are some of the hardest working activists.

Top bestsellers this week at @bookshop-org.bsky.social. Love to see it.

This is a Valentine to the ones who are loving us now...

What are your favorite google workspace app alternatives? (Email, docs, etc.) Help a gal divest from a company that has fully abandoned "don't be evil” as its motto.

This is a Valentine. To the ones who are loving us now:

Good for her

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

Don't listen to the bosses Don't listen to their lies Us workers never had a chance Unless we organized Which side are you on, boys? Which side are you on? - Florence Reece, 1931

Lots of y'all are new & might not know: *BlueSky is not algorithm-based! Liking a post doesn't boost it - but reposting, quote-posting, or replying are all great ways to do that. *Alt-text for images is easy to do and helps make your posts accessible! *Block freely and often.

If I had telekinetic powers I would probably only use them to bring myself snacks when I'm already Perfectly Cozy and don't want to get up.

"The big problem is that the stairway is infinity feet tall. It goes all the way to heaven. I didn’t even know they made those. I cannot get it into the house. It already breaks every kind of building code and zoning rule."

Look at this fucking bird. It's a SMEW. Yes, a type of duck this motherfucker is called a SMEW. SMEW! Dig this majestic fucker, the mighty, but tiny, SMEW! Smew smew smew smew.

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

we need to up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and start America

Do you need a little snack? Here's a reminder that little snacks can really lighten the mood.