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Bill Bragin

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Imposing his taste on friends & strangers since 19xx. Agitador Cultural. Globalizer. Arts Monger from Long Island & Brooklyn now in Abu Dhabi UAE 

IG @activecultures Also me (w/ others): @NYUADArtsCenter @globalFEST_NYC Representing no one but me

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New Manu Chao. Sounds just like a sequel. In a good way.

youtu.be/PC-MJLoG2Kw?...

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Caption was supposed to say: Watching the Kendrick Lamar Big Steppers tour in Amazon. Definitely was not expecting the ventriloquist act.

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**screaming** Shitball Orange fell asleep at his own TRIAL, and we're caring that someone is taking a NAP? FFS.

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act

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!!!!!!!!!!

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M.P. Broache's avatar M.P. Broache @mpbroache.bsky.social
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I study this s—t for my job, and I do not think that it is good or healthy for ordinary citizens to have to vote, act, etc., like their rights and perhaps lives are on the line in every election

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M.P. Broache's avatar M.P. Broache @mpbroache.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day

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Even though I traveled the world, I didn’t see anything. I Am Celine Dion breaking my heart from the beginning.

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ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com's avatar ChrisⓋ WhyGameDev.com @chrisdeleon.bsky.social
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the year is 2024 and in the US we have b o o k c r i m e s

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Jessica Zellers's avatar Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social
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Hi everyone! One *extremely meaningful* thing you can do to fight back is to join library boards. Usually this is an appointed position, not elected. The time commitment for most public library board members is 1-2 hours monthly. I'm a former library director. Ask me anything.

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I’m away for the summer. We’ll announce our lineup on Aug 20 and start early September. I’ll start nagging you to book a dog sitter then 🤩

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Why is this worthy of posing? Know this about me. I mostly read on phone - short and micro format writing. When I do read books, it’s usually non-fiction and I have many going at once, in various stages of unfinishedness. Yes, ADHD mind. Thanks again whoever sent it to me.

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Still don’t know who sent me a physical book, especially one this long. But very happy to say I finished it last night. All 502 pages of it. Beautiful, urgent writing. And such an interesting structure of intersecting narratives, paralleling the intertwined root systems of the communicating forest.

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Do other people wake up having dreamt of house seat transactions?

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The best arguments in the world won’t change a person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story. The Overstory - Richard Powers

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Population control, reservations, or concentration camps. You decide.

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Went in cold (pun half intended) to kick off my visit to Montpellier Danse: Sorour Darabi‘s Mille et Une Nuits - through-conceived & deeply committed performances with a striking aesthetic centered around blocks of ice hanging from chains, ice melting from the heat of lights and non-binary bodies.

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WRITERS: DOWNLOAD PDFs OF YOUR CLIPS CREATORS: OWN COPIES OF YOUR WORK

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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how can it be "stealthy" if it's been in plain sight

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Ali Trotta's avatar Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social
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**points** This. DO NOT AGREE TO THIS SHIT. Run AWAY.

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Jon Green's avatar Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social
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Kendrick Lamar teaches us that, in public debate, refuting your opponent's arguments point by point is less effective than identifying your opponent's single greatest weakness and maintaining message discipline.

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The fact that you’re even having this internal debate has earned my respect.

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And why can’t you lose one left and one right and end up with a matching pair?

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Another reason I hate winter: Winter gear requires keeping track of a bunch of ACCESSORIES, and I have ADHD - which means I’m trapped in an eternal cycle of losing a single glove or sock or winter hat and being forced to buy new ones, which I will also promptly lose

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Bill Bragin 's avatar Bill Bragin @activecultures.bsky.social
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I mostly yell at lighting designers when they use green light. But somehow for The Smile (and Radiohead) they get away with it. But I must admit I’m waiting the whole show for Everything In Its Right Place.

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Rather than Satanic churches, let me recommend Center for Constitutional Rights, who use creative legal strategies, litigation and advocacy to push for legal change across a host of issues. ccrjustice.org

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As a NYer, this argument felt like a slap (in a good way) the first time I heard it. “The South ain't Red, folks. It's suppressed. Don't pray for the South to secede. Ride down here and help fight.”

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Revisiting places in Kallithea to search for standbys and Mezeklikia happily makes the cut. Good homemade sausage and pancetta with honey, salad with orange dressing and grilled cheese, fava, and 4€ half liter of house wine, in a mid-century modern vibe. Dinner for 2 with lots of leftovers, 39€.

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Citizen.Coping's avatar Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social
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"The Race of Sound" traces how the voice and its qualities are socially produced. It illustrates how listeners measure race through sound and locate racial subjectivities in vocal timbre—the color or tone of a voice. It looks at singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott:
#OpenAccess

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Just decided to watch Flower Drum Song for the first time on Kanopy. And my lord is it better and worse than I ever could have imagined.

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Musicology Duck's avatar Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social
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I will say, very selfishly, that the Librarian of Congress comes up for reappointment in the next presidential term and I would really like it to not be Betsy DeVos

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It only took me 40 minutes (and a summer) to successfully sign up for the Kallithea Municipal Pool. But now I can swim for 3€ a day. I’ve also learned that the difference between and almost Olympic size pool and an Olympic size pool is more than I thought.

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There are more clarinetists on tv in Greece than in the U.S.

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What a setting for a luminous concert. Last night, Anohni & the Johnsons at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus at the Acropolis as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival. Marina Abramovic introduced the show by leading the audience in collective breathing. “I’m a performance artist” she explained.

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KoKoKo! “Mokili is about moving the world so much that it’s going to tip over sort of... It has obviously influences from Kinshasa but also Kwaito and 90’s dance music.”

youtu.be/jCdRqx1h9E0?...

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Ali Trotta's avatar Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social
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Shamelessly pilfered from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com on Insta:

NYC libraries are facing a $58.3 million dollar budget cut that could force most branches to reduce service to just five days a week. On the Day of Action for Libraries, tell nycmayor & nyccouncil : #NoCutsToLibraries

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The algorithm followed this up with Death (from Detroit), fIREHOSE, and NY Dolls, and I don’t care what people say, HR is smart.

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