Tuba & Noise
@tubanoise.bsky.social
Tuba player, audio engineer, teacher, maker of sounds with metal and sand | Views are entirely my own and not reflective of my employer
We’re not meant to live in boxes. There’s no earthly reason for a plumber to be ignorant of history or philosophy or the duties inherent in citizenship. What is generally taught should not be crafted only as a deep dive for the initiates. No one should come away believing learning is optional.
“Now we have no more cookies to eat,” said Toad sadly. “Not even one.” “Yes,” said Frog, “but we have lots and lots of will power.” “You may keep it all, Frog,” said Toad. “I am going home now to bake a cake.”
say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please
would hogwarts hire a velociraptor? do you have to let a vampire inside your home - if he's your landlord? is a cop who fights crime as a werewolf by night technically a K9 unit who - deserves overtime? if they become partners, can they literally go anywhere and pull over whomever they want?
You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say
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let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
They’re five-year-olds! He’s sharing videos of a bunch of happy five-year-olds in order to harm them! It’s inhuman, we must rid ourselves of these men
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump is now using his platform to attack kindergarteners because they are Muslim
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.
Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · last mo.The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.
When AI boosters say "oh this is democratizing access to the arts" they don't mean it's democratizing the ability to make art but rather that they think it's allowing people with no particular skill to create pictures they'll get social media likes for.
‘An unseen fog machine pumped the Cadillac of Incense. It was so thick and blue that God, in the rafters, coughed delicately.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social attends a tradcath wedding in St Louis. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Diary: A Tradcath Wedding
Recently I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding...
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[me telling the story of how I came to be on a pilgrimage to the time tombs on Hyperion] it was crazy [ friend who has heard several variations on this story already] was the shrike there
the wind just picked up even more and children are crying
Donald Trump has swallowed a basketball whole like a large and stupid sea bird and died.
If your only value in the classroom is knowing more than the students, you don’t understand pedagogy
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo agoA Princeton professor thinks students would be better off learning from Claude than from him. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
objectively very funny that all the republicans crying about talarico eating a potato and egg breakfast taco have already pledged their undying loyalty to an enfeebled new yorker who survives on diet coke and the phantom of the opera soundtrack. not that it matters. not that anything at all matters
People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4mo agoPeople are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"
IMINT #957 from GPS III-SV05 (TOP SECRET) 1. Unhinged Backrooms of Facts 2. Hidden Peat Tank 3. Smoldering Dust
Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years
the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history
Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo agoBreaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
It’s incredible how much our culture, from music to art to publishing to journalism, is saturated with people who had wealthy parents who supplemented their income as neoliberalism flatlined wages and cost of living priced others out and who had their careers artificially boosted in the online era.
