Jamila
@ampersandstar.bsky.social
averse to fear-mongering in all its forms.
if you must punch, please, consider punching up.
music is (still) a wonder drug. (most) books are magic. however, magic is not real.
if you must punch, please, consider punching up.
music is (still) a wonder drug. (most) books are magic. however, magic is not real.
Pinned
for instance. -this- was the only Hessians i'd known of -- until this past week.
youtu.be/30W9Xx3ylE8?...
#instrumental
youtu.be/30W9Xx3ylE8?...
#instrumental
Dirty Hessians
YouTube video by Kim Deal - Topic
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
for instance. -this- was the only Hessians i'd known of -- until this past week.
youtu.be/30W9Xx3ylE8?...
#instrumental
youtu.be/30W9Xx3ylE8?...
#instrumental
i've caught bits of each episode of 'American Revolution' every night this week -- if not the whole episode.
it's been enlightening, for sure.
didn't know Rhiannon Giddens was involved -- until a few days ago, but that certainly tracks. #highlyrecommend
it's been enlightening, for sure.
didn't know Rhiannon Giddens was involved -- until a few days ago, but that certainly tracks. #highlyrecommend
Congrats to Ken Burns & @pbs.org on their newly-released documentary: “The American Revolution.” It was such a rewarding process to bring the audience into the world of the 17th - 19th century through music, and illustrate the blending of these cultures.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
i've caught bits of each episode of 'American Revolution' every night this week -- if not the whole episode.
it's been enlightening, for sure.
didn't know Rhiannon Giddens was involved -- until a few days ago, but that certainly tracks. #highlyrecommend
it's been enlightening, for sure.
didn't know Rhiannon Giddens was involved -- until a few days ago, but that certainly tracks. #highlyrecommend
it's not a partisan issue.
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
it's not a partisan issue.
Q: How long is the government funded in latest deal?
A: "The funding deal to end the record-long shutdown keeps much of the government running through Jan. 30, raising the risk of another impasse as the deadline approaches."
in hopes of fine print/focus triage. (Holiday Season Edition)
A: "The funding deal to end the record-long shutdown keeps much of the government running through Jan. 30, raising the risk of another impasse as the deadline approaches."
in hopes of fine print/focus triage. (Holiday Season Edition)
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Q: How long is the government funded in latest deal?
A: "The funding deal to end the record-long shutdown keeps much of the government running through Jan. 30, raising the risk of another impasse as the deadline approaches."
in hopes of fine print/focus triage. (Holiday Season Edition)
A: "The funding deal to end the record-long shutdown keeps much of the government running through Jan. 30, raising the risk of another impasse as the deadline approaches."
in hopes of fine print/focus triage. (Holiday Season Edition)
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Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
Maggie Millner: “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
A reckoning with Mary Oliver’s reputation as an unserious poet explores how her best work has been misunderstood.
yalereview.org
September 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Took me a min to read Maggie Millner’s gr8 piece in @yalereview.bsky.social, but I’d noted the defensive IG comments when it appeared, which show the lightning speed w which lyric shame circulates. So chuffed she used my work so subtly!! yalereview.org/article/mill... “Is Mary Oliver Embarrassing?”
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thinking back to when i -thought- giving advice would be helpful...i believe i meant:
He'll hate it regardless. So what's the difference?
Do what you can to keep moving forward.
Despite him.
He'll hate it regardless. So what's the difference?
Do what you can to keep moving forward.
Despite him.
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
thinking back to when i -thought- giving advice would be helpful...i believe i meant:
He'll hate it regardless. So what's the difference?
Do what you can to keep moving forward.
Despite him.
He'll hate it regardless. So what's the difference?
Do what you can to keep moving forward.
Despite him.
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we need more umpire-sensibility in the world.
October 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
we need more umpire-sensibility in the world.
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same idea, but not in a gallery.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
When I asked him to pose with it, he ended up activating the installation, which features bells too (look closely). A nice surprise.
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
same idea, but not in a gallery.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
i thought i wrote clever things today.
but you don't know...how much i wish i had written this.
but you don't know...how much i wish i had written this.
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
i thought i wrote clever things today.
but you don't know...how much i wish i had written this.
but you don't know...how much i wish i had written this.
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How the shutdown relates to autocracy. For the tyrant Congress and Parliament are expendable. I am the only one that matters Trump tells us. We deserve good governance and leaders who care about our welfare.
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How the shutdown relates to autocracy. For the tyrant Congress and Parliament are expendable. I am the only one that matters Trump tells us. We deserve good governance and leaders who care about our welfare.
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What still seems to delight you...
despite all this world-weary know it all-ism, all that's unfair and not in your immediate influence/control?
What actually helps you?
i hope you can do that.
despite all this world-weary know it all-ism, all that's unfair and not in your immediate influence/control?
What actually helps you?
i hope you can do that.
January 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What still seems to delight you...
despite all this world-weary know it all-ism, all that's unfair and not in your immediate influence/control?
What actually helps you?
i hope you can do that.
despite all this world-weary know it all-ism, all that's unfair and not in your immediate influence/control?
What actually helps you?
i hope you can do that.
and here i am seething/reminiscing about 11 hours ago. again.
likely to delete this later.
likely to delete this later.
We have as much leverage as we’ve ever had — and Chuck Schumer is on the brink of taking a deal that gives Democrats NOTHING.
I’m glad Hakeem Jeffries will fight this in the House, but it should not get that far. Senate Dems must not cave.
I’m glad Hakeem Jeffries will fight this in the House, but it should not get that far. Senate Dems must not cave.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
and here i am seething/reminiscing about 11 hours ago. again.
likely to delete this later.
likely to delete this later.
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Next time I’m talking to a young voter and they ask me how they can trust Democrats to fight for them, what the actual fuck am I supposed to say?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Next time I’m talking to a young voter and they ask me how they can trust Democrats to fight for them, what the actual fuck am I supposed to say?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
Oh they’ll fight for you until Chuck no longer feels like it?
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Photojournalist Alexandra Avakian traveled to Berlin on Nov 9 1989 based on rumor, and she ended up becoming a witness to history…
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaz...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaz...
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Photojournalist Alexandra Avakian traveled to Berlin on Nov 9 1989 based on rumor, and she ended up becoming a witness to history…
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaz...
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amaz...
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Choir member merely on vocal rest, not traitor. #headlines
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Choir member merely on vocal rest, not traitor. #headlines
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still a wine glass
on a mattress
seems i didn't
tip over
on a mattress
seems i didn't
tip over
April 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
still a wine glass
on a mattress
seems i didn't
tip over
on a mattress
seems i didn't
tip over
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i needed some pep talks, and days and days of listening -- mostly to music.
i needed to start hard conversations, to appreciate more of what i have, to notice an emotional intellect in wild birds.
i have a lifelong compulsion to share and a recent reluctance to do it.
i needed to start hard conversations, to appreciate more of what i have, to notice an emotional intellect in wild birds.
i have a lifelong compulsion to share and a recent reluctance to do it.
January 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
i needed some pep talks, and days and days of listening -- mostly to music.
i needed to start hard conversations, to appreciate more of what i have, to notice an emotional intellect in wild birds.
i have a lifelong compulsion to share and a recent reluctance to do it.
i needed to start hard conversations, to appreciate more of what i have, to notice an emotional intellect in wild birds.
i have a lifelong compulsion to share and a recent reluctance to do it.
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November 28, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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News can wait.
News will weight.
News will weight.
November 28, 2024 at 3:40 PM
News can wait.
News will weight.
News will weight.
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whoa. a version of a joke i Tumblr'd many, many years ago.
it's not...great. but i still like things about it.
i remember... i really enjoyed thinking of it/discovering it.
then cut and paste/putting it together.
(that was back before committing myself to a life of humorless curmudgeondry.)
it's not...great. but i still like things about it.
i remember... i really enjoyed thinking of it/discovering it.
then cut and paste/putting it together.
(that was back before committing myself to a life of humorless curmudgeondry.)
April 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
whoa. a version of a joke i Tumblr'd many, many years ago.
it's not...great. but i still like things about it.
i remember... i really enjoyed thinking of it/discovering it.
then cut and paste/putting it together.
(that was back before committing myself to a life of humorless curmudgeondry.)
it's not...great. but i still like things about it.
i remember... i really enjoyed thinking of it/discovering it.
then cut and paste/putting it together.
(that was back before committing myself to a life of humorless curmudgeondry.)
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In their only interview ahead of their comeback tour, Radiohead discuss 40 years of making ‘weird’ music and their new teenage fans ⬇️
Radiohead: ‘The wheels had come off a bit. We had to stop’
www.thetimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
In their only interview ahead of their comeback tour, Radiohead discuss 40 years of making ‘weird’ music and their new teenage fans ⬇️
honeydew melon. (perhaps) the iceberg lettuce of fruit.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
honeydew melon. (perhaps) the iceberg lettuce of fruit.
same idea, but not in a gallery.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
When I asked him to pose with it, he ended up activating the installation, which features bells too (look closely). A nice surprise.
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
same idea, but not in a gallery.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.
in a crowded thoroughfare.
where some people w/could choose to ring the bells and others might just want to get from point A to point B quietly.
not intentionally disturbing or blocking anyone. but can't.