Patricia Wallinga ⛵🎵
@pwallinga.bsky.social
Bluesky's favorite opera composer [citation needed]. Not tonal, not atonal, but a secret third thing. Posts about music, D&D, and loads of other nonsense | she/her | midwesterner in 🌉
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Emily Dickinson Public Domain Project
Tracking copyright on the poetry of Emily Dickinson
emilydickinsonpublicdomain.com
In honor of Emily Dickinson's birthday today, I'm proud to announce the launch of the Emily Dickinson Public Domain Project!
emilydickinsonpublicdomain.com
emilydickinsonpublicdomain.com
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I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential
Let's remember the REAL reason for the season 🙏
December 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Let's remember the REAL reason for the season 🙏
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Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place
December 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place
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Tiny Tim, who did NOT have hoes
December 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Tiny Tim, who did NOT have hoes
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.
waymo paused its robotaxi service as national weather service issued flash flood warnings in SF on christmas - @cnbc.com
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Waymo pauses robotaxis in SF again due to flash flood warnings on Christmas Day
Waymo again paused it robotaxi service, citing a flash flood warning on Christmas Day.
www.cnbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Sort of like how one has to diversify an investment portfolio or risk losing everything all at once, a transportation system that doesn't have a diversity of modes is destined to crash. Building everything around cars, autonomous or otherwise, is always going to lead to this outcome.
What's worse is that I gave him the bucket hat
It hasn't worked yet 😭 I am arguing about musicology with a man in a bucket hat over whether John Rutter is more authentic than Jars of Clay
December 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What's worse is that I gave him the bucket hat
Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special really said "You know what the children need this holiday season? Stop-motion animation and wall-to-wall queer icons."
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special really said "You know what the children need this holiday season? Stop-motion animation and wall-to-wall queer icons."
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Once, when I was in college, I was walking to a class, and a small group of students walking passed me stopped and asked, "Have you heard about Jesus?"
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
“But I’m just sharing the good news about Jesus that you may not have heard.” Really? You think I’ve lived here in America and have never encountered Christianity?
December 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Once, when I was in college, I was walking to a class, and a small group of students walking passed me stopped and asked, "Have you heard about Jesus?"
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
"...yes?" I replied, genuinely confused.
We stared at each other for an awkward second, and continued on our respective ways.
Bored music people in my phone: who has a traditional What Child Is This/Greensleeves version on hand that does it in the Dorian mode AKA CORRECTLY? My dad doesn't believe me that that's the traditional way it's done, and winning pointless arguments with family is the true meaning of Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Bored music people in my phone: who has a traditional What Child Is This/Greensleeves version on hand that does it in the Dorian mode AKA CORRECTLY? My dad doesn't believe me that that's the traditional way it's done, and winning pointless arguments with family is the true meaning of Christmas.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was sitting in a room different from the one you are in now
December 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was sitting in a room different from the one you are in now
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[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
December 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]
I've never seen more Muni fare pigs out in my life than just now. Four separate gaggles of them patrolling various places on the main subway. Do you not feel like a Hallmark villain fining poor people on Christmas?
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I've never seen more Muni fare pigs out in my life than just now. Four separate gaggles of them patrolling various places on the main subway. Do you not feel like a Hallmark villain fining poor people on Christmas?
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.
we forget these things at our peril
we forget these things at our peril
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“Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word “Frisco”, which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.”
— Emperor Norton
— Emperor Norton
December 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word “Frisco”, which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.”
— Emperor Norton
— Emperor Norton
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: my teacher Elinor Armer once told me, "You're a brazen hussy just like me!" And I want that in my obituary
What's a compliment you'll never forget?
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again: my teacher Elinor Armer once told me, "You're a brazen hussy just like me!" And I want that in my obituary
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we do not in fact know what this says but some things transcend language
God jul, nästa år vänder vi kampen mot fascismen till seger!
December 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
we do not in fact know what this says but some things transcend language
Composers and engravers: it is 2025. Your page turns should be optimized for print AND tablet. Next time I have some kind of fucking double-augmented-fourth leap on a page turn I'm showing up at your house with a potato cannon
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Composers and engravers: it is 2025. Your page turns should be optimized for print AND tablet. Next time I have some kind of fucking double-augmented-fourth leap on a page turn I'm showing up at your house with a potato cannon
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Hello from the rural Kansas local news evening broadcast
December 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hello from the rural Kansas local news evening broadcast
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and Tiny Tim, who was NOT mad, don't put it in the papers that he was mad,
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
and Tiny Tim, who was NOT mad, don't put it in the papers that he was mad,
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JD Vance’s profundity is not limited to giving white people permission to not apologize for their whiteness
December 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
JD Vance’s profundity is not limited to giving white people permission to not apologize for their whiteness
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This rivals decorative gourds for my favorite seasonal piece. It cracks me up every time.
PRODUCER 1: Okay, so: Curtain up. It’s Christmas Eve. A young girl named Clara is opening gifts. One happens to be from her favorite uncle, a kind of creepy mask-wearing guy named Drosselmeyer.
PRODUCER 2: Don’t love this...
PRODUCER 2: Don’t love this...
A Producer Attempts to Pitch The Nutcracker
(A production office. PRODUCER 1 sits at a desk. Enter PRODUCER 2.) PRODUCER 1: Take a seat. You said you have something Christmassy for me? PRODUC...
buff.ly
December 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This rivals decorative gourds for my favorite seasonal piece. It cracks me up every time.
THERE'S A MILDRED!!!!!
Bruce and Mildred in their berry eating dome 🍓
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
THERE'S A MILDRED!!!!!