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Natalie Brender
@nataliebrender.bsky.social
Eternal migrant seeking opera, ruthless yet humane criticism, Jamesian ambivalence, vestigial Kantianisms. All the public health, politics, cultural, social & global policy interests.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Yes you should. It's not as psychologically deep as I'd expected, but much funnier.
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Margaret Atwood's new memoir is a very funny 600 page tribute to grudge holding.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I loathed it at the most basic of levels: just too much unalloyed misogyny. Made all the worse by the interesting music. Sometimes it can be abided, sometimes not.
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Saw it this weekend w no prior exposure to the opera and came out loathing it. That libretto is just a waste of good music.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Quiet piggy
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Look which names sound foreign and which don't. Monster xenophobia, naturally.
November 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The tenor of "we will also begin to contemplate a fulsome search" signals acute distress.
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yep. I was talking to a recently retired principal in the Toronto public school system, which is much more proactive than most on gender harassment issues, and she was saying how little the police are able to do when schools alert them to this.
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hope so. Currently when high school boys circulate deepfake porn of their female classmates and the school admin calls in the police, there's very little the police can do.
November 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Incredible prose in that article! Will never forget "a sexy worshipper".
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I only saw this preview and was concerned not just by the tinsel but also by his proto-Elvis pompadour. youtu.be/6wCjOiyjMEY?...
Giordano’s Andrea Chénier: “Un dì, all’azzurro spazio” (Piotr Beczała)
YouTube video by Metropolitan Opera
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Oh, so @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's 'bring back shame' campaign is actually Chotiner enablement.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
If NYC soon leads the world on ethical uses of AI for municipal governance, that will be *amazing*.
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I think I remember it from Reform shul shabbat oneg potlucks in the 80's! I always blamed Moosewood cooks for that genre.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The Konzept seems to involve alarming amounts of costuming tinsel.
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM