Chris Walton ❌👑
@philocrites.bsky.social
Preoccupied with music, culture, religion, and liberal democracy. Practicing composition in Greater Boston.
A+ church today, at Boston University's 75th anniversary celebration of Marsh Chapel, where the Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock (U.S. Senator from Georgia) was the guest speaker. Definitely recommend listening to Warnock's sermon—link below!—but I also want to highlight some of the music.
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
A+ church today, at Boston University's 75th anniversary celebration of Marsh Chapel, where the Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock (U.S. Senator from Georgia) was the guest speaker. Definitely recommend listening to Warnock's sermon—link below!—but I also want to highlight some of the music.
First time seeing the northern lights, from the Boston suburbs!
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
First time seeing the northern lights, from the Boston suburbs!
Excellent literature rack in a coffee shop in Middletown CT
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Excellent literature rack in a coffee shop in Middletown CT
Prayers plus the best toy of all time: blue ribbon!
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Prayers plus the best toy of all time: blue ribbon!
🎻🪗 Electric (but all-acoustic) show by the New England contra dance pros Pine Tree Flyers, touring the east coast this month. Check them out: www.pinetreeflyers.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🎻🪗 Electric (but all-acoustic) show by the New England contra dance pros Pine Tree Flyers, touring the east coast this month. Check them out: www.pinetreeflyers.com
Tonight’s concert outing: the fantastic Québécois band Le Vent du Nord at the Somerville Theatre!
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Tonight’s concert outing: the fantastic Québécois band Le Vent du Nord at the Somerville Theatre!
Can you make an automated Bluesky account more annoying with each new post?
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Can you make an automated Bluesky account more annoying with each new post?
Never has there been a better or more loved cat toy than this blue ribbon. He expects me to play a ferocious game of ribbon with him multiple times a day. 😸
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Never has there been a better or more loved cat toy than this blue ribbon. He expects me to play a ferocious game of ribbon with him multiple times a day. 😸
🎶 I can’t pass up Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and here it joins a program of recent pieces by Mexican composers, arranged for the Kalliope Reed Quintet!
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
🎶 I can’t pass up Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and here it joins a program of recent pieces by Mexican composers, arranged for the Kalliope Reed Quintet!
Bill McKibben was final speaker at Lexington MA #NoKings rally. He recalled growing up in town & leading tours of the battle green. He described the mass arrest there of 400+ anti-Vietnam War protesters including his father when he was 10. Stand up together, he urged; we must rise to the occasion.
October 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Bill McKibben was final speaker at Lexington MA #NoKings rally. He recalled growing up in town & leading tours of the battle green. He described the mass arrest there of 400+ anti-Vietnam War protesters including his father when he was 10. Stand up together, he urged; we must rise to the occasion.
U.S. Senator Ed Markey celebrates Massachusetts’s democratic history and urges the crowd in Lexington to keep fighting for everyone’s rights
October 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
U.S. Senator Ed Markey celebrates Massachusetts’s democratic history and urges the crowd in Lexington to keep fighting for everyone’s rights
A Palestinian American professor talked about the opportunities and the challenges her family has faced in the U.S. and was one of several speakers to honor Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was kidnapped and held by ICE for weeks for co-authoring an op-ed supporting calls for Palestinian rights
October 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A Palestinian American professor talked about the opportunities and the challenges her family has faced in the U.S. and was one of several speakers to honor Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was kidnapped and held by ICE for weeks for co-authoring an op-ed supporting calls for Palestinian rights
Speakers celebrated historical figures active in multiple movements to expand American democracy who lived in Lexington; here a speaker and two costumed women honor the long path to women’s suffrage
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Speakers celebrated historical figures active in multiple movements to expand American democracy who lived in Lexington; here a speaker and two costumed women honor the long path to women’s suffrage
Speakers at the Lexington MA #NoKings rally included the organizers (shown here) of the weekly protests outside the Burlington ICE building and a leader of the ACLU
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Speakers at the Lexington MA #NoKings rally included the organizers (shown here) of the weekly protests outside the Burlington ICE building and a leader of the ACLU
Costumed pro-democracy protesters included historical reenactors of the April 19, 1775, uprising against British troops in Lexington MA
October 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Costumed pro-democracy protesters included historical reenactors of the April 19, 1775, uprising against British troops in Lexington MA
![Two vertical hand made signs on white posterboard: with red flowers and green leaves, “Democracy Needs Your [Voice]” and “Prison Without Due Process Is A Concentration Camp,” with letters decorated with barbed wire](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gxlwbnyoxmnc5h2f5q6zlqud/bafkreihrrejqpzeum3gsaektcqz7vhp7t6q57xahn5mk4aew5q53hlnlv4@jpeg)
Greetings from this morning’s #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photos… 🧵 @indivisible.org @universalhub.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Greetings from this morning’s #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photos… 🧵 @indivisible.org @universalhub.com
Opera selfie time! “Macbeth” with Boston Lyric Opera (in what may be the tightest seat I ever squeezed into!).
October 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Opera selfie time! “Macbeth” with Boston Lyric Opera (in what may be the tightest seat I ever squeezed into!).
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Commiserating with the cat about the Red Sox
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Commiserating with the cat about the Red Sox
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
You go, nearby star
September 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You go, nearby star
New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
New sculpture on the Freedom Trail by Harmonia Rosales commemorates 219 known people who, we now know, were enslaved by members and ministers of King's Chapel (founded 1686). Dedicated today on the corner of Tremont & School Streets. @universalhub.com