Joshua of the shire
@sproshua.bsky.social
professional musician in Berkshire county MA; taiji practitioner (Chen); snowboard, longboard, boardgames 🏳️🌈
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Joshua of the shire
@sproshua.bsky.social
· Apr 30
Music Lessons in Pittsfield
Joshua Sprague is a seasoned, professional musician with experience in a multitude of musical settings. References from local performers and music educators available upon request. Contact: sproshu…
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i have some openings for music students. please share 🙏
#pittsfield #pittsfieldma #musiclessons #pianolessons #pipeorgan #keyboardlessons #berkshires #berkshirecounty #flutelessons #voicelessons #westernmass #musiceducation
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on the characteristics of tech-fascists:
"The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism. It bespeaks a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human...
"The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism. It bespeaks a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human...
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
on the characteristics of tech-fascists:
"The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism. It bespeaks a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human...
"The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism. It bespeaks a lack of human connection and a discomfort with the core of what many of us consider it means to be human...
just a quick "fuck you" to the US secret police, the neo-nazis known as ICE. you people are ghouls, monsters, and criminals.
October 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
just a quick "fuck you" to the US secret police, the neo-nazis known as ICE. you people are ghouls, monsters, and criminals.
it's hard to celebrate much of anything when genocide is happening right in front of us, ethnic cleansing funded by my (American) taxes. nothing wrong with cutting people out of your life who applaud or even silently approve of this mass death, destruction, and thievery.
October 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
it's hard to celebrate much of anything when genocide is happening right in front of us, ethnic cleansing funded by my (American) taxes. nothing wrong with cutting people out of your life who applaud or even silently approve of this mass death, destruction, and thievery.
amazing
Some might say the Trump administration's concerns about free speech are a cynical ploy, but not Jon Stewart. He would never say that.
September 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
amazing
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I went on @mattxiv.bsky.social’s podcast to talk about the irresponsible, immature media whitewashing of Charlie Kirk and how only men like him receive this kind of attention in death youtu.be/unXhfSyk9h8?...
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I went on @mattxiv.bsky.social’s podcast to talk about the irresponsible, immature media whitewashing of Charlie Kirk and how only men like him receive this kind of attention in death youtu.be/unXhfSyk9h8?...
Why People Are Roleplaying Robot Racism
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I made a video about the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death
We Need to Talk About 'Political Violence’
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I made a video about the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death
"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk
live by the sword etc...
live by the sword etc...
September 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk
live by the sword etc...
live by the sword etc...
one last hurrah before the school year begins!
South Kingstown, RI
South Kingstown, RI
August 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
one last hurrah before the school year begins!
South Kingstown, RI
South Kingstown, RI
August 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.
BIG crowd of people shouting at police.
"Fuck you!"
"What is wrong with you!"
"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
BIG crowd of people shouting at police.
"Fuck you!"
"What is wrong with you!"
"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.
BIG crowd of people shouting at police.
"Fuck you!"
"What is wrong with you!"
"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
BIG crowd of people shouting at police.
"Fuck you!"
"What is wrong with you!"
"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
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Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
August 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”
Israel just killed him.
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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, son of Arathorn son of Palpatine. You may remember me from such nature films as "Earwigs, eww!" If you build it, I will fly like an eagle to the sea.
August 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, son of Arathorn son of Palpatine. You may remember me from such nature films as "Earwigs, eww!" If you build it, I will fly like an eagle to the sea.
had a wonderful time visiting my mother in Gothenburg this past week 💙💛💙💛
August 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
had a wonderful time visiting my mother in Gothenburg this past week 💙💛💙💛
iS tHiS wHaT gOvErNmEnT eFfiCiEnCy lOoKs liKe?
August 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
iS tHiS wHaT gOvErNmEnT eFfiCiEnCy lOoKs liKe?
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"One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence, at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun."
August 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence, at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun."
if i were in Pittsfield tomorrow, i would attend the rally at 5PM in Park Square.
fight homelessness, not the homeless!
BIO is a good organization. please sign their petition of you are a Pittsfield resident.
berkshireinterfaithorganizing.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
fight homelessness, not the homeless!
BIO is a good organization. please sign their petition of you are a Pittsfield resident.
berkshireinterfaithorganizing.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Housing, Not Handcuffs: Stand with Pittsfield’s Unhoused Community
Please sign this petition to show your support.
berkshireinterfaithorganizing.us11.list-manage.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
if i were in Pittsfield tomorrow, i would attend the rally at 5PM in Park Square.
fight homelessness, not the homeless!
BIO is a good organization. please sign their petition of you are a Pittsfield resident.
berkshireinterfaithorganizing.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
fight homelessness, not the homeless!
BIO is a good organization. please sign their petition of you are a Pittsfield resident.
berkshireinterfaithorganizing.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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Really great video by @acollierastro.bsky.social about doing “vibe physics” with a chatbot and why it’s bad and naive youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...
vibe physics
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
August 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Really great video by @acollierastro.bsky.social about doing “vibe physics” with a chatbot and why it’s bad and naive youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...
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There are different ways to control internet speech as highlighted by this 20-year old comic.
August 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
There are different ways to control internet speech as highlighted by this 20-year old comic.
view from Onota Lake in Pittsfield this evening. i was just trying to get a pic of the boats, then i saw how beautiful the sky came out!
July 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
view from Onota Lake in Pittsfield this evening. i was just trying to get a pic of the boats, then i saw how beautiful the sky came out!
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You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
Tanglewood Festival Chorus at the Seiji Ozawa Hall this evening
July 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Tanglewood Festival Chorus at the Seiji Ozawa Hall this evening
finally had lunch today at Yury's Kitchen on Tyler St in Pittsfield. delicious!
July 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
finally had lunch today at Yury's Kitchen on Tyler St in Pittsfield. delicious!
