Wes Flinn (but turkey)
@wesflinn.bsky.social
Composer. Music theorist. Lowbrassman. Director of the School of Music at Louisiana Tech. In an alternate universe, the second-most popular optometrist in Bedford, Indiana. Son of Pinhook, citizen of the world. Views my own.
Why is there a *cover* of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime?”
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Why is there a *cover* of Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime?”
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MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
TRUMP: Uh huh
MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade?
TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom
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This thread, right here 👇
Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This thread, right here 👇
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Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Just saw someone described as an "ontologist" and now I want Clinical Ontologist to be a job title.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
Welcome to the Department of Clinical Ontology. Let's go over your chart. I see that you are. Are you still as you were or are you otherwise? For your case of being, I prescribe becoming.
At NASM. Having lunch.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
At NASM. Having lunch.
Things you notice while waiting for a flight:
Lotta guys with Grunt Style clothing…and not a one of them boarded during the “active duty/retired military” segment.
Lotta guys with Grunt Style clothing…and not a one of them boarded during the “active duty/retired military” segment.
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Things you notice while waiting for a flight:
Lotta guys with Grunt Style clothing…and not a one of them boarded during the “active duty/retired military” segment.
Lotta guys with Grunt Style clothing…and not a one of them boarded during the “active duty/retired military” segment.
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if you want to view paradise, simply cow around and tool it
December 30, 2024 at 1:05 PM
if you want to view paradise, simply cow around and tool it
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If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
This isn’t controversial.
A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.
The grift is powerful. A mediocre swimmer is now wealthy and influential. Of course, we all suffer because of it.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The grift is powerful. A mediocre swimmer is now wealthy and influential. Of course, we all suffer because of it.
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New HHS guidance
if a man made up his mind to live, mere sickness could not kill him
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
New HHS guidance
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Dennis Hastert Just Going To Assume He Welcome Back In GOP
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Three things:
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Three things:
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.
2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.
3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.
ROBOCOP (1987)
ROBOCOP (1987)
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ROBOCOP (1987)
This is my member of Congress.
I work at a public institution. If he or his goons wanted to, they could get me fired or make my life so awful I would quit.
I don’t care.
Mr. Speaker, go perform an anatomical impossibility that results in your son getting a text message. You are unworthy.
I work at a public institution. If he or his goons wanted to, they could get me fired or make my life so awful I would quit.
I don’t care.
Mr. Speaker, go perform an anatomical impossibility that results in your son getting a text message. You are unworthy.
Mike Johnson responds to my question about saying Democrats committed treasonable by death
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is my member of Congress.
I work at a public institution. If he or his goons wanted to, they could get me fired or make my life so awful I would quit.
I don’t care.
Mr. Speaker, go perform an anatomical impossibility that results in your son getting a text message. You are unworthy.
I work at a public institution. If he or his goons wanted to, they could get me fired or make my life so awful I would quit.
I don’t care.
Mr. Speaker, go perform an anatomical impossibility that results in your son getting a text message. You are unworthy.
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A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
Big news from Louisiana Tech! Julianne is a fantastic singer/songwriter and we’re immensely proud of her.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Big news from Louisiana Tech! Julianne is a fantastic singer/songwriter and we’re immensely proud of her.
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I have hemiola hemophilia. I bleed easily, but only if you cut across the bar line.
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I have hemiola hemophilia. I bleed easily, but only if you cut across the bar line.
Another day watching the Ken Burns American Revolution film. Everyone keeps asking me when they’re gonna mention the first flag. Buddy,
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Another day watching the Ken Burns American Revolution film. Everyone keeps asking me when they’re gonna mention the first flag. Buddy,
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The Great Khan of the Plains receives the mandate of heaven
Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit
Pritzker Shares Beers, Books and Well-Wishes With Pope Leo XIV in Vatican Visit
Sharing art, books and local beer, Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday called it an “honor” to meet with the pope in the Vatican to express “the pride and reverence of the people of this great state.”
news.wttw.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Great Khan of the Plains receives the mandate of heaven
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Why is it that the most wealthy, privileged academics in the entire world, who teach the least, have research and travel funds larger than entire departments, and whose lives are easier than 99.999% of academics at state, community colleges, etc. are such unbelievably thin-skinned whiners?
Harvard's prosecutorial culture was "miserable," says Jill Lepore. Even so, she stayed, but has since come to regret her silence. https://chroni.cl/4ihof9O
Why Jill Lepore Nearly Quit Harvard
The prosecutorial culture was “miserable.” She stayed, but has come to regret her silence at the time.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why is it that the most wealthy, privileged academics in the entire world, who teach the least, have research and travel funds larger than entire departments, and whose lives are easier than 99.999% of academics at state, community colleges, etc. are such unbelievably thin-skinned whiners?
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[new york voice] yea, I use AI… AI’m walking here
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
[new york voice] yea, I use AI… AI’m walking here
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No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
No no no this can’t be right I was told that under Trump cancel culture had been eliminated.