Notices by Martha Bridegam (mbridegam@federate.social)

@uc @rdm

We have time travellers in the United States too. They are trying again to stamp out government of the people, by the people, for the people. As always happens with such attempts, already we are in need of some memorial cobblestones for our cities and towns and we are at risk of needing more.

@skinnylatte

Thanks for explaining. And when you think of a piece of music, I'm wondering if you tend to hear the harmony as a whole structure, or, when there is a single strong solo line, to focus more on solo separately from accompaniment?

@skinnylatte
Curious: how do you interact with music, e.g., melody vs. harmony? Do you get earworms, in the sense of tunes stuck in your head?

@aburka @SnoopJ @regehr @dan @dev

But whose eggs are they? WHOSE?

@skinnylatte

Most interesting to me is how *angry* some people get if a woman refuses to accept the quaking-victim role in their drama about needing to protect an in-group through punishment of an out-group. Often men do this, sometimes women.

@skinnylatte @MBridegam@mastodon.social

Memphis Minnie's?

@skinnylatte

Just misread this as "whale fail" but that is less fun.

Do you take requests on more fun questions? I'm wondering if any behind-the-scenes stories are still around from the Aquarium's starring role as a setting for the 1980s Star Trek movie.

@selzero

It is -- bracing -- to read Du Bois' *Black Reconstruction* on the history of "apprenticeship" as an element of the Black Codes that Southern states enacted in a frequently successful effort to prevent Emancipation from resulting in literal freedom.

@tim @ProcessParsnip @PythonLinks

Adrianna Tan's recent posts are worth reading about surprising liberal hostility toward immigrant H1B workers.

Also, W.E.B. Du Bois and Alexander Saxton are worth reading on the U.S. labor movement's history of trying to exclude groups of workers who have fewer freedoms instead of making common cause with them -- which allows unequal competition to continue.

@skinnylatte

This is the most Adrianna Tan post ever.