Sara 🍳🍳🍳

and also perhaps that their staff is not diverse enough to be able to bring attention to this problem.

there is Julia Wolfe’s liberty bell but you would think they could find more than one

i will add that the lack of Black soloists, conductors, and composers in this season in a city that is almost 30% Black speaks to a lack of effort from their artistic staff imo. @chicagosymphony.bsky.social

CSO 2026-27 season has works by 8 living composers, all guys, mostly white: Abels, Bates, Tan Dun, Glass, Lindberg, Pärt, Salonen, Sierra. Rest of the season is dead white men.

Karina Canellakis and Jane Glover are the only women who are conducting.

cso.org/media/d45poq...

one thing i am thinking of doing with my leave of absence is finding an art class i can take in chicago. open to recs!

i have thoughts. maybe i will have my own thread about this 🧐

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

at some point do we have to wonder if internal power struggles are killing orchestras and not lack of vision

maybe you can check in with the dogs about their plans

youtu.be/-bTpp8PQSog?...

witnessing this up close has certainly been something to behold.

we are all wishing you an easy recovery!!

you wound me

I mean technically there is H

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

it’s giving

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

the energy is weird and bad today, sorry everyone

olive would write in lambchop for every office imo

also while i will absolutely vote straight dem endorsements in the general, this is a primary lol

the dog in question, accompanied by giant lambchop

there’s a bunch of chicago dems canvassing where my dog likes to walk and they keep asking me if i’m going to vote and my favorite response is to misunderstand and inform them that my dog isn’t registered to vote

Also from the air, you can see how far these rows of graves stretch. The scale of American death in war is shocking.

i always sit on the left side of the plane when i go to chicago because of the view, but flying out of dca today, we passed directly over arlington cemetery. my grandparents are buried there, but it takes on an additional significance when you can see the neat rows of graves from the air.

i 100% know who she voted for or she wouldn’t be offended by the question imo

i think it’s very important that we bring back shame, lol

northern ireland famously apolitical

if your children need to play video games in the airport with the sound on blast you need to make them wear their headphones, sorry

rules for an Extra Long Walk:
1) can only spend whatever cash happens to be in my wallet already
2) cannot combine Extra Long Walk with other tasks or errands — this is not about maximizing convenience
3) impromptu stops are encouraged
4) food and water are obviously a must

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

This is the country we live in. This is how our duly elected government treats its citizens, and that same government will call you a terrorist for objecting.

oh so it's oedipal. moving on