This is the letter from the Society for Music Analysis to the Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University about the recent decisions to close the music department. Please do retweet widely.

“It’s so nice hearing you singing again, I’m glad you’re feeling better” 🥹 It’s good to know my neighbor is enjoying the practice I need after the poor thing had to hear my lungs giving out on me for *months* (so much coughing)

When you leave the office so late they’ve turned off all the lights in your department and now you’re wondering if you’re going to clip through the floor

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Allistic people actually answering the question I asked them and not a question I didn’t ask challenge

Neighbour: *begins aggressively hitting drums* Me: *inhales deeply* youtu.be/jBJn4BHtqqY?si…

They didn’t test her for mental illness because they didn’t get it, they tested her so they could lock her away and/or lobotomize her like they did to disabled people.

No low is too low for MAGA… now explain to me why an institution would be receiving threats because of the commencement speech that I GAVE. This type of behavior is why I’m constantly having to be protected & I understand that truth telling in this country; sadly, is a

It's heartbreaking to see someone lose their dream overnight. Adrianne needs our help to rebuild her food truck after it was stolen and damaged. Please consider donating and sharing! gofund.me/3856c0f9

Going off of memory out of laziness here but there was a researcher who used bird tracking technology to show that teens in the 70s/80s had almost 2 miles of autonomous space and teens today have less than 2 meters.

Prof Judith Mossman, Prof Roger Rees, and Dr Alex Imrie welcoming delegates to #CA2025 this morning. [Image credit: Sam Dixon]

it’s so insane to me that neither nicholas hoult nor elle fanning ever landed an emmy for the great (2020)

Brief eugenics lesson: Nazis didn’t murk autistic people during Aktion T4 b/c they saw them as useful workers They used a disability scale to decide who to kill; later, Americans to decide who to sterilize. For both, the “useless” were described in terms like the R slur

sigh

I was at a PhD Writing Retreat through my university for the past three days, and I have finished one chapter and nearly finished another. Over the past three days, I have written 20,055 words. I am going to the cinema all day tomorrow and doing nothing else.