Michael McNeill

music (play/read/write) (mostly piano), @theevolutionofthearm, quartet w/ Susan Alcorn/Dave Ballou/Shelly Purdy trio w/ Ken Filiano & Phil Haynes, more… he/him

[Michael McNeill @MichaelGMcNeill]

Allegories (me w/ @Sus453, @daveballou1, and Shelly Purdy) goes on tour starting next week! Here's a thread with our gigs!

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The life expectancy for a Black man in the U.S. is 68.

House Republicans signed onto a plan to raise the retirement age for Social Security to 70?

The math is…

[Midwest Modern @JoshLipnik]

RIP Detroit textile designer Ruth Adler Schnee, 1923-2023

[Sarah Fritz @sarahfritzwritr]

“My fav composer took Napoleon’s name off a symphony when he declared himself emperor but NO POLITICS IN MUSIC.”

[hooks bot @hooksbot]

bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”

[Simone Weil @simone_says_en]

Always, beyond the particular object whatever it may be, we have to fix our will on the void—to will the void. For the good which we can neither picture nor define is a void for us. But this void is fuller than all fullnesses.

[Buffawoes @Buffawoes]

Is this parody?
⚫️ YES
⚫️ NO
🔘 PARODY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM REALITY

[MisterRogersQuotes @MisterRogersSay]

“One of life‘s joys is discovering that we can be open to new experiences that at first seem strange or even scary. It’s exhilarating to find that the barriers that seem to separate us from other people begin to vanish when we take the time to get to know those people.“

[thucksgiving @TylerHuckabee]

star of wonder? you mean the thing that doxxed baby Jesus?

[Michael McNeill @MichaelGMcNeill]

Thread:

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.

[Lura Groen @lura_groen]

I am not getting better (yet?) and I am very very very mad at everyone who suggested we have to “just learn to live with COVID.”

Living with COVID means sometimes I’m just incapacitated for weeks and fuck y’all for that.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

Georgia, today is your last chance to vote early! Head to the polls now — there’s no reason to wait.

[matt smiley @iammattsmiley]

I’m starting to feel like as a musician that if we are going to continue to press CDs, we should also be selling mini CD players and small boom boxes so people can listen to them. I am doubting the existence of CD playing devices in 90 percent of the public.

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

It’s always funny that in Europe and throughout the Americas, people who directly benefited from the history of slavery and colonialism, always say that “they can’t be held responsible,” yet gladly hold onto the properties + monetary inheritances from slavery and colonialism.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Stochastic terror becomes real terror. Those dead in the LGBTQ+ bar Club Q only died hours ago. They were to have a drag brunch today.

Libs of TikTok is attacking another drag brunch in Colorado and a trans legislator only hours later.

Elon Musk let them stay on the platform.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

Imagine people who died on the titanic finding out we compared that to this

[cara.city elsewhere @caraesten]

the old site is dying and the new one struggles to be born; now is the time of outages

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

but they were, all of them, deceived, for no tickets were mastered