Mark Arnest

Musician - composer, pianist, teacher. 💙 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Brilliant but humble. He/him. Proud grocerybro. Most of my followers are bots

[Mark Arnest @markarnest1]

"Fascist regimes are doomed to lose their wars, because they are constitutionally incapable of making an objective assessment of the enemy’s strength."
–Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism, pub. in Five Moral Pieces

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@AFellaNamedGus @RepJackKimble Were you the Gus I saw at a couple of the polling places? I think one time you said your name was Gustafor?

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@RepJackKimble I don't entirely understand your policy of preferring campaign contributions in small unmarked bills delivered in plain paper bags, but whatever works to get you reelected!

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@MissyBBBobtail Q.E.D.

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@Bad_Babette @stinky_boots You don’t have one of your minions catch it for you?!? No wonder you inspire such devotion in your subjects!

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@TheNerdyCatLady Her incredible cuteness is how she gets away with everything!

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Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

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@Andrewnsnyder Yeah, the Aethiopis and the Little Iliad, but unfortunately they are almost entirely lost.

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@RobynAnderson For decades my wife and I have been saying "rabbit rabbit," and now I find out some people say "rabbit rabbit rabbit," and I feel as though we've missed out on a third of our luck!

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@TheGlobalWarmer AHA SO YOU ADMIT NO WARMING SINCE 2012

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@Noahpinion A noble sentiment indeed!

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash reading a good synthesis of a topic than spending 10x as much time reading all the primary sources, which is lost practice time. It's not enough for me to know these things intellectually; I have to realize them in performance, which takes additioinal time.

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash Most importantly, because someone might have access to primary sources I've missed. Nobody in the world, for instance, sought out as many primary sources on rubato as Richard Hudson did for "Stolen Time." And as more of a pianist than a musicologist, I'd rather spend my time 1/2

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash No, of course not. But that doesn’t mean that ignorance is the same as knowledge.

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash (Or tangential primary sources)

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash For additional information and context. Speaking as a musician: You can’t properly interpret a score by J.S. Bach without knowing from secondary sources how music from that period was played. He assumed that the performer had great deal of knowledge.

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@ATomalty You understand that the current record highs are higher than the 1930s record highs, right? Your chart shows that the 1930s were exceptionally warm in the U.S., not that warming isn’t continuing.

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@racistbilbo @theo_nash He didn’t say NOT to read primary sources.

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@StatisticUrban Republicans could have governed Colorado forever, but they started nominating yahoos, and when the yahoos lost, the party concluded that they had not been yahoo enough.

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@CleeWeezy Not Radi O’Active any more?