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Music seminar went to the MFA yesterday; they have a lovely instrument collection. By special arrangement, we were able to hear several pieces by Couperin, Bach, and Mozart played on keyboard instruments: a very complicated harpsichord with two keyboards and three sets of strings, a clavichord, and a piano from 1796. So cool omg.

sassbandit: There I fixed it for you. [adding that one My Chemical Romance song to the recent xkcd "na na na na na" comic]

rydra_wong: Dreamwidth Volunteering: what it is and how to do it

N.B. It’s easy to assume that all volunteering on an open source project requires l33t coding skillz, but in fact most of the volunteer opportunities on DW don’t. If your brain is more oriented towards communication skills or interface design or making things look pretty, you are needed too.

sohotrightnow: On "political correctness bullshit" in fandom and microaggressions.

Microaggressions are not nothing. They are not less-important or unimportant versions of macroaggressions; rather, micro- and macroaggressions are both symptoms of the same problems. Taking notice of and talking about the subtle, everyday ways we hurt each other is not nothing. And I have never seen evidence that an increased capacity to notice the subtle everyday injustices inevitably leads to a decreased capacity to devote energy to the blatant, violent, and large-scale injustices. Just the opposite: the greater one's capacity to notice and appreciate and be troubled by the ways we hurt each other and perpetuate unjust systems, the greater, in my experience, one's capacity to be appalled and outraged by the blatant, violent, large-scale, and inevitable conclusions of those perpetuations.