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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
Video creator & music producer. Founder of QuakerSpeak & Thee Quaker. NW Philly.
Philadelphia, PATheeQuaker.orgJoined October 2008
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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
So excited to announce the first project from my new organization: a weekly Quaker podcast. We've been working hard to make this thing amazing, and can't believe the launch is only just one short month away. Please listen to the trailer below, and subscribe!
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Thee Quaker Podcast
@QuakerPodcast
*Tap tap* … is this thing on? We have an announcement! quakerpodcast.com/introducing-th
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@jonwatts
Perfect example of just how melodic speech can be. I often get the melody of these NPR sign-offs stuck in my head
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Ben Brock Johnson
@TheBrockJohnson
Anyone else, sometimes when they're alone in the car listening to @NPR yell impressions of the perfect tonal nosedive soc out from @ElBeardsley "ELEANOR BEARDSLEY...PARIS" over and over? No? Just me?
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@jonwatts
More goat content plz
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Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
This 2-brush system for goats by Schurr Gerätebau is designed for unproblematic use of horned animals with no risk of injuries for the animals. It's automatically activated by the animals' presence [read more: buff.ly/3vAKlwS]
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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
Yes to this. I recently upgraded my home studio and got so tired of organizing cables that I gave up on it... been living in a tangle of wires and its driving me crazy
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bad snacks
@lilbadsnacks
Business idea: somebody who comes to your studio and organizes your cables for you
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@jonwatts
When I finish lessons for the evening and get to work on my own music
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巣喰
@catsdogwithduck
先日、弊アヒルのおひるちゃんが太鼓を叩けそうという動画に、@wyrm06 @yoheijimbo @nana_musik @nanashino_gombe (敬称略)音楽家の皆様がおすすめをしてくださり、ジングル付きはまだ到着していないのですが無事太鼓を叩けました！最終目標は　@vonchiri 先生の楽隊に入れてもらうことです。
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Jon Watts
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Just wrapped a week of filming here in Sierra Leone with Right Sharing of World Resources. Meeting these women in person has been amazing. I am awestruck by their joy, their gracious playfulness and their collective ingenuity.
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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
Greater than COVID, I anticipate being confronted with the injustice of how resources are distributed globally, and the devastating impact on the majority of the world's population. I'm already learning a lot about how those dynamics impoverish us all in so many ways.
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A moment of quiet reflection in the misty mountains of Northern California before I set off on the big trip. Tuesday I leave for a month of travel, including Sierra Leone, Kenya and India to film a series of videos for Right Sharing of World Resources.
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Jon Watts
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Attended a family wedding in South Carolina a few weeks ago. Indoors, not a single mask. We felt like the biggest weirdos hanging out on the porch while everyone hugged and laughed and exchanged breath inside.
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Nina Feldman
@ncannellf
Every time I leave Philadelphia and walk into a business establishment with a mask on everyone looks at me like I have the plague
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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
Great thread.
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Patchen Mortimer
@patchdj
So, not to pick on John, but this take is actually wrong and OP is right. Because something catastrophic *did* happen to Gen X and the Xennial's music: the Telecommunication Act of 1996. It's story time, kids... 1/ twitter.com/adr/status/145…
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October in Vermont, trekked a bit on the Appalachian trail outside of Bennington. This sunset (almost) made up for miles of ankle deep mud.
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Osita Nwanevu
@OsitaNwanevu
Pretty wild to see people imply there's going to be a "next time" for climate legislation. I mean, sure, you can technically pass a climate bill whenever. 2100, even. But I think the nature of the problem has eluded you.
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Jon Watts
@jonwatts
Just started rewatching Planet Earth so this is relevant
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Gaia Dempsey
@fianxu
the deepest cave in the world has 4 base camps, and it takes more than 4 days to reach the bottom, where you find a “turquoise lake, about 15 meters long and 8 meters wide, surrounded by jet-black limestone”
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