People taking time today they’d usually spend terrorizing trans kids and children’s hospitals, threatening violent political retribution, and demanding US law follows their interpretations of a nationalist supremacist Christian God, in order to worry about unity, I see.
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I cried when I interviewed Dan Langenkamp about the death of his wife, Sarah. She was a hero who saved countless lives in Ukraine only to be killed on her bike by a truck driver in MD. Her story deserves to be told, and these deaths must be prevented.
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abolish merch cuts 💪 incredible form by Philip Holmes
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Pps If what CDBaby says is correct, this isn’t their fault. I hope someone can look into why iTunes Match payments must route through the original distributor. Is there a technical reason since it’s about matching songs in a users library? Beats me 7/
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Ps iTunes Match payments are tiny or I would have made more of a fuss that it took 10years to resolve this! But still, think of how many artists start out on CDBaby. 9% of tiny payments across tens of thousands of artists probably adds up to something not so tiny 6/
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My advice for recording artists who are starting out: go with a flat fee distributor over one that takes a percentage. This wasn’t an option back in ye olden days of 2004 and CDBaby was the only choice. I bear them no ill will…but I have paid them $25,000 in fees 5/
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It’s easier than it used to be to switch distributors. When I first moved my catalog, reviews, playlists, rankings, all disappeared. There are still bumps, like 2 of me on Spotify, this iTunes Match issue and it can take a year for all royalties to flow via a new distributor 4/
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At last I have an answer: CDbaby says this is permanent. No matter who distributes your music today, your original distributor will collect your iTunes Match payments - and in the case of CDBaby, take their % - FOREVER. 3/
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For 10 years, I’ve received payments directly from Apple - with the exception of iTunes Match, which inexplicably continues to pass through CDBaby. Emails back and forth btw Apple and CDBaby over the last 3 years have been unresolved. Shrugs all round 2/
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Finally got an answer to a decade-long royalty puzzle! You might be curious to hear this : 10 yrs ago, realizing how much their 9% fee was costing me, I moved my iTunes distribution away from . 1/
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Monthly Spotify data report and still, there are two of me. I wish I could fix this but no one at has been able to help
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You are not permitted to walk with your offspring on their first day of 7th grade - because you would embarrass them in front of their friends, of course - but nothing is stopping you from hiding in the shrubbery to watch as they head out 😇
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The irony that Instagram “verified” hundreds of fake musicians but meanwhile repeatedly denied the verification of real musicians, like me.
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How hundreds of people who weren’t musicians fooled Instagram, Spotify and other platforms into awarding blue check marks. propub.li/3CIHR3E
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And who can even get a doctors appointment? My doc retired during the pandemic, the community health center is too busy to even see a nurse, so now I go to a doc in a box at a strip mall. It’s 2-4 month wait to see a specialist. Greatest country on earth, my arse
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(Psst…this was in response to the ridiculous demand about re-doing the 2020 election from the should-be-disgraced former saboteur-in-chief)
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Patients’ out of pocket costs and the percentage of folks with high deductible plans have also increased during this time. Going to the doctor is damn expensive. Probably totally unconnected to the decrease in life expectancy…cough
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spaceship sky today
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I demand a redo of the 2000 and 2016 elections!
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Thank you! No parent working through a school shopping list is alone here ;-) I love all of you
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It’s that time again and I’m working through the middle school supply list. Twitter geniuses, does anyone know what an “organizer pouch” is?
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More Canada for us, I guess!
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It’s astonishing to me how so many Vermonters I’ve met have never been to Canada, which is 45 miles north of Burlington. It’s like the earth comes to an end at the border and they aren’t even curious about it.
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Is there a German word for the irritation of trying to reading a news story while the page shifts around because of the loading embedded ads which you have trained your eyes not to look at?
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Every time I struggle to remove a sticker from organic produce I think of Jeff and how he joked about starting the Society for the Proper Use of Adhesives
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I just learned that Champ, Vermont’s beloved lake monster, has a possible Canadian cousin in Lake Memphremagog named Memphre!
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Been following this appalling story and I hope #LisaLaFlamme is getting many lucrative job offers #GreyHairDontCare #KeepTheGrey
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Shortly after LaFlamme's dismissal, a senior CTV official said Michael Melling, head of CTV News, had raised questions about Ms. LaFlamme’s hair on multiple occasions.
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Black Americans paid taxes during segregation for pools they weren't allowed to swim in, fountains they couldn't drink from and buses they had to ride in the back of. So...miss me with this "Why am I paying for school I didn't go to?" At least this is about uplift, not hate.
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Admittedly my québécois is poor but I’m pretty sure this sign says: when chasing punctuation, do not run faster than 20kmh
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Enjoy Biden’s middle finger which is this thread:
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.
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Any critique of debt forgiveness needs to start with an acknowledgment that the US economic system is *vastly* redistributive toward the already-wealthy. Any policy that works in the opposite direction is therefore a corrective — whatever else it may do well or poorly.
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Very good news: The White House is ending what has been effectively a government handout to a few megapublishers at the expense of the public AND the scientists.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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This road sign gets me every time 😭
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Erase the debt! Erase all of it! Lift all the boats!
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I had a generous scholarship, pell grant, all the campus jobs, worked every summer etc but my undergrad degree left me 30k in debt (61k in todays $$) and was very hard on my family. Fear of default kept me from pursuing music as a career until I was 30.
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College should not cost so much to begin with! And this doesn’t fix the loan industrial complex but reducing the debt burden in whatever way? GOOD!!
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Meanwhile, in Finland’s neighboring country, anyone who criticizes their president’s topless photos is jailed, exiled or assassinated
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I’m so sorry. RIP ! Thank you for all your work to make Burlington’s streets more liveable! The city should build at least one protected bike lane in his honor
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The following message is from Tony Redington’s sons.
We regret to inform all of you that our father passed away peacefully and surrounded by family yesterday afternoon at UVMMC. When there is more information in regards to planning, it will be posted.
Sincerely,
JJ, Nick, Ben
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A horror-film-appropriate sonification of a supermassive black hole!
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The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
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