CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social

Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP

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www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk

I'm working so hard on letting other people see me again after some very hard years of fighting the need to defensively hide.

It means so much that I can actually see myself in my new headshots.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social
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Artemis II are home safe 🥹

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson would be so proud 💜🌙
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social
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I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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Sheila E. Young @sheilaeyoung1.bsky.social
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Sincerely… NASA couldn’t have chosen a better team of people for this mission. They have been a bright light in the shadowy time here. It’s been a joy to watch.
#nasa #artemisii
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Mise @misebanbha.bsky.social
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Go protest today if you can.

Be angry, be heard, be seen.

I'm going to todays and tomorrows protests in London.

See some of you there!

Remember we are love, and they are hate.

Be love, be present, be angry.

Stand Up, Fight Back
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This is more or less how Robeson was known in my house, singer who was in solidarity with the miners. Which is accurate! But as I've grown up I realised it badly undersells him. A genuine actual Renaissance man.
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Thank you everyone - not only funded, but more than funded - in less than 24 hours. I can't tell you how grateful I am - thank you.
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Funded! More than funded! Thank you all so much!
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Thank you so SO much everyone - not only fully funded, but over the mark, in less than 24 hours!
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"But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

I'm not religious, but I'm with Sherlock Holmes on this.
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Less than £90 to go! Do I know any wealthy Americans logging in around now? Dantella is a friend of friends - a trans woman from Jordan just granted settled status in the UK, raising rounds to build a safe home away from the discrimination and violence she's been placed into. Thank you so much.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social
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This is more than three-quarters of the way there! Just on the offchance I have any followers with decent incomes: if you'd spend £5 on a pint tonight, could you swing £5 to a trans woman building a safe home in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan? Thank you!
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This is more than three-quarters of the way there! Just on the offchance I have any followers with decent incomes: if you'd spend £5 on a pint tonight, could you swing £5 to a trans woman building a safe home in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan? Thank you!
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Composers - how much is the standard industry rate for performance rights of your songs for one concert? Really struggling to find any useful guidelines. I've been asked what my fee is for a classical concert to perform a 25/28 minute song cycle of mine, and I'm stuck!
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I really miss the days of 'Go on Computer, Get Reward for Good Job'
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Looking for game recommendations: completely obsessed as a kid with the Lost Mind of Dr Brain/Zork Nemesis/Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo.

Are there any games for adults now redolent of these?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_Nemesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Mind_of_Dr._Brain
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunx
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I know cash is tight for nearly everyone, but every bit helps- Dantella is a friend of friends, a trans woman recently granted settled status in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan, trying to set up a safe home among community chuffed.org/project/176837-fundraiser-for-dantella-helping-a-trans-person-find-a-safe-home Please share if you can - thank you
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I know cash is tight for nearly everyone, but every bit helps- Dantella is a friend of friends, a trans woman recently granted settled status in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan, trying to set up a safe home among community chuffed.org/project/176837-fundraiser-for-dantella-helping-a-trans-person-find-a-safe-home Please share if you can - thank you
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Fuck it - I'm going to rewatch Deadloch Season One, and everyone else should too.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com
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Ted Chiang for the New Yorker in 2024. Missed this until it started making rounds again this week. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates
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Stark contrast to the posh older men sitting next to me at a coffee shop this morning, confidently sharing a Chat GPT précis of a political article between them and being smug because that made THEM the savvy ones
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One on the things I loved so much about Nicola Griffith's Aud novels was how the information on self defence was woven through the alignment of body and self: who you are in relationship with both the world and your own beliefs about that world, and about your place in it.
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Drama: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Action/adventure: The Dark Knight

Horror: The Descent

Comedy: Shrek 2

Romance: Brokeback Mountain

Oscar Winner (best picture?): No Country for Old Men
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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News used to be better
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social
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I have encountered and engaged with many Trump supporters, hearing them patiently out each time: and every single one of them, whether beneath a veneer of politeness or not, exhibited a fundamental spite and meanness about their fellow human beings that I found horrifying.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
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I understand the impulse for people to say things like “and we forgot about Epstein” but rest assured some of us have not and will never forget about Epstein
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social
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I have not forgotten about Jeffrey Epstein since 2019 and trust that I will not be forgetting or “moving on” from the Epstein Files anytime soon or probably ever
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
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Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social
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The important part is that everyone else cowers. Helping people is weak and feminine even if it benefits you, making people suffer is strong and masculine even if it hurts you.
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