Links: New down ballot wins post

Will update as I run across more good news.
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jadelennox's brief emphatic post about Georgia (US). Scroll down for a fabulous photo of Stacey Abrams.

Previous down ballot wins post

Links: Music and culture, and other good things

Other good things
Mounting evidence to the contrary by Penny Wednesday. "How many encounters with fascinating, driven, knowledgeable, deeply ethical people do I have to have before I change my views of the species as a whole?"

The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution by Bren Smith.

Imagine a vertical underwater garden with hurricane-proof anchors on the edges connected by floating horizontal ropes across the surface. From these lines kelp and Gracilaria and other kinds of seaweeds grow vertically downward next to scallops in hanging nets that look like Japanese lanterns and mussels held in suspension in mesh socks. Staked below the vertical garden are oysters in cages and then clams buried in the sea floor.

Bulgarian music & culture
Folklore regions of Bulgaria. Fifteen years ago when a Bulgarian dance teacher paused to tell us which ethnographic region a dance was from, I felt impatient. Now I can distinguish dance music and styling of different regions, and I just took an amazing Zoom workshop with Neli Andreeva (lead singer of the Filip Kutev Ensemble) where she taught us about the different singing ornaments. So cool!
Специфика на звукообразуването и орнаментиката в българската народна песен by Пелагия Векилова, Светла Минкова. Something something Ornaments in Bulgarian Folk Songs by Pelagia Vekilova, Svetla Mijkova. Neli pointed us at this, and I'm linking it here in case I ever need it, although I don't speak Bulgarian.

Relatedly, for typesetting musical scores in these various languages with lots of diacritical marks,
Peculiarities of Typesetting Latin-Based Languages by Filip Blažek. SADLY their table of all the special characters is an image so I can't copy-paste from it when I need one of those. Via jesse_the_k.

Costume of Sofia area, Shope region, Bulgaria by Roman Kozakand. Each region has its own typical costume style as well. So cool that people share their expertise on the internet for all!

Yiddish music & culture
Archive of Yiddish Folk Songs by Ruth Rubin. I think this was via sovay.

Georgian music & culture
Voices of the Ancestors podcast by Holly Taylor-Zuntz and Susan Thompson. First episode, interview with Jen Morris, leader of OneFourFive Georgian Choir in Seattle and a dear friend.

Thousands of Georgian polyphonic recordings made available online at the AudioMack FolkCenter. Lots of Georgian script, but you can just click the "Play" icons to hear whole albums of Georgian music.

The 10th International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony was just held online. Usually choirs travel to Tbilisi, Georgia, but this year they sent in videos of songs from all over the world.
International Georgian Choirs Concert 2020, single long video in order.
Concert as a playlist of separate videos. I've sung some of these songs. I hope that someday I will get to sing them with a group again.

Links: Coping with Election Stress

( Resources, nothing directly about this election visible )

Bonus links, because I am coping with election stress by clearing out my tabs.
US Winter Season Severity Index maps from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center. Shows color coded winter severities across the US, available from 1950 to 2019 winters.

A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it. by Sigal Samuel. In a stunning result, when you give people money, they become less poor and more able to afford housing.