Abe 🌻🦉

@abeplaut.bsky.social

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#BeardedTrumpetPlayer 🧔🏻🎺 Social Justice Advocate ✊ Reads Books & Listens to Records 📚 💿 Also posts on Yiddishkeit, Muppets🧿🐸 He/they | Find recordings, upcoming performances & more at link ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/abeplaut

Screenshot from FotMob app showing all stats in Spain’s favor
Screenshot of weather app on my phone that says “4 SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS” Severe thunderstorm watch, air quality alert, flood watch, heat advisory
Shot map for Ecuador v Curacao. Yellow circles are Ecuador’s shots. Ecuador had many more shots on target.
Screenshot of my email inbox showing the daily newsletter from Politico Playbook delivered at 6:13am
Photo of the page where David Byrne writes “Great ad copy! The record player as orgasmatron!” From the book How Music Works. It’s the chapter about music technologies impacting music itself.
Screen capture from Metro Pulse with alert about D40 bus delays
A row of D40 and D4X buses in Washington DC sit on the side of the road on Georgia Ave NW, a major roadway from DC into Maryland
Blue, red and purple lighting on the stage at DC9, a nightclub in Washington DC. A tambourine, trumpet, flugelhorn, plunger mute and Harmon mute are on the floor next to a glockenspiel. In the background is a piano keyboard, guitar and a drumset.
My summary statistics from StoryGraph summarizing my 2025 year in books read. It’s a fun data visualization tool to use StoryGraph to track what you’re reading.
A collage of 42 book covers including a variety of fiction and nonfiction. The collage was generated by StoryGraph.
Graphic generated by StoryGraph highlighting books read by me in December.
Moishe the cat shows a toothy grin while sitting on a laptop keyboard with a paw blocking the webcam.
Screenshot from DC’s WMATA Metro Rewind campaign. It shows a panda playing guitar as the “Headliner” archetype because of frequent public transit use to and from music hotspots around DC area. Top station was Shaw-Howard. Top bus line was D4X.
Graphic from StoryGraph indicating books read during November 2025. Covers of books include Mood Machine, Psalm for the Wild-Built and Jew in the Lotus
A silver plated trumpet stands on a candlelit table inside the music club Bossa Bistro in the Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington DC. An exposed brick wall is in the background.
Graphic from StoryGraph showing statistics for my books read in July 2025. They include A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, Being Jewish After The Destruction of Gaza, and BBC Radio Play adaptations of John Wyndham novels
Screenshot of a tweet. The NY based Jews for Racial & Economic Justice posted pictures of Yiddish campaign signs for Zohran. The JFREJ tweet says “Spotted in Borough Park #JewsForZohran “ and the tweet was quote tweeted by @sunraysunray who says “Using Yiddish in a socialist NYC mayoral campaign for the first time in a century” Of note, Borough Park is a diverse and disproportionately Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn where numerous Yiddish speaking Hasidic Jews live.
A chart generated from book tracking app StoryGraph showing reading stats for May 2025. Abe read 5 books, 1,273 pages, gave an average rating of 4.5/5. Average book length was 377 pages. Average time to finish 29 days. Other data visualizations and graphs are included too.
The furry blue Cookie Monster dances and sings under a disco ball. Several muppet background singers are visible behind Cookie Monster.
In individual wearing a protective head covering and surgical mask is in the center of this graphic promoting the DC Fair Budget Coalition. The captions on the graphic say “Health Justice. #ChooseDC #DCBudget Fair Budget Coalition
Screen shot of USDA website about SNAP and non-citizens. The webpage says “Page or Content Archived The page you are looking for has been archived and is no longer available.”
A collage of book covers. Titles include fiction and nonfiction works, including poetry collections
List of popular holiday movies by streaming service (Netflix, Disney+, Max, prime, Apple TV, Hulu)