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Tonight Andrea Jenkins, a bisexual trans woman of color, was elected to city council in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

In Virginia, Danica Roem, another openly trans woman, won an election to the state House of Delegates against anti-LGBTQ+ incumbent Bob Marshall, a man who had dedicated his legislative career to harming LGBTQ+ Virginians and who’d recently introduced an anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’.

Today we learned that gravity is a fine musician. A team of Japanese filmmakers constructed an incredibly long wooden xylophone along a steady slope in the middle of a beautiful forest in Kyushu in southern Japan. Once the awesome instrument was built and carefully tuned a wooden ball was released at the very top. As the ball rolls down the xylophone it strikes each wooden bar once, producing a single note, performing Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring“ accompanied by the gentle sounds of a peaceful forest:

Click here for an orchestral performance of the same piece.

To learn more about how this clever forest xylophone was made watch this behind-the-scenes video: