‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Tetris

Truly the future of blasphemy

The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more, which means things can get better, which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.

If I’m talking about dinner or TV or the dog, I probably don’t want a bleak joke about the state of the world. I promise: I know about it.

May I recommend this meditative little video of how a Linotype machine works? youtu.be/HEsAXZg-S04

This is rad!

Me when all my friends can see the aurora borealis from their houses

Naurora for me. Either I'm too far south or there's clouds to the north. Nothing showed up on the time-elapse photo, either.

There are so many books I could choose for this prompt, but I'm gonna go with MOMO by Michael Ende. I read it in college not long after I'd turned 21. It completely upended the way I think about time, work/labor, relationships, and what makes life worth living.

Found a new favorite poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I don't know who needs to hear this right now. You are bigger than your current circumstances. Just..... keep...... going!

Sorry, I’m not learning the names of any of the Pokémon who were introduced after I hit puberty.

Beetlejuice The Musical (The Musical) (The Musical) is good, actually.

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Looking at what's entering the public domain in January, and it looks like 2026 belongs to the girls.

Don't mind me, I'm just over here feeling the urge to preemptively defend my omission of appositive commas with "his partner Howard Ashman" because one may have numerous partners over the course of one's life. Copyediting, y'all. It does things to your brain. www.grammarbook.com/blog/commas/...

Don't mind me, I'm just over here spending my Friday night watching videos of Ellen Greene singing "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly, Seymour"...again.

PROJECT TRANSCEND NEEDS YOUR HELP In addition to covering additional materials costs and artist and staff payments, we're stretching our budget to help support artists who have lost access to SNAP. If you're in a position to throw a few bucks our way, please, please do.

What I love is when people talk about Lynch being abstruse or weird for its own sake or impenetrable when the fact of it, particularly in talks like this, he's really clear. He might use ambiguous symbols in his films, but this isn't. Something to remember.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

This is complete hogwash

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Supporter sketch request! This person asked for an ominous raven for the spooky season...so here I've drawn a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Perhaps even a ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

May I just say how much I love watching movies in movie theaters? I just love it so much. I love the popcorn smell. I love the rows of folding seats. I love the tingling feeling I get when the lights dim. I love being in a room of complete strangers having a shared experience.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Freeeeee in the public domaaaaaaiiinn 👻👻👻

I AM PREPARED FOR THE AMUSEMENTS. LET THE HALLOWED EVENING COMMENCE.

they noshed the squash

Made some art for my Halloween costume this week. I'm going as Death from the Discworld books. Here's my li'l companion, the Death of Rats. #Discworld #Sewing #FeelingCrafty

I posted something negative, so here's something positive to balance out the feed. Current work-in-progress:

Had a frustrating federal government shutdown moment today where I was trying to look up data from the 2020 U.S. Census, yet neither data.gov nor data.census.gov are working. I called my congressperson to ask their staff for help. The staff confirmed that the census data is not currently available.

Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.

Plastic animal skeleton Halloween decorations should not have ears. I will die on this hill.

New York DMV: You must change your address within 10 days when you move out of state. Also New York DMV: You must select "New York" on this form to change your address.

I'm a bit late to this news, but here I am, legitimately crying at my kitchen table over marine life—again. And this time it's *good* news!

If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

"[The president's] duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor." –Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 04, 1861 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/in...

"Just look around you — culture is still enduring in our communities. Attend events that are meaningful to you, whether it’s art workshops, food festivals, library gatherings, academic lectures, concerts, film screenings, museum exhibitions, or comedy shows."

Did you know that archives are more than just "old stuff?" Archives hold essential evidence of our democracy, help secure our rights under the law, and provide the means to hold our leaders accountable. #AskAnArchivist

Funny how often people talk about rich fools trying to avoid societal collapse in isolated bunkers as if it's a new phenomenon and not something Edgar Allan Poe wrote a very famous story about in 1842.

The Wild World of Anime CD-ROMs in North America - Mark McDonald explores the anime CD-ROM micro-boom of the 1990s, looking at the history format and their rise and fall, while highlighting exemplars of the format like the Anime Hyperguide and The World of U.S. Manga Corps. #anime #history #tech

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired. Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/lDxXk Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/VOiPa