Two people in my extended circle are on the Global Sumud Flotilla, aiming to break the siege on Gaza. They are asking us all for increased vigilance as the flotilla enters the high risk zone. You can follow the progress of the flotilla at www.globalsumudflotilla.org/live

BREAKING: Five houses collapsed over a roughly 60 minute period this afternoon in Buxton. Details: islandfreepress.org/outer-banks-... [@IslandFreePress video] #yestv #ncwx #obx #Humberto #Imelda

5 homes collapsed on the Outer Banks in 45 minutes this afternoon! www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane...

Was at the restaurant 2 doors down just a few hours before 👀

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On the one hand, there’s all the other stuff, but on the other hand, it’s John Coltrane’s 99th birthday and you can listen to WKCR’s 24-hour broadcast of his music www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE. I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5

🇧🇷Tuiuiú 🌎Jabiru mycteria Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O tuiuiú é uma ave ciconiiforme da família Ciconiidae. 📷 Leonardo Casadei

I like the way Starmer says ‘We recognised the State of Israel more than 75 years ago as a homeland for the Jewish people’ as if the UK had no role in those events and no responsibility for how they played out.

🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉 ​These aren't just photos; they are genuine moments of hope from the first day of our medical point in the Al-Maghazi area of the southern #Gaza Strip. Your support helps us to help 🙏🏼❤️‍🩹🇵🇸 Thank you! Donation link: gofund.me/6bfa282b

do you want the undead, people? because this is how you get the undead.

Ghosts of the British Museum is now available in Mandarin on the Taiwanese market (!!) Thanks to everyone who's made this possible 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏

New Dawn Rose! #roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #pnwgardening

Ghosts of the British Museum is now available in Mandarin on the Taiwanese market (!!) Thanks to everyone who's made this possible 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏

Can anyone spare a little to help Lubna? 🍉

The owner of North Carolina’s only private federal prison is negotiating with ICE and other agencies to reopen it as a detention center, potentially for immigrants awaiting deportation. Written by Phoebe Zerwick. Co-published by her Down from DC newsletter and @theassemblync.bsky.social. #ncpol

My uncle’s family cannot afford to buy food and water daily. Any contribution for them will feel like it is for me; I will be very happy. Please do not ignore this. This little kids need food everyday 20 $ makes a big difference. 🔗 tiny.cc/x3as001

This story reminds me of Miles Davis saying that he was influenced by the sound of an African thumb piano (probably an mbira?) when working on Kind of Blue. Taking these instruments out of colonial contexts and bringing their sound and purpose forward is deeply important and cool as hell.

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Elbit Systems in Bristol has closed down. Good.

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

The frame of Patricia Kadgien's own Facebook photo of a still life owned by her SS officer father is a perfect match for the stolen painting by Abraham Mignon when overlaid onto the still life currently in the collection of the Museo de Arte Decorativo in Buenos Aires.

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Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of Nazi leader Friedrich Gustav Kadgien, and her husband have been charged with aggravated accessory after the fact for theft in the context of genocide, a charge upheld by Federal Judge Santiago Inchausti, who presided over the hearing in regards to the WWII painting.

The author never asks why there was such a trend for historically modeled Tibetan shrine rooms in museums. They are simulated recreations of heritage spaces lost in the destruction of 97% of Tibet's monasteries during the Cultural Revolution and something impossible to do in occupied Tibet itself.

RT, not much to close the target!!

Kiyohimea @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 681 part 4 #atacamatatrenchancients #MarineLife

Derek Walcott on storm season, reminding me that we're in the thick of it

Palestinian families like Ahmed's are being displaced & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can, Ahmed was severely injured & desperately needs help (no donations for 8 days):

Think—as the article basically states—that this is the next-step in the already extremely problematic use of satellites in archaeology. People really need to take a look at themselves. ‘Archaeology isn’t colonial’, they said…

Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.

A peer and retired general got the British Government to help secure a gold mine he partly owns in West Africa. Which century is it again?

For @hyperallergic.com, I interviewed Satch Hoyt about his un-muting practice, wherein he gains access to the African instrument collections of colonial & ethnographic museums so that they may be played again. hyperallergic.com/1037093/satc...

The Town of Carrboro passed its own resolution in May. Durham is expected to follow suit on Monday.

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“There was a feeling of gratitude, of ‘Oh, cool — somebody’s reactivating this instrument.’ Somebody’s actually, finally returning it to its proper use.” —Satch Hoyt, artist and musician who “un-mutes” African instruments in museum collections

Ashraf Eldarir, an Egyptian doctor, became involved in the “more financially lucrative” trade of smuggling antiquities into the US Eldarir pleaded guilty to four charges of smuggling and is due to be sentenced at a court in New York today. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

some rare good news!! for @indyweek.bsky.social

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“…Satch Hoyt is turning his attention towards un-muting key museum collections in the United States & in the Vatican’s vaults. With an estimated 90% of Africa’s material heritage located in institutions and private collections in the West, un-muting all the exiled instruments is an impossibility.”