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Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Between 1905 and 1911, the sheet music covers of Gotham-Attucks Co. — a song-publisher managed by some of the most famous Black writers and performers of the day — revolutionised how Black popular music was shown to the public: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

MUƧIC & ΛRT HAPPΞNING: Happy 66th birthday to British painter, author, poet, photographer, filmmaker, singer, and guitarist Billy Childish (December 1, 1959) ❝Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.❞‬

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Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence. In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT. Universities are cooked.

Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince

The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]

He doesn't just drink the diarrhea. He metabolizes into rocket fuel. 💀 Legit one of the funniest fucking things I've read in a while. Certified Gold.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Confused Jack Burton is so relatable

OPINION: " There was a reason pro-slavery businessmen and thinkers were energized by the prospect of an American Egypt: Many Southern planters imagined themselves as guardians of a hierarchical and aristocratic system, one grounded in landownership, tradition and honor," Charles Vanthournout writes.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Meat Thermometer (EN ESPAÑOL)

For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.

Wise men and fools, two'll get you five You'll never get out of this world alive

“We live in the desert and we really need these water sources for wildlife to survive,” says a conservation manager. A new section of border wall could deplete springs in a crucial wildlife corridor between Arizona and Mexico—and that’s just one concern about it.

An Archive of Handwritten Traditional Mexican Cookbooks Is Now Online

What do you think an ICE agent does after a full workday of snatching parents away from their children? Maybe they unwind by plucking the wings off of bats, or leaving out bowls of antifreeze for pets, before gooning to a simultaneous play of Hotel Rwanda and Come and See, muttering "I'm a good guy"

"Storied." Fuck all the way off!

100% this. 👇

"Sounds amazing." 💀 Zohran's dad sounds cool AF.

What phase of late-stage capitalism is this?

Remember, remember...

LMAO LMFAO

all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still

Huge crowds gather on first anniversary of Serbian train station disaster

Re-upload of higher quality first image from this thread.

BURN!

This Day in Labor History: November 1, 1879. The Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was replicated across the nation. Work was central to the genocidal project!

Few more images from #NoviSad

Might be a bit of an obvious choice, but I was at this show in 2018. Brilliant performance that night. And we were a great (and very drunk) audience.

Grave of Ed Balchowsky (1916-1989) "Artist, poet, raconteur, one-armed piantist, Spanish Civil War volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Your friends, family and fellow premature antifascists salute you!" Sent to me by Solomon from his daily run thru Forest Park, Illinois

Excellent idea. Weekend plans.

Watch the video. It's an hour long but worth it. I laughed throughout the whole thing.

Of course he isn't. This is what these petty despots do when the people rise up. He knows if he stays that his demise would be akin to Mussolini. Cazzo fascista!

Belgrade to Novi Sad is about 65 miles. Novi Pazar to Novi Sad is over 200 miles. Just incredible.

Meanwhile in #Inđija, town on this route, people secured at least some commodities for awaited and tired travelers, as regime closed doors of all public buildings. Vučić's miserable dictatorship even forbade selling of tents and water to these people, so locals took care of everything instead.

Large column of students are passing through Zemun, #Belgrade, on their way to #NoviSad. Source: x.com/kaonikotinn/...