I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

This is Minneapolis elementary school pick up: The alert also recommends: "Bring your whistle & wear your hat. If you have a respirator or goggles bring them in a small backpack. We don't want to show up looking alarming for the kids but chemical weapons are being used widely in the area." 2/2

In between my day job, prepping an adjunct class, family life, and the daily horrors of the current WH administration I started printing my first narrative based kids book: The Good Burp. #Risograph #zine #burp

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

I'm working on my first narrative based kids book. Yes, those are burps you are seeing. There will be a lot of them. #kidsbook #burp

To cap what has been a terrible year, we now must also contend with another Avatar movie.

Redacted Fayette, AL

The least of anyone’s problems but wow the iPhone “Liquid Glass” update is just more confirmation that everything now is worse for no good reason.

It pains me that I will have to move to using Calibri in solidarity.

Folks, is Calibri woke????

Friends don't let friends use Spotify bsky.app/profile/obso...

A close up so you don't miss the sign: "The space people call our earth - trouble planet."

I just bought 30,000 sheets of paper. I will be reprinting my How To Art Book Fair guide in late 2026/early 2027 in an edition of around 2000. Which feels overwhelming just typing.

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

I wrote about sheer spite's sliding scale pricing, and some thoughts on the economics of running a very small press: sheerspite.ca/on-sliding-s...

I created a public spreadsheet that other publishers can add to so people can decide whether different fairs might be effective for them. Please add to it! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

She seemed happy not to have won the Booker Prize; it was like “having been invited to a party but not having to stay and clean the dishes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...

Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Ein Buch Haus in Berlin experienced water damage to their gallery/bookshop. Here is the link to learn more and donate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...?

one of the greatest single pages of the twentieth-century, a masterpiece

I love how harsh this last sentence is from this quote: His unruly life can remind you of something Clive James said about E.E. Cummings — that he “was as hot against materialist society as only a poet living on a trust fund can be.”

It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

I wrote a bit about how I make my art book publishing somewhat sustainable for @burnaway.org: burnaway.org/magazine/mak...

My 3 year old son and his friends at daycare like to run around pointing at themselves and others and say "You're a Cheeto". It's to the point where when we are in stores he will just point at people and say it too. For about a day I thought he meant cheetah, but no, he means Cheeto.

"The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

👏 stop 👏 requiring 👏 recommendation letters 👏 in 👏 the 👏 first 👏 round 👏 of 👏 academic 👏 job 👏 applications

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at: www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

This piece is smart throughout, but the ending really knocks it out of the park💥

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fuzzy’s Deary, ID

zine psa: please number your pages please

*80 percent* drop in mail to the US because Trump is taxing every single small package anyone might want to send someone here

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

40 issues of my Public Collectors project QUARANZINE from 2020 are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago now until July 2026. That is 11 months. It just occurred to me: What will this country even be in 11 months? What will it be in 4 months? That feels like an eternity right now.

“Calvinball jurisprudence.”

Miners Cafe Laurium, MI

What's wild about the 85th percentile is that lots of US states use it to set all speed limits, but the original idea (from the 1930s) was to let observed driver speeds shape speed limits on **rural roads**. It was never intended for urban areas w/pedestrians & cyclists!

so, in the course of a month, the New York Times reassigned four veteran critics, the Washington Post’s film critic took a buyout, Vanity Fair decided it doesn’t need a film critic at all, and the Associated Press got rid of book criticism altogether? Cool.

"Perhaps social-media influencers are today’s critics and curators, but even as our feeds promise 'discovery,' they mostly serve us what we already like. We have no idea what we’re missing." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Prairie dog Mellette, SD

Neat to have lived through the tail end of a rare bubble of stability and normalcy.

This is in diplomatic language because it has to be, but the upshot is: Hi, NH arts orgs, 6/7 of us have been laid off and the 7th is being forced to sell imaginary tax credits that won't fund the arts b/c the state legislature is full of brain-damaged loons.