Abigail Kabaker

ROSALÍA e Björk no #BRITs 🤍🤍✨️

Working on this record player

Y'all ever see transistors like this?

Podcasters that are making series based on aggregating information from books:
1. Cite the books
2. Encourage your listeners to read past the information you gave them

Otherwise what you’re doing is a little culture vulture-y

The other thing I need to say is that PUBLICATIONS NEED TO COVER CULTURE INCLUDING BOOKS

I keep hearing that publications are declining to do book reviews. Places like @physicstoday.aip.org and WaPo got rid of their book sections entirely 🧪

We want people to learn about science but where?

Friends will ask what I watched over the weekend , and I’ll be like “another friend mentioned Milfs vs Zombies as being filmed near me , so that’s what I watched” (true story )

2 young billionaires are behind the prediction market boom. They hate each other The 20-something billionaires who run Kalshi and Polymarket are battling it out to be the top prediction market company. Observers and former insiders say the feud is just heating up.

At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together

"For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me

www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...

If someone could get iv3-148x, I’d really appreciate it… every series, there’s a few pieces that really stick out and speak to me (but all of them are great) and they get grabbed fast. One day, I hope to be able to get one myself.

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green is better change it back

‘He paints phalluses the way others paint landscapes’: the disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Rops A new exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich revisits the Belgian artist whose wild women of the demimonde scandalised the belle epoque – and still shock audiences today

You know, you see a headline like this and you expect to see some phalluses, but alas, the article only shows paintings with naked ladies: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Going to the Guthrie has me thinking of the old Guthrie. What did you see there? A cool English teacher brought us up on 2 field trips from way down in southern MN. Last thing I saw there was Romeo & Juliet. Good seats so Juliet's brother mourned her death 10ft from me with tears & drool, yikes

Beloved lepidopterist Kevin dissects some noctuid genitalia in the Visible Lab, which he has decorated to look like the penalty box at a hockey game. He is wearing a Pens jersey and a hockey helmet while he looks thru the microscope.

I thought our new “visible lab” space felt like a petting zoo but @mothpotato.bsky.social had a much better idea

A receipt

A fragment of a poem about vegetables

Today’s archival research has been weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable other than the random fragment of a poem about vegetables on the back of an 1819 receipt tendered to the Boston Board of Selectmen 🗃️

This image is a flyer for the New Deanwood Library Design Kickoff event. It features a photo of several people gathered around a table, looking at documents. The text on the flyer invites the community to share ideas and feedback for the new stand-alone library, emphasizing the importance of community involvement. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, at 6 p.m., at Deanwood Library, 1350 49th St NE. Light bites will be provided. The DC Public Library logo is displayed at the top.

Deanwood, what would your dream library look like? The New Deanwood Library Design Kick Off is your chance to meet the design team and share ideas for the future space.

🗓 March 18 | 6PM
📍 Deanwood Library
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4b2yGdX

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Know an undergrad who is interested in exhibit design and development? The NHMLA is now seeking applicants for a Getty Marrow Intern, which is a 10-week summer internship program working with our exhibits department. Please share with those interested!
workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

It's time again for me to hire a seasonal research assistant for the WNV Dead Bird Program. Bird knowledge helpful but not required (makes the job more interesting imo), public health or arbovirus interest also a+. Happy to answer questions, can be used as practicum/internship for some programs too!

YouTube video by the Mountain Goats the Mountain Goats - This Year (Official Video)

youtu.be/H7fBFtif9H4

FANTASTIC PLANET

every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film.

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FANTASTIC PLANET (1973)
dir. René Laloux

On a faraway planet called Ygam, the oppressed Om rebel against the giants known as Drnaaggerss.

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

An abstract, pointy sculpture of Jesus tied to a column. He's clearly clenching.

Congratulations, Sagrada Familia, for finally topping out the Jesus Tower, 144 years after construction started, and also for Jesus' 90° cheeks in this sculpture 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Messy blut ink spatter background, red sun, red hill rising up to become a figure. power lines, paths patterns

I Have Forgotten The Concept Of Time

I actually find it pretty damning that plenty of people are willing to overlook a guy having the actual no-joke SS logo permanently etched on his skin because he says a handful of the right lefty buzzwords, despite his actual job history demonstrating absolutely no adherence to those principles.

‘A Sentient Land’ is Emerson’s own Walden Pond In the middle of Downtown Boston, between mounds of dirt-caked snow and seemingly never-ending gray concrete, a posthumanist oasis stands. No, it's not Boston Common, but Emerson Contemporary’s very o...

Emerson Contemporary is a wonderful little FREE museum near the AMC theater on the Commons.

This work is immersive and has work ranging from the vast to the infinitesimal. One artist traced the path of tiny beetles in gold on a branch. Another made a soundscape by recording trees talking. #ArtSky

Highly recommend that folks see

"A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air" at Emerson College. It has works at the intersections of science, aesthetics, and spirituality.

Artists: Margaux Crump, Julia Krupa, Eileen Ryan, Nelly-Eve Rajotte

Until: March 28 #ArtSky

This is just a shitpost, but there's something to the idea that

Almost every design choice and optimization for large language model-based "AI" comes from the designers' terror of ever hearing the words "you're wrong" or even just "no."

There’s a few intersections I go through as a pedestrian in silver spring Maryland where turning drivers are notorious for this. I’ve almost gotten hit at least once. It’s especially bad at rush hour.

I think some scenes had that kind of shadowy noir style, but some of it felt too “bright “ it’s hard for me to think of anything in color film being shot like a noir. I’d have to rewatch but I think some of it had more of a thriller feel to shooting decisions, which makes sense