Molly Lenore

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Oh man, I just realized the seed art at the State Fair this year is going to be *something*.

I can't help but think that if activists had cell phones in the 1850s, the response of slave catchers and their federal law-enforcement allies would look much the same as we are seeing today from ICE.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

massive respect to gordon lightfoot, writing an entire song because of a typo

Here is the Newsweek magazine article that led to the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," marked up to show key passages that Lightfoot borrowed. Short thread at quoted post. Thanks to @bikeguy.bsky.social for reminding me about this. #EdmundFitzgerald50

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

1966 photo of building with: “WLOL 985 FM”

WLOL radio building at 1021 LaSalle Ave in Minneapolis in 1966. From the MN Historical Society, posted recently on the Historic Minneapolis Minnesota FB page.
LOL apparently stood for “Land of Lakes.” The sign for Harry’s Cafe at 11th & Nicollet is visible in the background.

Crap From The Past - Bonus: The Last Day of WLOL/Minneapolis, February 26, 1991 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive This is the last ten hours (minus one) of 99.5 WLOL-FM/Minneapolis on February 26, 1991, taped off the air on cassettes and reassembled into convenient...

I remember bringing my Walkman to family dinner at the Ground Round in 1991 so I could listen to the final day of broadcasts of 99.5 FM WLOL. Archive dot org has digitized cassette recordings of the whole final day. archive.org/details/cftp...

YouTube video by Yale University A Look Inside America at 250: A History

Three of my favorite historians are teaching a course together at Yale to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of this nation. Here is a preview of the course from all three: @jbf1755.bsky.social, @dblight.bsky.social and Beverly Gage. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwJq...

This is such a great thread, especially for garden heads. I once heard the North American Prairie described as an upside down rainforest, meaning quite a bit of a plant’s growth is underground. Also like a true midwestern garden nerd, I love this chart 💚🌸

Jacques Pepin and Lidia Bastianich! Multiple rewatches of Wolf Hall! Several seasons of Finding Your Roots! All the Rick Steves and Ken Burns you can dream of!

The evil that men do lives after them

*WHEEZING*

"The Court did so over defense counsel's objection that had no apparent legal basis to support it!"

National Historic Marker Weekend | William G. Pomeroy Foundation The William G. Pomeroy Foundation® presents National Historic Marker Weekend. This year, we invite you to volunteer for the fifth annual National Historic Marker Day on Friday, April 25 and all weekend long.

This weekend is National Historic Marker Weekend. This event, created by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, brings people and communities together to clean local history markers. Learn how you can get involved at tinyurl.com/4zzzw8pk.

If Mark Rylance, in character as Thomas Cromwell from Wolf Hall, silently stared at me for a lengthy period of time, I would simply wither and turn into dust (complimentary)

This can be one of the biggest mental blocks to starting creative work—you want to write, but your words don’t come out like your faves. You want to draw, but your lines aren’t nice like the pros. Well no shit, 1) they come out like you (which is good!) and 2) everyone’s rough to start. Practice.

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

YouTube video by R Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA

This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...

#HandsOff protest: Moorhead, Minnesota ——> Fargo, North Dakota!

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Protestors holding colorful signs and flags cover the northeast corner of Lincoln Hwy and 1st St in DeKalb, IL

Dozens of protestors in DeKalb Illinois with signs and an American flag

DeKalb, Illinois showed up! #handsoff #dekalbil

Library grants terminated after DOGE takeover of Institute of Museum and Library Services Several states received notifications today that their library grants have been cancelled, according to a new statement from the American Library Association.

Library grants terminated after DOGE takeover of Institute of Museum and Library Services

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There is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism [...] A writer who will not lie cannot live or work under fascism.

—Ernest Hemingway

Can’t even begin to imagine how they’re going to vandalize the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Women’s History Museum.

To anyone living in a state that doesn't respect you for who you love or who you are: Illinois has a place for you.

You are seen, you are celebrated, you are protected, and you are welcome here in our state.

It has always been a problem with the use of the phrase “machine learning” that models like these, unlike human beings, cannot actually learn anything. If the status quo is racist, they will remain racist. They can parrot antiracism, not because they have learned it, but because someone else did.