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YouTube video by Inside FBCG "Oh Happy Day" Edwin Hawkins - Anthony Brown w/ FBCG Combined Choir

Just heard the news. youtu.be/olQrCfkvbGw?...

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

I love that for your dog.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’ Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Teen Vogue has been doing some impressive reporting since Elaine Welteroth took the helm in 2016. She oversaw a purposeful increase in coverage of politics and social justice topics.

Fishnet stockings?

Can we opt out of this experiment?

Thanks for saying it so clearly. Conversations IRL are sometimes fine, often exhausting, and not why I come here.

Oh I don’t like this. Thanks.

Uh oh. What gives it away? What are you seeing?

This is probably unnecessarily dark, but the Dec 6 1989 massacre at L’École Polytechnique happened down the street from the National Theatre School, and when class was halted to tell us, we stood there in our red clown noses.

I hadn’t thought about that one, having never encountered it in real life, I feel better prepared for it now. Thanks.

Superb alt text.

That’s my experience. The one time it came up with someone close to me, they were trying to communicate the question, “how do we know what we know?” which is not a bad question, they just were unaware of all the thinking that’s already been done around it.

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

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.

THANK YOU this was legit bothering and distracting me

Link’s permanent ban is wrong and should be reversed.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

“Just passing through..”

A Black woman with locs and glasses in an orange satin dress and black stockings swinging a 5 year old autistic Black child in front of a presentation on Sensory processing disorder

My new favorite photo of me teaching. I was teaching parents and caregivers of autistic children about sensory processing disorder at the Caregiver Brunch and a sensory seeker from a Parent who didn’t have a babysitter came to stim with me. So I stimmed while continuing to teach.

Incredibly powerful words from Pastor David Black.

Wilensky's - Wikipedia

Wilensky’s, Montreal. “The Special”.

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Greg Newby

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

So have you watched some of the sumo that has been happening this week and thought, 'ah, yeah, that's pretty good sport'?

...did you know that the next tournament will be 15 days' worth of action in November?

...and may I interest you in Grand Sumo Highlights on youtube?

The investigation is accepting help from Wes Anderson

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm terrible at bug ID, but I'll say it's an elephant beetle (Megasoma elephas), a giant beetle with long 'horn' on its nose, being ridden by a little plastic cowboy with one fist in the air, in some mulch, with little plastic model rodeo fencing just out of focus to suggest action.

A Pink Zebra Beauty tarantula (Eupalaestrus campestratus) is astride a tiny plastic horse, a tiny cowboy hat on its head, plastic reins under the legs. There's mulch and some fencing sort of out of focus to give the illusion of being real/larger.

The Houston Rodeo is already underway & the Houston Museum of Natural History (@hmns.bsky.social) posted these action shots on FB with their insects recreating rodeo scenes for the kickoff event: "Go Texan Day."

It put a smile on my face, y'all. 😄