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Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read' Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight t...

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Allusionist 218. Banned Books — The Allusionist It's Banned Books Week. Honorary youth chair Iris Mogul and Sam Helmick, president of the American Library Association, talk about what it is, why it matters so much, and how you can get involved.

New episode is in your podfeed, for Banned Books Week theallusionist.org/bannedbooks

Allusionist 217. Feminist coffee houses — The Allusionist In their heyday of the 1970s and 1980s, there were more than 200 - possibly more than 400 - feminist restaurants and coffee shops in the USA and Canada. These places were aiming to change ways of work...

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YouTube video by Jago Hazzard Let's Look at the Super Sewer!

@allusionistshow.bsky.social I think this might be relevant to a recent episode, 6:27 specifically! youtu.be/yRh6OTPPVwM?...

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Happy tenth anniversary of Pig-gate theallusionist.org/gate

Allusionist 216. Four Letter Words: Terisk — The Allusionist Watching the film Legally Blonde one day with the subtitles on, numerous perfectly innocuous words were partially asterisked out, because of a technological problem I can't name here lest this episo...

Really unexpectedly lovely song about Scunthorpe from @martinaustwick.bsky.social on this episode of @allusionistshow.bsky.social
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like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

The finale of Four Letter Word season is heading to your podfeed this weekend. Which word do you think it’ll be about?

Maybe it heard what we said about it and stomped off

Sun Hop lost its hillock!

You really are too kind!

I love The Allusionist, every so often they will casually release something transcendent

Funny how many two letter words from Hawai'i aren't allowed in N. American Scrabble.

Allusionist 215. Two-Letter Words — The Allusionist Listener Erica commented: "Perhaps an idea for a bonus ep of Four Letter Word season would be one on two-letter words: there’s an established list that Scrabble nerds end up memorizing, and it’s ful...

New episode: all the two-letter words you can play in Scrabble. Listen to become unbeatable/annoying theallusionist.org/two

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There was a lot more detail to that controversy than I could include!

There’s a new episode on your podfeed, featuring placentas, curses and a very catchy new song by @martinaustwick.bsky.social about poisonous plants theallusionist.org/bane

Omfg you’re right

Allusionist 213. Four Letter Words: Dino — The Allusionist The latest four letter word of Four Letter Word season is dino . 'Dinosaur' is derived from Greek 'terrible lizard', and they could have called it 'whopping great lizard' or 'sublime lizard' or 'hey ...

There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces

Two large models of dinosaurs on display in a museum. One is blue with auburn hair, and it is grasping the hindquarters of a green and red dinosaur with a distraught expression

this, in the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the first time I saw dinosaurs represented as brightly coloured and with feathers/hair. And also...humping??

Allusionist 213. Four Letter Words: Dino — The Allusionist The latest four letter word of Four Letter Word season is dino . 'Dinosaur' is derived from Greek 'terrible lizard', and they could have called it 'whopping great lizard' or 'sublime lizard' or 'hey ...

There's a new episode in your podfeed! Next in #FourLetterWord season is 'dino', which means 'terrible'. Hannah McGregor of Material Girls podcast joins to talk about Jurassic Park, and humans' relationship with language for dinosaurs. Hear/read via theallusionist.org/dino and the usual podplaces

This is TODAY and sounds fascinating:

Look mum, I’m in the Radio Times! [Falls back down to Earth] Oh, no, it was that Helen Zatlzman again

We’re having a #Souvenirs live listening party during tomorrow’s broadcast in the Allusioverse Discord, what a great time to join: theallusionist.org/donate

Also perfect for you if you enjoy history, typefaces, Spice Girls, gorgeous music by @martinaustwick.bsky.social

Hey! Our piece #souvenirs is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow, 22 July at 4pm UK time (also available on the internet for a while thereafter), I’d love for you to listen! Especially if you enjoy tales of hurt feelings & petty revenge.

Volkswagen emissions scandal - Wikipedia

looks way nicer than the later Diesel-gate! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswa...

Trump demands Guardians and Commanders revert to previous names out of respect for Native Americans Donald Trump demanded in a Truth Social post on Sunday that the NFL’s Washington Commanders and MLB’s Cleveland Guardians revert to their old names

oh but language isn't political, the screamers in my inbox tell me www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...