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The Words of the Week - Feb. 7 Dictionary lookups from the trade wars, the Grammy Awards, and the high seas

These are your words of the week
genre
ethnic cleansing
doge
potash
tariff
coup
Ahabian
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There is nothing more tiresome than dealing with someone who has, in their mind, never been wrong in their life. And who will go through great lengths to maintain that fiction, at any cost, to the point of self-destruction. Such persons' lack of perspective is staggering. What on earth causes this?

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/gtdyMxm

sx art 5 is now published!

Andil Gosine begins to honor the legacy of visual and performance artist Lorraine O'Grady, through recollection of the making of her work "Landscape (Western Hemisphere)."

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And Spanish Town too. The apparent escalation is concerning.

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Trying out Bluesky and interested to find out whether it is a viable alternative to the other social media platforms. I look forward to the new interactions, and to no trolling :)