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It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to... The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

EXACTLY!
‘Where once there was a yearning to be “exposed to something extraordinary”, today politicians and arts administrators are besotted by the notion of “relevance”, of the arts as something with which people must immediately identify or recognise.’ observer.co.uk/news/columni...

YouTube video by Vodka Stinger Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)

63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc

YouTube video by Lost 1960s TV and Radio Vision On - The Gallery Tune - BBC1 1960/70s

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

Cheeky, detail-heavy article with much industry insight!

📢 USA, Europe & Ukraine: What’s Next? 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦

Join us for a crucial discussion with Vermont state senator Tanya Vyhovsky, a leading left-wing voice for Ukraine in the US, on the future of international solidarity with Ukraine

📅 March 24 | 6:30 PM GMT
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Stronger Together
Another from my Crow Helpline series.

#crows 🪶

Realising i am clearly not OK because I feel slightly disappointed by this update?

well that's depressing

Can we please get to the part of this simulation that when an adult lies, we call it a LIE????

Please and thank you.

It's that time of day again. The tiny doggo is outside in the garden going rowf rowf reh reh reh and over the fence something that sounds like a slavering wolfhound is barking back half a dozen octaves deeper.

Seeing my socio-political views supported on the front page of The Sun is making me feel funny

From Goldman Sachs' "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?"

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Anna on Substack My 8th grader drew this. She taught herself by watching YouTube videos and using books by Andrew Loomis.

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Kathleen Lingo & Thom Powers Join us for a live video conversation on Tuesday at 3pm EST

Kathleen Lingo & Thom Powers
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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness."

Alain de Botton

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

You added the veggies yourself, I presume?

Journalists deserve good visuals to support good science writing.

Don't use generative AI to illustrate stories, it cheapens your brand and undercuts the science you are trying to share.

Unfollowing, @psypost.bsky.social . Disappointed.
#CreateDontScrape

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We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.

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A mate of mine was tasked with revealing to the late great Archbishop of Cape Town — when the latter came to speak at the Oxford Union — that his Christian name was Oxford slang for a lower second class degree. The grand old man cackled with delight like schoolboy. Finest of fellows.

Only an idiot would share this

Here we see a Himalayan marmot defending itself from attack by impersonating Liza Minnelli

Great recommendation, WAKE IN FRIGHT is one of the few movies that has made me viscerally uncomfortable. Totally unpredictable descent into dark soul of man (and manhood). Haunting & unforgettable. #filmsky 📽🎬🎞🎥

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.

“Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name. Roughly 90 percent of married female voters have different name on their ID than on their birth certificate. 34 percent of women could be turned away from polls unless they have precisely the right documents.”

FUCK THESE FUCKS.

In a PRRI poll, 67% who view Trump positively say undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." Large majority of overall Americans disagrees.

MAGA impulse is all about expulsion/purification of the nation (@jamellebouie.net is good on this) 5/

newrepublic.com/article/1862...

Yellow university roadside with directions to circle 1-2, circle 3-4, and circle 5.

Freshers Week as organised by Dante

Wild Faith The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals a...

preorders are the #1 element that predict a book's trajectory
so for the next 3 weeks i will be Boosting My Book

I worked on it for 3 years and I care about it and it's good and I did the audiobook! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...