Mija Van Der Wege

Do Not Obey In Advance: A Moral Crisis in Arts Funding February energy is the NEA falling apart, a story about my mother, and learning to tell the difference between being trapped and just being scared.

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines

(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

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A red envelope with the word "husband" on it, placed upside down on the keyboard of my desktop computer.

My wife has given me a Valentine's Day envelope addressed to "pudq'snH," which any true devotee of Star Trek will tell you is a Klingon term of endearment, meaning "The One I Will Kill Last," introduced in the classic Next Generation epis-

What?

(flips envelope 180 degrees)

Ohhhhh riiiight got it

14.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 9807    🔁 563    💬 266    📌 46

Yay Dialect!

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Kevin says that Canadian ryes are a great substitute for bourbon. He needs to think before recommending a Scotch. What’s your favorite bourbon?

13.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape And I will do it again unless someone stops me.

If you need a giggle today. Be sure to read to the end.

haterade.substack.com/p/i-tasted-h...

13.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You know education is power when the national climate literacy guide is removed from the website about it….Teach climate. It’s an act of caring for community & hope. We must support students & our communities in recognizing & using reliable information for decisions.

10.02.2025 00:47 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I’m getting most of my news through Substack these days.

12.02.2025 13:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So sorry… maybe switch to Scotch? I can make some excellent recommendations.

12.02.2025 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

i think we could develop a new Stroop test based on this

24.11.2024 07:22 — 👍 141    🔁 13    💬 4    📌 0

What Now? - Defiance Disorder Post-election thoughts, suggestions, support, and criticism

Post-election thoughts and suggestions

21.11.2024 15:05 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

How behavioural sciences can promote truth, autonomy and democratic discourse online - Nature Human Behaviour Lorenz-Spreen et al. argue that effective web governance is needed to empower individuals online. They describe two classes of behavioural interventions—nudging and boosting— that can help redesign on...

We wrote this five years ago, but it feels timely to talk about solutions, about the question: how would social media look like that serves democracy instead of attention economy/billionaires? (some things are better here @bsky.app than before, still a lot possible)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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