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In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.

Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!

www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this.
But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

The circumstance was this.

Did musicologists ever decide if the Devil and Johnny were playing sections that were of equal difficulty? #totp

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

Sciopero Flotilla blocca i treni a Roma, Milano, Venezia: ritardi record a Fiumicino e Malpensa
https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2025/10/03/news/sciopero_manifestazioni_flotilla_treni_aerei_bus_tram-424888373/?rss

Palermo si ferma per Gaza, gli organizzatori: “Siamo trentamila”. Bloccata la circonvallazione Il corteo da piazza Giulio Cesare alla Presidenza della Regione, manifestazioni in tutti i capoluoghi dell’Isola

palermo.repubblica.it/cronaca/2025...

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

“If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?” @nicksturm.bsky.social in @defector.com https://defector.com/good-riddance-to-the-best-american-poetry

Mel Taub, Creator of a Pun-Loving Puzzle, Is Dead at 97 He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes groan-inducing wordplay. (Try one yourself.)

Mel Taub, the longtime creator of the Puns and Anagrams puzzle for The New York Times — a form that involved wordplay and groan-inducing puns — has died at 97. “His puzzles were designed to put a smile on your face.”

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.

Lmaooooooo

all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Getting Queen Bee in Spelling Bee
2. The sound of a disc hitting the basket in disc golf.
3. Finding a parking spot near the stage door before a concert.
4. Waterfalls
5. Reading anything my wife has written (especially when it's new)

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

The Winged Lion of Venice - A Chinese Traveller Few images are as closely tied to a city as the winged lion is to Venice.

More here...
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OMG Thank you so much. This is the best news!

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

“If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Yesterday, I forgot my coffee, had the wrong PPT, couldn’t get the e text to work for students, and was woefully unprepared to teach middle schoolers for 2.5 hours in their woodwind class. Today, I learned how to use my little Hp Pen on my HP computer to write on web pages, so that’s better.

First day of school at GTC and first actual after School woodwinds classes this week in Greenville county schools. Whew!

Soaceballs and History of the World Part 1 are tied for me I think.

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

Why are there AI accounts and why are they wanting to follow me?

The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There

"Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of “Mein Kampf” from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no…

The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.

This week, we published that list.

Memoirs share vivid life of 17th century woman | News | The University of Edinburgh Research into a manuscript discovered at Durham Cathedral has provided insights on the captivating life of a 17th century writer and memoirist.

Today our project is linked on the front page of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's website! Our fantastic postdocs @hagenilda.bsky.social and @sharonhoward.bsky.social get a well-deserved mention: www.ed.ac.uk/news/memoirs...
#EarlyModern #DigiHums #BookHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Until the end of time works for me. Hahahahaha