King Mob Approximately

Letter to the Guardian. The protection of badgers has a long pedigree (Report, 29 August). Arthur Gore, known as "Boofy", the eighth Earl of Arran, was a fanatical defender of them. He was also a tireless campaigner for the rights of homosexuals. In 1967 he managed to push through a law in the Lords that decriminalised homosexuality but failed to pass a bill to outlaw the cruel hunting of badgers. When asked why he had not received enough support for his badger bill, he replied: "Not many badgers in the House of Lords." Tony Lywood Keswick, Cumbria

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Oh, that's Sir Sonic of the Perpendicular Gothic. Solid bloke.

DITKO

A few distributors I have tried are now forcing people to buy a motherboard with every module. Ludicrous.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Between 1905 and 1911, the sheet music covers of Gotham-Attucks Co. — a song-publisher managed by some of the most famous Black writers and performers of the day — revolutionised how Black popular music was shown to the public: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

Billy Childish wearibg a bolo tie.

Billy Childish

Childish de Billy

MUƧIC & ΛRT HAPPΞNING: Happy 66th birthday to British painter, author, poet, photographer, filmmaker, singer, and guitarist Billy Childish (December 1, 1959)

❝Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.❞‬

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OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay that cited the Bible. According to a statement released Sunday, the university wrote it is taking these concerns seriously and has begun a full review of the situation. “The University of Oklahoma takes seriously concerns involving First Amendment rights, certainly including religious freedoms. Upon receiving notice from the student on the grading of an assignment, the University immediately began a full review of the situation and has acted swiftly to address the matter,” the statement read.

Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.

In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.

Universities are cooked.

Frontispiece by Jay van Everen for American folklorist Parker Fillmore's The Laughing Prince: A Book of Yugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921). Read the (loosely adapted) stories, and see more illustrations, on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince

The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)

it’s a wicked world in all meridians

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online Too often those in power lump thousands of years of Middle Eastern religion and culture into monolithic entities to be feared or persecuted. But at least one government institution is doing exactly th...

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]

Excellent.

He doesn't just drink the diarrhea.
He metabolizes into rocket fuel.

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Legit one of the funniest fucking things I've read in a while. Certified Gold.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Confused Jack Burton is so relatable

Opinion | How America Used Egypt to Justify Racism and Slavery Charles Vanthournout writes about how ancient Egypt shaped slavery and liberation in the American South.

OPINION: " There was a reason pro-slavery businessmen and thinkers were energized by the prospect of an American Egypt: Many Southern planters imagined themselves as guardians of a hierarchical and aristocratic system, one grounded in landownership, tradition and honor," Charles Vanthournout writes.

I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Meat Thermometer (EN ESPAÑOL)

For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.

Wise men and fools, two'll get you five

You'll never get out of this world alive

Will Border Wall Construction Deplete Desert Springs? Volunteers are monitoring natural springs in an Arizona wilderness to understand what the construction of a border wall will cost wildlife.

“We live in the desert and we really need these water sources for wildlife to survive,” says a conservation manager. A new section of border wall could deplete springs in a crucial wildlife corridor between Arizona and Mexico—and that’s just one concern about it.