You muppets, you can't convince Quebec to give back the apostrophe S's they stripped off every store in the 70's that they've got stored in a secret warehouse in Ville St. Laurent, they're certainly not going to give up a ban on US liquor because it hurt your fucking Yankee feelings.
The ornate Cotofenesti helmet, which was stolen in January 2025 while on loan to a Dutch museum, was recovered last month. n.pr/4tUh2B4
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
Fascinating on the ethics of historians using material collected by surveillance and ‘inauthentic actors.’
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.
🗃️ This whole thread is…national treasure. Enjoy, #HATM 🍿
We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.
You know you want to see stunning close-ups of gold-wrapped thread and, can you believe it, peacock feather filament-wrapped therad on this beautiful embroidered Qing dynasty status. The photography on this video takes you nose to thread. Enjoy! #textiles #China #ArtHistory
Opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald about community radio station 2SER-FM. Titled 'Shutting this priceless cultural asset would hurt.'
The University of Technology in Sydney is poised to close community radio station 2SER-FM. Here's my opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that it would be pure folly to do so.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
Check out my new Media Burn blog post. Media activist and community journalist Michael Zinzun’s legacy is a prime example of public access television’s Black history, which is quite profound and largely under-appreciated.
Stay tuned! Much more of this to come soon.
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There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."
Here are the hard numbers:
just write it terrible for five minutes and see where it goes. or write questions to yourself into the draft—“what the fuck goes here, i don’t know, but it’s something about blah blah this will sound smarter later” is acceptable rough draft material
Starting today, gay/bi men in long-term monogamous relationships can donate blood. People who take PrEP, or who have multiple partners, are still excluded. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, Data Warriors Lab, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, all under the Indigenous Data Alliance and their conference was a rousing success. Listen to just a taste of Indigenous Revival with Sierra and WariNkwi! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Critical and Reparative Cataloguing literally changing the world!! 🗂️📜📚🗃️
Anne Hathaway bought the rights to a novel about a tradwife influencer who wakes up in 1855 and has to actually live the life she's been selling online. The book is called Yesteryear. It came out 3 days ago. The film rights were already sold to Hathaway, who will produce and star.
Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this aaaahhhh, yeeesss! timeline cleanse.
#DoomscrollingBreak
I’m only a few episodes in and
I hope they stick the landing, but I’m genuinely annoyed at how well-paced and constructed the mystery aspect of HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST is. There’s a lot of great stuff in it, but topping it off with proper suspense plotting is showing off.
A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi
New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!)
Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
Promo image for documentary Birth of a Movement (2017), showing a scene from the film The Birth of a Nation (1915) on top and protestors with picket signs in front of a movie theater at the bottom.
Last night on Kanopy, I watched Birth of a Movement (2017). Directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray, the #documentary is on 1915 protests led by Black newspaper editor and activist William Monroe Trotter against film The Birth of a Nation. The doc is also on YouTube. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_o...
Yeah these people were taken out of an environment that provided all that and put into the care of people with less quals than a barista. I know that the NDIS is good for some people but for those with complex needs it can be a death sentence.
This wasn’t intensive care. This was community based housing with support. They just forgot to give them liquids.
Six weeks until winter. Newcastle is awful. Never come here …
Screen capture of four georeferenced historical maps lined on a background of a modern digital basemap. The historic maps are lined up along the southern bank of the Yarra river, and show streets and buildings that no longer exist.
Working on georeferencing some more of the Mahlstedt fire insurance maps of Melbourne from the SLV. Southbank is hard because almost nothing remains to align the maps with! […]
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Well my local experience was the get what I give you system managed to keep 2 disabled people alive for 50 yrs. They were both dead within 6 weeks of being put into for-profit care. So I call bullshit.
We’re officially two months out from the publication of my book, A Second Sight: How Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom (June 16, 2026), and I’m feeling incredibly grateful for the early reception its already getting. You can pre-order (on discount) and support local bookstores here:
