Bright teal-y blue background with black and white text that reads: Support Hampshire College Staff and Faculty! DONATE TO OUR EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss.

As you know, Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of our wonderful staff & faculty colleagues are facing sudden job loss without severance.

Hampshire staff & faculty have launched an Emergency Relief Fund—if you’re able, please donate or share!
www.helphampshireworkers.com

And good(?) to know that a geopolitical race is still a huge part of this push for a Moon mission.

(My friend @harriekd.bsky.social would have had so much to say about all this.)

Tonight’s Art Historian Science Time™️ is NOVA’s “Return to the Moon” about the Artemis II mission.

What NASA scientists do—with greatly reduced funds (in federal budget % terms) and with *incredibly* slim margins of error (especially compared to certain private space enterprises)—is astonishing.

Maybe #HATM is looking for its next movie to watch?

How on earth have I never seen this McSweeney’s before???

“Just don’t talk shit about Seiji, all right? You come up here and you try to talk shit about Seiji.”

second base umpire wanted nothing to do with no goose

Is this winning?

6th-Century Fire in Phanagoria Reveals Lost Wallets Filled with Ancient Coins—Including Counterfeits - Arkeonews 6th-century fire in Phanagoria reveals lost wallets filled with ancient Bosporan coins, including rare counterfeits, offering new insight

What can coinage tell us about crisis? 🪙 The spatial pattern of finds from late antique Phanagoria (Black Sea, now Russia: pleiades.stoa.org/places/854724) indicate citizens dropping coin purses, likely during a fire while the city was besieged (Justinianic, 545-554 CE) arkeonews.net/6th-century-...

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars

• It will be turned into a parody site of itself

• Has the support of the Sandy Hook families

“A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered"

(via Variety)

Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.

Other ways to help our Hampshire colleagues: share job opportunities, make introductions, offer services and resources, etc.

For more info on the Emergency Relief Fund & ways to help, visit:
www.helphampshireworkers.com

Let’s show up for this amazing community & support them in any way we can!

Bright teal-y blue background with black and white text that reads: Support Hampshire College Staff and Faculty! DONATE TO OUR EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of staff and faculty are facing sudden job loss.

As you know, Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of our wonderful staff & faculty colleagues are facing sudden job loss without severance.

Hampshire staff & faculty have launched an Emergency Relief Fund—if you’re able, please donate or share!
www.helphampshireworkers.com

🗣️Lecture next Wednesday: "Jesuits and the Circulation of Objects in the Hispanic World" by Luisa Elena Alcalá (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

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A comic strip showing the “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) making coffee in a moka pot

In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti

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Fake Massachusetts Towns april 19 2021 April 17 2022 4/17/23 4/14/24 4/21/25

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

I have composed a tune, sister Does its Transcendent Melodie inspire Deep Reverence and quiet sense of Awe, Sister? Yes Sister Do its Haunting Polyphonies call to mind the unyielding burdens of Christ, sister? Do its tritones hang in the air with a Yearning Calm, underpinned by a muddled pang of Foreboding, Sister? Yes Sister And does its concluding Harmonie sound an unexpected but welcome note of Consolatory Sweetness as the breaking of a new dawn through a Stormy night, sister? It does, Sister Very good Sister Thank you sister

Hallelujah sister

A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

Our Mount Holyoke College colleague Chris Benfey offers a nuanced, historically informed, affectionate, critical reflection on the closing of Hampshire College
A Clearing of the Ground The New York Review of Books

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An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

The number of things I was unprepared for…

A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

“The shuttering of Hampshire College … feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education in the US.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

That explains a lot.

Zumthor earns his L.A. stripes And other impressions of the new LACMA, now that the art is installed. Plus: the architect’s sloppy attempt at revisionist history

"I want to say this plainly: While a lot of the collection looks great in the Geffen Galleries, a lot looks terrible, or is overmatched by the architecture. Architecture critics have so far tended to have nicer things to say about the new wing than art critics."
www.punchlistmag.com/p/zumthor-ea...

Sound on for comforting nature sounds!

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating

The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years. 🧪🔭 #Voyager

science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of -

Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen

Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...

JFC the details in this—and the complete and utter lack of understanding of, and care for, both international diplomacy and the arts that they reveal.

I mean, I knew it was bad, but holy crap.

And now I’m really worried about the Kennedy Center’s art collection on top of everything else.