A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

Here at the Trylon we've decided that 2K digital projection is no longer enough for us. We're launching a campaign to raise funds for the installation of a 4K LASER projector this summer. If you'd like to lend a hand... trylon.org/4K

Christopher Knight and others predicted every single one of these problems, over and over, for years before the building was even approved.

I’ll admit to be partisan—I loved the old Pereira buildings and wanted them to stay—however any new building still needed to avoid foreseeable flaws.

This is genuinely frustrating and upsetting to me; the board, with 13 members, all(?) appointed by DFL governors over the last few decades, had an opportunity to apply leverage to the world's most powerful airline to effect positive change, and chose, unanimously, to fail Minnesota.

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

I just take ‘em however they come. But it’s nice when they are able to talk to each other

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Someone was taken near 20th & Central tonight at 10 PM. Within 5 minutes, there were over 20 people on a call and even more people on foot in the area to respond.

A delicate watercolour study of pale, drifting clouds over a faint Venetian horizon. Soft greys and muted whites float across the sky, with Turner’s original composition only lightly suggested below. The paper’s grey tone shows through, giving the scene a cool, atmospheric stillness. The brushwork is precise but gentle, focused entirely on the shifting forms of the clouds.

John Ruskin, Study of Clouds in Turner’s “Campo Santo, Venice” (1859–60), watercolour & bodycolour on grey wove paper, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
A precise, almost reverent attempt to understand how Turner built atmosphere through light and suspension.

#JohnRuskin #Turner #Watercolour #ArtHistory

In a chapter so expertly woven together that you cannot help but envy the mind capable of doing the weaving, Alexander Manshel shares an anecdote about teaching the novels of Colson Whitehead. Having shown convincingly how Whitehead’s novels are shaped by the “structures, institutions, and forms of labor” surrounding their writing, Manshel tells us that “the most common typo in my students’ essays on Whitehead, the misspelling of the title of his first novel, is also a brilliantly apt description of him as an author: The Institutionalist” (142). A cursory read of Manshel’s influential monograph, Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon, might lead readers down the same false path. Manshel’s attention to book clubs, literary prizes, university English departments and their syllabi, MFA programs, and grant-giving agencies makes it easy to label him an institutionalist, a scholar who makes sense of how we read by training a sociological eye on the organizations that determine what we read. But this would be, like the typo made by Manshel’s students, an apt mistake. Because while it is true that Writing Backwards considers the work of Julia Alvarez, Michael Chabon, Yaa Gyasi, Ben Lerner, Toni Morrison, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Tommy Orange, Julie Otsuka, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Whitehead against the backdrop of the literary and academic institutions that have elevated them, the book is at its most powerful when Manshel uses the fine instrument of close reading rather than the broader brush of institutional analysis. This is not to say that the two modes are opposed; in fact, Writing Backwards is a rare work that brings sociological methods into harmony with formalist and historicist approaches, not just by alternating between them but by drawing real conceptual and interpretive energy from the exchange of text and context.

Hard to put into words how I feel about this review of my book in the latest issue of NOVEL from the brilliant @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social.

To have my work read this closely, and (I feel) seen this clearly, is an honor that I will not soon forget!

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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

The first thing students read in my Hist of British Empire is Jamaica Kincaid, 'A Small Place' and this will make an excellent companion piece to that next time

Meanwhile the YouTube “kids” algorithm is feeding my 7yo videos of YouTubers piloting the Anduril Anvil drone as if these things are RC toys not weapons of war.

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs...
That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

38K views · 621 reactions | Something extraordinary is about to take flight at Garvan Woodland Gardens… ✨🌿 Beginning April 24, experience Where the Wind Lives—a breathtaking new art installation that will transform the Gardens through movement, light, and imagination. Created by Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics, these large-scale, wind-activated sculptures will shimmer, dance, and shift with every breeze—inviting you to slow down, look up, and experience the beauty of nature in a completely new way. 🎥 Check out the video below from our amazing artist and get a glimpse of the magic in motion. This limited-time exhibition will be on display through October 31, offering a one-of-a-kind experience across the Gardens all season long. But experiences like this don’t happen by chance… They are made possible by those who believe in the power of art, nature, and community. Through the Garvan Gallery Giving Circle, supporters have the opportunity to help bring exhibitions like this to life—ensuring that Garvan remains a place where art and nature meet in the most meaningful ways. If you’ve ever been moved by a moment here… this is your invitation to be part of what comes next. 💚 https://onlinegiving.uark.edu/campaigns/53930/donations/new?designation_id=30015999&amt=500 ✨ Opens April 24 🌿 On display through October 31 🎟️ Included with garden admission 🌐 Plan your visit: www.garvangardens.org | Garvan Woodland Gardens Something extraordinary is about to take flight at Garvan Woodland Gardens… ✨🌿 Beginning April 24, experience Where the Wind Lives—a breathtaking new art installation that will transform the Gardens...

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Ok fair

It was about 44 degrees as these shackled detainees were loaded onto today's ICE Air flight in the pouring rain at MSP.

ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers - please help cover our parking fees: mn50501.org/donate

Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-msp/data

They should make a Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2 about what happened to the interurban.

Ok I was going to guess he needed new shoes and nearly bankrupt the household…but seriously there’s st least one ballet of his I really liked, it was all waltzes and very fun.

Googles says he cheated on NP though. Don’t do that Tanguey!

What happened to Millpied?

Once. He received multiple user complaints!

germanistik promotion lowkey goated wenn existenzängste der vibe sind

Happy to share my syllabus for a course called movements and manifestos for some ideas if you’re interested

I hope you’ll put the Lichtenstein paintbrush back in front of the GRI entrance

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

I feel like it’s time to revisit the 80s debate about whether consuming ultraviolent entertainment as a child does or doesn’t contribute to a society of ultraviolent adults. Also, guns and pew-pewers are the ultimate writer’s crutch. Try something new!

Le 16 avril 1955, Jacques Perret, Prof de philologie latine à la Sorbonne suggérait à #IBM France le mot ORDINATEUR pour le lancement de sa nouvelle machine, la IBM 650…
Mot donné dans le Littré comme adjectif désignant Dieu qui met de l’ordre dans le monde 🙄
#Nice #Nice06

Portrait de Jacques Perret

Photo de l'IBM 650

Il y a 71 ans, le 16 avril 1955, fut inventé le mot « ordinateur » par Jacques Perret, professeur de philologie, à la demande de la société IBM souhaitant alors un nom français pour sa nouvelle machine destinée au traitement de l'information, l'IBM 650 #LaPetiteInfoDuJour

A formal black & white portrait of the great choreographer

Remembering Merce Cunningham on his birthday 🎂
📷 Peter Hujar, 1986

"For more than 65 years, his form of radical dance theater was a vehicle for historic artistic experimentation, with brave breakthroughs of color, idiom, content."
- Alastair Macaulay

also by HUJAR

Senate votes 50-49 to overturn mining ban near Boundary Waters The vote clears the path for Twin Metals to reapply to open an underground copper mine near Ely, just outside the wilderness area. Conservation groups argue mining in the region poses an unacceptable ...

Update: The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn a 20-year ban on mining on about 350 square miles of federal land near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, paving the way for Twin Metals to renew efforts to open an underground copper mine near Ely, on the doorstep of the wilderness area.