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Erstwhile English/radio prof, ersatz policy guy. Media, fiction, Indigenous rights and reconciliation. Here for bad takes & worse jokes. Writing the Radio War, the Edinburgh Companion to Modernism & Technology, & DUBLINERS out now. www.ianwhittington.com
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OTD in early British television: Having celebrated, with a thread on Teresa Deevey’s The King of Spain’s Daughter, the breadth of the television drama produced at AP before the war, here is a recognition of how formally innovative it could also be. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/otd-in-early...

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Reciprocal Canadian tariffs threaten strategic US reserves of classic indie rock. Experts caution that Sloanflation may be inevitable.

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Not usually one to brag but I took down the outdoor Christmas lights this weekend. I like to get a jump on things.

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Graham Sutherland, Devastation, 1941: East End, Burnt Paper Warehouse, 1941 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114426

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Everything is terrible but I just bought this tshirt as a gift for someone who will love it so maybe that’s good

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“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.”

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Microsoft Freud's One Drive

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Is there a term for words that mimic other forms of speech or mislead as to their referent? “Contumely”: adverb, looks like a noun. “Congeries”: singular noun, looks like a plural. “Ouster”: not one who ousts, but the act of someone or something being ousted. There must be others…

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all metals are precious when you put their little outfits on

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Amazing show on the work of New Deal era illustrator / graphic designer Lester Beall at the Poster House gallery in Manhattan. Closes this weekend!

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Don't Stop Thinking about Sbarro's

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Totally unsurprising but perfect Miles Davis autograph addressed to Chick Corea on CC's copy of Tune Up www.ebay.com.au/itm/38788145...

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Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

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The world is ending but I’ve finally got all the fixings to start making sazeracs at home. Any perfect recipes or tips out there?

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Boston Dynamics Dog Unstoppable At Puppy Bowl theonion.com/super-b...

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A couple of books arrived

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J. Derrida (1981)

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Canada’s Fentanyl Czar

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In dark times like these....

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Godspeed You! Fentanyl Czar

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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

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Clown-ass bigot driving a clown-ass administration like some clown-ass clown car stuffed with clowns

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What he's announcing is a concentration camp. A deeply illegal, unconstitutional, anti-human rights atrocity. Anyone who supports this is complicit. Anyone in any federal service, military or otherwise, is morally obligated to refuse to carry out any orders related to this deeply criminal act.

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Great new piece with Mike Reed on what happened with Pitchfork fest. For non-Chicago folks, the festival was founded by Mike, a total pillar of the community here, and it was really run by him for years. www.wbez.org/music/2025/0...

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“‘DeepBean’s new beans only require a third of the water that American beans need to not grow into anything of value,’ an analyst said. ‘Any serious investor or cow owner would do well to give DeepBean a look.’”

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Post two media history monographs that you love that you feel didn't get nearly enough attention when they came out No explanation, just post. Luci Marzola's ENGINEERING HOLLYWOOD Phil Sewell's TELEVISION IN THE RADIO AGE

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