How it started / How it’s going Minneapolis Safe Routes to School project, on 35th St near Folwell Elementary School
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · last yr.A closeup, from the Mpls Arts & Cultural Affairs fb page:
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · last yr.
So incredibly excited for this upcoming book launch for #scoresproject and performance by Rise of the Novel at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, Thursday 9/24, 8pm roulette.org/event/the-sc...
The Scores Project: A Book Release Show w/ The Rise of the Novel
Scholars of experimental notation discuss their publication The Scores Project, followed by performances from members of The Rise of the Novel.
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They don't build library systems like this anymore: inside the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris in 1938, a librarian stands next to a pneumatic tube, holding a reader's call slip requesting access to printed materials (Jacques Boyer/Roger-Viollet) 🗃️
I think of my university as one of those insects which get parasitised. The brain has been eaten but it’s still moving to meet the needs of interlopers with their own very separate, rapacious purposes.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!
Many people forget to say this part, but for me it’s the whole ballgame: “Sorrells said it’s also important for kids to see people who don’t look like them in literature. She said children need to see people who resemble their neighbors, friends and loved ones.” www.twincities.com/2026/08/02/r...
St. Paul teacher-run nonprofit wants kids to see themselves in classroom books
When young kids are learning to read, it’s important that they also develop a desire to read, Taylor Sorrells says.
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Incredibly evocative work by Samuel van Hoogstraten, born on this day in 1627. A kind of domestic still life. Nothing & everything.
TIL this apartment building in Duluth used to be part of Work People’s College, a socialist and eventually IWW-run college for future labor leaders. Started as a HS and Finnish seminary but students struck in protest of rules against discussing social issues. Socialists bought the struggling school
Rockette Morton, the bassist on Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band's _Trout Mask Replica_ has run into some health and housing challenges. Folks are soliciting donations to help him. I never have enough money for everyone I want to help. www.gofundme.com/f/rockettemo...
Donate to Rockette Morton Trout Mask Replica Bassist Faces Hard Times, organized by Justine Turner
For 16 years, Mark Boston, who is widely revered by music fan… Justine Turner needs your support for Rockette Morton Trout Mask Replica Bassist Faces Hard Times
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So incredibly excited for this upcoming book launch for #scoresproject and performance by Rise of the Novel at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, Thursday 9/24, 8pm roulette.org/event/the-sc...
The Scores Project: A Book Release Show w/ The Rise of the Novel
Scholars of experimental notation discuss their publication The Scores Project, followed by performances from members of The Rise of the Novel.
roulette.org
Crime-only answer: who shot down Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane and why
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
And coming this fall, the 50th anniversary edition of OF GRAMMATOLOGY. (You need a fourth copy, @seeshespeak.bsky.social!) @hopkinspress.bsky.social
“The night we met was a bit of a wash” Chris Nealon’s terrific “Bro Code,” part of a selection of pieces “In Memoriam J. H. Prynne” in the new Blackfold Manifold: “It’s like your poems got denser and denser until they came out the other end and became a party game, hilarious sonic waterslides“
Blackbox Manifold - ChrisNealonJHPBM36
Bro Code Well ... maybe you were right It is a weird time to feel like all men are brothers But I remain committed to my sentiment And to say it’s muddied by eros explains nothing at all S...
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ME: Get up to anything last night? YOU: Yea, I went a party that was held in an old bank vault.. ME: Oh? How was it? YOU: Well, better safe than soiree RS
"works of art exist; how are they possible?" Georg Lukacs
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Institutional isomorphism except it’s just a bunch of managers listening to overpaid consultants. (I wonder if we told these Harvard managers that they are just following in the footsteps of every non-Oxbridge Uk university they might have second thoughts from snobbery if nothing else)
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Can the workers buy Pearsons from the owners to keep it open and operating?
This is very good. I especially appreciate this insight: “ one knows one has encountered a creeper when one experiences the sexualized theft of time. The approach of the creeper reduces this whole complex temporality of the encounter by already having decided its meaning,”
noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · 7d agomore helpfully, i really like this bonnie mann piece about flirting and being creepy—it's been super fun to teach in the past!—so i think there's at least two www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/joomlatools-...
Just when you think @angiecraigmn.bsky.social can’t get any lower… she is using that image of Liam without permission in an ad to vilify her opponent. Reminder that Angie voted for Laken-Riley, Angie voted to bring ICE into our community and then she voted to THANK ICE. Liam deserves better
STP can NOT catch a break this week—damn
Ross Raihala (Alpha Male) 🌈@rossraihala.bsky.social · 6d agoBad news. Gift link:
Courtesy of Paul Ference, here's how you recall a mayor in St. Paul: library.municode.com/mn/st._paul/...
Act 372 prohibits minors from accessing materials that are considered “obscene” - what is considered obscenity under this law is purposefully vague 📚📜
Arkansas Right to Read@arrighttoread.bsky.social · 6d agoWe've been quiet for a while, as things were in a holding pattern in the state. Unfortunately, today that ended. Librarians in Arkansas are now beholden to Act 372, one of the worst library laws to ever hit the books. To read today's ruling: www.nwahomepage.com/news/state-n...
Anyone else noticing the “AI overview” bouncing around in Google search results? Sometimes it’s (blissfully) not there at all. Others it’s wedged in after the first 3-4 old school link-based results. And the rest of the time it’s still forced on you at the very top.