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Dear @straczynski.bsky.social as I prepare to make my own I am curious: Does the ubiquity of Swedish meatballs imply that Lorien would have liked them?

you know what is rly funny i learned that kewpie the food company does actually have a working relationship & collaborates w the rose o neill museum. the kewpie ceo thought the doll was like. a generic american baby doll & he thought it was cute so he used it as a logo

Comics drawing of artist Rose O’Neill, sketching a Cupid-like “Kewpie Doll” on a canvas, w 10 imaginary dolls floating around her. Art by Wendy Xu for Kazoo magazine #39.

Rose O’Neill, creator of the wildly popular, & lucrative, “Kewpie Dolls,” kept a standing reservation at an NYC restaurant for any artist who needed a meal. “You can’t make art if you’re always hungry,” she said.

From the feature comic in Kazoo magazine #39. Art by @wendyxu.bsky.social

@adapalmer.bsky.social is one of my very favorite speakers! Looking forward to listening in...

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."

- Ursula K. Le Guin
November 19, 2014

Someone nearby is about to push a palette jack full of boxes into the sidewalk for no reason.

I look forward to watching this one! :)

How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the Renaissance – Ada Palmer YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel

New interview with me & Dwarkesh Patel. Deliberately misleading start quote there, but I think it’s to draw people in. youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?...

Money needed to send food to hungry families in Minneapolis affected by the ongoing crisis

In the Northwest, Polyamory Finds Something New: Legal Protection

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Great news! Nondiscrimination protections for non-nuclear families are spreading in the PNW! We’re proud that CFLC’s attorneys are founding members of the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition (PLAC), who wrote the model ordinance on which these laws are based!

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Sea of Possibility Along the coast of British Columbia, First Nations lead a bold effort to protect an intact marine ecosystem.

The Great Bear Sea moves from pact to practice in Canada. A decade after a 2014 agreement, the 101,200.0 km² Indigenous-led marine protected area network in the Great Bear Sea is shifting from pledge to implementation. buff.ly/fw4yA9N
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Also, here's a link to an article confirming the screenshot.
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“One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color Siân Echard explores how facsimilists of medieval illuminated manuscripts from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries thought and talked about color. Technology, imagination, and cultural exp...

SCHOENBERG INSTITUTE FOR MANUSCRIPT STUDIES ONLINE LECTURE!

“One sober tint”: Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts and the Problem of Color
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
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"The Sentence" by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social! A bold political SF that will be re-released in the US as "The Fifth Inflection" next year (if I'm not mistaken!)

Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

"Game of Thrones" feels like an early medieval world but its savagery may be more typical of the Renaissance. To challenge your assumptions about the "Dark Ages", see Ada Palmer's VERY fun book "Inventing the Renaissance." @adapalmer.bsky.social www.adapalmer.com/publication/...

yo! dwarkesh interviewed @adapalmer.bsky.social!?

My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.

I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!

#18thc #17thc #earlymodern

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Yep! It was a treat!

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

🚨Higher Ed Petition🚨 to save a thriving & growing classics program at U Iowa from unnecessary shutdown. Crushing the humanities is closed-minded politics wanting grads to be obedient workers not critical thinkers. HELP PUSH BACK. #HistSky #MedievalSky #HigherEd

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Hello I would like to state for the record that I LOVE THE NACBS AND I LOVE THEIR BROADSIDES BLOG!!!!!

How awesome is this!

For more reminders that this planet is a pretty nifty place, despite [waves hand] everything, keep an eye on @adapalmer.bsky.social’s #ShareGoodNewsToo hashtag.

A pink rosebud in a clear glass vase, with a fringed cloth hanging behind and lots of reflections

#SomethingBeautiful another still life from my aunt, Mary Lace: Rose in Norwegian Vase.

Alas, this vase, a gift from a friend in 1976, got broken last summer, but it lives on in this painting.

I’d like people to notice is how the reviewer and the introduction uses a multi-century movement of peoples to support today’s anti-immigrant argument in Britain.

However you characterize movement from 200-600, it ain’t anything like anything modern. Because FOUR HUNDRED YEARS

John Hopkins University Library - view of long open hall with balconied floors of books rising to either side, large window in ceiling

Another in my series of libraries
John Hopkins University Library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Suffering From “Creative Hangover”? You’re Not Alone A new study finds that artists experience negative emotions the morning after their most productive days.

You know that feeling of emptiness and exhaustion after a creative spurt? A new study has a name for this phenomenon — “creative hangover” — plus some surprising findings.

A People-centric, Vision Transforming Social Protection System in Chile Through GSL, municipalities deliver integrated social assistance, employment, health, and childhood services at national scale.

Chile has rebuilt access to welfare around a municipal “one-stop shop”. Gestión Social Local has reached 10 million poor and vulnerable people across 339 municipalities, trained 10,000+ municipal workers, & processed more than 13 million benefit requests since 2019 buff.ly/GI3jGpI #ShareGoodNewsToo