voice, speech, accents, dialects; Earlham, Waseda, Central Speech & Drama, Northwestern, Cornell; Japanese, theatre, performance studies, sound studies
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my Jack Bishop 2021
School in a Garden Pegi Nicol McLeod 1934
Glassy Apples Mary Pratt 1994
September Glads Alexandrya Eaton 2014
Chicago, on the eve of occupation. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social
WORDS FROM 1974: alternative music bunker mentality coronal mass ejection GPS gulag smoking gun transgender touch screen whataboutery www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
George Lakoff's work on cognitive metaphors and rhetorical framing is good.
help
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity. Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground. Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
"WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...
Federal authorities are planning a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Chicago after Labor Day, government officials announced Thursday. blockclubchi.co/3JXV5iA
now begins our nightly ceremony, an innumerable mass of humanity chanting “BEAN BEAN BEAN BEAN” in communion with our leguminous god
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Western Sky Shannon Craig Morphew 2022
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
I mean you have a kid now, your time is pretty much spoken for
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
Works by Polish American artist Julian Stanczak, 1960s-80s, a major figure in the Op Art movement who trained himself to paint with his left hand after losing use of his right when he was in a Siberian labor camp as a teen.
we're in a google system at work & recently it's started forcing "ai summaries" of conversations we are in the middle of in a chat. i need to stress how 99% of the time the summaries are wrong, like just wrong. Wrong assumptions, wrong understanding of what we're talking about, wrong on every level
This came to me in a vision
An astounding number of early American Revolutionary victories sat on the foundations of making fun of people until they gave up.
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A woman (60s?) spots another (30s?) wearing a perky red hat on the other side of the street and roars: "CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH! That's MY HAT!" Charlotte Elizabeth looks entirely unrepentant as cars drive between them: "You haven't worn it in thirty years Mum! I'm BORROWING it!" (4)
I guess if Sunday was Rest Day (or go-to-town, go-to-church, socialize-after day) it makes sense.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
Cabbage (2023) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
"In 1642 in the town of Lemgo, Germany, local pharmacist David Welman was accused of witchcraft and being a werewolf. Anonymous hate mail was sent to him, one of which included this sketch."
need this on a face mask
...and now that I think about it, I realize that the 2 bedrooms for lodgers" were probably the family's kids' bedrooms growing up, then renovated for lodgers as an empty-nest revenue strategy--they assume the lot will be sold and rebuilt, so "ruining the house's resale value" isn't really a thing.
I recently revisited the home I lived in as a student in Tokyo 30 yrs ago. Single-family home w/2 bedrooms for lodgers, a mother-in-law unit, and a garden. There's now an 8- or 10-unit apt bldg on the lot. But that's Tokyo--the value is in the land, and gets completely rebuilt every 20 or 30 yrs.
The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
time is honey
North Shore, Lake Superior Franklin Carmichael 1927
"LLMs have the 'bear-proof garbage can' problem" ftw
Textile works by Utah-based Xicana artist Kelly Tapia-Chuning, 2020s, examining the history and symbolism of serapes (traditional Mexican blankets) through dismantling and reconstruction.
FILL THIS OUT When I did it, it asked me 'even if this costs the gov't $10 to $20 per return, do you still want it?" YES because that's what tax dollars should be going for!
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
tyranny is going for a lakeshore run at 6am on a nice day
A drawing from today. I’m not really sure what it is. But that’s how it goes sometimes.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
oh god sound UP for this
I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.
Taxing wealth isn’t just about raising revenue, it’s about reducing the political power of rich people.
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August Elizabeth Lennie 2023
Unsurprising that gen ai writes like web SEO.
So many people warn about excessive screens in childhood, and rightly so, but the question of car-centric design retarding human development in childhood is almost completely absent from academic study. It's astounding, for a question so obviously needing extensive examination.
Manitoba Landscape Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald 1923
“Recent studies suggest that slow, tactile tasks, such as knitting, may activate brain systems in ways that support long-term cognitive health in various ways, including engaging memory, attention, and motor function, while helping to regulate stress.” 🧶
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Kusaya Man is a strong-smelling dried fish from Japan’s Niijma and Shikinejima islands.
Fireflies (2025) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
A Short Hike Away Steve Driscoll 2025
Pretty Dang Dog Gone Good. Outrunning a Storm. Linus Woods ~ Dakota, Ojibwe n.d.
I propose that instead of dealing with the air and water show we just have the folks that like to come into town for that shit sit down as we jingle some keys in front of them and play the national anthem or something. That should work the same.
NEW WRITING: "What will you stay curious about, even when authoritarians try to shape your reality by telling you not to think, not to read, not to ask questions, not to dare consider the possibility that there’s more to life than this?" 🧪
It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other: 1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense 2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense
Works by Russian artist Francisco Infante, 1970s-90s, I believe all created in collaboration with his wife Nonna Goryunova, though she often seems to be uncredited. Their practice combined elements of sculpture, Land Art, performance, and photography to create kinetic geometric abstractions.
cat serpent
omfg
spoupy spoup mm spoup sloprslorp
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’
Beautiful Storm Nicki Ault 2019
Finland farmers have been spraying their deer with reflective paint in order to reduce road accidents. Now glowing antlers light up the dark roads like something out of a sci-fi movie. Some say it’s genius, others say it’s just plain weird but it’s definitely hard to ignore. ==================
Sharas Rita Letendre ~ Abenaki 1973
Probably a better view than you wanted of a Peruvian booby’s vent.
Coolest new fact I learned from this rabbithole: the Japanese mythological catfish whose thrashing causes earthquakes was also recognized as a god of "world rectification" and social justice because public investment following 19th-century quakes redistributed wealth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namazu
Signs of Rain (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
…why yes, this IS the sci-fi future we were promised!
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness
Taqaiqsiqtu Tuttu (Resting Caribou) Kananginak Pootoogook ~ Inuk 2010
still using that kitchenware though!
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
Water Lilies (2013) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
I can't think of anything less punk than asking a machine made by billionaires to generate pictures/words/sounds based on an average of existing pictures/words/sounds just because you can't make it professional looking enough yourself.
Only Wish Billie Rae Busby 2023
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
Park Corner PEI Susan Christensen n.d.
naturalizing the nepo shit, the next step is claiming it's biologically inevitable that a few ppl have everything
live action catbus looking pretty sweet
LET THE PUPPETS BE
RIP Robert Wilson and his beautiful work www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
plus it makes the lie memetic, aiding in the spread of brainrot
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
phrase of the day: "weaponized panda JPEGs" www.csoonline.com/article/4028...
Washed Plums Mary Pratt 1987
V is for Very! @foxfeather.bsky.social
Bus on Country Road (2015) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
CTRL+ALT+DELICIOUS 🤓
I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
Plain Kurt Swinghammer 2024
