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"In this fight, in this movement, it was also trans people, especially trans women of color, like Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera [womenshistory2], Miss Major Griffin-Gracy [insta], black and brown trans women that stood at the forefront of this movement," said Angelica Christina, the Board Director of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, in an interview with ABC News. "We would not have pride...

"At the age of 26, Andrew Hill altered jazz history, recording five visionary albums for Blue Note in just eight months in 1963 and 1964. In the pace and uniqueness of his achievements, he rivaled more famous labelmates such as Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Among his collaborators were Eric Dolphy, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Richard Davis, Roy Haynes, Elvin...

"May the land over which this new flag flies remain united in freedom and justice ... sensitive, tolerant and compassionate towards all." - Lester B. PearsonAt a time when Canada finds itself beset by illegal threats of annexation from the MAGA fascist movement, the anniversary of the adoption of the Maple Leaf flag has spurred calls to patriotism. The Canadian public has responded to...

One thing that, of course, will never change, in Midtown or any other setting, is that, more often than not, a person who is less qualified or adept at the job will be hired if they have that "positive, can-do attitude" that employers love prattling on about so much. Me, I just wanna do the goddamn work without all this pomp and circumstance/requisite ass-kissing...

Shy forest marsupials no match for all-seeing drones. Researchers in Far North Queensland have found surprising success using thermal drones to spot warm, marsupial bodies in tropical rainforest canopies - elusive tree kangaroos. (Australia)

Ars staffers pick their favorite Saturday Night Live sketches 50 seasons with ~20 episodes each with ~10 sketches each is a vast sea of comedy to distill into the very purest pool of the best of the best of SNL, and this is but one small attempt to do so.If you were picking, would you go with sentimental, offbeat, political, or perhaps a crowd...

'Light Brite turned sci-fi console on the cheap' "Generally, the projects featured on Hackaday actually do something. We won't go as far as to say they are practical creations, but they usually have some kind of function other than to sit there and blink."

"Comrades: A Revolutionary RPG is about participating in a fictional revolution. Influenced by real-world events, past and present, players are members of a fledgling underground movement that aims to rise up against a corrupt government, forced to plan, work, and fight from the shadows. Can they do what is necessary when the cause requires it to free the people? Like the past's real-world revolutions,...

"When Esther Howland first saw the fancy valentine her father brought home from England, most Americans thought Valentine's Day was a waste of time." I thought I'd have a roundup post of Valentine love of the not-necessarily-romantic variety. Including this book about the origins of cards.Volunteers deliver gifts to widows on Valentine's Day. The project began in a florist's driveway. someecards WaPo article on...

In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love. I admired American Typewriter in all of the I <3 NYC logos, watched Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica fighting over the subway signs, and even caught an occasional appearance of the flawlessly-named Gotham, still a year before it skyrocketed...

Joining the list of threats to modern masculinity: forks with an insufficient number of tines. Enter the Man Fork! Margaret Eby of Food&Wine asks, "Why?" and "What?" and "Are you OK, guys?".

In what might go down as our own Saturday Night Massacre, today's Valentines Day Massacre our own woefully corrupt Republican president is trying to find anyone who will...help him use prosecutorial power to pressure a mayor of a major US city in order to hold up the administrations end of a bribe made right out in the open by a corrupt Democratic Mayor of...

The proper course of action, the one instilled in me, my friends and many of the parents I interviewed for this story, was this: you graduate high school. You get some education. And you get out. (slMacLean's)Note: the author does acknowledge in the article that the idea of children leaving the nest for good after high school or similar is a Western fixation. And...

"I knew there was no way I could just leave a sick opossum there overnight.... Obviously, it had too much of a good thing." (WaPo gift link)

The 1974 sessions for Illuminations, the album by Alice Coltrane and Carlos Santana, have yielded a treasure trove of previously unreleased material, including "previously unknown compositions, stripped back tracking sessions, overdub reels, working tapes and a cache of alternate takes and mixes."Additionally, there is "a previously uncirculated soundboard recording of a March 14, 1974 concert from the Kabuki Theater in San Francisco. The tape...

Dope Pusher Song. I Know I Can Handle It Song. Captain Junkie SongWikipedia: Unlike most of his recordings, this is not a full-fledged comedy album, but rather a record intended for children to school them on the dangers of drugs through songs and dialogue. It won the Grammy Award in 1972 for Best Recording for Children.

Endangered turtles break nesting record at famous Mon Repos beach. Rangers at the turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead turtles since the 1970s. (Australia)The rookery on the Bundaberg coast, about 400 kilometres north of Brisbane, is home to the largest concentration of nesting turtles in Australia and the South Pacific. This season has seen...

In 1936, Viscount Gerard Wallop, the Earl of Portsmouth, founded the English Array - an insane, neo-feudalist, wildly racist and anti-semitic organisation that hoped to free the King from the constrictions of Parliament, take over the country and re-institute serfdom. Much like the Nazi Blood and Soil movement, Gerard Wallop and his colleagues were particularly obsessed with the importance of organic farming, leading to...

Ian Dunt on Substack: The hidden-away bill charting a course back to Europe (archive).New Statesman: Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right (archive). Spectator: Our future is a Mafiacracy (archive).

Hello! I'm SLIM! Do you want the good news first, or the bad news? The good news is, I'm on the Moon. The bad news is, I landed on my head and can't get up.

For £332 you can get a room at the rather shabby Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris where Oscar Wilde died, not of syphillis but meningitis, on November 30, 1900."This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do," were apparently his last words, but it has since received "a luxe makeover by the French interior designer Jacques Garcia...

Inside the Artist's Studio with Ishbel MyerscoughIshbel Myerscough – Grief, Longing and Love Ishbel Myerscough's Meditations on Time at work group portrait back of girl's head dual portrait girl's portrait girl on couch girl reclining on couch

Amid intermittent rain, clouds and spots of sun, the Sweetwater Jaycees visited the Texas Capitol this week with three boxes of western diamondback rattlesnakes in tow. For nearly 30 years, members of the Sweetwater Jaycees, a chapter of the Texas Junior Chamber, have been traveling to Austin to promote their World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup event in Sweetwater, Texas.