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Lee Snelgrove

@leesnelgrove.bsky.social
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Arts administrator, Columbia flag guy, lover of public spaces

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Jennifer Szalai @jenszalai.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It was a short call, Carlberg said: All the poet would say was she
was "in Iceland," where she was
"listening to the wind."
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Infinitely personalized art” is Soylent for the soul
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Stefan @zin5ki.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Steles are up.
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 03/09/2026
Who’s going to tell me how many squares of toilet paper to use?
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
genuinely some kind of achievement to write a book with James Patterson and have pre-orders in the low thousands. James Patterson's Big Book of Farts would have done 50K minimum
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026
Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]
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Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This was spontaneous, as I understand it. He heard her in the crowd. youtu.be/TWrrYikn4Fk?...
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The Swell Season & surprise guest! (Moji) "High Hope" Live at Warehouse Live in Houston
YouTube video by chuckpadgettmusic
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 29/07/2026
PRIMER (2004, dir. Shane Carruth)
Two nearly identical cats in a box. One is in a smaller box inside that box.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 29/07/2026
Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning songwriter and lead singer with Dublin band The Frames has died aged 56. jrnl.ie/7116253
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Lee Snelgrove @leesnelgrove.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Another great loss for Columbia. Wish I could have had one last Hali Cali for the road.
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/04/2026
The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI. “If universal basic income enables even one more Einstein to become Einstein over the course of the next century, it will have paid for itself a thousand times over.” [scottsantens.com]
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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâché masks from Saguenay, Quebec, have been playing music together for 20 years since they were 13 yea
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𝚂𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 ☽|☾ 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰𝔰 🎃🧛 @chaospriestess.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
Screencap of Sam Neil in Event Horizon, his flight suit features an Australian flag with the union jack replaced by a yellow circle on black and red, the Australian aboriginal flag
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Vic Thorstenson @vthorstenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
Large limestone lavatory building built by Works Progress Administration workers in 1938. Located at Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 09/07/2026
Everybody's sharing it, but credit has to go to @djdasco.bsky.social who created some of the funniest fucking shit in the 2010s and would have been huge if YouTube hadn't wrecked his work due to failure to account for parody.
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Total Eclipse Of The Heart (Literal Version Remastered)
YouTube video by Joe Vecchio
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 08/07/2026
The people in charge of your city’s streets do not care if their road designs kill people, so long as traffic flows freely.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jacob Lawrence, "When It Is Warm the Parks Are Filled with People," 1943 learninglab.si.edu/resources/vi...
Stylized, graphic painting of Black figures in a park, with a woman placing a baby into a carriage, another sitting on a bench, and an ice cream vendor, among others
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2026
It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bumpin' that www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y61P...
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GoldenEye 007 Live (Facility)
YouTube video by Cor64
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice
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Res Creativa @rescreativa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Butler has a lot of ideas about how to rebuild American arts without the NEA, starting with a more generous system of public welfare that would enable artists to pursue creative work while also being able to afford groceries and rent. www.contrariannews.org/p/culture-wa... @isaacbutler.bsky.social
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/06/2026
Not surprising to KDO readers and I don’t really know who still needs to hear this in June 2026 but: the US is in the middle of a “rolling coup” by ultra-conservatives who are “well along the path of destroying our democracy”. [thenation.com]
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We Are in the Middle of a “Rolling Coup”
Unless we begin to act, our democracy will likely be destroyed.
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I’m the Bombardier @eawinick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pouring one out for the soon to be late great @slate.com Culture Gabfest, a pod I will definitely miss, feat. @thehighsign.bsky.social, @juliaturner.bsky.social, Stephen Metalf, @isaacbutler.bsky.social, and @cmolanphy.bsky.social. Cheers and thanks to y’all. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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One Last Strut Edition
Podcast Episode · Culture Gabfest · June 17 · 1h 27m
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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Who knew, besides all of us, that education, journalism and the arts were holding society together
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you know Justin Peters or have just read his funny and insightful writing, please give and spread the word.
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Donate to Support Justin Peters, organized by Kate Reidy
Let's Show Up for Justin! If you know Justin Peters, you know he is one of those unforge… Kate Reidy needs your support for Support Justin Peters
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“The examples of the Corcoran and the Mapplethorpe show, or the lawsuits against Ivy League schools today, all show that once you give a little ground, they’re going to see you as vulnerable and keep taking more. It’s like a bully with your lunch money.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/02/m...
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Mapplethorpe nudes, the NEA and the birth of America’s culture wars
We speak to the writer Isaac Butler about his book revisiting the battles over censorship and public funding in the US during the 1980s and 1990s
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/05/2026
As someone who is currently trying to write a book, I gotta tell you, the way recorded history ends around 2003 does not seem ideal
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christrainorsc.bsky.social @christrainorsc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A unique certification for All Good Books in Columbia's Five Points.
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Page turners: Columbia bookstore recognized for social, community impact
The store’s been popular since opening in Five Points. Now it’s one of only a handful of businesses in SC to get a unique certification.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 19/04/2026
on an unrelated note is it actually possible to lose weight by just walking around for like 45 minutes every day
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"Remember Iryna is not a grassroots memorial; more so, it is a political campaign funded by men who have been explicit about their ideological goals."
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Public art that isn’t - Chicago Reader
Chicago takes its public art seriously—which is why a Big Tech-funded mural of slain Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has drawn scrutiny.
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 15/04/2026
“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 02/02/2026
An hour-long set of Seu Jorge singing David Bowie covers in Portuguese (from Wes Anderson's Life Aquatic) to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's death. "Just an acoustic guitar, a microphone, and the beautiful coastline of São Paulo." [kottke.org]
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Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie
For his 2004 film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson enlisted Brazilian musical artist Seu Jorge to perform several of David Bowie’s songs in Portuguese. Jorge released an album of the songs about a y
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 27/02/2026
wow, just learned that Robert Moses died 10 years before the release of the song "Life is a Highway" RIP Robert Moses you would have loved that song
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 19/11/2025
Trailer for The Librarians, a documentary film about censorship & persecution of librarians in the US. “In The Librarians film, librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment rights.” [kottke.org]
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The Librarians
As part of the fascist war on “woke”, tens of thousands of books have been pulled from the shelves of libraries around the country over the past few years. On the front line are the nation’s librarians, “first responders
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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
They literally ruin everything they touch
Scooby-Doo screenshots. Top panel: ghost labeled “Something I used to love sucks now” Fred says “Let’s see who’s behind this”
Bottom panel: Villain is unmasked, labeled “Private Equity”
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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I've said it elsewhere, but if you're a young organization in the South that meets the eligibility criteria for the new literary fund (budget over $50k) but has not yet gained 501(c)(3) status, @hubcitypress.bsky.social might be able to serve as your fiscal sponsor. www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...
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Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts
New fund is dedicated to strengthening the field, advancing support for creative writers and ensuring their contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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christrainorsc.bsky.social @christrainorsc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I had the latest entry in the Communities in Transition series for @thestate.com. We took a look at Rosewood, the classic Columbia neighborhood that is working to retain its charm amid broader growth and change across the city and region. Tracy Glantz shot the pics.
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One of Columbia’s ‘best kept secrets.’ Can Rosewood sustain charm amid growth?
The classic Columbia neighborhood looks to guard its charm amid broader growth across the city and seemingly inevitable change in the region.
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