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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
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How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer
Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to bed for long periods of time, which would cons...
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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First instalment of a catalogue raisonnée of #Játékok by #Kurtág disgwylfa.substack.com/p/jatekok-sp...
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Játékok ∙ Spiele ∙ Games – Book V
towards a catalogue raisonné
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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
On release day, a first review of "Stirrings Still" from Tyran Grillo: ecmreviews.com/2026/09/03/s...
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Samuel Beckett: Stirrings Still (ECM New Series 2801)
Samuel BeckettTrevor BačaStirrings Still Paul Griffiths narratorJACK QuartetChristopher Otto violinAustin Wulliman violinJohn Pickford Richards violaJay Campbell violoncell…
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 06/09/2026
champion quinces, painted by royal charles steadman, 1918
champion quinces, painted by royal charles steadman, 1918
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Mike Hallenbeck (Cool Cat Audio) @coolcataudio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Think you can escape highbrow culture by going to the Minnesota State Fair? Think again! Presented by Square Lake Film and Music Festival, MN FIlms at the Fair features five nights of Minnesota-made film and animation at the 2026 Minnesota State Fair on August 28, 29, and September 4-6. <more>
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maerkr.bsky.social @maerkr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Enjoying this quite a bit: www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv68...
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Prokofiev: Miniatures – Navona Records
Following the success of his acclaimed debut album WANDERINGS, pianist Brian Woods offers a striking reexamination of Sergei Prokofiev’s short-form piano works in PROKOFIEV: MINIATURES. The album feat...
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 06/08/2026
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot) @miaprintsdrawings.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Coffee Thyme I collections.artsmia.org/art/58746
Abstraction featuring a small rectangle and overlapping triangle in the lower half of the page; the surrounding space is a blend of colors, predominantly red, yellow and blue
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Jo Johnson @jo-johnson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Live at Low Pass, Berlin" out now. Recorded in a beautiful, circular church in Berlin earlier this year. Imperfections unsmoothed just some sensitive mastering by @quietdetails.bsky.social to help me recreate the sound in the room. jojohnson.bandcamp.com
An audience lies and sits on the floor of a circular church with glowing lights facing a performer in the distance.
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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 26/07/2026
I keep thinking about this, so I’m making it y’all’s problem too: The print runs of Jane Austen’s novels in her lifetime: Susan (later Northanger Abbey): copyright sold for £10 in 1803. Never published, copyright repurchased by her brother in 1816, published posthumously. (1/?)
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NPR @npr.org · 03/08/2026
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK
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The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda.
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Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Catullus' little boat | Oxford Latinitas www.oxfordlatinitas.org/blog/catullu...
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Catullus' little boat | Oxford Latinitas
Students who read the charming fourth poem in Catullus’s collection learn that it describes how the poet travelled from his foreign posting in Bithynia (Pontus) back to his home on Lake Garda (Sirmio)...
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David Menestres @abstracttruth.northsky.social · 25/07/2023
musicalobservations.bandcamp.com/al…
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Dane Rudhyar: Five Stanzas; Schoenberg: Pelleas & Melisande, Op. 5, by Colonial Symphony and Sinfón...
15 track album
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Dear Canada, Minnesota loves you, your sacrifice, and your help in our time of need with the wild fires. You are dear to us, even though that narcissistic bloviated jackass has been such a douche. He doesn’t speak for the sane Americans. Thank you.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/07/2026
Suzanne Jackson is an artist who has experimented with materials for decades. Now in her 80s, she's having her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love.” to.pbs.org/4gHMvTN
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Experimental artist Suzanne Jackson celebrates decades of work in new exhibition
Suzanne Jackson is an artist who has experimented with materials for decades. Now in her 80s, she's having her first major museum retrospective in an exhibition titled “What is Love.” Senior Arts Corr...
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maerkr.bsky.social @maerkr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Looks to be a good performance of Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps: quartet-for-the-end-of-time.com
Photo of Lakewood Cemetery Chapel
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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I know many were drawn to Android because it sold itself on being an open platform. Google has quietly decided they no longer need that promise. We'll be watching this closely and pushing for answers. If you share these concerns join the Keep Android Open campaign keepandroidopen.org/cta/
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Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
April 25, 1926: Florence Esté, a U.S. artist whose landscape paintings showed the influence of traditional Japanese art, dies at 66 in Paris. She was among the painters displayed at the revolutionary Armory show of 1913 in New York.
“Pink Umbrella Pines at Sumset”“Morning, November”San Francisco Examiner
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Dream Song 14 by John Berryman www.divasofverse.com/2016/02/drea...
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Dream Song 14 by John Berryman
Dream Song 14 Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.    After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/04/2026
Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury as the Trump admin tries to unmask anonymous online critics. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/...
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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
TV anti-war ad from 1971
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:
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Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
SCOOP. From my OUR LAND newsletter: Trump's DOJ is helping to get a convicted FBI informant tied to Russian intelligence out of prison. The lie this guy told the FBI—Joe Biden took a $5m bribe from Burisma—was the main evidence for the GOP impeachment drive. 1/2 link.motherjones.com/public/44694...
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Bring Me The News @bringmethenews.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
MN Opera’s new season features world premiere comic book adaptation. More: bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifest…
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Lake Superior Pottery @jonathanwalburg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Porcelain with a Lake Superior iron with wood ash glaze.
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
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“The Common Era,” Abigail Dembo
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
Dear STEPHEN HELD:
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) previously found you eligible for the TSA
PreCheck™ Application program on 12/21/2020. As an individual previously found eligible for
the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program, you are subject to recurrent checks against various
databases, including law enforcement, immigration, regulatory violation, and intelligence
databases for continued eligibility. TSA has made a preliminary determination that you may no
longer be eligible to participate in the TSA PreCheck™ Application Program because you
committed certain violations of security related regulations, described below in greater detail. As
a result, TSA has preliminarily revoked your eligibility for the program.
RESULTS OF TSA'S ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION:
Pursuant to TSA PreCheck™ eligibility requirements, applicants may be ineligible to participate
due to disqualifying criminal offenses and other factors, which includes determinations that an
applicant does not pose a sufficiently low risk to transportation security. TSA considers your
conduct on or about September 27, 2025, in Terrace, Illinois, involving Assault on Certain
Officers or Employees under U.S. Code 18 USC 111, to be inconsistent with expedited
screening eligibility, which is reserved for persons known to pose a low risk to transportation
security.
This determination is distinct from any criminal or civil enforcement proceedings which may be
brought against you in conjunction with this incident.
You have not yet been disqualified from participation in the TSA PreCheck ™ Application
Program. This letter is an ineligibility determination that notifies you of the preliminary decision
made by TSA. You may inform TSA in writing of your intent to correct any information you
believe is inaccurate. TSA must receive your request to correct any information you believe to be
inaccurate within 60 calendar days of the date of this letter. If you wish to correct this
information, you must provide any…
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Éliane Radigue’s score for 7th Birth, 1971, one of the first compositions for the ARP 2500
Complex score for a performance of the work on the ARP 2500
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maerkr.bsky.social @maerkr.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dreyer's Miniatures reminds me of Cage's works for prepared and toy piano: www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...
Dreyer album art; navy blue with white circular center in the style of a vinyl lp.
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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Immanuel Wilkins NPR Tiny Desk Concert! Watch now: youtu.be/KcOweHh_DMI New album "Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1" out March 20: immanuelwilkins.lnk.to/LiveAtTheVil...
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Immanuel Wilkins: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10/02/2026
“She was so scared. The terror in her voice was really, really horrible.” interc.pt/4rBWrAe
A photo of observers filming agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of their vehicles got a flat tire on Feb. 5, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers."
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Photography by Douglas 🍁 @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Interesting ... from Scotland. "Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here." www.heraldscotland.com/news/2580062...
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US military removes captain of Russian oil tanker from Scotland
Authorities were informed on Tuesday morning that Georgian Avtandil Kalandadze and his colleague have departed the UK.
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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
Antofagasta’s Lobbyists Deliver “An Outrageous Abuse” of the Congressional Review Act It’s a little hard to sit through the video of yesterday’s Rules Committee hearing on House Joint Resolution 140, but it's worth it just to see Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez coax Pete Stauber to […]
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Eric Chandler @shmof16.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The vote is tomorrow. Tell your elected representatives to vote NO on HJR 140. I give a short explanation why in the attached. This affects how MAGA goes after ALL public land, not just the BWCA, so please take action, no matter where you live. ericchandler.substack.com/p/fighting-f...
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Fighting for Canoe Country...Again
Call to Action to stop another tactic to put a copper-sulfide mine in the BWCA watershed. The vote is tomorrow. This affects ALL public land, not just Minnesota.
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maerkr.bsky.social @maerkr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"...omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est", De Vita Beata, III.2, 58 CE
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Rep. Kelly Morrison @kellymorrisonmn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Unfortunately, House Joint Resolution 140, the bill that would permanently strip protections from mining in the watershed of the Boundary Waters, just passed the House tonight. This was a crushing loss. But the fight is not over.
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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. House just voted 214-208 to give a Chilean mining corporation access to tens of thousands of acres of national forest lands surrounding the Boundary Waters Wilderness. CALL YOUR TWO U.S. SENATORS at (202) 224-3121 and tell them both to "Vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140!"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/01/2026
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Ana Paulina Luna, who has been cozying up with several Russian handlers of late, takes credit for the Powell investigation.
Luna tweet:

In July 2025, I formally referred Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to the Department of Justice for potential perjury and false statements to Congress and senior administration officials.

I laid out, in detail, how Jerome Powell lied under oath to Congress and misrepresented

RTing one from July 21, 2025:

I have formally referred Jerome Powell to the DOJ for criminal investigation.

Chairman Powell knowingly misled both Congress and executive branch officials about the true nature of a taxpayer-funded project.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 09/10/2025
George Morrison’s heavily impastoed surfaces set him apart from his New York contemporaries, many of whom were exploring paint as a liquid medium to be poured (Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler) or applied in thin washes so the hand is not evident (Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko).
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George Morrison Painted a Different Picture of Abstract Expressionism
The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 05/09/2025
american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906
american honey persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1906
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Supporters of Ukraine have unfurled the world’s largest 🇺🇦 flag on the White House ellipse, pushing for the U.S. to continue its aid against the Russian invasion: “Do not abandon Ukraine!”
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Mark Francis @markfk59.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Søndergård has been one of the best things to happen to the Minnesota Orchestra! Opening with Howell, soprano Julia Bullock's masterful les Illuminations by Britten enthralled the hall. The evening completed with Mahler's Symphony No1. @minnesotaorchestra.org
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maerkr.bsky.social @maerkr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Dedication to Interference (2024) by Zebley, Quarles, and Goldstein
"To public servants everywhere who stand up for the rule of law."
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