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this is gonna be a great time, Mark Alice Durant is brilliant and his new book is his best yet come join us thursday at Atomic Books

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One hundred years ago this fall, Virginia Woolf asked how one should read a book, in our Autumn 1926 Issue. “To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it.”

ICYMI: On the the Hopkins Press Podcast, Nnamde Nnake discusses the photographic archive of laborers and technicians building telegraphy systems in Nigeria in the early 20th century, as written about in the new issue of Technology & Culture: tiny.one/2p9aj28c

Today on WFMU: On Irene Trudel's show (Give the Drummer Radio stream), Irene's 40th Anniversary with WFMU! On Oct. 28, 1986, Irene hosted her first show on FMU. She still has the playlist and will celebrate by playing many of the songs she played all those years ago. (noon ET). www.wfmu.org/upcoming

today's first song of the day is "friction" by television www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwrC...

it's nice that billy strings seems to be pretty good at guitar, otherwise he might have had to be a puppeteer

today's first song of the day is "love song" by the damned www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jinv...

today's first song of the day is "what kind of monster are you?" by slant 6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_3...

my friend heather flescher is dead, long live heather flescher collapsepress.com/collapse-aut...

There's a lawsuit I've been paying attention to in Baltimore that has FINALLY gone into the discovery phase after being in limbo for quite a while! LETS FUCKING GOOOO

Great crowd (and special guests) for last night’s screening of Maniac Cop at Peabody Heights.

"Every painting is both a self-portrait and a cover story. Do not under any circumstances make your self-portrait an embedded list of DSM-5 conditions, or an illustration marking you safe from the latest crisis."

tldr: it's david smith

I love love love being on the board of Maryland Art Place. Tonight is the big 45th Anniversary event, and the place looks amazing.

happy national nut day m.youtube.com/watch?v=3COp...

evangelical pulpits 2026:

i used to have money until elon took it its my ex money

I really enjoyed "great american discoveries"

you break it you buy it

My generation is best used as fuel to keep everyone else warm.

today's first song the day is "restless" by the damned www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKSW...

this is every transphobe, btw youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ

here in my bar i feel safest of all they keep pouring me beers don't have to leave at last call

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The October episode is out!! In this episode, Helen Hunt, Prof. of English at Tennessee Tech University, asks what kink and BDSM studies can show us about women's sexuality in the late 18th and long 19th centuries. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! #booksky #c19 #sexology

today's first song of the day is "flaming telepaths" by blue oyster cult www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf5j...

PSA from a journal editor: before you submit a Word doc for peer review, go to File —> Properties —> Summary and delete your name from the Author field.

In the first few weeks of October, three national pollsters asked three different questions about transgender issues, and all three landed in the same place from different angles: the anti-transgender ads this year may be backfiring on Republican strategists.

today's first song of the day is "the ballad of lucy jordan" by marianne faithfull www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Nx...

cornell democrat has entered the chat

today's first song the day is "happy birthday" by concrete blonde www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNTe...

happy birthday to the one and only @fredamohr.bsky.social!!! and also to meee 🎊🥂

today's first song of the day is "smalltown boy" by bronski beat www.youtube.com/watch?v=88sA...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.