My emotions are so weird right now. "Oh, I'm doing well! I'm actually really inspired by the resistance in Minnesota right now, and I'm doing real work in my own community and even finding some time to do some cooking and...
and also WHY IS THIS DUDE MAKING ME CATALOG HIS FUCKING RELIGIOUS BOOK?? WHEN I HAVE RELIGIOUS IDEAS I KEEP THEM IN MY HEAD LIKE A DECENT PERSON INSTEAD OF CONVINCING OXFORD UNIVERSITY TO PUBLISH MY RAMBLING-ASS MONOGRAPH AND ooooh, *that's* where my anger went :-b
It's like the psychological equivalent of looking for my keys and finding them in the microwave.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
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How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota
I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…
Overheard in the office: "Technical Services is where furniture goes to die, [Department Head]!"
I've been using LibroFM for audiobooks and other than a bafflingly terrible search function, it's amazing. I love that they're doing this partnership!
Food Not Bombs got a donation of 10 crates of bananas becaise someone in the produce department made a mistake. LOOK UPON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY
Normally I have a limited amount of patience for art and design books that do unnecessarily art things with the layout or structure of their exhibition catalogs. But MOMA in 1968, you're doin' it right. This is an exhibition of machines in art, and it is bound in *steel*.
The only problem with it is that, weirdly enough, it is really quite heavy for its size. On the bright side, you can use it as an improvised weapon!
This came up to cataloging because the label fell off, and my though process was basically, "oo, textured metallic cover, how pretty...wait, is this actually metal? Aluminum? Wait, it seems too heavy for that ::grabs magnet:: ok no this thing is solid steel."
The cover was produced by a Swedish sheet metal company that, at least today, primarily manufactures metal for beer cans.
Ayep. Growing herbs is one thing that can actually save you money, since they're expensive, highly perishable, and usually sold in more of the herb than you actually want at once unless you have a large family. But that's if you have the budget to buy fresh herbs in the first place.
This book was signed, yearbook-style, by several dozen people involved in the Nürnberg war crimes tribunals. I have already found records for "Alice E. Lecht, Capt WAC (MB) (small but mighty)" and "Helen Ann Richardson, (the girl and "pest" next door in room #41)
The girl and pest next door was one of the typists for the closing statement (more like closing dissertation; the thing is over 100 pages long and has 5 typists credited) of a war crimes tribunal.
At least, I'm about 90% sure she was a typist -- there three men listed as authors, and then five women's name together lower down on the title page with no explanation. I'm assuming they're typists. Maybe room #41 was the typists' office?
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I strongly recommend reading the last page or so, where they conclude with rhetoric after laying out all the evidence. Not that I *wasn't* expecting something impressive, but...damn.
Ditto. I give approximately 1/12th of a fuck about the White House as a historical object, but the utter hypocrisy of blowing up one of the major Rah Patriotism symbols while being the Rah Patriotism party is just...what. He is good at propaganda when he wants to be and this is the opposite.
