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Pretti autopsy could take months, and report won’t be public
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
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Attorney general demands that Minnesota officials turn over voter rolls
Obamas call out Trump administration’s handling of latest fatal shooting
In appeal to Americans, Walz asks: ‘Which side do you want to be on?’
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the federal immigration operation has strained the city’s 600 police.
Bovino sidesteps questions about specifics of Pretti shooting
Bovino tries to shift focus on immigrants sought by authorities
Minneapolis police chief says it appears more than one agent fired on Pretti
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) addressed President Donald Trump as he ended a news conference on...
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) told reporters that he and his team will be in...
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who is leaving Congress next year, called for a “thorough investigation” into...
House Democrats discuss impeaching Kristi Noem
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) told CNN on Sunday that President Donald Trump is “getting bad...
Shooting victim’s ex-wife says he protested after George Floyd’s killing
House would need to return to vote again if Senate changes spending bill
FBI Director Patel says Pretti attempted to ‘attack’ federal agents
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara requested National Guard support in the aftermath of Border Patrol’s shooting...

World

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Facing U.S. turmoil, Europe and India announce blockbuster trade deal
The stories of the final hostages whose bodies were returned from Gaza
As Trump shuffles global order, U.K. prime minister heads to Beijing
Man, 29, races against time to preserve voices of Holocaust survivors
Hamas took 251 hostages from Israel into Gaza. What happened to them?
Poland built the E.U.’s biggest army, but the threat has changed
Trump threatens to raise tariffs on South Korea to 25%
Israel confirms remains of last hostage, Rani Gvili, returned from Gaza
Aircraft carrier reaches Middle East, bolstering Iran options for Trump
After 80-year bond, Germans find breaking up with the U.S. is hard to do
Amid botched procedures, China is cracking down on cosmetic surgery
Iraqi spy chief warns of reemerging threat from ISIS as its ranks swell
Looking for signs of Trump’s new world order after Davos

Rest of World -

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Death of an Indian tech worker
While politicians shape U.S.-China relations, their families turn to the stock market
Is AI a bubble? Davos leaders say no
Iran’s internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only
Six years, two presidents, and one app: TikTok’s U.S. saga explained
She built an AI bot of her mother to help her grieve
What will tech jobs look like in 2026?
Data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons
Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet
China steers the Gulf’s driverless future as U.S. rivals stay home
Grok’s biggest danger isn’t what it says — it’s where it lives
Is a billion dollars still cool?

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice

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After Another ICE Killing, Minnesota's Flagship Faces a Test
'A Strangely Hopeful Book': What a Scholar Found When She Explored the Uncertain State of College Admissions
Congress Is Asking Dozens of Prominent Universities About Students’ ‘Dismal’ Math Skills
This State Has Plenty of Money. It's Weighing Cuts to Its Only Public University Anyway.
The Anti-Woke University's Identity Crisis
UT-Austin Is Closing Its Teaching Center. Faculty Members Ask: Why?
Higher Ed's Secret Provost Club
The Admissions Funnel Is Clogged. Here's How to Fix It.
Higher Ed's Future Is Managed Decline
This Spat Shows Just How Messy Texas A&M’s New Course Reviews Are

AskHistorians

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Sunday Digest | Interesting & Overlooked Posts | January 25, 2026
Short Answers to Simple Questions | January 21, 2026
[META] Is there a way to discourage people from deleting their post after their question is answered?
Catapults in many video games are depicted as having an area of effect. Is this nonsense?
In The Sopranos (first aired January 1999), numerous characters are acutely worried about the reputation of Italian Americans and mafia stereotypes. How widespread were these concerns among the Italian American community at the time, and were such stereotypes indeed common in society?
I once heard a US military historian make the claim that 1) France in WWI used African colonial troops for especially dangerous tasks to preserve French lives 2) the Africans were well aware of this & 3) this was a common stated justification in the coming wars for independence. Is this accurate?
I am a European noblewoman from the 15th century. How much clothing do I have?
Why didn't other world powers get involved in the US Civil War?
How did the German public view celebrities who had endorsed Hitler, after 1945?
What was it like being Jewish in urban pre-Holocaust Europe?
I'm a US sailor on a ship in the Pacific that was just sunk by the Japanese. I've just been picked up by a friendly ship and am uninjured. What happens next?
In WW2 what happened to POWs who escape and made it back to their lines - did they get sent back into battle or did their knowledge of resistance groups mean that was too big a risk?
Was there ever a time in recorded human history in any pre-digital culture where 13-year-olds were considered children in the eyes of society without the overlap of adolescence?
In 2005, Michael Jackson, amidst all the scandals and court trials, briefly moved to...Bahrain. Why did he choose to go *there* specifically and what was his 11 month experience like?
What did pioneers and early settlers do during the winter?
What sort of stigma did traumatized/"shell-shocked" veterans face after World War One?
Has anyone ever supported the Kurdish bid for independence?
How did borders develop?
What did Heinrich Himmler, a former Catholic, and the architect of the Holocaust, think about the persecution of Catholics in the Holocaust?
Tuesday Trivia: Time & Timekeeping! This thread has relaxed standards—we invite everyone to participate!
Can the Confederacy be said to have truly lost the Civil War, given rapid reintegration back into the Union, minimal punishment, the rise of sharecropping and Black second-class citizenship, unrestrained racial-violence, and the political dominance of the Solid South voting bloc?
Are there any works concerning the torture of North Vietnamese POWs at the hands of US personnel?
How did Hitler justify to his Generals, spending money and manpower on deathcamps while the front was dire need?
Difference between Villa Rustica and Latifundium in ancient rome?
What time was seen as a good bed time for kids in the Middle Ages? How was this time tracked seeing as how watches weren't a thing?

Linguistics

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Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Pāṇini - Paul Kiparsky, 2022
Philosophy of Grammar in Ancient India: Reinterpreting the Gārgya Controversy in Nirukta 1.12–1.14
William Labov - The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame (1973)
Q&A weekly thread - January 19, 2026 - post all questions here!
UAM Corpus Tool
Hierarchical structure in language and action.
Introduction to the templatic verb morphology of Birhor (Birhoɽ), a Kherwarian Munda language
Signs of Deaf Ni-Vanuatu: A sociolinguistic study
Q&A weekly thread - January 12, 2026 - post all questions here!
An Archive of the Caijia Language
Beserman Multimedia Corpus (2025)
Mundari: The myth of a language without word classes (2005)
Q&A weekly thread - January 05, 2026 - post all questions here!
Austroasiatic Roots of Sora Mythology. Origin and Development of the Image of The God Kittung (Ethnolinguistic Analysis)
Modern Kohistani languages are the closest living match to ancient Gāndhārī — Jakob Halfmann (2024)
New Palaeohispanica volume (2025)
A typological profile of Longjia, an archaic Sinitic language (2022)
Q&A weekly thread - December 29, 2025 - post all questions here!
Grammar of the Carapana language (1981) [Spanish]
Lihir Language Organised Phonology Data (2002)
Kaskean. A new recorded language in the archives of Ḫattuša?
Site about online dictionaries of languages of India (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan etc.)

MetaFilter Projects

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gradient.horse
New York City Housing Visualization
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
I made Apple Syrup!
Hamster Mortis Audioboook
"See all the other memes I made"
Long Dog (and other elongated animals)
mynderMail v2 - send a note to yourself others as fast as you can type it
Eating Litter (a poem)
Ideal Conditions Calculator
Motif: create patterns, see them repeat
Short Fiction about Academic Tech
TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
DOCTYPE magazine
The Immortal Remains
Metformin (Glucophage) may have made me smarter.
Agent Cupcake: The Unicorn Spy
Halloween costume: the night sky
Jabo's Annual Halloween Cartoon 2025

Open Culture

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Lessons in Creativity from Rick Rubin: Focus on Your Art, Not the Audience
Enjoy a Medieval Cover of R.E.M.‘s “Losing My Religion”
Scott Galloway Explains How YOU Can Stop Government Overreach Using the Power of Your Purse
The World’s Oldest Cave Art, Discovered in Indonesia, Is at Least 67,800 Years Old
Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
Discover the World’s First Earthquake Detector, Invented in China 2,000 Years Ago
The Short Surrealist Film That Revolutionized Cinema: Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie’s Passing
A Brief Introduction to Buckminster Fuller and His Techno-Optimistic Ideas
Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes
Watch the Evolution of Paris Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 300 BCE to 2025
Miles Davis Opens for Neil Young and “That Sorry-Ass Cat” Steve Miller at The Fillmore East (1970)
How the “Netflix Movie” Turns Cinema into “Visual Muzak”
What Happens When Mortals Try to Drink Winston Churchill’s Daily Intake of Alcohol
MTV Rewind Lets You Revisit 40,000 Music Videos & Commercials from the Golden Age of MTV

NYT > Technology

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As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over Minneapolis Shootings
Elon Musk’s X Faces EU Inquiry Over Sexualized AI Images Generated by Grok
Yann LeCun, an A.I. Pioneer, Warns the Tech ‘Herd’ Could Hit a Dead End
New Videos of the Beckham Feud Are Fake. Nobody Seems to Care.
G.M. Shares Rise as Investors Are Encouraged by 2026 Prospects
The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know
Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety
Silicon Valley Wants to Build A.I. That Can Improve A.I. on Its Own
Why the Power May Not Go Out Until After the Storm Has Passed
U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada
S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
Will ChatGPT Ads Change OpenAI? + Amanda Askell Explains Claude’s New Constitution
Five Ways People Are Using Claude Code
TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China
Why iPhone and Android Weather Apps Are Freaking Out About Winter Storm Forecasts
The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets
Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID
Snap Settles Lawsuit on Social Media Addiction, Avoiding a Landmark Trial
F.T.C. Appeals Loss in Meta Antitrust Case
Thing-Like Robotic Hand Makes Life Resemble ‘The Addams Family’

NYT > Arts

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Greenland’s Biggest Band Is Thrust Into an Uneasy Spotlight
BAFTA Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’ Face Off
‘Wonder Man’ Pushes Marvel Into Unfamiliar Territory
‘Wonder Man’ Review: A Break From the Multiverse
‘The Outsiders’ Musical Recoups on Broadway
‘Volcano,’ the L.A. Disaster Movie That Boils Over With Unintended Comedy
62 Discs Offer a Last Word on the Pianist Maurizio Pollini
In ‘Memory of a Killer,’ Patrick Dempsey Takes the Wheel
Art Stars Remember the Legendary Steward Marian Goodman
Denyce Graves Says Goodbye to the Opera Stage After 40 Years
For This Influencer, Rejection Is the New Perfection
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, on the (Bumpy) Road to Reconciliation
Memory and Speech Are Their Everyday Struggles. Then They Get to Sing.
Kanye West Apologizes for Antisemitic Behavior in Full-Page Wall Street Journal Ad
Did Don DeLillo Invent Hockey Erotica?
Seth Meyers Won’t Let ICE Co-Opt the Weather
Review: How ‘Data’ Channels the Shock of Right Now
‘Bridgerton,’ Plus 5 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1 Episode 2 Recap: A Man Among Princes
Floyd Vivino, Throwback Comedian Known as Uncle Floyd, Dies at 74
Marian Goodman, Eminent New York Art Dealer, Dies at 97
Geese Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ Viewers Something to Talk About
S.N.L. Recap: Teyana Taylor Hosts, the First Trump Awards and More
Long-Lost Robert Burns Portrait Is on Display for Burns Night
Marc Shaiman, ‘Hairspray’ Composer, on Surviving Life in the Musical Trenches
Beatriz González, Who Chronicled Colombia’s Turmoil in Paint, Dies at 93
Sophie Turner Swears By a Chaotic Spotify Playlist
6 Podcasts About Medicine and Health Care
9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
Renée Fleming Won’t Perform at Kennedy Center Concerts
John H. Beyer, 92, Dies; Architect Championed Historic Preservation
2026 Oscar Nominees: Surprises and Snubs
For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood
South African Artist Sues Over Venice Biennale Snub
Five Action Movies to Stream Now
Review: Thomas Adès and America at the New York Philharmonic
Documentary Oscar Nominees Resist Authority in Different Ways
Days Before His Suicide, Hemingway’s Hopeful Note to Sister Immaculata
6 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
5 Takeaways From the HBO Documentary ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’
Turning 4 Miles of Silk Into a Stunning Theater Spectacle
7 Sports Documentaries to Stream Now
Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Mamma Mia!,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ and More
Luke Thompson Finally Takes the ‘Bridgerton’ Spotlight
Candi Staton Is a Survivor. At 85, She’s Also a Grammy Nominee.
Immersive Historical Fiction Full of Rule Breakers and Rebels
Seth Meyers Says Trump’s Deals Are as Strong as a Pinkie Swear
‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: Expect the Unexpected
James Bernard, a Founding Editor of a Hip-Hop ‘Bible,’ Dies at 58
The Cliburn, Known for Piano Competitions, Will Hold One for Conductors
Fine Arts Panel, Remade by Trump, Indicates Support for His Ballroom Plan
Stream These 8 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in February
Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees: ‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and More
Harry Styles Books 30 Dates for Madison Square Garden Residency
‘Clika’ Review: Dreaming of the Stage
These Objects Will Draw You Out of the Cold
Five Fronts in Trump’s Culture War
Oscar Snubs and Surprises: ‘Sinners’ Makes History, ‘Wicked’ Withers
A 67,800-Year-Old Handprint May Be the World’s Oldest Rock Art
‘Sinners’ Broke the Oscars Record These 3 Films Once Held
The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving

Geography

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Any other places named after dates ?
I learned all the 50 states of the U.S. on a slow work day and can place them on the map now.
How does Iran support a large population throughout all of history?. It looks very arid with rough terrain and i don't see any rivers or flat plains for major crop production.
What country or province is this outline
Entire world's railway network
What if Liechtenstein’s request to buy Alaska had actually gone through?
Geographically I love where I live.
The reason why Bangladesh, an agricultural based economy can hold 170 million people in such a small area.
I found a geography travia game from 1987 at a thrift store. The occasionaly out of date facts and really inconsistent difficulty scaling has led to some fun moments with my nerdy family
What's the reason Inuit/Siberians and Europeans have different features despite evolving in similar cold climates?
About Australia
Is there any question about this area that cannot be answered with the Canadian Shield, glaciers, and the Gulf Stream?
Opinion: Some parts of Greece are in Asia
Where in the world could the house from Ex Machina be located?
Minnesota county map
Just posting it here cause I think the difference is crazy.
Global Reactions to Israel's Recognition of Somaliland - One Month Later (OC)
A more accurate projection.
What's this circular mountain formation? I was 30ish minutes southwest of Baltimore's airport.
[OC] 2026 January U.S. Winter Storm Snow Accumulation
Brazil has the largest Italian population outside of Italy
What to do after year 11?
Why have the Khoisan people been in and around Namibia for 150,000-200,000 years and not migrated elsewhere?
Why are Pigeon Forge (and also Sedona) so prominent on Google Maps if they don’t really have that much people?
Give me your best/worst geography jokes.

The Public Domain Review

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Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch
Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)
A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)
Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025
A Thousand and One Nights in Italy: The Moorish Fantasias of Cesare Mattei and Ferdinando Panciatichi
Nature Morte: Chaïm Soutine’s Still Lifes (ca. 1920s)
Deceit and Disrobing: The Schefer Maqāmāt (BNF Arabe 5847, ca. 1237)
Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
“Quaint Dessert Dishes” in American Homes and Gardens (1911)
Henri Rivière’s Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1888–1902)
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
Too Computerised? Too Cold?: 1999 A.D. (1967)
New T-Shirts (Now in 100% Organic Cotton) and New Mugs in Our Shop!
Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival
Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025
Perverse, Grotesque, Sensuous, Inimitable: A Selection of Works by Aubrey Beardsley
Animal Costumes from the 1862 Fairytale Ball of the Jung-München Artist’s Association
PDR's Halloween Reader
“That’s Why We Become Witches”: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926)
Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
Paramaribo and the Plantation: Gerrit Schouten’s Dioramas of Suriname (1810–30)
The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)
The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel
Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)
Birth of the Pearl (1901)
The End of the World as We (Didn’t) Know It: Now and Then #5
The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)
“You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess
A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842)
Ivan Aivazovsky’s Miniature Seascapes (ca. 1887)
The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
Flowers of Fealty: Wilhelm Dilich’s Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)
Breaking the Celestial Ceiling: Now and Then #4
Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle
Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929)
The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903)
Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920)
Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)
Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture
Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10
Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926)
Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772)
Bernard Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (ca. 1920 edition)
The Old, Old, Very Old Man: Thomas Parr and the Longevity Trade
Old Tricks: Tiny Cryptic #9
“The Great Enigma of Our Times”: Henry George’s Poverty and Progress (1881 edition)
In the Penal Colony: Now and Then #3
Gilded Fish: Illustrations from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780)
Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)
As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade
Warburg’s Werewolf: An Anamnesis
Mudpots and Fumaroles: Lithographs of Yellowstone’s Thermal Springs (1883)
Feather Tickler: Tiny Cryptic #8
A Popeless Situation: Now and Then #2
Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)
Nikolai Agnivtsev’s Little Screw (1925)
Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll
Photographs of the Samaritan Passover on Mount Gerizim (1917)
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)
Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism
Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6
Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s Katzensymphonie (1868)
“The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person”: Kitagawa Utamaro’s Prints of Yamauba and Kintarō (ca. 1800)
Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century
Boxing Clever: Tiny Cryptic #5
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912)
Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka’s Reverse Paintings (ca. 1920s)
The Mermaid “at Home!” (1809)
A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer
Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)
Con Heir: Tiny Cryptic #4
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)
José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)
For He’s a Jolly Bad Fellow: Now and Then #1
The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia
The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888)
Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3
Gustatory Wisdom: Bruegel the Elder’s Twelve Proverbs (1558)
What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)
The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London
Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2
Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922)
Pied Beauty: Wari Tie-Dye Textiles (ca. 425–1100)
George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)
“Relaxations for the Impotent”: Ben Hecht’s Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
Fantazius’ Folly: Tiny Cryptic #1

The Quietus

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Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for January by JR Moores
Tashi Dorji – Low Clouds Hang, This Land is on Fire
Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism
Marta Del Grandi – Dream Life
Places To Be: Emma Warren on the Importance of Youth Clubs to British Culture
The Body & The Person: Cosey Fanni Tutti at Humber Street Gallery
Reissue of the Week:  Junglist! Old Skool Ragga, D&B, Jungle 1993-95
Notions of Decadence: Half a Century of Bowie’s Station To Station
Megadeth – Megadeth
Pulp, Depeche Mode, Beth Gibbons and More Feature on New War Child Charity Record
Kim Gordon, KMRU and More Join Rewire 2026 Lineup
Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan on Susumu Yokota
Beautiful Chaos & Crying to Frozen: Powell Interviewed
Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Sod in Heaven by MPTL Microplastics
Michael Moorcock and The Deep Fix – The New Worlds Fair
Geordie Greep Pays Tribute to Black Midi Co-Founder Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin
Lightning Bolt and OOIOO Announce Split Album, ‘The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral’
Mohammad Syfkhan, Eric Chenaux and More to Play This Year’s Dig That Treasure! Festival
MPTL Microplastics Album Launch in Brixton
Dekmantel Reveals Full 2026 Lineup
The Strange World of… David Berman
PVA – No More Like This
Pitchfork Launches Reviews Paywall
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington
Jane Weaver Septiéme Sœur – The Fallen By Watch Bird (Expanded Edition)
Shabaka Hutchings Details New Album, ‘Of The Earth’
Pulp Release Statement on Adelaide Festival Following Boycott U-Turn
A less Oblique Strategy: reading PVA’s Tarot
Pullman – III
Rhythmic Cinema: Why Battleship Potemkin Remains Relevant, 100 Years On
Covers Album of the week: Xiu Xiu’s Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1
Sunburst Finish by Be-Bop Deluxe, 50 years on

Bandcamp Updates

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Orchestras Within Orchestras: A Prepared Piano Primer
Shackleton, “Euphoria Bound”
Another Side of Alan Vega
David Zé, “Mutudi Ua Ufolo / Viuva Da Liberdade 1975”
Essential Releases, January 23, 2026
Sassy 009’s Alt-Pop Fever Dreams Come to Fruition At Last
Winged Wheel, “Desert So Green”
José Pinhal, the Portuguese Artist Who Turned Kitsch Into Treasure
Cub, “Come Out Come Out (30th Anniversary Edition)”
Sunday Mourners, “A-Rhythm Absolute”
Before UK Garage, 2-Step Was All About the Soul
David Boring Return to a World of Horrors
Essential Releases, January 16, 2026
Emily Scott Robinson, “Appalachia”
Footwork’s New Wave
Xiu Xiu, “Xiu Mutha F—in’ Xiu: Vol. 1”
A Bay Area Rap Cult Classic Gets a Second Life
Sotomayor, “WABI SABI”
Tall Dwarfs & Hairybreath Monsters: A Chris Knox Bestiary
Kill Ugly Pop: A Guide to Lip Cream
Jersey Club Keeps on Moving
The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
The Best Latin Music of 2025
The Best Country Music of 2025
The Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025
The Best Field Recordings of 2025
The Best Metal Albums of 2025
The Best Contemporary Classical Music of 2025
The Best Ambient Albums of 2025
The Best Experimental Music of 2025
The Best Electronic Music of 2025
The Best Hip-Hop of 2025
The Best Punk Music of 2025
Blut Aus Nord, “Ethereal Horizons”
The Best Albums of 2025: Essential Releases
The Best Albums of 2025: Day 2, M–Z

dusted

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Ty Segall and the Muggers—Live at the BBC (Drag City)
Evil Damn — Eons of Horror (Hells Headbangers)
Susumu Yokota — Will (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings)
Winged Wheel — Desert So Green (12XU)
Roland Kayn—Easy Music (Reiger-Records-Reeks)
Dry Cleaning — Secret Love (4AD)
Support Jennifer Kelly’s battle against cancer
Spectral Lore — IV (Part 2-Demo) (Self released)
Treen — Kaikō (Sauajazz)
The Early — Cusp (Island House)
Morton Feldman — Trios (Another Timbre)
Bruno Duplant & Judith Wegmann — Univers Parallèles: Des Nuits Et Des Jours (Moving Furniture)
Westside Cowboy — So Much Country till We Get There (Nice Swan)
Davide Cedolin — Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II (Torto Editions/Island House)
Sleaford Mods — The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)
Éliane Radigue — Asymptote Versatile (1963-1964) (Amgen)
Jana Horn—S-T (No Quarter)
Slept Ons and Listening Pest 2025: Things that we missed and albums that disappointed
2025: Patrick Masterson
Ian Mathers’ 2025: I’m tired, I am dead/If you live it, then you love it

Pitchfork

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Peanut
locket
The Demise of Planet X
My Heart Is a Room With No Cameras in It
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Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
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All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
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17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
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What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
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16 Easy Noodle Recipes for a Quick Meal Any Time of Day
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Back of the House: Meet Our 2022 Contributors
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All of the Gear You Need to Make Your Own Gingerbread House
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13 Make-Ahead Desserts for the Holidays
The 12 Days of Christmas Cookies
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