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Short Answers to Simple Questions | November 12, 2025
If the BAR was intended to be a squad support weapon, and lay down suppressing fire, etc, then why did it only have 20 round magazines?
The folk song "The Trees They Grow So High" describes a 24 year old woman in an arranged marriage to a 14 year old boy. Would this be realistic for Early Modern Britain?
Every aristocratic period show seems to have at least one member who seeks to “get away from it all” / “live like anormal person.” Was this a real phenomenon or is it a modern invention?
Prior to the invention of hormone replacement therapy, did transgender/gender nonconforming individuals do anything else to get their bodies to match their minds?
Why does it seem that historical and cultural accounts of groups of people who were born female but identify differently are few and far between compared to groups of people who were born male and identify differently?
The Catholic Church was not particularly fond of theatre, to the point that actors (most famously Molière) were commonly excommunicated unless they renounced their careers. When and why did these attitudes change?
“Twinkle, twinkle” was published in 1809, about 200 years after the invention of the telescope and Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons. When the narrator says “How I wonder what you are!”, what are they wondering? What did the average English person in 1809 think a star might be?
Did people convert to Christianity or Islam because they were actually convinced by the arguments?
How did Coca Cola become ingrained in the indigenous cultures of Chiapas?
Would the Soviets have eventually turned against the Nazis if Germany hadn’t attacked them?
When Indoor Plumbing Was Becoming Popular in the Industrialized West, Were There Plumbing Deniers Who Thought it Was Evil?
What did an historically accurate ninja look like?
Why is it that polytheistic religions never seemed to convert monotheistic populations in the same way that Christianity or Islam replaced local polytheistic religions?
A recent genetic study lends credence to the British WW2 song "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" - but... how? Is it just a coincidence? Or did rumors circulate somehow based on a physical reality?
Why did the wagon-fort not take off in Western and Central Europe, but did in the Ottomans and Eastern Europe?
In the USA, sugar was rationed from 1941 to 1947, and rations were severely cut in 1945, even as the Allied countries were winning the war. Was there any truth to the popular rumors of sugar being conveniently rationed "for the people's health" by the US government, and not due to true shortages?
How did Jews feel about Al-Aqsa before the 20th century?
Why is Hawaii the only state that has embraced their indigenous culture and language - revolving mostly around their positive results post-colonialism and made the Hawaiian people their primary identity?
How has Archaeology Influenced Nordic Pagan Revivals?
What was the diet of pre farming Neolithic Britain?
What caused the seemingly rapid rise and equally rapid fall of Apatosaurus as the archetypal Sauropod in popular culture?
Were medieval jesters ”speaking truth to power”?
Were pyramids and temples essentially jobs creation programs for Ancient Egyptians?

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Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025).
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here!
Is this that? The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice. - JSTOR Daily
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here!
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview
Research Preview: "A Descriptive Study of Factors Affecting English (L2) Pronunciation”
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post
Old Irish Slang & Jargon: a Grammatical Approach, lecture by David Stifter
Akabea (Great Andamanese) as an anumeric language and the problem of Akabea ordinals. Comrie & Zamponi (2024). Italian Journal of Linguistics, 36/2: 3–28.
Q&A weekly thread - October 27, 2025 - post all questions here!
On the comparative method, internal reconstruction, and other analytical tools for the reconstruction of the evolution of the Basque language: An assessment -Hualde 2020
Calunga, a lesser known language from Brazil:
New study finds no evidence for the classic 'phoneme effect' on the Mismatch Negativity (MMN) brain response, suggesting the brain's automatic sound discrimination may not be as language-specific as previously thought and challenging its use as a benchmark for language
Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms
Q&A weekly thread - October 20, 2025 - post all questions here!
States as Derived Aspect
Genealogical Classification and Dialect Macro-Areas in Slavic Languages
Les premières grammaires des vernaculaires européens (edited by Anders Ahlquist)
Language portrait
Death of Steven R. Anderson (3 Aug 1943 - 13 Oct 2025)
Hurrian Phonemic Investory and Syllable Structure (2022)

MetaFilter Projects

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TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App
Tri-Con: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction
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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
New York City election endorsements (ballot proposals and judges)
New MeFiCoFo board elected
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Resynthesizing "Invention in D Minor" from Switched-On Bach
The 1% Guild
I gave a lecture about my Egyptian furniture replicas
Dot Battle - a Javascript Physics Toy
Pettable Croutons, for you and for me
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Archive/Convert your Typepad Blog
Some lessons from an indie TTRPG zine fundraiser
Food + Cooking at Skool

Open Culture

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Why Overconfidence Is Our Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
AC/DC Plays a Short Gig at CBGB in 1977: Hear Metal Being Played on Punk’s Hallowed Grounds
Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard
How Paris Became Paris: The Story Behind Its Iconic Squares, Bridges, Monuments & Boulevards
Aleister Crowley Reads Occult Poetry in the Only Known Recordings of His Voice (1920)
Watch 50 David Bowie Music Videos Spanning Five Decades of Reinvention: “Space Oddity,” “Life on Mars?” “ ‘Heroes’,” “Let’s Dance” & More
The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838
Beautiful, Color Photographs of Paris Taken a Century Ago—at the Beginning of World War I & the End of La Belle Époque
The Groundbreaking Animation That Defined Pink Floyd’s Psychedelic Visual Style: Watch “French Windows” (1972)
The Ambitious Engineering Behind the Golden Gate Bridge
Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Have Been Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library
Skiing Down Mount Everest with No Oxygen: It’s a Wild Ride
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Inventions Rendered in 3D Animation: Helicopters, Robotic Knights, The First Ever Diving Suit & More
A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

NYT > Technology

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Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
SoftBank Sells $5.8 Billion Stake in Nvidia to Pay for OpenAI Deals
Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom
Is A.I. a Journalist or Just a Newsroom Tool?
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
How Seattle’s The Stranger Became a Progressive Kingmaker
What’s a Digital Passport and How Does It Work?
Apple’s iPhone Pocket by Issey Miyake Is Confusing by Design
Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery
Almost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual
5 Apps That Will Make You Love Art Galleries
The Luxury Electric Vehicle Is in Trouble
Northern Lights Are Beautiful, but for Satellites They’re Risky
Russian Humanoid Robot Falls on Its Face in Hyped Debut
Solvay of Belgium Creates Rare Earths Deals With U.S.
At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives
Blue Origin Scrubs Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars

NYT > Arts

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Has This Director Made the Year’s Most Terrifying Movie?
A Day at the Beach Hunting Mammoths
These Six Artworks Could Predict the Auction Market
A Fats Waller Musical All But Disappeared (Until Now)
Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’
A BravoCon Recap, Plus 6 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Has Tricks Up Its Sleeve
Leslie Odom Jr., Back in the Room Where It Happens
Epstein Files Dominate “S.N.L.,” With the Help of Will Forte’s MacGruber
The Kids Are Up All Night, With Jewels and Bones
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
NBA YoungBoy, Rap’s Defining 2025 Superstar, Is Hiding in Plain Sight
For ‘The Running Man,’ Colman Domingo Is Your Host
Todd Snider, Folk Singer With a Wry Wit, Dies at 59
Broadway’s Radical ‘Oedipus,’ With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville
What Should I Do With My Playbill?
Ballet Dancers Are Starting to Prioritize Their Mental Health
‘Chess,’ With Lea Michele: At Least They Have the Abba Songs
‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Origin of the Species
Homayoun Ershadi, 78, Dies; ‘Kite Runner’ and ‘Taste of Cherry’ Star
SAG Awards Changes Its Name to the Actor Awards
Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Twelfth Night,’ and More Theater to Stream
At the Broadway Flea, a Market for Props, Playbills and a Good Cause
‘Nouvelle Vague’: All the References Explained
Niecy Nash-Betts Saves It for the ‘All’s Fair’ Group Chat
“Convent Wisdom” Looks to Nuns from Yesterday to Help Make It Through Today
Yvonne Brewster, Godmother of Black British Theater, Dies at 87
Elizabeth Franz, Versatile Tony-Winning Actress, Is Dead at 84
Want to Buy a Work of Art at Auction? Here’s What to Know.
‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End
Paris Opera’s Youth Orchestra Program Starts With Young Talent
Paris Opera Debuts ‘Satyagraha’ by Philip Glass, Directed by Dancers
Maxime Pascal to Conduct Stockhausen’s ‘Montag aus Licht’ in Paris
Discovering 5 Treasures of Photography
Five International Movies to Stream Now
Eddie Murphy Addresses ‘S.N.L.’ Feud in “Being Eddie” Documentary
‘Now I’m on the Stage’: 7 Artists on Their Museum Residencies in Harlem
11 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Bad Bunny Tops the Latin Grammys: 8 Key Moments From the Show
Today’s Top Directors Have Some Issues With Gen Z
Robots, Raiders and Riches in a Gripping Prisoner’s Dilemma
In Death, Poet Andrea Gibson Gets a Film That Celebrates Life
Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
‘Come See Me in the Good Light’: The Sweetness After a Terminal Diagnosis
Ken Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ Speaks to Our Cultural Clashes
‘A Very Jonas Christmas Movie’ Review: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Late Night Sifts Through 20,000 Emails of ‘Trump/Epstein Lore’
Lesley Manville and Mark Strong Are Superb in ‘Oedipus’ on Broadway
‘Archduke’ Review: Impressionable Young Men
Sofia Coppola Honored at MoMA Benefit With Elle Fanning, Bill Murray and David Letterman
‘The Running Man’ Review: Glen Powell Plays for His Life
‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review: Richard Linklater’s Ode to ‘Breathless’
Pioneering U.S. Street Photography, With Vienna in the Background
5 Apps That Will Make You Love Art Galleries
Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows
‘Viridiana’ Was Luis Buñuel’s Revenge
At 97, the Bard of Albany Still Spins Tales of Gangsters and Politicians
5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
‘The Beast in Me’ Review: On the Edge, Again, With Claire Danes
‘The Things You Kill’ Review: A Tragedy Turns Surreal
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‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ Review: Magic, the Gathering
‘Keeper’ Review: You Can Get In, but You Can’t Get Out

Geography

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At what point in history did Greece stop being a European superpower?
How did Asians reach Madagascar earlier than Africa when it's much far away?
Which trio of nations are the most similar to one another?
The I-77/I-277 interchange in Charlotte NC is being redesigned, in part due to new dedicated toll lanes.
Would India be as cold as Europe without Himalayas?
What other cities around the world are close to the coast, but not on the coast?
The mind-boggling linguistic diversity in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara and East Timor
Could humans have settled in Antartica similarly to how they did in places like Nunavut and Greenland?
What if the world looked like this now?
Are there any other places in the world that do this sort of thing?
What is this thing called?
I am a humble worldbuilder, and I come to you in a time of great need. How close can two separate rivers get without any major interaction with each other?
That's the Kentucky-Missouri border area. The Missouri side is almost completely flat, while the Kentucky side has several hills and isn't flat at all
Back yard is in another country—how does this work in practice?
You want glorious sunshine year round with very little fog, or fires, or clouds or heat or cold or high humidity? Go to Arequipa, Peru
The USSR placed a bust of Lenin facing towards Moscow in the most isolated place in Antarctica (arguably the most isolated place on dry land)
The level of population or population density does not seem to be directly proportional to the actual congestion and crowding.
[OC] Hope this OK to post. This is the border between Alaska, USA and Yukon, Canada along the White Pass and Yukon Route railway.
Most islands possible on the earth
Can anyone find a more isolated town of 500+ people east of the Mississippi than Ocracoke, North Carolina?
Which winters were exceptionally cold by the standards of certain regions around the world? For example: an average temperature well below normal.
What's the most (seemingly) minor change to Earth's Geography that would've had the largest effect on Human History?
i got bored so i decided to find the farthest distance you can see the sombrero tower from
What do you think are good examples of "off-place" storms across the world?
What are some great accidental beaches or islands?

The Public Domain Review

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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
The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920)
Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11
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
Peckish Alphabetics: The Tragical Death of a Apple-Pye (ca. 1793–1796)
A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes
Designing the Sublime: Boullée and Ledoux’s Architectural Revolution
Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921)
Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)
Perpetual Movement: Francis Picabia’s 391 Review (1917–1924)
Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive
Happy Public Domain Day 2025!
Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024
The Color of Memory: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950)
True Crime: Allan Pinkerton’s Thirty Years a Detective (1884)
Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)
The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser!
Strange Gods: Charles Fort’s Book of the Damned (1919)

The Quietus

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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for November by Daryl Worthington
JJJJJerome Ellis – Vesper Sparrow
The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life
Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’
Low Culture Podcast: Dr Martens Boots
AVTT/PTTN – AVTT/PTTN
The Strange World Of… Lovers & Lollypops
The Final Age – New Hallucinations
Claire Rousay – A Little Death
A Topography of Intimacy: A Body Like A Home by Alejandra Cárdenas
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke
Keep Going: Seb Rochford’s Favourite Records
Oneohtrix Point Never – Tranquilizer
North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena
Joshua Bridge Premieres New Short Film ‘What Do You Want?’
A Long Drink of the Best Water: Highlights from 2025’s Le Guess Who?
SML – How You Been
Roj Osa meets Rob Mazurek – Beton Kino
Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab
How Dennis Potter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
Earth Ball – Outside Over There
50 Years On: Patti Smith’s Horses Revisited
Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of Grime
Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
30 years on: Angus Batey dissects Liquid Swords By GZA
What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20
Danny Brown – Stardust
Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of Mucho Flow
30 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited
Charmaine Lee – Tulpa
Chopper Choons: Mercy by Armand Hammer and The Alchemist
Hilary Woods – Night CRIÚ

Bandcamp Updates

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Essential Releases, November 14, 2025
Red River Dialect, “Basic Country Mustard”
Sister Irene O’Connor, “Fire of God’s Love”
“Jazz With A Cowboy Hat:” An Introduction to Western Swing
Shungu, “Faith In The Unknown”
Bands Left Behind By Streaming
Roseblood Festival Brings a Femme Focus to the Bay Area Underground
When Worlds Divide: Terry Riley and La Monte Young’s Parallel Universes
SML, “How You Been”
Paris 1942, Short-Lived Experimental Rock Royalty
Christopher Larkin Doesn’t Just Score Video Games, He Creates Worlds
Zig-Zag Band, “Chigiyo Music Kings 1987–1998”
Some Kind of Fun: Hüsker Dü’s Generational Blues
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, October 2025
yaz lancaster, “AFTER”
Essential Releases, November 7, 2025
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Ata Kak, “Batakari”
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
The Tape Label Report, October 2025
About Yesterday’s and Today’s Ezz-Thetics
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, October 2025
The Burning Limos, “31 Days of Burning Limos”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Júlia Colom, “Paradís”
The Radical New Voices of First Nations Australian Music
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, October 2025
Ship Sket, “InitiatriX”
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, October 2025
Chino Amobi, “Eroica II: Christian Nihilism”
Essential Releases, October 31 2025
A Guide To The World of Contemporary Creative Piano
The Spells, “The Night Has Eyes”

dusted

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Anthony Braxton — Quartet (England)/1985 (Burning Ambulance Music)
Lina Allemano Four — The Diptychs (Lumo)
The Telephone Numbers — Scarecrow II (Slumberland)
Kreutzer Quartet — Robert Saxton’s String Quartets 3&4; Sonata for Solo Violin (Métier)
Tony Molina — On This Day (Slumberland)
Modern Nature — The Heat Warps (Bella Union)
Uranium — Corrosion of Existence (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Citric Dummies — Split with Turnstile (Feel It!)
The Mountain Goats — Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan (Merge)
Irish Exit — Tantrums in Tandem (Cropsey Records)
Steve Gunn — Daylight Daylight (No Quarter)
Sessa — Pequena Vertigem de Amor (Mexican Summer)
Zhao Cong / Kevin Corcoran — -1 outside / 24 inside (Aloe)
Susumu Yokota — Grinning Cat (Skintone Records/Lo Recordings)
h. pruz — Red sky at morning (Mt. Laurel)
Heteropsy — Embalming (Caligari)
Joelton Mayfield — Crowd Pleaser (Bloodshot)
Ada Rave /Marta Warelis — Peel / Mondo (Relative Pitch)
Greg Jamie — Across a Violet Pasture (Orindal)
Steven Lambke and Jimmie Kilpatrick — Friendship Traces (You’ve Changed)

Pitchfork

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Tranquilizer
Again
My Supernova
Todd Snider, Satirical Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 59
Dijon Announced as Saturday Night Live Musical Guest
Float
1985: The Miracle Year
Magdalena Bay to Release New Songs in Nice Day Box Set
Hercules & Love Affair Announce EP, Share New Song: Listen
10 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: FKA twigs, Colter Wall, and More
Avalon Emerson Shares Video for New & the Charm Song: Watch
Watch Karol G and Marco Antonio Solís Perform “Coleccionando Heridas” at 2025 Latin Grammys
Watch Bad Bunny Perform “Weltita” at 2025 Latin Grammys
Big city life EDITS
Miley Cyrus Shares New Song “Dream as One” for New Movie Avatar: Fire and Ash: Listen
COSPLAY
Lil Herb
After EP / After EP 2
Massive Attack Promise New Music for 2026
Charli XCX Announces New Album Wuthering Heights, Shares New Song “Chains of Love”: Listen
Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025 Live Photos
Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2025 Live Photos
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Features on Orelsan’s New Song “Yoroï”: Listen
Sharp Pins, Been Stellar, Lip Critic, and More Playing Abortion Access Benefit Concerts
6 Highlights From Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025
Tobias Jesso Jr. Announces First Album in 10 Years, Shares New Video: Watch
The Return of Max B
Little Feat Announce Final Tour, Share New Song With Inara George: Listen
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Small Talk

Cool Tools

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Colors of Asia / book.sv / Compression bags
US Airport Mayhem/NewLife Estimator/Remote Locker Pickups
What’s in my NOW? — Rob Ray
Only What’s Necessary / The White Donkey
Utensils
Other minds / 102 lessons / No-hole poster hanging
Better Travel Pillow/Set Jetting/Top Expat Countries
What’s in my NOW? — Ken Batchelor
Free Press / Building Stories
Ecosphere

McMansion Hell

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chud atlantis
For Patreon, I wrote about developer slop flooring, the history of walking on plastic, and what fake…
glam metal modern but also your contractor is going to jail dawg
FYI, this post is now available for all to read!
McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise
simulacra for bootlickers
About my last few months.
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
new jersey “19th century” “eclecticism”
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza
namesake mcmansion
the motel room, or: on datedness
texas gothic revival
ode to a faux grecian urn
Hello everyone! The word is out – I am writing a book!
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven
pre-recession, post-taste
Bonus McMansion Hell: Ye Olde Barrington

Serious Eats

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We Tested 9 Olive Oil Dispensers—Here Are Our Favorites
Food Processor vs. Blender: What's the Difference?
We Tested 12 Flatware Sets to Find the Best Ones for Everyday Use
What’s the Deal With Instant Cold Brew Makers?
Why We Think Baratza Grinders Are worth the Money (Including Two That Are on Sale)
Should You Be Storing Coffee in a Coffee Canister?
We Tested 7 Pasta Makers to Find the Best Ones for Rolling and Cutting Dough
We Reviewed The Vitamix Immersion Blender (And It Was Almost Silly Powerful)
Honing Versus Sharpening a Knife: What's the Difference?
My KitchenAid Stand Mixer is Leaking Oil—What’s Going On?
How Do Keurig Coffee Makers Work, Anyways?
Does Your Beer Glass Really Matter? We Consulted a Beer Expert to Find Out
We Tested 7 Anti-Fatigue Mats—Here Are the Best Ones for Your Kitchen
We Tested 8 Countertop Ice Makers—Three Stood Out
We Reviewed 11 Bento Boxes to Find One We’d Pack Lunch In
How Do Air Fryers Work?
Balmuda: Our Review of the Pretty, Steam-Powered Toaster
The Spinn Coffee Maker Is One of the Only Automated Brewers We Like
We Tested 12 Garlic Presses—Two Smashed the Competition
The Breville Barista Express Impress Makes Home Espresso Approachable
We Tested 8 Enameled Cast Iron Skillets and Found Three Great Options
We Tested 11 Different Bundt Pans—Three Won Top Marks
We Tested 14 Popular Vegetable Peelers to Find the Best Ones
All of the Tools You Need to Make Really Great Baguettes at Home
Baking Steels vs. Stones: Which One Should You Buy?
Nespresso vs. Keurig: Which Coffee Maker is Better?
We Tested 10 Tofu Presses—Three Squeezed Out the Competition
We Tested 8 Mandolines to Find Ones That Could Slice with Ease
How a Food Dehydrator Can Help You Reduce Food Waste
We Tested the Anova Precision Chamber Vacuum Sealer
We Reviewed the Challenger Fermentation Mat and Recommend It for Sourdough Bakers
The Best Methods for Making Whipped Cream, Explained
17 Quick Dinner Recipes in 20 Minutes or Less
12 Freezer-Friendly Soups for a Warm Meal Whenever You Want It
What’s the Difference Between Glass and Metal Baking Pans?
We Tested 7 Squeeze Bottles to Find the Best for Your Kitchen
Chè Chuối (Vietnamese Banana, Tapioca, and Coconut Milk Dessert)
We Tested 20 Bread Machines—Three Proved They Were The Best
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