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Men typically have longer and thicker eyelashes than women. When and why did eyelashes become a symbol of femininity?
When did neighbors stop being integral parts of a show? Does this carry any significance for cultural shifts? Or am I just remembering wrong? Any books/writings on this topic?
What did Native Americans think existed on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean before the arrival of Europeans?
How did western society transition from women being hornier to men being hornier?
Temples in a deserty area, rooms filled with flirtatious Arabian women, dudes with eye patches fighting with cutlass swords, and treasure. Did this ever happen?
Why didn’t the Māori tried to settle in Australia when Polynesians generally tried to settle as far as possible ?
Dr. Tine Van Osselaer on Marian apparitions in interwar Belgium, AMA!
Was there organized crime akin to the Italian Mob, Chinese Triad, and Japanese Yakuza in the Ancient World (Rome, Greece, Egypt)?
Can you recommend a great book on the Dutch golden age?
Why are colonial terms like “Middle East” still in use, while terms like “Far East” and “Near East” aren’t used anymore?
Book recommendations the Troubles in Northern Ireland?
Stonehenge wasn’t built by the Druids. But did they, or the Romans who came after them, have beliefs (that we know of) about it?
How did people survive on a no-salt diet?
[WWI] Do ruins of villages in the UK and France that were abandoned because all the men died in WWI still exist?
How did 19th century Russia, with its heavy censorship, foster such great literary tradition?
What Made Ethiopia Different During the Scramble for Africa?
Hello Americans! I’m just curious, what was the American goverment plan in 2003?
Do we know of any famous Romano-Britain authors (poets, philosophers, historians, etc)?
How do historians view Betty Friedan's arguments in The Feminine Mystique?
Was it common for actors in European films to speak their native language, then overdub later?
What did the Norse do with animal sacrifices after they were sacrificed did they burn the bodies? bury them? or did they consume the meat during the celebration that followed?
In ancient Rome, could widows with a guardian keep their property when they remarried, or did they have to enter into a manus marriage?
Books on US foreign policy since 1945?

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Q&A weekly thread - February 16, 2026 - post all questions here!
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
A Grammar of Gaddi
A Sociophilological Account of the Formation and Evolution of the Term Língua Geral, with Emphasis on Amazonia
Polysynthesis in Sora (Munda) with Special Reference to Noun Incorporation (2017)
Q&A weekly thread - February 09, 2026 - post all questions here!
Language Ownership and Language Ideologies - Margaret Speas in Negotiating Culture: Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual Property (2013)
There's a grain of truth in every "myth", or, Why the discussion of lexical classes in Mundari isn't quite over yet. (2005)
The Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Systems: From the Traditional Model to Glottalic Theories (Kloekhorst & Pronk eds. 2026)
Q&A weekly thread - February 02, 2026 - post all questions here!
Minegishi, Makoto - Santali English Japanese Wordlist
Meta-Analysis of Verbal Negation Studies in the Northeast and Southeast Regions
Q&A weekly thread - January 26, 2026 - post all questions here!
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)

MetaFilter Projects

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The Sound of Ocean Heat Energy
Training chatbots on specific topics
[AI] The Machines Built a Church While You Were Sleeping
An experiment in reading resumes under time pressure
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
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The Immortal Remains

Open Culture

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An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork
Howard Zinn’s “What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire”: An Illustrated Video Narrated by Viggo Mortensen
The Dead Sea Scrolls: Discover the Secrets of the Bible’s Oldest and Strangest Texts
An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World’s First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece
Ten Lost Roman Wonders: The World’s Longest Tunnel, Tallest Dam, Widest-Spanning Bridge & More
David Lynch Being a Madman for a Relentless 8 Minutes and 30 Seconds
The Untold Story of Bauhaus Women: The Avant-Garde Artists Who Helped Shape Modernism
How This Skyscraper Ruined Paris, and Why They’re Now Trying to Make It Invisible
Watch All of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Performed on Original Baroque Instruments
How Brunelleschi Engineered Florence’s Iconic Dome
Jack Kerouac Lists 9 Essentials for Writing Spontaneous Prose
Were the Egyptian Pyramids Not Built Up, But Carved Down?: A Bold New Theory Explains Their Construction
Rare Video: Vince Guaraldi’s First Televised Performance of “Linus and Lucy” (1964)
Why Some People Think in Words, While Others Think in Pictures & Feelings
Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk

NYT > Technology

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Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda
Elon Musk’s xAI Gets $3 Billion Investment From Saudi-Backed A.I. Firm
Uber Taking Steps to Expand Number of EV Chargers Near Its Drivers
How to Watch Free Live Television on Your Phone or Tablet
Mark Zuckerberg Takes the Stand in Social Media Addiction Trial
What Do A.I. Chatbots Discuss Among Themselves? We Sent One to Find Out.
Chatbots Are the New Influencers Brands Must Woo
With Niche Tech World References, Vibe Hopes Its Billboards Reach Start-Up Insiders
User Issues With X Appear to Have Resolved
Could an Electronic Coach Help Ski Jumpers Leap Farther?
More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.
Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad
David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91
Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App
Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry + One Good Thing
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round
Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction
Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief
Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI
Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs

NYT > Arts

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Ethan Hawke on ‘Blue Moon,’ ‘Reality Bites’ and the Lessons He’s Learned
With a New Oscar on the Line, How Do You Judge Casting?
A Downtown Vibe Comes to Broadway This Spring
What to See in NYC This Spring: Broadway Shows, Concerts and More
Fritz Lang’s ‘Nibelungen,’ the Way It Was Meant to Be Heard
How a Visionary Collector Eyed Her Trophies
5 Standout Shows During Frieze
Billy Preston’s Music Was ‘Pure Joy.’ But His Life Ended in Tragedy.
‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘Black Swan’ and 14 More Plays and Musicals to See This Spring
Robert Duvall Seared Himself Into Our Memories Even When He Wasn’t the Star
Daniel Radcliffe on Returning to Broadway in ‘Every Brilliant Thing’
Frederick Wiseman Watched People Like Nobody Else
When Jesse Jackson Came to ‘Sesame Street’: ‘I Am! Somebody!’
At 85, the Choreographer Lucinda Childs Still Has a Full Dance Card
‘Wuthering Heights’ Through the Years, from Olivier to Elordi
‘Billy Preston’ Review: A Unique and Tortured Talent
In Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Dracula,’ There’s Mirth Amid the Horror
An Artist of the Unimaginable
Michael Heizer Measures His Art in Miles and Tons
Stephen Colbert Finds a Place to File CBS’s Surprise Statement
Shia LaBeouf Charged With Battery in New Orleans
Readers Respond: 11 (More) Transcendent Beatles Covers by Black Musicians
Robert Duvall Didn’t Mind Clashing With Directors
Kathleen Chalfant and Elizabeth Marvel Are Sobriety Sisters in ‘The Dinosaurs’
The Opera ‘Monster’s Paradise’ Takes Satirical Aim at Trump
Peeking Behind the Scenes of ‘Wallace and Gromit’
Romeo Is a Dead Man Would Make Kafka and Lynch Proud
The 19-Year Debate over Whether a Painting Was Looted by the Nazis.
Colbert Doesn’t Give an F.C.C. About Calling Out CBS
‘Shoresy’ Is Back, a Hockey Sitcom With ‘Heated Rivalry’ Ties
Robert Duvall: A Life in Pictures
Frederick Wiseman, 96, Penetrating Documentarian of Institutions, Dies
Where to Watch Robert Duvall’s Top Performances
Robert Duvall, ‘Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ Actor, Dies at 95
‘Tragedy of Coriolanus’ Swerves Off Course in Brooklyn
Ticket Scam Cost the Louvre $12 Million, Investigators Say
Henrike Naumann, Artist Set to Represent Germany at Venice Biennale, Dies at 41
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
From One President to Another, a Love Letter With an Edge
Shedding Light on a Roma Artist, and the Fate of Her People
Kaija Saariaho’s Masterpiece ‘Innocence’ Heads to Met Opera
André De Shields and Junior LaBeija Team Up for ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’
‘Muppet Treasure Island’ at 30: Tim Curry on His Pirate Role
What Can Musical Variations Teach Us About Creativity?
Who’s Pulling the Strings on the World Stage? Ask the Puppets.
‘Star Search,’ Plus 7 Things to Watch on TV This Week
‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: ‘Get Up!’
Rosamund Pike in ‘Inter Alia’ and More Theater to Stream
‘The Simpsons’ Hits Another Milestone
Making the Dancing Lions for Lunar New York Celebrations
Milo Rau’s ‘Hate Radio,’ ‘Pelicot Trial’ and More Theater of the Real
MIO: Memories in Orbit Evolves From Infuriating to Ingenious
Noah Kahan, James Blake: 9 Songs We’re Talking About This Week
A Winter Surfer at Rockaway Beach Questions His Dedication
Tom Ellis on the 1960s Movie That Blew His Mind
How ‘Wonder Man’ Can Reshape the Marvel Franchise
Ebo Taylor, Musical Innovator of Highlife and Afrobeat, Dies at 90
Texas University Closes Exhibition With Anti-ICE Artwork
Vicki Abt, Who Said TV Talk Shows Coarsened Society, Dies at 83
In ‘Neighbors,’ the Golden Rule Is ‘Get Off My Lawn’
Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
‘Tyler Perry’s Joe’s College Road Trip’ Review: Grandpa Knows Best

Geography

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State of r/geography in 2026: Should anything change?
I’m sad more people don’t acknowledge Native American Historic sites in the United States
Is there a place in England that looks a bit like Southern California?
Should UK reclaim The Wash?
Are country borders that appear completely straight on maps actually straight in real life, or is that just how they look on small-scale maps?
Sumela Monastery - Trabzon/Turkiye
Would you like another continent to exist? If so, why?
What country has the most niche tourism?
It's often discussed how different New Hampshire & Vermont are, despite their superficial similarity. But what about Maine? Is it more similar to NH or VT, a combination of both, or entirely different from them?
[Demographics] What are some examples of major Western cities that have actually become whiter over the past 20 years, bucking the prevailing trend?
Underrated Wonders of the World?
I've worked in news my whole career seen local news outlets rapidly close their doors - particularly at the global level. So I built a free educational map based game designed to showcase micro-regional stories, and connect game players to those publications. Happy for thoughts and critique.
When will Seychelles be officially recognized as the first country on the African continent to be considered developed?
Volcanic tuff valley. Soganli Cappadocia Turkey [OC][3468×5472]
Kazakhstan has surpassed Greece in GDP (PPP) per capita
Aside from Rhode Island, USA, and Penang, Malaysia, what are other regions named after an island where the mainland section is actually the larger portion of the region?
Driftwood in red clay mud?
Why is there such a noticeable border between India and Pakistan in the Thar desert?
What is life like in Western Australia's Houtman Abrolhos archipelago?
Three Volcanoes, 13 Critical Emergencies, and Space Weather Gone Rogue
What is the largest city in Western Europe by Population? The Population within 15km + 30km of Trafalgar Square, London & Notre-Dame, Paris.
Is Laos China's Belarus
Its only called an isthmus if it's from the Isthmia region of Greece, otherwise it's just a sparkling narrow land bridge
Sweden rivalled Russia. Why isn't it a great power today?
Master thesis suggestions

The Public Domain Review

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Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300)
Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition)
Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485)
Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)
Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces
Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903)
Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)
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 Quietus

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Bristol New Music Reveals Lineup for 2026 Edition
Cabaret Voltaire Unveil Live Album, ‘But What Time Is It Really?’
Vecna Guy’s Track Record: Jamie Campbell Bower’s Favourite Albums
Charli xcx – Wuthering Heights
Visible Cloaks Detail First Album in Nine Years, ‘Paradessence’
London Festival RALLY Announces 2026 Lineup
Ana Roxanne Returns with First Solo Album in Six Years
Danny L Harle – Cerulean
“It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?” Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring at 40
New Weird Britain in Review for February by Noel Gardner
Tributes Paid to Ghold’s Oliver Martin
Casey Wasserman to Sell Talent Agency After Name Appears in Epstein Files
Guest Playlist: Hen Ogledd
Nightingale Floor – Five Stagings
Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
River Tweed Celebrated in new Installation
“Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed
Reissue of the Week: Sex Mad by Nomeansno
Jill Scott – To Whom This May Concern
Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti Collaborate on New Album, ‘Seismo’
Scritti Politti Unveil Reissue of Debut Album
Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive
Charles Tyler Ensemble – Voyage from Jericho
Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs
Kim Gordon Shares New Song, ‘DIRTY TECH’
The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
Mayhem – Liturgy of Death
Karshni – Buck Wild
Jonny Greenwood Launches Action for his Music to be Removed from ‘Melania’ Movie
Plex say Farewell to Corsica Studios
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for February Reviewed by Kez Whelan
Keep It Punk, Keep it Simple: Eva LeBlanc of Traidora Interviewed

Bandcamp Updates

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More Bands Left Behind By Streaming
Lucid Express, “Instant Comfort”
Class of ’86: Unsung Classics From The Year Thrash Broke
The Sound of One String Singing: A Guide to Arnold Dreyblatt
Cracking Open the Crypt of the Wizard
KMRU, “Kin”
The Improbable Journey of Dr Strangely Strange, Ireland’s Psych-Folk Pioneers
Worm, “Necropalace”
Essential Releases, February 13, 2026
25 Years In, Morr Music’s Electronic Empire Remains Unstoppable
Melbourne’s Cosmic Funk and Jazz Scene Punches Above Its Weight
Various Artists, “Mastery Quantum Sound”
The Tape Label Report, January 2026
Bandcamp Radio Adds Electronic Music and Indie to the Lineup
Where to Start With M., Black Metal’s Ascendant Dark Prince
Colin Self, “respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis (Expanded)”
The Best Latin Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
In the ’70s, Grupo Um Forged New Pathways in Brazilian Jazz
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Laughter In Summer”
Kenneth Kirschner’s Book of Musical Days
Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker, “DOUBLE-WIDE”
The Best Country Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, January 2026
Daphni, “Butterfly”
Essential Releases, February 6, 2026
The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Yamila, “Noor”
The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, January 2026
Tilaye Gebre, “Tilaye’s Saxophone With The Dahlak Band (የጥላዬ ሳክስ ከዳህላክ ባንድ ጋር)”
The Best Metal on Bandcamp, January 2026
Underground Medicine #1
The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, January 2026
Ulrika Spacek, “EXPO”
Bandcamp Friday Returns This Friday, February 6
The Best Punk on Bandcamp, January 2026
The Best Electronic Music on Bandcamp, January 2026

dusted

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rest symbol — s/t (AN1MA)
Midori Hirano — Otonoma (Thrill Jockey)
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
The Paranoid Style  —  Known Associates (Bar/None)
Final Dose — Endless Woe (Self-released)
Luke Temple & The Cascading Moms — Hungry Animal (Western Vinyl)
Photo by Domenico Gruosso, used with permission.
Eliza Garth — By the River (Centaur)
Shaking Hand — Shaking Hand (Melodic)
Robert Deeble — The Space Between Us (Mind Bomb Publishing)
Tyshawn Sorey — Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
YĪN YĪN — Yatta! (Glitterbeat)
Taker — Sons and Daughters (Self-released)
Department — The Audacity Files (Self-Release)
Scheen Jazzorkester & Ståle Storløkken — Double Reality Beyond Space And Time (Grong)
Cryptid Spawn — Black Phosphorous Dungeon (Iron Lung)
Cub — Come Out Come Out 30th Anniversary Editions (Mint)
أحمد [Ahmed] — سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (OTOROKU)
Tashi Dorji — low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)
Dust, Volume 12, Number 1

Pitchfork

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Bad Bunny to Star in New Residente-Directed Film Porto Rico
American Football Confirm LP4
U2 Release New EP Days of Ash
Yaya Bey Announces New Album Fidelity
A 24-Hour Blitz Through the Buenos Aires Underground
To Whom This May Concern
Weekend Rockstar
Guitars Infernal
Seeing Is Forgetting
Hayden Pedigo Signs to Sub Pop
“White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter”
Miley Cyrus Announces Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
Visible Cloaks Return With New Album Paradessence
Lana Del Rey Releases New Single “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter”
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Announce 2026 U.S. Arena Tour
15 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
Ana Roxanne Announces First Album in Six Years
Low’s Alan Sparhawk Announces Tour, Shares Two New Songs
Black Midi’s Cameron Picton Launches New Band, Sets Tour Dates
Thurston Moore and Bonner Kramer Announce They Came Like Swallows - Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza
Willow Releases New Album Petal Rock Black
Laughter in Summer
And So It Is
Necropalace
Ultra Villain
Jeff Tweedy Covers Cameron Winter’s “Love Takes Miles”
Labi Siffre Announces First Album in 28 Years, Shares New Song
J. Cole Announces Huge 2026 World Tour
Manchester Orchestra Drummer Tim Very Dies at 42
Casey Wasserman to Sell Agency Amid Epstein Files Backlash

Cool Tools

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What’s in my NOW? — Marcus Baw
Batmanga Vol. 1 / Vader
Fertilizer
Best Case Scenarios / Unloop / Craft Supply Bin
Purification Bottles/Cheapest Flights From Each State/Next Eclipse
What’s in my NOW? — Benoit
Things Organized Neatly / Sharks
Moving
Single sheet calendar / Secret Mall Apartment / Data poems
Book Freak #196: The Art of Spending Money

McMansion Hell

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for patreon i wrote about getting stranded in tomorrowland as an 8th grader, michael sorkin’s…
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

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?
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