Lee Snelgrove
@leesnelgrove.bsky.social
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Arts administrator, Columbia flag guy, lover of public spaces
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leesnelgrove.bsky.social
One of my favorite parts of author visits is the Richland Library "Off Book" recording. Here's the most recent one with @silviamg.bsky.social. We still want to know what @sgj.bsky.social thinks about his cameo in The Bewitching! youtu.be/EtL31zGFZhw?...
OFF BOOK: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
YouTube video by Richland Library
youtu.be
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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burritojustice.bsky.social
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
leesnelgrove.bsky.social
What is happening? This is all posted by @thestate.com in the last five days.
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helldude.bsky.social
this is truly an era of blather and balderdash. we are up to our eyeballs in claptrap and i for one have had just about my fill
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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jamellebouie.net
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
mclem.org
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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leesnelgrove.bsky.social
“'Columbia has a lot of talented artists,..performers, musicians...But when somebody rolls into town from another place, they will see public art, and they’ll say, ‘This is a creative place,’ and they’ll know that there are going to be lots of artists of all types in that place.'"
via @thestate.com
‘Victims of changes’: Why Columbia public art gets taken down, painted over
“Busted Plug” was found in a field. Hunter-Gatherer and its mural were knocked down. How do these losses impact Columbia’s push to build identity with public art?
www.thestate.com
leesnelgrove.bsky.social
That’s what most people say to me.
leesnelgrove.bsky.social
I read it as multiple Spaghett are Spaghetti.
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katewagner.wehwalt.net
dawg how has it gotten WORSE
davidmackau.bsky.social
no but this is crazy
before and after of the Oval Office covered in tacky gold
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kottke.org
But do we really know for sure how many bs there are in blueberry?
leesnelgrove.bsky.social
I really enjoy the times I get to sit and ask a list of oddball questions to esteemed visitors to Richland Library for the Off Book series. Most recently, Elizabeth Rusch visited and talked about falling into ticks and her favorite USWNT players - youtu.be/_FKW55sLZuA?...
OFF BOOK: Elizabeth Rusch
YouTube video by Richland Library
youtu.be
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kottke.org
Mailing a regular letter a distance of 40 miles in VT now takes 10-13 days (routed through CT for "efficiency") if you're wondering how basic services are doing under this regime. Another great American institution strangled by conservatives.
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kottke.org
Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert! Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. This is probably the only time you’ll run across the phrase “glockenspiel-forward” this week. [kottke.org]
Bloc Party’s Tiny Desk Concert
Twenty years! It’s been twenty years since Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm was released. To celebrate, the band stopped by the NPR office’s for a Tiny Desk Concert. To celebrate, this Tiny Desk set begins with t
kottke.org
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nienkevenema.bsky.social
“What’s actually happening is a reinforcing of cultural hegemony.” Averageness is efficient. “You have economies of scale if everything is the same.”

A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
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kottke.org
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of South Carolina’s Senate seats. Based on the commercial launching her campaign, I kinda want to move to SC just so I can vote for her. [youtube.com]
Annie Andrews Launch Video: “Unafraid”
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