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Portland Art Museum: Spanish Colonial Art (museum exhibition)
The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon held an exhibition, Highest Heaven: Andean Art from the Elvin Duerst Bequest , featuring art from the Spanish viceregal or colonial period from 1521 ...
Ojibwa 12/03/2025 2
Device Hoarding, AI, Oligarchs, Affordability, And The End of the American Economy
Did you know that your refusal to purchase new devices is destroying the economy? It’s true, at least according to CNBC, the people who sell devices, and various economists. �The problem, you see,
angryea 12/03/2025 102
Top Comments: Busy December Edition
This December is shaping up to be a really busy one for me. Tonight and next Tuesday, I am attending two hockey games. Weeknight games are rare for me now that my sister switched to a school in the ...
cohenzee 12/02/2025 8
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Wonderful Animals
strawbale 12/02/2025 24
Nonfiction Views: Franklin the Turtle vs Hegseth, plus the week's notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. A little late posting this evening. This afternoon we had to say goodbye to out sweet kitty Charlie Brown. He was a wonderful companion, and we will miss him. There have been dozens of musicians who have pushed back and even...
DebtorsPrison 12/02/2025 12
Contemporary Fiction Views: A newly translated Olga Tokarczuk work to savor
This week's big fiction release is the latest translated into English from Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. House of Day, House of Night is a collection of loosely connected portraits of people ...
bookgirl 12/02/2025 10
Black Kos: Remembering and honoring John Brown. A true ally.
“Remembering and honoring John Brown” Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver Velez While scrolling through my Bluesky feed yesterday I saw this post:
Black Kos 12/02/2025 176
Dickens and the Common Good
Dickens and the Common Good BAH. HUMBUG. ‘But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,’ faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.” Missed and misused opportunities to work kindly to help those with less:that was the message the...
otter54 12/02/2025 3
Poetry of Dorothy Parker.
Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page.
A Pagan in Arizona 12/02/2025 20
PWB Toosdai Critters: Cult of Chew n'On
A gentle reminder of how we do things:   🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your fur kids!  If you have ...
samanthab 12/02/2025 88
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric...
justiceputnam 12/02/2025 1
TN 7th Congressional District: GOP Meltdown in the Special Election? (Updated with Results Links)
UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...
JekyllnHyde 12/02/2025 161
California Canvass Wrapup: Resisting Trump's hostile takeover of our Democracy
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � circumvent� president felon’s hostile takeover of our Democracy.� It’s ...
snowbored 12/02/2025 2
Truth about killing survivors of alleged drug boat could be obtained with answers to two questions
Since The Washington Post’s Nov. 28 report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second missile strike to kill survivors of an alleged drug-smuggling boat coming out of Venezuela, there’s been plenty of coverage throughout the legacy media and...
Meteor Blades 12/02/2025 199
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 8am PT / 11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Special; Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Trump...
justiceputnam 12/02/2025 1
New Day Cafe: Things to Ponder
Good morning Newdists and Quiet Friends! Grab a cuppa and join us for a bit, eh?
The Marti 12/02/2025 147
Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations
When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ...
Ojibwa 12/02/2025 4
Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today!
Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...
Brainwrap 12/02/2025 9
Imitative AI Limits, Human And Mathematical
One of the reasons that imitative AI like ChatGPT is almost certainly a bubble is that running these systems simply cost too much money compared to the amount of value that they generate. �Even ...
angryea 12/02/2025 7
Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming
Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ...
Mokurai 12/02/2025 23
Top Comments: Seasonal 2025 Part I (Marking Time Til The Holiday) Edition
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! OK, maybe not THE most, but it IS time for my annual seasonally-themed diaries. It’s been a tradition �since 2010, with topics ranging from music to ...
brillig 12/01/2025 10
PWB Peeps Open Thread: Woozle Fun
dig for buried ...
strawbale 12/01/2025 18
Mutual Aid or as I say Community
Mutual Aid groups have been growing since the Pandemic and the #Snap shut down really showed what they can do. So much that AP news is covering them. When formal systems stop working, neighbors turn to each other in what many call ‘mutual aid’ “One of...
Smurf 12/01/2025 4
Street Prophets Open Thread
This is an Open Thread / Coffee Hour and all topics of conversation are welcome. Today is a simple open thread. I’m away from my computer all day, so I could use some help in posting the community ...
linkage 12/01/2025 3
Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit)
Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
PWB Peeps: Moonday Wiff Da Furbutts
Happy Moonday, Peeps!!� Hope everyone had a safe and healthy Fangsgibbing!� After a short week, this one might seem a bit longer, but….nahhhh.�� We can haz funz!� All ob uz! ...
The Marti 12/01/2025 84
At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions
I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on...
Frank Vyan Walton 12/01/2025 119
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays Podcast (Audio)
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after...
justiceputnam 12/01/2025 1
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy, River City Hash Mondays 8am PT/11am ET
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy � is � Now Open! � 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our � especially special Daily Special; � River City Hash Mondays! ...
justiceputnam 12/01/2025 1
Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit)
The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ...
Ojibwa 12/01/2025 2
12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS...
enhydra lutris 12/01/2025 6
My People Used To Be Not White
The headline is true — my mom’s people used to be considered less than fully white. �For those who know me, this is an amusing fact. �I am extremely white. �Hockey is my favorite sport. �I think ...
angryea 12/01/2025 105
Vegan Christmas Feasts
The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ...
Mokurai 12/01/2025 7
Morning Open Thread: There Will Be Dancing At My Funeral
________________________________________________________ “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life...
officebss 12/01/2025 67
The 7 Deadly Sins of Facebook: How a Social Network De-evolved Into a Manipulation Machine
When I first heard about face book i joined because many of my friends had and it was a way to see what they were all up to. Then it became a place to share notices about my upcoming performances in the Singapore Slingers — A 1920s fox trot orchestra...
iarnstein 12/01/2025 53
Overnight News Digest November 30, 2025
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, , annetteboardman, Besame,and jck,. Alumni editors ...
side pocket 11/30/2025 23
Top Comments: The Universe Is NOT a Computer Simulation
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition,...
gizmo59 11/30/2025 58
PWB Peeps Open Thread: It's The Little Things That Count
strawbale 11/30/2025 57
Kitchen table Kibitzing November 30, 2025
Sleep Maybe it’s my age, but I�hear complaints about sleep problems from most of the people with whom I speak. It’s recommended that adults get 7-8 hours of sleep per day. Cats should get ...
side pocket 11/30/2025 90
📚LGBTQIA+ Literature: The Intermediaries, by Brandy Schillace (Pt. 1)🏳️‍🌈​;
We like our stories to have beginnings, middles, ends. History gives us none of these. It provides instead repetition, variations on a theme, and something we might�call entanglement. --Brandy ...
Clio2 11/30/2025 11
GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great
In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ...
kos 11/30/2025 232
AntiCapitalist MeetUp - The A.I. Bubble: peak A.I. is not like 'peak oil' or peak tulip
The Google A.I. Gemini sucked up to me as I applied it to this page. That's an insightful connection, and the web page you are viewing directly addresses both Karl Marx's concept of General ...
annieli 11/30/2025 15
Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour: The Mind of an Artist
Welcome to Street Prophets Sunday Coffee Hour.� This is an open thread so grab something to drink and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I have always said the most important person ...
michelewln 11/30/2025 3
Sekrit Armee Sundai — Pozt Hawlidai Napz
A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul. Please do share pics of your ...
FosterMomInCA 11/30/2025 85
Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary)
Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 2
Marine Toys For Tots. It's That Time. Need A Toy? Get A Toy. Or, Give A Toy.
💚The Hero's Journey - Happy Birthday Marines Nov 10th💚 Marine Toys For Tots Need Toys? Get Toys Applying For Toys - About Marine Toys For Tots Find Your Local Marine Toys for Tots Chapter To request a toy; submit your application with...
rebel ga 11/30/2025 3
Museums 501: Sewing machines (photo diary)
Humans— Homo sapiens —first evolved in Africa and were biologically adapted to life in a warm climate. When humans left Africa and began their migrations north into Europe and Asia, they had to ...
Ojibwa 11/30/2025 11
Sunday Good Read for November 30th, 2025
I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. �Or, for those who do not celebrate, a nice Thursday. A Lost Planet Created the Moon. Now, We Know Where It Came From. : Science will ID the dead planet ...
angryea 11/30/2025 2