Monitablanca
@monitablanca.bsky.social
Educator, Global Citizen, Arts Advocate
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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Newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare’s patron suggests he is the ‘fair youth’ of the sonnets
Newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare’s patron suggests he is the ‘fair youth’ of the sonnets
Earl of Southampton may have given the writer the miniature by Nicholas Hilliard, which has a defaced heart on its reverse
The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizabethan England’s greatest artists would be significant enough. But a new work by Nicholas Hilliard that has come to light is all the more exciting because it has a possible link to William Shakespeare and a 400-year-old enigma of a defaced red heart on its reverse, suggesting a love scorned.
Hilliard was Queen Elizabeth I’s official limner, or miniature painter. His exquisite portraits, small enough to fit in the palm of one’s hand, are among the most revered masterpieces of 16th-century British and European art. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare’s patron suggests he is the ‘fair youth’ of the sonnets
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It's Maria Montessori's birthday so do whatever you want, there are no gods, no kings, no rules, you are imprisoned only by your lack of imagination.
August 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It's Maria Montessori's birthday so do whatever you want, there are no gods, no kings, no rules, you are imprisoned only by your lack of imagination.
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Could an ancient cow’s tooth unlock the origins of Stonehenge?
Could an ancient cow’s tooth unlock the origins of Stonehenge?
Isotopes shows animal began life in Wales, adding weight to theory cattle used in hauling stones across country
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Could an ancient cow’s tooth unlock the origins of Stonehenge?
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Always nice to see a time traveller settle in :)
Love this, 19 year old history addict reviving a hat industry.
Just so you chaps all know, every man needs a boater!
He's got a gofundme, old machines aren't cheap, check it out.
www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
Love this, 19 year old history addict reviving a hat industry.
Just so you chaps all know, every man needs a boater!
He's got a gofundme, old machines aren't cheap, check it out.
www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
Meet the Luton teenager working to revive town's hat-making industry
A young man from Luton is working to restore hat-making skills in Luton after starting his own creative journey.
www.lutontoday.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Always nice to see a time traveller settle in :)
Love this, 19 year old history addict reviving a hat industry.
Just so you chaps all know, every man needs a boater!
He's got a gofundme, old machines aren't cheap, check it out.
www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
Love this, 19 year old history addict reviving a hat industry.
Just so you chaps all know, every man needs a boater!
He's got a gofundme, old machines aren't cheap, check it out.
www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
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"AI is soul stripping."
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August 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"AI is soul stripping."
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sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
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Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!
Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org
Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org
July 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!
Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org
Take action to support libraries at action.everylibrary.org
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A mural depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame appeared on a building in Northern France.
hyperallergic.com/1026078/judi...
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Massive Mural of Ashamed Statue of Liberty Emerges in France
Dutch street artist Judith de Leeuw said she created the piece in response to the United States’s cruel immigration policies.
hyperallergic.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A mural depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face in shame appeared on a building in Northern France.
hyperallergic.com/1026078/judi...
hyperallergic.com/1026078/judi...
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Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!
June 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!
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If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
A nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
A nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Billy Bragg - The Buck Doesn't Stop Here No More [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If history teaches us one thing
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
A nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
Never trust a man who would be king
Who seeks all power for himself
To burnish his prestige and wealth
A nation born in revolution
Should know this offers no solution
For there can be no liberty
Where one man rules with impunity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfeY...
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The trappings of early 1990s black queer culture have gone mainstream. A new anthology of THING magazine memorializes the scene it came from, playing back the coded, idiosyncratic, and frank voices that characterized an era of analog urgency.
Miss Thing | Sasha Frere-Jones
THING told an entire generation of young black queer people that they were beautiful and deserved a magazine.
thebaffler.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The trappings of early 1990s black queer culture have gone mainstream. A new anthology of THING magazine memorializes the scene it came from, playing back the coded, idiosyncratic, and frank voices that characterized an era of analog urgency.
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Research and data have proven that reading improves quality of life, increases empathy, increases test scores, leads to more successful and productive lives, makes people more creative, and helps people make better decisions about the world around them.
www.millersbookreview.com/p/quiet-coll...
www.millersbookreview.com/p/quiet-coll...
The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
Fiction Is Fading, Kids Are Skipping, Parents Are Scrolling. What to Do?
www.millersbookreview.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Research and data have proven that reading improves quality of life, increases empathy, increases test scores, leads to more successful and productive lives, makes people more creative, and helps people make better decisions about the world around them.
www.millersbookreview.com/p/quiet-coll...
www.millersbookreview.com/p/quiet-coll...
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While Trump fundraises on Les Misérables for $2M a ticket at the Kennedy Center, arts grants are being canceled across America. This isn’t just defunding culture, it’s cutting off the lifelines of community, creativity & belonging. Support your local arts. They need us now more than ever.
Art for the People, Grift for the Powerful
While Trump fundraises on Les Misérables, he’s dismantling the NEA.
www.livingitwitholiviatroye.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
While Trump fundraises on Les Misérables for $2M a ticket at the Kennedy Center, arts grants are being canceled across America. This isn’t just defunding culture, it’s cutting off the lifelines of community, creativity & belonging. Support your local arts. They need us now more than ever.
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
RFK Jr. is wrong about autism
His lies endanger neurodivergent people — and everyone else.
www.publicnotice.co
April 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Kennedy’s disgust with and devaluation of autistic people fits neatly into a eugenic logic that views health as virtue, and sees illness, or difference, as a kind of moral lapse which should be subject to punishment or censure."
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A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.
Count the Dead by the Millions
From HIV and tuberculosis infections to millions of dead children, the deadly impact of Rubio, Musk and Trump’s agenda has been quantified.
www.rollingstone.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.
"We’re not waiting for a post-human entertainment future—we’re already in it."
We’ve learned over the past eight years not so much that conservative content is more appealing, but that it is still trying to make an appeal.
How the Radical Right Captured the Culture
Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.
newrepublic.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"We’re not waiting for a post-human entertainment future—we’re already in it."
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This article makes us reassess our understanding of politics and democracy in the modern era
#TruthToPower @westenglandbylines.co.uk
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US & UK politics: it’s time for a new lens – part one
Our traditional way of viewing politics no longer reflects reality. To safeguard our democracy we need to update our thinking
westenglandbylines.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This article makes us reassess our understanding of politics and democracy in the modern era
#TruthToPower @westenglandbylines.co.uk
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