The idea of historic preservation sounds nice, but what does it look like in practice?

nyra.nyc/articles/law...

The Centuries-Long Struggle to Make English Words Behave: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b...

#LiteratureSky

‘The federal ESA was enacted in 1973. A recent study estimated that 291 species would have disappeared were it not for ESA protections, and 99 per cent of species listed on it have survived.’

@jayowens.bsky.social on infrastructure v. nature, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

"Creature Comforts" by Nick Park (creator of Wallace & Gromit) at www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

The short-film matched animated zoo animals with recordings of people living in small houses, care facilities, and homesick immigrants talking about their living conditions.

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@nyreviewofarch.bsky.social @ntok.bsky.social I need to get into contact with someone at NYRA asap, I've already written an e-mail to office@nyra. Time-critical subject 😐

Good quick read:

“Here I Gather All the Friends” - Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study - publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...

‘It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it didn’t feel like that. Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica were far away. The worry, however, was that the Altadena fire would spread.’

Colm Tóibín writes from LA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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