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Highland Threads -- The Exhibition: "14 key pieces from museums from all over the Highlands of Scotland, brought to you online via film and photography with supporting stories and archive images from each museum." Trailer at Vimeo. Nicola Henderson (Museums and Heritage Highland, 2/12/2021), "Introducing ... Highland Threads": "it was agreed that plans for an online exhibition focusing on a costume from each museum's collection would be developed and funding sought to support the work." BBC News (4/1/2021), "Historical clothing from 14 museums displayed online." #HighlandThreads. Upcoming events. [more inside]
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A raise or a four-day week; biggest German union seals new deal - "Germany's largest trade union, IG Metall, agreed a 2.3% wage increase, to be paid either in full or as part of a switch to a four-day week, in a key industrial region, setting the benchmark for 3.9 million metal and engineering workers nationwide."[1] [more inside]
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How to Pronounce Lilac [more inside]
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Continuing tonight's theme of retro at the movies....The King of the Geezer Teasers: Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement (Joshua Hunt, Vulture). Starring: Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and Steven Seagal's advisory committee. [more inside]
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The interior design of movie theaters in the nineties could be chalked up to the general aesthetic that tends to be slapped on that decade, but it turns out that there was a bit more thought put into it than that. [more inside]
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Transgender & Non-Binary Visibility In Japanese Media and EVEN MORE Transgender and Non-Binary Characters in Japanese Media: Andrea Ritsu looks at trans and non-binary characters in anime, manga and video games. BONUS: more in depth looks at the misgendering of Kino from Kino's Journey and why trans zombie girl Lily from Sombie Land Saga was not a Crunchyroll invention.
posted by MartinWisse at 2:35 PM PST - 1 comments

Massive security breach reported at US universities [more inside]
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The quiet horrors of Cally Gingrich by Ashley Feinberg [CW: Gringriches]
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A poll conducted during the second lockdown found that 52 percent of the population considered bookshops essential businesses. In France, the price of a baguette is protected by French law, and so is the price of a book. This says a lot about the place of reading in French life. In 1981, the loi Lang, named for then-president François Mitterand’s flamboyant minister of culture, Jack Lang, mandated that all booksellers, whether chains or independent (the law now also applies to online retailers), charge the same price as their competitors. The maximum discount allowed for books is 5 percent. The law not only protects independent bookshops from larger chain outlets, it ensures cultural diversity, guaranteeing that a wide range of titles can be published, including books that have cultural value but won’t become bestsellers.
posted by folklore724 at 1:54 PM PST - 11 comments

Type Your Jazz Here.... edit until you're happy with it, and send it to someone who might like it.
posted by storybored at 12:51 PM PST - 19 comments

The sixtyforgan by Linus Åkesson combines a Commodore 64 and a spring reverb to make the 8 bit computer sound like a church organ. [more inside]
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In honor of this first day of April, Frantone announces a new product (YouTube).
posted by biogeo at 11:14 AM PST - 7 comments

WE RECEIVED WORD FROM OUR ALLIES THAT THE FEDERATED POLEIS OF AMERIKA PRODUCED A FILM ABOUT OUR BATTLE AT THERMOPYLAI! I HAVE WATCHED THIS FILM CALLED "300" AND IT IS NOTHING BUT RECKLESS SLANDER OF OUR LAWS, OF OUR CITIZENS, AND OF MYSELF! AND ALSO WHERE ARE ALL THE COLOURS!?

This April Fools Day the venerable r/askhistorians becomes r/HistoriansAskTheMovies. [more inside]
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Audiophiles spend countless hours deciding on the right loudspeaker, amps, stands, cables, and layout for their listening room. But what about plants? Audio equipment critic John Darko walks his viewers through which houseplants are best for listening room placement, and how different plants can affect the listening experience.
posted by thecjm at 8:53 AM PST - 29 comments

Gastrointestinal adventures in food poisoning aside, Cho is doing well. She is sober, after more than a decade addicted to opiates and alcohol. ... Cho loved the aesthetics of opium smoking. “It’s a terrible drug, it is a really big part of the difficulties that Koreans and Chinese people have had, it’s a big black mark on our history,” Cho says, pausing for effect, a comedian to her bones. “But the stuff is really cool!” Content warning: The Guardian's profile of the amazing comic Margaret Cho includes references to suicide, sexual abuse, addiction, and hate crimes against Asian Americans.
posted by Bella Donna at 8:33 AM PST - 13 comments

Here's George Will's Opening Day quiz.
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