Two little bits of media consumption for you all. The Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch talking to Culture File
www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
And @nytimes.com gift piece about Trump’s attack on the museums:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
Don't mess with archivists. We keep receipts.
"The Danish National Archives holds a ground-breaking document (...) With a single stroke of a pen, the USA accepted that the whole of Greenland was Danish territory".
jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...
Black and white photo of a young Hayao Miyazaki organizing as chief secretary of Toei's labor union in 1964. he has a bullhorn over his shoulder and there are a number of people in the background.
Reminder that when you post that Studio Ghibli AI slop that former union organizer Hayao Miyazaki thinks it is "an insult to life itself."
Can’t wait to hear this audio creation on Patrick Kanvangh’s long walk to Dublin, from a massive team of great folks including Pat Collins, Kevin Brew, Chris Watson, Irene Buckley, Mikel Murfi and many more? Don’t have to - it’s online now!
www.rte.ie/radio/dramao...
Vivian Wilson is Teen Vogue’s special issue cover star. The 20-year-old estranged daughter of Elon Musk discusses her modeling and TV aspirations, unusual extended family, and what she describes as the “cartoonishly evil” Trump admin. Read the full interview here: www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷♀️
So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it.
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We're looking for people who've had to transliterate their names from another alphabet into the Latin one -- or who've even changed their name to one easier for English speakers to pronounce -- upon moving to Dublin. Want to talk, for an article, about the change: how you decided, how it feels?
