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The Prom Went On in Kyiv, but Masha’s Date Danced Alone

"Masha Polska, 15, was an avid dancer who had been dreaming of a star turn in the group waltz. That was not to be."

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Atmospheric Scenes and Layered Interpretations Top the 2026 Hasselblad Masters Contest

Atmospheric Scenes and Layered Interpretations Top the 2026 Hasselblad Masters ContestThis year, photographers in 160 countries submitted more than 108,000 images.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Atmospheric Scenes and Layered Interpretations Top the 2026 Hasselblad Masters Contest appeared first on Colossal.

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App Icon Conventions From the Original Macintosh

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Dr. Drang, in a post replete with examples of icons of popular apps from the original Macintosh, in their one-bit glory: You can see that Apple liked the idea of app icons being a tilted rectangle with some image inside the rectangle to indicate what the app did. The han...

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[Sponsor] WorkOS Pipes: More Context Makes for Smarter Products

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Users expect apps and agents to reach the tools they already work in. Every integration that gets you there is a different OAuth flow, a different token lifecycle, weeks of infrastructure before you write a line of product code.

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Metric - Victim of Luck

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Metric is a band from Canada that was formed in 1998. They’ve won four Juno Awards, including Group of the Year. Rolling Stone included them in their list of the 50 Greatest Canadian Artists of All Time. In April 2026, Metric released their 10th album, Romanticize the Dive. And for this episode, I spoke to Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw about how they made the opening song on that album, “Victim of Luck.”

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Text • Jason Kottke

City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment...

City’s Beautification Initiative Hamstrung By Commitment To Local Artists. “I’m pretty sure when the mayor promised residents a revitalized arts district, he didn’t mean a couple of wonky fish sculptures haphazardly nailed to a tree…” Bwhahaha.

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The True Story of Laura Ingalls Is Wilder than Little House on the Prairie

"Netflix’s new adaptation of the beloved book series will probably leave out some of the most fascinating details from the author’s life—from Pa Ingalls’s ineptitude to the serial killers that stalked Kansas during her childhood."

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The Back Meets the Nose

"It felt like a stabbing. It felt like a burning. It felt like a dull ache, then a sharp one, then it radiated all the way down."

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Elisa Gabbert

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The author of Any Person Is the Only Self and recent Guggenheim fellow talks about the worst time of day, the value of wasting an hour, and chilaquiles.

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Beyond the Game: Just Outside Miami, Robert Is Here

We head south of Miami to hear the story of a family that took a gamble on a humble roadside stand that blossomed into a fruit emporium and community staple. 

This episode is part of our ongoing coverage of the soccer world championship. In each episode, we take you beyond the stadium, and to a nearby wonder that’s off the beaten track.


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The Healing Power of Watching the Boys of ‘Jackass’ Do Incredibly Stupid Things

"Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry pranksters got me through one of the worst weeks of my life."

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Music Used To Be THIS Good...What Happened?

In this video I discuss the 2nd movement of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15 from 1858. This is insanely beautiful and you need to hear it!

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Eddie Kramer on Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” #jimmypage #ledzeppelin #shorts

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Medieval Wound Man

From The Public Domain Review, The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man, a diagram found in many medical texts beginning in the early 1400s. Living on today in libraries from Copenhagen to Munich, the strange figure of the Wound Man gives modern viewers a glimpse of the w...

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Collin van der Sluijs’ ‘Wanderland’ Imagines a Vast Ecosystem Encompass the Momentous and Mundane

Collin van der Sluijs’ ‘Wanderland’ Imagines a Vast Ecosystem Encompass the Momentous and MundaneThe Dutch artist reflects on both the momentous and mundane, particularly loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of nature.

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If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi...

If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator. “Marion Ravenwood said he trapped her in a room and physically assaulted her. But I decided to keep supporting Toht anyway.”

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Interviews with some of the dwindling number of...

Interviews with some of the dwindling number of survivors of World War II Japanese American incarceration camps, including George Takei.

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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide), this version introduces three major features...

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World Cup Wallpapers for Your Phone

Marcos Paulo has been making all sorts of phone-sized wallpapers for the World Cup and posting them to Threads. You have to poke around to find them in his account, but here are a few direct links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Tags: design · fashion · iPhone · soccer · sports · World Cup 2026

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How to talk about “AI” without adding to the...

How to talk about “AI” without adding to the anthropomorphization. Suggestions: “artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation” & “AI agent → probabilistic, unverified software manipulator”. Seems like the horse is out of the barn on this though…