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Just finished "Song of A Blackbird" by Maria van Lieshout. It's an excellent and extremely timely historical fiction graphic novel about rediscovering a family connection that was severed by war, and the Dutch Resistance figures under Nazi occupation who saved many lives, in some cases at the cost of their own.
Despite being fiction, it's very closely grounded in historical facts, and the inclusion of photographs within the illustrations is really cool.
Now is an interesting time to be thinking about the fates of Nazis, collaborators, their victims, and the resistance, as well as how we remember them all. I especially liked the section at the end about the real historical figures and their fates. So "fascinating" that none of the Nazis were executed or died in prison (mostly they did serve long terms before their release), even those who oversaw mass killings and deportations to concentration camps. I'm a prison abolitionist and not a fan of state capital punishment, so on *some* level this seems like an outcome I should be happy about, but I somehow doubt that the state was this lenient for all prisoners during this time period...
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Another award for the Divinity School's Living Village! BuildGreenCT has announced winners of the 2026 Green Building Impact Awards, recognizing excellence in sustainable design and construction across Connecticut and beyond. The Award of Excellence goes to the Living Village, the regenerative residence hall we opened last fall. 🎉

Ausstellungseröffnung in der #VillaMerkel in #Esslingen u.a. mit Werken von
Ivana de Vivanco, Wie klingt das Weinen einer Schlange?
#sehenswert

An excellent, in-depth blog post about the challenges of making home energy management work for consumers.
https://es.catapult.org.uk/insight/making-home-energy-management-work-for-consumers/

Making home energy management work for consumers
Claire Rowland, Senior Manager for Living Lab at Energy Systems Catapult, lists the technical and consumer experience problems we need to solve to propel low-carbon technologies from the homes of the hobbyist into the mainstream

This week's #ThursDeath is debut LP 'Chasm of Immurement' by Warsaw''s CLAIRVOYANCE. Not sure how I missed this last year, as I loved their EP. This is some KILLER cavernous, churning, CRUSHING death doom with great dynamics and excellent faster/mid-tempo spots too.

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #seattle. big debut in the 1st set, & 2nd set jam pairing was a major @… fave. spring ’76, show #3. pat lee audience tape:

Hours after ICE agent Charles Exum shot a Chicago woman five times, Greg Bovino offered to extend the agent's scheduled retirement as a reward for his "excellent service in Chicago." Incredible.
#ICE #CBP #Bovino

Jason Meisner (@jmetr22b.bsky.social)
///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting Background: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/protective-order-lift-marimar-martinez/

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CC/new
[1/1]:
- Optimal b-Colourings and Fall Colourings in $H$-Free Graphs
Jungho Ahn, Tala Eagling-Vose, Felicia Lucke, David Manlove, Fabricio Mendoza, Dani\"el Paulusma