I posted about the mesmeric music of Matthew Wilcox, which is made from videos of motion. The traffic videos are especially hypnotic.

So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project

lol she got his ass and he knows it

ain‘t no one who can go the whole nine sartorial yards like a French teen well, they use the metric system, but you catch my drift

I didn’t know they had any good movies on Rakuten TV, honestly thought it wasn’t allowed. This changes everything (I will now miss out on many more films than I missed out on before).

"In a world where trans people already face exclusion on so many levels, such acts of solidarity and allyship are a beautiful reminder that division and exclusion are always a choice we can do our best to reject." metro.co.uk/2025/11/07/c...

There's a woman on TikTok doing a social experiment. She's calling churches and telling them I'm a single mother in poverty, I ran out of formula and my baby hasn't eaten in 24 hrs, can you purchase me a container of formula (about $32 on the cheap end.) She records their answers and posts them.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Censorship Machine from Every. Classic. Sci-fi. Dystopia.

Kirjat ovat tärkeitä monelle ympäri maan. Alan kotisohvalle käpertyneet ovat nyt kirjoittaneet aiheesta paljon. Kenties mennään kohti kirjarovioita, mutta silloin nousee kyllä pihtiputaan mummot ja keravan keräilijät, pohjanmaan äänekkäät opet ja stadin skidit, ja ne sanoo EI. Hirmuisella äänellä.

GUYS! The orangutans at the LA zoo had a baby! there are pictures and he is sooooo cuuuuuuuuuuute www.instagram.com/p/DQupyQ8F6Y...

What's the last book, game or album that made you go "what the hell is that?!?" in a good way?

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

ég var spurður af nemanda í íslensku hvort að það væri eitthvað annað orð á íslensku yfir yfirbyggða jeppa en „fjallabíll“, og mér datt ekkert í hug, en finnst eins og ég sé að gleyma einhverju munið þið eftir einhverju orði?

there's a story by Baudelaire about a decently virtuous guy who finds infinite joy in a moment of shithousery conversely, Juan Carlos is, by all accounts, a monumental shithead who did the right thing just once in his life, yet will likely go down in history as a guy who stopped a fascist coup

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

I find it fascinating that even though the Beastie Boys were incredibly influential on a global level (at least half the countries in the world have their own Beastie Boys-like group) they had a remarkably limited influence on contemporary American musical culture

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Thanks for having me, @anabnos.com 🫡 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I made a post on MetaFilter about a piece of internet history, the first case of “Munchausen by internet”, in which MetaFilter played a significant role.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Dóttir mín sem er 15 vetra hætti á samfélagsmiðlum og vantaði þægilegt lestrarefni til að grípa í. Náttúrulega keyptum við þá bunka af Æskunni frá 7. áratugnum. Í flestum blöðum er “spurt og svarað” dálkur og nú fáið þið að heyra úrval af þeim bestu. 🧵

sky above Helsinki says trans rights

Topaz AI Generative Upscale in the new Adobe Photoshop is great! That's Bill Murray bottom right, btw.

Apparently this evening I’m fully on my bullshit … I made a MetaFilter post about a literary scholar who focuses on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

I regret to inform you that I’m back on my bullshit

lestur á íslendingasögum hjálpar til að skilja heiminn

venjulega, þegar fyrirtæki eða félagasamtök selja höfuðstöðvar sínar, er það til merkis um fjárhagsvanda

Protest tomorrow at Fenway Health at noon over abandoning trans youth. If you're in Boston, come out and support.

someone needs to write a poem about that feeling of dawning realization that one of your favorite youtubers is drifting towards the far right

As a former colony of a kingdom, Iceland has vestigial rules around royalty, for instance monarchs and heirs are called by Icelandic names, e.g. William and Catherine are Vilhjálmur and Katrín. Now, Icelandic state radio has declared that Andrew is no longer Andrés, illustrated with a based graphic.

Apuraha ei ole yhtään vähäarvoisempi kuin myynnistä saadut tulot, vaan tapa edistää tämän päivän suomalaisuutta. Taiteen rahoitus on Suomen keino ostaa itselleen sielu. Pitkän linjan tekijä Ville-Juhani Sutinen antaa palaa tänään Hesarissa. Taiteilijaa ei motivoi raha, vaan arvokas työ itsessään.

I've made a couple of posts to MetaFilter in the last few days. First, Instant Classics, a weekly podcast about the Ancient Greeks and Romans, hosted by classicists Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins.

*I get it that Italians totally dig H. P. Lovecraft, but H.P. Lovecraft repackaged to entertain little Italian kids, I don't even know what to say

Take me back

RIP to David Bellos whose book Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything massively contributed to me wanting to become a literary translator. When I was writing my own book about translation, I kept in mind how funny and accessible his book was.

Prisons are the biggest censors in the US: prisonbannedbooksweek.org#about

Per today's @shelf-awareness.com, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction takes the prize for best prizes: The winner gets "a jeroboam, a case of Bollinger Special Cuvée, the complete set of the Everyman's Library P.G. Wodehouse collection, and a pig named after the winning book."

Use your words "Ms Loginova, a music student who performs as Naoko with her band Stoptime, faced the charges after her arrest on 15 October. This followed a viral performance on Russian social media of the popular anti-Kremlin song "Swan Lake Cooperative" by exiled Russian rapper Noize MC."

Iceland is living up to its name today

Við fengum þetta fréttaskot frá Snorrabraut frá ungri og upprennandi fréttakonu. „Það er allt í klessu“. Eruð þið með fréttaskot sem þið viljið senda okkur? 👉 Sendið á [email protected]

þessir gaurar sem festust og eru svo bara að hjálpa öðrum ökumönnum eru eitthvað svo eðal ungt fólk ctrl+f 'hvunndagshetjur' til að sjá viðtalið við þá

oh no the nerds have discovered peter wessel zapffe there are even ai slop vids about him

Niall Ferguson, the Gulf Princes and Their Man, Donald Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/niall...

I want you to remember that during the Revolutionary War, patriot women went without tea - a previously absolutely necessary social staple - and *spun their own cloth* as a fuck you to the economic interests that were oppressing them. We can stop our consumption from the companies that hurt us.

“All the way from Iceland, our NATO ally, ladies and gentlemen, the Sugarcubes.”

Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time: It rules

Müllers-æfingar voru greinilega líka málið í Finnlandi

á bókamessunni í Helsinki er sýndar-Ísland