Activity from Kattullus

Her aesthetic is very heavily “of the Internet”, but it feels like it’s the Internet of twenty years ago. This reminded me of nothing so much as Salad Fingers. I really need to watch and listen to more of her work. [more]
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MeFi comment - 17 hours ago

“Over the course of the summer, the other participants grew to hate me and constantly chastised me for betraying the integrity of the experiment.” This is giving me flashbacks. My earliest stable role-playing group was largely made up of queer… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Alice Munro, 1931-2024
favorited 22 times, recently by mediareport, jgirl, Shirley88, BibiRose, Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane, brujita, junebug, New Frontier, Karmeliet, I am Otis, virago, JHarris, snsranch, Saxon Kane, subdee, Phanx, animalcule, chicofly, GenjiandProust, pracowity, chavenet, Multicellular Exothermic
MeFi post - 2 days ago

. Earlier this year I went back to her final collection, Dear Life, and found it really profound, in a way that it hadn’t struck me when I first read it. I used to think that the 1982 collection Moons of Jupiter was the place to start with her… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Sienna, villanelles at dawn, virago, clavdivs, From Bklyn, biogeo, Multicellular Exothermic, Dhertiiboi
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

I’ve been listening to a lot of early Ella Fitzgerald songs lately, and coming across a reference to The Dipsy Doodle created a weird feeling of connection across time, that Laura Perea had also listened to that same song. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by emf, Orange Dinosaur Slide, star gentle uterus, paduasoy
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Oh, another book you might like because of the force of its writing (though its subject is very, very different), is Helen DeWitt's Last Samurai (nothing to do with the Tom Cruise movie). Note, sometimes it's called The Seventh Samurai. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 days ago

This may be common on Reddit, but I was shocked to see comments by AI-bots on the HBomberguy thread about the episode, specifically a product summary about the book The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War on Homosexuals. Absolutely not the time, topic and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

On his other channel HBurgerGuy Brewis has posted a 20-minute supplemental video called Iilluminaughtii and the perils of lazy video essays which pretty much explains itself, but is still fairly jaw-dropping. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Old cases are now being brought up, like when the podcast Chilluminati plagiarized historian Jonathan M. Katz last year. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

There’s a Reddit thread where people are making recommendations and also contributing additional plagiarisms that they find in the videos of Internet Historian and James Somerton. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 days ago

. Paul Auster had a real profound effect on me. I knew of him early, because my dad really liked his works. Sometime in the early 90s, my dad interviewed him for Icelandic radio, and Auster said he should be in touch when he was in New York. My… [more]
favorited 88 times, recently by chantenay, MonkeyToes, Faintdreams, ovvl, reclusive_thousandaire
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

If, like me, your eyes bulged at the figure of 500 thousand pieces of type being thrown in the river by just one man, Robert Green helpfully works it out in the video linked in the article. That’s a 170 trips, 12-15 pounds each time. That’s literally… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by snsranch, ceejaytee, dorothyisunderwood, Faint of Butt, adrienneleigh, jedicus, paduasoy
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

"Women in philosophy have always needed a special stroke of luck."
favorited 14 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade, cybercoitus interruptus, nofundy, snsranch, neonamber, Wobbuffet, star gentle uterus, jedicus, gudrun, crocomancer, 15L06, Not A Thing, audi alteram partem, Saxon Kane
MeFi post - 3 days ago

How One Crack in the Line Opened a Path for the Russians by Marc Santora for the New York Times [ungated]. Excerpt: Russian infantry storm across mine-strewn fields on foot and use dirt bikes and dune buggies to try and outrace Ukrainian exploding… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Putin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence minister by Pjotr Sauer in the Guardian. Excerpt: Shoigu’s position appeared to have weakened last month when the security services arrested his long-term confidant Timur Ivanov, a deputy defence… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by UN, snuffleupagus, mazola, JoeXIII007, 1970s Antihero
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

There were lots of protests in 2012, when Azerbaijan hosted Eurovision, and Loreen, the winner that year, met with human rights campaigners in the country and criticized the government. That said, I agree that there should be more focus on… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by May Kasahara, Orange Dinosaur Slide, adrienneleigh, Ben Trismegistus
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Also, on voting, in Finland non-citizen residents such as myself get to vote in local elections. This is fairly common practice in Europe. So while I don’t get to vote for the president or parliament, I get to vote who my mayor is and for city and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas and so many more
favorited 54 times, recently by notdanielmendelson, garrett, lianove3, travertina, alyxstarr, mmrtnt, Orkney Vole, peppermind, New Frontier, eckeric, Rumple, ob1quixote, maryrussell, trip and a half, LobsterMitten, Ipsifendus, y2karl, hototogisu, JohnnyGunn, marxchivist, kensington314, tacopasta, villanelles at dawn, kmartino
MeFi post - 6 days ago

Unsurprisingly, Sheba Blake Publishing is well represented. Here’s a blogpost about them, with many examples. Excerpt: Had the whole Sheba Blake collection been a series of random covers, it would make more sense. But someone seems to actually be… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by nofundy, spamandkimchi, doctornemo, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

An essay about errors in Ulysses by James Joyce
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MeFi post - 7 days ago

A week ago I was at a cookout and a young hipster was telling horrifiex me how much he liked Creed and I was instantly transported to my past of being a young hipster telling a horrified older someone else how much I liked Styx and Hall & Oates… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by The corpse in the library, jordantwodelta, variella, AsYouKnow Bob, kjs3, mygothlaundry, capnsue, Tehhund, whm, howbigisthistextfield, jomato, subdee, May Kasahara, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Käärijä was supposed to announce the points from Finland, but he’s stepped down. There was a kind of weird incident a couple of days ago where the Israeli singer was filmed dancing with him, and he didn’t want to be filmed, and there was fallout. In… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by tofu_crouton, zymil, adrienneleigh, Orange Dinosaur Slide, GenjiandProust, Pseudonymous Cognomen, Bella Donna, May Kasahara
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

There might be more absences tonight than just Joost Klein. Icelandic media is reporting that Ireland’s Bambie Thug didn’t show up for practice or the flag carrying thing (translating from Icelandic, don’t know what it’s called in English), and the… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by busted_crayons, Cremcraw, zymil, adrienneleigh, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Like a lot of people who normally tune in, I haven’t watched this year, and probably won’t tonight either. I’m sure the show will be good, but the EBU’s cack-handed attempts to depoliticize their show has made it so it’s impossible to watch without… [more]
favorited 17 times, recently by busted_crayons, honey-barbara, adrienneleigh, Ten Cold Hot Dogs, deadbilly, runincircles, Brainstorming Time!, Bella Donna, AFII, mochapickle, rosiroo, Audreynachrome, tavella, zymil, Orange Dinosaur Slide, Kosmob0t, Absolutely No You-Know-What
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Oh, and also, while there is a real chance that Israel wins the televote, and might win the whole thing, the 40% of the televote thing in Italy might not be particularly representative, if it turns out to be true. The Big Five countries, which pay… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh, GenjiandProust, Bella Donna, corb
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Until about an hour ago I thought the EBU would be able to pull themselves out of this PR hole, given that it’s an organization made up of media professionals. Then I saw that Swedish public radio is reporting that Jean Philip De Tender, who’s EBU’s… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by adrienneleigh, GenjiandProust, Bella Donna, mochapickle, Orange Dinosaur Slide
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

“spaghettification is just 12.8 seconds away”
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MeFi post - 8 days ago

ashbury: Come Sail Away is ridiculous? Yes? I mean, yes. And that’s what makes it great. A normal band would’ve written a song about wanting to escape humanity by going out on a boat. An out there band would’ve written a song about a guy… [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Orangutans are clearly highly intelligent, have complex societies that transmit knowledge across generations, and yet were unable to communicate with them. I sometimes suspect our galaxy is full of interstellar chitter-chatter between intelligent… [more]
favorited 18 times, recently by NickFitz
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

. I read the chapter about him in Our Band Could Be Your Life and concluded that he was unable to see the world from a perspective outside his own, and was pleasantly surprised by how much he grew as a person in the last two decades. It’s an… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by abraxasaxarba, mpc, adrienneleigh, limeonaire, deadbilly, The Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas, Joey Michaels, queensissy, wenestvedt, dr_dank, languagehat, Alvy Ampersand, pxe2000
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

“There is an episode of Bluey that Disney does not want you to see”
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MeFi post - 11 days ago

‘read and censure ... but buy it first ... whatever you do, buy.’
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MeFi post - 11 days ago

I think people are getting a bit lost in the particular. "Wine-like" isn't the only color-descriptor in Homeric poetry which seems odd to us today. As mentioned in Harris' essay I quote above, blood and rainbows are purple. Honey is green… [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

I have a friend whose play was yoinked-with-not-much-of-a-twist and turned into a mystery miniseries by a big production company, and sold to a bunch of TV stations all over the world. My friend sued but had to give up because the legal process was… [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

“The real question is why he decided, at age 33, to learn”
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MeFi post - 12 days ago

The Onion: Orangutan Stuns Researchers By Using Rogaine To Fix Bald Spot. [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Siri Hustvedt made a heartbreaking post on Instagram: I was naive, but I had imagined that I would be the person to announce the death of my husband, Paul Auster. He died at home in a room he loved, the library, a room with books on every wall from… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

I’m surprised that no one but me had the thought, while watching the interview, that there was some sleight of hand involved. There’s just too much going on, with bottles moving around, half eaten wings being stuffed in pockets, and the joke doctor… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Despite efforts to raise new funds, SPD simply couldn’t afford to go on: “SPD lost hundreds of thousands in grants in the past few years as funders moved away from supporting the arts.” I worked for a little while in a bookstore in the US,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Six comedies of John Lyly’s were published together in a duodecimo a few years after the First Folio. That’s pretty close to the complete works, as there only eight plays he’s known to have written. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

emo ambient
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

hippybear: I think the leveling of Mariupol, while not involving human beings as the resulting wreckage, is of equal magnitude. I understand your meaning, but I just wanted to note that thousands and thousands of people died in the siege… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

In my little corners of the world, the Icelandic government took the unprecedented step of buying arms for Ukraine. Iceland doesn’t have an army, and traditionally has offered non-offensive military aid, for instance by buying medical supplies. This… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

<Moe Szyslak voice> You know what I blame this on the shutdown of? Reader. </Moe Szyslak voice> [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I kinda wish The Onion and Clickhole would merge, if only in spirit. In its first couple of decades, the Onion had a real whimsical streak in its satire, even sentimental, which started to fade out after Clickhole was spun off. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

“I still wanted to help. But I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”
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MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

Have any science fiction stories been set in humanities departments?
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Ask MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Curlie was down for maintenance for a few days at the end of March, but it came back up. I don’t see anything about an outage on the Mastodon page, so hopefully it’s just temporary. In tracking down the Curlie account I came across the Mojeek… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

JHarris: searching for info that's probably on Wikipedia, this isn't such a problem This is perpendicular to your argument, but I had such a frustrating experience with Wikipedia a couple of days ago. There was a glaring error in an… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

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