Activity from Kattullus

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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The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas and so many more
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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]
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An essay about errors in Ulysses by James Joyce
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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“spaghettification is just 12.8 seconds away”
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. 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]
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“There is an episode of Bluey that Disney does not want you to see”
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‘read and censure ... but buy it first ... whatever you do, buy.’
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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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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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“The real question is why he decided, at age 33, to learn”
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The Onion: Orangutan Stuns Researchers By Using Rogaine To Fix Bald Spot. [more]
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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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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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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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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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emo ambient
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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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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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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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“I still wanted to help. But I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”
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Have any science fiction stories been set in humanities departments?
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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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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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“members of the Voyager flight team celebrate”
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Watching Dan Stevens and Aubrey Plaza bounce off each other in season one of Legion was a real pleasure. It had a lot of other things going for it, but the interactions of those two actors was absolutely what pushed it over the top, in every sense. [more]
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Jebus effing fuck that’s beautiful I’ll never get tired of looking at pictures taken of space or from space [more]
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“I don’t fear your wings, man.”
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“Anything about us, without us, is against us.”
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I’d watch a movie about this. Heck, I’d watch a TV miniseries. [more]
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The Lost Symphony of Jean Sibelius
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imnotasquirrel: *looks at the post I made yesterday* *looks at the huge blockquote* *cringes* This is how I feel about how you framed your post. [more]
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No, I had no idea about that. I made the post because I stumbled into Rousay’s show last summer where she played songs from this album. The music had really stuck with me so I was excited when I saw that Sentiment had been released. Having looked… [more]
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0xFCAF: How would you describe the causal chain of events where a charity gets organized, gets money, uses the money to buy vaccines and travel to a developing country, gives the vaccines to kids, and then the kids don't die from the disease they… [more]
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Garm: But I've seen this type of (again, correct) analysis to write off the Shallow Pond/Drowning Child experiment, and I'm not ok with that. The problem with the Singer’s thought experiment is that he reduces everything down to money. The… [more]
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I have a feeling that if humans still exist thousands of years from now, one of the few people they’ll know about from our era will be John McCarthy, the man who sold a bridge. He’ll live in future pop culture, our civilization‘s Ea-Nasir. [more]
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“Ariel Sharon, prime minister of Israel from 2001 to 2006, said: ‘I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arab girls as the Palestinian woman is a slave for Jews and we do what we want to her.’” This is a false quote. It is attributed to an… [more]
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Oops! I also meant to link to the original correction that the others reference. [more]
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crankin' out tunes
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. I was 13 years old when Waterfalls hit and it sounded like absolutely nothing else on the radio. I was reading mostly science fiction at the time, and for a while after, pop music in those books basically sounded like that in my head. And damn… [more]
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. She was either the first or second Language Poet whose work I encountered, and I just had so much reading her stuff. It encouraged me to keep seeking out poetry which stretched the possibilities of meaning and expression, and I’ve had lots of… [more]
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Sting is singing the same Schubert song that Matthias Loibner and Nataša Mirković performed. [more]
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Conan is plugging his upcoming travel show, but it doesn’t really matter. [more]
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The 20-times-platinum 90s album recorded in Los Angeles referenced at the end… that has to be Metallica’s black album, right? Which would be kinda funny, given their history with copyright enforcement, that they’d be so careless with their material. [more]
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