Activity from Kattullus

Not much happened today, thank goodness, which gave the authorities an opening to let people return briefly to their homes to collect their most important belongings and rescue their pets and other animals. Companies were also allowed into town to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

The latest news is fairly worrying. It’s considered likely that the eruption will be within Grindavík town limits. The whole area is now off limits to people, including people who’d be on official business, but there are still animals in town, around… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Every episode has me admiring Genevieve O’Reilly more as an actor. You could tell in the cocktail reception scenes that she was keeping six different thoughts at once in her head. Her performance is at once subtle and easy to follow. Also, I find… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

jacquilynne: I am in Canada, where the copyrights for her published works would have all expired together based on the year she died. I was even wronger than that. I had the dates of publication completely wrong in my head, and didn’t look… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

An Ordinary Citizen
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

I agree that the show hasn’t had much of an idea what to do with Loki as a character, but I do like that the setting is taken seriously and that the mechanics of it have been worked out and explored this season. [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

The first time I saw the temporal radiation effect in the TVA this episode I was horrified, it looked like a fungus growing on reality, but each time I thought it was more and more beautiful. And then, in the end, I remembered the gag about… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

They cancelled Starlee Kine’s Mystery Show after six brilliant episodes and then messed with the recordings, that’s their legacy as far as I’m concerned. I avoided them like the plague after that. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

The first time I was a guest at someone’s house for thanksgiving my friend’s grandmother vowed to disown every single one of her children because they’d had her driving license suspended after she’d driven her car into the supermarket, again, and an… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Here’s a video interview about what’s going on in the town, in English, with geologist Gregory de Pascale, taken inside of Grindavík. More on the English language RÚV liveblog. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Twitter thread by basketball coach and player Danielle Rodriguez [Nitter link], who's from Los Angeles: An update on life in Iceland right now…[thread] The town I coach and play for was evacuated yesterday after two weeks of earthquakes that have… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Horace Rumpole: I don’t think I know the part about messing with the recordings. This was a while ago, but my recollections is that she made little featurettes around the ads on the show, where the ads were just excuses for more fun stuff,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

This photo taken from the air provides a good sense of the landscape. The magma tube is mostly underneath the area on the left, the town of Grindavík (pop. 3700), the mountain Þorbjörn, and the craters Sundhnúkar. The Svartsengi power station and the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Jezebel, as a site, did more to open the eyes of people of my generation to structural misogyny and other forms of patriarchy than any other publication I can think of, so while it’s extremely galling that these fucklewits have done this, Jezebel’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

According to the search-and-rescue volunteers who accompanied the people of the one neighborhood of Grindavík that was considered reasonably safe to go into, the town is a lot more damaged than was expected, lots of road damage, cracks in houses and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

“The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.”
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

Many inhabitants of Grindavík have started leaving the town, though the authorities have not issued a recommendation to do so yet. To make that rather more difficult, the main road out of the town, which goes across the peninsula, has been badly… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Magma has been moving, subterraneously, towards Grindavík, so the town has been evacuated. RÚV, the Icelandic public broadcaster, has an English language liveblog, though it’s mostly dormant now that the evacuation is over. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

As a non-American, let me say that it’s good that waking up to election results in the US is a spot of brightness in a darkening world. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Also, I should note that the two Ultima Worlds of Adventure games are inspired by early 20th Century pulp fiction, and the attitudes of that era are in evidence in those games. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

There’s a lot of seismic activity right now, and as this map shows, it’s pretty close to the Svartsengi power station, and therefore the Blue Lagoon. Crucially, it’s on the other side of a mountain from it. The alert level has been raised and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

YLE News: Finnish investigators confirm recovered anchor belongs to Chinese vessel. Excerpt: Technical examinations of an anchor recovered from the seabed between Finland and Estonia have confirmed that it belongs to a Hong Kong flagged Chinese… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

"overlapping Earths along whose linking axis a person can somehow move"
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

That was a really interesting article, and I’m glad it focused on Leena Kutti and Gary Evans, the person who saved the documents from the trash heap, and the person for whom those documents had the most personal significance. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

. I read about Grand Royal magazine when I was a teen and coveted an issue, but none ever washed upon my shores, so they became almost impossibly built up in my head. When I finally stumbled upon a copy, I was happy that it lived up to my outsized… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I’d had this show recommended to me a bunch of times. I thought it was fine. Ironically, it’s not really good with cause and effect when it comes to human beings, most obviously in that it’s never actually explained why Sergei is murdered. He just is… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

“to know the tremor of your flesh within my own”
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

I worked as a cook for a few summers in my wayward youth, and the most useful aspect was learning a bunch of different ways to cut vegetables. This one has some that I don’t know, and I’ll absolutely refer to this video, as it’s super clear and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

In Icelandic poetry there's no convention that the first line of a poem should be capitalized. I co-directed a poetry chapbook series in Iceland for a little under a decade. Poets would often submit manuscripts to us where the beginning of each… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I swear to Eru that drugs manufacturers have the list of the rulers of Númenor and Gondor tacked to their walls and just move a couple of letters around to come up with names for antidepressants… or that’s my excuse for why I kept thinking the names… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Oh hey! My aunt features in the top 20, she’s one of the violinists playing on Björk’s Jóga (the one with shorter hair). [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

GenjiandProust: I wonder how much of the police malfeasance was incompetence or not really caring to find the killer of a Center-Left politician. The police did have some political hobbyhorses, but it had mostly to do with the fact that… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I came across MetaFilter in early 2001, just before I turned 20, first tried to join in 2002, and finally got in about a year and a half later. Any way you look at it, I’ve been on here half my life, and all my adult years. During that time I’ve… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

dusty potato: I feel like this development has been brewing for as long as the site decided that the rolling Fanfare-style Ukraine War threads on the Blue are essential and constructive content As someone who lives in a country bordering… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

David Forbes is a very good journalist, who I’ve followed on social media since I read her The Old Iron Dream, about right-wing science fiction. She’s really worth paying attention to, especially if you’re at all concerned about the far right in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Marina Hyde had a typically sharp take on Sunak’s talk with Musk. Excerpt: One of Tony Blair’s great weaknesses was that he was pathetically impressed by rich people – almost any rich person would do – and Sunak’s analogous vulnerability would be his… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

There’s a moment in Now and Then, at around 1:08, when Ringo does one of his perfect little drum fills, and I got a frisson of excitement that took me back to memories of listening to way too much Beatles, and the song never quite delivers that again… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Videos about Welsh and Brythonic history
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

I never really got into the movies. I mean, I saw a few in theaters, but it was never a big deal for me (with the exception of Black Panther and the Guardians films). But I clicked with the first season of Loki. Something about its knowing silliness… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

lauranesson: does she pronounce it day-vid or dah-veed or something else? As far as I know, and it’s been a while since I heard an interview with her, she pronounces it day-vid. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

bondcliff: is there anyone who knows about Metafilter that doesn't know about John Landis I realize I sound like I'm trying to clown, but this is honestly the most interesting thing I've learned today. I recognize I'm absolutely someone who… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

My comment about the capture of football by the world's worst rich people is just, essentially, a gif of a person melting as they scream into the void. There are rumblings of discontent, especially in South America and Europe, and it's possible… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

To be fair, it’s hard to concentrate when you’ve got neighbors who’re as noisy as theirs. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

GenjiandProust: We get an answer to the burning question “how do you lose an entire kingdom?” Actually, that question gets answered twice over, for two different lost kingdoms. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

. I have a fondness for all the Friends actors. I didn’t like it much during the first few years, but my first girlfriend was a fan, and so we ended up watching all the series that were out by then on videotape which I think was up to season five… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I desperately want a close harmony quartet to perform a straight cover of the whole all-bum Chordettes discography. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I belong to another community, of sorts, people who write regularly to the Guardian’s minute-by-minute reports of soccer matches. One regular was a diehard Everton fan from California, named Mary Waltz. She would write, pretty much without fail,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Oh, and I forgot to answer the question. There were just phrases he used which seemed really off, especially compared to the language of the other characters temporally native to 1893, another one I remember is that he says “adjust the settings”… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

*pops head back on* YES WE ARE ALL HUMANS HERE *looks down, pops head off, turns it around, pops head back the right way round* ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY HUMAN *whistles in infrasound* [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

He uses it in sense 3, not in the older sense 1. Though I’ll admit that I’m surprised that it was used before 1920 in that sense. 1898 is close enough to 1893 that I retract my objection. [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

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