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A friend who lives in Brisbane once posted a number of photos from her 24 hour train journey on social media. When she got to her destination, I looked up the trip online, expecting her to have traveled most of the way across Australia. Reader, she… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

jessamyn: My lawyers indicated that while it's probably important for the majority of board members to be from the US, that doesn't preclude non-US folks from being on the board or serving in other capacities. For a MeFite who isn’t an… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

Finnish investigators suspect Chinese vessel's anchor caused Balticconnector pipeline damage. Excerpt: Maritime traffic data showed that the vessel crossed the Balticconnector pipeline at the very moment a loud noise was registered in the area of the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

The Guardian is doing a liveblog of the Women's Strike. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

THIS IS, BY MY COUNT, THE FOURTEENTH POST TO USE, OR A VARIATION THEREOF, THE TITLE “YAD KCOL SPAC”, THE FIRST HAVING BEEN POSTED 20 YEARS AGO… …AND I JUST NOW GOT THAT IT’S “CAPS LOCK DAY” BACKWARDS. I FEEL A VERY CROCKETY BLOAT. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

flapjax is still jammin’ ‘round Tokyo, according to his website I remember being absolutely flabbergasted when I found out who flapjax is incidentally if you don’t know his music, he’s got an absolutely amazing back catalog one random thing… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Looking for a specific metaphor
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Ask MeFi post - 7 months ago

No one is asking to find a jurisdiction which treats everyone in the world equally, but that we keep in mind that a large proportion of the userbase doesn’t live in the United States, and think of ways to account for that, because in every discussion… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

. There’s a blog, largely a comprised of quotations from books the blogger was reading, and given that the he committed suicide, it’s hard not to read the entries as meditations on death and reasons to keep living. He typed up the whole of Averno,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I think it’s a great essay, I just came to MetaFilter to post it, but I’d like to nitpick Sandifer’s argument that Time Rag, a song I really like, is consciously a “rap song”. The earliest attested use of “rap” in the meaning of “rap music” is over a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

"female music caught on dusty records and tapes, in the hidden archives"
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

It’s remarkable how the vibe of everyone on-set changes when Elliott Smith starts playing the song, they all seem like people who’ve all fled their god’s command to seek truth and beauty, and then that song rises from the deep and swallows them all,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I took a glance at Finnish media again, and with the admittedly large caveat that my Finnish language skills are rudimentary, it seems that Finnish authorities have determined that the damage to the pipeline can’t have been caused by divers or a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I wish they’d credited the writers. For instance, “Chuckles Bites the Dust” was written by the great David Lloyd who also wrote some of the finest episodes of Frasier, including the brilliant “Ham Radio”, when Frasier Crane directs a radio play… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Sontag is really underrated as a short story writer. I have a collection of her complete short stories, and they’re never less than interesting, and though she has her faults as an author, as a rule the flaws are interesting in their own right. If… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

From what I gather from Finnish media, so far there’s not a lot known about what happened. Russian sabotage is one of the likelier possibilities, but the weather’s been sucky here on the south coast of Finland, and so a ship dropping an anchor where… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

The New York Times had a report on the battle of Avdiika yesterday, which provides plenty of context. If you’ve been following events in Ukraine for a while, you’ll remember the town from a battle in 2017 which was perhaps the last time before 2021… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

NBI: Cause of pipeline damage was likely mechanical, not an explosion from YLE News is a good overview of the current state of knowledge about the damage to the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia. Excerpt: Finnish officials on Wednesday said it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

"Who's that? The slow comedy man."
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

Here’s a podcast episode where Kate Riga, of Talking Points Memo, interviews her colleague Josh Kovensky, who was a reporter in Ukraine before joining TPM, and Tim Mak, who was the Ukraine war correspondent for NPR before they let him go and he… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

How Did ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Become One of the Most Comforting Shows on TV? by Brian Phillips. Excerpt: The more amusing a murder mystery seems, the more disturbing it becomes when you think about it. In that sense, the wallpaper on Only… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

philip-random: am I terrible person for pointing this out? And I suppose I should allow for English not being the man's first language, but even so (and yes, this is maybe my biggest single grammar peeve), unique cannot be qualified and/or… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

"A tree can't make or break Christmas, only people can do that"
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

ellieBOA: Did Jonathan Majors’s Arrest Affect the New Season of Loki? Thanks for the link, ellieBOA. I'll admit that the brief glimpse we got of Majors in the recap made me really uncomfortable. Somehow the statues and the disembodied voice… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

Ooh, my son and I are a few episodes out from the Mortis arc in our watch-through of Clone Wars. I'm getting quite excited now, though we only get through about two or three a week, so it'll be a while. [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

The one year Alex Shephard didn't write his prediction article, he guessed correctly (on Twitter so not linking). Personally, I haven't connected with Fosse's prose works, but I love his plays and poems. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

As the we got the final twist, my thoughts went from "well, I guess he didn't want to do another season, and that's a good way for his story to end" to "no… oh no! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Jon Fosse
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

My son is eight, he is completely unable to parse a page of google search results, just doesn’t have the training to filter out the noise for the worthwhile links, while he understood DuckDuckGo’s results just fine. I have a feeling google will be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

kyrademon: Anyway, if someone wanted to read Jon Fosse, anyone have a recommendation on where to start? How about Annie Ernaux or Abdulrazak Gurnah? I’ve never connected with Fosse’s prose works, but if you can find a staging of one of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

The reason why scholars take acrostics seriously is that Greeks and Romans developed that technique very far. The most extreme is fourth century CE poet Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius, who I made a post about way back when. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I was just thinking of one line from this episode. When Skeen is talking about his brother’s farm, possibly fictitious as it may be, he says there were “centuries” of trees on the farm. While I realize that a ‘century’ can be many things, such as… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

After two very solid episodes, we ended with… a whimpery bang. I still think Thrawn's main skillset is convincing his underlings that every loss after loss after loss he suffers is somehow a win, but at least his plan for escaping was plausible. I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

"It has been your lot to achieve that the obedience to manifold rules should not hamper poetry."
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

(I'd just like to make a note that this throwaway sentence by S. I. Rosenbaum was an unexpectedly profound thought to encounter in a series of listicles about an old rock band): "My father-in-law has Alzheimer’s and talking to him is getting… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I have been feeling the same, UN, but I found solace in the unlikeliest of sources, an in-depth report by Patrick Wintour in The Guardian about changes within the politics and bureaucracy of the European Union (no seriously). The EU is an… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Only Murders in the Building: Opening Night
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FanFare post - 7 months ago

atrazine: -Literature and History Of all the podcasts I listen to (many mentioned here already, but let me shout out The Bugle and Kermode & Mayo’s Take) the one I feel most protective of is Literature and History. It’s such a… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Okay, I will say another thing… whoever thought it would be a good visual to have the squidwhales travel between galaxies by farting into hyperspace needs an editor. [more]
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FanFare comment - 7 months ago

mazola: I found this piece thoughtful and helpful. Ling drew most of his conclusions about the activities of the Waffen-SS Galicia division from a book written by the son of a veteran of the unit. With the best will in the world, it’s… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

dis_integration: Of course the real irony is that the effort to "de-Nazify" Ukraine has made the Ukrainian Nazis more powerful than they had been since the 2nd world war. You are wildly misinformed. In the last Ukrainian… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

orrnyereg: They couldn't have known what would happen to Ray Stevenson but he's just so wasted here The scene where Ahsoka tries to connect with Shin felt like a reshoot to me. I suspect that the original idea was to have Shin die and… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

“They had no unique economic function: They were Europeans.”
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MeFi post - 8 months ago

That was meant to say “two genres of a Bluesky post” but autocorrect is the shitposter in this relationship. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 8 months ago

On Icelandic Bluesky there’s a divide between people who call a skeet “skeyti” (pronounced SKAY-tih), which means “message”, and those who call a skeet “skítur” (pronounced SKEE-turr), which means “shit”. Those are the two genders of a Bluesky post. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 8 months ago

Home video shows apprehensive Putin in sweatpants – Yle publishes images from secret trip to Finland is an odd little story about a trip Putin took to Finland in the 1990s, back when he was an functionary in the St. Petersburg municipal government… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

cortex: Well, Linus's family were Swedish-speaking, so you've got the no-true-ScotsmanFinn angle Finland is an officially bilingual country, so Swedish-speaking Finns are just as Finnish as the Finnish-speaking ones, much like Anglophone… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Ironmouth: Uh, the Finns allied with the fucking Nazis after that war was over. The Finns then took up arms against the Soviets a few months later and helped the Nazis invade the USSR. Well, they certainly didn't ally with them because… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

. Looking at his activity page, I see that the two front page posts he made were about the death of Elliott Smith and the Great White nightclub fire. The former had an impact on me, not only because I was a fan of Smith’s, but also because the… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 8 months ago

Another notably well-directed episode, this time by Geeta Vasant Patel. This story, with several battle sequences, had many moving parts but I never had any problems following what was happening and what the stakes were. Also, Genevieve O’Reilly got… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 months ago

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