Kári Tulinius

I have to share videos of people going to vote for Lula when public transportation is being sabotaged to stop them from voting. This melts my cynic heart. Native people walking to the polls

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

as a recent achiever of Finnish citizenship, I can confirm that this is 100% accurate

Ég var að hlusta á þátt af Flugum á Rás eitt, þar sem safnað var saman lögum við kvæðum Káins, og einn lagahöfunda og flytjenda var Hörður Torfa, og hann bar af. Það er stundum þannig með listafólk sem á sér annað, jafnmerkilegt ævistarf, að list þeirra fellur í skuggann. Brillíant tónlistarmaður.

Skemman er ótrúleg fjársjóðshirsla af frábæru efni, en það er næstum ómögulegt að vita hvað er þar. Ég rambaði á þessa BA-ritgerð eftir Bjarna Ólafsson og þetta er besta yfirlit sem ég hef lesið um kenningar sem eiga að skýra endalok norrænar byggðar á Grænlandi.

I made a post to MetaFilter about a fascinating mid-century English Roma poet named Mark Hyatt. He had largely been forgotten, but a long lost novel manuscript was rediscovered, and it and his old, startlingly queer poetry was published in 2023.

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As the gentry try to normalize transphobia in every avenue of life, a common talking point they love to share is the alleged high 'detransition' and 'regret' rates among trans people. These allegedly high rates are completely false, and based on bunk science. 🧵

I thought it was just that a 4-hour doc would never do well in theaters, but whoa, after Bleeker Street Films was bought by billionaire Pierre Omidyar this week, "people started commenting that shows they’d bought tickets for were cancelled without warning."

for those of you who don't know the Shopping Mall lore my first RPG was Heroes Unlimited (1E) and the group that introduced me played the intro scenario which is a nice standard "supervillains are threatening the shopping mall and the A-List heroes are unavailable, HELP". It's fine. Decent intro.

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það væri forvitnilegt að vita hvenær þetta viðtal var tekið upp, því nú logar frakkland í mótmælum sem byrjuðu vegna þess að menntaskólanemum fannst ótækt að þurfa að sækja skóla í 40 gráðu hitabylgju

Íslenska síðan er ekkert mikið betri, nóta bene. Þær eru búnar til á sama tíma, svo mig grunar að einhverjir tveir vinir hafi gert þetta saman.

This Wikipedia page on the names used for Iceland is not even wrong. I’ll admit it gives me pause that about half the time when I land on an English-language Wikipedia page where I have specialized knowledge, the information is actually worse than merely being incorrect.

"How much hedge could a hedgehog hog if a hedgehog could hog hedge?"

This took me an embarrassingly long time to get

‘Another national day of protest has been called for 24 October, and Nuñez has said that this time he will send in the army. Curfews are in place across several cities, and helicopters survey the capital at night.’ Daniella Shreir on the protests in France, online now: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

youtube recommended a video of a dude taking a bubble bath, reading an emily henry novel, and singing along to bob dylan‘s corrina corrina it’s like the algorithm peered into the very depths of my soul

Share who you think looked the hottest anyone has ever looked in a movie! 🖤

hvað er ég gamall? ég er „úúúú vá! landainnslag um sögufræga kú… spennandi!“ ára gamall

I‘ve believed for years that the first Marvel film I saw was Iron Man 3, but about 30 mins into The Avengers I realized I’d seen it in theaters. I remembered almost nothing about it, and having just watched it I couldn’t tell you what the plot is.

What's included in the Sagas of Western Iceland Tour? Accommodations, transportation, dinners, breakfasts, and 5 jam-packed days exploring the landscapes and historic sagas of Western Iceland with John Sexton, Andy Pfrenger, and Björn Grímsson. Join us April 19-23, 2027! www.sagathingtours.com

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Stundum segir man eitthvað við vini sína og þó man segi það af ást áttar man sig ekki endilega á því hversu mikið það er að hjálpa 🥺 @thewitchandthesun.bsky.social er með gullfallega sýningu í Núllinu með málverkum af höndum vina sinna og því sem við höfum sagt sem bjargaði henni á erfiðum tímum ❤️‍🩹

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thank you for protecting my virgin eyes from the horror of clothing

I just stumbled upon this proustian madeleine of a website and I’m back in the computer labs of my youth

Thank god, there’s a new @rachelhandler.bsky.social article, maybe I’ll survive Monday after all (gift link) www.grubstreet.com/article/choc...

God, grant me courage to be weird (good), the awareness to not be weird (bad), and the wisdom to know the difference.

my cat likes to hunt soccer players

there aren't many dreams that I still have from when I was a child, the life of a ninja doesn't appeal to me anymore for instance, nor owning a motorcycle, but I still long to one day stumble upon a checked-out library book that has been due for decades and returning it to the correct library

Tag yourself jeg er rainbow muppet

the cat, nature’s modok

the reason why the best Star Wars tv show is the Marxist fable Andor is because the central idea of Star Wars is “what if believing in dialectical materialism made you real good with laser swords” so if you take out the laser swords what remains is a Marxist fable

cynic that I am, I expected there to be unsavory shenanigans regarding Dolly Parton’s estate, but not even in the misanthropic depths of my imagination did I think the shenanigans would involve an arms deal with Haiti

getting into a new hobby: crime scene photography

between the ubiquitous ads for AI, crumbling infrastructure and food with names like “protein pot” London feels most like a cyperpunk dystopia out of any place I’ve been to, though the clothing’s not as colorful as was promised

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just stumbled on an extremely low-budget slop site that runs Nordic news reports through some kind of LLM translator it seems to have been going on autopilot for two years for example, one of its top Nordic stories is about the Tupac trial there are probably millions of sites like this

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

A conservative reporter outs a tennis competitor, and sets in motion a chain of events that lead to trans women everywhere securing the right to play sports…a right his son–and that tennis player herself–now oppose. Read the story here in this month's Clippings by @piperbomb.bsky.social!

There were no children around where we lived when I was little. My only "friend" was my younger sister. We played alone or talked the ears off the adult neighbors around us. We had no social manners or boundaries - walking into people's sun porches and yards to play as we liked.