Kári Tulinius

Me and My Censor | Made in China Journal When Liu Lipeng first contacted me in July 2020, I was still in China. I initially wanted to write this as a fictional short story, but I didn’t have the courage to do it at the time because it would ...

riveting essay by Murong Xuecun about the online censorship system in China, seen both from the inside and outside

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

Nieuws

www.sciencenews.org/article/vira...

Huh, and his son was Janis Joplin’s manager.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Who is the fourth who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
—But who is that on the other side of you?

Yup!

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Huh, it’s by the same reporter who was skewered by John Oliver last night (as part of a longer feature on FP)

DIALOGMUSEUM Frankfurt - discover the invisible The DIALOGMUSEUM, founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2005, is today considered an outstanding example of social entrepreneurship.

þetta er spennandi, en ég hef ekki farið, svo ég get ekki vottað hve áhugavert þetta er

Blæja III - Spilari RÚV Þriðja þáttaröðin um hina vinsælu Blæju og Hælbein fjölskylduna. Daglegt líf fjölskyldunnar gengur sinn vanagang, en hins vegar er enginn dagur eins þegar Blæja og Bára eiga í hlut.

Krakkarúv skiptir þáttum upp eftir þáttaröðum, sem er mjög ruglandi. Hér er þriðja þáttaröð af Blæju, þar sem eru átta þættir í boði.

Vefsíðan er betri en appið, allavega þegar kemur að því að finna barnaefni.

if anyone involved in this travesty of a nirvana cover had a smidgeon of self-awareness and sense of humor this would've been delightful, but as it is…

ég trúi því ekki að ég sé að verja hann, en ef þú skoðar hin e-in og i-in, þá vantar punktinn fyrir ofan i-ið, og það er smá sveigja í stafnum, eins og í hinum e-unum

In an episode of Rebels the Imperial March is played over loudspeakers on Empire Day.

Og það sem er á ensku er ekki einu sinni alltaf vel þýtt.

rall-hálf

fólk fer á rallið, ekki radlið

Magnetic Folklore Instrument Open Reel Ensemble have made your new bop by manipulating magnetic tapes with keyboards and big bamboo sticks, creating an instrument they call Jigakkyu. They have a lot more videos for you to...

I made a MetaFilter post, but honestly, it's just about that song and video

YouTube video by Open Reel Ensemble Tape Bowing Ensemble - Open Reel Ensemble

this is my new jam

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

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Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

Og myndavalið!!! Þetta er framhaldsskóli í Bandaríkjunum.

I saw that, my eyes bulged, and I went and tracked down the essay. The writer was done dirty by the subeditor. His point isn't that Cash was or wasn't cool (except in a qualified way to do with 60s counterculture), but that as a songwriter he hasn't gotten the same respect as Dylan and Springsteen.

þetta eru leiðbeiningar, ekki valdboð, foreldrar geta gert það sem þau vilja í þessum málum

That part about worrying about not being able to go to his friend's grave was incredibly touching. I was completely sidelined by it.

if the Sagas teach us anything, it's that Iceland has been producing bizarre little freaks since at least 944

it probably would've made it make less sense:

The Core Lice of Nun Riders: The Loin, the Witch and the We October

another thing time stole from us

or to prove that she has the right to post there

this is what autocorrect stole from us

This was a ridiculous stunt, but it was performed by skeptics. Nevil Maskelyne was a stage magician who routinely exposed mediums as frauds. The James Randi of his era.

Hvað kemur eftir hallóvín?

this sounds like late 90s Blur (laudatory)