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Single Link Blog. It comes up often in AskMeFi what British mysteries are good to watch. Timothy Barron's website is very helpful in answering these questions, particularly when you're looking for something similar to what you've enjoyed in the past. Barron has kept up his site for decades now, updating it pretty much as new series of shows are introduced.Barron has divided his reviews...

London, like New York, is often too busy, and too much in flux, to play itself on film. So, time after time, filmmakers rebuild it on backlots...

Today at 5 p.m. EST on February 4th, 2025, a rally began at the Treasury to protest Elon Musk's billionaire takeover. Livestream here. SLYT

If you know Space:1999, you know that Victor Bergman (Barry Morse) and Maya (Catherine Schell) never met on the series because Victor died between Seasons 1 and 2. But they did work together in another series - The Adventurer, starring Gene Barry as a government agent who poses as a movie star. Several episodes are available on YouTube.Start with Miss Me Once, Miss Me...

Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?

Scientists and Aboriginal rangers make exciting discovery of new lizard species in remote Australia. Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover a new skink, Liopholis aputja, in the Central Australian desert.

Morreu a escritora Maria Teresa Horta, a última das "Três Marias" [sapo; google translation]Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria [Guernica] The women who challenged Portugal's dictatorship [The Economist] The Portuguese Revolution and Women's Liberation [Jacobin] Women against dictatorship [European University Institute] Maria Teresa Horta named one of the 100 most influential women in the world [Portuguese American Journal]

I picture my twenty-three-year-old self, back in 2010. What would I say to her? Things aren't going to get better — they're going to get worse? Award-winning author Casey Plett for The Toronto Star: Think this is a rollback of trans rights? No, this is something entirely new, and much more regressive (archive)

No. 13 Finale is a performance artwork by fashion designer Alexander McQueen... It consists of model Shalom Harlow wearing a white dress, standing on a rotating platform on the show's catwalk and being spray-painted by robots. The piece is regarded as a highlight of McQueen's career and one of the most iconic moments in fashion history.* (h/t to velebita for this inspiring comment)

How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction, by Jean Laherrère, Charles A.S. Hall, Roger Bentley"We show that official estimates of the remaining reserves of oil as used by many analysts are very misleading, in part due to poor reporting and methodology, and that these reserves data should not be used. We also show that...

The parts of the world that register the most patents are also, coincidentally, the parts of the world that have benefitted the most from patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. In contrast, the places whose lands and peoples have historically been exploited by the metropolis are accused, today, of lagging behind in technological progress and not producing enough patents. Those who benefitted from slavery, from exploiting...

Lace monitor an inspiring symbol of recovery five years after Black Summer bushfires. A 1.8-metre-long (5.9 feet long) lace monitor that walks around Robert Miller's dairy farm like it owns the place is the sign of rejuvenation he needed to see after years of healing from the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires. (Australia.)Before 70 per cent of his New South Wales dairy farm burnt in...

CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: "Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female," according to an email sent to CDC employees

"...a deliriously scattered mess of joy and pain, intermingled and bound up within Coltrane's unbridled and luminescent energy. And now it stands as his parting gesture: one last moment bursting out at the seams with elation and ferocity, an awe-inspiring testament to life." — PitchforkColin Fleming: Composed almost entirely of violently shifting textures and a commitment to dissonance that all but blasphemes melody and...

The Video Game History Foundation have recently opened their online library. A long-running project to preserve the history of video games (something that's run into a wide range of difficulties), the Foundation have just opened their digital library to the public. Browse through a wide range of games publications, along with years worth of archival materials from a variety of games. Here's a short...

Many Democrats agree that the first two weeks of Trump's second term have been rough, even if they don't agree on a message (NYTimes). NPR did its best to recap yesterday. Ezra Klein makes the case, perhaps hopefully, that "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." (Gift NYTimes link)He has always wanted to be king....

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is widely considered to be a dry and unemotional document. Published by the Department of Transportation, it outlines the basic specifications of all the street signs you could expect to see out on roads and highways across the United States. Most are familiar, but if you dive deeper into its pages, you can find some unsettling...

How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage. (SLNYT) "At the table, in front of the fire, the tension between them rose, as if recalling the fight reignited it. Javier prickled that Jeanne took offense. "I'm her husband," Javier said, looking at me. "I'm her partner." He looked at Jeanne. "I've supported you in this path." Why, he asked her, would he say anything to...

Winter Soldier is a 1972 American documentary film, chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971. The film documents the accounts of American soldiers who returned from the War in Vietnam and participated in this war crimes hearing.*Closing Statement Whatever it was that was in these men, that allowed them to do the things...

Canada hits back with comparable tariffs to the US after Trump cocks up a longstanding alliance. (slCBC)But wait! There's more! Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ordered the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) to remove ALL US products from their shelves. British Columbia Premier David Eby is also banning US alcohol, but only brands made in "red states." It's easy to rally and cry,...

The organic veggie garden that sprang to life on an arid salt pan. A community-supported agriculture enterprise is supplying organic produce grown on Whyalla's arid salt pans and offering alternatives to the big supermarkets.

In honor of Groundhog Day and in the spirit of fun, we pitted groundhogs from all over the United States against each other — and data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information — to see who's the most accurate. From Grading the groundhogs

Three Seattle-area sailors were rocked by these losses, and the circumstances behind them: In both cases, it was not physically possible for the woman left aboard to lift her husband from the water. And, in fact, all overboard sailing rescues pose the herculean challenge of hoisting someone several feet onto a boat. As leaders in The Sailing Foundation, the three established its Safety at...

Covid: January 30, 2025 Welcome to Threat Model: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday By MeFi's own Violet Blue

On April 17, after five long years, one of the world's cultural treasures, The Frick Collection, finally returns home.I've been saving this one for a special occasion... PAINTINGS Bellini - St. Francis in Ecstasy Constable - The White Horse Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Thomas More Ingres - Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville Rembrandt - The Polish Rider Vermeer - Officer and Laughing...

Hi, are you a weird asocial dork who's been playing the same video game for 25 years? Then I have great news for you. The Sims is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Tuesday and EA is re-releasing the original game and Sims 2 this weekend as a nostalgia-activating cash grab to celebrate. Watch the official trailer here.You wanna buy it? Furtively looks around, opens...

Some more female-fronted metal, you know, for the kids. Novelists has a new song, All For Nothing. It's a banger like all their songs with their newish vocalist, Camille Contreras.Jinjer has a new album coming out February 7. They just released their homonymous fifth single from it, Duél. Trippy video, too. Hanabie keeps up the Harajuku-Core vibe with おいしいサバイバー. Not Enough Space with their...

Every Sunday morning you go for a walk in the city, heading nowhere in particular, with just one rule to your rambling: You never retrace your steps or cross your own path. If you have already walked along a certain block or passed through an intersection, you refuse to set foot there again. This recipe for tracing a loopless path through a grid of...

We Have Rights - "The agents lied to Esther, saying they were police officers investigating a crime, and her husband, Alexei, was a potential witness. 'Is Alexei home?' they asked innocently. Esther's gut told her she should cooperate, but she remembered something she'd heard on the radio. ICE had been making early morning sweeps using tricks like this to get people to open their...

In the space of only a few months, WEB Du Bois led a team of Black scholars to create an interactive presentation of data-filled charts, "The Exhibit of American Negroes", which was displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Jason Forrest, a data visualization and design expert, gives a talk about how these charts came to be, and Anthony J Sparks explains how he recreated...

WHOs newsletters? YesUp to date information about world health from, you know, WHO Might be of interest to mefites living in nations that aren't World Health Organization members

Elite on the 6502 – A very comprehensive site exploring the source code of Elite, a highly influential space-trading game from 1984, explaining how it did all the things it did within very limited resources. You can play the game in-browser, in various forms. If you're not all that familiar with the game, you might like to read Elite (or, The Universe on 32...

The fifth and final episode of the season premieres today (assuming you read this on 31st January 2025). Each episode is 5-10 minutes. Link to the trailer, which is part of a playlist of the whole thing. This is a really charming, funny, well characterised little show. It's entirely scripted, directed and animated by DeepBlueInk, who has been mentioned on Mefi before as a...

This week, President Trump's sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign aid has deepened humanitarian crises and cast doubt on America's leadership on the world stage. Despite some confusion over the partial unfreezing of federal grants, the bulk of U.S. foreign aid remains frozen, upending the lives and work of federal agencies and contractors. In addition to his Executive order Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign...

Television series canceled after one episodeHeil, Honey! I'm Home! Comedy on British satellite channel Galaxy that spoofed American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s by featuring caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbours to a Jewish couple (previously) Turn-On ABC variety comedy series; a racier derivative of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show alarmed broadcast...

Instead of having an All-Star Game this season, the NHL and NHLPA are staging the 4 Nations Face-Off, which will run from Feb. 12 through Feb. 20. This is a round-robin tournament that will feature four national teams -- Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States -- with NHL players from those nations filling the rosters.Schedule + where to watch if you live in...

Endangered wallabies flown to safety to outsmart predators. A dozen endangered brush-tailed rock wallabies find a safe new home after an aerial rescue operation in the Warrumbungle National Park.

In this work with the land, Patrick is carrying out acts of reclamation, finding ways to push back against the systems designed to oppress people of color. In a county that was intentionally poisoned — and a world suffering from a changing climate — he is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp,...

"[Cecil] Taylor is his own entity: one of the most enriching and confusing boundary crossers between composition and improvisation. His art can be hard to reduce. He seems to think of his music as a kinetic act, a ritual of place and ancestry, something that lives in bodies but less so in notation and documents. And this is why his records go only so...

If you're a fan of True Detective, this will touch something within you. Written and directed by Nic Pizzolatto, with Matthew and Woody coming back, it certainly is Pepsi Blue. But so good. Enjoy.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal Recreate the Iconic Fake Orgasm Scene from When Harry Met Sally for Hellmann's 2025 Super Bowl Ad "Oh, this one's REAL!"

There is a vast and growing industry, what I call the opinion economy, that leverages our belief in the value of the (allegedly) authentic views of others and that increasingly shapes not only our purchasing behaviour but also our tastes and expressions of personal identity. The opinion economy is built on our desire for a beacon of clarity and certainty in our fantastically chaotic...

indieblog.page – This website lets you randomly explore the IndieWeb. Simply click the button below and you will be redirected to a random post from a personal blog. FAQ

African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist Raquel Willis on resisting discriminatory times and on the strength and legacy of trans activists through history. Via Teen Vogue.

Stalwart punk zine Maximumrocknroll has released its annual top ten lists for 2024: part 1, part 2, and part 3.Unlike many other best-of lists, MRR just asks its various reviewers to name their top ten records of the year and presents them in full, although there is a bit of aggregation at the end of part 3 ("we can convey this information to you...

If you live in the New Orleans metro area and are missing your pants, Admiral Galacticat may be to blame.