~metafilter | Bookmarks (955)
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Traditional owners in WA celebrate new position of strength
Traditional owners in WA celebrate new position of strength for stunning stretch of country. Janella Isaac's...
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fracking/finance
My book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It [protectpt], due...
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A solar pond is a solar energy collector that looks like a pond.
Solar ponds use a large, salty lake as a kind of a flat plate collector that...
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There is an immersive and psychotropic quality to great opera
I believe that opera is not merely pleasurable but necessary, and keeping it alive means transforming...
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Garth Hudson, 1937-2025
The last surviving member of The Band, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist, musical genius, and gloriously weird old man...
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Bob Dylan’s Christian period
"These things in the Bible seem to uplift me and tell me the truth." - Bob...
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Singing Glass
64 years ago the multi 100 Kflop/s IBM 7094 mainframe, usually employed in things like correcting...
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Aged care centre recognised as the best in rural Australia
Aged care centre recognised as the best in rural Australia. So what is it doing differently?...
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Collapse Music
r/CollapseMusic has a wonderfully varied collection of music all somehow related to the collapse of the...
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Freed Pirate Roberts
Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht [BBC]How Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon...
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The Salvation War
Stuart Slade's "The Salvation War," humanity-fuck-yeah fiction in which the human race devastates Hell and fires...
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Khong Guan Biscuit Tin
Most people come to vintage-Ladybird-appreciation after using the books in childhood. A few people come to...
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Did the explosion under Giant Rock cause its cleaving 58 years later?
Wikipedia: Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert near the 29 Palms...
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Oscar 2025 Nominations are in!
Full list of nominations Best picture Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two...
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Would you like a drink?
Yes, excessive alcohol consumption is harmful. But the advice on moderate drinking can seem bewildering. Oh...
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I'm here, said the wolf
Wolfskin, a short comic about love. A lovely little story, written and illustrated by Jessica Boehman....
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Doctor Explains Why The Neurodivergent Feel Younger Than Their Age
Doctor Explains Why The Neurodivergent Feel Younger Than Their Age [Youtube 13 Mins] A video made...
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Brancalonia Campaign Setting
Brancalonia is a campaign setting for 5E "based on Italian tradition, folklore, history, landscapes, literature, and...
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Now's your chance
If you want to become the next Prime Minister of Canada, today is the last day...
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Moderate apocalypses
Better without AI explores moderate apocalypses that could result from current and near-future AI technology. These...
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The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom
The War That Almost Broke a Classic Fandom. Blake's 7 fans and actors mixed regularly at...
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Led by Donkeys making light protest
url links to streetartutopia.com of a recent scene in Berlin Led by Donkeys leave me speechless....
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Putricia
An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is about to bloom...
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Yo dawg, I heard you like Vangelis and Microneurosurgery
In 1998 Greek neurosurgeon Dr. Stergios Tegos published a documentary of his work in the field...