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Introducing #KinoPolis 🎞️ — a personal screening room for early cinema.
Films from 1896 to the 1930s, free to watch, organized into collections like German Expressionism, Soviet Montage, and Early Hitchcock.
Come get lost in the movies that invented movies!
http://w…

I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-inv…

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.

This sounds like a really stupid system, and yet I can 100% believe that landlords are falling over themselves to install it. https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCapartments/comments/1j7z6n1/attention_landlords_please_for_the_love_of_god/…

Some scents cause me an extremely peculiar feeling somewhere in my palate, towards the front of the mouth, occasionally even doing *something* to my incisives.
Does anybody else know what I'm talking about and maybe, just maybe, know what's the correct definition?
(searching for "scents that affect teeth and palate" only has halitosis-based results)
For reference: patchouli (patchoulol) is an example of such scents, for me.

❝If I continue to perform and shout/scream as I do with Godflesh, then I am at high risk for more hernias, and blowing out my abdominal wall entirely.❞ https://www.treblezine.com/justin-k-broadrick-says-godflesh-is-ending-following-recent-surgery/

Thank you to @…, who bade us party whilst it all burns down. #VivaLaDecadence!
1. System of a Down, “Shimmy”—https://youtu.…

"Is academic research becoming too competitive?
Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition."
Sobering numbers from funding institutions in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

Quick course correction needed to avoid 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists say #climate

Quick course correction needed to avoid 'hothouse Earth' scenario, scientists say
Scientists say that multiple Earth system components appear closer to destabilization than previously believed, putting the planet in increased danger of following a "hothouse" path driven by feedback loops that can amplify the consequences of global warming.

#Requiescat For Thee Parkside. https://sfist.com/2026/01/29/following-bottom-of-the-hill/

Like Bottom of the Hill, Thee Parkside Is Also Now Going to Close
"Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos," say the owners of Potrero Hill music venue Thee Parkside in an Instagram post featuring a video of graffiti being written saying "This Will Be Condos You Can't Afford."