https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Tue, 19 May 2026 19:01:24 GMT Tue, 19 May 2026 19:01:24 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 After drawing delighted crowds since first sighted in Orkney the young male has swum 400 miles across the North Sea. (Scotland)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213255/Magnus-the-wandering-walrus-leaves-Scotland-for-Norway tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213255 Tue, 19 May 2026 19:01:24 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Magnus NorthSea Orkney Walrus https://www.metafilter.com/213255/Magnus-the-wandering-walrus-leaves-Scotland-for-Norway/rss O'Neill, a Montreal-based writer and artist, lost her father a decade ago to a fentanyl overdose. (slLongReads)

Opioids & Organs scrutinizes a "silver lining" of an ongoing addiction crisis: a rise in organ donations. At his death, O'Neill's father "was young, healthy, and well preserved," she writes. "The perfect condition for organ harvesting." It's a dubious comfort for O'Neill. In Opioids & Organs, she gives remarkable vision and voice to her unease, detailing medical advancement's historic relationship with exploitation and desecration. There is something fundamentally horrific, O'Neill observes, about trying to find the bright side of the opioid crisis: "We are still taking organs from groups of people society deems lesser." Opioids & Organs at the D&Q website with more panels of the graphic novel An interview with O'Neill in Toronto Life about her graphic novel]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213254/Arent-the-Organs-a-Silver-Lining tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213254 Tue, 19 May 2026 16:59:11 GMT Kitteh arizonaoneill cancon canlit drawnandquarterly graphicnovels longreads torontolife https://www.metafilter.com/213254/Arent-the-Organs-a-Silver-Lining/rss Snuffleupagus due to its resemblance to the character.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213253/Sesame-Street-has-a-long-reach tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213253 Tue, 19 May 2026 16:45:23 GMT Higherfasterforwards fish GreatBarrierReef MrSnuffleupagus SesameStreet https://www.metafilter.com/213253/Sesame-Street-has-a-long-reach/rss "If the ball were only made large", he thought, "yes, large enough so that a player on one side could not see who was on the other, you would then have a chance to interest spectators in watching the whole game and in introducing much merriment, as well as skill".]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213252/If-Only-The-Ball-Were-Made-Large-Pushball-in-the-early-1900s tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213252 Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:43 GMT mhoye american lunacy pushball sports https://www.metafilter.com/213252/If-Only-The-Ball-Were-Made-Large-Pushball-in-the-early-1900s/rss Storror are arguably the world's pre-eminent Parkour group, loved and respected throughout the global Parkour community and by their millions of followers on YouTube, where they've been posting regular updates for over 15 years. Combining personable presentation with innovative globetrotting challenges and insane stunts, Storror have built a global brand, with a clothing store, tie-in computer game, and an upcoming documentary by Michael Bay. High-fived by adoring fans everywhere they go, the cheeky Brighton crew have the world at their feet. At least they did, until popular member Callum Powell pleaded guilty two weeks ago to possessing thousands of child abuse images.

Powell has been kicked out of Storror and the group has so far removed around 600 videos from their YouTube back catalogue in which he appears. Storror were previously mentioned here, but the video at that link is now private. Some reactions from Reddit and elsewhere: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYKSyJujCjv/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Parkour/comments/1t80ng0/callum_got_arrested_for_child_pornography/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1t80brl/callum_from_storror_has_been_found_to_possess/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Storror/comments/1tak5um/the_first_hole_storror_cant_just_climb_their_way/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Storror/comments/1tdlfqj/the_vicious_unravelling_of_storror/ https://parkour.uk/news/parkour-uk-statement-regarding-callum-powell]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213251/Storror-shocker tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213251 Tue, 19 May 2026 14:13:43 GMT rubber duck childabuse parkour storror https://www.metafilter.com/213251/Storror-shocker/rss Voting for the Greatest Wrestler Ever over at the Pro Wrestling Only forum has ended and the time has come for the list reveal The first ever vote was held in 2006 and then again in 2016.

This year, the voter pool was opened to the users over at X (formerly twitter) and well, the results are slightly different. Or maybe not. Voters submitted a list of 100 wrestlers and a wrestler's final ranking is determined by how many votes they received and their placement. Nominations were made after the last vote in 2016. People submitted a paragraph and three matches they would recommend about a wrestler in either the forum or the forum's discord. (There are notable omissions - a point of contention.) So far the list has seen number one votes for a Russian deathmatch wrestler (Alexander Navieb, he finished at #372), a comedy wrestler (Sakura Hirota, whom the post title is referencing - she is at #343) and at least ten others, some from the past and some still wrestling in 2026. The link above is to the master list but the reveal thread is ongoing here. They are currently on the cusp of revealing the final 100. Some voted with their hearts. Some with their heads. Many would agree that the most enjoyable part was not making their actual list but the journey they took to get there by watching more pro wrestling than is probably recommended.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213250/Arguably-the-most-over-wrestler-in-like-5-separate-companies tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213250 Tue, 19 May 2026 09:51:36 GMT LostInUbe AEW GreatestWrestlerEver NJPW wretling WWE https://www.metafilter.com/213250/Arguably-the-most-over-wrestler-in-like-5-separate-companies/rss Neumann's career runs back to that breakfast with Einstein. Multics, PSOS, IDES, SEN, RISKS, CHERI—each was an argument that complexity in computing is not merely an engineering nuisance but a moral problem, because complex systems hide their failures and harm their users in ways simpler systems do not. In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213249/Simplicity-gets-complex-quickly tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213249 Tue, 19 May 2026 09:18:00 GMT chavenet ComputerScience Multics Obituary PeterGNeumann PGN Simplicity Unix https://www.metafilter.com/213249/Simplicity-gets-complex-quickly/rss Their disappearance was keenly felt across Cornwall but particularly, perhaps, in and around Tintagel because of the bird's connections to the legend of King Arthur. (Cornwall, South West England)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213248/Choughs-reappear-at-Tintagel-Castle-in-Cornwall-after-decades-of-absence tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213248 Tue, 19 May 2026 07:48:06 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Choughs Cornwall https://www.metafilter.com/213248/Choughs-reappear-at-Tintagel-Castle-in-Cornwall-after-decades-of-absence/rss You've never seen a real photo . Video that explains Lippman Plates, the 130 year old colour photography technology of interference patterns. (18 minutes including 4 min of sponsored content at the end.)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213247/Standard-colour-photography-is-a-lie tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213247 Tue, 19 May 2026 06:16:21 GMT TheophileEscargot color colour Lippman LippmanPlate photo photography science SLYT SteveMould technology YouTube https://www.metafilter.com/213247/Standard-colour-photography-is-a-lie/rss TV commerical.
[Slyt.12s] Guinness book]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213246/Tyre tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213246 Tue, 19 May 2026 02:58:57 GMT clavdivs commerical Guinnessbook history tv https://www.metafilter.com/213246/Tyre/rss "They can feed here, get cover, they can bask, they can breed," says Herd. Ground-nesting birds, such as nightjars, woodlarks and Dartford warblers, will also benefit from the newly connected landscape. (Surrey, South East England.)]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213245/The-bridge-itself-is-a-floating-patch-of-nature-reserve tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213245 Mon, 18 May 2026 20:38:09 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries CockrowBridge Surrey WildlifeBridge WildlifeBridges https://www.metafilter.com/213245/The-bridge-itself-is-a-floating-patch-of-nature-reserve/rss "Geologists die at an alarming rate in the movies, often very early on in the movies seen, which requires some deeper analysis. The death percentage varies between 35.7–31.6 percent over our sampling years. Of the 202 geologists in 141 movies, 69 die or are found dead (Fig. 3). Thankfully, this percentage has decreased to 34.2 percent with the latest addition of data." Via.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213244/Geologists-on-the-silver-screen tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213244 Mon, 18 May 2026 20:06:19 GMT brundlefly Geologists Geology Movies Science https://www.metafilter.com/213244/Geologists-on-the-silver-screen/rss online video. And in a new video, the BFI shows how they undertake this digital archival.

Videos that have recieved the BFI treatment include Badgers, Charlie Bit My Finger (with commentary), and the Spongmonkies, among others.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/213243/Archiving-The-Best-Of-The-Audiovisual-Web-Britishly tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.213243 Mon, 18 May 2026 19:02:11 GMT NoxAeternum archive bfi curation online preservation video https://www.metafilter.com/213243/Archiving-The-Best-Of-The-Audiovisual-Web-Britishly/rss