Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I hope my first-year tutorial students appreciate Tosh as much as I did as an undergrad in Iceland all these years ago. Also quite handy that I still had my copy with me here in Dublin! 081
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonCage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why would I deceive you?" 131105472100
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonCharacter Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Art of The Wind Rises → buff.ly/1hOCPOB #animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev 08022
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026On the morning of 22 September I will finally be presenting my 'Thesis in Five [minutes]' if you want you are around and want to hear a proper 'elevator pitch' of my research! 063
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Term begins! 081
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If you are interested in the larger historical currents behind the EU referendum and Icelandic history generally:engelsbergideas.comThe myth of Icelandic insularityAs Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage. 0143
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonRúnar Berg 🌲 @rokksula.theremins.club · 23/08/2026Hvíl í friði þú frábæri leikari 041
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonClement @clementj64.bsky.social · 05/07/2026One neat thing about Soul Calibur was that every single fighter got their own exhibition feature. A demo to show off their proficiency with their weapons, all recorded by real martial artists doing badass mocap. Kilik's was the best. 561776419
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonPatrick Macias @patrickmacias.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The dream always starts the same way 24615
Reposted by Kári Ólafssonold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 02/08/2026freezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984 17880215
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026A hidden gem in Pisa. On display inside the Church of San Sisto is the Kufic Epitaph of Emir Ibn Aglab al-Murtaḍā of the Balearic Islands, from 1094. It ended up here as plunder from an 1114 Catalan-Pisan crusade waged against the islands but was only discovered in 1937. Anyone here know Kufic? 092
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026In light of the EU referendum in August, I wrote this short piece on Iceland’s relationship with Europe over the centuries and the enduring myths surrounding the island’s insularity.engelsbergideas.comThe myth of Icelandic insularityAs Icelanders prepare to vote on resuming EU talks, the island's elites have spent centuries managing external influence to their advantage. 2143
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 03/07/20264th of July always feels like going to see a band that had one pretty good first album and has been riding solely on that accolade for the last 250 years 1663
Reposted by Kári Ólafssonmaffew going to MAGFest @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026started watching Ultimate Muscle and i can already tell the translators were having fun 19505134
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This is such a beautiful cover for a history book. Forest and Brännvin! We need more covers like this. 062
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonQuinn Stokan (Chris Voiceman) @hirethisman.com · 05/06/2026From the people who brought you "I'll lose a million fans before I fire this sex offender" comes "It's not graverobbing if I'm only reanimating his corpse digitally, right?" 182160727
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonInternet Archive @archive.org · 06/06/2026Preventing the Wayback Machine from saving the news puts today’s journalism at risk of disappearing from history. 📝 Help push back. Sign the open letter calling on publishers to stop blocking web archiving 👉 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders 4655343
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonTodd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I would pay extra to have this option. I'll say it again, the destruction of all search engines is the tech story of the decade. 655874
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026@ St Andrews for the week! Attending and presenting at the 2nd COMLAWEU Conference titled "Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe”. Really looking forward to this. 051
Reposted by Kári Ólafssonompuco @ompu.co · 28/04/2026found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it. 464113103688
Reposted by Kári Ólafssonmaffew going to MAGFest @maffewgregg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026does anyone have any context for this clip and is the guy ok 11695
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonBeth Downey @librarybunny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Today y'all gonna learn the Hampster Dance is just sped up Whistle Stop from Roger Miller: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxnv...youtube.comRobin Hood (1973) whistle stopYouTube video by Liam 824174
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonWebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 28/04/2026The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory 5333401389
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonAllan @allancheapshot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026FRENCH WRESTLING DELUXE! March 1953. 1299
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonAllan @allancheapshot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Look at the crowds for Danno O’Mahoney in 1936. He was the Worlds Heavyweight Champion and a huge star returning home. This Pathé clip shows the mania in Cork, Ireland when his ship docked. 1135
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination. 16683731798
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Just sent an important email but somehow mispelled my own name when I signed it. I hope they know that I am in fact a serious person. 051
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonMatthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026When you were only going for one pint but... On 25 July 1765, a commission investigating a revolt in Bergen questioned one instigator, Jochum de Lange, who stated that "he was drunk and therefore rioted along with the others," and that he remembered neither what he did nor said "due to drunkenness". 1114
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonJustin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Today I learned that Sam Keith (RIP, author of THE MAXXX) directed a rock-climbing adventure thriller for Roger Corman's New Concorde in the year 2000. 76412
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonAaron Meyers @aaronmeyers.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Sam Kieth has passed. There are so many great comics creators I love, but Sam is on my Mount Rushmore. The Maxx was a revelation when I first read it. What a sad loss. What a great creator. I will miss your light in this world intensely. 491854479
Kári Ólafsson @kario.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Just letting my friends on Facebook and Instagram know that I haven't blocked them. Meta decided to permanently shut my account down without proper explanation. So you might see me more active here, dunno. 011
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 24/07/2025transmetropolitan ass earth 6752
Reposted by Kári ÓlafssonRevy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 10/03/2025Death Stranding 2 cover reminds me of the Japanese Metal Gear Soild 2 cover 511333
