I just read Sarah Jeong’s Bluesky thread on her ridiculous layover in Iceland after her flight to Portland got diverted because of a medical emergency. It gets wilder with every post. Either this is gonna become a A24 movie ora new Knives Out joint. The post Sarah Jeong on her ri … | Continue reading

We have a(nother) trailer for the upcoming Prime series, Carrie. If you’re not familiar with the original novel or the movie, it’s about a girl—Carrie White—who has latent psychic powers and lives with an religiously oppressive mother. She tries to navigate high school and pubert … | Continue reading

Toronto Zoo announced the birth a female pygmy hippo calf on 2nd August 2026. This is mother Kindia’s third child. Congrats to all of them! The post Another day, another newborn baby pygmy hippo! appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

The Lewes pound was a local currency in the town of Lewes in East Sussex. It was introduced in 2008, but was discontinued in 2025 due to the growth of cashless payments and a general lack of interest. The Lewes Pound was fixed at £1 (GBP) and was usable in around 100 shops as of … | Continue reading

I saw the new Clayface movie trailer this morning and it looks interesting. Sadly, I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it as body horror really messes with me and it looks like they’re going all in judging by the trailer. That’s a me thing and I think it’s an obvious direction to … | Continue reading

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There’s a new pygmy hippo at Zoo Berlin and her name is Brötchen. She was named after the German word for a bread roll by German TV personality Enie van de Meiklokjes, who is Brötchen’s “honorary sponsor” apparently. I wish I could get a job like that :( (via) The post Brötchen, … | Continue reading

David Hockney sadly passed away on 11th June at the age of 88. In 2019, the Royal College of Art did a video with him where he talked about his time there and how it influenced him. We were born in the same city so I always felt a certain connection with him. RIP to … Continue r … | Continue reading

For Syntax, Mara Cavallaro wrote an insightful essay on the digital occupation of Palestine and what digital resistance really means. This section refers to censoring of terms to avoid posts and comments from getting erased: Across social media, even original videos, stories, ree … | Continue reading

Dan Larson gives the lowdown on Pogs and their humble beginnings which then got really capitalist and then crashed and burnt after market saturation, followed by a weird NFT promotion that aged as well as left out… POG (Passion Orange Guava). I loved Pogs as a kid and played them … | Continue reading

After watching a couple of Welsh police dramas this weekend, I noticed the word heddlu on the back of police officers’ vests. Unsurprisingly, heddlu means police in Welsh but it’s the combination of two words: From hedd (“peace”) +‎ llu (“host, force”) Wiktionary That feels like … | Continue reading

I was scrolling through Bluesky one day when I saw a post about Frinkiac “modernising with AI”. Here’s the official part that was screenshotted: Ten Years of Frinkiac: A Few Months of Modernization with AI It’s been just over ten years (February 2, 2016) since we launched Frinkia … | Continue reading

From Salary.com on LinkedIn (of all places): 25 years ago we asked the real question: how many Big Macs is your salary worth? According to our Burg-o-meter, Ben Affleck’s answer was 4. 🍔 via LinkedIn And happy National Burger Day! The post Salary.com’s burg-o-meter from 2 … | Continue reading

Yesterday, I wrote about a compilation video featuring 1 second from every episode of Malcolm in the Middle. Today, I have a video featuring 1 second from every classic Simpsons episode (by the same creator). It’s not as unhinged as the MITM one but still very silly and ridiculou … | Continue reading

The attention to detail on this bowl is incredible. If you can’t weave ’em, mould ’em! The post A ceramic bowl that looks like a woven basket appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading

I’ve enjoyed watching Mr Chops on YouTube, mainly for his video game content, but his travel videos are pretty cool too. The one above shows how he went a whole day in London without spending any money. It involved a lot of walking, free water, and the hospitality of Sikhs in a g … | Continue reading

A while ago, I found out about a linguistic concept called mutual intelligibility which describes the connection between different languages that share enough similarities that a non-speaker could understand the other language(s). Wikipedia has an example of a Danish and Norwegia … | Continue reading

Tim Curry dug through artifacts at The Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library to talk about some of his most iconic roles. If you’re a fan, you’ve probably seen plenty of these trips down memory lane but this one gives us deeper backstories for films like The Rocky Horror Picture Sho … | Continue reading

I saw a Bluesky post earlier about the Oscars having an anti-union past and so I looked it up and found a Teen Vogue article about union-busting “at the roots of the ceremony”. The story goes that Louis B. Mayer, co-founder of MGM (he’s the last M), wanted a beach house made quic … | Continue reading

Happy Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tujia New Year, Tsagaan Sar, Hmong New Year, Ryukyu New Year, Korean New Year, and Vietnamese New Year to those who celebrate, in whatever way you celebrate, and in whatever name you call it around the world! 2026 is the Year of the Horse—t … | Continue reading

Getting rid of ICE won’t solve all the inherent problems behind what is called “law enforcement” but it’d be a start because the constant funding and murdering can’t continue if we want a better world. Solidarity with Minneapolis and every person who has been a victim of fascism. … | Continue reading

According to the WSJ, pizza restaurants are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican-inspired eateries1: Once the second-most common U.S. restaurant type, pizzerias are now outnumbered by coffee shops and Mexican food eateries, according to industry data. Sales growth at pizza … | Continue reading

Venezuela is going through a lot of sociopolitical turmoil with the illegal capture and arrest of its president, Nicolas Maduro. There are lots of contrasting feelings from its citizens—relief that Maduro has been removed (at least in person) but also worry about the future given … | Continue reading

Remember RiotGrlErin’s Muppet-themed Christmas movie posters? Well now we have fireworks for a Muppet’s New Year’s Eve. Such bright colours! The post New Year’s Eve fireworks but with Muppets appeared first on Cultrface. | Continue reading