Podcast 188: 'Big Stride Moonshot' is up! 🎧🌙🚀💫 | Continue reading
07 pole by london road (cc by)A very interesting discussion of architecture, operational energy, design, density, carbon costs, and urban planning in this thread. | Continue reading
Goat by bagsgroove (cc by)Do you have pictures of goats you would let me use for gifts?? | Continue reading
christmas project #3 : advent boxes by ali edwards (cc by)dorothyisunderwood has proposed #Advent2022 posting for December: "I'm committing to post an FPP every day from Dec 1 to Dec 24 for Metafilter - seeing more activity and diversity on the blue is a direct action to boost Me … | Continue reading
homemade by Horosho.Gromko. (cc by)In Ask Metafilter: So I made homemade bread. It was awesome. I'm making homemade Castile soap this weekend. Very excited. What other stuff should I be making at home? What are the best things to make at home? | Continue reading
Compass by Walt Stoneburner (cc by)In Metatalk, "MetaFilter's Global BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Advisory Board wants to share some context and plans with MetaFilter at large," including Big Picture, scope, background, and future. | Continue reading
Movie Tickets (cc by-sa)Week 2 of Metafilter Events is here! "Following Week 1, we're back with more as we kick off a week about books, fiction and the humanities." This looks so great. | Continue reading
🎁 'the Metafilter community has collaborated to create gift suggestions by and for real people, who want to have real connections, and make a real difference in the world.' | Continue reading
Excavating for a New York foundation, 1903I feel like the lead character on a Hollywood Forensics show, able to produce amazing results from the other characters by saying "...Enhance." In Ask Metafilter theatro asks "Manhattan history detectives: what church is (was?) this?" and … | Continue reading
Radio on. by Howdy, I'm HMK (cc by)carrienation posted Bent by Nature, a podcast from LA's KCRW about the legendary DJ Deirdre O'Donoghue and her influential radio show SNAP, with available live music archives from the show (1982-1991). As eschatfische notes in the comments, "not … | Continue reading
"It is Thanksgiving Day, and as is our wanton wont, we are watching the official 2022 Turkey Day marathon (via their YouTube stream) of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes in the MST Club room all day long!" | Continue reading
Pictures of My Random Items by bjcoving (cc by-nc-nd)Modern pentathlon votes to swap horse riding with obstacles"Paper or plastic?" ... "MOUTH"MeFiGiftGuide2022 - The Metafilter Gift GuideThe Inky Depths #7: Eels Give Me The FeelsDavid Amram: creating a true music culture through … | Continue reading
The Ascent / Meganeura by Stefans02 (cc by)Grobstein focuses on cyberpunk as social critique. Good stuff. | Continue reading
How To Build A Business Plan 22 November 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST Presented by Amina Omari Introduction to AI "Text-to-Image" Artwork 22 November 2022 | 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST Presented by Jeremy OsbornEventbrite Tickets | Continue reading
Teegeeack AV Club Secretary has compiled a useful collection of Twitter alternatives for keeping up with Ukraine news. | Continue reading
Cosmic Fractoil..... by The Manic Macrographer (cc by)I was in very niche-y trade journalism throughout the 90s. Starting for a publication called Lubricants World ... It covered the fascinating world of motor oil, metalworking fluids, hydraulic fluids, etc... Naberius on the sur … | Continue reading
Lightbulb Streak 3664-2 by Raymond VThe inaugural Metafilter Events is finally here! "As one of the closing initiatives under our Metafilter Fundraising Drive, our online events series features presentations, workshops and discussions across a fascinating range of topics, themes … | Continue reading
just putting the meta in metaphoricalIn Ask Metafilter, Twitter account utility or helpful tool to keep following users? Related conversation on the Blue: Subterranean birdsite blues. | Continue reading
Image via bonnnuhealth, instagram.com/bonnnuhealthFundraiser Update 3: With your help, we're charting a way forward: We're two croutons past "Survive"! Check out the update to see how many toasty little pals we need to REVIVE and how to do it! | Continue reading
Scents by kuhnmi (cc by)How do I figure out why I love a perfume? "I'm not well versed in perfumes and I can't figure out what exactly about this one made it catch my attention ..." | Continue reading
Cups by Rob Oo (cc by)If you fall in, you may land in an acidic soup of crime, addiction, and existential angst. sciatrix posted about the consuming allure of the carnivorous Nepenthes. | Continue reading
Marquee by judithjackson957 (cc by)DirtyOldTown is creating member-sponsored themed days of films on FanFare for site fundraising. Currently on the marquis is katie's request for six films that pass the Bechdel Test. DirtyOldTown has posted one from each of the last six decades, … | Continue reading
kittens ripening in the Chicago area, will be ready sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. | Continue reading
Harissa-and-Maple-Roasted Carrots via EpicuriousLow effort, high deliciousness Thanksgiving side dishes? | Continue reading
In ask Metafilter, a question about great office gifts: people really love a useful household item that is much, much more adorable than the version of that item they already own ... How should I dominate the game this year? | Continue reading
He's a Kafkaesque character -- or maybe a Serlingesque one: Some thoughts on Gallagher, from back in 2010, from a Metafilter member filmmaker who interviewed him for a documentary on stand up comedy / comedians. Gallagher current discussion. | Continue reading
✨ Reminder! The Metafilter Fundraising Auction ends tomorrow (Sunday)! Also, in case you missed it, 2022 MeFi Holiday Card Exchange signups are open until 6am EST 11/20. | Continue reading
Yesterday I spent 5 hours working in the cold garage, encountering much mouse poop, and finally 5 fat mice ... And that's how I came to make my very first MetaFilter post! — dorey_oh in her post thread on the Peptoc Hotline, offering pep-talks by kindergarteners. | Continue reading
Week 2 Fundraiser Update: We need your help to REVIVE Metafilter: The steering committee updates the financial situation and lists all the ways you can help, with special guest star, the Crouton Meter! | Continue reading
Barcode by Conor Lawless (cc by)So I once met the person who invented barcodes, a woman engineer working for IBM in the mid-60s ... She is, of course, not named on the patent: basalganglia talks the origins of the barcode in jessamyn's great fundraising member-sponsored post on s … | Continue reading
"Mystery Science Theater Club, that odd tiny little corner of MeFi that shows bad and weird movies Thursdays every week, is doing a day-long show on Tuesday for US Election Day": JHarris in Metatalk. | Continue reading
Wheeee ... It's time for the sixth MeFi Holiday Card Exchange! 💌❄️✨ | Continue reading
A stained glass Metafilter favicon (12 inches square) made by Metafilter's own cortex is on offer in the auctionThe Metafilter Fundraising Auction is now live! "Take a look at the amazing offerings from the community. There's unique art and photography, professional services that … | Continue reading
"This book is a critique of gamification by an actual game designer, games journalist, and former neuroscientist that 'goes far beyond the usual suspects like Fitbit and Duolingo to look at the historical roots of gamification'": Discussion of "You've Been Played: How Corporation … | Continue reading
Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet are apparently not on the same pageMefites discuss the worst Jane Austen covers ever. | Continue reading
My Social Graph from facebook by paul_irish (cc by)I'm aware that my saying all of this is like when Ollivander referred to Voldemort as "Terrible, but great." But I think it's important, on some level, to understand that Facebook wasn't a fluke: Metafilter member Tom Hanks Canno … | Continue reading
Mmm. Sweat. by BitBoy (cc by)Interesting dip into the details and deeper history on the adoption of ORT (oral rehydration therapy) by biogeo in the Dr Dilip Mahalanabis thread. | Continue reading
2010-guate-CSC_32459 by mesaba (cc by)Help Metafilter survive! - Annual Fundraiser week 1 update. Handy update in the blue from tavegyl and the steering committee on everything going on currently. | Continue reading
MetaFilter Financial Update, November 2022 (this is an *amazing* job by the steering committee!) | Continue reading
Twitter icon by Jurgen Appelo (cc by)... what ends up happening is you need more and more people to manage smaller and smaller things ... Wow! Very interesting insider comment from wooh on the scale challenges and other issues that have steered the engineering side of Twitter. | Continue reading
"Language justice is critically important for health care, legal services, workplace safety, and education": a great member-sponsored post and interesting thread from jessamyn. Sponsored posts are helping with the current, vital fundraising effort, and you can follow these posts … | Continue reading
Halloween_sweets by burgerking1975 (cc by)Treats for you, and you, and you ... Metafilter Halloween-related posts, 2022 | Continue reading
MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups end Nov 1✍ Mochapickle's Nahhhh-NoWriMo: A zero stress, no rules writing month begins Nov 1⭐️ Mefi Posts for "Sale" is still going! jessamyn, Rhaomi, and Eyebrows McGee are offering to write posts for contributions to the Mefi fundraising drive | Continue reading
Pursuit of Vikings by Artiom Ponkratenko (cc by)In your job, where are you a Viking? This member-sponsored Ask Mefi post asks "What task or part of your work day ... do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?" | Continue reading
renovations by in pastel (cc by)In Ask Metafilter: DIY home reno project got you a li'l confused? dg takes a deep dive on the proper steps, in the proper order, with the proper prep to successfully un-yuck your habitat. | Continue reading
Now, do you have any scary stories to share? | Continue reading
Image from page 42 of "Coast watch" (1979) by Internet Archive Book ImagesIf you want a truly insane and mind-boggling supply chain you should look up how grocery store fish fingers are made ... Fascinating comment from 100kb about global supply chains and commoditization in an A … | Continue reading