MeFi Posts for "Sale": "We're all pitching in for Fundraising Month. Ever wanted to see a post on a topic, but didn't want to write it yourself for whatever reason? Let us do it for you." | Continue reading
TOKYO Street by t.shinobu (cc by)A walk in the city, or a drive in the country? | Continue reading
In love. by marfis75 (cc by)"It was a simple, warm potato salad" ... Long lost potato salad love in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Merrick Thread Co., The spider and the tiger (on black background), Boston Public Library via WikimediaHow do I help my spider friend through the winter? | Continue reading
⭐️❗️⭐️ Metafilter Wants You - The Fundraising Post! The steering committee breaks down the situation, and offers ways to help. ⭐️❗️⭐️ | Continue reading
The Wrong Kind of Cheese turns out to be exactly the Right Kind of Cheese, again, with thoughtful and expert advice on a tricky distance cleanup situation. | Continue reading
Ford River Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)Ok, so I am in the thick of things, working in the automotive industry — an industry with massive interlinked supply chains (geographically and temporally) and hundreds of thousands of workers ... xdvesper, with the … | Continue reading
Theater Stage by joncutrer (cc by-nc)prismatic7 on multiple aspects of planning accessibility in theatre spaces | Continue reading
Crepuscular rays at dawn over the Normandy coast by TeaMeister (cc by)Eisenhower then makes the biggest call of his life and an example to leaders everywhere: He trusts the expert ... A really great analysis by garius of Blacksod, D-Day, the planning, the storm, the leaders, the … | Continue reading
2022 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups are Open!! 🎁 Thank you, rhyspenbras and okayokayigive! | Continue reading
In A Whisper - 1920x1200 by /\lex (cc by)Whisper, from OpenAI, is an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition" | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter: I've allowed my Reddit feed to become filled with negative stuff ... Can you recommend quality subreddits full of positive vibes and/or longreads and/or interesting links and videos? | Continue reading
DirtyOldTown has posted Inception on Fanfare, and for some reason, I just have the idea that this might be some of DOT's finest work. | Continue reading
Sunflowers (1887) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the MET Museum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. by Free Public Domain Illustrations by rawpixel (cc by)I study carbon cycling and other biogeochemical cycles as part of my job ... truly awesome comment from cubeb in the soup on … | Continue reading
Greetings from Sunny California. (pcard-print-pub-pc-59a) by Fæ (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, tatiana wishbone says "as a reading challenge, I'd like to read the best novel set in each US state. What are your favorites?" | Continue reading
Tiny Japanese restaurants in 4K. "... there's a whole channel of these wholesome, calming and hunger-inducing videos" | Continue reading
Got to thinking about how Bowie was in The Hunger and Tom Waits was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Are there other vampire movies with iconic musicians? mermaidcafe in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
pneumatic tube by rhinman (cc by)We got your pneumatic tubes right here. This is one of the things I research (I am an architectural & technology historian) -- and I'm working on a live documentary lecture about them ... maximolly in Ask Metafilter | Continue reading
Mystery Writers by Nanagyei (cc by)mochapickle will be doing a zero-stress no-rules November writing month on Metafilter's IRL✍ | Continue reading
I prefer the dark to the light by Steve Wilson - over 10 million views Thanks !! (cc by)18,000 years ago in New Guinea, humans tried to domesticate cassowariesWhy is a cassowary the "least birb-like bird on the planet""A falcon won't fuck just any old hat."Calling Ornithologists … | Continue reading
Jump! by EoinGardiner (cc by)ASF Tod und Schwerkraft has a bonkers-good comment explaining the evolution of Irish dance costuming in the thread on the Irish dance competition cheating scandal. | Continue reading
Mirror with frame by Carlos ZGZ (cc by)Ask Metafilter helpfully suggests seeking expert advice on how to make a bar a more mingle-y space. oh wait | Continue reading
Ever Changing Weather by catAsmith (cc by)looking for stories about people who realize they don't actually want what they thought they wanted ... | Continue reading
Steel barque Pamir (1930s) by frankmhI'm working on a tall ship right now, on which I have several thousand sea miles' experience... automatronic explains why the state of the art for a sailing ship still looks much the same as it did a hundred years ago | Continue reading
In today's edition of "what does eponysterical mean?" malevolent lives up to his user name. | Continue reading
From the Steering Committee, a Community Question: How can MetaFilter put the FUN into FUNdraising? | Continue reading
martin q blank asks about IDing a half-remembered old mystery novel that somehow features a model train set used as computer, and is answered by Mercantides, who has lurked on Mefi for 20+ years only to show up as a new member to answer this question! Wow! | Continue reading
"The MetaFilter Steering Committee is excited to bring you the first Steering Committee Check-In!" | Continue reading
Bureaucracy / Bürokratie III by manoftaste.de (cc by)I am an RN case manager who does hospital discharge work and has a lot of experience in other parts of the mental health and elder care systems as well. I want to warn you about some of the difficulties that might lie ahead as … | Continue reading
photo via loc.govadamsc links to a super secret stash of cunningly hidden Library of Congress cultural treasure in the Lizzo LOC thread | Continue reading
chasles has posted a Hurricane Ian check in thread in Metatalk | Continue reading
Warren G. Harding by Forever Wiser (cc by)In 2001 I was both stage manager and historic researcher for a play from 1911 about congressional sex scandals: EmpressCallipygos shares inhuman ecstatic shrieking and some hot goss on Warren G. Harding. | Continue reading
Zürich, Braginsky Collection, B247, f. 03r by Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (cc by-nc)... The length of the year may have been the first scientific measurement in human history to be accurate to seven significant figures. It took a thousand years of record-keeping to … | Continue reading
Conventional by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)Grangousier in Fanfare with a grand deep dive comment on The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, their roots, the zeitgeist, and connections to the wider culture and adjacent subcultures. | Continue reading
An Italian cameo bracelet representing the days of the week by their eponymous deities via WikipediaThe days of the week are associated with the seven 'luminaries' ... A fascinating explainer from heatherlogan about why the days of the week are named as they are. | Continue reading
Fractal assembly of micrometre-scale DNA origami arrays with arbitrary patterns (click for image info)for us "tiny" doesn't mean 10 inches by 10 inches, but rather closer to 1 micron by 1 micron -- one hundred times smaller than the width of a human hair. To make tapestries that … | Continue reading
btw ... on the internet someone knows you're not a dog | Continue reading
For those licking their lips over a new season of The Great British Bake Off, episode one of season 13, "Cake Week," is being discussed in Fanfare. | Continue reading
This thread on the unicode 'many-eyed seraphim' multiocular letter O (ꙮ) is heavenly. 👀 | Continue reading
I was with Current TV from the launch in 2005 through 2008: Molasses808 remembers the early years of Current TV in poorchanticleer's thread asking about how to find user created shorts from the channel. | Continue reading
Merritt Square Mall, Merritt Island FL by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos (cc by)Ask Metafilter reveals that there are more devices for Performative Snackery than one might imagine. | Continue reading
floppy disks for breakfast by Blude (cc by)Turns out the obsolete floppy is way more in demand than you'd think: great interview link from Etrigan. | Continue reading
you can almost smell the excitement in the room ... the Mom Olympics Diaper-Changing event as visualized by Well I never. | Continue reading
Not this kindThis being Ask Metafilter, surely one of you knows how many crickets per square foot there are in my part of the world. Please show your work. – bondcliff | Continue reading
Jessamyn, via jessamyn.infoi have no idea how these people got a librarian wedged into their social media site, or why. * publicinfrastructure.org podcast interview with Jessamyn! (Also discussing on Metatalk) | Continue reading