Transition Team Post #4

In Metatalk, Transition Team Post #4: The team shares the initial member survey results. | Continue reading


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It's Been A Gas

Gasoline by Ayolt de Roos (cc by)ShooBoo posted Jalopnik's excellent multi-part series on the history of gasoline by Jamie Kitman | Continue reading


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Got Ya Covered

spoonful of diamonds...... by Rolf Dietrich Brecher (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, jeszac is looking for your favorite not-widely-known versions of songs that are themselves widely known? Great answers here. | Continue reading


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In the Dark Blue Sky You Keep

✨ As someone who's spent the better part of the last decade working on the camera, NIRCam, that took the picture...tomorrow's images are going to be even more gorgeous, let me tell you. – RubixsQube, speaking in the James Webb Space Telescope first images thread. (!!) | Continue reading


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Easy Summer Batch Meals

Picnic sallad by Magnus D (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, spindrifter is looking for "ideas for summer meals or components that can be made in a batch and eaten over the course of the week for easy dinners with no or minimal cooking in the moment." | Continue reading


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Cultural Hacking

Starred by kevin dooley (cc by)storybored posts about Trabian Shorters and "Asset Framing," a cognitive skill to magnify humanity. | Continue reading


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Poets Of Ask Me

rainier by dnak (cc by)Roses are red; cherries are, too So many cherries, what do I do? | Continue reading


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Gateway Drug

I seriously would have a read a whole book just about two fifteen year old best friends/runaways running a store with cool platform shoes: thivaia on the best thing about Go Ask Alice ... what kitten kaboodle calls "aspirational shopkeeping goals." | Continue reading


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Episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with cortex, Jessamyn, and loup! | Continue reading


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How Do I Maintain A Happy Little Kitchen?

Lundby Restoration by Studio Sarah Lou (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, What are your proven tips and tricks in keeping, maintaining, and nurturing a little kitchen and pantry? | Continue reading


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Legacy

Country Girl 13 by martinwcox (cc by)"What's it like to be a girl in a band?" Box posts about the women who built grunge. | Continue reading


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Dreaming Of Electric Sheep

Apocalyptic giant flying bioluminescent jellyfish destroying a city, digital artRhaomi entertained the Saturday night crowd in Metatalk by fulfilling requests for art by OpenAI's DALL-E 2 | Continue reading


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Play Free Now

I work in the space and have a few observations ... Jilder shares insider insight on those bizarre free-to-play mobile games / ads. | Continue reading


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The Reviews Are In!

Terrible National Park Reviews (Illustrated) | Continue reading


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How Puzzling!

Squardle screenshot via setsideb.comDaily puzzles in art, geography, and more (also, see this Ask Metafilter question) | Continue reading


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Write Or Wrong

Torn & Cut One Dollar Note Floating Away in Small $ Pieces by photosteve101 (cc by)headspace on the affluence / class privilege connection among editors and writers in the publishing world | Continue reading


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FerryLand

Boarding by G.A.I.N (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, some very interesting answers to Why do so many Japanese ferries still exist? | Continue reading


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Ask JAN

Office Play by jasoneppink (cc by)How Do I Accommodate This Person? Ask JAN! brainwane on the Job Accommodation Network. | Continue reading


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"Who Cares About VAERS"

In Ask Metafilter, If anybody and everybody can report any kind of supposed vaccine side effects to VAERS, what good is it? | Continue reading


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In Metatalk, US abortion access actions and resources: how we can help | Continue reading


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Keeping Time

Histories by Aldaron (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, ordinary_magnet says, "I'm looking for popular songs that relate events or profile people from history in a straightforward, informative way. Can you help me add to this weird playlist?" | Continue reading


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Gametime

Game Box by M.G.N. - Marcel ON OF (cc by-nc-nd)everything happens so much! what can I play? "What are some good recent video games that don't suffer if you are frequently interrupted?" | Continue reading


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Creative and Destructive, Spiritual and Material

Aztec Imaginary God of Death"Using these codices, I tried to identify them all, like a Pokemon chaser..." dhruva posted A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon | Continue reading


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Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

Itsy frog will make you feel positively competent: moonmilk offers a post that asks Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping?, an interesting discussion ensues, and the primroses were over observes, who among us has not been so bad at something that our sheer incompetence has be … | Continue reading


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Training Arc

Final boss Majora from Legend of Zeldaordinary_magnet has an unexpected and rather brilliant answer for a certain type of "boss problem." | Continue reading


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Every Word

cenoxo links to full text transcripts of the House Jan. 6 Committee Hearings | Continue reading


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What's Not Enough and What's Too Much?

Two Years Ago by esotericsean (cc by-nc-nd)Some fascinating advice from grumblebee on how to read a script | Continue reading


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Popular Links In Comments / Last 7 Days

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8 (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ89jZvZD0 (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mrr3UNALww (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVcsDDABEkM (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes (2) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedi … | Continue reading


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Linguistic Characteristics

stacking chairs abstract by Muffet (cc by)A self-proving premise appears! | Continue reading


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Wave If You Know the Answer!

Storm Surge by Krystal.Hamlin (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, cda is looking for the best products that smell like the ocean | Continue reading


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Gut Microbiota & You

uBiome - Microbiome Sequencing Gut Bacteria Sample Kit by Tony Webster (cc by)In an interesting thread about "rethinking healthy eating in light of the gut microbiome," ASF Tod und Schwerkraft shares some enlightening commentary on why the results of microbiome research is always … | Continue reading


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The Final Architecture

"For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it." In Fanfare, some members are discussing the novel, Shards of Earth, the first of a new series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. | Continue reading


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Oh, Brother!

ABH: Printers device by follow us at boekwetenschap.org (cc by)I've hated every printer I've ever owned. In Ask Metafilter, Skewed looks for a new printer, and the voices are (nearly) united! | Continue reading


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So Perfect

Plastered by splorp (cc by-nc-nd)An absolutely immaculate pairing of poem and comic from brainwane. | Continue reading


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Useful *and* Fun

Computer Chip by JD Hancock (cc by)In case you missed it earlier, the very excellent Joy of Computing, featuring code snippets, computer-generated art, games, tools, crafts, libraries, and more from the Recurse Center community. | Continue reading


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Are You Old Enough To Have Wine?

Sighetu-Marmatiei: Pensiunea Konnak by Daniel ENGELVIN (TWO Millions thanks)How they do it in Transylvania; DirtyOldTown comments in the #swedengate thread | Continue reading


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Perfect Balance

Mermaid Tree by merwing✿little dear (cc by-nc-nd)In Ask Metafilter, unicorn chaser is looking for good books that are also fast and easy reads | Continue reading


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185: A Very Wearing My Bathrobe All Day Day

It's episode 185 of the MetaFilter podcast, with cortex and jessamyn! | Continue reading


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This Post Sucks!

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Cleaner | Continue reading


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Perspective

pattern by fazen (cc by)I hear voices all the time. In my case those voices are both outside of me, myself, and I hear them in space and as auditory voices - but they are not generally foreign either - we are a collective ... warriorqueen with a thoughtful personal perspective on … | Continue reading


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A Fish Needs A Bicycle

Amble, stroll or saunter over to tiny frying pan's post The Inky Depths #5: Fish That Walk! and learn how some fish stride this earth like a colossus (or maybe slightly less colossus-y, but still darn flipping impressive), and sometimes even flaunt the perfect red lip while they' … | Continue reading


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Only Through Love

167th St. Station. James Baldwin Mural. New York, NY. by KTDrasky (cc by)to bear witness, as long as breath is in him: "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare," by James Baldwin | Continue reading


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His Hair is Perfect

Lil' Werewolf by ShaeferIn Ask Metafilter, As a werewolf, how do I better entertain young human children? | Continue reading


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Unsolved: the Carrot Problem

HSBC advert by Arenamontanus (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, what's more fun than a mystery list? | Continue reading


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It's Nether Here Nor There

Photo by ide alien on UnsplashSomething for the pantsless and the pantsed | Continue reading


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It's a MetaFilter User Survey! "The MetaFilter Transition Team (TT) is excited and pleased to announce a MetaFilter User Survey (May, 2022). This is the first major step the TT is taking to help MetaFilter be more sustainable and community-driven." | Continue reading


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Losing the Long Game

Cold Dawn, Warm World by marktmcn (cc by)For millennia, people of all different cultures have done things with unintended consequences that changed and sometimes ruined their environment, from over-hunting megafauna in the Americas to salination of ancient Sumerian irrigated fiel … | Continue reading


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Toy Boat Toy Boat Toy Boat

IMG_1159 by schrierc (cc by)Harboring concerns about buying a boat? Loquacious takes a stern (and port!) view of all the ups and downs. | Continue reading


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