The Call Of C:thulhu

Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer. | Continue reading


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The Call Of C:thulhu

Best Windows + Lovecraft mashup actual question and answer about cloning the C drive. Tell Me No Lies seeks the truth. gregr calls on the elder Gods to answer. | Continue reading


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You May Ask Yourself Well, How Did I Get Here?

Screenshot from Stewart Hickman video Come for the McMansion-enabling truss connector plates, stay for the malt liquor, beer cans, and blunts. | Continue reading


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Soooo, What DO Moderators At MetaFilter Do?!

Ever wondered what a moderator shift looks like? Then take a gander at these TikTok videos that are fresh out of the oven! There's a bit verbose (at 20 minutes total), but give you a general feel of things are. Enjoy! Part 1 and Part 2 | Continue reading


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Is That A Mango and Does It Matter?!

Photo by Saad Akhtar via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/saad/) You like mangos? Great, just be aware that the mango you're enjoying may not be a mango, but it doesn't matter, it's still delicious! Community member agentofselection created a fantastic and fascinating post a … | Continue reading


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The Most Cost Effective Way To Move 76 Beavers

Hey, did you know about that time when the Idaho Fish and Game program relocated 76 beavers by flying them to central Idaho and then parachuting them to the ground? No? Then let community member sawdustbear tell you all about it via folk musical puppet documentary done with stop … | Continue reading


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The New Folk Hero

The recent news events with UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired a lot commentary. But what about a song? Well, limeonaire wrote one, a folk song titled "The New Folk Hero". Come stop by for a listen, the lyrics and the chords! Photo by Eli Christman, via Flickr (https://www.flickr. … | Continue reading


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Things To Watch For A Little Comfort

I really need something to cheer myself up tonight. What can I watch? | Continue reading


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Eye On the Prize

image via pixabay.com Answerers are offering some very interesting ideas about different ways to think about achieving personal objectives in aeighty's Ask Me thread about creating a plan for achieving goals. | Continue reading


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Manifestive ✨

It's a new MetaFilter tradition, the airing of manifesti!. This holiday season, some beautiful sparkling rants to decorate your curmudgeon dungeon. Thanks, Wordshore! (HT to nickmark for the title) | Continue reading


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Lethe We Forget ...

Peter Waddell, Tiber Creek: The Bathers, oil on canvas, via The White House Historical Association, whitehousehistory.org Down down we went past the gym, past the print shop, down below the law library where there was a quiet study room that was hardly ever used ... a rather amaz … | Continue reading


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Looking For Poetry Book Recommendations

Photo by Book Catalog, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bookcatalog/) Lois1950's grandson would like a book of poetry. He's 13 and a avid reader, what would you recommend? | Continue reading


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Look, It's Coffee Time SOMEWHERE!

For all you lovers of design, retro products, and, oh yeah EXPRESSO, you should check out this post by chavenet. It's a link to an absolutely beautiful site that showcases antique espresso coffee machines. Go away decaf, we're busy (and in love)! | Continue reading


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It Could Happen To You

Banana peel for scale Slipping on a Banana Peel | Manifesting a Dr. Who Scarf | Glare Rage | eBikery | Bad Service | ChatGPT Gaslighting | Continue reading


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You Have A Right To Your Claim File

We earlier mentioned mephron's great link to advice about fighting back on US healthcare denials. Now adrienneleigh has added some more very helpful info: ProPublica also has a tool that will help you write a letter to ask for this information. | Continue reading


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Some Call It "Beano" (actually True)

✨Reminder!✨ Mefi Bingo game is ongoing! Please tag your related posts with MefiBingo2024, so we can enjoy them all! (for convenience, there's an image in the post to refer to, which also links to a larger size for tired eyes). | Continue reading


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More is Moore

portrait of Maryanne Moore by Richard Avedon, 1958 clavdivs posts in praise of the entirely fascinating human and poet, Marianne Moore, who once wrote When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use. It is time well-used here, if this sort of thing is the sort of thi … | Continue reading


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Borrowing From Shakey ...

Photo by Filip Bunkens on Unsplash.com ... to highlight some great recent posts: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. | Continue reading


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Darger-esque

chavenet has a great post on the surreal art of Fletcher Hanks: The Most Twisted Comic Book Artist of All Time Fletcher Hanks panel via flashbak.com | Continue reading


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Back At It With More Air Fryer Recipes!

Photo by Djsgmnd The air fryer has been around for a bit, but it's never a bad time to revisit what your favorite recipe is for using one! | Continue reading


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Notes About Healthcare In the United States

For Americans, mephron highlighted some sadly good advice about fighting back on healthcare denials in the States. Shame it's come to that, but this advice could be incredibly helpful. | Continue reading


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More Christmas Stories Than You Can Shake A Yule Log At!

It's THAT most time of the year, where Hallmark Christmas movies rain down like Santa plopping down the fireplace. Fortunately, jenfullmoon has started a review blog about them, so you can figure which one's are really worth it! | Continue reading


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One Cookie To Rule Them All?

inevitability needs to bake 4 dozen cookies. What is tasty, perhaps fancy, and extremely low effort? | Continue reading


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'Tis the Season To Be Linkin'

The latest Link-Me thread is here | Continue reading


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Cool Gifts That Benefit Charity

tiny frying pan is looking for fantastic physical gifts to buy that benefit charities. Go to that wonderful post to find some great options. | Continue reading


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A Horse Walks Into A Book Store

The clerk says, "why the long reading list?" Oh, hey, cupcakeninja has made a post for lists of "classic novels that bring the laughs." | Continue reading


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#MefiBingo2024

Hey, it's Mefi Bingo! Be cool, get square! | Continue reading


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More Mefi Gifting List Updates

Braeburn is looking for quirky, unique, not gendered gift guides, preferably UK based, while egeanin is seeking gifts that teach the constellations, and nouvelle-personne wants to give the gift of Beeps and Boops for two siblings, 3 and 5, who LOVE interactive educational toys th … | Continue reading


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"Unedited Moments From Random Lives"

nobody posted about IMG_0001, a time capsule cache of mostly unwatched direct-to-Youtube iPhone Photo uploads – 5 million of them, from between 2009 and 2012, ordered randomly. | Continue reading


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We Have To Help

Poverty by ArtBencher12 In a thread on homelessness in the US, Frowner provides some tips on how to help the unhoused. | Continue reading


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A Love Story

"When I find myself dipping into the dark, I know that I can call up a Nelson town on the computer, and I begin to do the research, and I begin to conduct the interviews, and I start reaching out to people, and it just brings me back." | Continue reading


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Mefi MST Turkey Day 2024

:emoji: "Once again, we at MST Club, that tiny subset of the site that gathers to watch riffing and other things on Thursday nights ... are piping in the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day stream off of Youtube to watch in our video share room throughout Thanksgivin … | Continue reading


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"That's So Nice Of You"

Out in the among the intertubes of the internet, AlSweigart found...something, and decided to share the surreal journey. You may never ask a stranger to take a photo of you again or you may ask every stranger to take a photo of you, the journey is just wonderfully odd! | Continue reading


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Supporting the Vulnerable

Right person, right time, right place, right thread: Migrantology expertly answers a question about donating for legal aid to immigrants to California. | Continue reading


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Medievally Yours

Snotolf [Cyclopterus lumpus] MPM.HB.03961 Rumple has posted Antwerp's Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of 14,000 woodblock prints, now online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. We stan the lumpy grumpy fish. | Continue reading


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The Signs Are Posted All Over Town

Reality is collapsing. There are no rules. But there is a Thread. It's weekly. It's free. It's your weekly #freethread. Say hello to Mrs. French's cat if you see her there. | Continue reading


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Gifting Update

One new to add to our roundup, Have you got board game gift recommendations for my age 20 & 24 kids?, and one overlooked from earlier (how did that happen!), What holiday gifts are you giving kids in your life that are 7-9ish? | Continue reading


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Time Capsules ... You Can Safely Chew

via Slate, Julia Child on the set of her television show, with her editor Judith Jones in the background. Courtesy of Knopf "Tell me what you cook, and I will tell you what you are." Frayed Knot posted Slate's 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years | Continue reading


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The Librarian Knows.

Your sock is hiding in the dryer outside of eyesight. JohnnyGunn tells a funny story about calling the library to find out the location of their missing sock in pablocake's Ask Me post about a phone hotline (instead of Google) for questions. It should come as no surprise to Mefit … | Continue reading


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"For Holiday Shopping Or Spending Down Those Gift Cards"

Flagged as fantastic! Or as kristi says, "an absolutely marvelous paragon of a post": joannemerriam's magnificent latest roundup of more than 50 new and forthcoming small press books. ❣️ | Continue reading


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A Man Of Parts and Learning

18th Century portrait of Francis Williams in his study like a real life version of a spy thriller (art & science history edition) — comment by Ausamor Kattullus has posted about the mysteries of the portrait of Francis Williams, brilliant Black Jamaican polymath and member of the … | Continue reading


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The Gift Of the Mefi

For getting ideas, or sharing answers, some #GiftFilter posts currently in AskMe: ">Gift for the guy who has everything? ❖ Fantastic gift (basket)? ❖ Rubik's Cube and Rubik's Cube Adjacent Gift ideas? ❖ Sewing/fashion gift to inspire a creative, crafty tween? ❖ High Quality, Inte … | Continue reading


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A Bit Of Irish For Ya

Image by Scott Curran, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tog_go_bog_e/) I've always enjoyed traditional Irish music, so these recent uploads to the Music section by wurl1tzer_c0 have brought a smile to my face and a bit of head bobbing. Here's 30 seconds of a traditional … | Continue reading


@bestof.metafilter.com | 2 months ago

Got A Poem? Leave A Poem! Need A Poem? Take A Poem!

Ferry to Bremerton, Washington by Barret Anspach via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/anspach/ The world needs your poems! Or at least the town of Bremerton, Washington does, according to this post from JHarris. Click the link to learn where to send yours! | Continue reading


@bestof.metafilter.com | 2 months ago

What is Your Life Was A Movie?

Condour75 has made a neat little app called Memento Movi! Here's how they describe it: "The user enters date of birth and life expectancy, and chooses from a list of movies. The site then shows a frame from that movie that represents your place in your lifespan. So, for instance, … | Continue reading


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Love To Love Ya, Baby

image from Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites? | Continue reading


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"The Artwork Was So Cool"

image via pixabay.com (not the book cover art!) I remember this old paperback in my old used bookstore where Greek or Roman voyagers end up in America and meet the Mayans ... suburbanbeatnik is looking for a particular hard-to-find DAW paperback from the 1970s | Continue reading


@bestof.metafilter.com | 2 months ago

The Beep Boop is Coming From Inside the House!

"With a decent local GPU and some free open source software like ollama and open-webui you can try 'open source' LLM models like Meta's llama, Mistral AI's mistral, or Alibaba's qwen entirely offline." Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models | Continue reading


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