"The 30-minute Russian animated film Tale of Tales has been more than once voted the greatest animated film of all time. Here it is with English subtitles ..." So lovely. And several great links in the comments. | Continue reading
mochapickle: Our 10-Day Metafilter IRL Spring Cleaning event officially starts tomorrow! | Continue reading
Night at Thar Dessert by Navaneeth Kishor (cc by)Penguin pie has a nice list in answer to Vatnesine's question "What is the Simple Life, as distinct from the American Life?" | Continue reading
image via siderea.dreamwidth.orgI gather from what I have read that there is simply no word in English that is quite that obscene: A rather amazing link from Nancy Lebovitz that goes fully down the rabbit hole on the derisive "Putin khuylo" nickname that "the Ukrainians turned in … | Continue reading
comic by Sarah Lesson, via chaospetIn Ask Metafilter, Your favorite funny Twitter accounts? | Continue reading
News, updates, analyses centered on Ukraine / Russia / Europe Foreign volunteers in Ukraine Ukraine: We have feelings (for personal thoughts) President Zelenskyy Logistics of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Historical origins of the Ukrainian conflict How to Help | Continue reading
Chrysopoeia has an in-depth post on state level anti Trans efforts in the US, including info on how to help protect Trans folks and save lives. | Continue reading
Speaking of things found on the ground (earlier), Mystery Card. Do you recognize it? | Continue reading
Hands in the sky by ohhhbetty (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, I'm writing a short story where the main character uses a signed language that developed on a space station: A very interesting question and some great answers on signal's request for cultural and linguistic introduction to … | Continue reading
Burning paper offerings at Mandai Columbarium by Jnzl's Photos (cc by)liminal_shadows on the Kafkaesque experience of trying to survive the paperless revolution in swift's post wanna go paperless? | Continue reading
Found Objects by Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, Have the things you find on the ground changed in the last 30 years? | Continue reading
Hey, it's the new weekly-ish Free Thread! Come on in and chatter about whatever and whatnot. | Continue reading
The latest mefi discussion of the invasion of Ukraine is happening here. | Continue reading
Pop-and-lock synchronized dance spiders; sonascope's beloved Pilea Cadierei, and that time the spider plant survived a Chrysler; signal on signals: the web before the web. Speaking of which, does... | Continue reading
Hey, hey, we've lifted restrictions on Ask Metafilter posts: Announcement and discussion in Metatalk. | Continue reading
Hey, it's episode 182 of the podcast with cortex and jessamyn. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, Fiasco da Gama has an illuminating answer for jolenex4's investigation into the mystery of Miss Strange and the fanlight over the door. | Continue reading
Today's the last day of Doubles Jubilee month: see our beautiful doubles! | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, storybored asks, What are some real-life thefts of unusually large physical objects? Just curious as to how thieves manage to steal large things. What they stole and how they... | Continue reading
Helping to play out Doubles Jubilee month, Rhaomi with a grand updating of his 2010 post on Ted Chiang, including links to short stories, articles, essays, and interviews. | Continue reading
Film historian here. Audience reaction is actually one of the holy grails (or missing links; choose your metaphor) of film history ... Dr. Wu has a great answer to circular's great question about... | Continue reading
Can I kill somebody with a sock and a hockey ball? She would prefer to disable, not to kill, but she's pretty ruthless. | Continue reading
🌟 Today(ish) only 🌟, 2 good 2 B true, mint condition user account number 22222 giveaway happening now! Comment to enter our drawing to claim this stunning 22222 mefi member number! | Continue reading
Did you know there is a Mefi Card Club for exchanges year-round? If you love sending and receiving cool paper mail, check it out! 💌 | Continue reading
It's episode 181 of the MeFi podcast with jessamyn and cortex! | Continue reading
It's Free Thread Number Five! | Continue reading
February is the season of love ... love and yet more love for wonderful old Mefi posts! 💖 To celebrate, Metafilter members dig out their old favorites and repost to share the goodness, again.... | Continue reading
Hey, look at that, it's a Free Thread! | Continue reading
Hey! You! Come introduce yourself in the, well, Introduce Yourself thread! | Continue reading
It's another Free Thread, to wander in and chat about whatever! | Continue reading
Another Monday, another Free Thread! Come on in, say hi, chat a bit, share something weird, whatever. | Continue reading
Happy New Year, it's episode 180 of the MetaFilter podcast with jessamyn and cortex! | Continue reading
Hey, we're trying out some no-link, no-topic friendly chatter threads on the front page. Come say howdy in our first FREE THREAD, why don't ya? | Continue reading
The Wrong Kind of Cheese has an amazing comment laying out how to find an organizer and help a disorganized friend. | Continue reading
Looking for chill company over the next few days? Drop in to the Mystery Science Theater Club movie marathon, Dec 23-25. | Continue reading
Break out the sound-emitting devices, it's episode 179 of the MeFi podcast with jessamyn and cortex! | Continue reading
Shop the Mefi Mall for freshly picked, genuine Mefite-made stuff! Sellers, time to add/update your shop! | Continue reading
Behold, episode 178 of the MetaFilter podcast with cortex and Jessamyn! | Continue reading
Prepare for festive times! Sign up now for the Mefi Holiday Gift Swap (signups end Nov 11) and Mefi Holiday Card Exchange (signups end Nov 14)! And NaNoWriMo all month long, commiserate and... | Continue reading
MeFi Holiday Card Exchange Planning currently happening in Metatalk, as well as discussing the idea of a CD micro SD Swap, and the possibility of a MeFi Visual Arts Club. | Continue reading
It's episode 177 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast with jessamyn and cortex! | Continue reading
Hey, it's episode 176 of the MeFi podcast with cortex and jessamyn! | Continue reading
someone forgot to tell like 99% of the human race this is going to happen to them ... flug with some great information about presbyopia in the What is up with my glasses? Ask Metafilter thread | Continue reading
Joe in Australia on why beavers are fish in this super fun thread on Defector's ranking of state flags, included mainly because the comment contains the phrase 'born through supernaturally... | Continue reading
Algorithms are great *but* don’t go to any guilty pleasures or allow any other person to use your account, unless you want those choices feeding into it. I don’t know a way to come back from the... | Continue reading