MeFi Projects is a space for members to toot their own horn and link to something that they have done and wow has member malevolent done a great bit of tootin'! You'll see what we're talking about if you play his online game Stycraper and build a tower of junk! | Continue reading
Photo by Jim Kelly, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pthread/) Feeling political are you? Well, Jabo has put together an amazing collection of ways people can participate in the political process, while joannemerriam has a roundup of over 100 small press books which prov … | Continue reading
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Photo by Razor512, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/razor512/) Recent music posts have had a couple of greats hits (get it?!). First, box shared an interview with Neko Case and her recent memoir. Meanwhile, in Ask MetaFilter, Serene Empress Dork put out a request for qui … | Continue reading
Photo courtesy of Travel Stock Photos, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/everywherephoto/) Considering that it's cockatoos, it kinda make sense. But yeah, the rumors are true, everyone's favorite ornery birds do prefer dunking their noodles in blueberry yogurt. | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] DirtyOldTown is back with another FanFare roundup! | Continue reading
Photo by Orangeaurochs, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orangeaurochs/) Feel good stories about cows! First up, a post about automated and voluntary milking of cows, shared by chariot pulled by cassowaries. Then BlueHorse joined in with a post about cows getting pedicur … | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] We may still in the midst of winter, but that won't stop this week's free thread! | Continue reading
Over in AskMetafilter, an anonymous US worker for the federal government in DC is seeking advice how they and their co-workers can cope with all the recent upheavals. | Continue reading
Photo by shellac via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/) It's the weekend, and as Going To Maine's post notes, that means resting, relaxing and, ahem, chilling out While doing all that, please check out Wolfdog's post about the hardest working font in Manhattan! | Continue reading
Do you remember stacking cups in gym class? If so, come read the link that gottabefunky shared of how that came to be and meet the literal clown that got the craze started. Fastest to finish wins! | Continue reading
Grab some paper, your favorite beverage, and let's make some origami! Faintdreams found a great website about that subject and it's a fantastic guide, thank you! | Continue reading
Pixar Oscar by Marcin Wichary (cc by) The Week of Living Dangerously: Your FanFare Roundup: Oscar contenders , new series and episodes and, of course, the Super Bowl. Bonus inside this week: a massive list of all of the A24 films posted on Fanfare. | Continue reading
Do you like dinosaurs? Then come ska punk/dad rock/indie folk out to an album 186 million years in the making! That's right, Professor Goldstein & The Adjuncts, among the mightiest musicians to ever trod this earth, have put out a new album, Songs about Dinosaurs! | Continue reading
Vintage human stomach diagram "People tend to be horrified or intrigued": Eyelash is looking for weird food combos that people enjoy, and Mefites do not disappoint. | Continue reading
Tell us something good! It's your weekly Free Thread! Or you can let us meta-pet your Meta Pet in the Metacritter Metatalk thread! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Sow, sew, so!, so-so, sough, ... so? | Continue reading
image via margarethowell.jp Hey, it's the Belladonna Loop! Belladonna solves the knotty question of how this scarf was tied in this way, with helpful illustration! | Continue reading
The Sims 1 - (The Original Life Sim) via YouTube The best Sims post ever built. Flagged as fanatic. | Continue reading
Dobbs would really, really, really like their drawings of dogs to look like dogs, not alligators. So there's a request for apps, courses, videos, and/or instruction to get better at drawing. Please lend your advice if you have suggestions! Or just come on in to check out the exce … | Continue reading
Community member workingdankoch has created a fantastic science fiction audio drama titled Metropolis. It's a murder mystery in neon utopia that may be slightly topical for US citizens or an excellent escape, you decide! An original science fiction audio drama! | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] In the IRL subsite, paduasoy has posted Getting stuff done in February 2025 as a space to "support ourselves and each other in getting things done, whatever that means to you. Decluttering, organising, cleaning, admin, making progress on projects," including arts and … | Continue reading
We found them, and they are in a website near you! In Ask Metafilter, alex1965 asks, What can I do in my spare time to benefit society?, while in Metatalk, Glinn posted Small Things, for people who "feel like they should be doing something or contributing something ... even if it … | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, vernondalhart asks, What should I expect / what should be included in renovating an old piano? and gets some super spot-on info from Pallas Athena | Continue reading
Making You the You You Are brings us Best Documentary Feature nominees, new movies, what's new in TV, special events, and much more, including a new episode of Severance ... and its fictional self-help book "The You You Are" gets a real e-book. Enjoy! and thanks, DOT! | Continue reading
حر, Free, Frei, Gratis, Dohainik ... It's your weekly Free Thread! | Continue reading
French metalcore act Novelists For it is a human number / Its number is 5, 5, and 5. Did you know signal has been posting a regular series showcasing great female-fronted metal bands since October? Now you know! It's basically a Mefi metal shredfest, is what it is. | Continue reading
in Metatalk, es_de_bah pitches a new Mefi Music podcast. What a great idea! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Ryvar comments with details and insights on Deepseek in _benj' post OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] It's a new month so does that mean Rhaomi is creating a new LinkMe thread? Yes, Virgina, yes it does. | Continue reading
Photo by Kaysse via Flickr Tired of those AI summaries when using Google search? Well, getting rid of them is really fucking simple! | Continue reading
Photo by Kim Carpenter (https://www.flickr.com/photos/kim_carpenter_nj/) With the onslaught of changes occurring over the past year of the first two weeks of the Trump administration, it's good to be reminded that resistance is possible and not all is lost. African American write … | Continue reading
They are called P A Y P H O N E S Are you ... how shall we say? Of a certain age? For the over 50s, what used to be but is no more? People are sharing all the things in Ask Metafilter! | Continue reading
Oh, no! The other Oscar, actually! And the Oscar goes to FanFare. This week in fanfare, Oscar-nominated films with FF posts, rebooting the Wolf Man, a new take on the haunted house in Presence, One of Them Days, Star Trek: Section 31 ... but wait, there's more! We have recently r … | Continue reading
Who would you be, if you could be anyone? It's your weekly Free Thread! | Continue reading
image via pixabay.com Recently from lucidium, The God of Arepo, a short comic about a farmer and a god of small things, and from PussKillian, Wolfskin, a short comic about love. Meanwhile, posts this month from brainwane include short stories about people who think they can outwi … | Continue reading
Between 1996 and 2002, VH1 had a show called Pop Up Video which paired music videos with trivia and jokes that "popped up" on screen, mostly without controversy ... A fabulous Kattullus collection, trivia treasure trove, megapost, and deep dive in a "Pop! Pop pop! Pop! Pop into P … | Continue reading
Such a great comment from gelfin in their comment on chavenet's post, Master the Art of the Product Manager "No." | Continue reading
The myth, the legend, the Indonesian biscuit tin? Yes, you might have become familiar with the vintage Ladybird books via a number of ways. But a biscuit tin? Yes, that really happened! | Continue reading
Screenshot from the game The Witness Daisyace could use your help. They'd love to find a video game that they could play with their husband. Something that is a "engrossing, feel-good video game with gorgeous visuals" but has little or no violence. What do you suggest? | Continue reading
, via Wikimedia Commons Come along as bunderful shares a bit of bean plating in a post. Legume of all your culinary fears as we look back on the history of this pantry mainstay before delving into a few recipes! | Continue reading
Dimension (1972) - Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simões via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/) For various reasons, you might be feeling a bit revolutionary these days and needin … | Continue reading
[COMMUNITY] What have you broken free from? It's your weekly Free Thread! | Continue reading
Fix Your Hearts or Die! Special events, new movies, FF's complete David Lynch, current TV shows under discussion, new comments on older posts, and more in this week's roundup! | Continue reading
A man sits in a chair and delightful things happen in this post shared by dick dale the vampire | Continue reading
Photo © Keerthana Kunnath It's said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. bBut when the beholder is you, what does one see when that beauty is outside of the norm? Chavenet's post about a burgeoning community of female bodybuilders in Kerala, India touches on this question a … | Continue reading
Screenshot from How To Cream Pasta Like a Great Master - The Ultimate Guide by Luciano Monosilio Cheese and pepper? Yes, of course, according to Greg_Ace's homemade and lovingly baked post about four roman pasta dishes united by these not so similar ingredients. | Continue reading
Photo by nicholaspollock, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamataman/) Brainwane continues their excellent streak of sharing great stories with a link to J.R. Dawson's "Six People To Revise You". It's a moving tale about searching for and finding your identity in world t … | Continue reading