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
GenjiandProust's Increasingly Strange Stories for an Increasingly Strange Year is another faboo roundup of weird audio dramas, again with tons of info and links to each one ... And for yet more... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, pleasebekind asks 'Can you recommend any contemporary love poems or poetry collections?' ... I would really like to read more works by women and queer poets, as well as poets... | Continue reading
Speaking as an author here: I hate Goodreads and want it to die. — cstross in bitteschoen's post on Goodreads’ problem with extortion scams and review bombing | Continue reading
Oh, look, the new Mefi newsletter has a name! And a second edition! Whee! 📰 Also, the latest Metatalktail Hour asks members to tell the least plausible story about yourself, and it's so, so... | Continue reading
Weird Science theme week has ended (see all the excellent weird science posts here!), and for the second theme of our August fundraising month, Sweet Art week has begun! Please help us make a... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, miles per flower asks, 'I've recently enjoyed a couple books that dive deep on what magic costs — Sanjena Sathian's Gold Diggers and Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education — and I'm... | Continue reading
clew's post Stones speak and ashes live explores recent archeological research and evidence that 'shred the long-standing idea that early people subsisted mainly on meat.' | Continue reading
Water in my NYC apartment tastes funny. How to test it? I'm a drinking water scientist and this is what we suggest to customers having water quality issues... | Continue reading
I'll put it bluntly: modern cooking is a social dick-measuring contest: Kadin2048 has an intriguing comment about the 'fixation on cooking at home as a moral good' in theora55's post on... | Continue reading
Slinga has posted the perfectly wonderful 45 minutes of Funky Old Japanese Soundtracks to chill out to, and we love it. | Continue reading
Today in Weird Science!: A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft, teensy little cannibals who eat their own siblings for their own survival, and hot, hot, sweaty manikins. (Hey, it's... | Continue reading
📈🚀🔬👩🏽🔬👀⁉️ We're having theme weeks as part of our fundraising month, and the theme for this week is WEIRD SCIENCE! Also currently in Metatalk, Show Us Your View! | Continue reading
In AskMetafilter, soylent00FF00 says, 'I've learned that I was wrong (dead wrong!) about a couple of scientific 'facts' that I had assumed were kind of 'general knowledge' (for a certain nerdy... | Continue reading
This stuff is crazy, it's like someone found a alien spaceship in the desert and hooked the warp engine to its own tailpipe to answer questions about the universe. — RobotVoodooPower Cash4Lead... | Continue reading
What if MetaFilter...but email newsletter? Well, we've started one and here's the first issue. Discuss and brainstorm and etc. in this MetaTalk thread. | Continue reading
When I hear a chipmunk chucking I look for the nearby raptor: Lots of lovely, fascinating, relatable, inspiring, unusual, surprising, curious, strange, and amusing insights in this Metatalktail... | Continue reading
Hey, folks, it's time for a fundraising push! MetaFilter depends primarily on member and reader funding to operate, and that's even more true over time as advertising revenue continues to decline.... | Continue reading
brainwane has a couple of great posts up about ADHD: The World Federation of ADHD's International Consensus Statement of 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder, and 'this was like... | Continue reading
Heyyyy, it's episode 175 of the MetaFilter Monthly Podcast with cortex and jessamyn! | Continue reading
Stately pleasure domes now being decreed and/or erected ➡ This Way. | Continue reading
Best Olympic news of the day?; Where can I find nation agnostic coverage of the Olympics?; Watching the Olympics - Obscure sports edition; What is the the best way to stream the Tokyo Olympics? | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, I'm always feeling, Blue says 'what with the state of the world I've been thinking about fire and flood recently. If I had to get up and go right now, what should go in my... | Continue reading
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk. Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between... | Continue reading
It strikes me that the past is funny and odd and serious and heart-breaking and packed full of people who feel a lot like us: hurdy gurdy girl posts Tom Jackson’s quirky Postcard From the Past... | Continue reading
[I] am an audiologist, hearing aid researcher, and published scientist in this area: Lutoslawski provides a clear channel of info and advice about hearing aids in Ask Metafilter, plus good advice... | Continue reading
Come join us in fanfare to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics! | Continue reading
Gorgik: This post is a perfect homage, given the care and obsession that it took to make it. Rhaomi makes a rather spectacular post on comedian Bo Burnham and his pandemic special 'Inside.' | Continue reading
sandmanwv is asking for tips on eccentric US restaurants or bars with 'severely limited menus and/or kind of weird service offerings'. | Continue reading
Geologist cubeb brings a bit of temporal perspective (and a much better slogan than 'diamonds are forever') to the thread for Karmakaze's post on the incomprehensible antiquity of the Appalachian... | Continue reading