I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened with me.' Loquacious gives an inside view of the reality of restaurant work in this grim new Covid + Capitalism timeline. | Continue reading
'These deaths lack individuality!': eotvos posts Paste Magazine's 50 Best Dystopian Movies of All Time, and Mefites add their own analyses and offerings. | Continue reading
'This next one will be fun!' No it won't. brook horse is looking for non-peppy workout videos for people who hate exercise | Continue reading
> i cant believe how many hot single cabbages there are in my area ... What do you know about cabbage? | Continue reading
MetaFilter has a new formal Privacy Policy document; you can read about it here. | Continue reading
Happy Birthday, MetaFilter! You're 22 this year! That's rather a lot. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, sir jective says, 'I love second-hand drama of reading about terrible people or amazing situations or weird things or basically just good stories ... Essentially, I'm looking... | Continue reading
Mecran01 posted The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine? 'because I wanted to see what shape the resistance would take ...' | Continue reading
The dude wired a 35 year old floppy drive directly to a monitor cable and made music and video. Holy shit! – Nelson. JHarris posts The world's first 1541 disk drive graphics demo. | Continue reading
The 'girl in concrete' illusion may not actually be an internet obsession, exactly, but for some of us, it did lead to the introduction of the ha-ha, or hâ-hâ, which is pretty cool ... and which,... | Continue reading
A month ago, Youtuber Veritasium sailed Blackbird directly downwind faster than the wind. Afterwards, a physics professor bet him $10,000 that it didn't happen... Confused? clawsoon's post on the... | Continue reading
From last month, in the 'that's a darned good question' department, cilantro asked How did servants (or anyone, really) walk upstairs in long skirts with a tray or two buckets or anything that... | Continue reading
oooooh! GenjiandProust offers a collection of weird fiction anthology podcasts, complete with description (including content warning info, where known), average running times, tone, existence (or... | Continue reading
Need some weekend listening? Here's Episode 174 of the MetaFilter podcast with cortex and jessamyn. | Continue reading
oulipian posts Elis Regina and Tom Jobim performing 'Aguas de Março' (video, 1974) | Continue reading
Summer salads and vegetarian pasta sauces wanted, please. | Continue reading
orange swan: I'm a hard sell on the simpler, pastoral/country life 'you can wear this to frolic in meadows' fantasy that is used to market it. Pro-tip: if you should go frolicking in a pasture in... | Continue reading
domdib posts about 'Sable,' a beautiful sci-fi game featuring Moebius-inspired graphics and soundtrack by Japanese Breakfast (due in September), with current demo game available for PC and XBox. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, unus sum says, 'I'm looking for a longish video games to sink my teeth into. I find it nice to have a video game where I can solve interesting problems that don't actually... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, moonmilk is seeking online long form journalism about scams, frauds, shady businesses, and failed businesses — preferably with minimal violence. | Continue reading
I shit you not, I started reading this and thought 'Eh, I'll finish it later.' – hwyengr. Storybored posted Why You Procrastinate. | Continue reading
So, let's talk about the TVA Archive for a bit. If you think it looks familiar, you may have seen it before ... In FanFare, radwolf76 has some great trivia and background about the actual... | Continue reading
From wintersweet, in Ask Metafilter, What are your best tips / gadgets / purchases for preventing things in your household from needing to be cleaned / maintained as much or as often? I don't... | Continue reading
Animated fabulosity from jontyjago: 'Based on the same 3 second model, 2400 CGI artists submitted their own interpretation. These are the 100 best.' | Continue reading
Via Buzzfeed, Photos Of How People Celebrated Juneteenth 100 Years Ago. | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, azalea_chant is looking for 'mysteries that deviate from the standard structure/genre tropes etc. Can be fantasy or science fiction, literary, whatever ... just stuff that’s... | Continue reading
The errand hang dances in the sweet vulnerability that comes from the everyday: ellieBOA posts Annika Hansteen-Izora on the errand hang date — 'where you hit your homie up to accompany you while... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter wenestvedt wants to know, What have you paid a lifetime/one-time fee for that was worth it? | Continue reading
In Metatalk, The corpse in the library invites us to play Summer book bingo | Continue reading
My aim with my newsletter is to eventually have written a biography of every single woman we know existed in England between roughly 500 and 1100: Wobbuffet posts historian Florence H R Scott's... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, Jane the Brown has a great answer to ficbot's question, Is there really a monster underneath the bed?? | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, Hactar wonders, 'Which sports are completely dominated by a single person currently?' | Continue reading
Gin and Broadband in Ask Metafilter: 'bring me your most-loved shortcuts for unloveable Microsoft and Google' | Continue reading
MartinWisse posts about 'Photopea,' a free web-based graphic software alternative to Photoshop. | Continue reading
I recently created a rule that sends email to the Clutter folder if it has the text 'unsubscribe' in the email body. It is literally the best. I look once a week to make sure there's nothing I... | Continue reading
America hating fat Black women — it’s just part of life. It’s in the culture. It’s in the health-care system. You see it in Hollywood, you see it in sports. You don’t have to look around very... | Continue reading
I have 8 nectarines, a reasonably well-stocked kitchen, and a song in my heart. What is the best nectarine-based dessert? | Continue reading
The satisfying resistance of a well-designed knob, the almost imperceptible click of the needle in a VU meter, the tapping of keys, the gentle whirring of reels and discs… simple pleasures. We... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter, kristi is seeking likable characters, good writing, humor. Please recommend all your well-written, likeable characters. Humor appreciated. Plot optional, while kingdead... | Continue reading
Hippybear posts the story of nonagenarian Hector Black recalling his life as a closeted gay man — a husband and a father — who didn't come out until he was 70 years old ... and it turns out one... | Continue reading
'Oysters are one thing — Rocky Mountain Oysters are quite another. What other foods are there where adding a toponym materially and radically changes the dish (generally for the worse)?'... | Continue reading
Mefites have their own ideas about what sorts of horror films would fit the current zeitgeist, from the Second Monster, to bacon-enraged intestine-slurping aliens to posh Freddy Krueger (requires... | Continue reading
In Ask Metafilter: This Pride month, I'd like to spend some time reading good adult fiction that features queer joy, not misery / abuse / death. | Continue reading
Hey, it's Episode 173 of the MetaFilter Monthly Podcast with cortex and jessamyn! | Continue reading
Musical passwords given by miniature birds: great post by nickyskye about the Superb Fairy-Wren (and a fun thread!). In other birbtalk news, learn 12 different chicken calls, including the before... | Continue reading
beccyjoe wants to know 'What is an article or essay that you have read that caused a dramatic change in your thinking / perspective / life? ... I would love to hear what you've read that has... | Continue reading
cozenedindigo wants to know 'What's your favorite BBQ side?' | Continue reading