marquee by Muffet (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, The Vole Drama; a play in three acts (so far). We're on the edge of our seats! | Continue reading
I do think a shared understanding of body dysmorphia would be helpful here. It's useful if we can distinguish subjective suffering from how objectively atypical a bodily characteristic is ... DrMew offers some clarity on terms in the limb-lengthening surgery thread. | Continue reading
screen cap from Moon Knight, ep 5Currently trending in Fanfare at Metafilter: Moon Knight, Asylum; Better Call Saul; Russian Doll; Everything Everywhere All at Once; Spider-Man: No Way Home; The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. | Continue reading
Expect Mayhem by Brian Blythe (cc by-nc)"What music sounds most to you as if it were written/performed by/for goblins?" | Continue reading
What music for New Year Party? by margycraneI fucking love ranting about this topic because it makes me feel smart and it's taken me decades to learn a lot of this stuff and debunking audiophile woo. Loquacious with an epic "extended play" on music audio. | Continue reading
In Metatalk, people are talking about A Metafilter Discord — Metacraft | Continue reading
Old books, two apples, glasses and empty cup on wooden table from above. by shixart1985 (cc by)Interesting question from Winnie the Proust in Ask Metafilter: "Can you recommend two books that complement each other in striking ways when read at the same time, or one right after th … | Continue reading
ThanksgivingDogShow by krossbow (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, Find me gentle, fictional, happy ending TV. | Continue reading
A Couple Of Colorful Mice by Lisa Zins (cc by)In Ask Metafilter: Steve needs better toys. | Continue reading
Postcards by Matt Perich (cc by)In Metatalk: "Mefi Card Club was started as an ongoing card swap in March of 2018, and is still going strong today — that is over four years!" | Continue reading
Tribute to Signe Brander - Explored by Poupettathe umlaut is probably the least threatening of the diacritic marks ... Kattullus on why Finnish-language brandnames appeal to anglophone marketers. | Continue reading
Le Jour ni l'Heure 6327 : Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682, Saint Pierre en larmes, c. 1650-1655, musée des Beaux-Arts de Bilbao, lundi 29 mai 2017, 12:37:42 by Renaud Camus (cc by)In Ask Metafilter, jeszac asks What media hit you differently the second time around? "Have you … | Continue reading
As part of the ongoing changes in how MetaFilter is managed, cortex had an initial meeting Friday with several MeFites to kick off a temporary Transition Team. This MetaTalk post summarizes that meeting and various ideas and questions that came out of it, and is the start of a pr … | Continue reading
The Whisper by Brian Smithson (Old Geordie) (cc by)Are Siri, Alexa, et al, relaying your private conversations to advertisers? Kadin2048 on why this isn't the case, why the truth is actually more nefarious, and why the distinction matters. | Continue reading
romeo and juliet by sammydavisdog (cc by)Nice discussion in eotvos's post on the (un?)balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet, with an especially interesting comment from ricochet biscuit on one Thomas Coryate, "probably the most influential person on your daily life that you have neve … | Continue reading
A robot draws itself, by OpenAI's DALL·E 2Please do not miss Rhaomi's Opus DALL·E 2 on "the extraordinary new AI that creates anything you can imagine in a matter of seconds," including examples, explainers, demos, other projects and breakthroughs, fun stuff, deep fakes and more … | Continue reading
Blank by Crystl (cc by)How many Wordle-likes can folkle regurgitadle? A myriadle? Innumeradle? Multitudindle? Incalculadle? The latest to hit Metafilter is Redactle, a blank blank blank where the blank blank to blank the blank of a blank blank blank blank. I hope you find it enjo … | Continue reading
Les blés by _.Yann Cœuru ._ (cc by)There's something called "the resource curse," or resource trap ... Eyebrows McGee with a fascinating bit of musing on Russia and Ukraine and the hinterlands and yeoman farmers, and resource extraction, wealth concentration, state benefits, educ … | Continue reading
Boogie by roberlan (cc by-nd)In Ask Metfilter: One Night in Bangkok makes a wee baby boogie (what other songs will?), and by the way, what the heck was that (South Korean) song "The Boogie"? (and why was it so funny?). Hey now, don't tell me those boogies are dated — tell me HOW … | Continue reading
It's episode 183 of the MetaFilter monthly podcast, with jessamyn and cortex! | Continue reading
Deviled egg carrier question goes rogue in Ask Metafilter, devolves into delicious, delicious deviled eggs recipes (the secret is butter!). This wild, cockamamie behavior — and I cannot stress this un oeuf — is very, very naughty. | Continue reading
Stumptown coffee truck by SusieWyshak (cc by-nc-nd)I used to own a coffee shop in the lower east side of Manhattan ... newpotato with some very interesting inside advice in the Is coffee truck profitable? thread. ☕️ | Continue reading
The genius of Genius of Love; the genius of Lispector; the genius of a hyperpolyglot carpet cleaner; the genius of a kite; the genius of talkative mefites commenting on the genius of talkative fungi; the genius of a talkative exoskeleton; the genius of design and surviving loss; … | Continue reading
Armored Amour by JD Hancock (cc by)"The 2022 ballot for the Hugo, Astounding, and Lodestar Awards, awards for achievement in science fiction and fantasy, has been announced." | Continue reading
Travelling through magic(Le voyage enchanté) by PATRICE OUELLET (cc by-nc-nd)There's not a lot of research on this, because it can't be monetized and grief is hard to quantify in order to measure ... Lyn Never with some extremely insightful commentary on understanding grief in l … | Continue reading
Pepsi Cola by dok1 (cc by)Have you ever been sitting around and suddenly thought, gee, I wish I knew a lot more about Pepsi? No? Well, just in case that happens. Also, don't miss this fascinating explanation of "puffery" from Shepherd. Puffery is weird! And so is "reasonable pers … | Continue reading
books by Kurt:S (cc by)omg, it's hidden treasure! Wobbuffet's FPPs I never posted (March edition) in the flipping free thread. (And don't miss the ones that were posted!) | Continue reading
Simply the Best by Ray Larabie (cc by)I have big feelings about my very bougie toilet brush! – centrifugal. In Ask Metafilter, dobbs wants to know What are your favorite mundane items? "I want to own the best box cutter, oven mitts, key ring, wallet, dog collar and lead, notebook … | Continue reading
1-20-2007 1-39-51 PM_0067 by Clemson (cc by)Vehicles what require "the knowing" to operate: Lots of great stories (and wisecracks) in nicwolff's post A few things to know before stealing my 914, including why sardonyx cannot buy a Miata, uncleozzy's friend's Car of Theseus, OHenr … | Continue reading
In Metatalk: "March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. I'd like a thread for those of us who are here to talk about our experiences on MetaFilter if we want to, to raise awareness of issues, and to celebrate our lives and contributions and voices and each ot … | Continue reading
First steps in some MetaFilter changes: working on reworking the admin structure. | Continue reading
"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