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[This is a response from an anonymous commenter.] Look, I've been in your shoes. I was in a more-or-less comfortable marriage with somebody who shared my interests, but we were not igniting each other's fires. Our sex life was gone, I had lost… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Yesterday

yesssss [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by SaltySalticid, scruss
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Silent Night
favorited 4 times, recently by Pallas Athena
Music post - 3 days ago

Just had a thought, rereading the bit where Liet-Kynes is dying in the desert and seething at the lecturing, disembodied voice of his father: it can be explained away as just dying delirium, but it could also be seen as a spontaneous, naive… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 days ago

And one thing I'm also curious about, for this and for the rest of the books: I've developed this impression in retrospect of Herbert's writing in the novels that it is almost uniquely humorless. Like, my early thoughts about the story were of… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 days ago

Which just comes back to "why not have a staffer do a brief photo/video session that isn't a fucking paparazzi mess" which brings us right back to conspiracy theories vs. incompetence/stubbornness. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Tehhund, The corpse in the library, edithkeeler, Silverstone
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Why is the TMZ video so blurry? Every picture of Middleton has been in 4k, then TMZ gives us early 2000’s era video? Make it make sense. This by itself is one of the least weird things to me: covert photography/videography is done at range… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by eirias, The Shoodoonoof
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

And just to be clear that this isn't some weird joke, yes, he is. Scott, if you wanted to sign up for Metafilter to defend your writing, that would have been fine. If you wanted to sign up for Metafilter and be incognito as just another user,… [more]
favorited 283 times, recently by khedron, sotonohito
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I wrote a tiny Othello clone on my Palm IIIc back in the bad old days of my call center temp job out of college, and I was working with such an artificially limited source code footprint that I had to jimmy in as concise a player 2 AI as I could… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by Richard Daly, everdred, The corpse in the library, h00py, Lesser Spotted Potoroo, rifflesby, mollweide, figurant, Windopaene, AlbertCalavicci, Pemdas
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

I just got around to reading this in the last few days, and dang I enjoyed it. Just finished it up and then reread the first chapter for good measure, and it's all rolling around in my head still. I really liked the narrative conceit; it was… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by supermedusa
FanFare comment - 11 days ago

> also you have the Bene Gesserit who can literally remember their ancestor's memories and so would retain knowledge of the spoken language as well, and who culturally have their claws into everything in the universe I was wondering about… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by hototogisu, surlyben, philip-random, grandiloquiet, MiraK, cendawanita, the_dreamwriter, porpoise, whir, Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

How is it possibly constitutionally OK for a state to ban sale of a piece of software? Look, software is a kind of digital machine, right? And if you've got a machine of some sort, and—like, it's specifically designed to… [more]
favorited 47 times, recently by Pachylad
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Also, I just want to say, "Star Destroyer" and then "Death Star"? There's some weird taxonomical brinksmanship going on with all of this. Like, I realize there's a naval argument for "Star Destroyer" being just a… [more]
favorited 35 times, recently by grubi
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

This frog is excellent at jumping, we're just really terrible at minding our fucking business. [more]
favorited 32 times, recently by stillnocturnal
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I'm also haunted by the end: "pearls..." So this came up a bit in the Children thread but we didn't dig into it in real detail because it's kinda spoilery, but: one of the nice things about God Emperor is how it… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Good piece, resonates like hell. My own trip through the heart of all this has been so central to my life that even a year and a half after stepping away from direct responsibility for it I'm still often pretty overwhelmed by feelings when I get… [more]
favorited 81 times, recently by croutonsupafreak
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I discovered Skibidi recently by doing my new favorite thing to do if I'm traveling: look at the youtube search history on the TV/roku/whatever. The results are usually mostly boring in a comforting and very human "everybody has their favorite… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I'm about a third of the way through my re-read now, and I'm relieved to find myself really genuinely absorbed by it again even after what felt like a little bit of clumsiness in the opening bits (particularly that scenery-chewing introduction of the… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 weeks ago

Look, we can have goats on your property in under two hours, any time, any day of the year. And for a reasonable fee, we won't. [more]
favorited 144 times, recently by Mayor West
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

The thing about scams and cons (and any other form of motivated deception, really) is that the attack surface is "literally anything you might extend trust about". Every point on the spectrum of reaction to a scam story—from the… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by Mayor West, ob, adrienneleigh, pickles_have_souls, one-half-ole, amanda, SaneCatLady, Nancy Lebovitz, Kitteh, Mister Cheese, SPrintF, Sauce Trough, dr_dank, praemunire, solotoro
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

give him the gopher repellant
favorited 38 times, recently by detachd
MeFi post - 3 weeks ago

I'm a nut for hex grids. I think my first exposure was the sea maps in the Avalon Hill game Jutland when I was, honestly, too young for my dad to reasonably expect for me to make a solid attempt at caring about playing the AH game Jutland. But I've… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Navelgazer, Windopaene
MeFi comment - Last month

Move fast and break things is a perfectly good philosophy for personal creative experimentation; at the VC scale it's eliding something important that doesn't apply here, and should be understood as "move fast and break other people's… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by thetarium, Serene Empress Dork, tangerine, bitbotbit, tofu_crouton, polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice, philip-random
MeFi comment - Last month

I've been documenting screenshots here and there of those Hero Wars ads in a shared chat because they are so consistently someone getting paid to do Giant Woman fetish on main to a degree that strikes me as kinda fascinating. Partly because it's a… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month


I'm pretty sure you're just making that up. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

This is delightful; I'd heard the mashup before independently and think it's quite fun, but this hyper montage treatment feels like it fits that weird synthesis of self-serious anthemic rap with the inherent silliness of the ELO song and the… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Is he blaming God? No, he's celebrating both God's mysteriousness and his own faith, however humble and imperfect, in the unknowable loving majesty of the Lord. Like Noah, he heeds the call of God to create those things which God… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I remember the launch and Andy talking about it at the time; I had signed up as well and used it for a little bit but never really built up a network beyond goofing with the initial rush of other MeFites who also joined up, so it was easy for it to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago




Hit "Publish" and walk away. Walk away! No, no, you must not fear comments. Fearing comments is the mind-killer. You must face your comments, permit them to pass over your article and through it. And when they have been posted,… [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

THERAPIST: and what do we do when we're sad? ME: decree a pleasure dome THERAPIST: no [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago


Also, I distinctly remember from the sex education film we were shown in fifth grade that the lightly dorky but also apparently very sex-fact knowledgeable protagonist of the film archly corrected his braggy jock himbo friend when said friend claimed… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by thetarium, Bella Donna, ASCII Costanza head, Well I never, The corpse in the library, limeonaire, Mr.Know-it-some
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Cosmopolitan: Is Reverse Cowgirl Really the World’s Most Dangerous Sex Position? rarely is Betteridge's law illustrated with so overt a failure of imagination [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by Bella Donna, automatronic, The corpse in the library, WalkingAround, atoxyl, luckynerd, AsYouKnow Bob, Pickman's Next Top Model, Doleful Creature, Vetinari, paper chromatographologist
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Needs more Garak. Garak would acquire a mint condition collection of super-rare limited-release MLP figurines, and sit on them for months, just so he could casually mention them to Dukat during a diplomatic visit to DS9. Sitting there, a… [more]
favorited 38 times, recently by C. K. Dexter Haven
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I'm reading "Exadelic" on a recommendation from I don't remember who, and I'm vexed by it because I just don't like the writing very much at all, which is not a great feature for a novel! but am still curious where the story is going and… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by AzraelBrown, Windopaene
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

It looks like it's a nonce-term inflected from this comment about DU's wife being willing to pet croutons. The internet seems never to have heard of it other than in a couple instances on Metafilter. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Jacqueline
MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

Hello again, old friend. I did the first thing that occurred to me, which is queue up some 100 gecs and turn up a bunch of dials, because it's a song I could listen to forever anyway and nothing fits messy grungy hyperpop punk better than getting… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by steadystate, JHarris, okonomichiyaki, ob1quixote, starscream, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Now if you're really in for the long haul and for thematically-appropriate compositions, why not listen to a mutating version of track 1 of Eno's 'Music for Airports' literally forever. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

What's the point of 'intentionally blank pages' anyway? Sometimes an editor just needs some space. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago


Literally the only saving grace is that he can't run for president. Knock wood and all that but I don't think he'd make it past the first press conference even if he could run. Trump was a shock to the system in the degree to which he… [more]
favorited 34 times, recently by tonycpsu, Pouteria, cooker girl, mygothlaundry, Orkney Vole, bird internet, RuvaBlue, shesdeadimalive, Reverend John, mpc, Tehhund, amanda, bcd, dusty potato, churl, grog, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, my-username, Devoidoid, scolbath, Servo5678, IcarusFloats, jenfullmoon, JoeZydeco, May Kasahara, faceplantingcheetah, Absolutely No You-Know-What, mmoncur, nofundy
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

"This page intentionally left bereft of content other than this metatextual disclaimer." [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago


This somehow being a musical is by far the most interesting thing about it to me; I don't really expect it to be a very *good* musical because it's way too easy for people to make something a musical as a bit than to write great music, but, hey, it's… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The song was called "Butt Symphony: Recursive Movements", though, so it was a little ambiguous. [more]
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Music comment - 4 months ago

There was that one time that someone said one of my songs sounded like a butt that was pooping out smaller butts which were also pooping. [more]
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Music comment - 4 months ago

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