Sideblog Archive
June 30, 2021
Summer salads and vegetarian pasta sauces wanted, please.
June 29, 2021
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 such a dress, be sure to watch out for the groundhog holes. And the thistles. And the cowpies. Mefites discuss the Nap Dress.
June 28, 2021
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.
June 27, 2021
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 matter as a way to relax..."
June 26, 2021
Cozy bedtime reading about MLMs and bankruptcies? moonmilk is seeking online long form journalism about scams, frauds, shady businesses, and failed businesses — preferably with minimal violence.
June 24, 2021
I shit you not, I started reading this and thought "Eh, I'll finish it later." – hwyengr. Storybored posted Why You Procrastinate.
June 23, 2021
🍌For Scale?: paul_smatatoes asks "Can you make an X-ray image with bananas?," and tiamat has the answer. Thanks a bunch, tiamat!
June 22, 2021
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 physical setting of the TVA (Time Variance Authority) archive in the Disney+ Loki series.
June 21, 2021
From wintersweet, What are your best tips / gadgets / purchases for preventing things in your household from needing to be cleaned / maintained as much or as often?
June 20, 2021
Animated fabulosity from jontyjago with a video of 100 3-second 3D renders: "Based on the same 3 second model, 2400 CGI artists submitted their own interpretation. These are the 100 best."
June 19, 2021
Via Buzzfeed, Photos Of How People Celebrated Juneteenth 100 Years Ago.
ISO Weird Mysteries: 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 slightly different"
June 18, 2021
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 you tend to the tasks that come with adulting - the grocery run, getting a pair of pants tailored, helping you pick a new bedframe, etc."
June 16, 2021
wenestvedt asks, What have you paid a lifetime/one-time fee for that was worth it?
June 15, 2021
In Metatalk, The corpse in the library invites us to play Summer book bingo
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 excellent and accessible "Ælfgif-who?" collection, with links to each entry so far.
June 14, 2021
Jane the Brown has a great answer to ficbot's question, Is there really a monster underneath the bed??
June 13, 2021
In Ask Metafilter, Hactar wonders, "Which sports are completely dominated by a single person currently?"
June 12, 2021
Shortcuts Fest: Gin and Broadband requests "your most-loved shortcuts for unloveable Microsoft and Google"
June 11, 2021
Free Photoshop? In my browser? MartinWisse posts about "Photopea," a free web-based graphic software alternative to Photoshop.
June 10, 2021
Currently popular on Mefi: Best Practices for Outlook, time management tips for "the behemoth of O365." A guide from the product team that created Microsoft Outlook, plus Mefites share their own hacks.
June 9, 2021
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 hard. misskaz posts a superb personal essay by tennis pro Taylor Townsend.
June 8, 2021
I have 8 nectarines, a reasonably well-stocked kitchen, and a song in my heart. What is the best nectarine-based dessert?
June 7, 2021
We can't put our finger on exactly why, but we're feeling chavenet's new post, The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials. 🔘
June 6, 2021
"Geez. That's a fucked up song!": 💔First you treat me mediocre, Then you beat me with a poker 👀 ... Was this a real song? 🎹 It was.⚰️
June 5, 2021
Book Recs vs Book Wrecks in the battle of Ask Me: kristi is seeking likable characters, good writing, humor. Please recommend all your well-written, likeable characters. Humor appreciated. Plot optional, while kingdead commands, Bring me the unlikeable characters! I want to read books with unhappy endings, angst and drama, body horror, miserable relationships, etc. Absolutely no redemption! If the writing is experimental, all the better.
June 4, 2021
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 of our members has a personal connection.
June 3, 2021
"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)?" ["Toponym," fyi]
June 2, 2021
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 billionairity), to how difficult it is to clean a bathroom when evil forces keep messing things up again, plus stories! ... And opinions! Many Opinions!
June 1, 2021
Adult Fiction Featuring Queer Joy? sugarbomb in Ask Me: This Pride month, I'd like to spend some time reading good adult fiction that features queer joy, not misery / abuse / death.
Hey, it's Episode 173 of the MetaFilter Monthly Podcast with cortex and jessamyn!
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