Sideblog Archive
October 31, 2022
🎃Treats for you, and you, and you ... Mefi Halloween posts, 2022
❗️❗️ Timely Alerts:❗️❗️
🎁 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups end Nov 1
✍🏼 Mochapickle's Nahhhh-NoWriMo: A zero stress, no rules writing month begins Nov 1
⭐️ Mefi Posts for "Sale" is still going! jessamyn, Rhaomi, and Eyebrows McGee are offering to write posts for contributions to the Mefi fundraising drive
October 30, 2022
In your job, where are you a Viking? This member-sponsored Ask Mefi post asks "What task or part of your work day ... do you really enjoy, to the point of thinking, yeah, this is it, this is where I fit?"
DIY home reno project got you a li'l confused? dg takes a deep dive on the proper steps, in the proper order, with the proper prep to successfully un-yuck your habitat.
October 29, 2022
Now, do you have any scary stories to share?
If you want a truly insane and mind-boggling supply chain you should look up how grocery store fish fingers are made ... Fascinating comment from 100kb about global supply chains and commoditization in a question about why global commodities are cheaper in poorer countries.
October 28, 2022
MeFi Posts for "Sale": "We're all pitching in for Fundraising Month. Ever wanted to see a post on a topic, but didn't want to write it yourself for whatever reason? Let us do it for you."
A walk in the city, or a drive in the country?
October 27, 2022
Newest MeFi Site Update is here
"It was a simple, warm potato salad" ... Long lost potato salad love
October 25, 2022
"I've become very fond of this one": How do I help my spider friend through the winter? 🕸
⭐️❗️⭐️ Metafilter Wants You - The Fundraising Post! The steering committee breaks down the situation, and offers ways to help. ⭐️❗️⭐️
October 24, 2022
The Wrong Kind of Cheese turns out to be exactly the Right Kind of Cheese, again, with thoughtful and expert advice on a tricky distance cleanup situation.
October 23, 2022
Ok, so I am in the thick of things, working in the automotive industry — an industry with massive interlinked supply chains (geographically and temporally) and hundreds of thousands of workers ... xdvesper, with the nitty-gritty on production losses during Covid.
October 22, 2022
prismatic7 on multiple aspects of planning accessibility in theatre spaces
October 21, 2022
Eisenhower then makes the biggest call of his life and an example to leaders everywhere: He trusts the expert ... A really great analysis by garius of Blacksod, D-Day, the planning, the storm, the leaders, the meteorologists, the arguments and the massive intwining, nerve-shredding drama of it all.
October 18, 2022
2022 MetaFilter Gift Swap Sign-Ups are Open!! 🎁 Thank you, rhyspenbras and okayokayigive!
Speech-to-text with Whisper: an open source tool you can run on your own computer that "approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition"
I've allowed my Reddit feed to become filled with negative stuff ... Can you recommend quality subreddits full of positive vibes and/or longreads and/or interesting links and videos?
October 17, 2022
DirtyOldTown has posted Inception on Fanfare. For some reason, I just have the idea that this might be some of DOT's finest work.
I study carbon cycling and other biogeochemical cycles as part of my job ... truly awesome comment from cubeb in the soup on Sunflowers protest thread.
October 16, 2022
The United States of Fiction: tatiana wishbone asks, "as a reading challenge, I’d like to read the best novel set in each US state. What are your favorites?"
October 15, 2022
Tiny Japanese restaurants in 4K. "... there's a whole channel of these wholesome, calming and hunger-inducing videos"
October 14, 2022
Got to thinking about how Bowie was in The Hunger and Tom Waits was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Are there other vampire movies with iconic musicians? mermaidcafe in Ask Metafilter
October 13, 2022
Pneumatic Tubes? We got your pneumatic tubes right here. This is one of the things I research (I am an architectural & technology historian) -- and I'm working on a live documentary lecture about them ... maximolly in Ask Metafilter
October 12, 2022
New Ukraine thread is here
WriSome: mochapickle will be doing a zero-stress no-rules November writing month over on IRL✍🏼
Our Fine Feathered Friends:
18,000 years ago in New Guinea, humans tried to domesticate cassowaries
Why is a cassowary the "least birb-like bird on the planet"
“A falcon won’t fuck just any old hat.”
Calling Ornithologists and Birders: Birds Who Are Jerks
October 11, 2022
ASF Tod und Schwerkraft has a bonkers-good comment explaining the evolution of Irish dance costuming in the thread on the Irish dance competition cheating scandal.
October 10, 2022
Ask Metafilter helpfully suggests seeking expert advice on how to make a bar a more mingle-y space. oh wait
October 9, 2022
Stories of changing desire: "looking for stories about people who realize they don't actually want what they thought they wanted ..."
October 8, 2022
I'm working on a tall ship right now, on which I have several thousand sea miles' experience... automatronic explains why the state of the art for a sailing ship still looks much the same as it did a hundred years ago
October 7, 2022
In today's edition of "what does eponysterical mean?" malevolent lives up to his user name.
October 6, 2022
I still have wind up sperm that swims across the desk somewhere I got one year. Lotta flavoured condoms too. Sex is fine and all, but have you ever ... Jilder talks about the real excitement in the porn and sex toys biz.
October 4, 2022
From the Steering Committee, a Community Question: How can MetaFilter put the FUN into FUNdraising?
martin q blank asks about IDing a half-remembered old mystery novel that somehow features a model train set used as computer, and is answered by Mercantides, who has lurked on Mefi for 20+ years only to show up as a new member to answer this question! Wow!
"The MetaFilter Steering Committee is excited to bring you the first Steering Committee Check-In!"
October 3, 2022
I am an RN case manager who does hospital discharge work and has a lot of experience in other parts of the mental health and elder care systems as well. I want to warn you about some of the difficulties that might lie ahead as you try to navigate this situation, but also offer some encouragement: I am a Sock, I am an Island offers in-depth info on working through especially difficult nursing home and care options.
October 2, 2022
adamsc links to a super secret stash of cunningly hidden Library of Congress cultural treasure in the Lizzo LOC thread
chasles has posted a Hurricane Ian check in thread in Metatalk
October 1, 2022
In 2001 I was both stage manager and historic researcher for a play from 1911 about congressional sex scandals: EmpressCallipygos shares inhuman ecstatic shrieking and some hot goss on Warren G. Harding.
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