Sideblog Archive
March 31, 2022
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 other."
March 30, 2022
First steps in some MetaFilter changes: working on reworking the admin structure.
March 28, 2022
A new free thread blooms! 🌳
"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.
March 27, 2022
mochapickle: Our 10-Day Metafilter IRL Spring Cleaning event officially starts tomorrow!
Paris Hilton Not Included: Penguin pie has a nice list in answer to Vatnesine's question "What is the Simple Life, as distinct from the American Life?"
March 26, 2022
I 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 into a slogan, a meme, an idiom. And maybe something more."
March 23, 2022
Your favorite funny Twitter accounts? 🐦❓
March 22, 2022
🌻 Current Ukraine discussion on the site:
• 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
Chrysopoeia has a post presenting how different trans people are responding to state level anti trans bills in the US, including info on how to help protect Trans folks and save lives.
March 21, 2022
Speaking of things found on the ground (earlier), Mystery Card. Do you recognize it?
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 signed languages for background.
March 19, 2022
Not the Paperless Utopia We Were Promised: liminal_shadows on the Kafkaesque experience of trying to survive the paperless revolution in swift's post wanna go paperless?
March 16, 2022
Have the things you find on the ground changed in the last 30 years?
March 14, 2022
Hey, it's the new weekly-ish Free Thread! Come on in and chatter about whatever and whatnot.
March 10, 2022
The latest mefi discussion of the invasion of Ukraine is happening here.
March 9, 2022
🕷 Something tingly this way comes: 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 anyone fancy a crawl across the multiverse? And in case you missed it, a loving look at barking spider plumes, plus "How convenient that a spider god was available to answer this question."
March 8, 2022
Hey, hey, we've lifted restrictions on Ask Metafilter posts: Announcement and discussion in Metatalk.
March 7, 2022
Hey, it's episode 182 of the podcast with cortex and jessamyn.
March 6, 2022
The Case of the Tricky Transom: Fiasco da Gama has an illuminating answer for jolenex4's investigation into the mystery of Miss Strange and the fanlight over the door.
When Shuttlecocks Brunched: Mighty JHarris's mega-mega-mega post on Brunching Shuttlecocks and Lore Sjöberg. Let's take a moment to examine the gigantic shipwrecking bulk that lies hidden, just beneath the surface, of the Sjöberg ...
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