January 27, 2019

Kirby's Collab Collab

The ever-growing corpus of collaborative piecemeal remakes grows once more with Kirby Reanimated Collab, a collaborative animation about a collaborative animation.
posted by BiggerJ at 7:54 PM PST - 3 comments

Adult Baby Boom

(nsfw) The ABDL (Adult Baby/Diaper fetish) community is bigger and more common than you thought with almost as many brands of ABDL diapers as regular diapers. Some retailers even have storefronts with oversized nursery furniture. Several incontinence supply companies even cater to the ABDL market too. [more inside]
posted by hwyengr at 6:16 PM PST - 21 comments

Chemical Reactions

Mixing Mercury and aluminium
Metal Spoon eaten by very strong acid
Who said salt doesn't grow on trees?
Ink vs Alcohol + Hydrocarbons
"Elephant Toothpaste"
What happens when you add hot water to liquid nitrogen?
Much more at twitter account @HoIdMyBeaker
[more inside]
posted by growabrain at 4:08 PM PST - 30 comments

"Robert and Trude mourned for their son's lonely life in wheelchair."

"In retrospect, I think we should have been more interested in the digital world he spent so much time in. The fact that we did not, robbed us of a possibility we did not understand we had." A longform article informally translated on r/wow from NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster, about the rich digital life and friendships of Mats Steen, a WoW resident who died from Duchennes muscular dystrophy at age 25.
posted by DarlingBri at 3:55 PM PST - 14 comments

Stayin' Alive !!! While helping others...

He remembered how to CPR, because of an old The Office episode... A guy finds a woman unresponsive behind the wheel of a car. He knows he must save her, but doesn't know how, then he remembers seeing a CPR class played out on a TV show, then The Bee Gees also help out. This is not a daydream, but seems like a Walter Mitty fantasy.
posted by Oyéah at 3:54 PM PST - 11 comments

License plate or parking lot events 3.3%

The Most Common Kinds of Coincidences (SLTA)
posted by not_the_water at 3:20 PM PST - 34 comments

Foxes Cream Crunch: Just a slightly more fancy Chopin.

In an effort to endure the cold, and more importantly, the rest of the week, Oxford Lecturer and fellow cat-enthusiast, Dr. Leah Broad provide us with the ultimate list of Composers as Biscuits. [more inside]
posted by RhysPenbras at 3:13 PM PST - 19 comments

A cat, a bunny, a bed - Panama!

please enjoy 46 seconds of my rabbit claiming the cat’s bed and my cat attempting to muster the courage to confront him about it
[Twitter thread via @TheDreamGhoul]
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:55 PM PST - 20 comments

Thanks, it has pockets!

A Cambridge bride and her wedding party took the internet by storm when their "slightly tongue-in-cheek power pose" was posted on Twitter. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 2:43 PM PST - 21 comments

Katharine Hepburn's personal paintings

If you think of Katharine Hepburn, you probably don't think of paintings, and that's in part because her paintings were mostly personal, and something she treated as a private hobby (Phyllis Loves Classic Movies blog). You can hear more about her artistic background in this clip from Antiques Roadshow (PBS, also available from CPTV).
posted by filthy light thief at 1:53 PM PST - 2 comments

Does LGBT Media Have A Future?

"It’s a dark time for media — LGBT media, especially." " What got us here? And how might we survive?" This long article takes a thorough dive into the rich history of LGBT publications, followed by what's going on today and why.
posted by Twang at 1:16 PM PST - 10 comments

The Mamas and the Papas: How two Ottawa couples became co-parents

Article and CBC radio piece on how two Canadian queer couples had a child together (and have another on the way.) Ontario’s All Families Are Equal law allows for up to four parents to be listed on a birth certificate.
posted by larrybob at 12:47 PM PST - 10 comments

If It Talks Like a Fascist…

Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse. Jason Stanley: “Though 'fascism' generally evokes images of jack-booted thugs and mass rallies, fascist movements first politicize language. And, judging by the arguments and vocabulary now regularly used by mainstream politicians and thinkers in the US and Europe, their strategy is bearing fruit.” [more inside]
posted by homunculus at 12:04 PM PST - 35 comments

Do you want Skynets? Because that's how you get Skynets.

A few days ago, Starcraft's Twitch channel posted a series of games between Starcraft professional TLO and an AI known as Alphastar, created by the not-at-all-ominously-named Deepmind research group. It's an interesting watch if you like professional Starcraft or just want to witness yet another vector of human extinction being born.
posted by Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss at 11:09 AM PST - 48 comments

Best Poop Books

What it says on the tin.
posted by Bella Donna at 10:10 AM PST - 15 comments

"Adulthood has always been a trick played on the whole of humanity."

Novelist Catherynne Valente has something to say (SLT thread) On why 'growing up' is a mug's game.
posted by The otter lady at 9:37 AM PST - 66 comments

“....ways that we can circulate wealth within the existing community.”

The project, which is called the Detroit Food Commons and contains the Detroit People’s Food Co-op, builds on a tradition of African-American business cooperatives that were championed by the likes of W.E.B. Dubois as tools for building economic and ultimately political power. Following slavery, African Americans formed co-ops for things like credit and farming to survive under a segregated and exploitative system. Unlike other businesses, co-ops are jointly owned enterprises, focused more on meeting collective needs than turning profits, although profit or “surplus” as it’s sometimes called is necessary to exist in a capitalist system. At the Detroit People’s Food Co-op, each owner will get one vote, creating equality between owners, at least in theory. A Black-Led Food Co-op Grows in Detroit
posted by The Whelk at 7:48 AM PST - 6 comments

Dominions, Faculties, Predilections & Peoples

This is a map of the left hemisphere of the brain, seen through the lens of a 17th Century Explorer.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 7:26 AM PST - 5 comments

Money Laundering 101

What supports high housing prices when the market's in the toilet? Money laundries. A Twitter thread (unrolled) by @CZEdwards, found linked by @CStross (MeFi).
posted by JHarris at 5:00 AM PST - 81 comments

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