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Patreon moves to restrict adult content on its crowdfunding site. Patreon’s Discriminatory Porn Policy Hurts Creators Who Need the Most Protection. The real consequences of Patreon's adult content crackdown. So what now? [LINKS MAY HAVE NSFW CONTENT FROM THIS POINT ON] Patreon Hears The Hoofbeats Of #Pornocalypse. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 10:29 PM PST - 77 comments

Atlas Obscura asked readers to send in their nightmares. Here is a small sampling.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 10:03 PM PST - 32 comments

Two interviews with Noel'le Longhaul, trans tattoo artist and witch.
"For me, learning tattooing was really wrapped up in my process of learning to be trans and what that meant for me. It was a way to take a fraught, complicated, and largely unaided relationship with my body and try to have it more on my terms."
"I also think that tattooing, very simply put, is blood magic and I think that it’s something that is inherently very intense to do... any time we intentionally change our bodies, we’re doing magic, and I think that doing that in a way that feels intentional and feels respectful and consensual is also the ways in which those things overlap." [more inside]
posted by Grandysaur at 8:57 PM PST - 7 comments

Because some things you just can't un-see, so you might as well share - Top of the Pops, 1973: Wizzard, "See My Baby Jive" (SLYT)
posted by e-man at 7:45 PM PST - 30 comments

How Is Digital Mapping Changing The Way We Visualize Racism and Segregation? A new project from the University of Iowa uses interactive maps to show segregation patterns in Washington, D.C., Omaha, and Nashville in the late 19th century. [more inside]
posted by AFABulous at 5:49 PM PST - 7 comments

The Ellensburgh Capital, 1904: “In some parts of England peculiar whistling or yelping noises are heard in the air after dusk and early in the morning before daylight in the winter months.” The Leicester Chronicle (quoted), 1853: “Strange, mysterious sounds are heard in the air at night, sometimes like the distant singing of a flock of birds, and at other times resembling the smothered wailings of children chanting a funeral dirge.” The Gentleman's Magazine, July 1782, page 338: “Some months ago, I and all my neighbours, as I heard afterwards, late in an evening, were alarmed with a whistling, which, on going out of doors, seemed to be in the air, and at such a height, that everyone thought it just over his head." [more inside]
posted by Wordshore at 5:09 PM PST - 6 comments

It’s that time of year again! Jezebel asks readers to share thier scariest (mostly) true stories to keep you up all night this Halloween Eve. 8 more. 2016 winners (bonus) (previously).
posted by The Whelk at 4:47 PM PST - 29 comments

Just for fun, here's a lot of music by women composers, AND two fun bagpipe performances. Powerpuff Girls themebagpipe one Godfather themebagpipe two
posted by MovableBookLady at 3:45 PM PST - 2 comments

Boyfriend Dungeon: Date Your Weapons [YouTube][Game Trailer] A dungeon crawler from indie team Kitfox Games (Moon Hunters, The Shrouded Isle), which combines hack-and-slash gameplay with very, very cute guys and girls.
posted by Fizz at 2:56 PM PST - 14 comments

McMansion Hell writes about the history of a small row house in Baltimore, built around 1901, asking how the people living there might have managed the logistics of moving house and what sort of furniture they might have had. [more inside]
posted by paduasoy at 2:45 PM PST - 24 comments

Michael McKean wonders: how can you ruin old movies with cellphone technology?
posted by Chrysostom at 1:59 PM PST - 70 comments

All About Pumpkins is just that - a site that is all about pumpkins, from a brief history of the squash and general facts, to brief descriptions of 46 varieties of cucurbits or Cucurbitaceae plus 33 other winter squashand tips on growing and storing winter squash. Then there's cooking, carving, and picking the perfect pumpkin. TMI? Jump to the Q & A. And that's just one website, so let's go on for more pumpkiny goodness! [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 12:34 PM PST - 17 comments

In the continuing saga of powerful men in Hollywood all being incredibly horrible, a Buzzfeed story has dropped in which Star Trek: Discovery's own Anthony Rapp accused actor and former closet case Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting him when Rapp was 14. Spacey, of course, used this opportunity to finally come out publically as a gay man, which many people, including British journalist Owen Jones, had no time for.
posted by Automocar at 11:12 AM PST - 318 comments

The Chicago Tribune has recently rediscovered 1914 aerial footage of Chicago. Filmed by aviation pioneer Roy Knabenshue from his craft 'The White City' (reportedly the first passenger dirigible, which offered regular flights from the city's White City Amusement Park) it's thought to be either the first or second filmed aerial tour of the city. To show how the city has changed (and how it hasn't) over the past century, they've paired this vintage footage with modern footage of the same locations.
posted by orthicon halo at 5:44 AM PST - 8 comments

There was a time when Catherine wanted only to have a plaque erected in memory of these forgotten children. But now she felt that she owed them much more. “No one cared,” she said. “And that’s my driving force all the time: No one cared.”

The New York Times tells the story of Catherine Corless and the lost children of Tuam. (Note: this is a distressing story of child abuse, neglect and death, and mothers forcibly separated from their children, among other elements.) [more inside]
posted by Catseye at 3:59 AM PST - 31 comments

Do you have strong feelings about cheeseburgers? Google's CEO promises to fix their hamburger emoji first thing Monday, after receiving Twitter complaint.
posted by Literaryhero at 3:28 AM PST - 110 comments

Inadequacy and Modesty - “When should I think that I may be able to do something unusually well?”
posted by Gyan at 2:07 AM PST - 25 comments