The life of a female billiards player is built on long hours, bad pay, and frequent travel. But at least you don’t have to share the table with men.
posted to MetaFilter by MovableBookLady at 8:27 PM on March 8, 2018 (6 comments)

but wood wive hen manna hood wive hun,
musta dub mcwhaff an’ *bloop* muff aonouds

nahnahnah, dahdahdah,
nahnahnah, dahdahdah,
dladadadadadadadah
posted to MetaFilter by auntie-matter at 6:46 PM on March 6, 2018 (37 comments)

My roommate is schizophrenic and I believe their behavior is affected by this. Living with them is getting difficult, and I'm looking for healthy and gracious coping strategies since breaking lease early is not an option. Advice?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 2:23 AM on March 5, 2018 (7 comments)

Welcome to the Age of Climate Migration Climate change is going to remap our world, changing not just how we live but where we live. As scientist Peter Gleick, co-founder of the Pacific Institute, puts it, "There is a shocking, unreported, fundamental change coming to the habitability of many parts of the planet, including the U.S.A."
posted to MetaFilter by mecran01 at 11:00 AM on March 2, 2018 (42 comments)

We are at the point of setting our hair on fire in dealing with the state Medicaid bureaucracy. Our 94 year old sister (in law) - is very infirmed, legally blind, etc and extremely difficult to transport ($200.00 medicar every hospital visit!) We are trying to get her into the best (small private room) Medicaid Home we can find in Chicago but the medical tests and records collection have us at our wits end. Its been going on for months We have spent $1200.00 transporting her to hospitals just the last month in order to get the required medical tests in order to qualify for Medicaid and the nursing home but the two part TB testing is driving us up the wall.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Tullyogallaghan at 7:54 PM on February 27, 2018 (11 comments)

The teen survivors of the high school shooting in Florida are doing something amazing. They may finally be the ones to change the debate around gun control. Due to their media savvy, they have kept the issue in the news cycle for longer than any other shooting. There's going to be a march on March 24, 2018 in several cities. Maybe this shooting is the one that turns the tide.
posted to MetaFilter by honey badger at 4:59 AM on February 27, 2018 (153 comments)

I bought these leaves a Chinese supermarket. What are they? Thanks!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by threetwentytwo at 12:18 AM on February 26, 2018 (20 comments)

I heard it in a bar last night and really liked it. Shazam didn't know it. Do you?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by dirtdirt at 10:03 AM on February 23, 2018 (5 comments)

I love fancy-pants artisanal bars of soap. The kind you can get at farmer's markets, craft fairs or Etsy, generally cold-process, very nice smells, sometimes fun colors or with fun mix-ins or toppings. If you also like using handmade bar soaps, who are you buying yours from? What are your favorites?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Fig at 11:48 AM on February 22, 2018 (22 comments)

Kim Phuc, photographed after a napalm attack in South Vietnam in 1972, is interviewed on PRI.
posted to MetaFilter by gen at 8:22 PM on February 21, 2018 (4 comments)

The clubhouse is a place for people living with mental illness to socialize and do unpaid work to gain skills. I don't feel welcome there.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Eevee at 6:09 PM on February 20, 2018 (13 comments)

'Dolly Said No To Elvis' by Mark Nevin (ex Fairground Attraction), animated by Heather Colbert ... being the true story of the time a certain singer songwriter turned down The Colonel. It proved to be the right decision.
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 12:56 AM on February 19, 2018 (11 comments)

Sometimes a single gif is all you need to make the world feel like a better place.
posted to MetaFilter by humph at 8:39 AM on February 18, 2018 (28 comments)

As I understand things, once butter has been melted it's no longer suitable for recipes that call for creaming butter with sugar—even after the butter has cooled and resolidified—due to chemical changes that occur in the process of melting. Have I discovered an exception to an otherwise sound rule or is this just a myth with no basis in science?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by she's not there at 8:14 AM on February 17, 2018 (10 comments)

He explored the complicated South by reflecting it with detail, heart, and a work ethic that kept him aiming to write a song a week for 30 years. Over three decades, he wrote 31 country songs that went to No. 1. He worked songwriting like a 9-to-5 job and saved every legal pad he ever wrote on. Now, those 217 legal pads are in the collection of the Country Music Hall of Fame, teaching young writers how he made those hits. He wrote a song a week, at least. And then he stopped.
posted to MetaFilter by MovableBookLady at 10:17 PM on February 14, 2018 (6 comments)

Find you someone who's as happy to see you as this donkey. Or someone who wants to hug you as much as these animals.
posted to MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 8:47 PM on February 15, 2018 (31 comments)

Are there match-3 style games like CandyCrush that have a more chill, minimalistic vibe?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bleep at 5:37 PM on February 15, 2018 (13 comments)

Your daily fall down the rabbit hole: The Ephemera Society of America. As it's been a while since its last mention, let's get caught up on new entries. Mid-century library posters! Victorian fashion alphabet! Medical ephemera!
posted to MetaFilter by MonkeyToes at 12:09 PM on February 14, 2018 (7 comments)

We got burgled (including the burglar coming into our bedroom whilst we were asleep) and I feel gutted and terrified and sucky and I need help. UK.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by threetwentytwo at 1:59 PM on February 11, 2018 (6 comments)

John Denver's 1972 album Rocky Mountain High [YTplaylist ~40m]: Side A: Rocky Mountain High, Mother Nature's Son, Paradise, For Baby (For Bobbie), Darcy Farrow, Prisoners
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 11:08 AM on February 9, 2018 (27 comments)

What it says on the tin. [SLYT]
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 11:21 AM on February 1, 2018 (11 comments)

To celebrate Ellen Degeneres turning 60, Portia de Rossi surprised her with a gift.
posted to MetaFilter by I'm Not Even Supposed To Be Here Today! at 1:40 PM on February 2, 2018 (26 comments)

The more I look at it, the more mind-boggling it becomes. Fossilized remnants of skin still cover the bumpy armor plates dotting the animal’s skull. Its right forefoot lies by its side, its five digits splayed upward. I can count the scales on its sole. Caleb Brown, a postdoctoral researcher at the museum, grins at my astonishment. “We don’t just have a skeleton,” he tells me later. “We have a dinosaur as it would have been.”
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 6:00 PM on February 2, 2018 (34 comments)

Having accidentally stumbled across Chapman Reflexes and completely dissolving my decades-long piriformis pain in 15 minutes, I have SO MANY QUESTIONS but basically, what is this magic? What else don't I know?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by yes I said yes I will Yes at 2:45 AM on January 2, 2018 (15 comments)

Hundreds of survivors have come forward to testify against Larry Nassar, whom they say was allowed to abuse them for years through his position with USA Gymnastics, Michigan State University, and at John Geddert's Michigan club, Twistars. The hearings, which began today, will allow survivors to speak publicly, often for the first time [trigger warning for child abuse, sexual assault and suicide]. Yesterday, Simone Biles, the most decorated American gymnast in history, publicly identified herself as the third member of the 2016 gold-medal winning team from the Rio Olympics to be a survivor of Nassar's abuse, as did her two-time Olympic teammates Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas. 2012 Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney also spoke out publicly. Today, the other survivors who aren't as well known will get to tell their stories alongside Biles, Raisman, Douglas, and Maroney, who had more media coverage.
posted to MetaFilter by guster4lovers at 2:37 PM on January 16, 2018 (160 comments)

Our lovely cat has managed to sneak out of our apartment. He also seems to have managed to sneak into our neighbour's apartment - we can hear him meowing through the door. But the neighbour hasn't been home for a few hours - what do we do now? We're in the UK. Cat picture and details inside!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CompanionCube at 12:10 PM on January 11, 2018 (23 comments)

Lost treasure stories are a dime a dozen in the Southwest. But when the Army; Air Force; the White House; Congressmen; New Mexico's Governor and F. Lee Bailey and dozens of other lawyers get into a single treasure saga, only confusion and rumors remain cheap (New York Times, 1973). It is one of the most celebrated legends of buried treasure in the history of the American West, a thriller that includes a gunfight, nuclear weapons and the Watergate hearings (N.Y. Times, 1992) These are two period-specific introductions to the ongoing saga of the treasure of the hollow mountain (Atlantis Rising Magazine, 2009), a cache of gold and loot that was re-discovered in 1937 by "Doc" Noss, in what is now part of the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 12:11 PM on January 9, 2018 (11 comments)

A news site gave would-be commenters a quiz. Here’s what happened: NRKBeta, the technology website of Norway's public broadcaster, "first began forcing would-be commenters to take such quizzes on select stories back in February after one of its journalists, Ståle Grut, had the idea in the shower before his commute. Grut works for NRKBeta, a subsite that both focuses its coverage on technology and offers its journalists a live space to try out media innovations. Grut’s big brainstorm, aimed at improving the quality of the comments on the site, is to require visitors to prove they have read and understood a story with a quiz written by the story’s author." NRKBeta's initiative, previously: RTFA
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 1:57 PM on January 9, 2018 (22 comments)

A Fine Set of Pipes: "A few years ago, [Nate] Banton reckons, he couldn’t have made a living making them. But the niche market for pipes has opened to allow the smaller, softer cousins of the famous highland pipes to reemerge. In the early 1980s, the folk music resurgence slowly revived the smallpipes and border pipes, which were adapted to be the right size and volume to play in pubs. Today, they have joined the larger highland bagpipes to infuse the pub performances and parades that pipers use to keep Scottish music alive." Step into the world of smallpipes and border pipes (similar to but not to be confused with the Uilleann pipes) below the fold...
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 2:47 PM on January 6, 2018 (13 comments)

From the New Statesman: How Call the Midwife smuggled radical social issues into Britain's living rooms.
posted to MetaFilter by Catseye at 10:18 AM on January 7, 2018 (45 comments)

Some well-known ones that most people have heard of (Don Rickles, Jim Nabors), some that you know if you followed standup (Ralphie May), and some you (well, I at least) had never heard of before (alas, Ken Shapiro). List with links to fuller bios.
posted to MetaFilter by anothermug at 4:04 PM on December 27, 2017 (13 comments)

This is the story of a dozen women who aren't waiting for the end of the prison sentences imposed on them to start building their new lives.
posted to MetaFilter by queen anne's remorse at 2:53 PM on December 26, 2017 (5 comments)

"Home Alone" is so much better if Kevin McCallister is dead. Ever wonder why Macaulay Culkin's family hated their cute little 8-year-old so much in the Christmas classic? Here's why.
posted to MetaFilter by gudrun at 7:00 AM on December 26, 2017 (57 comments)

Real time cab povs in the snow. Because log fire videos are so passé.
posted to MetaFilter by carter at 6:33 AM on December 25, 2017 (19 comments)

"Christmas in America is a 7-year unvarnished, photographic exploration of the nation’s largest holiday. It's an investigation to discover and reveal what compels so many to devote thousands of hours to hanging lights, to carving and painting figurines, to building miniature villages, to converting their homes, yards, garages, and cars into monuments to merriness." More photos here on photographer Jesse Rieser's website, where the photos are also downloadable.
posted to MetaFilter by capricorn at 2:17 PM on December 23, 2017 (13 comments)

If you want a change from that great Christmas jazz from the 60s, or if you need a soundtrack for your Caribbean Christmas black cake party, Dev Sherlock has put together a 28-song “Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape” over at Aquarium Drunkard. It Includes island versions of traditional numbers like White Christmas (The Wailers) and Winter Wonderland (Joe Gibbs Family), plus songs adapted to local circumstances, like Santa Ketch Up Eena Mango Tree. “Why Santa always coming down a chimney? We don’t have chimneys in Jamaica!” composer/singer Faith D’Aguilar explains. “So we decided it should be a mango tree instead.”
posted to MetaFilter by LeLiLo at 2:31 PM on December 24, 2017 (14 comments)

Dueling Jingle Bells
posted to MetaFilter by BWA at 11:27 AM on December 24, 2017 (3 comments)

These eight albums from the 1960s will put the jazz in your jingle, the soul in your Solstice, and the bop in your Boxing Day: The Ramsey Lewis Trio - Sound of Christmas (1961), More Sounds of Christmas (1964) *** Jimmy McGriff - Christmas With McGriff (1963) *** Jimmy Smith - Christmas '64 (1964) *** Don Patterson - Holiday Soul (1964) *** Bobby Timmons - Holiday Soul (1964) *** Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas (1966) *** Duke Pearson - Merry Ole Soul (1969)
posted to MetaFilter by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 6:20 AM on December 22, 2017 (21 comments)

Modern Farmer's Sheep Week 2017 does not disappoint. Check it out: The 12 Sickest Sheep Breeds in the World, 8 Sheep That Don't Require Shearing, and 6 Fun Facts About Sheep You Might Not Know.
posted to MetaFilter by gueneverey at 9:54 AM on December 22, 2017 (39 comments)

How is snow made in movies? Here's a behind the scenes look. Did you know they used to use asbestos? Yes, really. For It's a Wonderful Life, they invented foamite (the stuff in fire extinguishers). In Dr. Zhivago, they used marble dust. Salt and flour were used in Charlie Chaplin's silent film The Gold Rush. Nowadays they use snowcel or CGI. Not going to have a White Christmas where you are? You can make your own snow at home!
posted to MetaFilter by AFABulous at 11:43 AM on December 22, 2017 (10 comments)

Santa in Finland, Where Marketing Triumphs Over Geography: "Fifty years ago, travel marketers got the idea to attract tourists to remote Lapland and settled on Rovaniemi for its train station and airport. For many years, though, the Santa Claus attraction jostled for visitors with tours to see the Northern Lights or go on reindeer safaris; most of those who came were from countries with a strong Christmas tradition, bringing children along on the ultimate Santa’s Grotto experience." Today, well over 300,000 people come to Rovaneimi (population 50,000) each year to visit Santa Claus Village.
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 12:10 PM on December 22, 2017 (5 comments)

Those fan-made videos that you come across on YouTube, the ones that throw up a different photo for every line of a song (you know what I mean) are usually, um... not my cuppa tea. But sometimes they get it so right that they really help you comprehend the songwriter's intentions, especially if the song is as long and wordy as Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry. Check it out. This song is so kickass. And, oh yeah, hilarious. Oh, and here's a live version. And, like I said, it's wordy, so you might wanna check the lyrics here.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 2:58 AM on December 20, 2017 (36 comments)

Janet Benshoof, litigator, activist, and fierce proponent of women's rights, dies at 70 Janet Benshoof, a human rights lawyer who campaigned to expand access to contraceptives and abortion. As a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union, she argued sex education and abortion cases before the Supreme Court. She founded the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Global Justice Center to defend clients that included abortion providers facing bomb threats as well as rape victims in war zones. She died at home on December 18 from cancer.
posted to MetaFilter by SecretAgentSockpuppet at 9:36 AM on December 20, 2017 (17 comments)

Be there. Raleigh, Vegas, Bay area, Chicago, LA, Sacramento, and more coming online. The Mother Site has yet to update.
posted to MetaFilter by yoga at 5:25 AM on December 19, 2017 (50 comments)

A farm for Siberian cats, with them floofed out against the snow. Photographs by the farm owner. Magnificent beasties.
posted to MetaFilter by MovableBookLady at 8:50 PM on December 19, 2017 (51 comments)

The Earworm 2017 has landed, as is tradition.
posted to MetaFilter by Talez at 9:29 AM on December 13, 2017 (36 comments)

Grace Spelman is obsessed with ultra-specific playlists. [All non-YouTube links are to Spotify]
posted to MetaFilter by ellieBOA at 4:15 AM on December 12, 2017 (21 comments)

Is there any good website or took for looking at a world history timeline across locations/people/events? I've seen big posters and online images of those, but they are hard to use on a computer. I'd basically be looking for something where, if I'm in the era of Julius Caesar, for example, I can easily see what was happening in China around that time, who was prominent , etc. All very high-level kind of stuff. Any ideas?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rastapasta at 4:20 PM on December 8, 2017 (3 comments)

Sir Toby Toblerone the cat [Facebook page] cannot walk at all. He was adopted by a British couple who makes sure he has a happy and adventurous life. Toby is often seen around town bundled up (complete with bobbly tam o'shanter), eagerly watching for trains and construction equipment. He likes trainspotting, chicken slices, and "booby cuddles," and dislikes "soggy moggy days." Sometimes his dad sings him songs about trains [Facebook video].
posted to MetaFilter by dayintoday at 5:04 PM on December 6, 2017 (17 comments)

His name is Max. Max is Nice.

His owner does not want Max in the Library.
We do not want Max in the Library.

Max wants to be in the Library.

Please do not let Max in the Library.

[via]
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 11:48 AM on November 30, 2017 (67 comments)