sculptures of animals from the land and sea, crafting realistic depictions with a surreal edge. Each porcelain creature features elaborate elements that connect the animal back to its natural environment—such as green leaves that sprout from the wings of a black cockatoo, or tiny yellow fish that are found along the spines of her ornately patterned seahorses.
posted to MetaFilter by MovableBookLady at 4:36 PM on October 22, 2018 (9 comments)

Miyu Kojima cleans the apartments of those who have died alone. These lonely deaths (kodokushi) are often undiscovered for months, and the work is difficult and grim. But in her off hours she takes these experiences and turns them into art, memorializing the apartments she's cleaned in painstakingly constructed dioramas.
posted to MetaFilter by serathen at 3:10 PM on October 20, 2018 (10 comments)

Between 1945 and '65 around 300,000 Dutch, Mollucans and Indo people, the descendants of mixed Dutch and Indonesian parents, left the Dutch East Indies, today known as Indonesia, for the Netherlands. The majority arrived around the time of Indonesia's struggle for independence in the second half of the 1940s. And some of these immigrants brought in western Rock'n'Roll: The Blue Diamonds, The Crazy Rockers and The Tielman Brothers (trio of black'n'white rock'n'roll videos; more below). [Another twang of the guitar to Johnny Wallflower for this musical trip]
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 10:06 PM on October 18, 2018 (7 comments)

'“If I may be so bold, I’m the most successful person I know,” Bol said, with a sideways smile, “because I stimulate 54 million books to be read and neighbors to talk to each other. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the very definition of success.'
posted to MetaFilter by ZeusHumms at 8:20 AM on October 19, 2018 (28 comments)

Last Thanksgiving, a Chinese woman named Song Yang fell to her death during a police raid of her apartment in Queens. This is her story. (Linked article discusses sexual assault, suicide and abuse.)
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 2:24 PM on October 19, 2018 (8 comments)

Good Omens - Official Teaser Trailer. Based on the best-selling novel by renowned authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, this series follows the story of Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, who have formed an unlikely friendship spanning 6,000 years and have grown fond of life on earth. However, the end of time grows near with the approaching Armageddon and they must now join forces to find a way to save the world.
posted to MetaFilter by Pendragon at 10:03 AM on October 8, 2018 (37 comments)

Innovative animator Will Vinton, who coined the word "Claymation," has died at the age of 70, following a long illness. Vinton animated popular and toyetic advertising mascots, such as the California Raisins and the Noid, but he was also capable of eerie, dark work, as with the stones in Return to Oz and the appearance of Satan in The Adventures of Mark Twain. Children of the '80s will remember his work vividly for its rich, uncanny, lifelike qualities.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 9:10 AM on October 6, 2018 (30 comments)

“That same year, Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm next door also suffered; the farmers managed to earn a small profit—enough to net each farmer the equivalent of $5 an hour. It wasn’t much, but had the farm been structured in a typical hierarchy, the owner would have already paid out the labor and been left to bear the losses alone. “In our case, as bad as it was, no one was in debt,” says Dylan Zeitlyn, one of the founders of the worker-owned farm. “We were more resilient because of [our model]—it could have bankrupted somebody.” The Co-op Farming Model Might Help Save America’s Small Farms (Civil Eats) - Cuba’s Urban Farming Revolution: Creating more self-sufficient cities (Architectural Review) - The road to restoration: smaller, sustainable farms (UN Environment) - Agroecology can free farmers from dependency, manipulated commodity markets, unfair subsidies and food insecurity. It is resisted by giant corporations that profit from the status quo. ( Climate And Capitalism)
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:36 AM on October 5, 2018 (59 comments)

If you've ever wondered "what might a cut-rate Disney musical cartoon number look like?" Alex Ramirès has the answer, in a series of low cost adaptations, in French: La Petite Sirene | Pocahontas | Vaiana feat. Elodie Arnould | La Reine Des Neiges | Le Roi Lion Feat Max Bird | Aladdin with Nino Arial | Bonus: playlist of other low cost movie scenes. Double bonus: if you want to sing along or understand the literal translations of the lyrics, head over to Lyrics Translate.
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 10:32 AM on October 5, 2018 (7 comments)

A group of Latina women across the country have been working in secret, turning their homes into shelters for abused immigrant women. (tw: domestic violence)
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 12:38 PM on October 5, 2018 (4 comments)

Erin Ruberry shows us how you weigh baby animals: Twitter | Threadreader

Don't miss the koala.
posted to MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 6:05 PM on October 5, 2018 (11 comments)

This November 23rd you can celebrate the first Wolfenoot. Jax Goss's 7-year old son invented a holiday called Wolfenoot, and the internet got very excited to join him in celebrating. #Wolfenoot has lots of pictures of doggos and plans to donate to wolf sanctuaries and animal shelters.
posted to MetaFilter by gladly at 8:54 AM on October 3, 2018 (29 comments)

“His vision is for Amazon to become the underlying infrastructure that commerce runs on. Already, Amazon’s website is the dominant platform for online retail sales, attracting half of all online US shopping traffic and hosting thousands of third-party sellers. Its Amazon Web Services division provides 34 percent of the world’s cloud-computing capacity, handling the data of a long list of entities, from Netflix to Nordstrom, Comcast to Condé Nast to the CIA.” Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market (The Nation) - Amazon’s Next Frontier: Your City’s Purchasing (ILSR)- A new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute looking at employment in counties that managed to land a fulfillment center in the last 15 years found no evidence that overall employment increased, and in some instances employment even fell relative to comparison counties. (Huffington Post) - Amazon is doling out raises of as little as 25 cents an hour in what employees call ‘damage control’ (Washington Post) Amazon’s aggressive anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45 minute video (Gizmodo)
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 6:55 AM on September 28, 2018 (67 comments)

“When the survey, “Working for the Mouse,” was published in February 2018, Glynndana went to a press conference at Occidental College to hear the results. She picked up a copy of the 132-page report and flipped through its pages. “When I was looking at the graphs, it smacked me in the face,” she said. Out of the 5,000 people who completed the survey—one-sixth of Disneyland Resort’s workforce—73 percent reported that they didn’t earn enough money to pay for basic expenses like rent, food, and gas. The survey also revealed that, when adjusted for inflation, average wages in the park had declined 15 percent between 2000 and 2017. More than one in ten respondents said that, at some point in the past two years, they did not have a place of their own to sleep. This is serious, Glynndana thought. It’s not only you.“ The Real Cost of Working in the House of Mouse (Topic)
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 5:57 AM on September 26, 2018 (47 comments)

[NYT] [Guardian] [Bloomberg] [Economist] Brazilian women are faced with a direct threat in the October 7th elections: presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is leading the polls with 28% of voting intentions. He is a dangerous figure who spreads explicit hate speech towards women, blacks, LGBTs, indigenous and other minorities; his proposals for economic, health, climate change and environmental issues are senseless. He wants to arm the population and increase police violence towards black youth. He is a drugs prohibitionist that promotes fascist ideas and practices. For the past few weeks, women in Brazil have organized via social media groups and have called for public demonstrations that will take place on September 29.
posted to MetaFilter by Tom-B at 5:14 PM on September 25, 2018 (15 comments)

An ROV from the Exploration Vessel Nautilus has a remarkable encounter in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
posted to MetaFilter by Bloxworth Snout at 1:28 AM on September 21, 2018 (34 comments)

New Zealand women won the right to vote on 19 September 1893 - 125 years ago today*. In doing so, New Zealand became the "first self-governing colony in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections." Join us to celebrate Suffrage 125: Women, the Vote, and Activism
posted to MetaFilter by Paragon at 3:53 PM on September 18, 2018 (8 comments)

25 Restaurants That Seriously Need To Chill TF Out
22 Crimes Against Food Serving Committed By Restaurants SOME OVERLAP DON'T @ ME
25+ People Who Never Figured Out How Food Works
20+ Memes For People Whose Religion is ‘Food’
21 Of The Laziest Things People Have Ever Done To Food LAST THREE ARE NOT LAZY FOR SOME FOLKS
posted to MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 11:45 PM on September 18, 2018 (87 comments)

I report antisemitic and racist tweets using Twitter's browser interface. I can usually find several tweets to check off in the first up-to-five box, but when I find an abusive one further down the timeline, subsequent boxes show the new tweet along with the same few recent tweets. It gets quite tedious to report an account with many abusive tweets because it takes six clicks for each one. Is there a tool or plugin that makes this easier? When I do a Twitter search for, e.g., "jew: @account" it would be nice to be able to select and report many at once.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 12:13 AM on September 19, 2018 (5 comments)

In a quiet pen in B.C.’s northeast corner, pregnant caribou cows and their calves are fed hand-picked old growth lichen, provided 24-hour armed security and are the subject of one of Canada’s boldest and most experimental efforts to save a species from extinction.
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 8:48 AM on September 17, 2018 (5 comments)

Voice teacher, Sam Johnson has a YouTube channel where he reacts* to ( analyzes) compilations of singers on youtube including:
"worst" contestants on American Idol,
pop singers who can't reach those high notes anymore,
k-pop best and worst,
k-pop high notes

* note: reactions are caring, kind and informative!
posted to MetaFilter by vespabelle at 10:02 PM on September 14, 2018 (27 comments)

I haven’t filed my taxes for an obscenely long time, like a decade. Fear, procrastination, periods of unemployment, laziness, etc., etc. I stopped filing when I was a realtor as filing taxes became much more complicated and I needed to track expenses. It piled on from there – I can’t file this year because I need last year’s info and I can’t do last year’s cause I didn’t file the year before that and so on. About five years ago I was garnished a huge sum against my savings account which I probably didn’t really owe had I filed and claimed deductions.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 4:16 AM on September 12, 2018 (16 comments)

“Every day a word surprises me,” he once commented, beaming, apropos of nothing other than that a word had suddenly popped into his head. Often this happened while swimming — “ideas and paragraphs” would develop as he backstroked, after which he’d rush to the dock or pool’s edge to get the words down on paper"--Oliver Sacks, recounted by his partner, Bill Hayes. Also, Hayes shares Sacks' marginalia. Silberman tweets about one. And an upcoming film.
posted to MetaFilter by Stanczyk at 5:00 PM on August 29, 2018 (3 comments)

In honor of National Dog Day (previously), here's a heartwarming story of hunger and determination. [h/t joycehealy]
posted to MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 12:57 PM on August 26, 2018 (25 comments)

The 1969 Easter Mass Incident.
posted to MetaFilter by felix grundy at 11:29 AM on January 15, 2018 (41 comments)

Stevie Nicks And ABBA’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual. In 1983 Stevie Nicks starred in Hands Off!: A Unique New System of Self Defence Against Assault for the Women of Today. Written by Bob Jones, an Australian martial arts expert who worked security for Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and other big names, Stevie Nicks was on hand to showcase Bob’s nine “mnemonic movements”. Witty insults can also help fend off a sex attacker. Bob offers one line: “I’ve seen better knobs on toilet doors.” (Trigger warning for sexual assault as subject matter.)
posted to MetaFilter by Capt. Renault at 9:16 AM on August 25, 2018 (10 comments)

“This is lifestyle drift in action. We know what really determines health - the deep and vicious inequalities that taint developed societies. But instead of trying to address these things, we imagine that if we impose the dietary choices of the privileged on those who are suffering, they will be transformed. And so every diet followed by a member of a privileged elite is touted as the solution, but none of them are. The only real solution is giving everyone a better life. “ Large nutrimental studies often come out in conflict with each other, so maybe we’re missing the point : It’s not diet, it’s inequality.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:44 AM on August 25, 2018 (25 comments)

I've gotten enough recipes to make this doc worth sharing. It can be found directly on Google Docs as well as through the wiki. Please let me know if any changes, additions, or corrections need to be made!
posted to MetaTalk by brilliantine at 11:01 AM on August 23, 2018 (30 comments)

“Pullman was designed to keep workers content enough to avoid unrest. The buildings were magnificent, everything was inordinately clean, homes had personal yard space in addition to expansive public parks, with maintenance and sanitation covered by the company. By building an appealing environment that seemed to focus on the health and contentment of its inhabitants, Pullman hoped to entice a skilled workforce to join him—and to avoid strikes. Though workers had access to libraries, churches, parks, shopping, and a man-made lake, there were also strongly enforced prohibitions against newspapers, town meetings led by workers, public speeches, and even taverns. Residents had to adhere to cleanliness standards, which largely existed only to give inspectors an excuse to invade their homes. A Pullman pastor explained: “It is a civilized relic of European serfdom.” It was a company town controlled by a paranoid baron who felt insecure about his power and did all he could to keep his employees placated enough to stay quiet—and it worked, until it didn’t.” How (or How Not) To Build A Labor Movement.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:19 AM on August 23, 2018 (22 comments)

I used to have an excellent hot air popcorn popper. Things that made it excellent:
posted to Ask MetaFilter by metasarah at 6:01 PM on August 23, 2018 (6 comments)

ESPN's Sam Miller analyzed 200 players' nicknames, as used in MLB clubhouses, and codified 20 rules for determining how they're created.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 12:04 PM on August 23, 2018 (38 comments)

Want to watch the latest film/book/Video Game release but need to know if particular squick will be present? Then "Does the Dog Die?" is the site for you!
posted to MetaFilter by Faintdreams at 4:36 AM on August 23, 2018 (46 comments)

CROWBOX! How do you stop Crows just stealing all your sausages? Sell the food to them! The crowbox is an opensource vending machine for crows, exchanging found coins for food.
posted to MetaFilter by Just this guy, y'know at 4:45 AM on August 23, 2018 (103 comments)

For your listening pleasure: The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio live. Why yes old timer, it does remind one of the wonderful Jimmy Smith, doesn't it? Happy Monday, y'all.
posted to MetaFilter by gwint at 6:35 AM on August 20, 2018 (27 comments)

Among aficionados of the music of Jonathan Round there is some debate over where his particular genius is best exemplified by his transformation of already popular songs into his unique style, or through his own songwriting where his own lyrical gift is given full voice. Either way, Round's music is something not to be missed.
posted to MetaFilter by gusottertrout at 1:38 AM on August 17, 2018 (5 comments)

Mars Rover Opportunity was put to sleep by a planet-wide dust storm that didn't allow her solar panels to recharge her batteries. The dust storm has died down, and as the engineers wait for her to wake back up, they've been greeting her every day with a different wake up song. Space.com has the article, and the article has a Spotify playlist.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 2:37 AM on August 14, 2018 (21 comments)

"The sheer invisibility of Native people leads to some very warped perspectives about contemporary Native life. Forty percent of respondents did not think that Native people still exist. While 59 percent agree that 'the United States is guilty of committing genocide against Native Americans,' only 36 percent agree that Native Americans experience significant discrimination today — meaning nearly two-thirds of the public perceive Native Americans as experiencing little to no oppression or structural racism... ." Reclaiming Native Truth's report on how the American public views Native Americans.
posted to MetaFilter by Grandysaur at 9:37 PM on August 13, 2018 (21 comments)

I am on maternity leave with a 7 week old and by the time dinner rolls around I am spent. But tonight I became an alchemist and mixed a packet of harissa skillet sauce by Saffron road with ground turkey. OMG it was so easy and delicious. I want to rely more on the formula of ground turkey + sauce packet. I am far from inexperienced with prepared foods but I haven’t ever cooked with those packets before. Do you have any specific recommendations?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pintapicasso at 6:40 PM on August 13, 2018 (16 comments)

Abdul El-Sayed, The 32-year-old charismatic Muslim doctor is running for governor of Michigan and in the process trying to change US politics (The Guardian) his speech : The Epidemic Of Poverty and the Goverment Imperative . Abdul El-Sayed’s State level single payer plan everyone should be talking about (Current Affairs) One thing that immediately stands out is that, from Abdul on down, this is an undeniably youthful campaign. Almost everyone with a lanyard appears to be between twenty-three and thirty-five years old—an augur of the kind of voter that the El-Sayed team needs to turn out in droves to reverse the usual geriatric composition of the mid-term primary electorate. (The Baffler) Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are joining forces to elect an underdog but potentially history-making candidate on the ballot in Michigan (Politico) Abdul El-Sayed’s Policy Platform. The first-ever political endorsement from the Current Affairs editorial board The Michigan gubatoral debate (YouTube)
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 8:00 AM on August 6, 2018 (87 comments)

William Shatner’s ‘Has Been’: The Album That Broke Indie Rock for Good -- Dan Ozzi puts Shatner's first album since the 1970s* in context, in "a powerhouse [year] for indie rock" and the last year physical album sales trended up** in any serious way, then evaluates the album itself. "Has Been (YT Playlist; Wiki) is such an odd record—even the premise seems absurd: a then 73-year-old self-admitted past-his-prime C-list celebrity doing his. Trademark. Style of. Shattneresque break-talking. Over a. Pensive and… artful soundtrack? Composed. By. Respected musician... Ben Folds? ... [Pitchfork] praised Shatner as “the ultimate icon for Generation Irony” and noted that the album’s “humor and candor give it a fair amount of staying power.” "
posted to MetaFilter by filthy light thief at 9:28 PM on August 6, 2018 (57 comments)

I really enjoyed reading Neverwhere, Kraken, and The Laundry Files when I was living in London. Now I'm in Edinburgh, what should I read to get a sense of a hidden world just under the surface of familiar streets?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by metaBugs at 6:45 AM on August 1, 2018 (10 comments)

A guy on my project left. In a fit of comedic genius I turned his slack account into a ghost and posted a couple things. Now I need absolutely terrible ghost jokes. My team's morale is at stake. This is extremely important.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:58 AM on August 1, 2018 (19 comments)

Every Tuesday at the Oregon Zoo, two tiny goats named after Supreme Court Justices visit the other animals. So far, Ruth and Sonia have met seals, a porcupine, elephants, Chupacabra, giraffes, a hornbill, penguins, river otters, and an aardvark.
posted to MetaFilter by chrisulonic at 3:42 AM on July 26, 2018 (31 comments)

Mefi’s komara has been sculpting tiny skulls and leaving them out in public as free art for people to find and claim. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by not_the_water at 11:05 AM on July 25, 2018 (48 comments)

I have a mind-boggling amount of freshly dried lavender flowers, some dried in bundles and a lot of loose flower buds. Please help me figure out what to do with them!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by centrifugal at 1:43 PM on July 25, 2018 (26 comments)

"The Good Place" season 2 gag reel has been released.
posted to MetaFilter by rewil at 3:22 PM on July 21, 2018 (21 comments)

'November Rain' is the oldest music video with a billion YouTube views. What does that mean?
posted to MetaFilter by box at 2:37 PM on July 19, 2018 (71 comments)

"It was December 18th, 2016 when we noticed that all the glue was gone and we had no clue why. So when the cavernous shelf was filled, only to be emptied again immediately, we began to speculate. Something as simple as Elmer’s Glue, although a little oddball, did not seem an unlikely victim for whatever might have been caught in the crosshairs of a Pinterest trend. We’d survive- whatever it was. I was in no way prepared for the reality. "
posted to MetaFilter by Quackles at 5:50 PM on July 15, 2018 (58 comments)

A Goodwill slide projector came with a bonus, family pictures dating from the late 50s or early 60s. Who are these people?
posted to MetaFilter by COD at 4:15 PM on July 14, 2018 (40 comments)

Lik the bone I know this is very thin but I couldn't resist my urge to share. a little something to smile about in these grim times.
posted to MetaFilter by supermedusa at 12:00 PM on July 11, 2018 (28 comments)