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Gonna stick my head up and say "We're closing this thread temporarily because we don't have enough mod coverage and it's super cranky in here" is way better than cranky people complaining in an open MeTa because mods aren't responding and… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Jacqueline, hydra77, charmedimsure, Johnny Assay, steadystate, clavdivs, destructive cactus, Lemkin, Melismata, farmerd, philip-random, DiscourseMarker
MetaTalk comment - Yesterday

I'm not diving into litigating past threads but in general, non-answer answers in AskMe should go. And to the extent that the difference between now and previous recent times is mods being clearer about when they're deleting, that's fine. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by introp, hydropsyche, destructive cactus, yellowcandy, pdb
MetaTalk comment - 3 days ago

Don't want to crap on the subject of the OP but I'm another Gen X listener who was 100% Team Cure even back in the day. I have always loved Marr's guitar playing but Morrissey has always put me off even when I was in the whiny adolescent demographic… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

We're about to work on this on the fruit-based ecosystem side. Wish us luck! [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by elphaba, limeonaire
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I can't speak to the oil porn in this show, but it's based on a Texas Monthly podcast so you know it's going to be oil propaganda. Texas Monthly is generally on the proper side of things for Texas but everything down here is oil propaganda. The… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by caviar2d2, jedicus, emf, nofundy
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

When you say Soldier of Fortune, I, who played D&D with some ex-service guys in the late 80s, think of how many adverts they had for working in Rhodesia back in the day. There are amounts of yikes in that I don't want to contemplate in the… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Barbara Spitzer, Proofs and Refutations, adamsc, nofundy, hydropsyche, chavenet, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Mr Epigrams used to be a sound engineer for local bands in the 90s and he taught me to keep a Sharpie in my purse for him. In addition to the uses soundguy99 describes, they were also useful for helping set up the merch table (for pricing CDs &… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by soundguy99
Ask MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Metafilter friends! My covid test was negative this morning! Still going to take a while to completely recover (this has been exhausting) but I am so excited and happy even though I have a ton of stuff to do! [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by cupcakeninja, signal, AzraelBrown, unearthed, theBigRedKittyPurrs, edithkeeler, TrishaU, dutchrick, wenestvedt, joannemerriam, taz, jenfullmoon
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Spouse tested negative for covid this morning. Fingers crossed I'm next! [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by edithkeeler, taz, otherchaz, ninazer0, paduasoy, wenestvedt, jenfullmoon, DirtyOldTown, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

That doesn’t make any sense. She’s going to win over the Texas legislature by destroying the Mavericks? Trading a great white star for a less great black one? No, she just isn't going to spend big and buy/keep a winning team until/unless… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by CPAnarchist
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this is all about Adelson not wanting to spend big on the Mavs while she tries to beat/bribe the Texas legislature into giving her the casino in Arlington (Dallas suburb, between Dallas and Fort Worth) that she wants to build. The casino would… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by CPAnarchist, TedW, Lemkin, obliterati
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

My dad traveled a lot internationally by air when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. I remember a plane going off the runway in DC into the Potomac in the late 70s/early 80s and being terrified that my parents, who were going on a trip together without… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by mygothlaundry, non canadian guy, swerve, adamsc, emf, wenestvedt, eirias, rrrrrrrrrt, adrienneleigh, TrishaU, St. Oops, sandrayln, Lemkin
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I've also read all the arguments and I get all the "it's for show" and "Mefites are grown up enough to decide what they read" but in the end I'm in favor of the ban. But I don't think it needs to be a tech ban. As we used to say… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Lyme Drop, bunderful, mmoncur, atoxyl, Gygesringtone, Lemkin
MetaTalk comment - 3 weeks ago

I would like to be the future me who's no longer sick with covid, please and thank you. [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by swerve, TrishaU, scruss, theBigRedKittyPurrs, Bryant, mersen, martin q blank, bunderful, paduasoy, loquacious, mygothlaundry, The Ardship of Cambry, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Sending hugs to all of you who want/need them. Socially distanced/no coughing though! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by AzraelBrown, dutchrick, bunderful
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I was partway through decluttering my closet and doing a bunch of furniture moving when I got covid for the first time. Five years of avoiding it and Mr Epigrams brought it back from a mandatory work trip (not mad at him but sure am annoyed at his work for putting us in this situation). On the one hand, I am getting nothing done right now. On the other hand, getting this sick is generally very clarifying. It's easy for me to say "fuck it, I am not wearing that pair of pants" and putting it straight in the donate bag instead of telling myself "I'll style it differently" or whatever. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Glinn, mersen, ldthomps, clew, SunPower, The Wrong Kind of Cheese, paduasoy, inexorably_forward
IRL comment - 3 weeks ago

I'd love to do a FanFare reread of the whole DWJ canon. Any takers? One of my goals this year in particular is to read more SFF by women authors, current and past. I'd be interested. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by taquito sunrise, paduasoy
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I do remember being oddly fascinated by Servalan. Servalan was an early fashion inspiration of mine. Her monochrome outfits, the super-short hair: she was making villainy look not just good, but fantastic. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by drnick, adrienneleigh, chariot pulled by cassowaries
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I haven't read it but I backed the kickstarter for this *looks into email archive* five years ago! Wow, I need to dig into my kickstarter backlog. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Lemkin
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I follow the Ao3 RSS feed for B7 and I'm here to tell you, the slashers unsurprisingly won that war, at least on Ao3. It's not all Blake/Avon or Avon/Vila, but a lot of it is. I'm old enough to have seen the later seasons of B7 when they came out… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GeorgeBickham
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

thank you for keeping yourself and all of us safe You're all welcome, but of course. It really boggles me that people don't stay home when they're sick. Mr E went on a business trip (sales conference; he's a tech guy but he's in the sales… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by TrishaU, chariot pulled by cassowaries, wenestvedt, Bella Donna
MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Mr Epigrams tested positive for COVID this morning. I'm spending my day cancelling all our plans for this week. (I have not tested but am assuming I have it or will have it.) [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by TrishaU, Bella Donna, luckynerd, taz, cupcakeninja, edithkeeler, wenestvedt, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

Relevant to this discussion: American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces. Particularly the closing paragraph: It’s easy to imagine the backlash that may ensue from any effort to charge people with large vehicles more for parking, even though… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by InTheYear2017
MeFi comment - 4 weeks ago

I was (at a distance, because I have disabilities and could not do it in person) the sole caretaker for my mother when she developed Alzheimer's. She had already been talking about moving into an independent living facility; she was in the… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by thetarium, mgar, adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - Last month

I fell in love with Sandman in college (along with the Tanith Lee books, and I'd never formally made the connection until now, but ... yes) but like the Potter books, which were significantly less important to me, the meaning of the stories in… [more]
favorited 26 times, recently by GeorgeBickham, sandrayln, Barbara Spitzer, epj, mmmbacon, hototogisu, Text TK, pxe2000, GenjiandProust, Sparky Buttons, june_dodecahedron, ishmael, EatTheWeek, juliebug, Halloween Jack, leslies, grandiloquiet, Carillon, cendawanita, Jilder, camyram, tavella, thetarium, cowlick, humbug, bunderful
MeFi comment - Last month

I love getting these links to stories I would otherwise miss. These posts are a highlight of Metafilter for me. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Arctostaphylos, mygothlaundry
MeFi comment - Last month

This is one of my tumblr favorites. I'm glad more people who aren't normally on tumblr are getting a chance to read it. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by humbug, JHarris
MeFi comment - Last month

The journal post read like it had been run past legal and PR. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by bunderful, aneel, verbminx, pxe2000, cupcakeninja, jenfullmoon, Jilder
MeFi comment - Last month

it’s striking to me how few words you’d have to change to also describe the sff/con scene. And in the context of the giant wall of text I just wrote, certain music scenes I've been around, which hits both my experience and Amanda Palmer's… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by pxe2000, Sparky Buttons, Jilder
MeFi comment - Last month

Earlier this evening I watched her get that pie in the face one more time. I hope the folks who find peace in this are all the people she harmed, most particularly her granddaughter and her granddaughter's wife. [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by Dolley, fgdmorr, adrienneleigh, queensissy, BlueHorse, moosedogtoo, Abehammerb Lincoln, supermedusa, merrill, The Ardship of Cambry, humbug, lord_wolf, kinnakeet, emf, ursus_comiter, apathy
MeFi comment - Last month

It happens to all of us unless we go first.
favorited 290 times, recently by cognateantigen
MeFi post - Last month

Spouse and I were like "sure sounds like he provoked them" and then "but that's what the cops would say, isn't it?". [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by eviemath, dr_dank, hydropsyche, one-half-ole, wenestvedt, emf, Bryant
MeFi comment - Last month

We just got new furniture (dining table with chairs plus replacing the old sofa; a long-planned expenditure, time chosen on the basis of "let's get it before the economy goes where it's going under TFG) so we're well-placed to do this. There are a few more pieces of furniture we need to figure out for my little office, but this is a great time to declutter and move things, especially the art which was based on the old furniture configuration and will need a significant reshuffle for the new one. Ultimate reward: open house so all my local folks can visit. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by mmoncur, Glinn, mochapickle, inexorably_forward, paduasoy, mersen
IRL comment - Last month

Siri in our house gets confused a lot because one of our cats is named Berry, and if we say "Hey Berry" and talk to the cat, Siri thinks it's for her. This is our contribution to fucking up the data sets, as Siri doesn't understand why we… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by trillian, Kitteh, pulposus, Horace Rumpole, slmorri, thetarium
MeFi comment - Last month

I haven't watched these videos (yet) but I did watch the other one and found it worthwhile and interesting. It gave me some insight into the site's functioning. I'd like to watch more of them. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

2024 had high points (my cancer was removed by surgery in January and I avoided radiation and chemo; I was successfully treated for my phobia of needles and was able to donate blood for the first time) and some really low points (a young relative… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I'm really pleased that the site is moving forward on both the technical and nonprofit fronts, and I appreciate the work staff and volunteers have put in on it. Thanks! As for the other stuff, I stick my head in the grey to read the mod updates… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

The thing I noticed about the giant swoopy TARDIS interior is we now have a wheelchair-using scientific advisor for UNIT and a TARDIS that might be able to accommodate her needs. [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

Dear tangaroo, having come back and slept until noon, I have now opened your lovely box. Thank you! Kitties are super excited about the catnip blend, which explains why they were so interested in the box. Also they LOVE little balls, especially new… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

Beanmas gifter, I am on my way out of the house and had to put the delightful gifts where kitties would not inspect (they showed remarkable interest) but I will inspect and come back with more thanks later. THANK YOU! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - Last month

It's sausage biscuits for me: I have to have something solid with protein and carbs to go with morning meds. Metafilter, I am very pleased with myself. I have been phobic of needles (medical trauma related) since I was a kid and too young/too… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

There's a thread going around social media about a lawyer who was illegally denied Humira for her chronic disease (IBD, I think) and when they cut her off, the fight took so long she got cancer, and is still dealing with the financial problems this… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I never thought to post that here, but that's the site a friend of ours used to find a pattern to make a scarf for my husband, replacing his ancient and moth-eaten scarf from back in the day. (An absolute blessing: she made it for materials costs… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

After sleeping on the news I think I'm most bothered by the situation that got us here: either Biden lets the Rs (continue to) break the norm of "don't try to put your political opponents in jail" or Biden breaks the norm of "don't… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I would wear the clothes you are linking to/describing for the most part, but I would not find them appropriate for a formal wedding at a hotel in the afternoon/evening. I understand that you do not wish to buy something new, but at the same time,… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Re: bsky: I am trying to interact with metafilter posts and some of them are getting lost in the shuffle! Once the firehose dies down I think we'll figure out who is regular and who wants to follow whom. Also, unrelated, it's my birthday and since… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

So what happened to Mastodon? I thought that's where all the Twitter/X flee-ers went? I'm both places and somewhat active in both. Will be glad when the firehose of new folks dies down a little because it's a lot. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

The seven mountains stuff scares me. I'm in Dallas and I see some of that stuff from area preachers, some of whom were tied up with Trumpov and Vance. A lot of people who voted on "I'm mad about inflation" or other pretty superficial stuff… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Seeking nonfiction book about Gracia Mendes Nasi/Beatrice de Luna Miques
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Ask MeFi post - 3 months ago

I should sign up this year. I felt really bad because I had to ask for a pinch hitter last year, though to be fair it was because I was DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER between signing up and the deadline, so that was a lot. Either way I need to donate to the… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 3 months ago

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