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"Je suis une calamité/un bâton de dynamite allumé"
https://www.metafilter.com/211131/Je-suis-une-calamit-un-bton-de-dynamite-allum
Published: November 20, 2025 22:26
Les Calamités were a French indie rock band from the town of Beaune in Burgundy comprised of Caroline Augier, Isabelle Petit, Odile Repolt and Mike Stephens. They recorded 16 bangers between 1983-7, a mix of originals by Augier, Petit and Repolt, and…
Getting Killed Live
https://www.metafilter.com/211130/Getting-Killed-Live
Published: November 20, 2025 21:57
Geese: Live in From the Basement. Band of the moment Geese performs a set from their recent album Getting Killed in From the Basement, producer Nigel Godrich's recently revived video showcase. Track list: Trinidad; Husbands; Islands of Men; Half Real; 100…
Subvert the status quo. Own a website. Make and share links.
https://www.metafilter.com/211129/Subvert-the-status-quo-Own-a-website-Make-and-share-links
Published: November 20, 2025 20:07
The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.
"not a story of the world's fanciest conversion"
https://www.metafilter.com/211128/not-a-story-of-the-worlds-fanciest-conversion
Published: November 20, 2025 18:43
After "Living in a tiny electric van for three years" (found via Mastodon post), reforester Phil Sturgeon shares: "Here is everything good, bad, and on my todo list." (Sturgeon is not telling other people they should do this; he is reporting what he did…
"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks."
https://www.metafilter.com/211127/Why-should-I-change-my-name-Hes-the-one-who-sucks
Published: November 20, 2025 16:31
A.C. Newman talks about the aftermath of their former drummer's arrest. (CW: mentions of child abuse)In case you needed some context (and I could have sworn this made the Blue but I can't find it).
Homo homini lupus
https://www.metafilter.com/211126/Homo-homini-lupus
Published: November 20, 2025 12:46
The Guardian does a deep dive on 'Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history': the inside story of the Medomsley scandal (TW CW: Rape/Child Abuse/Violence/Trauma/Suicide/Massive Injustice/Institutional and State Complicity)"At a youth…
Absolutely no relation to that Coldplay single
https://www.metafilter.com/211125/Absolutely-no-relation-to-that-Coldplay-single
Published: November 20, 2025 09:13
Here is a web page that shows HTML/CSS clocks, updated every minute, generated by nine different LLMs. They are not very good at it.
The stuff of nightmares
https://www.metafilter.com/211124/The-stuff-of-nightmares
Published: November 20, 2025 08:57
Older generations sometimes engage in a trickle of giving, gradually passing possessions to family members . It can be nice to offload some important things, especially while people are still around to explain their stories and significance. But it can…
Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication
https://www.metafilter.com/211123/Raccoons-Are-Showing-Early-Signs-of-Domestication
Published: November 20, 2025 06:00
Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication. City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals.
Dead Guy Isn't Just a Beer Brand
https://www.metafilter.com/211122/Dead-Guy-Isnt-Just-a-Beer-Brand
Published: November 20, 2025 03:06
On Friday the 14th, Rogue Brewing and Spirits abruptly shuttered all their pub locations around Oregon as well as the brewery site in Newport OR. While no official word has been released by the company, the news has reported that Rogue owes the Port of…
"Does not work if you call the hat 'Macaroni.'"
https://www.metafilter.com/211121/Does-not-work-if-you-call-the-hat-Macaroni
Published: November 20, 2025 02:39
it's 4 AM, you're worn out after a long day of conjuring for the king, and have fallen asleep at your alchemical workbench. Your bleary eyes open, and you espy on your crystal ball or magical mirror of scrying a Home Shopping Network/QVC-style salesman…
Who's in the AI Pew?
https://www.metafilter.com/211120/Whos-in-the-AI-Pew
Published: November 19, 2025 21:55
The Demographics of AI Usage. Some findings: * 73% of US adults say they'd be willing to let AI assist them at least a little with day-to-day activities. *46% of Americans with a postgraduate degree say they interact with AI at least several times a day,…
Playing poker (or chess) with Walter Benjamin will remain a fantasy
https://www.metafilter.com/211119/Playing-poker-or-chess-with-Walter-Benjamin-will-remain-a-fantasy
Published: November 19, 2025 21:05
These tour guides, I gradually realized, were what the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci would call organic intellectuals—symbol-pushers tied to a specific location in the social structure, producing culture in, of, and for their milieu rather than…
Becoming El Jefe: The Story of Ryan Wedding
https://www.metafilter.com/211118/Becoming-El-Jefe-The-Story-of-Ryan-Wedding
Published: November 19, 2025 20:34
A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder is now one of the most powerful drug lords in the world. This TO Life story dropped this summer in July, but I am now posting it as the RCMP and FBI has laid more charges and upped the reward for Wedding. …
"You gave it a good shot."
https://www.metafilter.com/211117/You-gave-it-a-good-shot
Published: November 19, 2025 19:15
From The Guardian: How do the pros get someone to leave a cult? Manipulate them into thinking it was their idea.
Called in to tackle tree infestation in the millions
https://www.metafilter.com/211116/Called-in-to-tackle-tree-infestation-in-the-millions
Published: November 19, 2025 18:41
"Pablo Escobar of weeds" called in to tackle tree infestation in the millions. For the past 25 years the king of weeds, Mark Facer, has been chasing and eradicating weeds. Now he has been called in to help graziers in far west New South Wales with the…
What Most Americans Don't Know About NAFTA's Wreckage in Mexico
https://www.metafilter.com/211115/What-Most-Americans-Dont-Know-About-NAFTAs-Wreckage-in-Mexico
Published: November 19, 2025 15:49
What Most Americans Don't Know About NAFTA's Wreckage South of the Border (SL substack post) How U.S. trade policy gutted Mexico's rural economy, erased 7,000 years of sustainable farming, and fueled mass migration north. Article by Anthropologist Conrad…
The tiniest of things
https://www.metafilter.com/211114/The-tiniest-of-things
Published: November 19, 2025 14:30
An NTSB investigation has now determined that the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was caused by a single loose wire on the container ship MV Dali, leading to the power failure which lost control of the ship. That loose connection was…
The Journey of Making Friends With a Tiny Spider
https://www.metafilter.com/211113/The-Journey-of-Making-Friends-With-a-Tiny-Spider
Published: November 19, 2025 12:21
Terrarium maker Ben Newell shares his delightful, dramatic, and flat-out-adorable journey of making friends with a jumping spider [SLYT]
Gwobrau Cerddoriaeth Ddu Cymru/Black Welsh Music Awards
https://www.metafilter.com/211112/Gwobrau-Cerddoriaeth-Ddu-Cymru-Black-Welsh-Music-Awards
Published: November 19, 2025 10:39
The inaugural Black Welsh Music Awards event was held on 4 October celebrating the work of black Welsh musicians in both Cymraeg and English. Sample from the Welsh language shortlist: Aleighcia Scott, Diolch Sage Todz, Stopia Cwyno Seraphyre, Caru Ffion…
I thought it was all an act for a time
https://www.metafilter.com/211111/I-thought-it-was-all-an-act-for-a-time
Published: November 19, 2025 09:53
As a twenty-year-old, I was fascinated, however improbably it now seems, by the presumed origins of self-consciousness in the dialectic of lordship and bondage, a parable that imagines two human beings, whom Kojève calls men, fighting to death at the…
Designed by a member of the Legion of Boom
https://www.metafilter.com/211110/Designed-by-a-member-of-the-Legion-of-Boom
Published: November 19, 2025 07:19
Nestled into the southeastern corner of the grounds of Seattle's Northwest African American Museum is a small chapel, built of light-colored wood. It's an unexpected sight outside the museum's vintage brick building: a contemporary structure that's both…
The Forrest Gump of the decline and fall of the United States of America
Published: November 19, 2025 06:48
And she's only 32 years old. Olivia Nuzzi (Wikipedia) has been all over social media lately, due to her recent high dollar image rehabilitation campaign at the New York Times and Vanity Fair, but follow me down this rabbit hole, if you will. It's a…
Mandatory affordable housing contribution scheme
https://www.metafilter.com/211108/Mandatory-affordable-housing-contribution-scheme
Published: November 19, 2025 05:49
Carrie-Ann "won the lotto" after being priced out of Sydney housing market. Carrie-Ann is now cooking in her own kitchen thanks to a mandatory affordable housing contribution scheme where private for-profit property developers have to contribute a…
Judge a beer by its label
https://www.metafilter.com/211107/Judge-a-beer-by-its-label
Published: November 19, 2025 04:32
Most of us can agree that drinking a good beer, whatever that may mean to the drinker, is one of the simple joys of life. Similarly, most of us can agree that looking at good art, whatever that may mean to the viewer, is one of the simple joys of life.…
And the scales fell from my eyes
https://www.metafilter.com/211106/And-the-scales-fell-from-my-eyes
Published: November 19, 2025 02:48
From interviewing the Pope to the COLBERT module on the ISS, Stephen Colbert responds to his fans for GQ magazine. 10m of light-hearted fun from one of our living masters.
U.S. gerrymandering duel escalates
https://www.metafilter.com/211105/US-gerrymandering-duel-escalates
Published: November 19, 2025 01:52
The states of Texas & California are locked in a game of partisan gerrymandering one-upsmanship for the 2026 mid-term elections, drawing a half-dozen more states into the conflict. At stake is party control of the U.S. House of Representatives, currently…
The only constant is change
https://www.metafilter.com/211104/The-only-constant-is-change
Published: November 18, 2025 22:38
Phrack is both a technical journal and a cultural document. Like all zines, it represents a snapshot of the scene at the time. We share not just our discoveries, but the stories of how we came to know things and the context in which we existed. We share…
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting's Posthumous Star
https://www.metafilter.com/211103/The-Strange-Afterlife-of-Hilma-af-Klint-Paintings-Posthumous-Star
Published: November 18, 2025 22:19
Possession is an esssy by Alice Gregory in the New Yorker [archive] about Hilma af Klint, her breakthrough abstract paintings, religious beliefs, posthumous fame, drama in the foundation that owns her art, and the question whether she made all the works…
"And this to hold your beans in a different way"
https://www.metafilter.com/211102/And-this-to-hold-your-beans-in-a-different-way
Published: November 18, 2025 21:06
Youtube Boardgame Satire Channel The Dragon's Tomb (previously) received an invitation from Probable Scam Kickstarter Company Starmork to receive a free table to review. A month after the kickstarter finished, the (possibly The Only) table arrived. Here is…
Hope is anti-police, allegedly
https://www.metafilter.com/211101/Hope-is-anti-police-allegedly
Published: November 18, 2025 19:55
The legendary hacker conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) says that it has been "banned" from St. John's University, the venue where it has held the last several HOPE conferences, because someone told the university the conference had an "anti-police…
Endangered parrot found in northern Tasmania for first time in decades
Published: November 18, 2025 18:10
Endangered parrot found in northern Tasmania for first time in decades. The presence of an endangered and cryptic parrot species at a northern Tasmanian national park has been hailed as very good news by a bird expert.
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Doge
https://www.metafilter.com/211099/Peter-Thiel-Gets-Out-of-Doge
Published: November 18, 2025 18:09
Yesterday, I published an article that began: "Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it's practically visible from space." And today (November 17th), in a strange bit of timing, news lands that Peter Thiel -…
Modern Humans Unexpectedly Evolving Faster than Assumed Previously
https://www.metafilter.com/211098/Modern-Humans-Unexpectedly-Evolving-Faster-than-Assumed-Previously
Published: November 18, 2025 16:05
Genomic studies and advances are producing mounting evidence that our species have undergone striking sweeps of natural selection especially in immunity. Scientists assume our species evolved dramatically in our prehistory and our evolution settled down to…
Cloudflare? More like Cloudflump.
https://www.metafilter.com/211097/Cloudflare-More-like-Cloudflump
Published: November 18, 2025 15:01
Guardian: "Some site owners could not access their performance dashboards. Sites including X and OpenAI suffered increased outages at the same time as Cloudflare's problems, according to Downdetector." The Independent: "Visitors to websites such as X,…
The Vantablack Run
https://www.metafilter.com/211096/The-Vantablack-Run
Published: November 18, 2025 14:55
In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people known to have reached the summit of Mt Everest. In May 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to do so without supplementary oxygen. In September 2025, Andrzej Bargiel…
Do I, then, belong to the heavens
https://www.metafilter.com/211095/Do-I-then-belong-to-the-heavens
Published: November 18, 2025 11:26
To build new technology, we must imagine it first. The Three Dreams Forgotten Technologies, Towers, and Roman Shitposting Death Rays, Brass Horses, and Dragon-Surprising Mirrors Pondering Orbs, Black Mirrors, and World-Viewing Cups The culmination: The…
The border, & the many meanings of the border, isn't meant to be relived
Published: November 18, 2025 11:22
Unable to move from standing in front of the Dora backpack, I take a picture. I concentrate on the backpack. I tell myself to think beyond this blankness I am feeling right now. I do everything I can standing in place, as if some sentence from the void…
fumbling the bag
https://www.metafilter.com/211093/fumbling-the-bag
Published: November 18, 2025 11:11
How did a luggage manufacturer claim the American rights to a Danish toy line? [substack] "Samsonite had told us that American kids were different from kids in Europe," a Danish LEGO official said to Business Week... "But when we took over ourselves, we…
A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker
Published: November 18, 2025 06:52
A bunch of engineers built a drifting wheelchair for an injured coworker.
Simple tools to hold things together. To attach. To be attached by, or t
Published: November 17, 2025 23:11
What else is desirable when always at hand? Because always at hand? Ubiquity is not generally part of an object's allure. Usually, it's the opposite: rarity arousing interest. But the rubber band's omnipresence may be its allure (that, and the fact that…
Sea wolves in BC have added Crabbing to their skill set.
https://www.metafilter.com/211090/Sea-wolves-in-BC-have-added-Crabbing-to-their-skill-set
Published: November 17, 2025 22:33
Traps set as a control measure for invasive Green Crabs on the BC coast were being mysteriously damaged. Researchers set up cameras to try and figure out why and have captured sea wolves using the buoy lines to pull the traps on the beach in order to eat…
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies
https://www.metafilter.com/211089/We-Can-Now-Track-Individual-Monarch-Butterflies
Published: November 17, 2025 21:48
Scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico. [NYT gift link, archive (slightly messed up due to interactive graphics)]
Insulin Independence
https://www.metafilter.com/211088/Insulin-Independence
Published: November 17, 2025 20:26
"This report demonstrates attainment of insulin-independent glycemic control in the patient, as seen by a blood glucose TIR of over 98% after month 4 post-transplantation and decrease in HbA1c to a non-diabetic level" - By modifying patient-donated cells…
Odd seeing eulogies before I expire
https://www.metafilter.com/211087/Odd-seeing-eulogies-before-I-expire
Published: November 17, 2025 18:48
Rebecca "Burger" Heineman, legendary video game programmer, writer, and player, has days to live, a mere month and a half after her cancer diagnosis. This PC Gamer article lists some of her accomplishments. 2010 interview. Updates on BlueSky.
"There are over a thousand of us"
https://www.metafilter.com/211086/There-are-over-a-thousand-of-us
Published: November 17, 2025 18:37
"For five administrations, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have been left in the dark, waiting for answers and accountability. After three decades, it's finally time to bring the secrets out of the shadows." Putting faces and voices to the facts, the website…
The Roving Greg Bovino Show
https://www.metafilter.com/211085/The-Roving-Greg-Bovino-Show
Published: November 17, 2025 17:56
Facing pushback in Chicago, including legal limits on his use of force and requirements to check in with a federal judge, as well as citizens mobilizing against federal agent abuses, Greg Bovino - of "smash the windows and drag them out" fame - takes his…
Trump's reversal on the Epstein files release
https://www.metafilter.com/211084/Trumps-reversal-on-the-Epstein-files-release
Published: November 17, 2025 17:43
Many Republicans are expected to support a vote in the US House this week to force the justice department to release the files. "Trump spent last week aggressively squeezing allies in the US House, including Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of…
Thromboinflammatory Activity
https://www.metafilter.com/211083/Thromboinflammatory-Activity
Published: November 17, 2025 12:55
Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID
Are you not entertained? – Trumpire and the Spectacle of disintegration
Published: November 17, 2025 12:50
I wanted to share with you a blog I recently discovered by Dr. Eric Fattor. I have searched here but could not find his name anywhere so I assume it has not been shared before. The blog was started in 2017 and describes the relation between Trump and what…
Free Thread!
https://www.metafilter.com/211081/Free-Thread
Published: November 17, 2025 12:19
Let's talk about your experience with violence. If you don't want to talk about violence wish loquacious a happy birthday and write about your life.
Humpback whales form defensive patterns against fishing fleets
https://www.metafilter.com/211080/Humpback-whales-form-defensive-patterns-against-fishing-fleets
Published: November 17, 2025 12:02
A crisis unfolds in the Pacific as humpback whales form never-before-seen defensive patterns against fishing fleets.
stickers is innocent
https://www.metafilter.com/211079/stickers-is-innocent
Published: November 17, 2025 10:31
Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. Get in on the fun and upload your own!
Across the Gizzverse
https://www.metafilter.com/211078/Across-the-Gizzverse
Published: November 17, 2025 10:13
The Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have released 27 studio albums since their formation in 2010 (five of them in 2017 alone, and three in the single month of October 2022), along with three EPs, a remix album, five…
The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon
https://www.metafilter.com/211077/The-Iliad-and-the-So-Called-Epic-Cycle-After-the-Canon
Published: November 17, 2025 09:48
Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon . Interesting essay asking if the "Epic Cycle", the group of poems telling the entire story of the Trojan war, was real or a scholarly fiction. Compares it to Star Wars and wonders…
American in a crucial way
https://www.metafilter.com/211076/American-in-a-crucial-way
Published: November 17, 2025 09:31
Nowadays some would call Cowley a gatekeeper, except that the term has acquired an invidious ring; Cowley's power and influence lay in opening, not shutting, the door to a new generation. He came of age at an especially fertile literary moment, after World…
The Devoid
https://www.metafilter.com/211075/The-Devoid
Published: November 17, 2025 01:48
...it was hard to say, at first, what was wrong with it, even though, quite evidently, everything was wrong with it. A four-part essay on a 21st century anti-aesthetic, souless and distinct from the uncanny.I realized that while there was nothing overtly…
World's smallest penguins return to coastal hamlet after 30 years
https://www.metafilter.com/211074/Worlds-smallest-penguins-return-to-coastal-hamlet-after-30-years
Published: November 16, 2025 23:35
World's smallest penguins return to coastal hamlet after 30-year disappearance. A re-establishing little penguin colony, once locally extinct, is finding its feet on the New South Wales far south coast. (Australia)
These create the impression that AI water use is a problem. It is not.
Published: November 16, 2025 21:24
AI data centers use water. Like any other industry that uses water, they require careful planning. If an electric car factory opens near you, that factory may use just as much water as a data center. The factory also requires careful planning. But the idea…
Crows are really smart (SLYT)
https://www.metafilter.com/211072/Crows-are-really-smart-SLYT
Published: November 16, 2025 20:22
Complex problem solving in Corvids How to get the food in... EIGHT steps?
'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' is essential viewing. Seriously.
https://www.metafilter.com/211071/The-Secret-Lives-of-Mormon-Wives-is-essential-viewing-Seriously
Published: November 16, 2025 18:32
It's time to talk about the third season of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives," which is to say, let's chat about America. [WaPo gift link, archive]
He doesn't like to be referred to as "maestro,"
https://www.metafilter.com/211070/He-doesnt-like-to-be-referred-to-as-maestro
Published: November 16, 2025 14:31
The DIY Maestro: A story about outsized ambitions, cash-strapped arts organizations and the limits of wish fulfillment.
Horned bee discovery raises concerns over land clearing
https://www.metafilter.com/211069/Horned-bee-discovery-raises-concerns-over-land-clearing
Published: November 16, 2025 12:26
Horned bee discovery raises concerns over land clearing. The discovery of a new "lucifer" bee with devil-like horns sparks concerns over land clearing regulations in Western Australia's Goldfields region.
It begins with language
https://www.metafilter.com/211068/It-begins-with-language
Published: November 16, 2025 09:44
So far, any discussion about writing for AI is predicated on the notion that writing essentially deals in information—information that can be melted down into bits, information that's meant to be acted upon, information about the world, information about…
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
https://www.metafilter.com/211067/Can-a-flung-sandwich-cause-bodily-harm
Published: November 16, 2025 06:10
Inside the Sandwich Guy's Jury Deliberations [Atlantic gift link, archive]
Bat colony causes council to consider property buyback scheme
https://www.metafilter.com/211066/Bat-colony-causes-council-to-consider-property-buyback-scheme
Published: November 16, 2025 00:17
Bat colony causes council to consider property buyback scheme. A Queensland council will consider seeking government funding for a property buyback scheme as part of a new flying fox management plan.
build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love
https://www.metafilter.com/211065/build-a-world-where-accessibility-is-understood-as-an-act-of-love
Published: November 15, 2025 23:10
In memoriam: Alice Wong (March 27, 1974 – November 14, 2025). She pioneered The Disability Visibility Project and gave voice to the injustice of ableism in all spaces. A columnist for Teen Vogue (contributions/columns), which was recently collapsed into…
An experimental zine focusing on very short articles
https://www.metafilter.com/211064/An-experimental-zine-focusing-on-very-short-articles
Published: November 15, 2025 22:32
Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially programming tricks!), hacking, security hacking, retro computers, modern computers, electronics, demoscene, and other similar topics.
Forest City 1
https://www.metafilter.com/211063/Forest-City-1
Published: November 15, 2025 18:59
A futuristic new city east of Cambridge is being proposed, according the the East Anglian Daily Times. The project comes from Shiv Malik and Joe Reeve of Looking for Growth, a political movement which aims to save Britain by moving fast and building…
"one large petri dish of curiosities"
https://www.metafilter.com/211062/one-large-petri-dish-of-curiosities
Published: November 15, 2025 18:53
Life Under the Ice is an exploratory tour through the microscopic world of Antarctica, created by Ariel Waldman. Drag around to see a bunch of tiny creatures!There are also some bonus videos on the project's about page.
Falling past the sun
https://www.metafilter.com/211061/Falling-past-the-sun
Published: November 15, 2025 18:46
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed "The Fall of Icarus," required meticulous planning to pull off. Behind-the-scenes videos…
Sink or Skim
https://www.metafilter.com/211060/Sink-or-Skim
Published: November 15, 2025 18:18
A delightful little Scottish documentary about skimming (not skipping) stones. Join a few likable Scotts - and one American - as they chase the world championship and a world record skimming stones. (29 minutes)
Todd Snider has made his final BEERRUN
https://www.metafilter.com/211059/Todd-Snider-has-made-his-final-BEERRUN
Published: November 15, 2025 18:03
Todd Snider, a singer, songwriter, and raconteur who helped shape the alt-country and Americana music movements, died Friday. He was 59. Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folk Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice…
Not just an ego check, an Anton Ego check...
https://www.metafilter.com/211058/Not-just-an-ego-check-an-Anton-Ego-check
Published: November 15, 2025 14:03
Michelin's Malaysian meltdown. I know Metafilter loves a restaurant critique but how does it feel about a restaurant critic critique?
Croc owners welcome government crackdown on Territorians' best friend
Published: November 15, 2025 12:53
Croc owners welcome government crackdown on Territorians' best friend. Crocodile owners whose pets escape and have to be recaptured by rangers could soon face penalties starting at $300, plus another $100 for each hour the reptiles are on the loose.…
This is Our BBC
https://www.metafilter.com/211056/This-is-Our-BBC
Published: November 15, 2025 11:05
A foreign convicted felon is attempting to extract billions of dollars from the people of the United Kingdom by suing the BBC for "anywhere between $1bn and $5bn" for broadcasting an edited version of his words. A billion US dollars equates to £10.90 per…
I am Carrie in a blood-soaked dress, but the gymnasium is empty
https://www.metafilter.com/211055/I-am-Carrie-in-a-blood-soaked-dress-but-the-gymnasium-is-empty
Published: November 15, 2025 09:18
I want Carrie to listen. I don't like looking at her, shoulders slumped in a plain dress, hiding behind her hair. Pretty means palatable, pleasing to others. Even as my mother forced me to dress modestly, she still wanted me to look pleasing. I wore a new…
A message to future scientists
https://www.metafilter.com/211054/A-message-to-future-scientists
Published: November 15, 2025 06:15
Apparently over the last twelve years, Japanese art collective EUPHRATES has been working with The Japanese National Institute for Material Sciences to produce a series of science education videos , with music by Masahiko Sato. They are simple and…
A Day in the Life of Bakers in the Norwegian Mountains
https://www.metafilter.com/211053/A-Day-in-the-Life-of-Bakers-in-the-Norwegian-Mountains
Published: November 15, 2025 04:17
If you enjoy watching professionals baking things without pretense or influencer personalities, you may enjoy A Day in the Life of Bakers in the Norwegian Mountains. And if you want more, there's a whole channel for your next coffee break, The Scandinavian…
Rube Goldberg, still keeping kids and people entertained 100 years later
Published: November 15, 2025 03:38
If you've ever wanted to make you own Rube Goldberg machine or just play around with one, the children's museum in Houston has your back through 11 Jan 2026.There's also a still on going yearly contest for kids to make their own contraptions! He even has…
Noisy little blue penguins nest under home
https://www.metafilter.com/211051/Noisy-little-blue-penguins-nest-under-home
Published: November 15, 2025 00:25
Noisy little blue penguins nest under Coromandel home, leaving couple at wit's end. (Aotearoa/New Zealand)Imagine sharing your home with noisy flatmates who party throughout the night and then move into your bedroom. That is what one Coromandel couple say…
"Shane, Come Back."
https://www.metafilter.com/211050/Shane-Come-Back
Published: November 14, 2025 22:04
'Shane, the ending' (slyt. 2:12) "I've come across another Mandela effect online, this one involving the classic Western, Shane. Some people - and I'm one of them - are convinced that after calling out "Come back, Shane!" several times, little Joey…
I just kept looking for Steve Carlson
https://www.metafilter.com/211049/I-just-kept-looking-for-Steve-Carlson
Published: November 14, 2025 19:45
I turned my attention to TIFF, built initially as an image standard for desktop publishing. TIFF was able to store monochrome, grayscale, and color images, alongside metadata such as size, compression algorithms, and color space information. In many ways,…
Muh-muh-muh-MONSTER KILL kill kill
https://www.metafilter.com/211048/Muh-muh-muh-MONSTER-KILL-kill-kill
Published: November 14, 2025 15:57
Unreal Tournament 99 multiplayer is now playable in your browser.Not a fan of UT99 multi? How about Quake 3 Arena instead? Or Half-Life DM? You can also check out the main site for all your old-games-in-a-browser needs.
no mercy
https://www.metafilter.com/211047/no-mercy
Published: November 14, 2025 15:43
Milan prosecutors investigate alleged 'sniper tourism' during Bosnian war - "Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during…
Just a straight bop for your Friday
https://www.metafilter.com/211046/Just-a-straight-bop-for-your-Friday
Published: November 14, 2025 15:23
Ecca Vandal - Molly I heard this banger last night when I was scrolling through my IG feed. Ecca Vandal is a Tamil-Australian musician and I will totally be checking out the rest of their work.
We Choose To Play With The Moon
https://www.metafilter.com/211045/We-Choose-To-Play-With-The-Moon
Published: November 14, 2025 14:26
BIG STRETCH! Kitten Space Agency, the spiritual successor to the beloved and sadly fumbled Kerbal Space Program, has launched a publically available, donate what you want, pre-Alpha build (Windows only). Matt Lowne has a quick look at this early version…
When Sociology Fails
https://www.metafilter.com/211044/When-Sociology-Fails
Published: November 14, 2025 12:52
The social psychology book "When Prophecy Fails" was a nonfiction account of a cult built around a prophecy. When the prophecy failed to come true, the cultists doubled down on their beliefs. For decades, the learnings have been used to support theories…
Undone by the laws of physics and finance
https://www.metafilter.com/211043/Undone-by-the-laws-of-physics-and-finance
Published: November 14, 2025 08:02
While Neom employees say that much of The Line might still be technically buildable, they are not convinced anyone is ready to pay for it. Construction work across Neom has slowed, with the desert ski resort Trojena, the intended venue for the 2029 Asian…
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist
https://www.metafilter.com/211042/Why-Elon-Musk-Needs-Dungeons-and-Dragons-to-Be-Racist
Published: November 14, 2025 05:33
Last November, on X, Elon Musk told the toy company Hasbro to "burn in hell." Hasbro owns the company Wizards of the Coast, which produces the game Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards had just released a book on the making of the game that was critical of some of…
send lawyers, money, and rhetoricians
https://www.metafilter.com/211041/send-lawyers-money-and-rhetoricians
Published: November 14, 2025 02:54
The New York Times reports today that US public university Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes [NYT gift link]. The University's Regents want to get their unruly faculty in line with the current American presidential…
Going beneath ocean surface for better weather forecasting
https://www.metafilter.com/211040/Going-beneath-ocean-surface-for-better-weather-forecasting
Published: November 14, 2025 02:21
Going beneath ocean surface for better weather forecasting. An international program in which researchers collaborate with the fishing industry is generating a dataset that will change global weather forecasting.
"I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far I've stretched it."
https://www.metafilter.com/211039/Im-comfortable-in-my-own-skin-no-matter-how-far-Ive-stretched-it
Published: November 14, 2025 00:05
National treasure Dolly Parton spends 20 minutes talking to People Magazine about her life as she approaches 80 years old. It's a charming interview and feels a bit cozy as we get further into the Autumn. a balm to the web-weary soul.
How Alike Are We
https://www.metafilter.com/211038/How-Alike-Are-We
Published: November 13, 2025 23:23
So my youngest kid is taking a speculative fiction in Asian cultures class in college, and he sent me this to read. Originally in Korean, by Bo-Young Kim, translated by Jihyun Park and Gord Sellar. Took my breath away; I literally gasped out loud.So I…
Gravity arrived sooner than light
https://www.metafilter.com/211037/Gravity-arrived-sooner-than-light
Published: November 13, 2025 23:20
What can we deduce from that? "Whenever masses accelerate through curved space, they emit tiny amounts of invisible radiation that's invisible to all light-based telescopes: gravitational, rather than electromagnetic, radiation.These gravitational waves…
Seamless creativity
https://www.metafilter.com/211036/Seamless-creativity
Published: November 13, 2025 20:48
The glorious Irish crochet lace of Asia Verten Crocheted Irish lace is a traditional form enjoying a resurgence, especially among Russian and Eastern European artists and Asia Verten's work is a spectacular example.
consumerism or a police raid
https://www.metafilter.com/211035/consumerism-or-a-police-raid
Published: November 13, 2025 19:33
In this way, the Body Cult serves as a targeted form of mind-control. It is a mental sand trap, a hazard carefully constructed to keep women disenfranchised in two primary ways: first, by restricting the most powerful means of modern influence (money);…
A relentless barrage of human expression
https://www.metafilter.com/211034/A-relentless-barrage-of-human-expression
Published: November 13, 2025 19:10
alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless barrage of human expression as they travel through the life of the web as we…
"Every hemp seed in the country will have to be destroyed," he added
https://www.metafilter.com/211033/Every-hemp-seed-in-the-country-will-have-to-be-destroyed-he-added
Published: November 13, 2025 18:48
WaPo: Congress tightens THC restrictions on hemp, closing farm bill loophole. The end of red state delta-8? Part of the deal of re-opening the US government.(archive link)"Unfortunately, companies ... [take] legal amounts of THC from hemp and [turn] it…
LBR: Do you blame them?
https://www.metafilter.com/211032/LBR-Do-you-blame-them
Published: November 13, 2025 16:11
In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender…
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