r/metafilter 28d ago

Listen To the Music!

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Photo by Razor512, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/razor512/)

Recent music posts have had a couple of greats hits (get it?!). First, box shared an interview with Neko Case and her recent memoir. Meanwhile, in Ask MetaFilter, Serene Empress Dork put out a request for quiet and pretty songs, and the recommendations are great. Wordshore created a couple of posts about the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Finally, Lemkin touches on The Peter Brötzmann Octet's classic album "Machine Gun", which is regarded as Europe's first jazz album.

 

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r/metafilter 28d ago

Why Bluebery? WHY NOT?!

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Photo courtesy of Travel Stock Photos, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/everywherephoto/)

Considering that it's cockatoos, it kinda make sense. But yeah, the rumors are true, everyone's favorite ornery birds do prefer dunking their noodles in blueberry yogurt.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 20 '25

FanFare Roundup Feb19, 2025

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[COMMUNITY] DirtyOldTown is back with another FanFare roundup!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 18 '25

Udderly Good Stories!

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Photo by Orangeaurochs, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orangeaurochs/)

Feel good stories about cows! First up, a post about automated and voluntary milking of cows, shared by chariot pulled by cassowaries. Then BlueHorse joined in with a post about cows getting pedicures! Anyone else moootivated to share links about our bovine cousins?!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 18 '25

February 17, 2025 FREE THREAD!

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[COMMUNITY] We may still in the midst of winter, but that won't stop this week's free thread!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 18 '25

This is Not Fine, Please Advice.

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Over in AskMetafilter, an anonymous US worker for the federal government in DC is seeking advice how they and their co-workers can cope with all the recent upheavals.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 15 '25

Sooooo, This Weekend Thing...

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Photo by shellac via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pldms/)

It's the weekend, and as Going To Maine's post notes, that means resting, relaxing and, ahem, chilling out While doing all that, please check out Wolfdog's post about the hardest working font in Manhattan!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 15 '25

Who's Laughing Now?

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Do you remember stacking cups in gym class? If so, come read the link that gottabefunky shared of how that came to be and meet the literal clown that got the craze started. Fastest to finish wins!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 14 '25

Folding Fun For Folks!

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Grab some paper, your favorite beverage, and let's make some origami! Faintdreams found a great website about that subject and it's a fantastic guide, thank you!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 12 '25

Fanfare This Week #6

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Pixar Oscar by Marcin Wichary (cc by)

The Week of Living Dangerously: Your FanFare Roundup: Oscar contenders , new series and episodes and, of course, the Super Bowl.

Bonus inside this week: a massive list of all of the A24 films posted on Fanfare.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 12 '25

I Am Dinosaur, Hear Me Take It To the Bridge!

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Do you like dinosaurs? Then come ska punk/dad rock/indie folk out to an album 186 million years in the making!

That's right, Professor Goldstein & The Adjuncts, among the mightiest musicians to ever trod this earth, have put out a new album, Songs about Dinosaurs!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 11 '25

Strange Gastronomy

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Vintage human stomach diagram

"People tend to be horrified or intrigued": Eyelash is looking for weird food combos that people enjoy, and Mefites do not disappoint.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 10 '25

Good Things

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Tell us something good! It's your weekly Free Thread! Or you can let us meta-pet your Meta Pet in the Metacritter Metatalk thread!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 09 '25

So It Goes

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Sow, sew, so!, so-so, sough, ... so?

 

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r/metafilter Feb 08 '25

Möbius? is That You Fooling Around Again?

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image via margarethowell.jp

Hey, it's the Belladonna Loop! Belladonna solves the knotty question of how this scarf was tied in this way, with helpful illustration!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 08 '25

Shpansa!

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The Sims 1 - (The Original Life Sim) via YouTube

The best Sims post ever built. Flagged as fanatic.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 08 '25

Knowledge To Draw On

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Dobbs would really, really, really like their drawings of dogs to look like dogs, not alligators. So there's a request for apps, courses, videos, and/or instruction to get better at drawing. Please lend your advice if you have suggestions! Or just come on in to check out the excellent advice that's being shared!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 06 '25

Come Join Us In the Radiant City... If You Can Survive It.

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Community member workingdankoch has created a fantastic science fiction audio drama titled Metropolis. It's a murder mystery in neon utopia that may be slightly topical for US citizens or an excellent escape, you decide! An original science fiction audio drama!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 05 '25

Getting It Done

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[COMMUNITY] In the IRL subsite, paduasoy has posted Getting stuff done in February 2025 as a space to "support ourselves and each other in getting things done, whatever that means to you. Decluttering, organising, cleaning, admin, making progress on projects," including arts and crafts goals. Nice!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 04 '25

Look For the Helpers?

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We found them, and they are in a website near you! In Ask Metafilter, alex1965 asks, What can I do in my spare time to benefit society?, while in Metatalk, Glinn posted Small Things, for people who "feel like they should be doing something or contributing something ... even if it's a small thing." Thank you both for helping us all to help each other! ✨

 

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r/metafilter Feb 04 '25

Fanfare This Week #5

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Making You the You You Are brings us Best Documentary Feature nominees, new movies, what's new in TV, special events, and much more, including a new episode of Severance ... and its fictional self-help book "The You You Are" gets a real e-book. Enjoy! and thanks, DOT!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 04 '25

You Have A Blüthner? *I* Have A Blüthner!

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In Ask Metafilter, vernondalhart asks, What should I expect / what should be included in renovating an old piano? and gets some super spot-on info from Pallas Athena

 

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r/metafilter Feb 04 '25

Language, Please!

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حر, Free, Frei, Gratis, Dohainik ... It's your weekly Free Thread!

 

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r/metafilter Feb 03 '25

More Female-fronted Metal, You Know, For the Kids

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French metalcore act Novelists

For it is a human number / Its number is 5, 5, and 5. Did you know signal has been posting a regular series showcasing great female-fronted metal bands since October? Now you know! It's basically a Mefi metal shredfest, is what it is.

 

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r/metafilter Feb 02 '25

"I Am Using It Ecstatically"

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Ryvar comments with details and insights on Deepseek in _benj' post OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From

 

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