Leading thoughts, by Paul Ford I recently wrote for the big paper and it was with deep inner reluctance. I wish I could decide whether to be in the world or pull back from the world. The pape

This reminds me a lot of the old(-ish) joke "Punks are people who act mean but are nice while hippies are people who act nice but are mean." MetaFilter is very much a hippie place these days.

https://www.ftrain.com/leading-thoughts

#MetaFilter #PaulFord

Also, somewhat ironically, I’m on a binge because of this #MetaFilter post containing a few nice acoustic Maiden covers: www.metafilter.com/212316/Wasted-Years-orig...

This comment thread contains several links from Metafilter user Seven Deadly Gins to useful sites re: the Kansas ID situation
#kansas #metafilter #birth #certificate #license #id #trans

Whoa. My 400th front page post to #MetaFilter. I mean, I've been on there since 2004, so it's not *that* impressive. But still! www.metafilter.com/212287/SHOOT...

Canadian TV needs to get weird again In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows.

Canadian TV needs to get weird again
#shitpost #canada #tv #FromMetafilter #metafilter #discussion
www.metafilter.com/211904/Canadian-TV-needs...

Following a retoot onto BSky is how I learned #ScottAdams is now dead. Maybe I should spend more time on BSky?

(Also, the #MetaFilter post is going to be spicy!)

Cruel and Unconstitutional Attacks on Trans Youth and Their Families We will not rest until the rights of transgender youth to live authentically and access the care they need are fully protected.

A metafilter post with several links to state-based organizations to help trans people, particularly in light of that house bill that just passed.
#metafilter #trans #medicine #hospital #gender #care #aclu #health

Screenshot of a physics toy, balls bouncing around fighting each other

Hey, a little project of mine just hit the front page of #metafilter. It always nice to get a little attention.

www.metafilter.com/211453/Dot-Battle-a-Java...

Can confirm. Have been igroring people who use usians since 1998.

#metafilter

"I scoff at the idea that Musk could manage at any point in his life to maintain a friend group able to play D&D with regularity or even remembered fondness."
#dnd #shitpost #musk #fromthecomments #metafilter

Multiplayer Hub | DOS.Zone Multiplayer Portal - is a best place to play classic DOS and Windows games online with your friends. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play! Quake, Half-Life, Heroes of Might and Magic, Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke Nukem and many more.

UT99 is now playable in your browser?

UT99 is now playable in your browser.
https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut
(Thanks, #MetaFilter!)

Book cover for Feasts of Good Fortune: 75 Recipes for a Year of Chinese American Celebrations, from Lunar New Year to Mid-Autumn Festival and Beyond by Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle (Sasquatch Books): https://sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts-of-good-fortune/

Book cover for All-Negro Comics: America's First Black Comic Book by Chris Robinson and Orrin C. Evans (Image Comics): Winner of the Eisner Award. The first comic ever created by African Americans, for African Americans. https://imagecomics.com/comics/releases/all-negro-comics-americas-first-black-comic-book-tp-book-1

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: two from yesterday's #Metafilter post: www.metafilter.com/211014/Books...: All-Negro Comics (@imagecomics.com) imagecomics.com/comics/relea... & Feasts of Good Fortune (Sasquatch Books): sasquatchbooks.com/books/feasts...
#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish See alt-text.

Huh, never thought I'd see a serious discussion of Oglaf on metafilter.
#comics #nsfw #metafilter

Original post on hachyderm.io

Interesting conversation about #Aphantasia on #Metafilter.

As someone with no visuals in my head and no dialogue / voice either, I am always surprised when I learn that people mean 'seeing something with your mind's eye' and 'listening to your inner voice' extremely literally […]

Another thread on #metafilter about #aphantasia and it always surprises me that this is still so new to so many people.

Amid the gloom, glad tidings. Andrew Cuomo has conceded in the New York City mayoral Democratic primary to state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani in a stunning political upset. 'Tonight is his night,' Cuomo, 67, said. If elected,...

If you just can't get enough video of Mamdani saying things, I posted many links in a #MetaFilter thread a few months ago (search for "brainwane")

example: www.metafilter.com/209332/Amid-...

could someone who's given #metafilter $5 please explain that the term 'japanimation' fell out of favor because with the wrong emphasis you've just said a slur
I've never actually heard 'japanime' but it's worse somehow

www.metafilter.com/210687/Fist-...

I asked to have my #Metafilter account wiped in April.

It took weeks and more emails to get anyone to respond. Reply: they'll anonymize, not wipe my account. I reiterated that I was requesting an account wipe. Others have received one.

In response: Radio silence since June.

Out of patience now.

From the indieplushies community on Reddit: The website Metafilter has an in-joke that some people like to anthropomorphize inanimate objects so much they would even pet a crouton. So I made one. Explore this post and more from the indieplushies community

Someone made a pettable crouton #metafilter www.reddit.com/r/indieplush...

Good goddamn #metafilter needs a way to flag a flag, like

Pick a reason to flag this flag:

- damp liberal tone policing
- Americans are not the only fruit
- flagger is astro-TERFing
- flagger just wants dead queers
- flagger is some kind of fucking dimwit
- flagger can go fuck a penis worm

#Metafilter @vacapinta Bit of an emergency! I made a MeFi post to a video, but somehow the wrong URL got into it! That URL really really really shouldn't be public, it leads to a video on MST Club's personal server that we don't want on the general internet!

Lizard

#Metafilter stuff:
Going to Maine posted a great link to a website called https://lizard.click You should go there.
gauche posted a link to How Not To Build The Torment Nexus that everyone working in tech has to read: buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-...

Lizard

#Metafilter stuff:
Going to Maine posted a great link to a website called lizard.click. You should go there.
gauche posted a link to How Not To Build The Torment Nexus that everyone working in tech has to read: buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

📚 Canadian small presses #25 📚 It's been awhile since I've posted a Canadian small press round-up, so here's a longer one! Under the fold: Prairie small presses Hingston & Olsen, Thistledown, and Turnstone; Pacific small...

Just posted to #Metafilter: www.metafilter.com/209790/-Cana... about 19 small presses including @bookhugpress.bsky.social‬, @coachhousebooks.bsky.social, @cormorantbooks.bsky.social, @touchwooded.bsky.social, and @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social.

#DSPBposts #BookSky 💙📚 #books #SmallPress

I made a #MetaFilter post about @theoctopuslady.bsky.social and clam smuggling.

TBC: she does not smuggle clams. Or at least I would be very surprised if she did.

The Scroll Art Museum Scroll art lets beginner programmers turn loops and print() into animated ASCII art.

Some cool scrolling #ASCII artworks at https://scrollart.org

via #metafilter projects.

Sure I'll add #Metafilter too why not

📚 Small press speculative fiction in translation 📚 For years, Rachel S. Cordasco has been reviewing and promoting speculative fiction in translation. Below the fold, a sampling of her small press picks from around the world.

Just posted to #Metafilter, a round-up of some #SmallPress speculative fiction in translation, using Rachel S. Cordasco's excellent website as a starting point: www.metafilter.com/209391/-Smal... #books #bookstodon #DSPBposts

Review of a Recent Humorous Article So I was reading through some Metafilter posts, which many Agents of Illuminati Ganga do trying to find things where people have gotten…

medium.com/luminasticit...
People made fun of him too much for trying to get laid.

#comedy #writing #review #criticism #metafilter @metafilter.bsky.social

Posted this on #Metafilter: www.metafilter.com/209340/its-h... @halifaxexaminer.ca @historicacanada.bsky.social