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posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:38 PM on November 20, 2022

Severance FAQ document came out

"Employees with precarious immigration status will likely need to stay at Twitter or quickly find a new job in order to remain in the country."

I mean, I'm being a little hyperbolic, but isn't that like labor trafficking?
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:16 PM on November 17, 2022

I used to love golden delicious apples, when I lived in Phoenix. Then I moved to the PNW, and my eyes were opened, and taste buds blown away. See also Chinese food and sushi.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:00 AM on November 16, 2022

McSweeney's has very helpfully shared a list of Fifteen Ways to Share Your Joke After Twitter Implodes

"Post it to LinkedIn. First, you’ll have to reset your password."

LOL
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 2:01 PM on November 15, 2022

"Jones’s company, Free Speech Systems LLC, is also liable for the verdict. It filed for bankruptcy in Texas in July." That's from the Guardian article. Does anyone know if there's a chance InfoWars can be held liable? I thought I read somewhere that people were donating money to them.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:02 PM on November 10, 2022

I doubled my monthly and did a one-time donation, too.

Hooray for MetaFilter, woo!
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:03 PM on November 9, 2022

Such a tour de force, and I think she has a really engaging narrative that drew me in. Even thought I don't care for theme parks at all.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 3:05 PM on November 5, 2022

Some people associated with Evermore are in the comments section:

Ashley Downs
4 hours ago
Former Evermore Employee here (I worked Pyrra and Lore 2020).
There are so many things I could add to this video, things i heard and experienced while working at the park. It's honestly awful to look back on my early memories and realize how blinded I was by the Idea of Evermore. It took getting fired in the Swift Purge (rumor has it we… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:21 PM on November 5, 2022

The days are getting darker and my mood is following. I have taken some refuge in Meet Me @ The Altar - Garden. Acoustic version, video with clips sent in by fans, of friends both two legged and four.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:57 PM on November 1, 2022

Jaw dropping. I had Hubble's image as a Zoom background for a while, and no one believed it was an actual image.

This one...I don't even know what to say.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:30 PM on October 19, 2022

"bennies" lol
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 7:51 PM on October 17, 2022

Yesterday I had a great conversation with a domestic violence victim who was trying to understand their situation. I gave them the power and control wheel (well, mentioned it and they looked it up while we were on the phone). They were quiet for a while, and said "I recognize things from all of these sections".

It's the first time I've talked over the phone with someone about the wheel (usually in-person), and was grateful for the opportunity to assist… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:46 AM on October 17, 2022

Eagles-adjacent cats!
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 11:46 AM on October 17, 2022

Like a lot of my tastes from college, I started listening to I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got because of someone I was crushing on, but revisiting it more recently what a great album (or disc, back then). I always loved her voice.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:27 AM on October 15, 2022

Kiese Laymon, on MetaFilter

Long Division
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:03 PM on October 14, 2022

I liked the story. But I especially liked the one immediately after, Kiese Laymon (one of my favorite authors, Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, among others) interviewing Darryl Lennox, about how Darryl's blindness changed his interactions with strangers.

Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:39 PM on October 9, 2022

The whole "shut down 9 blocks of downtown" feels a little braggy

Counterpoint: the first thing my spouse said was "did they block off the streets?!?!!"
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:39 AM on October 9, 2022

One thing I like about listening to hip hop in languages I don't speak (which is every language but English) is that it's easier to pay attention to the rhythm and rhymes of the language (not distracted by trying to understand), and how it all fits with the music.

So great!
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:59 PM on October 4, 2022

We absolutely make the world. It feels to me a lot like there aren't enough people fighting for the kind of world I want, but that isn't a reason to stop, it's a reason to fight harder, even if it feels bleak.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 5:00 PM on September 30, 2022

So interesting, thanks for posting. The idea information transmission over long periods of time has always fascinated me.

It reminds me a little (but is different from) this temple in Japan that is rebuilt every 20 years.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 5:34 AM on September 28, 2022

I sold my daughter on a trip to London

Jesus Christ that is expensive
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 11:45 AM on September 20, 2022

Sleater Kinney, Courtney Barnett and Fred Armisen in a very physical cover of "Physical".
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:14 AM on September 12, 2022

Apropos of nothing, I present Spanish with a fascinating accent
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:29 AM on August 15, 2022

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posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:43 AM on August 12, 2022

Does anyone enjoy being sweaty?

I paid to sit in a sauna yesterday, and was like, well, this isn't great. Then after ~15 min the sweating began, and I was like oh yeah that's the stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:01 PM on August 8, 2022

I'm gonna use this tonight in the anti-gender-based violence group I facilitate, because a lot of the attendees don't think men have more power and privilege than women.

Then she showed a sample of affluent men who visit galleries – the classic profile of an art collector – a painting created by AI, and randomly assigned it either a male or female artist’s name. If the collectors were told it was painted by a man they said they liked it more than if they were… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:47 AM on August 4, 2022

Nthing this channel is great, especially if you like snark.

Trainwreckords Van Halen III

Pop Song Review "Hey Soul Sister" (this is an earlier one, and he's more vocal about his hatred)
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:34 PM on August 3, 2022

Two thumbs up for that title.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:12 AM on August 1, 2022

I just watched Plato's Stepchildren on my hotel tv yesterday.

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posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 2:18 PM on July 31, 2022

George and Martha's son in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". I mean, the death is shocking, but the reveal after is mind-boggling.

[Click for spoiler]

He's not real, and turns out to have been made up in response to the couple's infertility, and used as a prop to torture each other

posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:23 PM on July 21, 2022

This is simultaneously both the stupidest and the greatest thing I've ever seen.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 7:45 PM on July 17, 2022

Don't ask me why, but teenage angst about friendship hits this mid-fifties dude right in the feels every time. Bronze
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:28 AM on June 30, 2022

From the YouTube comments "When Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on that door in Witenburg he was humming that "Happy" song"
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:01 AM on June 26, 2022

The real friends are the potatoes we made along the way.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 5:05 AM on June 22, 2022

Beyond being a moral obligation, promoting diversity and inclusion directly benefits all of STEMM. Diversity fosters novel ideas, effective problem-solving, and creative solutions. Given a set of problems to solve, groups that are diverse in their demographic characteristics, ethnicities, and cultural identities outperform groups that are demographically homogeneous [143]. This is true in an academic context as well; a study of more than 1 million US doctoral recipients… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:58 PM on June 13, 2022

...children can grow up in the same house and have profoundly different experiences with their parents.

QFT

My mother, while not abusive in the traditional sense, was a narcissist and knowingly made personal choices that had profound negative effects on my physical and emotional health, that I'm still unwinding as a mid-fifty year old. I've been estranged from her since 2019, but really not had a relationship for 10 years.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:02 AM on May 26, 2022

Oh that was great. Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 4:38 PM on May 14, 2022

I wonder if the record for Reese's Pieces is different.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:25 AM on May 6, 2022

There's a fascinating play from a few years ago, called Mr Burns, a Post Electric Play It's about an unspecified cataclysm, and the survivors entertain themselves by recounting episodes of the Simpsons. I think there are four eras depicted, where you see the evolution/devolution of the society, and watch the stories expand/shrink/change, until the final stage many years hence where there's a whole religion based on the show. As with lots of theater there are multiple levels, but I think about… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 4:14 PM on April 26, 2022

Looking at the list I was like "ok, ok, ok, wait, Sweet Caroline -and- Stairway to Heaven? That's not right.". Then a few songs down Paranoid. Well played, MB.

All day long I think of things
But nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind
If I don't find something to pacify
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 7:22 AM on April 12, 2022

Not sure if this is what Etrigan was mentioning, but here's a similar story previously, Geezer Teasers
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 9:14 AM on March 31, 2022

I'm more than 40 years past my bar mitzvah, and just about 40 years from any expression of or interest in Judaism, but after reading that article, listening to the audio recording in the last link gave me shivers.

Thanks for posting this amazing story.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 8:47 AM on March 17, 2022

I will shoehorn this non-tool-based cat "rescue" story here, from my college days.

I have a friend, J. I did not like cats at the time (I'm "tolerant" now). J had a cat, Punkin, that she loved. J was always trying to get me to engage with Punkin, to no avail. Like, I really didn't want to anything to do with Punkin. One day, Punkin goes missing. A few days go by, J is distraught, and has basically started grieving.

I've… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:23 PM on January 21, 2022

Wow. Those nails. Couldn’t stop thinking about how they were done. Hmmmm….

Some of it reminded me of the card throws in Legendary craftsman of card control
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 2:44 AM on January 13, 2022

Back...a long time ago, when I was in college, I'd record quotes of his from "In The Heat of The Night" as my message on my answering machine (that would be from VHS to cassette). He was so great.

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posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 5:15 PM on January 7, 2022

More love for Marissa Paternoster. Boyfriend, live.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 7:49 PM on December 31, 2021

That bear is more civic minded than a lot of people.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 1:43 PM on December 28, 2021

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posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 6:00 PM on December 15, 2021

Experiment complete:
Now *that's* science!
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:17 PM on October 29, 2021

It reminds me a little of the (possibly apocryphal) story about a postal letter getting to Charles Schulz, when the only thing on envelope was a picture of Snoopy.
posted to MetaFilter by Gorgik at 12:20 PM on October 29, 2021