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France24: France leftwing parties present united front for snap elections French left-wing parties including the Socialist Party, the French Communist Party, the Greens (EELV) and France Unbowed presented a united front Monday evening, a day after… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mark k
MeFi comment - 4 ¼ hours ago


zaixfeep: "how about absorbing linkfilter request/proposal url comments in the weekly free thread instead of a separate fpp?" Nah, those threads get pretty cluttered already with the mix of people responding to the weekly theme… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Lexica, Songdog, cooker girl, Glinn, Lenie Clarke, cupcakeninja, mmoncur, Wordshore, philip-random, eirias, mollweide, NotLost
MetaTalk comment - 10 hours ago

Brandon, thanks again for quickly giving LinkFilter a try -- loving the results already! I will have to dig in over the next few days and try to post-ify some myself. Brandon Blatcher: "I'm not a developer, so can't really speak to that,… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by ApathyGirl, In Your Shell Like, Glinn, GenjiandProust
MetaTalk comment - 12 hours ago

Kitteh: "And yet, everyone ignored all the links except that one." Kind of like how you ignored this classic SNL skit, or clavdivs's puzzle, or this interesting story about Sajak's run at late night, or this educational historical… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by snsranch, Suedeltica
MetaTalk comment - 12 hours ago

tiny frying pan: "It really is common. I do the same. I've often wanted to just SUBMIT a post here, somewhere...and have someone else do it." IDEA: Monthly MeFi "LinkFilter" thread, mod-posted the first of the month… [more]
favorited 32 times, recently by ApathyGirl, snsranch, couch fort dinner party, odd ghost, busted_crayons, JHarris, librosegretti, adrienneleigh, oneear, thetarium, biffa, solotoro, Songdog, BlahLaLa, glaucon, NotLost, Nelson, mochapickle, cooker girl, philip-random, GenjiandProust, a non mouse, a cow herd, datarose, Two unicycles and some duct tape, box, armeowda, MonkeyToes, Brandon Blatcher, paduasoy, Orange Dinosaur Slide, effluvia, Zumbador
MetaTalk comment - 12 hours ago

bowbeacon: "the owner is busy posting happy-go-lucky comments in Pride Flag identification threads" Jessamyn made it clear that she was taking ownership as an unpaid on-paper owner to keep the site afloat but would be leaving the… [more]
favorited 47 times, recently by joannemerriam, Dee Grim, oneirodynia, epj, kristi, glaucon, Countess Elena, Iris Gambol, loquacious, hydropsyche, cooker girl, Lyn Never, Don Pepino, briank, Orkney Vole, third word on a random page, philip-random, Songdog, Glinn, Zumbador, donnagirl, Sienna, Paid In Full, PussKillian, terooot, steadystate, Bugbread, Frayed Knot, box, Too-Ticky, knucklebones, Lexica, GenjiandProust, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, apartment dweller, solotoro, Cannon Fodder, effluvia, beryllium, mark k, nobody, paper chromatographologist, neroli, Dysk, casaubon, snsranch, catcafe
MetaTalk comment - 15 hours ago

re: Replacing deletions of comments with hidden/quarantined ones -- I'm not fully endorsing this idea, but if mods would like to experiment with it, there is a relatively easy, low-impact solution of editing the comment to wrap it in a collapsible… [more]
favorited 32 times, recently by joannemerriam, BlueTongueLizard, Iris Gambol, In Your Shell Like, camyram, mark k, mmoncur, capnsue, steadystate, tangerine, Lexica, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, solotoro, adrienneleigh, knucklebones, TwoWordReview, Joakim Ziegler
MetaTalk comment - 15 hours ago

Glinn: "Linkme: Closet Picks, the YouTube playlist, from Criterion Collection." Beat ya to it. ; ) [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Glinn
MeFi comment - Yesterday

Tbh I wasn't very familiar with him or Paizo, so I googled the site for his name and it made me smile: Gary Teter is the man! This guy has been RELENTLESS ALL WEEKEND in answering questions and keeping the faith amongst the unwashed… [more]
favorited 20 times, recently by May Kasahara
MetaTalk comment - Yesterday

EmpressCallipygos: "Nah, it just looks like a bunch of people who decided to live in bitch-eating-crackers mode 24/7." A whole diffuse toxic network of such places has sprung up in the last 2-3 years for just about every community,… [more]
favorited 29 times, recently by Dee Grim, oneirodynia, hydropsyche, caviar2d2, philip-random, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, Serene Empress Dork, twelve cent archie, knucklebones
MetaTalk comment - Yesterday

I love it! Thanks so much for giving this a try Brandon (and everyone else for contributing). ❤️ re:Doubles, I think that only checks for links used in FPPs, so anything posted as a comment here shouldn't trip it. Zumbador: "(I'm… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Glinn, Zumbador, montag2k
MeFi comment - Yesterday

MeFi's Own Jason Scott writes on the Internet Archive's role in the story: The Internet Archive’s crawlers moved through the pages of a hobby store multiple times over the years, capturing HTML, photographs, and time-stamping the process, with the… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sourcejedi
MeFi comment - Yesterday

I figure the chatter is self-limiting since any one link is just one of dozens. Personally I'd definitely prefer making a post out of one if you can! Just didn't want to lay down an unenforceable THIS THREAD IS FOR POSTING LINKS ONLY, NO COMMENTING… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by TrishaU, dorothyisunderwood, Two unicycles and some duct tape
MeFi comment - Yesterday

tivalasvegas: "Unfortunately this is demonstrably not a priority for staff, as the problem of policy documentation being spread across multiple pages, the wiki, and a quarter century of metatalk threads has been identified and acknowledged… [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by oneirodynia, litera scripta manet, Countess Elena, Iris Gambol, caviar2d2, cooker girl, camyram, thebots, apartment dweller, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, Serene Empress Dork, knucklebones, EmpressCallipygos, solotoro
MetaTalk comment - 2 days ago


GaP, that's a great point and definitely would require some code-tweaking to disable or at least hide favorites for such comments. (I imagine it's doable though, since favorites are already hidden/disabled for deleted posts.) [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
MetaTalk comment - 2 days ago

FWIW, my experience with the mods in the mathowie/cortex era is that they tended to be less formal/diplomatic and a lot more blunt, especially when talking over mail. Cortex's mod statements became more tactful and discursive later on but could still… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, clavdivs, Suedeltica, Miko
MetaTalk comment - 2 days ago



Step into the Closet
favorited 81 times, recently by alyxstarr
MeFi post - 3 days ago

The Little Free Thread Library
favorited 11 times, recently by pgoat
MeFi post - 3 days ago

It probably wouldn't be easy to implement anyway since I know the coverage fluctuates, but it's frustrating that one thing which would otherwise help set expectations -- a public mod schedule or even just a big visible "THE MOD IS [IN]"… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by GenjiandProust, loup
MetaTalk comment - 4 days ago

grumpybear69: "That kanebridgenews site really messed with my browser history. I would suggest people don't click on that link." I used that because it reprints the original (paywalled) WSJ story and seems to be a legitimate news… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

I'd disagree insofar as you're stretching the definition of the word a bit (which is pretty common at this point). "Enshittification" is meant to call out companies that attract customers with a popular loss-leader business model, then… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

q*ben: "Somebody needs to study the equivalent intelligence decrease when posting/ emailing from a phone vs a computer. I deal with this every day." Same here! I'm pretty deft with swipe-typing, but for some reason I always have a… [more]
favorited 1 time
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Dearly departed Bella (an Australian Terrier), first as a fuzzy sausage link in the mid-00s and then getting a sink bath at her mom's in the mid-10s Mattcat, watching his stories Bratcat, covering his shame [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 5 days ago

🌈🐕ciao
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MeFi post - 5 days ago



Some personal examples that come to mind: - Blindsight by Peter Watts -- my favorite science fiction novel, graciously signed by the author - America: The Book, also signed (by Stephen Colbert!) - Night Work by Thomas… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

The hits keep on coming: a Discord user has discovered the location of yet another well-known image, the "liminal stairwell" [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Can't believe I forgot one of my most cherished sentimental books: The Times Family Atlas of the World. It was my dad's growing up, and is as old as I am -- old enough that it has a complete guide to all the Soviet Republics alongside the US states… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

One thing that might be coloring people's impression of "Drumpf" is that the original Last Week Tonight segment leaned pretty hard into "this name sounds like a Mad magazine sound effect amirite" rather than being an entirely… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 days ago

Nelson: "One Jan. 6 defendant who already served time in prison for his role in the Capitol attack also weighed in on X, posting a photo of [District Attorney] Bragg and a photo of a noose. “January 20, 2025 traitors Get The Rope,” he wrote,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Speaker Mike "Appeal to Heaven" Johnson is unsurprisingly a fan of deus ex machinas: Johnson urges Supreme Court to "step in" on Trump verdict "There's a lot of developments yet to come, but I do believe the Supreme… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Oh man, this brings back memories. Not just of Chuck E. Cheese, but the whole ecosystem of playspaces that was around in Florida when I was a kid. Chuck E. Cheese was nice, and had the added bonus of being next door to an educational shop full of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 days ago

AI-detic Memory
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MeFi post - 9 days ago

It's a joke from an old Last Week Tonight episode where Oliver used it to not only undercut Trump's name-based branding, but point out how his is an immigrant family. Even he thinks it's pretty played-out at this point though. [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Next up: Cheryl Dunye! (Also, wow, they put these out more often than I thought) [more]
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MeFi comment - 9 days ago

McSly: "Apparently, you are declared a felon only after the sentence has been entered, which should happen in July. So right now, he's just a felon-elect." "STOP THE (34) COUNTS!" [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Count 1: GUILTY Count 2: GUILTY Count 3: GUILTY Count 4: GUILTY Count 5: GUILTY Count 6: GUILTY Count 7: GUILTY Count 8: GUILTY Count 9: GUILTY Count 10: GUILTY Count 11: GUILTY Count 12: GUILTY Count 13: GUILTY Count 14: GUILTY Count… [more]
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MeFi comment - 10 days ago


This is hilarious. Who are these videos even for? I can't imagine a sophisticated threat actor would be swayed to turn state's evidence based on some Matrix-ass motion comics. Maybe it's designed to drum up support for more funding in Congress? [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Sato has a new post on the memorial event full of photos! Translation: Kabochan's farewell party was full of smiles Messages on Kabo-chan's departure have been pouring in from around the world on the blog, Instagram, and X. Since the day of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago


I'll Be Gone in the Dark, an investigation into the then-unsolved Golden State Killer published posthumously by Michelle McNamara, was quite good. Bonus: the book and the effort to complete it by her husband Patton Oswalt got turned into an… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 13 days ago

Movie: Inside
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FanFare post - 13 days ago

artlung: "I remembered that I had highlighted a few strips on my website years ago. Before I went looking I feared I'd find I blogged strips with hints of nastiness and hate. What I found instead was what appealed to me then (2006-2008) still… [more]
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MeFi comment - 13 days ago

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