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Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by David Bowie
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:02 PM on April 7, 2024

Sometimes I think MetaFilter itself is largely pulled by cassowaries.
Maybe the chariot is the friends we made along the way?
[these are consistently wonderful posts!]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:57 PM on April 7, 2024

Sad news. I was always heartened to see his username not only because the comments were usually excellent but also because I loved the song and the idea of random-access food.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:46 AM on March 20, 2024

our overall goal(s)

I hear "for the benefit of all humanity" is available
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:11 AM on November 21, 2023

Here, four Danes went out in a sailboat last week despite everyone telling them not to, and it didn't end well. There was lots of rain and lots of flooding as well, more in the north than in the center / south. In Lisbon it meant mainly piles of wet, uncollected garbage everywhere. Thanks for asking!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:00 AM on November 5, 2023

MetaFilter: It’s a third space I carry with me wherever I am in the world
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:31 AM on July 16, 2023

MetaFilter: the thin layer of slime never starts to accumulate
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:06 PM on June 15, 2023

I refuse to eat raw tomatoes.
Any other variant (ketchup, Bolognese sauce, gazpacho, juice, soup, Bloody Mary, Clamato, &c &c) is just fine; hard pass on the raw tho.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:56 AM on June 12, 2023

* Buckaroo Banzai and Adam West Batman excepted.

Adam West Batman should marry Chanel West Coast.

they'd become the West Coast-Batmans

Buckaroo Banzai can officiate.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:43 AM on June 13, 2023

In my dream the family dog's coat dramatically changed color

professional white barkground?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:49 AM on April 29, 2023

A Visit to the Peeps Factory
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:10 AM on April 10, 2023

Today's New York Times crossword puzzle has an April Fool's Day theme. People aren't finding it very funny, it seems.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:31 AM on April 1, 2023

Michael Che's on SNL was kind of funny, though the laugh track ruined it for the TV audience. I guess you "had to be there"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:38 PM on April 3, 2023

MetaFilter: just a place to discuss MetaFilter itself
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:25 AM on March 22, 2023

I only use it via tweetdeck so I'm not seeing ads or trending unless I click into an individual tweet.

Is it just me or did tweetdeck become totally unusable about a month ago? It kicked me out and when I logged back in all the alternative accounts and follows I had set up were ... gone. And there was no way I could see to log in with more than one account?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:16 AM on March 7, 2023

Advertisers largely avoid sites that primarily cater to racists, fascists, Nazis, and so on.

citation needed
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:59 AM on March 10, 2023

Let's all just hope the deciding court flies a flag with a fringe.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 8:52 AM on February 21, 2023

I, for one, welcome our new &c...
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:38 AM on February 15, 2023

You forgot to ask it how to pronounce MeFi
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:49 AM on January 30, 2023

MetaFilter Blue is people!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:57 AM on January 24, 2023

I'm a fan of cheap mint chip, own-brand supermarket stuff. Electric green, if possible.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:26 AM on January 21, 2023

Elvis Costello - King Of America Demos (HQ Audio Only)
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:30 AM on January 13, 2023

Spoon, RuncibleSpoon and Runcible Spoon, silvrspoon and silverspoon8, spoons, spoonyfork;

you missed one, but I smuggled it in right under your nose: Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:41 PM on January 4, 2023

what's the word for when you know this was on metafilter

searchinflauede
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:59 AM on December 20, 2022

came in to report that is not a llama 😆

Not llama drama

dary
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:26 PM on November 23, 2022

I like the idea of horror movies, but I don't really watch them because I'm not really a fan of much more than suspense.
posted by sevenless

Sorry but that is ... eponysterical!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:04 PM on November 9, 2022

Ooooh, he is good.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:01 PM on November 9, 2022

For Commanders only
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:36 AM on September 17, 2022

When I was 10 or so there was a whole slate of bands that I knew only from t-shirts worn by older kids on my street. I was scared of these bands, because of what these shirts looked like. Lynard Skynard, AC/DC, Bad Brains ... stuff like that. The scariest one, though, was The Buzzcocks.

Imagine my surprise on finally hearing them!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:32 AM on September 3, 2022

I, for one, welcome our new Transition Team overlords
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:37 AM on August 29, 2022

Flagon, flag-off
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:34 PM on August 15, 2022

You can also make the last comment you read a favorite, then look at the comments you favorited to click back quickly to where you were (as if, even, favorites were bookmarks!).
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:14 AM on July 13, 2022

I'm just worried MetaFilter will suffer the wrath of Big Starch
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:13 PM on June 23, 2022

[Meanwhile, I'd just like to hang my head in shame and point out that after flexing in the "Editing Posts & Stuff" thread, now closed, I immediately went on to post TWO FPPs that required mod intervention over idiotic (on my part!) HTML mistakes. It's like the curse of MetaTalk or something.]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:18 PM on June 23, 2022

Bring on the NFTs!

Merch:

MetaFilter launched an NFT and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:41 AM on June 23, 2022

There already is an edit window for posts (and comments!), it's called "preview"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:44 AM on June 15, 2022

If you hover over many of the links in MetaFilter (and elsewhere!) it often tells you what they do and other ways to do them. For example, the "link" button to the upper right of the comment or post box sez "Click (or type Control + U) to add a link to the selected text". Why it is "Control + U" and not the standard-issue "Control + K" is a MetaFilter mystery.

For bold and italic the hover over makes no mention of it, but the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:30 AM on June 16, 2022

the true owners are the favorites we gave along the way
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:22 AM on May 12, 2022

I read Cassandra at the Wedding and liked it enough to start foisting it on friends.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:40 PM on April 17, 2022

It's Vine, hyperaccelerated
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:02 PM on March 2, 2022

Portugal is welcoming Ukranians fleeing the war and is identifying job opportunities

[not so good: three border guards were sentenced last year for killing a Ukranian at the Lisbon airport, though it has to be said the government responded by dismantling the immigration service and totally revamping it. CW: story has some gory details]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:11 AM on February 25, 2022

wait aren't "favorites" really bookmarks?!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:55 AM on February 23, 2022

2 late
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:35 AM on February 23, 2022

I'm linking to vfbg's comment which I found delicious and for which my comment was the [unintended] setup.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:08 AM on February 17, 2022

Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely lamp
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:42 PM on February 5, 2022

rebent: "Hmm. However, the comment about "if you're not paying for it, you're not the cursomer, you're the product being sold" would probably sell for a bit on the open market..."

The cursomer variant is extremely rare, it would be a VERY expensive NFT.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:14 PM on January 15, 2022

Two men were on their way to the annual Longest Dick in the World Contest.
To get there they have to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Halfway across, one of them says to the other, "I have to pee."
The other says, "Me too!"
So they both whip out their dicks, dangle them over the edge, and pee.
While doing this, one of them turns to the other and says "Damn, this water's cold!"
And the other turns back and says....
"Yeah, and it's deep too!"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:09 PM on January 15, 2022

clavdivs: "Oh, Year 46 of Placing N O E L Christmas figurines on the mantle and then an hour later reversing them."

Do you mysteriously disappear them?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:45 AM on December 3, 2021

How does the gifting work? Are these free accounts? Or does the gifter pay the sign-up fee?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:34 PM on December 1, 2021

What do you mean?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:25 AM on October 30, 2021