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“To the over-30 crowd: What's the saddest way you've injured yourself?”
A twitter thread by @hanalyst, who continues: “I leaned my head back to wet my hair in the shower and pulled a muscle in my neck.” @maureenchuck1 responds: “I threw my hip out dancing to Groove Is In The Heart and had to go to hospital”, while @JlhNeuro replies: “Raised my arm to reach for something and got frozen shoulder for two years” and @RenDan81 responds: “I burned the word Pyrex onto my arm trying to take the dish out of the oven.” There's more, including...
On the situation in Gaza, and MeFi discussions
The situation in Gaza is awful, and as a moderation team collectively we are horrified by the violence and destruction and loss of life the Israeli government has been causing in Palestine. As a Jew, personally, I am too; for the mod team and for many people in the MetaFilter community this isn't just a terrible situation but one with very direct and personal resonances. Jewish identity and history is complex; overt and oppressive violence isn't, and what the state of Israel is doing right now to the people in Palestine is wrong.
The desire to talk about and react to the situation on MeFi is completely understandable. But it's also a topic that has, in particular during times of open conflict, been incredibly difficult to manage as an open discussion without it escalating to a point of being more harmful than helpful, and that's something we can't knowingly support playing out in the community here.
It's hard to say when and how a broad discussion of this can go well; we are going to have to exercise a lot of care in assessing whether the framing of a post and available moderator resources will make for a workable thread. In the mean time it feels necessary to me to make this MetaTalk post acknowledging both that site dilemma and the actual situation at large since MeFi, as a place built around posts, can end up feeling conspicuously silent when there's not a thread happening organically.
I'd like to try and fill the gap left by the lack of an open thread by using the space inside this post to round up informational resources; the mod team will aim to add to this post periodically if folks will forward good links to us via the contact form.
The desire to talk about and react to the situation on MeFi is completely understandable. But it's also a topic that has, in particular during times of open conflict, been incredibly difficult to manage as an open discussion without it escalating to a point of being more harmful than helpful, and that's something we can't knowingly support playing out in the community here.
It's hard to say when and how a broad discussion of this can go well; we are going to have to exercise a lot of care in assessing whether the framing of a post and available moderator resources will make for a workable thread. In the mean time it feels necessary to me to make this MetaTalk post acknowledging both that site dilemma and the actual situation at large since MeFi, as a place built around posts, can end up feeling conspicuously silent when there's not a thread happening organically.
I'd like to try and fill the gap left by the lack of an open thread by using the space inside this post to round up informational resources; the mod team will aim to add to this post periodically if folks will forward good links to us via the contact form.
Sleater Blue Filter
Sleater-Kinney (now reduced to the duo of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein) will be releasing a new album, Path Of Wellness, in June.
It is the band’s first self-produced album.
This is the music video for lead single “Worry With You”. It was directed by Alberta Poon
It is the band’s first self-produced album.
This is the music video for lead single “Worry With You”. It was directed by Alberta Poon
Pride and Predators
Heidi Bond (aka historical and romance novelist Courtney Milan) re-reviews Pride and Prejudice for the Michigan Law Review (PDF). "Pride and Prejudice details the community-wide damage that can be laid at the feet of serial sexual predators. It details the characteristics of predators, discusses the systemic social failures that allow predators to abuse others, and grapples with difficult questions of how communities should deal with those predators."
[MeFi Site Update] May 10th
Hello Metafilter! Here’s another update on the state of the site.
It's movie sign, again, again
Mystery Science Theater 3000 lives once more! The show has been revived five times now: for Comedy Central (from KTMA), the Sci-Fi Channel (long before it was Syfy), for Netflix, as a series of live shows that technically (because of COVID) haven't even ended yet, and now, as the result of a second Kickstarter even more successful than their first, as a production for their own video site and apps, to be called The Gizmoplex. The first episode of the new season... GAMERA VS JIGER.
She's ingenuity personified!
Fastest PB&J winner? (SLTwitter)
She saw a record to be broken, and she figured out how to break it.
For now, among the sick and dying, there is a vestige of democracy.
Arundhati Roy reflects on India's COVID-19 catastrophe.
About one year after her description of the pandemic as a portal. CW for suffering, death, disease. (SLGuardian)
The Girl in the Kent State Photo
The Girl in the Kent State Photo — In 1970, an image of a dead protester immediately became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him? (alternate links: 1, 2, 3)
How to get your University banned in 1 easy step
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman reacted to the discovery that researchers at the University of Minnesota had been submitting bogus patches by banning all code submissions from UMN. The University's CS&E has since put a halt to the research.
Stupid LIttle Octopus Girl
Bakamonotako
Like all stupid little girls who believe they can best become themselves by becoming unlike themselves, she eventually came to miss her lost limbs. At times, fully tattooed people feel so about their lost original skin. But B’s sense of regret ran deeper.
"They asked for a tiny desk concert. They got a tiny desk concert."
Tiny Desk Meets SXSW: Clipping
"Leave it to clipping. to innovate around the central notion of the Tiny Desk; to take the series' emphasis on close-up intimacy and transport it to new heights of, well, tininess. This is, after all, a band that contains multitudes. Producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes craft a bed of hip-hop, industrial music and noisy experimentalism, then set loose rapper Daveed Diggs, whose violent imagery summons '90s horrorcore and a thousand bloody movies."
After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again
Writing in an editorial for the New York Times software engineer and former Google employee Emi Nietfeld recounts how she bought into the sense of community espoused by Google - and how that wound up harming her when she was sexually harassed by her technical lead. (SLNYT)
The King of the Geezer Teasers
Continuing tonight's theme of retro at the movies....The King of the Geezer Teasers: Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement (Joshua Hunt, Vulture). Starring: Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and Steven Seagal's advisory committee.
call me when you need
Billboard record breaking hip hop artist and queer pioneer Lil Nas X has just dropped the video to his seventh single, MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name). The release was accompanied by an emotional note to his 14 year old self.
ProZD personal top 10 list
SungWon "ProZD" Cho has been producing hilarious skits featuring his great voicework for years. Now—after numerous requests—he's released a compilation of his favorites with some backstory. (Watching his own work is evidently quite painful for him.) My Top 10 Favorite Skits (SLYT)
SF stories where kindness wins
The link has five stories.
There are plenty more in the comments.
Dick Hoyt, 1940-2021
The Boston Marathon/triathlon legend and one half of Team Hoyt has passed away.
Together, Team Hoyt completed 234 triathlons, 67 marathons, and 6 Ironmans.
Larnell Lewis Hears "Enter Sandman" For The First Time
Sickening as it is watching Larnell Lewis hearing "Enter Sandman" for the first time and immediately nailing the drums when you yourself struggled for three years learning to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" on the guitar --badly--, you can't deny the man's talent, not just in being able to play a song perfectly after hearing it once, but also in how he breaks it down beforehand while listening to it. (Via.)
Daniel Tiger welcomes new autistic character to the Neighborhood
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, a popular PBS Kids series is introducing Max, Teacher Harriet's autistic nephew. Max is voiced by a 13-year-old autistic boy, Israel Thomas-Bruce, and will make his debut in April.
Bryant-Lake Bowl FPV
Right Up Our Alley
- The best drone shot you'll see today, or maybe ever.
On Looking Closely
Looking Closely is Everything
"The point being: Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh." [via]
How to prepare to lose my sister to cancer
My sister (48) was diagnosed with glioblastoma three weeks ago and given 1-2 years.
MetaTalktail Hour: What is on your walls?
Prompted by a fun poster thread on MLTSHP, I want to know about a thing that is on your wall. Could be a poster, a painting, a picture, a wall-hanging, a shadow, a window, a post-it, something you like to look at that you think others might like to see. Feel free to describe it or link us to a picture of it.
NASA/JPL drop first-ever video of landing on Mars
On-board cameras catch Perseverance during entry, descent, and landing.
Matt Wallace, Perseverance deputy project manager, credited having watched his daughter's GoPro-style footage of doing a backflip for the plan to put ruggedized commercial sports-POV cameras on the Perserverance rover for EDL.
A remote, lonely and desolate continent - Long may it remain so.
There is still a large portion of Antarctica that remains unclaimed today.
Marie Byrd Land, a vast, remote territory is by far the largest unclaimed land area on Earth.
China’s long march to the South Pole is gaining attention and while the West has scaled back operations in the Antarctic, Russia and China have pushed ahead.
Major powers have never fought over Antarctica, however this may change driven in part by climate change.
In the Global Race for Antarctica is it going to be China vs. Rest of the World
Antarctica ~ some photos.
China’s long march to the South Pole is gaining attention and while the West has scaled back operations in the Antarctic, Russia and China have pushed ahead.
Major powers have never fought over Antarctica, however this may change driven in part by climate change.
In the Global Race for Antarctica is it going to be China vs. Rest of the World
Antarctica ~ some photos.
Site update #4, 2021
It’s been a busy couple of weeks since the last update, with a more comprehensive State of the Site update and some site dev progress as frimble’s had some more time available recently.
"I always knew he was terrible, and anyone who ever liked him is too!"
Lately there's been a certain kind of comment on posts about celebrities that turn out to be terrible people. That comment is "oh, I always knew he was terrible! And everyone I know who liked him has also turned out to be a terrible person!" I am personally finding these comments frustrating for a whole host of reasons.
Movie: Ordinary People
Calvin, Beth, and their son Conrad are attempting to get back to normal after Conrad's return home from a psychiatric hospital. Conrad visits Dr. Berger who works with him to not push away his pain.
Inside Baseball
A smuggling operation, a scientific analysis and a cracked code. All helped an astrophysicist conclude that a portion of major league baseballs used in 2020 were smaller and lighter than before—meaning they likely flew farther.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
SmarterEveryDay made a cannon that launches a baseball at 1000 mph. Then they did what any good engineer would do. They launched it at a dummy.
Ya done messed up, A-A-Ron
An oral history of Key and Peele's Substitute Teacher (EW). Keegan-Michael Key on the perfect metaphor for improv and how it works for Substitute Teacher. Previously.
It started out as Han's, now it's Lando's
Want something nice and soothing for your Sunday viewing? Here's somebody lovingly cleaning and restoring a battered old, 1978 vintage Millennium Falcon. With bonus X-Wing episode.
Mini Modern House
My mom and step-dad have spent the better part of quarantine building what they call their "Mini Modern House." It is, quite literally, a miniature marvel, and the world needs to see it. View in Twitter. View in Threadreader.
What do you always recommend to people?
In any category...whether it's a book or movie, habit or piece of advice, product, whatever, the thing you tell people about whenever you get a chance because it has improved your life so much.
Site Update #2, 2021
Now it really feels like a happy new year, doesn’t it? It’s been an intense couple of weeks around here and we appreciate everyone hanging in there. Onward and upward!
Twenty years of doubting your commitment to Sparkle Motion
Twenty years of doubting your commitment to Sparkle Motion
- an oral history of the making of Donnie Darko.
As a User...
“As a user of Instagram I want to have all the growth features at my fingertips in the tab bar so that I can help the growth PM hit KPIs.” More shit user stories at @shituserstories.
Just a poignant essay about who you think about when big things happen
"I am very persistent about my small, stupid story,
about the idea that I’m the main character here, on the couch, looking at my phone, doing nothing at all. All the people I once loved and don’t speak to anymore all crowd in real against the convenient backdrop of these big and horrible days. "
Snark Less, Post More
We’d all benefit if there was more posting on Metafilter, even if it wasn’t perfect. It’d help if it wasn’t often so discouraging to submit posts, though. Here are some thoughts on how we could achieve this.
You're using your dishwasher wrong
From Technology Connections: dishwasher detergent packs are bad and also you're probably using your dishwasher wrong and also here's how dishwashers work! (SLYT)
Site Update #1, 2021
We're starting the numbering over because it's not 2020 anymore! No, really, it's not. Seriously. Anyway, happy New Year!
Hugging Hugs
By request, a thread for happy thoughts, kindness, positive vibes, good news sharing, comfort, random cute or fun stuff, and general hugginess.❤️🤗❤️
I work less than I thought I did and that's OK
Turns out my top three activities of the year are sleeping (7h 45min on average per day and I'm very proud of this), working (6h 20 min on average per day) and socialising (3h 25 min on average per day). It is mostly what I would expect except that it always scares me how much time we actually spend unconscious. I can't decide whether 1h 20 min spent on human function (eating and showering etc) is a lot or not.All through 2020, Ala Szalapak logged her daily activities at 15 minute intervals. She collected over 35,000 data points.
Immensely more interesting than both Chrono Trigger and Persona 4
"Tokimeki Memorial profound 1995-ish narrative tricks genuinely brought me to actual tears, as a 41-year-old man, living in the year 2020. And these were no simple tears. These were weird, deeply interesting tears. Look at the length of this video, buddy. That's how long it's going to take for me to describe these tears." Tim Rogers reviews Tokimeki Memorial.
Chicken? Ok. Duck? Sounds good. Seahorse? Maybe not.
The Thermopolium of Regio V, a Roman-era fast-food stall, has been fully excavated at Pompeii and its well preserved frescoes are amazing.
Our own Coldchef
'Humans need the ritual of saying goodbye' : the Covid life of a small-town funeral director
Being a funeral home director in Zachary, Louisiana, means sometimes your neighbor calls when they see cars in the parking lot, to ask: “Who died?”
Simpsons Jokes Explained... somewhat
Simpsons' writer Josh Weinstein invited fans to ask about the jokes they never got and he'd take a swing at explaining them. This being the internet, he got a lot of responses. And yes, someone asked about Ralph Wiggum and sleep vikings.