Looking for a driving simulator game that simulates actual North American driving, in all its dullness and terror, for Switch, iOS, or PC. I would like to brush up.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 9:27 AM on May 6, 2023 (8 comments)

Christopher Cantwell talks about a meeting with a trans fan, and how his conversation with her opened up and changed his views of his own work:

In January 2020, I went to Long Beach Comic-Con, did a panel, sold some Doctor Doom issues and copies of my books She Could Fly and Everything. Sitting at the small table, a young woman approached me.

She had come all the way down to Long Beach and bought a pass to the Con just to find me and tell me how much Halt and Catch Fire had meant to her, particularly in some more difficult times for her recently, especially when she was transitioning.

(This FPP title is a reference to the infamous soundbite from a recent Rowling interview re: - what else? - her transphobia and how it affects her Harry Potter brand, that the HBO boss tried to downplay the Discourse as "That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into." ⁠Cantwell's thread quote tweets a Variety tweet about the fallout) (Full thread in extended description below)
posted to MetaFilter by Pachylad at 7:40 AM on May 6, 2023 (10 comments)

How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women. Men outnumber women by two-to-one on bikes in Australia. It’s time more women were involved in planning new bike paths and protected lanes to feel safer on the road.
posted to MetaFilter by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 8:48 PM on May 1, 2023 (41 comments)

I used to have a whole catalog of where I'd ask questions for different topics
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Sterros at 6:28 PM on April 30, 2023 (9 comments)

This post includes Information from loup about how the site's policies on trans people/issues are currently implemented including how transphobic content, sources and members are dealt with, the information they've given me about planned changes based on some brief feedback I've given, and an invitation for other trans members to share their thoughts, concerns, feedback, and suggestions
posted to MetaTalk by Chrysopoeia at 11:45 AM on April 1, 2023 (115 comments)

At this point in the pandemic the best measure we have of prevalence is wastewater concentrations. How do I convert that to asymptomatic positivity rate?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Dashy at 7:52 AM on March 28, 2023 (9 comments)

...writes Matthew Pierce of Evangelical Think Pieces. "Probably the most dangerous thing for Christian men is to see things, because this makes us sin. My youth pastor says men are visual. This means that whenever a man sees a woman, he thinks “that lady has bosoms, I wish I could do a sex right now.” Also, when a man sees something that is not a woman, like a toaster or a blade of grass, he thinks “hey, remember when I saw that lady with bosoms? I wish I could do a sex right now.”"
posted to MetaFilter by Wordshore at 1:09 PM on March 13, 2023 (81 comments)

Florence + The Machine cover No Doubt's "Just a Girl".
posted to MetaFilter by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 12:34 PM on March 9, 2023 (15 comments)

Looking for recommendations for good restaurants and bars in Portland, Oregon, in the SE, with outdoor seating!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by skycrashesdown at 9:10 AM on March 4, 2023 (13 comments)

We have booked a walking tour for the north section of the Cotswold Way in June (21-27) of this year. The tour company handles the inn bookings, and will transfer any luggage we won't be carrying while walking between inns for us. We are looking for suggestions for things to see and do along the set route, especially in and around a few of the small villages where we will be staying. We will NOT have a car. More inside...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by terrapin at 7:47 AM on March 3, 2023 (5 comments)

There's no way you could write a script so tedious and lacking in drama as Tape of me and my friends, which records a momentous summer day in 1993 wherein four extremely stupid teenagers from Gardner, Massachusetts drive to Nashua NH so Mike can buy a TV. Cluelessness pervades every second of this video. Try to count the amount of times someone raises a middle finger to the camera. And don't blame me if you get that Overkill song stuck in your head.
posted to MetaFilter by Fritz Langwedge at 4:03 AM on February 1, 2023 (31 comments)

My travel tumbler keeps getting jostled in my bag, unlocking, and spilling tea all over my belongings. It happened again this morning and I'm done with it. What tumbler should I be using to avoid this problem?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by darchildre at 9:45 AM on January 19, 2023 (25 comments)

Is dying at home actually bad? How can I make dying good? or.... not so bad?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jenny'sCricket at 6:52 AM on December 16, 2022 (46 comments)

I’ve found lots of books about grieving, and some about end of life (for the dying person), but I’d like something to read about experiencing the last few week or days of a loved one’s death. Doesn’t need to be self-help, though that is fine too. Meditations on the experience welcome. But I want something that explicitly addresses the time prior to final passing.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by CiaoMela at 3:16 PM on January 3, 2023 (8 comments)

Please help me make sense of (or possibly even change?) my fanfic reading habits
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sequel at 4:46 PM on December 25, 2022 (22 comments)

I'm looking for music to fall asleep to.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pdb at 11:04 AM on December 16, 2022 (15 comments)

"What if you could send a package (let’s say suitcase-sized) to 1977? It will arrive at today’s date, minus 40 years. You can have it sent to whomever you like, but you can’t personally hang around and make sure it gets used properly. There’s nothing about this delivery that will convince the recipient that this package is from the future. There won’t be any flashing lights or vortexes or portals for them to see. All they see is the package on their doorstep, and they have no special knowledge of this experiment or your efforts. It’s up to your packaging to motivate the people of 1977 to open it and pay attention to the contents." Shamus "DM of the Rings" Young with an interesting thought experiment. Here's his own answer.
posted to MetaFilter by Sebmojo at 5:40 PM on August 23, 2017 (174 comments)

My grandma is dying. She is in comfort care at the hospital. How can I best advocate for her pain, anxiety, meds, and care during her final days?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cursed at 8:43 PM on December 14, 2022 (18 comments)

Python users: imagine one of your compatriots have been stuck in a cryogenic state since, oh, 2018. What are the key trends, techniques, changes, and tools you'd update them on the Python ecosystem? What's new, meaningful, and exciting in the last few years?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by elephantsvanish at 2:32 PM on February 1, 2022 (10 comments)

I find call-outs deeply triggering of a long trauma history and they activate so much shame that I can barely even absorb whatever was the subject of correction. Please help me address this without retraumatizing myself.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by crunchy potato at 11:19 AM on December 2, 2022 (47 comments)

Tips for first-time wheelchair pushers.
posted to MetaFilter by MartinWisse at 2:22 AM on July 13, 2015 (45 comments)

An Eye for Breathing and Stopping Theory [Q-Tip vs. Michael Nyman] it's just Breathe and Stop versus An Eye for Optical Theory like that's the whole thing
posted to MeFi Music by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 12:38 PM on November 5, 2022 (2 comments)

35mm Online is a website where you can stream over 150 classic Polish feature films, with English subtitles, as well as cartoons, documentaries and old news reels. And it's all funded by the European Union and the Polish government. There are films by well known directors, such as Krzysztof Kieślowski and Andrzej Wajda, but it also has work by pioneers like Wanda Jakubowska and Danuta Halladin. [Note: A few films seem to be geolocked, and you need to register to access age-restricted material]
posted to MetaFilter by Kattullus at 3:58 PM on July 18, 2022 (4 comments)

Monk Hermann von Reichenau wrote a chronicle for the year 1021 which ends "My brother Werner was born on November 1." (I assume that's "Werinharius frater meus Kalend. Novem. nascitur." in this text; I don't read Latin.) Happy birthday, Werner! Also: A typical complaint fielded by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you." As flglmn notes: "one of those moments where you absolutely feel the kinship of all human beings every where and at all times".
posted to MetaFilter by brainwane at 2:08 PM on November 1, 2021 (55 comments)

Built in the excellent 1BitDragon sequencer, with a few extra bits added in a DAW. Part of my JPL side project.
posted to MeFi Music by srednivashtar at 3:14 AM on May 12, 2022 (1 comment)

12 string acoustic etc
posted to MeFi Music by thatwhichfalls at 7:21 PM on May 12, 2022 (1 comment)

24 years ago, as I prepared to leave for my freshman year of college, my mother took me to Sears and bought me a set of bedsheets. Nearly a quarter century later, I still use the pillowcase from that sheet set, because it turned out to have been the single greatest pillowcase ever manufactured by man. But...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kevinbelt at 10:38 AM on April 4, 2022 (16 comments)

What are your favorite beauty products?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by DisreputableDog at 4:53 AM on May 27, 2012 (60 comments)

Hi everyone! Starting on March 28, Apartment Therapy has a 10-day 2022 Spring Cleaning Cure. Come join us for asynchronous scrubbing, accountability, and general conviviality & get your home ready for spring. It's free.
posted to MeFi IRL by mochapickle at 6:02 AM on March 8, 2022

Dr. Raziya Parvin, "Rani Chennamma of Kittur - Why do we remember?" Much more detail in Chennamma's biography, e.g. "Ch. 5 - The Question of Adoption": "On October 18th, 1824 ... in an impassioned speech, she declared, 'Kittur is ours. We are masters of our own territory. The Britishers say that the adoption is not valid because we did not take their permission ... We will tell Mr. Thackeray [the novelist's uncle; letter of complaint about him] ... that we will not submit to them whatever be the consequences. Kittur will fight to the last.'" Summary in a history of Karnataka, also mentioning Rama Habshi. The 1961 film Kittur Chennamma / ಕಿತ್ತೂರು ಚೆನ್ನಮ್ಮ retells Chennamma's life story, and two songs in it are based on poems by Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130-1160; more on her poetry): "Kolu Thudiya Kodagananthe" and, as described thoroughly / with a translation at The Southern Nightingale, "Thanukaragadavaralli Pushpava."
posted to MetaFilter by Wobbuffet at 4:28 PM on March 10, 2022 (3 comments)

If a plant could grow in a way that would tell a joke, or at least be amusing, how would it do it? I'm not talking about growing in a way that writes something or as a representative sculpture of something funny. Maybe a visual pun, or something else entirely. What could a plant do to cause a laugh?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ShooBoo at 1:42 PM on March 5, 2022 (20 comments)

The Brunching Shuttlecocks was (and is) a humor website that ran from 1997 to 2003. It was founded by David Neilsen and Lore Fitzgerald Sjöberg There's a TON more links inside, but here's a taste: Porn Star or My Little Pony?  *  Ratings: Cat Toys ("Catnip Anything: Very entertaining.")  *  Ratings: Star Wars Lego Figures  *  The Björk Song (In RealAudio or MP3, with David Neilsen. Causes insanity.)  *  Pikachewy ("'Twas Beedrill, and the Starmie Gloom/Did Grimer and Gengar in the Mew")  *  Twelve AP Headlines Which Can Be Sung to 'Camptown Races' ("Man in Wheelchair Killed by Train, doo-dah, doo-dah")  *  The Geek Hierarchy: Abridged But Managable - Unabridged but Large - For Printing (PDF) (Doubles Jubilee, original from 2015)
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 1:27 PM on February 28, 2022 (43 comments)

brainwane has posted extraordinary numbers of wonderful stories to MetaFilter - but my very favorite was posted back in 2013. "Tomorrow Is Waiting", a short science fiction story by Holli Mintzer, published in Strange Horizons, finds a student's half-hearted AI project gone delightfully out of control. It is the best story about Kermit the Frog you will ever read. Author Holli Mintzer appeared in the original post. Happy Doubles Jubilee!
posted to MetaFilter by kristi at 6:46 PM on February 26, 2022 (18 comments)

Feeling SPEECHLESS at the wonderfulness that is Wordle? But prefer to play words that are DECAMETRIC? Ready to put UNSTINTING effort into a new word COLLECTION with the same AESTHETICS? This might just be in your SUGARHOUSE if you can make the ADJUSTMENT from 5-letter words to 10-letter words. STRENGTHEN your VOCABULARY and play WordleWordle today!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by willF at 1:33 PM on February 4, 2022 (14 comments)

I have been increasingly getting into purchasing and listening to audiobooks. I am one of those people who insists on buying my ebooks from whatever store I feel like and then ripping off the DRM and storing them locally, and I am frustrated by two things: the Kobo app (where I buy most things) sucks for me when playing my audiobooks, and as I now own audiobooks on at least three services I would love to have them all in one place. Does anything exist that would let me do this? I prefer to avoid Audible if possible.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sciatrix at 7:57 PM on February 6, 2022 (6 comments)

"Saying goodbye to Steve, the reader who commented on everything I wrote for 17 years" -- reflections after death closes the door on an exchange of correspondence between a journalist/music critic and an older reader who was always willing to give something a listen.
posted to MetaFilter by drlith at 1:02 PM on February 5, 2022 (11 comments)

I've recently gotten into reading short-form anecdotes and dramatic stories like you find on AmITheAsshole or similar, and am looking for other good places to find this kind of thing. Details within.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sir jective at 4:48 AM on July 7, 2021 (30 comments)

Being really intentional about the space you're creating virtually or in person can help people feel comfortable and want to come back. That's how you build volunteer leaders. Then, the more volunteer leaders you have, obviously the more you can scale and remove the responsibility of work and burden on the actual campaign staff. For new newsletter Campaigner, Debra Cohen of political training organization Arena interviews strategist Ashley Williams, who worked on two of the largest volunteer recruitment and training efforts to help dump Trump: Organizing Together 2020 and Vote Save America.
posted to MetaFilter by Bella Donna at 4:05 AM on January 6, 2022 (4 comments)

Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is December 21. "[It] is about checking with yourself, and ending the commitments you need to end – maybe by taking a break, or by rotating it on to someone else, or by sunsetting a project." [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by sibilatorix at 11:11 PM on December 20, 2021 (16 comments)

Arpeggiator solo
posted to MeFi Music by CarrotAdventure at 10:55 AM on December 3, 2021 (2 comments)

I wrote a little utility to convert the massive text file one obtains from the Export Your Comments page into a variety of other formats suitable for various purposes. Currently converts to HTML, JSON, or Unix-style MBOX (mailbox) format.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by Kadin2048 at 3:08 PM on October 29, 2021 (5 comments)

I've always loved de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, and a large part of the appeal (to me) is his perspective as a non-American and his attempt to be detached & non-judgmental. Can you recommend equivalents for other countries? 19th or 20th century books where someone visited from a third country and wrote about the politics and national character in a respectful/non-colonizing manner?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ZaphodB at 9:16 AM on October 15, 2021 (13 comments)

My mom at 90 needs one, badly. It's impossible to communicate. As I enter this process with her it feels like I'm sliding down a slippery slope of bullshit. $1,600 to $2,000 for a unit? I read somewhere they cost $100 dollars to manufacture. Anyway:
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zenpop at 8:44 AM on July 23, 2021 (10 comments)

[C.J.] Cherryh has been incredibly prolific for literally longer than I've been alive. She has over eighty novels and loads of short stories. She's won all the major awards. If Cherryh is not a Grand Master, the term has no meaning. | The Steerswoman series. There are four out already, apparently Rosemary [Kirstein] is at work on not one but two more (oh that is so hopeful), but the four that already exist make me so happy. | Nisi Shawl is a great example of a writer who has grown, changed, and expanded her horizons - and other people's - long past her debut.
posted to MetaFilter by smcg at 9:02 AM on February 12, 2021 (31 comments)

My favorite jokes are elephant jokes. I especially like the ones where elephants talk ("Look buddy, I'm not the same elephant") and the ones with bad puns (what's grey and has a trunk and sings jazz?). This has been a lousy year and a lousy first month of 2021 and I would like to hear more funny elephant jokes.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Mchelly at 12:44 PM on January 18, 2021 (49 comments)

Archie Thomas stumbled across solitary windfall fruit that could be cross between cultivated apple and European crab apple. Thomas admitted he may be biased, but said he thought the apples tasted great. “Tart but not wincingly-so, and with enough sweetness to eat raw … They speak of the terrain of Wiltshire; unimproved chalk grassland and chalk streams,” he added. As for the name, Thomas said he felt pressure to get it right: “I have too many ideas. My seven-year-old son wants me to call it Cristiano Ronaldo but that’s not happening. My wife, Hannah, is the apple of my eye, so she’s in contention.” (via The Guardian)
posted to MetaFilter by Bella Donna at 12:04 PM on December 3, 2020 (23 comments)

An older one. Circa 2008
posted to MeFi Music by CarrotAdventure at 9:37 PM on November 17, 2020

Directed by Gerald Potterton - better known, perhaps, for the 1981 film Heavy Metal, whose soundtrack included Don Felder and Sammy Hagar, and Yellow Submarine, whose soundtrack included... well, you've heard of them - Buster Keaton stars in one of the last films of his long career, crossing Canada on a railway track speeder in a short film called "The Railrodder".
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 7:51 PM on November 28, 2020 (12 comments)

You might also like... A crowd-sourced short story MetaFilter meta-collection spreadsheet! Anyone can add to it directly. Or add to it by filling out this form. Sort by publisher, author, word count, audio, buyability, and more.
posted to MetaFilter Projects by aniola at 10:16 AM on November 2, 2020 (3 comments)

Since August 28, brainwane has posted a short story or selections of short stories every single day to the blue
posted to MetaTalk by Cozybee at 12:42 AM on October 5, 2020 (26 comments)