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It's Monday and my day off and I've done like six hours of work anyway, which means now I absolutely get to put my feet up and crack open a nice cold can of Free Thread with the boys. (The boys are my cats. They're both girls, come to think of it. Anyway.) Come on in and talk about whatever the hell one talks about when one talks about things, I (increasingly literally) don't make the rules.
posted by cortex on Apr 18, 2022 - 122 comments

It's snowing in Portland, OR in the middle of April, which according to the prophecy means it's time for a Free Thread and also for me to not leave the house today. Come on in, chat about whatever, and put on a sweater, I'm cold.
posted by cortex on Apr 11, 2022 - 186 comments

It's Monday, the site is not currently experiencing unexpected downtime, and we're just narrowly on the far side of the the equinox: what else is there for it but another Free Thread? Come on in and discuss your favorite solar calendrical phenomena or, like, probably mostly other things, whatever is fine.
posted by cortex on Mar 21, 2022 - 177 comments

Free Thread? More like free games. As in I am currently playing at least three different free idle games between my PC and my phone. None of them are great! But they're free, and they each have small charms, and it's a pleasant distraction from everything. Which, hey, free thread! Come on in and chatter about whatever and make the comment number go up. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Mar 14, 2022 - 115 comments

Free Thread? More like Three Head, amirte? Janus was an amateur, triple-faced hellhounds are where it's at. Is that a hot take? They said you should do hot takes to get engagement. I guess hell is hot, so that part works. He's a hot dog! Hot dogs. They're a hot dogs. Okay, this isn't going well, just come on in and chat about whatever already.
posted by cortex on Mar 8, 2022 - 163 comments

No, you got distracted by the everythingness of everything from keeping to the nascent Monday-ish pattern for new Free Thread posts. I told you not to play so much Elden Ring. You really look like a silly goose now. Anyway, here's a place to talk about anything but the stuff we've been unable to escape the last several days, come on in and chatter.
posted by cortex on Mar 3, 2022 - 170 comments

Who has two thumbs and is not sure without looking which one he uses to hit the spacebar while he's typing up a new Free Thread post? This guy! [Imagine me pointing at myself with both the spacebar and non-spacebar thumbs]. It turns out it's the right thumb, btw. Anyway, come on in and chatter about whatever!
posted by cortex on Feb 21, 2022 - 164 comments

Roses are red
MeFi is blue
Here's a Free Thread
Full of poems for u
posted by cortex on Feb 14, 2022 - 189 comments

*slaps roof of website* this baby can fit so many Free Threads in it

Come on in and chat about whatever. Did your family have a minivan? My family had a minivan. You don't have to talk about minivans, I just sort of got thinking about that. Hi! [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 7, 2022 - 301 comments

It's a thread, it's free: it must be a Free Thread. We're up to five now! That's probably some sort of anniversary, we should exchange gifts but not like gifts gifts, nothing elaborate, let's not make it weird. Anyway, come on in and chat about the whoozit and whatsit. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 1, 2022 - 242 comments

It's a fourth Free Thread and this is the one that has Alicia Silverstone in it I guess? I really hadn't planned this whole thing around the Warner Brothers run of Batman movies but it just sort of happened. Anyway, no link, no topic, just come on in and chatter about stuff. Oh, and if you're newish or lurkerish on MetaFilter or just feeling friendly, you should also stop by the Introduce Yourself thread over on MetaTalk and give a wave. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jan 24, 2022 - 150 comments

It's another Monday, by which I mean it's a Tuesday, and so it's time for another Free Thread! Come on in and talk about whatever, tell folks about an interesting animal and/or mineral you know something about, discuss your progress along the Kübler-Ross "five stages of social media Wordle score posting discourse" journey, etc. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jan 18, 2022 - 293 comments

We had a free thread last week, and it was nice, and so by gum we're doing it again. Come on in and chat about whatever, share wee links, tell everybody something weird or interesting you just learned or that you've studied professionally for 20 years, whatever you feel like. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jan 10, 2022 - 372 comments

Free thread! No link, no topic. This is an experiment for the new year, a place on the front page to chatter about the stuff that there's no post for or that doesn't really feel like it needs a dedicated post. Come on in and say howdy to other MetaFilter members, share a link, talk about web stuff, etc. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jan 3, 2022 - 484 comments