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I could run forever, but I won't get far (free thread!)
Charly Bliss' new single/video, "Nineteen" From their upcoming album "Forever". It's your weekly free thread! Come on in, put on some tunes, kick up your heels and tell us what's up with you!
It Free. It's a Thread. C'mon in.
A favorite moment of perfect comedic timing from The Muppets' Seven Deadly Sins/ Sex and Violence. it's safe for work. [more inside]
CareFREE drumming
Junna's drumcover of Babymetal's Doki Doki Morning (It's your weekly free thread!)
When things break
As art, as practical application, as metaphor, the delicate and profound craft of beautifully repairing beloved items resonates both aesthetically and emotionally. In a different sort of celebration and honoring of the broken thing, artist Helena Hafemann captures the moment of its would-be demise and spins it into a moment of beauty. [more inside]
Tintreach (AC/DC in Gaeilge)
I swim the seas between paranoia and disbelief - your weekly free thread
SPRINTS - Up and Comer It's your weekly free thread! Drop in, look around, let us know what's up with you.
The MeFite as reader ... it's your weekly free thread
What are you reading - something you wrote last week? A Valentine's day card from scarabic? A recipe? A blog? Tax filing instructions? Safety information? A novel? Techniques? A print newspaper? The ingredients on a food product? The weather forecast? A flight ticket? Song lyrics? A job advert? Ferry times? A diner menu? A trail guide? This post? A comment you wrote? A comment you regret writing? Or talk about anything and everything in your life and your world as this is your free thread.
The MeFite as writer ... it's your weekly free thread
What are you writing - a CV? A resignation letter? Reports? A spell? Academic papers? Job applications? A thesis? Letters to lovers? A book? A ransom note? Some code? A shopping list? Some interactive fiction? Erotic fiction? A journal or diary entry? Poetry (by Jessica Smith)? MetaFilter posts? And with what - a favorite pen? A pencil? The keyboard? Software? A stencil? A tablet? A paintbrush? A quill? Something else? Or talk about anything and everything in your life and your world as this is your free thread.
You are the MeFite ... it's your weekly free thread
After last week's epic thread of The games MeFites play - which you can still contribute to - this week there's no optional topic. It's just ... you. Talk about anything and everything in your life and your world as this is your free thread.
The games MeFites play - it's your weekly free thread
Dungeons and Dragons? Scrabble? Wordle? Animal Crossing? Tabletop Role Playing Games? Board games? Chess? Go? Some other game of any kind? Or a game you've made, on your own or in a team, for work, fun or personal satisfaction? Or talk about anything and everything in your life and your world as this is your free thread. [more inside]
Who are the people who matter to you? It's your weekly free thread.
Who are the friends, the people (or sometimes non-people), who really matter to you? Your bestie from a long way back? Someone you met in middle age or at a record fair? A school friend? Your partner? A relative? Your pet? A work colleague or neighbour? A digital construct? A dispenser of advice? Or talk about anything and everything in your life and your world as this is your free thread.
A Free Thread for an early January day ... but how do you “Winter”?
In Wintering, Katherine May wrote “In winter, we are invited into a particular mode of sleep: not a regimented eight hours, but a slow, ambulatory process in which waking thoughts merge with dreams, and space is made in the blackest hours to repair the fragmented narratives of our days.” But how do you 'Winter', either seasonal or metaphorical? (applicable to MeFites in either hemisphere) Attitude? Meditation? Sleep and sun? Vitamin D? Noting “After Christmas, every day is getting longer. We’re in the second half of winter and soon enough it will start to get lighter and warmer”? Or write anything as this is your free thread.
Happy New Free Thread, MetaFilter ... what do you want from 2024?
'tis 2024 here, there, and everywhere, and welcome to a fresh slab of 365+1 days of calendar. Much will happen during this year, on earth and up in the sky; some sports in France, and the important vote in Sweden, but eventually eyes will turn to the USA to see who emerges victorious. But, sweet dear MeFites, what are your aspirations, hopes, desires, dreams for 2024?
Merry Free Thread, MeFites ... and a MetaFilter Christmas past
(This is a free thread. But it also complements the not-free-thread. So write in either. Or both.) While some enjoy fine dining on the 25th, and do other things (inaccurate list), so others go to mass or surf, or eat domcă or plachie. But what are you doing? And while December 1999 was a quite different place on the blue of MetaFilter, what were you doing (or how was your life back then) on Christmas Day 1999?
'tiswas the free thread before Christmas...
While we shove tartes of flesh into our mouths and read seasonal food reviews, we note that a week today 'twil be the birthdays of Humphrey Bogart (1899), Annie Lennox (1954) and Chef (1984). While invaluable goods continue to disappear, a new etiquette divider is those who ladle their gravy verses those who pour it from the boat, and the best peanut spread is Pindakaas, the question remains: what are you buying or making or planning to eat? Or ... just write about anything, because this is your Free Thread.
This is not a Free Thread, so don't leave off-topic comments here
...or perhaps it is a free thread, in which case do? If a MeFite makes an irrelevant comment on a front page post, does anyone read it? What is commenting, anyway? What is commenting... not? Will the many academics who keep studying what we write on MetaFilter ever tell us? Discuss. Or don't. Does anyone care? And is Cool Whip really edible?
It's our 101st free thread!
How long can a shooting star fly for? (apropos of nothing, Katherine Ho, from the Crazy Rich Asians soundtrack, live)
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...to give you more 'room' to write in the weekly FREE THREAD. What's the point of 'intentionally blank pages' anyway? [previously, previouslyer]
Here on Absurd Island, and everywhere else, it's Monday so...
...it's time for your weekly Free Thread where you can talk about wtf, or that the Christmas season has officially started, or news reporting of places to socially visit in Worcestershire, or that Easter Eggs will be in the shops in 8 weeks, or just anything.
I've got a gut f(r)eeling
Gravity-free (thread)
Fred Richard's Floor Exercise @ 2023 World Gymnastics Championships. Unfettered by earthly bonds (especially starting at :30). You might not be able to flip like Fred, but you can participate in this week's free thread! [more inside]
But when I stare at the girls as if I'm free
It's Monday!
Free Bee
I think that I shall never see, a thread as lovely as a free
Spaghettieis is the way to a Free Thread
BBC: "At ice cream parlours around Germany, you might come across a perplexing menu item, simply labelled Spaghettieis." Some pictures on Flickr. Metro: "5. Optional: grate some white chocolate over the top for ‘Parmesan’." (Previously) And what's your favourite regular or combo or speciality ice cream, or just talk about everything because it's your .
Dance like someone's ignoring you
Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza oh and your Free Thread (comes with dough balls)
As a version of Chicago pizza comes to Leicester, people put raspberry mascarpone on top, England (history recap: invade nearly everywhere and take all the spices) makes the blandest pizza possible, pizza is stolen, pizza eaters get in the mood for lurve, we remember the president of Iceland previously clarifying that "I do not have the power to make laws which forbid people to put pineapples on their pizza", possible evidence of ancient pizza is revealed, and Sweden is Sweden and Ohio is Ohio, here's your weekly Free Thread...
As Christmas approaches, here's your weekly Free Thread
In only eight weeks time, Christmas puddings, mince pies and other seasonal foods, plus cards and wrapping paper, will start to fill the supermarket shelves. Christmas spirit? It's never too early as Boston hope to do better than last year, Fakenham reveal their plans, sensible people have completed shopping, and the Christmas birth is anticipated. Some tree advice and potato advice. So throw a log on the fire, put on your wooliest jumper, pour yourself a glass of mulled wine and type into the freethread, or Free Thread, or #FreeThread, for this week. Bonus: some pleasant Holst.
Ye Olde Free Threade is here, for inscription of wondrous thoughts
Come, fellow MeFites, and obnixely enter texts into this fiendish and ancient device. Of anecdotes and tales, baboonery lived, stories told and untold. Of travels to the underworld, of delicacies enjoyed, of a Yule of past or a Yule to come. Be not an agelast on reading, but be wakerife and stub not thy hallux on reaching for keyboard or quill, for this threade be free...
Free time
School's out for summer. A friend graduated from high school this weekend, and I asked her what she was going to do with all her free time, and she said "sleep in!". And then proceeded to list all the things she had to do this week. Here's our Monday free thread!
One of these days...
Free yourself!
Feel free to flop around a little
$0, same as in town
Happy freethread Monday!
It's gonna be sunny here in Seattle, which means more time on the bike saddle for me. I hope you all have a great week!
Love and a Peaceful World
LXX
Free thread! (I was planning on being more creative and going to metatalk and trying to set up a schedule, but I'm a little hungover and the morning is getting away from me. So here we are)
Free Thread #69
Belated Dyngus
Hello, it's Monday, and that means a new free thread, and so here we are. By the way, apologies for not pointing out observance of Śmigus-dyngus day last Monday. I guess it just snuck up on me. [more inside]
bunch of what, now?
Please don't be offended, but the universe, or the fates, or whoever controls this stuff seems to think that I should share Bacon Popper's "Free" in this free thread. [more inside]
Just your type
Hello, Monday, happy free thread! This week, I'm wondering ... does anyone remember typewriters? Weren't they fussy and fiddly and fun? And didn't they sound great? Well, if so, today I have another free thing (or two) in your free thing thing, that may be pertinent to your interests: 1) an online (type)writing app called Writer that offers "distraction-free focus" and saves your text, plus you can opt to have manual or electric typewriter key strike sounds accompany the composition of your deathless prose. Hemingwayesque! (don't be put off by the neon green text — you can change that; use the gear icon to adjust your preferences.) [more inside]
Duneworld
Welcome to Monday, time travelers (wasn't it just Monday a few minutes ago?). For today's free thread, I'd like pass over a bit o' free association I had re the Wee Free Men, and ... the Fremen. And Dune and Discworld more generally. Now, I quickly got in well over my head when contemplating the possibilities of this wyrd alternative universe, but I bet Mefite fans have thoughts. [more inside]
Heavenly
Hello fellow travelers, once again it's Monday, when, every week, we gather to throw off our yokes and comment freely. This week, though, I'd like to point out the occasional ambiguities and ambivalences that can accompany such headlong pursuits, with The Frog Prince, a poem by Stevie Smith. [more inside]
Loveletter From Space 💫
As the planet has apparently managed to progress another eleven million+ miles along its celestial transit since last we met, for us that means it's once again Monday and time for another free thread. To celebrate, this week I'd like to bring you back to an era when we didn't rely on AI, replika lovers, or dating site algorithms to find romance. We knew that true love could only be found in one place: Space. [more inside]
Let Freedom Ding!
OMG it's Monday, free thread fam. How did that happen again? Not sure, but today we have another "free thing in your free thing" thread: this rather clever dingbat font featuring glyphs that can be chained together in various ways to create borders, backgrounds, and separators. (cute!) And which also allows a very bad pun in the page title. (priceless!) [more inside]
Legitimate
Hello, voyagers, welcome to Monday and your free thread, fully authorized and unyeeted. [more inside]
Not exactly painless
Hello, buckaroos, it's the M-day again, I'm afraid. Now, there's no way this thread can make Mondays pain-free, but today, for your own good, we will give you some pain, free. [more inside]
Roses are threads, violets are #065A8F
For this almost very special day (yes, it's Monday!), I give you this special topical quiz: What is the best kind of love? a) Free b) Pete Davidson c) Brotherly d) This thread. [more inside]
Free Time
Happy Monday, everyone! If you are returning to work today, you may want to contemplate the Latin term, "otium" or "leisure time." As in "dang, I sure wish I had more otium." Well, this thread can help. In a way. [more inside]
Gone Fission
Hello, Monday, it's dear friends. Hi, yes, I'm totally awake, and I have a short quiz for you. How is this thread like a neutron? [more inside]