Sideblog Archive
July 31, 2019
There's a Metatalk discussing how members with neurodivergence and/or mental illness experience the site; come on in and share your experiences.
More Peeps like Pepys?: Alensin asks, I've begun reading the Diary of Samuel Pepys, and was curious if similar sources exist for other historical periods?
July 30, 2019
1:1 With Your Manager: What are ways to communicate accomplishments in a conversational way, that doesn’t sound like bragging?
July 29, 2019
Things people do to make them seem uberhuman & thus uniquely capable? mrmanvir is looking for examples of "well-known professionals performing strangeness, otherness, or superhumanness to promote perceptions of their unique abilities."
July 28, 2019
Percussion Eruption: spamandkimchi draws our grateful attention to Senegalese musician Salliou playing the cas cas (also known as the aslatua, aslato, kashaka, cascas, televi, kasso-kassoni...)
July 27, 2019
Lots of great reading recommendations by members in the 50 Must-Read Fantasy Books by Women thread
July 23, 2019
We're ceasing the US politics megathread practice, moving back toward single-topic posts as a focus for that topic. Details in MetaTalk.
Following on the suggestion from last month's discussions, an open Metatalk thread for Mefites of color.
July 22, 2019
I’m looking for the most delicious, “see, [vegetable] isn’t scary!” recipes: bananacabana asks for gateway vegetable recipes in Ask Metafilter.
July 21, 2019
If you haven't checked it out yet, Cozybee has collected 50+ bookmarks for writers and aspiring writers, including worksheets, where to submit, advice for outlining, plotting, breaking through writer's block, worldbuilding, character development, and much more!
July 20, 2019
El pregunta es ... what do mis-gendered nouns sound like to bilingual people?
July 17, 2019
Thumbs up on this popular Ube Tuber: brilliantine posts about the brilliant Purple Filipino Yam
July 16, 2019
In Ask Metafilter, Ms Vegetable asks for directions to Weirdly Specific Packing and Possession Lists
July 15, 2019
metaquarry posts Derek Lowe's column on abandoned "easter eggs" found in labs, that asks "what’s the strangest (or most terrifying) thing you’ve come across in cleaning out an unused chemical space?"
July 14, 2019
MetaFilter is twenty years old today! It's sort of weird and wonderful and unbelievable. Here's a MetaTalk post to talk about what this place means, and share memories, and celebrate.
July 12, 2019
The Wrong Kind of Cheese lays out the difference in nomenclature between various kinds of bags in detail.
July 10, 2019
State of the Site update: ad revenue is down, we're stepping up a push to make MetaFilter wholly community funded (you can help!), and some discussion of current site resources and some short and long-term goals.
July 8, 2019
Hey, folks, we've made a couple new MetaTalk posts following up on the last month of discussion about how the site and community can better serve our non-white/PoC members.
Context and immediate goals, and then medium/long-term goals.
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