So status.metafiler.com says that it should be up, but downforeveryone says it's down and when I try to reach it directly I get a cloud flare garbled error page.
Hmmm 🤔
#MeFi
We've passed the threshold into OK Now You Can Play Christmas Music thus I am linking this classic: https://buff.ly/4ibGq09
#mefi #metafilter #music #christmasMusic
Christmas Rhapsody
via #mefi this is some 'Beware of the Leopard' level nonsense https://papersplease.org/wp/2024/11/25/do-you-need-id-to-read-the-real-id-rules/
Have some good news for a change, via #mefi https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-22/gus-emperor-penguin-released-after-20-day-recovery/104636800
I was lucky enough to be included in @kattullus.bsky.social's Metafilter.com #StarterPack... it's a rare thing to be able to say "one of my favourite places on the web for over 20 years" but with #MeFi, that is entirely true.
RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/convert/ap/at://did:plc:w3hv27dshim2mvfyz5gwgjm6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3latxzbfoiy2r
Le dernier mail d'hameçonnage reçu dans ma boîte est bien trompeur. Méfi.
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If you like maps and jigsaws - and let's be honest, who doesn't? - then try Scrambled Maps. It's a game where you unscramble a map of a city by moving tiles around to the right order. One city each day. Today's city is Damascus and I unscrambled the map in 20 moves.
Originally via MetaFilter.
https://techhub.social/@real_jamescain/112788899244393682
This request by @real_jamescain for obscure book recommendations is definitely turning up suggestions I have never heard of. Am amplifying by also posting the question to Ask #MetaFilter :
https://ask.metafilter.com/381046/Best-obscure-book-youve-read
As always with a #MeFi post, you can subscribe to the comments on an individual post via RSS:
https://ask.metafilter.com/381046/Best-obscure-book-youve-read/rss
Happy 25th birthday, Metafilter! And thank you @jessamyn and everybody 🎉🍾🥂
#MeFi @metafilter
> The Iliad is ultimately a product of the Bronze Age Collapse […] it's about lineage […] a pre-written chronicle that was converted into a cultural metaphor for the bases of the legitimacy of the polis state. […] Helen. As in Hellene, as in Hellenic. At stake in the Iliad is the metaphorical avatar for Greece itself […] [a] post-bellum heroification of […] a genocidal ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia
https://www.metafilter.com/204397/Admit-that-Homer-was-no-good-No-Admit-No#8581252
I'm keeping a close eye on my anxiety levels in reaction to MetaFilter at the moment. MetaFilter can be fantastic, but during the beginning of Covid some people's relentless doom posting and tendency to catastrophise did a number on my mental heath, and I don't want that to happen again.
It's not so much that people are posting inaccurate information - it might be accurate - but the attitude of "don't even dare hope anything might ever be ok" is harmful to me.
Anyone in #Portland in the market for a #king #mattress? I'm "selling" one on craigslist: https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/fuo/d/portland-winkbeds-king-size-luxury-firm/7714380146.html
If you mention you saw this on #mastodon, I'll drop the 1 from the price! 😉
#winkbed #kingsize #kingmattress #bed #donation #bedroom #Mefi #metafilter #mefite
Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media — https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/
(via #mefi)
@structuregeek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgTPH5y1-ZI ← For a while about 10 years ago, someone on #MeFi tried to make this The New Rickroll. It didn't stick.
After a long hiatus, I'm back on #mefi again. This greeted me upon hitting the refresh button. 🤘🤘
https://www.metafilter.com/201115/You-Think-You-Know-a-Site#8470851
"it just feels like nobody is friends there anymore"
Wow, that hurts because it's dead-on. I had nice friends on MeFi, but I operated under the (admittedly naïve) assumption everyone there was a friend or a friend of a friend. The dissolution over the last few years of that kind of vibe really hit me hard. It's hard to be in your online third place, trying to be your best self and be nice and have a nice time and regularly have people attempt to take a big-ass bite out of you or stomping into the room to unload.
I'd like to say I'll go back someday, but I honestly do not know. It took a lot out of me when I buttoned. I'm still not over it. #mefi #metafilter
Chairs of Star Trek:
https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/chairs-trek.htm
Via #Mefi
I recognize that the current version of #MeFi causes some old-timers heartache but it remains magical. I asked about visiting foreign climes and someone recommended a tiny, obscure, waaay off the beaten path restaurant that I had just happened to visit during a previous visit only because it happened to be convenient to where we were staying. Those are the interactions that remain amazing.
I was just perusing the #Mefi post on #Oglaf and... sometimes I think most of using the internet is about remembering these things exist? And going back to them often enough so that the makers know they're loved, and keep doing them? It's SO EASY to forget great things exist, and it's REALLY COMMON for things to stop existing while you're gone.
The ways the internet has for reminding you of great things are all deficient. #Google? Sucks now, and if you don't remember what to search for you'll never find it anyway! #RSS? Okay if the site has a feed; many don't! People reminding you? EXTREMELY SCATTERSHOT. Social media? Twitter _outright deranks your posts_ if you have the temerity to link to something!
I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it
@dirtyoldtown and other Metafilter people -
I'm having so many issues making FanFare posts. The movies I want to post there aren't listed on IMDb, and the TV shows don't show up on that drop down list. Which means it prevents me from posting.
So I'm just choosing "other media" as a category but this doesn't seem like a great solution. What am I missing?
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