Posts From March 2022

In Metatalk: "March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. I'd like a thread for those of us who are here to talk about our experiences on MetaFilter if we want to, to raise awareness of issues, and to celebrate our lives and contributions and voices and each other."

03/31/22
taz

First steps in some MetaFilter changes: working on reworking the admin structure.

03/30/22
taz

A new free thread blooms! 🌳

03/28/22
taz

"The Little Grey Wolf Returns"

screenshot from Tale of Tales showing the little wolf in a doorway

"The 30-minute Russian animated film Tale of Tales has been more than once voted the greatest animated film of all time. Here it is with English subtitles ..." So lovely. And several great links in the comments.

03/28/22
by taz

mochapickle: Our 10-Day Metafilter IRL Spring Cleaning event officially starts tomorrow!

03/27/22
taz

Paris Hilton Not Included

Night at Thar Dessert by Navaneeth Kishor (cc by)

Penguin pie has a nice list in answer to Vatnesine's question "What is the Simple Life, as distinct from the American Life?"

03/27/22
by taz

"the kh-bomb"

image via siderea.dreamwidth.org

I gather from what I have read that there is simply no word in English that is quite that obscene: A rather amazing link from Nancy Lebovitz that goes fully down the rabbit hole on the derisive "Putin khuylo" nickname that "the Ukrainians turned into a slogan, a meme, an idiom. And maybe something more."

03/26/22
by taz

Twittery titters

comic by Sarah Lesson, via chaospet

In Ask Metafilter, Your favorite funny Twitter accounts?

03/23/22
by taz

🌻 Current Ukraine discussion on Mefi

03/22/22
by taz

Unprecedented government onslaught

Transgender flag colors composed of html hex color values

Chrysopoeia has a post presenting how different trans people are responding to state level anti trans bills in the US, including info on how to help protect Trans folks and save lives.

03/22/22
by taz

What Might this Cardi B?
Speaking of things found on the ground (earlier), Mystery Card. Do you recognize it?

03/21/22
by taz

The signs in the stars

Hands in the sky by ohhhbetty (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, I'm writing a short story where the main character uses a signed language that developed on a space station: A very interesting question and some great answers on signal's request for cultural and linguistic introduction to signed languages for background.

03/21/22
by taz