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Writing is a...well, a thing. Sometimes easy, sometimes maddening, often a mix of both of these things and more. Perhaps these slightly rude notes about writing will help you bridge that gap. Maybe not though, no promises, all you can do is check out dhruva's post!

What's your casual opinion about armpit hair on women? Tiny frying pan wants to know, but please the leave idea of concensus or argument at the door, thanks.

Episodes 4-6 of season 2 of Andor have dropped, come join in the viewing and discussion as we wait to see when Checkov's Cinta will appear next!

Episode 3 of season 2 of The Last of Us is out and we have Show Only and Videogame/Books included threads that have been posted for discussion.

What's new and good on MeFi you ask? Here's a few answers:

Rhamoi's post celebrating 20 years of YouTube a is a joyful look back at the site's roots and early history.

Looking for something a little dreamy and dark? Deadbilly made a post about The Nightly, "a web-based radio station for insomniac dreamers, wistful lonely hearts, and general appreciators of a sort of indescribable beautiful drearynes." I recommend putting on some background rain sounds to add ambience.

Want to see a brand new 75 year old plane? Then check out the post that dfm500 made!

Mephron has posted a news round up of LGBTQIA+ issues. Be it good, middle, or bad, this is a fantastic summary of matters facing the community this week, read on!

The best thing ever created in the Star Wars universe, the show Andor, has returned for its second and final season. Three episodes will be dropping every Tuesday for the next four weeks, and we’re all over the series in FanFare, come join the discussion!

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Say hello to Seven Deadly Gins, long term lurker who’s recently been inspired to sign up. They have a lot to say about how the MetaFilter community and the moderation team has dealt with trans issues and we implore everyone to read this thoughtful comment of theirs.

The eight leg walker gives things a go!

What's the best number of legs for a Lego robot walker? 2 legs? 4 legs? 8? 16? My money's on the 8 legs, but check out hurdy gurdy girl's post to see the surprising winner!

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Sir? Ma'am? Member chariot pulled by cassowaries, an Australian by birth, has a question about why and when Americans use sir/ma'am and MeFites have a lot to say about that!

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To US members interested in ways to resist the government, The New Republic has an article filled with about how ordinary citizens to fight back. this post by dfm500 has the link!

Bored with Netflix? Tired of Spotify? Then, come into the gardens and find tv and radio from around the world!

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In this week's belated (or bleated, hey sheep happens) Free thread, Wordshore shares a great story about being late to a wedding. How late? Oh just one year, that's all, no biggie!

Morale of the story? Putting the year on wedding invitations is highly overrated!

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Hating everyone and everything? Want the sun to devour us all? You're not alone in that feeling, and we're making a playlist about it, do you have anything to suggest? Join the thread and let us and let us know!

Is that too dark for you? Well, there's always live video of the new volcanic eruption at Kilauea, Hawaii

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[COMMUNITY] MeFi's developers, both staff and members, have been tinkering away on several projects, making changes here and there, both on the current site and the planned new site.

First up is Frimble, who has put together a simple moderation log to track official mod comments and post deletions, the link is here and discussion about has been going on in this MetaTalk post.

Klipspringer looked at that project, decided it could use a few tweaks, like an archive, tags, and RSS feed, check it out in MeFi Projects.

Rhaomi (you know, the President of MetaFilter Interim Board) has been working with past developers and MeFi's own developer frimble to adapt the userscript MeFiQuote, to make it amazingly easier quote other users. It's live now, read the announcement post about how to turn it on!

Meanwhile, over in the future, kirkaracha continues working on the new site. It's still in the alpha stage, so not ready for full use, but it's moving forward! Follow along via the 'rebuild' tag in MetaTalk!

Finally, there's a new General Site Info FAQ entry where we aim to keep common links and info about the site. The link to it will remain in the site navigation bar at the top of every page, for easy access.

art from Callibre home page

In a great post about the e-book managing software Calibre, we got a fantastic comment made by trig. They gave a great rundown about what's on the ebook reader market, sharing lots of good thoughts about the pluses and minuses of the major brands. Seriously, if you're interested in ebooks at all, you should check out this comment!

Photo by Ludovic Bertron from New York City, U.S.

Two recent posts touch on different aspects of the gay community in America: First, constraint made a post about how LGBTQ people are taking steps to protect themselves by purchasing guns.

Second, ShooBoo shared a link to an NYT opinion piece on how Hooters, that bastion of classic and stereotypical heterosexual masculinity, has been meaningful to some young gay boys.

[COMMUNITY] This week's FREE thread wants to know "what situation, event, or incident were you hot, sweaty, comfortably or uncomfortably warm in, maybe needing to cool down?" Come fill us in on the details!