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Vaudeville all summer long by rockcreek (cc by)

In The Money is in All the Wrong Places thread, Jane the Brown muses on the modern celebrity professions versus the olden days of touring companies and troupes and vaudeville.

(Meanwhile, over in Metatalk, there seem to be a number of vikings and some elves flagging things as Fantastic. I see you.👋)

climate change by stockcatalog (cc by)

"... in this video you're going to go from understanding more than like, 80 or 90% of people, to understanding this more than 99% of people. And it's only going to take you like 15 minutes."

Towels at my Other Gym by Colin Davis Studio (cc by)

In Ask Metafilter, things you routinely have multiple types of but you should just get identical versions?

The star in question

Be careful not to look directly into the chorizo! James Webb Telescope captures rare cured, smoked, spicy star.

tiny frying pan is looking for more people having terrible ideas, following through.

"What's in a name?" by jack dorsey (cc by)

as someone who studies gender, the evolution of nonbinary / trans communities, and cultural ideas about androgyny, I'd categorize "Bixby" as in the name group moving pretty rapidly from a prior masculine-of-center position, to a current "gender neutral" position, and possibly soon to be in the feminine-of-center position. Some Interesting observations from DrMew on ambiguous, androgynous, gender neutral, and unisex naming trends in the We need to talk about Kévin thread.

There is a more summer dish than this ? Water melon, feta and mint. @ristorantelavolpenera #tuscany #toscana #toskana #chianti #salvadonica #summerdish #watermelon #feta by Salvadonica, Chianti, Tuscany (cc by)

nayantara is looking for unusual food combos in Ask Metafilter

lollipop by Flóra (cc by)

at which point everyone ... took pieces of his head home for later snacking: ricochet biscuit reminisces about the ultimate giant chocolate gift in this thread about a giant disgusting lollipop (and other giant disgusting food).

DSCN3846edit by jon pratty (cc by)

"Shoots you down in a lifeboat, in choppy water, at night, on Easter.": I'd like some insight as to why this sign would be on a state supervisor and an office manager's door to their shared office. Mysterious! But Ask Mefi answerers come through!

DNA by Caroline Davis2010 (cc by)

there's virtually no predictive power to say "I inherited [x] from my (grand)parent so I probably inherited [y] as well: metaBugs helps us out at the deep end of the gene pool in Ask Metafilter.

Le Guin in 2009. Photo via Wikipedia, by Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University

humbug posts the shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!

The cat in question (Vatnesine photo)

Our cat is very very shiny, it is one of her main skills ... In Ask Metafilter, Vatnesine wonders What is the albedo rating of my very shiny cat?