Black mold spore photo by Ramy algayar
leftover_scrabble_rack is feeling a bit overwhelmed about what to do about a household mold issue, and nouvelle-personne steps up with some super useful advice about how to triage, assess, and address the problem.
Bet there are some tips you haven't considered in Jane the Brown's long list of heat-beating strategies.
Screenshot of an elevator from Riven.
Now this is what the internet was made for, wonderous geekery! Come enjoy the visual splendor of almost every elevator in the video game series that started with Myst. Shared by rivenwanderer, this post does such a good job of showing how the series was able to enthrall people in its various worlds!
Colorized transmission electron micrograph showing particles of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus that emerged in 2012. Credit: NIAID
We’re often encouraged to look up, but there’s plenty of interesting stuff down below. So, mittens goes deep in a post about the microbes that live beneath Earth’s surface and how they may affect the planet.
Diesal out strolling with his new fam. Photoby @maxfennell via Instagram
Family is what you make of it, at least according to Diesel the donkey. Previously lost, he has been spotted in the wild with a new family, as noted in this post by ShooBoo.
Link (Assemblage) (1971) - João Vieira (1934 - 2009) via Pedro Ribeiro Simões on Flickr
A new Link Me post has been forged! Come find a topic to post, or offer your idea for a topic for someone else to post! Thanks, CMcG!
the weekly Free Thread is always a bright spot
depending on whim, you may also receive an artifact of some type ... In Metatalk, chiefthe re-ups their Continuing Ongoing Modern Pen Pal Project, wherein they post a handwritten letter to any mefite requesting one. Sweet! ✍🏼 ✉️
signal posted Ludicity's peppery thoughts about AI grifting and attendant ubiquitous bluesky ML/LLM technobabble burnout, and the Mefi community is feeling it. Likewise sweary, Lucy Mangan's Guardian review of BBC's "The Stormtrooper Scandal" about just one of the grubby, greedy tales arising from the great NFT racket, posted by ec2y. Ahhh, NFTs. 'member them? (HT to fiercekitten for the post title)
image by Tara Winstead on pexels.com
Tell Me No Lies is looking for a fresh take on his project / problem of trying to efficiently return 30 stray jigsaw pieces to their proper puzzles, and Mefites have so many clever ideas! (including one involving judging "tongue adhesion"?). It's a puzzling task!
Via David J. Kent (https://davidjkent-writer.com/2024/06/19/what-does-the-juneteenth-flag-mean/)
We humans like to remember the past and set aside a day to remember important events. But it’s rare that history only occurs in a day. Inevitably there a deep and wide breadth of time that leads up to that specific event on that specific day. With that in mind, take a look at joannemerriam’s post about Juneteenth. Though the day has past, there’s a lot of history to dig into and enjoy, easily enough to last into next year!
The internet has been an amazing invention, bringing all sorts of media to your desktop or mobile device. But as the years have gone by, perhaps it’s been a bit too much? Maybe you’d like a stripped down and more bandwidth friendly version of some sites? Say no more friend! Shepherd made a post about news sites that do that, based on their earlier AskMetafilter question. Come bask in the words!
Photo by Bill Smith, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/byzantiumbooks/)
Look, you need to get rid of at least some of those books and you know it. Luckily, cupcakeninja made a post about where to donate used books. Yes, it's ok if you read them just one more time before donating, we won't tell!
BlueJae looks for help finding cool, weird, rare edible herbs for my garden, and we just want to go lie down for a while in that delightful pile of aromatic answers!
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