Folding Fun For Folks!
Grab some paper, your favorite beverage, and let’s make some origami! Faintdreams found a great website about that subject and it’s a fantastic guide, thank you!
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Posts from February 2025
Fanfare This Week #6
Pixar Oscar by Marcin Wichary (cc by)
The Week of Living Dangerously: Your FanFare Roundup: Oscar contenders , new series and episodes and, of course, the Super Bowl.
Bonus inside this week: a massive list of all of the A24 films posted on Fanfare.
I am dinosaur, hear me take it to the bridge!
Do you like dinosaurs? Then come ska punk/dad rock/indie folk out to an album 186 million years in the making!
That’s right, Professor Goldstein & The Adjuncts, among the mightiest musicians to ever trod this earth, have put out a new album, Songs about Dinosaurs!
Strange Gastronomy
Vintage human stomach diagram
"People tend to be horrified or intrigued": Eyelash is looking for weird food combos that people enjoy, and Mefites do not disappoint.
Good Things
Tell us something good! It's your weekly Free Thread! Or you can let us meta-pet your Meta Pet in the Metacritter Metatalk thread! 🐶🐱
Möbius? Is that you fooling around again?
image via margarethowell.jp
Hey, it's the Belladonna Loop! Belladonna solves the knotty question of how this scarf was tied in this way, with helpful illustration!
Shpansa!
The Sims 1 - (The Original Life Sim) via YouTube
The best Sims post ever built. Flagged as fanatic.
Knowledge to draw on
Dobbs would really, really, really like their drawings of dogs to look like dogs, not alligators. So there's a request for apps, courses, videos, and/or instruction to get better at drawing. Please lend your advice if you have suggestions! Or just come on in to check out the excellent advice that's being shared!
Come join us in the radiant city... if you can survive it.
Community member workingdankoch has created a fantastic science fiction audio drama titled Metropolis. It’s a murder mystery in neon utopia that may be slightly topical for US citizens or an excellent escape, you decide! An original science fiction audio drama!
Getting it done
[COMMUNITY] In the IRL subsite, paduasoy has posted Getting stuff done in February 2025 as a space to "support ourselves and each other in getting things done, whatever that means to you. Decluttering, organising, cleaning, admin, making progress on projects," including arts and crafts goals. Nice!
Look for the Helpers?
We found them, and they are in a website near you! In Ask Metafilter, alex1965 asks, What can I do in my spare time to benefit society?, while in Metatalk, Glinn posted Small Things, for people who "feel like they should be doing something or contributing something ... even if it's a small thing." Thank you both for helping us all to help each other! ✨
You have a Blüthner? *I* have a Blüthner!
In Ask Metafilter, vernondalhart asks, What should I expect / what should be included in renovating an old piano? and gets some super spot-on info from Pallas Athena
Fanfare This Week #5
Making You the You You Are brings us Best Documentary Feature nominees, new movies, what's new in TV, special events, and much more, including a new episode of Severance ... and its fictional self-help book "The You You Are" gets a real e-book. Enjoy! and thanks, DOT!
Language, please!
حر, Free, Frei, Gratis, Dohainik ... It's your weekly Free Thread!
Highlighting the best bits from the MetaFilter universe
MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.
