Four years of Mefi Card Club!
Postcards by Matt Perich (cc by)
In Metatalk: "Mefi Card Club was started as an ongoing card swap in March of 2018, and is still going strong today — that is over four years!"
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More fun than a blank of blanks!
Blank by Crystl (cc by)
How many Wordle-likes can folkle regurgitadle? A myriadle? Innumeradle? Multitudindle? Incalculadle? The latest to hit Metafilter is Redactle, a blank blank blank where the blank blank to blank the blank of a blank blank blank blank. I hope you find it enjoydle!
Did you know there is a Mefi Card Club for exchanges year-round? If you love sending and receiving cool paper mail, check it out! π
"all killer, no filler"
detail from cover art from the book Electrical Banana: Masters of Psychedelic Art
Slinga has posted the perfectly wonderful 45 minutes of Funky Old Japanese Soundtracks to chill out to, and we love it.
Theme Week
πππ¬π©π½βπ¬πβοΈ We're having theme weeks as part of our fundraising month, and the theme for this week is WEIRD SCIENCE! Also currently in Metatalk, Show Us Your View!
eye spy
Ojo by Cebolledo (cc by)
When I hear a chipmunk chucking I look for the nearby raptor: Lots of lovely, fascinating, relatable, inspiring, unusual, surprising, curious, strange, and amusing insights in this Metatalktail Hour post wherein wittgenstein asks "What do you pay attention to/notice as you wander through the world that I probably ignore?"
Get yer sinuous rills while they're hot!
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan by Ebenezer Wake Cook
Stately pleasure domes now being decreed and/or erected β‘ This Way.
Give me your glabrous, your rugose, your shambling masses ...
Statue of Liberty by Stina Stockholm (cc by-nc-nd)
Halloween Jack on the Statue, amid many other unsettling thread remarks (brrrr!) in signsofrain's post reminiscing about how we worshipped the husk.
Enjoy! Or dip in as a palate cleanser between y2karl's Gorgo 2049 video post (SCP alert!) and GenjiandProust's βI Wear No Maskβ and Other Horrors newest weird audio dramas post.
"Sylvie & I are finding it a trifle wearing."
It strikes me that the past is funny and odd and serious and heart-breaking and packed full of people who feel a lot like us: hurdy gurdy girl posts Tom Jacksonβs quirky Postcard From the Past Twitter feed and podcast.
popular monsters
That Ohio protest photo that looked like a zombie movie, by Joshua A. Bickel, via The Washington Post -- and darkstar
Mefites have their own ideas about what sorts of horror films would fit the current zeitgeist, from the Second Monster, to bacon-enraged intestine-slurping aliens to posh Freddy Krueger (requires billionairity), to how difficult it is to clean a bathroom when evil forces keep messing things up again, plus stories! ... And opinions! Many Opinions!
Rosemary's Baby's Day Out
In Metatalk, DirtyOldTown reminds us of a classic mashup thread.
Turn on some music, read a nice letter, have a time travel cocktail
TruTone by Steve Walser (cc by-nc-nd)
The MetaFilterMusic Podcast is BACK, BABY, thanks to greenish, who has also put up a new MeFi Music Challenge, The Collaboration Station. Meanwhile back in Metatalk, want a letter in your rl mailbox? Cos you can totally get a letter. Check out chiefthe's Modern Pen Pal Project, before Kristi's Metatalktail topic sends you back, back in time, to the small moments.
Just Fun, No Fooling
Fun by ::: mindgraph ::: (cc by-nc-nd)
Join the right day, wrong century Exquisite Corpse game underway in Metatalk, or dip into Uncle Mefi's Big Book of Beans for some solo activity game fun!
We're Getting The Band Back Together!
Strings by eleonoralbasi (cc by-sa)
Greenish is raising the flag for Mefi Music fans, old and new, in Metatalk.
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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.
