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Metatalktail Hour: The Song Remembers When
What's a song that reliably conjures up a very specific time/moment/place/person from your past?
Metatalktail Hour: Mama Said
It's Mothers Day weekend in some places. What's something your mother told you that sticks with you? (Or a mother figure told you: TV mom, teacher, friend with strong maternal energy...) Advice, jokes, songs, shaggy dog stories, facts, aphorisms, etc.
please consider content warnings for AI interaction
i would like to respectfully ask the community to please consider placing some textual warnings in FPP text when linking directly to websites that will lead to interaction with chatGPT or similar machine-learning systems.
eotvos memorial service details - May 13
Chicago area MeFites (and others): there will be a memorial service for eotvos (Erik Shirokoff) on Saturday May 13, 2023 both in person and over Zoom. Details can be found on this page. I am passing along this notification at the request of his friend Martin.
Metatalktail Hour: Vexing Grammar
Merry weekend, friends! Today I'd like to use my words to ask about the grammar and usage issues that vex you the most, either in their observance or non-observance, or possibly just in their DNA.
Best way to link to Instagram posts in Metafilter?
I would like to create a post on Metafilter, about some instagram content that's not available anywhere else on the web. What's the best way to link to this content so that people without Instagram can easily view it?
I'll See You In My Dreams
Ask Metafilter made a cameo in my dreams last night. In my dream the family dog's coat dramatically changed color and no one could explain it. I told my family I would pose a question on Ask Metafilter to see if anyone out there could. That's it. I woke up before I could get an answer.
Has anyone else had Metafilter related dreams?
Policies on Trans Issues: Current and Future
This post includes Information from loup about how the site's policies on trans people/issues are currently implemented including how transphobic content, sources and members are dealt with, the information they've given me about planned changes based on some brief feedback I've given, and an invitation for other trans members to share their thoughts, concerns, feedback, and suggestions
Site Update
Following up on some concerns raised in MetaTalk threads from a few weeks ago about the role of the Steering Committee and having volunteers working for a for-profit company. This is not the outcome we were hoping for, but it's the one we got.
[MeFi Site Update] April 19th
Hi there, MetaFilter!
Welcome to your monthly Site Update! You’ll find some updates regarding the site below. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions.
Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient as I reply to your feedback and questions.
Welcome to your monthly Site Update! You’ll find some updates regarding the site below. I’m looking forward to your feedback and questions.
Reminder: I will be the only mod monitoring this thread so please be patient as I reply to your feedback and questions.
Community Free Chat Threads
This should not be paid moderator work. Let's discuss.
Metatalktail Hour: Snack Unpack
Happy weekend, everyone! It's rainy and maybe a little chilly out. You're snuggled up under a comfy blanket on a comfy couch with something special to watch or read, and snacks to enjoy while you do it. What are those snacks?
Proposal to make it easier to make lists on AskMetafilter
Because I like the podcast True Stories I am on their Facebook fan page and someone there asked what other podcasts do you like. There were many responses, many repeats, very hard to read and keep track in my head. So I made a paper list. People often ask for what other (blank) do you like? here and I haven't made a paper list yet, I usually just bookmark the page and never come back to it. In Evernote web clipper I can chose to "save simplified article" which cuts out all the chaff. I would love something similar on AskMeta. My wishes:
WNBA Fantasy
Would there be interest in a Metafilter WNBA fantasy league if I organized one?
Post (Comment?) on the Blue About History's Lost Artists (Creatives?)
I have the textual equivalent of an earworm from a MetaFilter post (or comment) I'm hoping you can help me dispel.
What is MetaFilter's Astrological sign?
Discuss.
Too Many Links
This post is a revised version of a comment I posted a little while ago on this post on the blue by kliuless.
My complaint was that the post was really more of a linkdump than a coherent post. It's not the first time kliuless has done this, but I'm not singling them out -- I'm pretty sure I've seen other users do the same thing.
Metatalktail Hour: Peepshow
Greetings, peeps 🐥, and happy various religious holidays for some of you, happy maybe-finally-Spring for some Northern hemisphere dwellers, and happy weekend to all! Is now a good time to talk marshmallows? Love? Hate? Love/Hate but with certain exceptions? Special Peep tricks?
Metatalktail Hour: Fool around and/or find out
Happy April 1, friends. In honor of the day, maybe you'd like to share some of the best and worst pranks (April Fool's or otherwise) that you have experienced or perpetrated, and while we're at it, we can also keep track of what shenanigans people are finding online or out in the world today.
Dance like no one is watching... it's NCAA Tournament Time
As we do around these parts, it's time to make some brackets based on dubious distinctions and talk about a little basketball.