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Here's a few recent MeFi posts you might have missed:
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Recent music posts have had a couple of greats hits (get it?!). First, box shared an interview with Neko Case and her recent memoir. Meanwhile, in Ask MetaFilter, Serene Empress Dork put out a request for quiet and pretty songs, and the recommendations are great. Wordshore created a couple of posts about the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Finally, Lemkin touches on The Peter Brötzmann Octet's classic album "Machine Gun", which is regarded as Europe's first jazz album.
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Considering that it’s cockatoos, it kinda make sense. But yeah, the rumors are true, everyone's favorite ornery birds do prefer dunking their noodles in blueberry yogurt.
FanFare roundup Feb19, 2025
[COMMUNITY] DirtyOldTown is back with another FanFare roundup!
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Feel good stories about cows! First up, a post about automated and voluntary milking of cows, shared by chariot pulled by cassowaries. Then BlueHorse joined in with a post about cows getting pedicures! Anyone else moootivated to share links about our bovine cousins?!
February 17, 2025 FREE THREAD!
[COMMUNITY] We may still in the midst of winter, but that won't stop this week's free thread!
This is not fine, please advice.
Over in AskMetafilter, an anonymous US worker for the federal government in DC is seeking advice how they and their co-workers can cope with all the recent upheavals.
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It's the weekend, and as Going To Maine's post notes, that means resting, relaxing and, ahem, chilling out While doing all that, please check out Wolfdog's post about the hardest working font in Manhattan!
Do you remember stacking cups in gym class? If so, come read the link that gottabefunky shared of how that came to be and meet the literal clown that got the craze started. Fastest to finish wins!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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! 🐶🐱
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