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Brainwane continues their excellent streak of sharing great stories with a link to J.R. Dawson's "six People To Revise You". It's a moving tale about searching for and finding your identity in world that gives conflicting signals, and how one focuses on the communications that matter.

jacquilynne posted Homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first. (Also bros, boxers, belts, braces, and suspenders. You'll understand once you get there.)

sun Ra, space Is the Place (1974) via IMDB

Lempkin posted sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, one-hour documentary shot over two years, recording the late musician's celebrated and unique fusion of music, mysticism, cosmic mystery, poetry, and mythology. (Plus smashing headgear!)

"Wildfire ash is toxic, and the ash of an urban conflagration more so. Especially when most destroyed buildings were pre-1960 and contained unknown amounts of asbestos and lead ..." backwoods has advice and links for evacuees returning to residences affected by smoke and ash

society to Advocate for the Return of Intermissions in Movies: For your delectation, a loving roundup of what's new, what's cool, what's the haps in FanFare this week! Thank you, DirtyOldTown!

What sort of noises do you make? It's your weekly Free Thread!

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sheep farmer here, raising pedigree shetlands for fleece quality ... Rhedyn comments in the post on how synthetic textiles made from plastic took over the fashion industry. Wow, there is so much fascinating info in this thread! If you have an interest in fashion, textiles, environment, design, climate, farming ... take a look. Plus Nibbly Fang with more info and some great book recs at the end.

Pineapple? 🍍 Pineapple. music for skeletons seeks suggestions for the whole pineapple, and gets some great ideas. Grill / roast caramelization sounds delicious! [Update: Also, Pineapple.]

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There was vitabellosi's first cousin 3X removed

... It’s remarkable how many woodchucks he killed. Was he eating them? vitabellosi has commented on a rather wonderful artifact — a 19th century diary belonging to their family and the stories just touched on here are pretty amazing! Posted on clavdivs' FPP, Kicking it with Napoleon, about Youtube channel "Life in the 1800s."

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From ftrtts, 12 Word searches. A book of 12 small puzzles that get trickier as you progress. For 1 or more solvers: as foxtongue describes in the comments, "puzzles in puzzles in puzzles." Just something cool that we didn't manage to point out amid the holiday bustle (and thread archived here now, sorry!), but Mefi puzzle lovers should take note of the seductive Itch.io tags: "Difficult," "secrets," "Text based," "Trivia," "Word game," "word-search." Maybe just the thing for a little decompression during these puzzling times.

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Mumimor has an excellent, super helpful, comment explaining the Greenland situation from close up, if you are bemused at all by the perplexing political tempest swirling around the world's largest island and its tiny population.

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As the shore of 2024 fade away and we move forward (whether we want to or not), community member summerteeth posted a thought provoking question in AskMetaFilter: "What gives you hope for the future, in 2025?"

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Community member Kitteh wants to share the awesome sound of the Toronto band The Beaches, so pull up a speaker and get ready to dance!