Forget theme parks. What if the trip is the train? This Ask MetaFilter thread is packed with suggestions for train-centric international travel, including one very convincing case for Italy! Hop on it!
https://ask.metafilter.com/388519/Trip-ideas-for-a-5-year-old-who-loves-trains
Forget theme parks. What if the trip is the train? This Ask MetaFilter thread is packed with suggestions for train-centric international travel, including one very convincing case for Italy! Hop on it!
https://ask.metafilter.com/388519/Trip-ideas-for-a-5-year-old-who-loves-trains
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New Year, new os! Support for Windows 10 is ending, Windows 11 is meh and then there's Teams (shivers).
Have you considered Linux Mint? Because a MeFite has written a series of posts about how to switch away from Windows and to Linux!
https://www.metafilter.com/211689/Throwing-Windows-out-the-window-part-3-now-what
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New Year, new os! Support for Windows 10 is ending, Windows 11 is meh and then there's Teams (shivers).
Have you considered Linux Mint? Because a MeFite has written a series of posts about how to switch away from Windows and to Linux!
https://www.metafilter.com/211689/Throwing-Windows-out-the-window-part-3-now-what
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Please take a break and go Boing, that is all!
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Please take a break and go Boing, that is all!
Hey, do you knit or otherwise make patterns? Then check out, Motif, a new pattern-making tool by MeFite Signy!
https://projects.metafilter.com/6439/Motif-create-patterns-see-them-repeat
Hey, do you knit or otherwise make patterns? Then check out, Motif, a new pattern-making tool by MeFite Signy!
https://projects.metafilter.com/6439/Motif-create-patterns-see-them-repeat
Jane Goodall has left us, but her work and more importantly, her inspiration goes on!
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/10/-The-Legacy-of-Jane-Goodall
#memory #inspiration #janegoodall #obituary #bestofmetafilter
Jane Goodall has left us, but her work and more importantly, her inspiration goes on!
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/10/-The-Legacy-of-Jane-Goodall
#memory #inspiration #janegoodall #obituary #bestofmetafilter
Want cookies to come out crispy? Then don’t bake them with your lasagna! Steam + aromatics = chewy garlic biscuits. A pro baker on MetaFilter explains why (and how cookies were literally the original oven test bakes).
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/09/-Cookies-vs-Casserole-Why-Your-Oven-Wont-Play-Nice
Want cookies to come out crispy? Then don’t bake them with your lasagna! Steam + aromatics = chewy garlic biscuits. A pro baker on MetaFilter explains why (and how cookies were literally the original oven test bakes).
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/09/-Cookies-vs-Casserole-Why-Your-Oven-Wont-Play-Nice
One of the best things about MetaFilter is that you never know who might show up in a thread. And when someone who really knows their stuff drops in, the whole conversation just gets better.
So check out this insights in social media & LLMs, Transocial roles and anthropology, and memories of the arly online service Quantum Link (back to the '80s)
#trans #anthropology #socialmeida#llm #quantumlink #bestofmetafilter
🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.
MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.
https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329
The weirdest and worst novelty songs ever created, seriously.
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/08/-The-Return-of-Late-Night-Weird-MTV
#mtv #music #videos #weird #strange #novelty #bestofmetafilter
The weirdest and worst novelty songs ever created, seriously.
https://bestof.metafilter.com/2025/08/-The-Return-of-Late-Night-Weird-MTV
#mtv #music #videos #weird #strange #novelty #bestofmetafilter
🗑️ Trash pickup: cheaper than therapy, more existential than you’d think.
MetaFilter gets practical and philosophical about picking up the debris of the world as a hobby.
https://www.metafilter.com/210017/This-was-easier-to-get-into-than-I-thought#8757329
Want to catch on LGBTQIA+ News, be it the good, bad, or decadently sweet? MeFi member mephron has got you covered!
https://www.metafilter.com/210019/The-LGBTQIA-News-Post-August-19-2025-Hi-Honey-Im-Home
#LGBTQIA #trans #usa #uk #transgender #gay #lesbian #bestofmetafilter
Want to catch on LGBTQIA+ News, be it the good, bad, or decadently sweet? MeFi member mephron has got you covered!
https://www.metafilter.com/210019/The-LGBTQIA-News-Post-August-19-2025-Hi-Honey-Im-Home
#LGBTQIA #trans #usa #uk #transgender #gay #lesbian #bestofmetafilter
One of the best things about MetaFilter is that you never know who might show up in a thread. And when someone who really knows their stuff drops in, the whole conversation just gets better.
So check out this insights in social media & LLMs, Transocial roles and anthropology, and memories of the arly online service Quantum Link (back to the '80s)
#trans #anthropology #socialmeida#llm #quantumlink #bestofmetafilter
