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What would your walk-up/intro music be? What should be playing as Team MetaFilter takes the court? Here are the 1997 Chicago Bulls in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, a classic of the genre. How about a newer classic? Timmy Trumpet plays a live intro for Mets' relief pitcher Edwin Diaz. Get hype, MeFites: it's your weekly #freethread.

Julia Serrano compiles over two decades of academic research on gender affirming care for trans youth and summarizes it into a brief, compelling fifteen minute essay with pages and pages of sources. For those who don't know her, Julia Serrano is a transgender woman, the author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and activist for LGBTQ causes.

Ocean fish and seaweed to be farmed hundreds of kilometres inland using salt water from deep underground. An Adelaide-based aquaculture company hopes to use saline groundwater to grow the products at a landlocked site in South Australia's Riverland.

A child isn't a luxury, but in 2024, the ability to provide that care, without significant material worry, can feel like one. Should we feel good about that? obv the rising cost of child care is not native to Canada but we do have a better mat leave (generally) for moms

A survey of all the cuisines in China, probably undercounted. Chinese Cooking Demystified attempts to catalog every single regional cuisine in China, complete with explanations, maps, and of course, the food.

Pipedreams.org has aired 1-2 hours of pipe organ music a week for since 1982. And it's all online for anyone to listen to. (Note: The latest episode is always a one-minute preview. But all of the other episodes make the full, hours-long audio available.)This is the web site of Minnesota Public Radio's Pipedreams show. Some personal faves so far: Igniting the Flame A Big...

The Continue and Persist Letter. A official-looking legal letter that encourages and uplifts people, one that tells people to keep doing what they're doing! Surprise someone you appreciate by sending them a Continue and Persist Letter.

"Many of the figure compositions look like clusters or bundles of flesh, encompassing a feeling of tightness, bonding, holding. I feel the need to keep the bodies close together. I think that's the protection instinct." [NSFW]Artist's website. [NSFW]

President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden Posting as relief valve so the miscellaneous link post doesn't become Yet Another US Political Post.

Linguists argue that style is almost impossible to hide because many of the choices we make are unconscious. Someone may decide to spell a word wrong, but forget to modify less noticeable details, such as their use of punctuation. "People say a lot about themselves when they're trying to hide their writing," said Roten. "For us it's just more information." from Can a Comma...

A short essay by Daniel Lavery (previously (previouslier)), written during a COVID lockdown, about a monk's discipline over his own self, a movie about an abusive imposter's discipline over a family, and Daniel's discipline over his memories of his father.This fpp is inspired by a comment in the free thread And maybe no one should have unrestrained power over anything but themself. posted by...

A new invention could wipe away nearly one third of the fatbergs in our sewers. A group of engineers have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help drastically reduce the presence of fatbergs — congealed masses of oils, grease and sanitary items – that block the sewer system.

For 50 years, Exponent II has made the LDS Church squirm. It has no plans to stop. (High Country News, archive)

Prolific hacker arrested after threatening woman online. The guy allegedly behind the massive Ticketmaster and AT&T data breaches this year was unmasked after picking a fight with Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at a cybersecurity firm.He repeatedly threatened her and her company on Telegram, which were not even working on the Snowflake hack at the time. "Why would he target a company that...

If someone asked you to define the "Star Wars" aesthetic, how would you respond? The movies, live-action shows, and animated series all possess a specific look and feel, but can you boil it down to a sentence or two? Perhaps you could say it's a mixture of junk and sleek, but that's too general. There's something essential missing. And that essential element may be...

Check out the top 25 images up for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award. Judges have already awarded the winners of a bunch of different categories in the prestigious competition. But now it's the public's turn to have a say.

Many folks have wondered why the devastation of Hurricane Helene was so bad in Western North Carolina, after the hurricane had already moved 500 miles over land. A couple of good, science-filled explanations: Why did Swannanoa become Helene's 'ground zero'? Deadly combination of topography, development and a 'tidal wave' of water and The Struggle To Restore Drinking Water After Hurricane Helene

A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer is an essay [archive link] by Oscar Schwartz about Kevin Killian, poet, fiction writer, and incredibly prolific Amazon reviewer. A selection of his reviews has been published as a book. Amazon has an extensive sample. His Amazon user profile has only a small selection of reviews, but here's a handful if you want to see...

Shooting enemies in a virtual Ukrainian landscape may seem like a surprising way for soldiers to relax, but "I always clearly understand where the game is and where it is not," said Ihor.

As the seasons turn and winter once again dusts Scandinavia with her snowy kiss, from the security of its bunker comes the shambling, tufty beast that is the Gävlebocken (Live Feed). Firm favourite of arsonists and jackdaws alike, will the Goat make it through to New Year, or will it be be set ablaze, pecked apart, or subject to even more esoteric destruction?Quite possibly...

You have a filter with many layers: you need areas which fulfill a stringent set of conditions for such an educational newsletter, and you need a very unusual sort of individual, someone who is expert in the area and has preferably gotten their hands dirty, who is good enough to work professionally in it, but who also is capable of explaining it well, at...

Footprints suggest two types of ancient human relatives walked side by side 1.5 million years ago. Newly discovered fossil footprints indicate two different ancient human relatives walked upright around a muddy lake in Kenya.