https://www.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of MetaFilter Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:42 GMT Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:42 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Emily Medhurst knows almost everything about London's moquettes]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214235/UK-transit-nerds-are-next-level tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214235 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:14:42 GMT chavenet BBC Mastermind Moquette Niche TransportForLondon https://www.metafilter.com/214235/UK-transit-nerds-are-next-level/rss The dark legacy of Ontario's institutions for people with developmental disabilities.

slGlobeandMail Full disclosure: I work for a small team of OTs, psychologists, and psychiatrists who exclusively work with children and adolescents who have autism alongside developmental disabilities. The compassion and support they offer kids and their parents is humbling, so now my radar is twigged when an article in this field shows up in the media.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214234/there-was-remarkably-little-outrage-and-remarkably-little-questioning tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214234 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:55:29 GMT Kitteh developmentaldisabilities globeandmail humanrights institutionalabuse provincialpolitics https://www.metafilter.com/214234/there-was-remarkably-little-outrage-and-remarkably-little-questioning/rss LARB, 04/18/2026), "The Bittersweet Temporality of Love": "when Thomas Burnett Swann died of cancer at 47, fantasy was a new genre ... Only a decade before ... The Lord of the Rings had exploded to bestseller status ... The Ballantine Adult Fantasy series published 65 books between 1969 and 1974, giving the genre a canon ... Swann recast the rise of human civilization as a tragedy, marking the loss of an antediluvian world of sexual freedom, gender egalitarianism, and unabashed queerness ... He didn't always get it right ..." Swann's dissertation on silent film poet / film critic / actor H.D. (author of one "Perfect Queer Poem"). Swann's novels online. Guynes, who had a Le Guin re-read column, is reviewing the Ballantine series: Beagle 1, 2; Eddison 1, 2, 3, 4; Peake 1, 2, 3; Lindsay; Carter; Pratt; Dunsany (this one); Morris; and Cabell. Not to mention all of Swann.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214233/He-writes-his-own-golden-thing-his-own-way tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214233 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:40:49 GMT Wobbuffet ballantine classic classical classics criticism doolittle fantasy fiction film films guynes HD HildaDoolittle history leguin lgbtq lgbtqia literature novel novels poem poems poet poetry queer quiltbag SeanGuynes series sff stories story swann ThomasBurnettSwann UrsulaKLeGuin UrsulaLeGuin https://www.metafilter.com/214233/He-writes-his-own-golden-thing-his-own-way/rss Traditional owners from the Utopia region north of Alice Springs celebrate the recognition of their native title over an area encompassing more than 4000 square kilometres (988,421 Acres). To give a sense of scale, Los Angeles is 1302 square kilometres.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214232/Native-title-holders-celebrate-return-of-special-country-in-access-win tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214232 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:28:26 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries Alice AliceSprings Atnangker Mparntwe NativeTitle NativeTitleHolders TheAlice https://www.metafilter.com/214232/Native-title-holders-celebrate-return-of-special-country-in-access-win/rss Julia Métraux reports on the abuse deaf people face when captured by ICE: "The system is already draconian for all ICE detainees, and an extra layer of cruelty is added by also depriving communication access for deaf people," Alina Engelman, a deaf California State University, East Bay public health professor, told me. "Withholding communication access denies deaf people's humanity."

This problem isn't restricted to ICE detention, though: deaf people are denied their rights everywhere in American jails and prisons. If you're looking to help, Hands United is doing important work supporting deaf immigrants and their families with communication access and information, and Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf (HEARD) supports deaf/disabled incarcerated people with advocacy, information, and support.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214231/How-Trumps-Deportation-Machine-Deprives-Deaf-People-of-Their-Humanity tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214231 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:51 GMT Playdoughnails disability HumanRights ICE USPolitics https://www.metafilter.com/214231/How-Trumps-Deportation-Machine-Deprives-Deaf-People-of-Their-Humanity/rss Hey There. Mr. Jambo is the new track by "Barry Bergen" aka Kyle Gordon, previously beloved on MeFi for the spot-on Euro dance parody, Planet of the Bass. This time around, he's taking on Paul Simon's Graceland era, with fretless bass, backing choir, and a clueless Western traveler projecting deep spiritual epiphanies onto a local who is just asking him to stop yelling in English.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214230/I-knew-his-meaning-was-what-I-decided-I-had-heard tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214230 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:56:43 GMT DirtyOldTown BarryBergen HeyThereMrJambo KyleGordon music parody https://www.metafilter.com/214230/I-knew-his-meaning-was-what-I-decided-I-had-heard/rss Lucky Penny is a completed webcomic by Yuko Ota & Ananth Hirsh. Penny is a 23 year old disaster who may or may not be cursed. If you liked Scott Pilgrim you might like this one. ~200 pages of loveable awkward losers and mundane events imbued with dramatic significance.

Lucky Penny is also available in print, but it was originally published on Johnny Wander - Yuko & Ananth's pleasantly rambling autobiographical and experimental webcomic. Other fun (short) stories include: Girl with the skeleton hand (and sequel) Delilah and the basilisk Is this what you wanted (Collaboration between Ananth, Tessa Stone and Sarah Stone) Their current comic (ongoing since 2016) is Barbarous; about a magic school dropout and an anxious monster managing an apartment complex of weirdos.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214229/Lucky-underwear-and-trashy-romance-novels tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214229 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:37:37 GMT Lorc AnanthHirsh Barbarous comic comics JohnnyWander Luckypenny SarahStone TessaStone webcomic webcomics YukoOta https://www.metafilter.com/214229/Lucky-underwear-and-trashy-romance-novels/rss Now It. All. Makes. Sense. (SL TikTok) "This one is dedicated to all the late diagnosis neurodivergent ladies ..."

... but I think it applies equally well to men.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214228/Oh-Shit-Im-Autistic tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214228 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:51:32 GMT ZenMasterThis autism neurodivergent ohshitimautistic singing https://www.metafilter.com/214228/Oh-Shit-Im-Autistic/rss Camp Jened was created to give disabled individuals a bona fide summer camp experience. It ended up giving them a great deal more. Not a new film, but perhaps not seen as widely as it should. Every time you or anyone you care about benefit from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) you should think about this film and the amazing people in it.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214227/Crip-Camp-is-a-2020-documentary-about-social-change tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214227 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:49:10 GMT kinnakeet AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct CampJened Disability HumanRights SocialChange https://www.metafilter.com/214227/Crip-Camp-is-a-2020-documentary-about-social-change/rss This fundraising model is a parasite on the party, enriching outside consultants while steadily starving the host. Republicans succumbed to it first, watching their own grassroots donor base hollow out in real time. If Democrats don't change course, they are headed into the exact same donor death spiral.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214226/Looking-closely-at-the-donation-data-can-be-heartbreaking tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214226 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:17:48 GMT chavenet Democratics Distortion Extortion Fundraising PACs Republicans Spam Substack USPolitics https://www.metafilter.com/214226/Looking-closely-at-the-donation-data-can-be-heartbreaking/rss How to use 314 trillion digits of pi to estimate seven digits of pi]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214225/Metapi tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214225 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:40:49 GMT They sucked his brains out! carlo determinism mathematics monte montecarlo pi random randomness science https://www.metafilter.com/214225/Metapi/rss Darth Vader gives testimony in favor of Flock cameras at a San Diego public safety committee hearing.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214224/The-Emperor-is-a-fan-of-Flock tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214224 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:21:46 GMT ShooBoo darthvader flock sandiego starwars surveillance theempire https://www.metafilter.com/214224/The-Emperor-is-a-fan-of-Flock/rss Conservation efforts are showing some signs of success for a tiny, endemic Tasmanian fish. But its main threat is introduced trout, which is prized by anglers.]]> https://www.metafilter.com/214223/The-efforts-to-save-the-Tasmanian-fish-at-imminent-risk-of-extinction tag:metafilter.com,2026:site.214223 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:32:56 GMT chariot pulled by cassowaries SwanGalaxias SwanGalaxiasFish https://www.metafilter.com/214223/The-efforts-to-save-the-Tasmanian-fish-at-imminent-risk-of-extinction/rss