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https://www.metafilter.com/211102/And-this-to-hold-your-beans-in-a-different-way

Youtube Boardgame Satire Channel The Dragon's Tomb (previously) received an invitation from Probable Scam Kickstarter Company Starmork to receive a free table to review. A month after the kickstarter finished, the (possibly The Only) table arrived. Here is his promised review, and likely his magnum opus.

https://www.metafilter.com/211102/And-this-to-hold-your-beans-in-a-different-way

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https://phys.org/news/2025-11-coastal-planners-explore-seas.html

Water levels are creeping upward on shorelines across the world, and decision-making systems are not keeping up. One barrier to including sea level rise projections in adaptation plans is limited information on the full range of possible outcomes.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-coastal-planners-explore-seas.html

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“Bustle” by Charles James, right, is displayed at the announcement, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, about the next spring fashion exhibit “Costume Art,” which is set to launch at the Met Gala in 2026.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a staple in New York and the fourth-largest art museum in the world, announced the theme of the 2026 Met Gala yesterday.

‘Costume Art,’ announced Monday as the next big show at the museum’s Costume Institute — launched by the starry Met Gala in 2026 — aims to make that connection more literal than ever, pairing garments with objects from across the museum to show how fashion has long been intertwined with different art forms.

“Costume Art” also marks the inauguration of the brand new 12,000-square-foot galleries that have been built adjacent to the Met’s Great Hall. This sparked curator-in-charge Andrew Bolton to pair paintings, sculptures, and other objets d’art with garments from the Costume Institute to highlight the “centrality of the dressed body” across disparate parts of the collections. You can learn more about some of juxtapositions in this Vogue article.

The article also mentions that Bolton is featuring bodies not often highlighted by the modern fashion industry, including aging and fat bodies. I’m hoping he is brave enough to include disabled bodies, as well. The mannequins are being built to challenge normative conventions and introduce more diversity.

And, of course, what is a Costume Institute exhibition without the red carpet of the Met Gala? While the true delight will be visiting the exhibition in person, I also can’t wait to see the glitz and glam of the celebrities attending the gala night.

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Current Location: New England, USA

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Posted by AlSweigart

https://www.metafilter.com/211101/Hope-is-anti-police-allegedly

The legendary hacker conference Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) says that it has been "banned" from St. John's University, the venue where it has held the last several HOPE conferences, because someone told the university the conference had an "anti-police agenda." HOPE was held at St. John's University in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and was going to be held there in 2026, as well. The conference has been running at various venues over the last 31 years, and has become well-known as one of the better hacking and security research conferences in the world. Tuesday, the conference told members of its mailing list that it had "received some disturbing news," and that "we have been told that 'materials and messaging' at our most recent conference 'were not in alignment with the mission, values, and reputation of St. John's University' and that we would no longer be able to host our events there."

https://www.metafilter.com/211101/Hope-is-anti-police-allegedly

rosa_heartlily

This time last year I was struggling with weather and words.

Today, I was due to meet favourite colleague but I got an out of office from them. Hoping they're OK... I moved the 'meeting' to next week.

I met up with another colleague at dinner time for a little chat. They've got a new job within the university but it seems the leaving of their current post has been poorly handled.

LM and I met the Sponsor of their project to take them through the new board pack. They were very happy when it had all been explained, even the lack of formal minutes wasn't a problem. The most important thing for them is keeping track of decisions, which we've shown we can do.

Later, LM had their project update meeting and described the PM of a third party in a way that made us all think of them! Talk about lack of self-reflection.

It was pouring with rain when I was coming home, so I was very grateful when our son offered to get tea.

And now I'm watching an episode of Accused. Thought I didn't know the lead actor, but he's one of the kids who played Damien - of course! McKenzie Crook is playing a bastard of a corporal - he's had some career.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: bedroom

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https://phys.org/news/2025-11-nature-solution-softens-impacts-hard.html

Seawalls and other unyielding structures meant to keep rising waters at bay and to protect against storm surges can cause other significant harm to the coast, often by disrupting natural processes and accelerating erosion. The gap between protection and preservation might be bridged with a softer, nature-inspired solution, according to an international research team.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-nature-solution-softens-impacts-hard.html

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https://phys.org/news/2025-11-kansas-dashboard.html

For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't as big a problem in his hometown as in central and eastern Kansas, it was "always memorable" when heavy rain caused local streams to swell from their banks into surrounding river valleys.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-kansas-dashboard.html

flemmings

My blood draw luck deserts me once again. Early to bed last night was awake in good time this morning, so did exercises and stretches for what help they could give me and trundled, unmedicated, down the street at shortly after ten. To find the waiting room not merely full but with a line down the hallway and posted wait times of over an hour. Which, even masked, am not willing to do because the waiting room was full of unmasked coughers. Better luck tomorrow. Came home, breakfasted, and doped me up on lovely ibuprofen and paracetamol and in consequence am feeling, if not no pain, at least less than yesterday.

Also got daybook for next year from Midoco, though the clerk had to point out that the daybooks were by the entrance, not round the corner with the notebooks where they usually are. So that's ticked off the list at least.

Also went to Paupers for their lunchtime hamburger, which is less meat than the dinner version and hence more digestible. Paupers is not playing Christmas music yet, bless them, and is playing 60s and 70s rock. Could do without Sinatra but otherwise just a bunch of golden oldies.

Continue to read Miles Burton on phone and tablet, quite entertaining. Except certain of the cover art is unmitigated spoilers and what *were* the editors thinking, passing a cover that actually shows the murderer and the murder method?

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Posted by Ayala Sorotsky

https://cheezburger.com/43262725/22-feline-funnies-featuring-our-fluffy-overlords-for-cat-pawrents-who-know-their-place

"Know your place, hooman", is probably what our cats are thinking when they watch us from above their cat tree, observing their kingdom (the house) and their peasants (us). And they'd be right to think this way. All cat pawrents already know - we give our lives to our cats, and happily so. It's not just a thing that happens randomly. No. We want this - we're just waiting for the moment the Cat Distribution System will take the decision "You, mere human, it's your turn to be ruled by a feline overlord. Here's one. Take care of it. Or else."

And we love every second of it. We love that cats rule us with an iron paw. It's not masochism, it's true love. A stranger would never understand. But us, cat people, we understand each other - yes, we might be the peasants in our cats' realms, but we love that our cats love us. We love every cuddle, every soft meow, every loud purr. We just wait for the moment our cats decide to show us their love - and when it comes? It's glorious.

And we can't really have enough cats in our lives. So why not celebrate our fluffy kings and queens with some feline funnies? It's the best that we can do, all day, every day.

https://cheezburger.com/43262725/22-feline-funnies-featuring-our-fluffy-overlords-for-cat-pawrents-who-know-their-place

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https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pfas-wax-chemicals-slopes.html

PFAS—short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—are currently the subject of numerous discussions and legislative proposals. Many of these so-called "forever chemicals" are harmful to human health and the environment. Since they can potentially remain in the environment for centuries and accumulate in humans and animals, it is important to restrict their use as much as possible. This is a challenge, as PFAS are widely used in numerous everyday objects and industrial processes.

https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pfas-wax-chemicals-slopes.html

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offcntr

Having pretty much caught up with everything, ceramics-wise, I spent some time Sunday and Monday helping Denise prepare her stock for Holiday Market. These are pocket sketchbooks, 4.5 x 6", eighty pages of mixed media drawing paper. I cut out pages and picked colors, glued up covers. Denise stitched the page blocks and assembled page and covers. Ended up looking pretty darn good.

queen_ypolita

After five months and eight appointments, the tooth that started troubling me in June now has its permanent crown. The fitting it today was a bit trickier than I or the dentist had imagined, but we got there in the end. We have a health-related cashback benefit at work so I finally put the paperwork together and submitted a claim. Usually, it's just a question of attaching your receipt and that's it, but with so many appointments and payments made in stages, I ended up putting together an entire document in addition to a scan of the treatment plan and scans of the receipts. Not sure if it works out, and even when it does, it's not going to be anywhere near the entire cost of treatment, with my cover being just at the basic level where I don't pay anything extra.

I think I'm due a normal check-up soon, but perhaps that will be pushed forward with the number of times I've been at the dentist over the past months.

ysabetwordsmith

Today is cloudy and cool. It rained most of last night and into this morning. :D

I fed the birds. I've seen a few sparrows and house finches.

I put out water for the birds.

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Current Mood: busy

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Power Man - Timeless is about a future version of Luke Cage who is also Iron Fist. And also the Sentry. And also the Hulk.

You may find the following pages overwrought and hard to follow. I assure you the missing pages do nothing to alleviate that.

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Posted by Blake Seidel

https://cheezburger.com/43273221/lazy-senior-cat-goes-feral-whenever-his-hooman-enters-the-basement-turns-out-he-was-alerting-him-to

Cats are much smarter than we give them credit for, and no, our cat didn't pay us to write that. They are pawsitively primed to their surroundings, even more so than we are. The story below is a purrfect example of that! One pawrent built a bar in his basement and started hanging out down there more, inviting friends and doing other hooman things down there. But, whenever he stayed down there, his normally lazy 13-year-old senior cat went absolutely feral. Bouncing off the walls, meowing, and digging at a certain spot despite his old age and arthritis. His hooman thought he was just being a menace, so he ignored him.

Well, when one purrticular friend was over and noticed his cat's purrfectly strange behavior, he suggested the hooman get a radon detector to check, just in case. He did, and it turns out that the spot where the cat was "digging' was releasing six times the healthy amount of radon into his home. He got it promptly taken care of, and now the senior cat can finally relax downstairs.

We joke a lot here at I Can Has Cheezburger about orange cats having one collective brain cell together, but in this case, we think the hooman was missing a few by not listening to his cat's purrfect pleas to fix something that was clearly wrong. Now go give that cat a nice slab of expensive tuna, he certainly earned it!

https://cheezburger.com/43273221/lazy-senior-cat-goes-feral-whenever-his-hooman-enters-the-basement-turns-out-he-was-alerting-him-to

ysabetwordsmith

rebeccmeister has a good discussion about books and reading.

Current Mood: busy

kareina

Work from home days are good for the cats. Kali convinced me to brush her three times before 07:30, which is a lot of fur that won't become hairballs.

At work today I finally finished working my way through the list sites from the Radiocarbon data, finding coordinates for most of them, and sent it off to the researcher to figure out if I got it right. It has taken many weeks to work through the list, so it feels good to get this done.

Baked more of the yummy butter almond cookies with raspberry-chilli jam.

We finally made time to get back to work on the attic bedroom. First time in three weeks! We put up more of the horizontal boards between the uprights, and started stapling tarpaper to them to form the outside of what will become insulated walls. It doesn't look like we can continue with it till next week, unless we have energy tomorrow after work (and it is a long day tomorrow, with my three hour Swedish class not starting till I have already put in a full day), since Thursday is fighter practice, and Friday we head to Sundsvall for the SCA event.

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metafilter_feed - "And this to hold your beans in a different way"
phys_environment_feed - A new way for coastal planners to explore the costs of rising seas
tuesdayritual - The Met Gala 2026 Theme Announced
metafilter_feed - Hope is anti-police, allegedly
rosa_heartlily - More weather
phys_environment_feed - Nature-inspired solution softens impacts of hard coastal structures
phys_environment_feed - Researchers launch new Kansas Flood Mapping Dashboard
flemmings - (no subject)
icanhascheezburger_feed - 22 Feline Funnies Featuring Our Fluffy Overlords for Cat Pawrents Who Know Their Place
phys_environment_feed - PFAS in ski wax: Forever chemicals hit the slopes
offcntr - This weekend!
offcntr - Hitting the books
queen_ypolita - Finished dental treatment
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
mastermahan in scans_daily - Power Man - Timeless #1
sweettartheart in 100words - Prompt: #469 - Rehearse
beck_liz in doctor_who_sonic - Tuesday, 18th November 2025
icanhascheezburger_feed - Lazy senior cat goes feral whenever his hooman enters the basement, turns out he was alerting him to
ysabetwordsmith - Books
kareina - A Wednesday at home

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"And this to hold your beans in a different way"

A new way for coastal planners to explore the costs of rising seas

The Met Gala 2026 Theme Announced

Hope is anti-police, allegedly

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Nature-inspired solution softens impacts of hard coastal structures

Researchers launch new Kansas Flood Mapping Dashboard

(no subject)

22 Feline Funnies Featuring Our Fluffy Overlords for Cat Pawrents Who Know Their Place

PFAS in ski wax: Forever chemicals hit the slopes

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Hitting the books

Finished dental treatment

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