Today in two-birds-one-stone PPE

(as compared to last week in two-birds-one-stone PPE)


The pocket umbrella I bought to protect my respirator filters during unexpected rainstorms turns out to also make a pretty good parasol.

Comment and Link Roundup: August 9, 2021

Comments on my own posts:

[arguably cw: poison] The one about gardening and whether high-effort food tastes better [four Tumblr-based comments (not all visible in the same reblog chain), one of which is new]

[arguably cw: amnesia] Part 2 of the series about wget problems [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: poison] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by andmaybegayer) The distinction between communing with nature and learning about it.

[Reddit; Wayback] (OP by u/the_archiviest/) Alternatives to wget (and the flaws in wget that cause us to need alternatives).

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Non-shady ways to read Money Stuff without spending anything.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) The pros and cons of various methods of funding websites.

[cw: aging, (fairly mild) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by 3liza) A piece of discourse from a very different kind of life.

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Links:

[iFixit; Wayback] (by Kyle Wiens) iPhones are allergic to helium.

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [WordPress; Wayback] (by Jukebox) I feel like those of y'all with an anthropological interest in kink might like this. (Some of y'all with a non-anthropological interest in kink might like it too.)

[Rebuilding Civilization; Wayback] (probably by Ron Sanders, but not entirely clear) Evaporative refrigeration.

[Audubon; Wayback] (by Rashmi Shivni; h/t rustingbridges) Birdsong syntax.



There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.

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