Comment and Link Roundup: August 28, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Interesting Fact Meme [five comments, one of which is new]

[cw: death] seven-year-old me is screaming and covering her ears [two comments]

[cw: food] The pumpkin-spice one

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) Social norms around blog archive-binging. [two comments]

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by asexualactivities) A post I wrote a while back about asexual fetishism becomes relevant again.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Automated transcription is untrustworthy. (Also, neat rock facts.)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by asexualactivities) "If you’re an ace who masturbates regularly, what happens if you don’t?"

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by 0ct0pus; h/t consumptive-sphinx) The burrowing octopus.

[cw: food] [Atlas Obscura; Wayback] (by Tal McThenia) An Arctic exploration team's supply cache accidentally becomes an experiment in long-term food preservation.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Randall Munroe) Randall Munroe holds a competition to write something using only book titles. Some of the entries are delightfully loophole-y.