Comment and Link Roundup: September 29, 2020

[brin_bellway]

(We've more or less returned to an Errand Day system, so I deliberately postponed this roundup so that Backup Day and Errand Day would be offset rather than piled onto the same day.)


Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, (mild) violence] I personally am missing the part of sexuality that would make me sexually attracted to motorcycles

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) Did you know ruby-tipped styli are a thing?

[mild cw: apocalypse] [Reddit; Wayback] (OP by TheTwelveYearOld) Well, I finally broke down and made a Reddit account. Reddit, while being useful to *read* in some cases, tends to be a bit...harsh, for me to want to participate in. But I found I couldn't just leave the poor OP, not when I *knew* the answer to their question and knew there was a good chance that nobody else would give them a straight answer. (Reddit, as we've seen before, is a *terrible* place to ask for advice on apocalypse insurance. Even r/collapse seems to be generally fatalistic about it.)

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by prokopetz; in response to moonlit-tulip) Utility-belt tips.

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Links:

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley) How fast can you die in Crusader Kings 3?

After that, just in case anyone in the church still likes him, he converts to the Lollard heresy, because its name contains the word “lol”.

[mild cw: stalking, death] [mango.pdf.zone; Wayback] (by Alex Hope) Airline boarding passes are much like keys, in that it is much more dangerous than you might think to post pictures of them on Instagram.

“You could drop me in the bush and I’d feel perfectly confident navigating my way out, looking at the sun and direction of rivers and figuring out where to go, but this! Hah!”

This was possibly the most pure and powerful Australian energy a human can possess, and explains how we elected our strongest as our leader. The raw energy did in fact travel through the phone speaker and directly into my brain, killing me instantly.

(Alex Hope's other blog posts are hilarious too, and I recommend all of them.)



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


Comments on my own posts:

The latest in 2020 Gothic

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) American vs Canadian flu-shot availability. [two comments]

[arguably cw: abuse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by lydamorehouse) Service workers who are expected to pretend not to care about whether or not customers endanger them, but who can't always manage it.

[WordPress; Wayback] (OP by Ozy Brennan) Chronic-illness treatments that seem obvious in hindsight. [two comments, counting the postscript]

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by togglesbloggle) A more optimistic update to the togglesbloggle post I linked last roundup.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by siderea) I know I've talked about similar things before, but it's still important: *infection is not a binary state*. Dose matters.