Brinens and Things

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) In which we are all uncomfortable with the word "simp", though not all for the same initial reasons.

[cw: food, poison, medical stuff] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by mindstalk; partly in response to marycatelli) On drug-grapefruit interactions. [three comments]

[mild cw: war, apocalypse] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by nostalgebraist) Very belated Almost Nowhere reactionblogging.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by invertedporcupine) What are the boundaries of "several"? Also, what are the boundaries of "the other day"?

[WordPress part 1 (Tumblr part 1); WordPress part 2 (Tumblr part 2)] (OP by voxette-vk; in response to rustingbridges) The etymology of the name "Ontario" makes it an especially bad choice to be stolen by a town in the California desert. [two or three comments, depending on how you count]

[cw: homophobia, discourse, amnesia, (arguably) politics] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by feotakahari; partly in response to wingedcatgirl) Can we *please* not double-down on that rotten-to-the-core "born this way" argument? Especially not in this Minitrue way? [two comments]

[cw: violence, amnesia] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by Benedict_SC) Even more belated The Bleeding Heart of the Oborozuka Vampire theorising, now that I speak Umineko and therefore have *some* idea of what is going on.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by dagny-hashtaggart) Jules Verne and teaboos. [two comments]

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[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley)

But for me, it was the classic multiplayer combat experience: radio silence on my side (except the occasional amiable Frenchman, mumbling in short bursts from the heart of a collapsing crisp factory), and a pitiless raptor squad of born killers on the other side, functioning with the lethal efficiency of a hive mind.

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Ask me about my special interests [six comments, two of which are new]

Blog formatting skills [three comments, two of which are new]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) How to keep Firefox browsing history indefinitely.

[WordPress; Wayback] (OP by theredsheep) WordPress posts are harder to take back than you might think.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by baption0 of Reddit) How many "chuggas" are you supposed to say before "choo choo"?

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Automated receipt transcription.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) Problems with reCAPTCHA. [four comments, two of which are new]

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[CNET; Wayback] (by Jackson Ryan; h/t ilzo-misc) Living radiation-shielding.

[cw: violence, arson, death] [Bloomberg; Wayback] (by Jeff Maysh; h/t Matt Levine) The story of a Pepsi bottle-cap contest gone horribly wrong.



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I know some people, some governments--fewer than there used to be, but still--worry about dual citizens with split loyalties. But honestly, being a dual citizen makes it so much *easier* to be patriotic about where I live!

Being coerced into having an emotion about something squashes my capacity to have any genuine emotions about the thing, including the target emotion. Even if I'd have *genuinely* cared about a cause if given a choice (who can say?), I can't feel it for a cause I've been *forced* to care about: all I can manage is a thin shell of emotion over an underlying resentment.

But when it comes to the cause of Canada, I have a choice! I have exit rights! Even now, the US/Canada border is *restricted* but it's not *closed*: if I showed up at a passage from here to the United States, flashed a U.S. passport, and said "I'm a U.S. citizen and I want to take up residence here", I'm pretty sure that's one of the things they still let you in for.

It's true that I didn't get to choose whether to come here *in the first place*: my parents moved and took their kids along with them. But when I turned eighteen I was granted the right to undo what they did, and I haven't done it. Having a choice makes my choice to stay here meaningful.

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(This post inspired by reading sophia_sol's review of Open House, and feeling a dissonant surprise at them running "the importance of community and heritage" together into one thing. To me "community" has positive connotations and "heritage" has negative connotations, because communities are consensual (they have exit rights) and heritages are non-consensual (they don't).)

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[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by maryellencarter) Ebook recs.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) Circumventing phone-number-demanding online accounts by using VoIP numbers.

[mild cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by xenosagaepisodeone, though my post is more *inspired* by hers than actually responding to her) Tech-literacy and (supposed) digital natives.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by nudityandnerdery) Fuck cloud dependence; also, tips on harm-reduction DIY smart TVs.

[cw: poison] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by outofcontextdnd) A D&D item that on first glance looks useless, on second glance looks helpful, and on third glance looks dangerous.

[cw: food, dieting] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by rustingbridges) Optimising your diet for nutrients you wouldn't otherwise get enough of. [four comments]

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[cw: hacking] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by feotakahari) A rather meta scamming attempt.



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I was too tired to do this last week, so here is a longer three-week post.


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Another mind-blowing these-songs-are-by-the-same-person fact:

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(This is from March 4th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by archosaur-automaton) The adorable cover of this textbook is harder to appreciate when you've actually taken the course it's used for.

[mild cw: food, apocalypse] (This is from April 8th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by 1rakus) A quiz with weird question weightings, and a digression on emergency power generation.

[arguably cw: aging] (This is from April 24th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundup.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by thejogging) The many meanings of a half-broken key.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) A short puzzle game about meeting password construction requirements.

[cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by staff) Tumblr is ramping up its censorship, under the guise of "keeping hate speech in check".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Fun with Project Gutenberg.

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by rustingbridges) Preference ranking of starches.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Space-efficient email apps.

[cw: nsfw text, (mild) discourse] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by tototavros; also in response to shieldfoss and eightyonekilograms) Today in people getting separated by a common language (and not always geographically): how to distinguish between different types of plug. [three comments]

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by lavenderfables) I like Rincewind *because* of his cowardice, not in spite of it.

[cw: Pyrebound spoilers] [WordPress part 1; WordPress part 2; WordPress part 3; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2; Wayback part 3] (OP by theredsheep) Pyrebound reactionblogging. (It's amazing! If you're okay with stories getting pretty dark sometimes, go read it!) [four comments]

(I noticed while archiving those that each section had exactly one previous crawl, manually requested, starting in July 2019 but continuing for the post written afterward. It's good to see that someone has taken the story under their wing.)

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[cw: poverty] Even industrialised, winter is a lean season [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The relative difficulties of various imaginary senses.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sigmaleph) The appeal of lottery tickets.

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[Mastodon; Wayback (on the Wayback version, you must open the image in a new tab to get it to display properly)] (by DialMforMara; h/t cryptovexillologist) Menorah alignment chart.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by sidelinesofcode, but read the whole thread) Elemental-pod memes.

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[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

I say that with no animus towards Star Trek – I too love roughly 50% of the original series, exactly five seasons of TNG, DS9 and four or five Voyager episodes, like everyone else.

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