brin_bellway | Entries tagged with language

Also I got distracted while listening to "Shades of Grey" trying to hear the thorns, and it reminded me of another thing that happened a while back:

Rhythmbox: There's a drumming noise inside my head that starts when you're around
I swear that you could hear it, it makes such an almighty sound
There's a drumming noise inside my head that throws me to the ground--

Me: Wait, hang on. That sounded *different*. That "throws" right there, like it was distinctly throwing and not freezing. Try that again. *rewinds*

Rhythmbox: There's a drumming noise inside my head that starts when you're around
I swear that you could hear it, it makes such an almighty sound
There's a drumming noise inside my head that throws me to the ground--

Me: *rewinds*

Rhythmbox: --it makes such an almighty sound
There's a drumming noise inside my head that throws me to the ground--

Me: *rewinds*

Rhythmbox: --that froze-- --that froze-- --that froze--

Me: Huh. I bet it's because the rest of the verse is in present tense.

Comments on my own posts:

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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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Laugh rule:
[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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[cw: Pyrebound spoilers] [WordPress; Wayback] (OP by theredsheep) More Pyrebound reactionblogging.

[cw: death] [Gwern; Wayback] (OP by Gwern Branwen) An interesting, rotten, but recoverable link. (Huh, Disqus doesn't appear to survive the transition to Wayback. I'm surprised: I'd expected Gwern of all people to pick a more robust commenting system. In that case, I'll clarify that it's this link.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Advice on caring for long hair. [three comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) ""Foreign""-language product reviews.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) Nerd-culture literacy.

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Links:

[none this time]

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

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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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Links:

[none suitable for this section]

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

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[cw: nsfw text, gender dysphoria] The one about the distinction between wanting to fuck someone and wanting to be them

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[cw: amnesia, death] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

i-run-a-trash-blog) Canon-compliant backstory for a hypothetical Doctor Who spinoff.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

moonlit-tulip) The effects of being half-awake on dreams.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

fatpinocchio; in response to

jadagul) Browser-autocomplete wrangling.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Are we good at computers? Depends on your standard of comparison.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) A taste of the wonders of Firefox extensions.

[cw: poverty, (arguably) discourse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

feotakahari) On giving advice that some people desperately need and other people are thoroughly sick of.

[mild cw: embarrassment squick] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) With great archiving power comes great archiving responsibility. (Update: writing this comment inspired me to go researching web-scraper programs to see if anyone has one without the "must download each useless page and *then* delete it" problem, and it turns out our old friends ArchiveTeam do. I'm testing it out right now, and after the first couple hours of troubleshooting things seem to be going well.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) In which I offer a bunch of book recs.

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[none suitable for this section]

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[cw: what it says on the tin (no pictures)] Recipe: Chocolate Nut Torte

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[cw: venting] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

yvannairie) Understaffing bullshit.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) What to do when a public holiday falls on a Sunday.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

little-brisk) Various ways to back up a Tumblr.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Mathematical (and other) mnemonics.

[cw: amnesia, arguably unreality] (Note: the Tumblr reverse-post-order glitch continues.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

reasonsmysoniscrying; in response to

maryellencarter) Minor precognition, or so your brain insists.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Stratford-based news broadcasters won't tell you what Justin Bieber is famous *for*, but by God is he from Stratford.

(I've decided that tag rambles are a substantial enough contribution to be worth including.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

minatokun) "Accounting majors, who hurt you?"

(Note: I do not actually *endorse* the claim that people imposing [selection pressure for accounting talent] on my *ancestors* are harming *me* (though I can see why someone might argue it, and certainly it was harming *them*). Personally I've been rather enjoying having won accounting in the lottery of fascinations, *especially* because it is--by the standards of the general population--a fairly rare prize: people keep being appreciative of and impressed by my contributions, and it's nice to feel like a Valued Member of Society.)

((A little while ago I impressed *the Dean of Business* while chatting with her about US-expat-friendly investment strategies, which was quite the ego boost.))

[cw: heteronormativity, amnesia] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by

hebethen) Horrified screaming regarding the view of sexuality a character in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" espouses.

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

gdgdbaby) Secret Santa compliment meme! Here is my thread.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

bobacupcake; h/t

consumptive-sphinx) Art thieves vs Disney.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by Carl Muckenhoupt; h/t

prokopetz) I'm told that this game is not for newcomers to the genre, so perhaps I will not actually play it, but there is just something so satisfying about reciting the blurb:

Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds.

Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole delcot, let the drokes uncren them.

But you are the gostak. The gostak distims the doshes. And no glaud will vorl them from you.

(As for the experience of attempting to *understand* it, it reminds me rather of reading French. "[???] the card on your head and walk [???] [???] the table. If it doesn't fall, [lose?] $1000."

(When we salvaged our bilingual version of that game, the English and French decks had gotten all jumbled together, and rather than sift them out we just went "what the hell, it'll be educational" and played with a shuffled English/French deck.))

Laugh rule:
[cw: unsanitary, violence] [Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley)
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(I think I'm going to have to keep an eye on this guy.)

Had to postpone last week's backups because my laptop had enough on its plate, so here is a somewhat larger roundup.

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(Note: this post is subject to a formatting glitch. The last post is still last, but all *other* posts in the thread are in reversed order.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

icarian-arts) Today in "memes that came to people in visions": accidental tips on phone customisation.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

femmenietzsche) The social acceptability of the word "bitch".

[Dreamwidth; ~~Wayback crawling forbidden~~ OP apparently later turned crawlability on] (OP by

yvannairie) The complicatedness of musical taste. [three comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

yvannairie) Pokemon Go identity logistics.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

thisismycursed3rdblog; addressing

itsmaledict (Halloween alt of

itsbenedict)) Just how many twists can we put into enemies-to-friends-to-lovers?

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[FiveThirtyEight; Wayback] (by Ben Casselman; h/t Scott Alexander) As a 25-year-old part-time student in a certificate program at a school that prides itself on its *high* acceptance rate and who has never lived on-campus, I really feel this article.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

doctorbeth) Adorable stuffed-animal clothing.

[mild cw: war] [Tumblr; Wayback] (by

the-battle-lesbian; h/t

consumptive-sphinx) Shaun Keenan does some excellent art of dinosaurs in (relatively) modern contexts.

[BBC News; Wayback] (can't find a byline; h/t Matt Levine) The best roundabouts in the United Kingdom.

[cw: abuse] [The Outline; Wayback] (by Joanna Mang; h/t Scott Alexander) I remember Shakesville, though I was never a regular reader: it was too intense for even 2011!me to handle. (And I say this as someone who was once among the top 5 most prolific commenters on Ana Mardoll's Ramblings.) I disagree with Scott's assessment, though: to the extent that Shakesville strikes me as less terrifying than it did before, it is only because I have since met people whose goodwill is not conditional on staying in the good graces of Shakesville's ilk.

[Raph's Website; Wayback] (by Raph Koster) A postmortem of the MMO Star Wars: Galaxies. I never played it and am not sure I've even heard of it before, but the series is interesting nonetheless.

(although why one would deliberately create a world in which everything decays I do not know; decay is the worst part of the real world and I for one would rather not have it in my escapism, especially not in such a...well, *inescapable* manner)

Laugh rule:
[Sputnikmusic; Wayback] (by SowingSeason)

traits not necessarily suitable for a band that regularly references animals and shouts hey! an average of nine time per song.

(I finally got around to listening to this 2015 album recently. Very solid album, only a couple of duds. (Whereas with My Head Is an Animal I only liked about the first half.) My favourite was "We Sink", because I am predictable and also it is pretty.)

Bonus: a few selections from my recent bookmark-tidying.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

deird1) The Vegemite Effect. (A memory: "This food tastes of lies," I say, waving around a piece of food from the Chinese buffet when I'd been *told* we were going to a steakhouse.)

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

thatsnotwatyourmomsaid) Hello, you must have found my camera!

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Chris Witham) Welcoming new zombies to the collective.

[K.B. Owen Mysteries; Wayback] (by James Thurber) Viewing Macbeth through the lens of murder mysteries.

Laugh rule:
[Bandcamp; Wayback (while for *best* results you'll need the audio, Wayback *will* at least get you the lyrics)] (by Brooke Abbey) Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true...

Comments on my own posts:

An experiment

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) AO3-tag icons.

[cw: death] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) New term of the day: "bus test".

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Links:

[New York Times; Wayback] (by Amelia Nierenberg; h/t Matt Levine) Life (in this case, a tomato plant) finds a way.

[Youtube] Good Eats is back, and still great. (Note: this video kicked me out for geo-locking reasons *mid-watch*. I simply turned on a U.S. proxy and went right back, and was able to finish the episode. I look forward to the arrival of other episodes on video-distribution methods I have access to: my TV package† does not include Food Network.)

Laugh-rule entries:
[Youtube] (h/t recommended-videos sidebar on previous entry) Alton Brown sporks (so to speak) weird kitchen gadgets.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

Also, I cannot, for the life of me, understand what all those leather straps are supposed to be – and I suspect that no suggestion I make will be sufficiently ‘PG’ for this setting!

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†Rogers is so desperate for TV subscribers that they offered us a TV/Internet bundle for $20 *less* than we were already paying them for Internet alone, hoping that we'll get attached and keep it when the promotion wears off two years later. We do not plan to keep it post-promotion, but for −$20/month we'll take it.

Comments on my own posts:

Postscript to phone post

[cw: discourse, ableism, racism] The one about name pronunciation

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) History blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry is amazing, go read it.

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[The Verge; Wayback] (by Josh Dzieza; h/t Matt Levine) Nomads who travel the United States looking for clearance products to resell on Amazon Marketplace.

[The Recipes Project; Wayback] (by Jack B. Bouchard) The history of freeze-dried cod (aka "stockfish", for its resemblance to stocks of wood).

[cw: ableism]

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My discourse-o-meter pings this post as "moderate: post publicly on a non-viral medium". I think this is because the person immediately before me in the reblog chain is likely to respond well, but OP is probably hostile (and 28k notes is not *quite* enough to be confident that they've stopped paying attention).

[cw: discourse, ableism, arguably racism]

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[OP is NSFW and a bit discourse-y, but this comment thread is not] Horizons

The one about asynchronous communication and Australians

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[cw: discussion of anxiety] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

overlordtulip) Helplessness vs responsibility.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

aeiously; in response to

sigmaleph) Case-sensitive handwriting.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) Yay geology-blogging!

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) ""Disgusting"" sedimentary rocks. [two comments]

[cw: bugs (no pictures)] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

itsbenedict) Long sleeves/pants: like a weighted blanket, but all the time.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

senator-mon-mothma; in response to

maryellencarter) Circadian rhythms in an interplanetary setting.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) Fake followers for hire. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) Was about gaming serial-monogamy, has topic-drifted into gender and presentation. [three comments, one of which is new]

[cw: nsfw text] [Medium; Wayback] (OP by Ozy Brennan) Children's sexual development. (Apparently the way the Medium commenting system works is that every comment is its own post, visible from and linking back to the OP. I'm glad they recognise the importance of replies-via-reblog.)

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

wolffyluna) The "shitty first drafts" paradigm, and how it sometimes does more harm than good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

chapmangamo) A comic depicting various languages' equivalent idioms to "when pigs fly". For more, see this Wikipedia link. My favourite is "on St. Never's Day".

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

koryos) "[L]et me explain the digestive system of the vampire bat. I guarantee by the end you will be wondering how these creatures even exist."

[cw: nsfw text] [Daily Dot; Wayback] (by Ana Valens; h/t

soveryverytired) Today in sites that can't be trusted to let people like me talk about sex without cracking down on them: Patreon. (although given how Patreon is even more dependant than most sites on sucking up to payment processors, I'm kind of surprised it took this long)

Laugh rule:
[cw: murder] [Twitter; Wayback] (by

AlexBlechman; h/t

no_man_fathomed) The most dangerous game.

Comments on my own posts:

Not a comment exactly, but I found and edited in the context link I wanted for that post about dual-boot issues

[cw: illness, venting] The one about pollen allergies [two comments]

In which Brin learns to speak another dialect of Pokemon

[cw: abuse, self-harm] The one about catharsis

[cw: poverty] The one about Pokemon Go

Me, arguing with my new credit-card company about signup bonuses

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[cw: death, asphyxiation] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

exigencelost) What would breathing feel like if you didn't need air to live?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

gasmaskaesthetic) Paper vs electronic paycheques. [three comments]

[cw: Christian fundamentalism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) Not sure *how* this feeds into Their plots, but it can't be good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

etirabys) How to ensure camera privacy.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) Video-game serial monogamy. [two comments, one of which is new]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) "Throuple"? Really?

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

quoms; in response to

rustingbridges) The intricacies of rounded cash transactions. [three comments]

[mild cw: death, misgendering] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

transsexualite; in response to

serinemolecule) Customer honorifics.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

official-voice; in response to

sigmaleph) There are even better 2020-vision jokes yet to come.

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Two laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback doesn't seem to handle long Twitter threads well, though you can see some of it here] (by

dsquareddigest; h/t Matt Levine)

as well as the PE ratio, block trading and the team, Goldman Sachs invented Europe.

[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)

True, there is some history of huge exogenous discoveries of precious metals causing monetary disruption, but the important thing to realize is that that was back when precious metals were money. Now bringing back a gajillion tons of gold from outer space would not increase the money supply, because the money supply is not linked to gold. It would just decrease the price of gold. It would be super disruptive to gold miners, sure! The rest of us would be fine.

[...]

Now if they find an asteroid that is made out of Bitcoin, that will be economically significant.

I have been variously busy and sick, so here is a longer linkspam to catch up.

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[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

buckykingofmemes; response is to

sigmaleph) Zeugma; Tumblr silently fails to display certain formatting under even more circumstances than previously believed.

[cw: cannibalism, fantasy racism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

oligopsony) Thought of another thing to say about the ghoul worldbuilding.

[cw: poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

theopjones) In which I continue to have feels about Vimes Boot Theory.

[Wordpress; Wayback] (OP by Ozy Brennan; response is to Aapje) Canada can't make up its collective mind about which date format to use.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

ms-demeanor; response is to

rustingbridges) Apparently the business-laptop market became very weird about two years ago, which suggests I have about three to five years before the laptop market I interact with becomes very weird. We'll see. (Maybe the businesspeople on the front lines will take the brunt of it?)

(Also, apparently there are people who *don't* get their personal laptops from the used business-laptop market? There are laptops that are specifically *made* to be personal laptops? Like, I guess I was vaguely aware that this was a thing, but this post--though mostly about business computers--brings it home a little more.)

[cw: discussion of infohazards (but without saying what they are)] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

somnulencelogencia) When someone tells you you're better off not knowing something because it will scar you for life, they're usually right. (To help you make an informed decision about whether to read *this* post: OP specifies which story the infohazard they're talking about is found in (no link, but enough to easily google it), while I do not; I have read the story OP refers to, and the infohazard there canonically *cannot* break the fourth wall.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Podcasts and video-game grinding go great together. Podcasts and sufficiently-simple archiving tasks go fairly well together too.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) Various responses to the responses to some ask memes I sent; the longest bit is about the relationship between temperature and type of clothing worn (and how this relationship seems to often be a lot weaker in other people than it is in me).

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

prosopanonymous; response is to

rustingbridges) The evolutionary origins of prosopagnosia. Addendum here.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) In which I help track down a link to a translation/joke-explainer. (Some pretty good fic recs in here too.)

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[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Fetal nurse sharks swim around within their mother's wombs (yes, there are multiple wombs), and have even been known to poke their heads out.

[Financial Times; Wayback] (by David Smith; h/t Matt Levine) The life of a professional yacht deliverer.

[cw: amnesia] [TextFiles; Wayback] (by Jason Scott) Happy 10th birthday to the Archive Team! (Note: this is the 10-year-old post proposing its creation.)

[Wordpress; Wayback] (by Martin Gregory) Professional trash-picker comes across a collection of photographs from the mid 19th to early 20th centuries, showcases them on his blog. Some neat glimpses into the past here.

Comments on my own posts:

The one about how weirdly normal Christmas Day feels

[cw: amnesia, nsfw text] The one about Jonathan Haidt's research and hypnotic compulsions to lie

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

kallu) The lasting impact of seemingly-inconsequential moments on a child's mind.

[cw: cannibalism, fantasy racism] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

oligopsony) Ghoul worldbuilding.

[cw: illness] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

selentelechia) Dealing with the effects of airplane pressurisation issues on the ears. (also, Greyhounds) [two comments]

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Links:

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) This species of spider produces milk.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

potofsoup; h/t

sophus) A Dreamwidth guide for Tumblrites. I think I might adopt the "stickied post for use as a askbox/[ping delivery station]" method, and paid accounts are more useful than I thought. (Maybe next year: it's too soon for me to be willing to drop money on this.)

( [cw: poverty] )

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

etirabys) Conjoined tortoise twins, Pete and Repete.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

sophus) It's almost Public Domain Day!

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( footnote for the poverty bit )

I keep catching myself trying to use "oversee" to mean the visual equivalent of "overhear", before remembering that that is not what "oversee" means.

Meanwhile, "overlook" means something completely different from "oversee", and is *also* not analogous to "overhear".

English is a bullshit language, but then AFAIK so is every other language except *maybe* Lojban.

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