Brinens and Things

I haven't had much energy to spare lately, but I eventually managed enough to put this together.

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History-wikiwalk blogging, part 2

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by mortuarybees) Being your own boss often isn't freeing.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by unpretty; partly in response to bending-sickle) Water softeners: highly recommended. (If you are in a relevant area.) [one or two comments, depending on how you count]

[cw: depression, anxiety, (mild) food, (mild) illness] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by fairycosmos) Grocery-store mood whiplash, now with more price-matching.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by rustingbridges) I've finally found a moisturiser good enough to keep up with food-service work that *doesn't* cost $40 a bottle! [four comments, one of which is new]

[cw: poverty] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by librarychair) It's tax season! Time to take that official net-income figure and check it against your local income-tested programs! (Update: looks like we're eligible for subsidies on electricity but not bus fare. I'm still gathering up everyone's signatures, but I expect we'll be able to send in the electricity application tonight.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Shift-work tradeoffs.

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[JetPens; Wayback] (h/t Dynomight) I had not seen any of the apparent dozens of people recommending these. I'm not sure I'd find them useful, but--

Conversely, the ink can reappear when temperatures reach below -10°C/14°F.

--I'm charmed by the idea of invisible-ink signage that appears in winter.

[CTV News; Wayback] (by Alexandra Pinto and Jeff Pickel) The famed Ezra Avenue party (an illegal street party "thrown"† by University of Waterloo students each year on St. Patrick's Day, known for attracting crowds of up to thirty thousand people) was *not* collectively cancelled for the third year running. Police attempted to discourage it from returning by putting up barriers on Ezra: students simply partied on adjacent Marshall Street instead, which seems worse for everybody involved (in that normally, if you're contemplating living on Ezra you at least have a chance at making an informed decision). I feel very sorry for the Marshall residents.

†via decentralised common knowledge rather than any explicit organisation, as I understand it

[arguably cw: apocalypse] [Medium; Wayback] (by Thomas Smith) How to build an off-grid solar system on a three-digit budget (home-office scale). (for comparison: two-digit off-grid solar system (phone scale), five-digit off-grid solar system (house scale))

[arguably cw: apocalypse] [Bloomberg; Wayback (Firefox reader mode will show the full article)] (by Debby Wu; h/t Matt Levine) Salvaging semiconductors from washing machines.

[cw: apocalypse, food] [Unprepared; Wayback] (by Josh Centers) Food security in a time of fertilizer shortages.

Comments on my own posts:

[strong cw: amnesia, unreality] All that will be left is the terror of dying [two comments, not counting the postscripts]

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[fairly mild cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by scotchtapeofficial; in response to maryellencarter, sigmaleph, and arguably poipoipoi-2016) The tones that telephone buttons make, or possibly made. [two comments]

[cw: sexism] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by p_millerd) Electroshocks Georg; untrustworthy psychology research(ers).

[arguably cw: unreality] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by seat-safety-switch) The importance of repairability.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by andmaybegayer) "Things Mr. Welch Can No Longer Do During an RPG" has started updating again!

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by John Darnielle) We worked hard for our comfort zones, goddammit!

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The one about how hard it is to control the exact phrasing of your speech

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[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by etirabys) Granola bars are a solution to many of life's problems.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by etirabys) Books within dreams.

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[GitHub; Wayback] (by gildas-lormeau; h/t Gwern Branwen) Tired of wrangling the file proliferation of saving webpages to HTML? Tired of the broken formatting of saving webpages to PDF? Try SingleFile! I've been testing it out on parts of my archive where I was previously making do with shitty PDFs or multi-file HTMLs, and it's been working great.

Laugh rule:
[Diaryland; Wayback] (by Grizzly and Ninja of the Clan)

Oh, and Jack liked the exercies. He thought they were fun and he likes the color yellow. He wants me to make sure I included that in this review. He likes the color yellow.

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