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(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 [personal profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] prokopetz; in response to [tumblr.com profile] 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.
Read more... )
(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.

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Comments on my own posts:

[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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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: discussion of anxiety] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] overlordtulip) Helplessness vs responsibility.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] aeiously; in response to [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph) Case-sensitive handwriting.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] wolffyluna) Yay geology-blogging!

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] wolffyluna) ""Disgusting"" sedimentary rocks. [two comments]

[cw: bugs (no pictures)] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] itsbenedict) Long sleeves/pants: like a weighted blanket, but all the time.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] senator-mon-mothma; in response to [tumblr.com profile] maryellencarter) Circadian rhythms in an interplanetary setting.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] contrarianarchon) Fake followers for hire. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] 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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Links:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by [personal profile] wolffyluna) The "shitty first drafts" paradigm, and how it sometimes does more harm than good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] 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 [twitter.com profile] AlexBlechman; h/t [twitter.com profile] no_man_fathomed) The most dangerous game.
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It could easily be a coincidence, but I do wonder if it says something about, like, the slower pace of Dreamwidth and its embrace of asynchronous communication, that I meet so many Australians on here.

(who cares if we have opposite schedules, we'll just have conversations in which responses are spaced twelve hours apart, it's not like this is Discord)

On Tumblr you hear jokes like "you know you're up late when you start seeing Australians"†, but here the process is more "*wakes up, goes downstairs, turns on laptop* ah, time to see what the Australians have been up to today".

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†I would like to point out that I *do* read my entire Tumblr dash, in chronological order, but there does seem to be a common assumption on Tumblr that people don't do that.

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