brin_bellway | Entries tagged with biology

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Comments on my own posts:

The one about thermostats and code-switching

[cw: what it says on the tin (no pictures)] Recipe: Crispy Chickpeas [one comment, not counting the postscript]

[cw: what it says on the tin] In which Brin continues to have finance Issues very different from *other* people's finance Issues [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: corporate bullshit] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) The cost-benefit tradeoffs of a potential job. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

feotakahari) Definitions of utopia.

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Links:

[Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Dean Daley) It's possible to get Android 12 to run on an 11-year-old smartphone! Technically. Mostly.

[Astronomy; Wayback] (by Eric Betz) What will it be like to watch Betelgeuse go supernova?

[Audubon; Wayback] (by Kenn Kaufman; h/t Siderea) The four sexes of white-throated sparrows.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[cw: apocalypse] [AO3; Wayback] (by

Nestra) NPR during the zombie apocalypse. (This would probably be much funnier if I had any significant familiarity with NPR, but it's still funny without it.)

[arguably cw: violence] [Involuntary Book Club; Wayback] (by Max) "I'm tired of all these grimdark fantasy novels. Have you read anything fun lately?"

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

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Comments on my own posts:

[arguably cw: poison] The one about gardening and whether high-effort food tastes better [four Tumblr-based comments (not all visible in the same reblog chain), one of which is new]

[arguably cw: amnesia] Part 2 of the series about wget problems [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: poison] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

andmaybegayer) The distinction between communing with nature and learning about it.

[Reddit; Wayback] (OP by u/the_archiviest/) Alternatives to wget (and the flaws in wget that cause us to need alternatives).

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) Non-shady ways to read Money Stuff without spending anything.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) The pros and cons of various methods of funding websites.

[cw: aging, (fairly mild) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

3liza) A piece of discourse from a very different kind of life.

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Links:

[iFixit; Wayback] (by Kyle Wiens) iPhones are allergic to helium.

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [WordPress; Wayback] (by Jukebox) I feel like those of y'all with an anthropological interest in kink might like this. (Some of y'all with a non-anthropological interest in kink might like it too.)

[Rebuilding Civilization; Wayback] (probably by Ron Sanders, but not entirely clear) Evaporative refrigeration.

[Audubon; Wayback] (by Rashmi Shivni; h/t

rustingbridges) Birdsong syntax.

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

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Comments on my own posts:

Interesting Fact Meme [five comments, one of which is new]

[cw: death] seven-year-old me is screaming and covering her ears [two comments]

[cw: food] The pumpkin-spice one

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

yvannairie) Social norms around blog archive-binging. [two comments]

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

asexualactivities) A post I wrote a while back about asexual fetishism becomes relevant again.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

wolffyluna) Automated transcription is untrustworthy. (Also, neat rock facts.)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

asexualactivities) "If you’re an ace who masturbates regularly, what happens if you don’t?"

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by

0ct0pus; h/t

consumptive-sphinx) The burrowing octopus.

[cw: food] [Atlas Obscura; Wayback] (by Tal McThenia) An Arctic exploration team's supply cache accidentally becomes an experiment in long-term food preservation.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Randall Munroe) Randall Munroe holds a competition to write something using only book titles. Some of the entries are delightfully loophole-y.

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

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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Links:

[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