Brinens and Things

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 AlexBlechman; h/t no_man_fathomed) The most dangerous game.