Brinens and Things

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]

---

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.

---

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.

( Read more... )

I was too tired to do this last week, so here is a longer three-week post.


Comments on my own posts:

Another mind-blowing these-songs-are-by-the-same-person fact:

---

Comments on other people's posts:

(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.)

---

Links:

[none suitable for this section]



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

( Read more... )