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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: illness] The one about sore throats and impending doom [two comments]

[cw: government bullshit] ""Fun"" fact of the day (March 1, 2024)

[fairly mild cw: illness] 2020s music, part 3

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: corporate bullshit] [Thoughts of Mine; Wayback] (OP by Mabel Schaefer) Fun with cell-phone-plan loopholes. [two or three comments, depending on how you count]

[cw: what it says on the tin] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

slavicafire) Food-disgust test.

[cw: food (with picture)] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

lnthefade) This is a thing that is now, unfortunately, not being offered at Disney World.

[fairly mild cw: discourse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) A modest proposal for affordable food/housing.

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

siderea) Changing mask tech for a changing world.

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[cw: death, (arguably) discourse] [New York Times - Wayback] (by Helen Ouyang; h/t swimmer) The race to reinvent CPR.

[Crystalverse; Wayback] (by Chase) How to grow pyramid salt crystals.

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Current Music: "Copenhagen (Let Me Go)" - Vienna Teng

Comments on my own posts:

Today's the day! It's happening! [one comment, *including* the postscript because the postscript was written late enough to be easily missed]

[cw: (strong) fire, unreality, (mild) illness] Happy...new...year? [one comment, not counting the postscript]

Today's the day, part ~2: House Community Grid

[cw: bugs, (fairly mild) death, (mild) unsanitary)] The one about fly math [one comment on Tumblr]

English is a bullshit language (like all the others)

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food, (fairly mild) apocalypse, (arguably) poison] [Substack; Wayback] (OP by Nicholas Weininger) Induction stoves vs gas stoves vs electric-coil stoves. [two comments]

[cw: (strong) food, (arguably) nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

andaisq; h/t

moral-autism) Sociological specfic about a world where people view food with the same sense of profundity and privacy with which we view sex.

[cw: illness, needles (picture in Tumblr version, but not in WordPress version)] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

syellowtails) ~~The latest~~ additional info on COVID-19 bivalent vaccine timing, mostly but not exclusively regarding the United States. (The most recent thing I've since heard is that, while the Ontarian government continues to *recommend* six-month intervals for most triage groups, it's possible to get a vaccine dose only three months after your previous one with a bit of additional hoop-jumping.)

[cw: poverty, illness, (arguably) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Lucy Liu) Updates from future-me on how my situation has changed since 2018. [three comments, one of which is new]

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

snakestack) The seat of a computer's soul.

[cw: venting, (mild) poison, (arguably) illness, (arguably) scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

albertvancouver) Unrelatable complaints about city design.

[cw: discourse, unsanitary, aging, medical] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

boeing747) *Extremely* unrelatable complaints about the "oversanitization of popular media".

[cw: food, embarrassment squick, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

robustcornhusk) Way(s) to make Jewish apple cake, and how they've evolved over time.

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[cw: nsfw text] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

cryptotheism; in response to

sigmaleph) I was planning to wait for this roundup post to talk about the above, but I was having too many emotions and they leaked out into a post. Sorry for leaking my emotions onto your post, Sofi. [two comments]

[cw: illness, (arguably) discourse, (arguably) amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

discoursedrome) The past, present, and future of public mask cosplay.

[cw: food, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) Excuses for holidays. [two comments]

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[Imgur] (h/t Sonata) A book with a built-in lectern.

[cw: (fairly mild) trypophobia, (arguably) body horror] [Twitter; Wayback] (by

jonty; h/t Xom) Bugfix for multiocular O.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback] (by

Foone; h/t

ericvilas) Can gender run Doom? For that matter, can visual static run Doom? (I won't spoil the final punchline, but do read to the end. I think I've even coaxed the Internet Archive into making their version readable start-to-finish.)

[Youtube; Wayback] (by Lou & Peter Berryman) A car drove by blaring "Sweet Home Alabama", and it got me thinking about this song again (it's not "Sweet Home Alabama").

[cw: corporate bullshit] [Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont)

Locking the doors, on the other hand, will probably just frustrate customers (and if they’re going into a Rogers store, chances are they’re already pissed off).

Comments on my own posts:

[cw: discourse, (arguably) apocalypse] The one about AI artists [one comment, not counting the postscript]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) Old kitchen appliances (and when to replace them); the wonders of mosquito nets. [two comments]

[fairly mild cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

mindstalk) Optimal potato baking.

[arguably cw: discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Anonymous; partly in response to

jadagul) The unrelatability of complaints about modernity (or at least these sub-genres of complaints).

(Update: writing that post inspired me to give warc2zim another try, and this time I successfully got it working! (The Linux port of Kiwix can't *directly* display warc2zim files, but it turns out there's a workaround: activate local-server mode and view the file through your web browser.) Mobile access, baby! (*And* it's even slightly more space-efficient!))

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

transgenderer) How to send and receive SMS messages from your laptop.

[fairly mild cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

camwyn) Dutch has some amazing profanity.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

camwyn) The wonders of mosquito nets, disability edition.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

doctorwhoisadhd; in response to

itsbenedict) How to play Character Opinion Bingo.

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

seat-safety-switch) Solar phone charging, the easy ways.

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[My Modern Met; Wayback] (by Larisa Crowder) The technology behind heated car seats, now wearable and reversible (that is to say, it can also do cooling). (Kind of expensive and hard to get, but I suppose new devices usually are.)

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by the United States Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; h/t

siderea) How to disinfect monkeypox fomites, and how not to.

[arguably cw: venting] [The Millions; Wayback] (by Rebecca Steinitz) A personal view of anosmia. (I came across this link buried in an old email, where I was recommending it to others. It's interesting to look back at it now, having developed a very different relationship with anosmia.)

[Mobile Syrup; Wayback] (by Jonathan Lamont) Payment-method optimisation is about to become *even more* complicated. My parents can't keep up as it is.

[Imgur; Wayback] (h/t Marri) Ordinary office worker in the streets...

Laugh rule:
[cw: illness] [Jenneral HQ; Wayback] (by Jenn)
Relatedly, as a #millennial, the whole #supportlocal lifestyle where I go to 4 specialty grocers for specific ingredients instead of one (1) Loblaw is very appealing to me.

(...I admit that this line is significantly less funny after I looked it up and discovered that the singular of Loblaws *is* sometimes "Loblaw", and not *always* also "Loblaws".)

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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: apocalypse] A future that may ask a lot of you

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: rape, discourse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by

feotakahari; partly in response to

random_thought_depository) Sex and emotional bonding. [six comments]

[cw: what it says on the tin, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

etirabys) The masochist's path to enlightenment.

(although upon reflection I should have specified "pain and power-exchange" rather than BDSM, since I do kind of have a thing for safety harnesses and I suppose that technically qualifies under B)

[cw: politics, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

timemachineyeah) The difficulties of pre-Internet information-gathering, and/or the difficulties of childhood information-gathering.

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[cw: what it says on the tin] [Nuclear Advice; Unprepared Life; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (first link by Rob Wiblin; second by Josh Centers) Some guides to surviving a nuclear strike, for those of us who have been wondering.

[NASA; Wayback] "NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date."

Two laugh-rule entries:
[A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

when Caesar had himself proclaimed dictator perpetuo, an office he held for all of two months

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by Team AC) I'm not familiar with the context here, but it's a neat medium.

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[cw: (abstract discussion of) head injury, (arguably) discourse]

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[cw: illness, (fairly mild) discourse, (arguably) venting]

(to avoid any initial uncertainty: not an April Fools post)

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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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Comments on other people's posts:

[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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Comments on my own posts:

Comment and Link Roundup: October 21, 2020

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Comments on other people's posts:

(This post was made on June 16th, but I overlooked it while making the previous roundups.) [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

gnabrie) I do know what "burning CDs" means, and someday I might actually have a reason to do it again.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

maryellencarter) Extensions of the self.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

voxette-vk) Big 5 personality tests. [two comments]

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Laugh rule:
[Memory Alpha; Wayback] The continuity section of the article on one of the least continuous Voyager episodes (and that's saying something).

Tuvok mistakenly has his commander pip in the past. He did not earn this promotion until the fourth season episode "Revulsion". Although this is technically a continuity error, it is actually consistent as Tuvok was mistakenly shown wearing a commander's pip throughout the first half of season one.

{{Also:}}

This brings the total number of torpedoes confirmed to have been used by Voyager over the course of the series to 66, a total which exceeds the irreplaceable complement of 38 that had been established by Chakotay in the first-season episode "The Cloud".

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Comments on my own posts:

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

maryellencarter) Ebook recs.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

siderea) Circumventing phone-number-demanding online accounts by using VoIP numbers.

[mild cw: amnesia] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

xenosagaepisodeone, though my post is more *inspired* by hers than actually responding to her) Tech-literacy and (supposed) digital natives.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

nudityandnerdery) Fuck cloud dependence; also, tips on harm-reduction DIY smart TVs.

[cw: poison] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

outofcontextdnd) A D&D item that on first glance looks useless, on second glance looks helpful, and on third glance looks dangerous.

[cw: food, dieting] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

rustingbridges) Optimising your diet for nutrients you wouldn't otherwise get enough of. [four comments]

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Laugh rule:
[cw: hacking] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by

feotakahari) A rather meta scamming attempt.

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Comments on my own posts:

[cw: nsfw text, gender dysphoria] The one about the distinction between wanting to fuck someone and wanting to be them

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: amnesia, death] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

i-run-a-trash-blog) Canon-compliant backstory for a hypothetical Doctor Who spinoff.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

moonlit-tulip) The effects of being half-awake on dreams.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by

fatpinocchio; in response to

jadagul) Browser-autocomplete wrangling.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) Are we good at computers? Depends on your standard of comparison.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) A taste of the wonders of Firefox extensions.

[cw: poverty, (arguably) discourse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

feotakahari) On giving advice that some people desperately need and other people are thoroughly sick of.

[mild cw: embarrassment squick] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

contrarianarchon) With great archiving power comes great archiving responsibility. (Update: writing this comment inspired me to go researching web-scraper programs to see if anyone has one without the "must download each useless page and *then* delete it" problem, and it turns out our old friends ArchiveTeam do. I'm testing it out right now, and after the first couple hours of troubleshooting things seem to be going well.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

sigmaleph) In which I offer a bunch of book recs.

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My discourse-o-meter pings this post as "moderate: post publicly on a non-viral medium". I think this is because the person immediately before me in the reblog chain is likely to respond well, but OP is probably hostile (and 28k notes is not *quite* enough to be confident that they've stopped paying attention).

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