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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] tototavros) Recommendations for podcasts (and, more importantly, transcripts) about American history. (Update: AFAICT only the *later* episodes of Presidencies of the United States have transcripts. The earliest episode transcript I could find was "3.28 - The Calming Seas". Still, in medias res is something.) [one or two comments, depending on how you count]

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] moral-autism; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] analytically) Why use Spotify as a music player when you can use Youtube? (Not to even mention Quod Libet or Odyssey.)

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) Favourite masks.

[cw: medical, poverty] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) The financial intricacies of dental insurance.

[Blogspot; Wayback] (OP by Michael James) A gentle correction of one of the most important omissions I encountered on my wiki-walk through Canadian personal-finance blogs, RRSP reporting edition.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) Hypophantasia and dream accuracy.

[mild cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] TrinCyboid) From the people who brought you mystery melons, we also have 24 liveblogging. (Both are hilarious.) [one or two comments, depending on how you count]

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) Egg-boiling techniques.

[cw: food, (arguably) poverty] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) More on egg-boiling techniques, now with energy conservation.

[cw: poverty] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] moonlit-tulip) Holidays and the value of routine-breaking (or, perhaps, routine-keeping on a higher level).

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] lunartulip) The wonders of "details" HTML tags.

[cw: poison, poverty] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] moral-autism; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] humanfist) The importance of avoiding home radon exposure.

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Links:

[cw: corporate bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (by [tumblr.com profile] ponett) BreezeWiki: an adversarially interoperable Wikia frontend that is (unlike the official one) *actually usable*.

[strong cw: illness] [BBC; Wayback] (by Zaria Gorvett; h/t cvirtue) Measles: much worse than previously believed.

[Explain Shell] (by Idan Kamara; h/t Ilzolende) Command-line-to-English machine translation.

[Internet Archive] How to archive your tweets with the Wayback Machine. (The ingest-URLs-from-spreadsheet bit is intriguing regardless.)
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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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[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 [tumblr.com profile] andaisq; h/t [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] snakestack) The seat of a computer's soul.

[cw: venting, (mild) poison, (arguably) illness, (arguably) scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] albertvancouver) Unrelatable complaints about city design.

[cw: discourse, unsanitary, aging, medical] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] boeing747) *Extremely* unrelatable complaints about the "oversanitization of popular media".

[cw: food, embarrassment squick, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] cryptotheism; in response to [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] discoursedrome) The past, present, and future of public mask cosplay.

[cw: food, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] 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 [twitter.com profile] jonty; h/t Xom) Bugfix for multiocular O.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Twitter; Wayback] (by [twitter.com profile] Foone; h/t [tumblr.com profile] 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).
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A major overhaul of the respirator guide, integrating new things I've learned.

The one about vacations from prioritising

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] magnetictapedatastorage) How to analog-hole. [two comments, sort of]

[arguably cw: war, discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by Anonymous; in response to [tumblr.com profile] mitigatedchaos) How to set up a society with the network power and carlessness of large cities but not the sensory overload or vulnerability to bombs; probably not actually feasible from here, but great to steal for worldbuilding purposes.

[arguably cw: scrupulosity] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] worldoptimization) Effective altruism and its compatibility with self-interest.

[cw: medical, discussion (but not inclusion) of infohazards] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] garmbreak1; in response to [tumblr.com profile] the-dao-of-the-zerg) Why not to play music in public.

[cw: aging, medical, (fairly mild) illness, (fairly mild) injury, (arguably) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [personal profile] paradigm_adrift) Not all health changes are negative.

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[University of New South Wales; Wayback] (by Neil Martin) A proof-of-concept of infrared solar panels. The headline calls it "night-time solar", but the real killer app here might be devices (particularly medical implants) that run on body heat.

[Pompeii in Colour; Wayback] Virtual museum exhibit: "A Roman Home".
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[cw: apocalypse] A future that may ask a lot of you

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[cw: rape, discourse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by [personal profile] feotakahari; partly in response to [personal profile] random_thought_depository) Sex and emotional bonding. [six comments]

[cw: what it says on the tin, amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] 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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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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[arguably cw: corporate bullshit] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] wolffyluna) The cost-benefit tradeoffs of a potential job. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] feotakahari) Definitions of utopia.

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[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 [archiveofourown.org profile] 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?"



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Comment and Link Roundup: November 17, 2021

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[arguably cw: nsfw text, rape] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by [archiveofourown.org profile] Ysabetwordsmith; in response to [archiveofourown.org profile] Lurker2) Five and a half years ago, I got Ysabet to add a content warning on her story "Touching Moments", which at one point attempts to hypnotise the reader (yes, I was pretty upset to have that sprung on me). Recently someone came through, found my comments on this, and went "wait, what? that's a thing? how concerned should I be about this being a thing?". I gave them some safe-sex lessons. [five comments, three of which are new]

[cw: (artwork of) blood and injuries, (arguably) drugs] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] inz0913; in response to [tumblr.com profile] maryellencarter) Sleep deprivation may cause higher reblog rates of fanart depicting sleepy cuddling: further research needed.

[cw: death, apocalypse, unreality] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] quasi-normalcy) In which I consider a creepypasta as a thought experiment.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) Hand-moisturising techniques. [three comments]

[cw: Christmas, venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] itsbenedict) Some Christmas-music radio stations, it turns out, are much worse than others.

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[Matt Blaze's Exhaustive Search; Wayback] (by Matt Blaze; h/t Bruce Schneier) Testing phone-scale Faraday cages.

[Foreign Policy; Wayback] (by Paul Musgrave; h/t Bret Devereaux) The history of Pepsi's relationship with the Soviet Union.

Laugh rule:
[cw: amnesia, corporate bullshit] [Forkast; Wayback] (by Angie Lau, Marta Belcher, and Brewster Kahle)
And whenever we sort of stand around and go and shout and get angry at something, it's like maybe we should be a little bit more Canadian and look and say, I think I'm going to listen to the other side this time.




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[cw: venting, (mild) kidnapping] The one about emergency alerts

[mild cw: injury, war] One man's modus ponens [no new comments from me unless you count the tags, but worth noting these comments from [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges]

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[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] YuckyTom; in response to [tumblr.com profile] jadagul) How to instantiate supposedly-nonexistent kitchen appliances.

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[arguably cw: unsanitary] [Region of Waterloo] A virtual tour of a landfill and recycling centre.

[fairly abstract cw: discourse, war] [Tumblr; Wayback] (by [tumblr.com profile] togglesbloggle) I'm not sure what I think about this post (about culture war and Twitter poisoning, with Go metaphors), but it's interesting.

Four laugh-rule entries:

[cw: what it says on the tin] [Anchor] (by Jess and Sam)
Jess: Mindless Matters is an 18+ podcast that features live inductions. Please, do not listen while you are driving. Do not listen while you are doing important things that [need necessary focus?], don't endanger yourself...you are *responsible* for ensuring your own safety.

Sam: It's called "not safe for work" for a reason!

[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley)
Enter Wartales, then, which maddens me with the urge to append "woo-hoo" to its name every time I type it.

[Incognito Money Scribe; Wayback] (by Jacob Schroeder)
In other words, the $1.50 hot dog is synonymous with the Costco brand. The money-losing frankfurter is a part of the company’s identity. It is a staple for customers to recharge after buying five pounds of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, 50 rolls of toilet paper and a coffin.

(Wait, do people actually eat at the Costco restaurant? ...I was gonna say "well, I guess of course people must or Costco would have shut it down", but, uh, it kind of sounds like they're running a food stand for the Aesthetic, so maybe they *wouldn't* have shut it down for mere lack of business.

Is the food any good?)

[strong cw: corporate bullshit] [Wall Street Journal (paywalled, but apparently my university alumni account still gets me Wall Street Journal access)] (by Jeff Horwitz; h/t Matt Levine)
Other flubbed enforcement actions were taken against the accounts of [...] Mr. Zuckerberg himself, whose live-streamed employee Q&A had been suppressed after an algorithm classified it as containing misinformation.




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[fairly mild cw: food] Comment and Link Roundup: August 9th, 2021

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[cw: apocalypse, scrupulosity] [My Own Advisor; Wayback] (OP by Mark Seed) A gentle correction of one of the most important omissions I encountered on my wiki-walk through Canadian personal-finance blogs, climate-crisis individual-action edition.

[arguably cw: bugs] [Mastodon; Wayback] (OP by monsterblue@dragon.style) Today in spreading the good word of PPE: wearable mosquito nets.

[arguably cw: apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] tarhalindur) Laptop recommendations for an erratic-supply-chain world.

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) Peaches, the easy way(s).

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[strong cw: war, murder] [Data Secrets Lox part 1; Data Secrets Lox part 2; Wayback part 1; Wayback part 2] (by Chevalier Mal Fet) I don't read Data Secrets Lox much, but every once in a while I take a look at what's won the Alexander Prize for Effortposting. Turns out in May and June one of the people there wrote a whole-ass history book on 20th-century South Korea, with a focus on the Gwangju Uprising of 1980. Well-written, and a good look into a time period from after most history lessons stop.

(Note: I did not proofread a whole book, but the bits I double-checked seemed accurate.)

[Patagonia; Wayback] (by Sakeus Bankson) Zippers: the bane of high-quality, low-waste clothing manufacturers.

Laugh rule:
[arguably cw: unreality] [gwern.net; Wayback]
The lion-hunting paper was duly accepted for publication, with one editorial alteration: our footnote to a footnote was ruthlessly removed.4

4Monsters! —Editor. ↩

[cw: unreality] [Wikipedia; Wayback] Not a laugh-rule link, but it needed to be after that one: while we're talking about H. Petard, take a look at Ong's Hat.



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[mild cw: amnesia] (not that the tag was ever meant to be interpreted literally)

[cw: food, apocalypse, poison, (fairly mild) unsanitary] The one about gardening and whether high-effort food tastes better [two comments on Dreamwidth, three comments on Tumblr]

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[cw: apocalypse] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] siderea; in response to [personal profile] katuah) At the moment I don't *directly* have any prepping book recs, but I do have a website rec that in turn has book recs.

[mild cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] argumate; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] eightyonekilograms) Authenticator apps with actual backup systems, unlike *some* (Google) apps we could mention.

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[cw: flashing gif] [Wayback] (by Kate Davis Jones) The history of Space Cadet Pinball. (Surprised to learn that it was a thing for several versions of Windows starting with 95. I thought it was XP-specific: I don't remember ever seeing it in Windows 98.)



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[strong cw: amnesia, unreality] All that will be left is the terror of dying [two comments, not counting the postscripts]

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[fairly mild cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] scotchtapeofficial; in response to [tumblr.com profile] maryellencarter, [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph, and arguably [tumblr.com profile] poipoipoi-2016) The tones that telephone buttons make, or possibly made. [two comments]

[cw: sexism] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] p_millerd) Electroshocks Georg; untrustworthy psychology research(ers).

[arguably cw: unreality] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] seat-safety-switch) The importance of repairability.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] andmaybegayer) "Things Mr. Welch Can No Longer Do During an RPG" has started updating again!

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The one about Signal [four comments]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] reasonableapproximation) Radical self-expression through clothing.

[cw: embarrassment squick] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph) The confusing proliferation of names in Worm. [two comments, three if you count the tags]

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [twitter.com profile] BagelofDeath) Honest Chinese food reviews from a Chinese restaurant owner. (Also, advice on how to get good chicken fingers in Canada.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] grayestofghosts) Sometimes reading less is a reasonable response to changing circumstances.

[cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] moral-autism) Some types of professionally preserved foods we highly recommend trying.

[maybe cw: stalking] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] nerviovago; in response to [tumblr.com profile] plain-dealing-villain and [tumblr.com profile] moral-autism) Hiding secret passageways inside fake clothes dryers.

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[cw: nsfw text, (mild) death] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (by [tumblr.com profile] arihi) A new repository for mind-control erotica, one that is *not* built on 90's tech with 90's limitations.

[Rock Paper Shotgun; Wayback] (by Nate Crowley) I thought this was going to be about priest-based Age of Empires builds, but the thing it actually is is neat too.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden] (by Matt Levine)
Or combine the last two approaches: “At the end of each trading day from now on, the number of Tesla shares will be adjusted, via split or reverse split, such that each day’s closing price is $420.69.” A share of Tesla could represent a variable percentage interest in the company, but always be worth $420.69. Elon you can live this dream if you want it enough.

[Kiwix; Wayback] (by Stéphane Coillet-Matillon)
I wish I could tell you how we did it, but it involved some C++, Typescript, and sacrificing a few chicken. Only two of these three worked, and there’s still some discussion about which.

[cw: politics] [The Guardian; Wayback] (by Lauren Aratani)
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I wanted to title this "And hoped by stretching tall that they might keep their land/Their home, their hearth, their flesh and soul", but it doesn't quite fit in the title box.

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[arguably cw: poverty, apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] marcusseldon; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] eightyonekilograms and [tumblr.com profile] bambamramfan) If you're concerned your job will get automated out from under you one day, try to factor the eventual layoff into your finances now.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] sizvideos) Omeo hands-free wheelchairs (steered by leaning) are very cool and very expensive.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] voxette-vk) Are dishes put *up*, or put *away*?

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[mailbox.org; Wayback] My email provider is running a Christmas promotion offering new customers €6 of credit if they sign up by January 10th, enough for six months of the basic plan (which is plenty in my experience). I've been happy with them, and I would definitely recommend them over Google or an ISP email. (It's even better if you use a custom email domain so that you can easily switch to a new provider if you ever change your mind.)

[CellSol; Wayback] (h/t Hackaday): I'm not sure how practical this system is (maybe?), but if nothing else I love that a disaster-tolerant comms network has the motto--according to Wikipedia's translation--"get results, whether God likes it or not".

[Kiwix; Wayback] If you ever find yourself on one of those data plans with zero-rated WhatsApp and expensive everything-else, exploit some loopholes with the help of the iHarare WhatsApp bot!

Laugh rule: [Wikipedia; Wayback]
Iqaluit Public Transit used to offer bus service in the city, but the service was cancelled due to low ridership. Motor cars are increasing in number, to the extent of causing occasional traffic jams known locally as "the rush minute".




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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] itsbenedict) Tumblr is fucking around with non-chronological feeds again. Make sure to turn the setting off.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] mostlysignssomeportents) Bridgefy: simultaneously worse and better than previously believed. Probably still best avoided on the whole, though I think my threshold for "how desperate would I need to be before resorting to Bridgefy" has lowered.

[cw: what it says on the tin] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] mathemagicalschema) The subjective effectiveness of OTC painkillers.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] jadagul) How to get Chromium-based browsers to *actually* shut down when you tell them to shut down.

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Doing the hermit-crab shuffle [three comments, not counting the postscript]

Ask me about my special interests [four comments, two of which are new]

Blog formatting skills

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[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] lydamorehouse) The costs and benefits of smart-home assistants.

[mild cw: death] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] ilzolende) Blog recs.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges) The hostile fee structure of Paypal.

[cw: nsfw text] [AO3; Wayback] (OP by [archiveofourown.org profile] Huitzil) Hey, remember that porn-worldbuilding giftfic I got a few years ago? The author wrote a revised and expanded version! I highly recommend it, as well as the chapters that *weren't* inspired by me.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] siderea) Various ways to follow a Dreamwidth blog (in this case, [personal profile] siderea), and the circumstances in which one might pick one over another.

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[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP is technically by [tumblr.com profile] extrajordinary, but the bulk of the thread is by [tumblr.com profile] petermorwood; h/t [tumblr.com profile] ilzo-misc) Restaurants in ancient Rome.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by [personal profile] siderea) The Great Chain of History.

[Bulwer-Lytton; Wayback] 2019 winners of the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, in which one attempts to write the worst opening line for a novel.

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