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[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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[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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[cw: food, (arguably) illness, (arguably) heights] I have officially survived my twenties

[cw: illness] Variolation, part 4: Secondhand [three comments, one of which is new]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

itsbenedict) A day in the life of a Tumblr user.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

oak23) The importance of ego-syntonic clothing.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

nenya_kanadka) How to make Wikia actually usable (and Dreamwidth even more usable).

[cw: illness, medical, (fairly mild) venting] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

cordeliaflyte) Fantasies about easy solutions to medical problems: not always pleasant.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

eightyonekilograms, though also kind of

jv) Tumblr Backup Awareness Week, and a modernised version of tumblr-utils. (Though I ran into enough problems getting the python3 version of tumblr-utils working that I eventually gave up and went back to python2.)

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

thedarlingone) More on the mobile-accessibility updates to Dreamwidth.

[cw: nsfw text] [Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden] (OP by

porthole) The distinction between fetishes that can be done in real life and those that cannot (and the grey areas between).

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

ladiesloveduranduran) Which of these U.S. cities would you be most willing to live in?

[cw: illness, (arguably) poison] [Updated part of WordPress thread (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges; partly in respose to

keynes-fetlife-mutual) Nipping colds in the bud (maybe) with zinc lozenges. [three comments, two of which are new]

[cw: illness, vomit, unsanitary] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

toasthaste; in response to

robustcornhusk) Norovirus prevention tips.

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

RaxKingIsDead) Accidental street harassment.

[cw: corporate bullshit, (arguably) government bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

JoshGreenberg27) How to get government-funded U.S. tax preparation. (It's still not 100% clear, but it looks like probably *not* for non-residents. On the ""bright"" side, I'm below the income threshold to have to file at all for 2023, and there's no further stimulus checks to claim by doing it anyway.)

[Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by

gummybugg; mostly in response to

sacrificedtoatree) I have unlocked a fiction-writing skill tree! [two comments]

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

trailertrashin) "The Glass Eye - Adult Greeting Cards": a real store that really exists, somehow.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

whatcha-thinkin) Assuming you had access to perfect medical care at no additional cost, which of these fixes would you want most?

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[strong cw: illness] [Patreon; Wayback] (by Violet Blue; h/t

siderea) A list of COVID-19 resources, consisting largely of people doing their best to navigate things on their own because God knows there are no trustworthy authorities left on this. I bought a $4 bottle of store-brand mouthwash (contains cetylpyridinium chloride) because of this post: I figure it's an extremely low-risk bet.

On a similar though shorter/narrower note, https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html

(Update from January: ...if someone who *doesn't* now have a history of COVID infection (or who can otherwise psychologically handle it) can pick through all the stuff in Violet's news roundups about Post-Acute Sequelae Even Worse Than Previously Believed to get at the actionable advice, I would appreciate it)

[cw: illness] [Absolutely Maybe; Wayback] (by Hilda Bastian) Researchers have not given up on creating a COVID vaccine with sterilising and/or durable immunity! Things may still improve.

[cw: corporate bullshit] [PCMag; Wayback] (by Chloe Albanesius; h/t Violet Blue) Obituaries for tech products and services that were shut down in 2023.

[Youtube; Invidious] (by Pope Kallisti; h/t

blazingdarkness) A MIDI conversion of "Bring Me to Life".

[Live Science; Wayback] (by Victoria Atkinson) I told somebody in a nuclear-vs-solar argument a while back that I'd care less about solar if ordinary citizens could get household-scale nuclear batteries. There has been non-zero progress towards this.

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Beware The Shadows; Wayback] (by Brett J. Talley) The 56 best/worst analogies written by high school students (or, fairly likely, ""high school students""). (I've seen a lot of these before, but not all of them.)

My favourite is "Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph."

[brr; Wayback] (by Anonymous; h/t Jenn) Showering at the South Pole. (This whole blog is amazing, though usually more in a "wow, Antarctica is such a place" way than a "funny" way.)

Current Music: "Bring Me to Life" - Evanescence

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[cw: (fairly strong) illness, venting, death] The one about Mom coming down with a fever

[cw: illness, medical, food] Status update, morning of 2023-08-01 [three comments]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

lakevida) The many meanings of a novelty hat.

[cw: nsfw text, (arguably) drugs, (arguably) apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

oligetcetera) Superstimuli and the oncoming future.

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[cw: (strong) illness, fire, apocalypse] There's a lot of chaff in plaguepoems@mastodon.social (...not that I can blame them, trying to write a poem on the same subject every weekday for years on end), but here's a selection of my favourites from the past couple months:

https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/110822170645699645:

In block letters at the top
of the hand sanitizer station
were the words
“protect yourself”
but the dispenser itself
was broken and empty
which I really must say
felt like some kind of metaphor.

https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/110623194611543597:

I saw a warning
from the department of health
urging residents “to take
appropriate precautions
as smoke
from Canadian wildfires”
is once more making the air
unhealthy to breathe
so if someone asks me
which airborne threat
my mask is for
I will simply say “all of them.”

https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/110571904159328242:

She tells me
that at this point
it would take a miracle
not to catch it again
and it’s not that I disagree
but that I believe
there are points in time
when if you are hoping
for a miracle
you have to make it yourself.

https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/110573627092710431:

I know a historian
who says
during the pandemic
and means by that
the past.

I know a doctor
who says
during the pandemic
and means by that
the present.

And
I know an epidemiologist
who says
during the pandemic
and means by that
the future.

[cw: illness] [CDC; Wayback] "Locally Acquired Malaria Cases Identified in the United States".

[cw: food] [NPR; Wayback] (by Allison Aubrey) Meanwhile, in good news, cell-cultured chicken has been approved for sale in America! It's at a fancy restaurant in San Francisco and costs if-you-have-to-ask-you-don't-want-to-know, but computers were once prohibitively expensive too.

[Sourcehut; Wayback] (by Ploum) Offpunk: an offline-first web browser.

Laugh-rule entries:
[Substack; Wayback] (by Moly)

[cw: drugs]

Yunnan: MUSHROOMS, people going to the ER because of MUSHROOMS, people getting out of the ER to continue eating MUSHROOMS, HALLUCINOGENIC MUSHROOMS. It’s the Colorado of China, if instead of marijuana, you had MUSHROOMS.

[Mastodon; Wayback] (by compositor@wayland.social)

Welcome to Wayland.social: the successor to X.com.

(I speak *just enough* Linux jargon to understand that this is funny.)

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Tips on Offline-First Smartphones, 2023 Edition [one comment on Dreamwidth, one comment on Tumblr]

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

nuclearspaceheater) General life improvements of weightlifting.

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

mindstalk) The spirit (and not just the letter) of mask rules.

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

unprettyextra; in response to

etirabys) How to help archive Imgur. (Though Imgur has since started its deletions, the archiving project continues.)

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

hjartasalt; in response to

nuclearspaceheater) American hegemony and (sort-of)-multi-currency cash registers.

[cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) How to (maybe) know your sleep latency.

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[arguably cw: amnesia] [Baturin; Wayback] (by Daniil Baturin) A review of a Windows-ripoff Linux distro from 2003.

Laugh-rule entries:
[WordPress; Wayback] (by Bret Devereaux)

This is the third part of the second part of our three(ish) part look at the governing structures of the Greek polis (I, IIa, IIb). At some point I promise I will write a series whose organization does not look like a parody of itself.

[Mastodon; Wayback] (h/t Seebs)

(here's the alt text on that image in case you want to stick it into Google Traduction:

ARRÊTEZ L'ANGLAIS – L'ANGLAIS N'EST PAS CENSÉE ÊTRE UNE LANGUE INTERNATIONALE – DES ANNÉES D’ANGLAIS et pourtant AUCUN INTERÊT parce qu’on peut regarder la version du film doublée par Kev Adams – Tu veux dire des trucs en anglais pour rigoler? On a un outil pour Ça, Ça s'appelle «GOOGLE TRADUCTION» – «Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Will, will Will will Will Will's will? All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life» – Indistinguable d'un AVC REGARDE ce que les Anglais te demande de Respecter, avec tous les cours & voyages linguistiques qu’on fait pour les comprendre (Ce sont de VRAIS mots anglais, parlé par de VRAIS Anglais): Embezzling ????? gobbledygook ??????? discombobulated ????????????????? «The bamboozled children skedaddled»
Ils se sont foutus de notre gueule putaingue

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Crow)

In promoting her new book, the author also made a few choice memes. I can’t think of any other way to describe them.

They immediately without context are my kind of humour. Clickhole could post this and I’d send it to all my friends. Levelling is, as a reminder, a sometimes used term to describe killing god. These stock photos are very persuasive in getting me to love god, I’ll admit. I’ll say the unlevel memes are also quite tumblr ‘I dreamed of this meme and now it is real’ style.

[Know Your Meme; Wayback]

A Google Trends graph for 'stonks'. Hovertext shows that the date of a sudden peak is January 24 - 30, 2021.

A Google Trends graph for 'stonks'. Hovertext shows that the date of another, smaller peak is July 10 - 16, 2022.

[cw: illness] [Armbrust; Wayback] Review of a terrible surgical mask.

"And look at the stare in his eyes. I mean, the woman is intense, but this dude, like something's going on there, man. It's the face of someone actually receiving the coronavirus into their body."

[AO3; Wayback] (by

seasparks) I don't go here, I was just wiki-walking, but:

seasons of crappy Netflix that were deemed sufficiently bad to allow Canadian access to them

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Current Mood: grateful

(There's quite a bit to catch up on here, so I've added extra line breaks between entries to make it less of a jumble of text.)

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[fairly mild cw: embarrassment squick] I didn't *make* any comments on my own posts this round (apart from postscripts/tangents written alongside the OPs), but I note that I did receive two comments on "I continue to live in an alternate universe" through Tumblr.

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

flaxseedthot; partly in response to

rustingbridges) Disney World during 9/11.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

rustingbridges) Second-generation hyphenated surnames.

[arguably cw: medical, unsanitary, apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

akaanonymouth; partly in response to

sigmaleph) Household logistics, safety nets, and the importance of spare toothbrushes. [two comments]

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

seaglass_takechan) Reporting a violation of the food/pretty-rock binary.

[cw: nsfw text, apocalypse, (arguably) drugs] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

femmenietzsche) In which Brin has second thoughts about whether "I could see myself using [AI-powered writing commissions] for pornography, but even then only because I have very narrow tastes" would be a good idea in practice.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) Email usage patterns and organisation.

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

rustingbridges) High-quality socks (and how sometimes the cardboard-sole boots are the better deal).

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

eightyonekilograms; partly in response to

sigmaleph) In the future, "zoonosis" will be a word everyone knows; knowing *where* they learned it is another matter. [~three comments, one of which is new]

[cw: food, illness, poverty, (arguably) animal abuse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

augustheart) If lab grown meat became widely available and easily affordable, would you eat it? (At least two people were too quick on the ball and read the draft version of this that I posted slightly too soon, so if you read the non-postscripted version of this do note that there *is* more.)

[cw: unsanitary, (arguably) violence] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

tanadrin) The relative merits of fear, shame, and anger.

[cw: aging, injury, poison, death, (arguably) illness] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

sigmaleph) Independent wealth vs a chance to remake your body.

[cw: illness] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

thearchivebaby) Decorated respirators and the Glorious Transhumanist Future.

[cw: corporate bullshit, nsfw text, (arguably) illness, (arguably) apocalypse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

soolagna-meow) Mourning broken tools, and searching for aligned replacements.

[fairly mild cw: death, injury] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

ultirex) How would you do if dropped at a point on Earth outputted by a random coordinates generator?

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[fairly strong cw: illness] [Mastodon (Twitter); Wayback] (by librarianshipwreck) I know it takes time to get over things.

[cw: corporate bullshit, apocalypse] [WordPress; Wayback] (by librarianshipwreck) What Y2K can teach us about Twitter. Particularly notable quote:
And in the wake of Y2K proving to be something of a non-event—thanks to the efforts of the legions of people who got to work fixing the problem—the sort of introspection that Y2K called for did not occur. Instead, people and societies only deepened their reliance on computer technologies and by extension the executives and companies that controlled those systems.

[The Intercept; Wayback] (by Nikita Mazurov; h/t Bruce Schneier) Some image-manipulation programs--including, but not limited to, the one in Google Docs--leave the original image data inside the file of a cropped image, allowing the recipient to uncrop it and reveal bits that you specifically did not want them to see.

Three laugh-rule entries:
[cw: (strong) rape, (strong) nsfw text, amnesia] [Read Only Mind; Wayback] (by scifiscribbler) I did not *like* this work, and I shudder to think how low the author's standards must be to think that *this* constitutes "wholesome", but that opening line is amazing:
The television was the colour of a television tuned to a dead channel.

[arguably cw: theft] [Vice; Wayback] (by Joseph Cox) You know how with sci-fi shows we're always yelling at the screen about "why are you people still using voiceprint authentication as if it means anything when you also have good voice synthesis"? Yeah.
To create the voice, I recorded about five minutes of speech and uploaded it to ElevenLabs (for the audio clips, I read sections of Europe’s data protection law).

[cw: what it says on the tin, nsfw image] [Substack; Wayback] (by Sam Kriss)
they’d got the impression that I was one of those people who really has his finger on the pulse. I told them that I definitely wasn’t, I just made things up with enough confidence that people believed me, just like I’ve made up exactly 45% of everything I’m writing here

Also the rambling manifesto containing "谷歌翻译应用程序". (It's funnier if you *can't* read Chinese, though I expect it's still funny if you can.)

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[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

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]

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moral-autism; partly in response to

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

mindstalk) Favourite masks.

[cw: medical, poverty] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by

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

mindstalk) Hypophantasia and dream accuracy.

[mild cw: food] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

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

mindstalk) Egg-boiling techniques.

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

mindstalk) More on egg-boiling techniques, now with energy conservation.

[cw: poverty] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by

moonlit-tulip) Holidays and the value of routine-breaking (or, perhaps, routine-keeping on a higher level).

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by

lunartulip) The wonders of "details" HTML tags.

[cw: poison, poverty] [Start of WordPress thread (Tumblr part 1; Tumblr part 2)] (OP by

moral-autism; partly in response to

humanfist) The importance of avoiding home radon exposure.

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[cw: corporate bullshit] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (by

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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2020s music, part 4

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Unforeseen disadvantages of non-elastomeric masks

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Boxing Day checklist

Friday Five: November 24, 2023

The killer remains at large, but we have one lead

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Status update, morning of 2023-08-01

As simple as possible, but no simpler

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Variolation, part 6: One thousand, four hundred, and sixty-five days

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