Brinens and Things

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:

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(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.)

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

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Comments on my own posts:

Interesting Fact Meme [five comments, one of which is new]

[cw: death] seven-year-old me is screaming and covering her ears [two comments]

[cw: food] The pumpkin-spice one

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by yvannairie) Social norms around blog archive-binging. [two comments]

[arguably cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by asexualactivities) A post I wrote a while back about asexual fetishism becomes relevant again.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Automated transcription is untrustworthy. (Also, neat rock facts.)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by asexualactivities) "If you’re an ace who masturbates regularly, what happens if you don’t?"

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by 0ct0pus; h/t consumptive-sphinx) The burrowing octopus.

[cw: food] [Atlas Obscura; Wayback] (by Tal McThenia) An Arctic exploration team's supply cache accidentally becomes an experiment in long-term food preservation.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Randall Munroe) Randall Munroe holds a competition to write something using only book titles. Some of the entries are delightfully loophole-y.