Brinens and Things

Comments on my own posts:

[OP is NSFW and a bit discourse-y, but this comment thread is not] Horizons

The one about asynchronous communication and Australians

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: discussion of anxiety] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by overlordtulip) Helplessness vs responsibility.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by aeiously; in response to sigmaleph) Case-sensitive handwriting.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Yay geology-blogging!

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) ""Disgusting"" sedimentary rocks. [two comments]

[cw: bugs (no pictures)] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by itsbenedict) Long sleeves/pants: like a weighted blanket, but all the time.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by senator-mon-mothma; in response to maryellencarter) Circadian rhythms in an interplanetary setting.

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Fake followers for hire. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by thedarlingone) Was about gaming serial-monogamy, has topic-drifted into gender and presentation. [three comments, one of which is new]

[cw: nsfw text] [Medium; Wayback] (OP by Ozy Brennan) Children's sexual development. (Apparently the way the Medium commenting system works is that every comment is its own post, visible from and linking back to the OP. I'm glad they recognise the importance of replies-via-reblog.)

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Links:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by wolffyluna) The "shitty first drafts" paradigm, and how it sometimes does more harm than good.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by chapmangamo) A comic depicting various languages' equivalent idioms to "when pigs fly". For more, see this Wikipedia link. My favourite is "on St. Never's Day".

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by koryos) "[L]et me explain the digestive system of the vampire bat. I guarantee by the end you will be wondering how these creatures even exist."

[cw: nsfw text] [Daily Dot; Wayback] (by Ana Valens; h/t soveryverytired) Today in sites that can't be trusted to let people like me talk about sex without cracking down on them: Patreon. (although given how Patreon is even more dependant than most sites on sucking up to payment processors, I'm kind of surprised it took this long)

Laugh rule:
[cw: murder] [Twitter; Wayback] (by AlexBlechman; h/t no_man_fathomed) The most dangerous game.

Comments on my own posts:

Casual game rec: GeoGuessr

The one about expanding Internet access

Not a comment exactly, but I did add another paragraph to How to Backup Your Dreamwidth after getting a little more experience with the method.

Question of the Day: January 21, 2019 (the one about clones) [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by cptsdcarlosdevil) Is porn a thing you *read* or a thing you *watch*?

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) Dreamwidth seems like a perfectly reasonable place to blog about gender and sexuality.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Archiving tips. [two comments]

[cw: illness] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by somnulencelogencia) Nudism and sanitation.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Insert that Shalom Sesame song about how hot it is here. (oh, hey, looks like somebody uploaded "Sing Around the Seasons" to Youtube since the last time I wanted to link that episode; the recording's pretty low quality, but a lot better than nothing)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by oligopsony; response is to cptsdcarlosdevil) There's a difference between "not into anything on a list of eleven common fetishes" and "vanilla".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by youarenotthewalrus) Just because Tumblr isn't deserted doesn't mean nothing's changed.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by thedarlingone) I linked this in the last roundup (the one about ask-meme responses), but there's been more conversation since then.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by glacialtimeframe) The best X in Y, whatever that means.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by ilzolende) ""Extreme male brain"". (it occurs to me that the post I linked has a followup post that I did not link; here it is)

[I'm not sure what content warning to put on this, maybe "unsanitary"] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP is an anonymous submission to rationalists-out-of-context) Does sexual arousal interfere with urination?

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Links:

[Smithsonian Magazine; Wayback] (by Brigit Katz) For a short time, there was a living cotton plant in a tiny greenhouse on the Moon (as part of the Chang'e mission).

Laugh rule:
[Youtube] (by Matt Parker; h/t Mom) A stand-up routine about how unironically great spreadsheets are.

[Youtube] (by Weird Al Yankovic) I was vaguely aware of the existence of the song "I Think I'm a Clone Now", but since we've been talking about clones around here it seemed like an appropriate time to go listen to it.

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Apparently that "sonic weapon" American diplomats in Cuba experienced turned out to be crickets. Cuban crickets can sound pretty unnerving if you don't know what to expect.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by ilzolende) More Dreamwidth-friendly versions of expanding-brain images. (example)

[Vice; Wayback] (by Joseph Cox) North Korea has its own operating system, and it is very North Korean.