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All my love for the devs out there in the trenches this week trying to keep the Internet we know and love afloat, and USD$17.50 for them too.

(I hope that in May I will be in a better financial position and can be more comfortable with buying a full year. It could very plausibly happen.)
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Comments on my own posts:

[fairly mild cw: corporate bullshit] The awkward transitional period of history we are currently living through

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] mindstalk) Dragonfruit reviews.

[Reddit; Wayback] (OP by /u/purakau) How to access the ArchiveTeam scrape of Tumblr.

[arguably cw: discourse, depression] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] transgenderer; partly in response to [tumblr.com profile] sigmaleph and [tumblr.com profile] maryellencarter) Do subtitles interfere with grasping the visual elements of a show? It's complicated. [two comments]

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Links:

[cw: heights] [CTV News] Whee!



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

Read more... )
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I think my December 2018 self will forgive me for having posted this OP on Tumblr. I still have no plans to make further Tumblr-hosted OPs in the future, but this *particular* post really needs to be rebloggable.
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It's fucking *cat pictures*!

(they already unflagged it--just a few minutes after I complained--but I'm linking to the Wayback version anyway; haven't gotten that far in my Wordpress backup yet)
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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 [tumblr.com profile] cptsdcarlosdevil) Is porn a thing you *read* or a thing you *watch*?

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

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

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

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] 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 [personal profile] oligopsony; response is to [tumblr.com profile] cptsdcarlosdevil) There's a difference between "not into anything on a list of eleven common fetishes" and "vanilla".

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

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

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] 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 [tumblr.com profile] 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 [personal profile] 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.
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(followup to this (mildly NSFW) post)

I had a bit of Amazon-US credit lying around in my personal account from the time I tried to accept a gifted copy of Too Like the Lightning and it wouldn't come through properly, and since it turned out I wasn't going to need that money for its intended purpose I figured I might as well indulge my curiosity.

The book was fairly good, I think? I definitely recommend getting a broad variety of perspectives, but one has to start somewhere and this looks like a good place to do that. (And it comes with an other-resources section, with plenty of links to places you can start branching out into that broad variety of perspectives! Some of them I hadn't heard of, so those will be interesting to investigate.)

Some scattered livebloggy thoughts:

[cw: nsfw text, arguably some tmi, (mild) amnesia]

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Comments on my own posts:

Belated Question of the Day: December 13, 2018 [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] sophus) Dreamwidth norms, and also roguelikes. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] thedarlingone) Music curation. [two comments]

[cw: Christmas] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] michaelblume) In which I have a soft spot for bullshit 80's songs about poverty. (Oh, the people up there, they find it hard to relate/They don't know how it feels to be standing there on your own...)

(While I'm at it, here is the other one in the current medley. Technically from the 90's and technically about terrorism and not poverty, but I feel it is in the same genre. And it is very pretty.)

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Links:

[Atlantic; Wayback] (by Ed Yong) Peafowl have head crests that resonate with the shaking of peacocks' tails.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by [personal profile] sophus) Another Christmas filk to go with the Weeping Angel one! (Much fewer monsters in this one.)

[cw: nsfw text] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by me; response by the same person who wrote the VR-porn review in the last roundup) Even those of you who were reading my Tumblr in March may not have seen the full thread. I realised last night that while I reblogged the OP, I never reblogged the response. Which meant I only had one copy of the full thread, and it was hosted on Tumblr. On *somebody else's* Tumblr. On somebody else's *sex blog* on Tumblr. Clearly, this could not stand.

Laugh rule:
[Tumblr; Wayback] (by [twitter.com profile] vrakplundrare) People who bought this item were also interested in...
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Got IP-banned from Tumblr for participating in the ArchiveTeam scrape. I can still view posts through the dashboard, but not the webpage view.

Guess how I'm getting around this?

If you guessed "by submitting the pages to the Internet Archive and then viewing the archived version", you're absolutely fucking right.

(I mean, I suppose I could probably use a proxy or something, but this does have the advantage of being extremely meta.)
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Possibly Wordpress's (temporary?) removal of incremental Tumblr imports (it's now one-per-person) wasn't just to deal with overwhelming demand. There are a whole lot of duplicate posts in my Wordpress archive (I had 3,750 Tumblr posts at time of last import, yet I have over 6k Wordpress posts), and while I don't know for sure, "failed to properly skip already-imported posts while performing an 'incremental' import" seems the obvious answer for why.

Worst part is that, when using the "previous post" and "next post" buttons, it mostly skips the duplicates. I didn't even notice they were there until I tried to return to a post and hit the (non-cleaned formatting) duplicate instead. I'll have to work from the per-month archives instead of directly going from post to post.

(Still, better too many copies than not enough.)
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When I made this account, almost six years ago, it was purely for commenting and giving people a way to grant me access to their locked posts. I never thought I would post here. My only Livejournal post is a post directing people to my Tumblr.

But times change. While I don't post NSFW images...well, let me put it this way. If even Fetlife can't always be trusted to let people like me talk about sex without cracking down on them, why the hell should I trust Tumblr?

(To clarify, the Fetlife purge later ended up being temporary. But nobody--including, I think, Fetlife--knew that at the time, and I, for one, never saw them the same way after that.)

Not trusting a site is not quite the same thing as being unwilling to use it. I'll still be reblogging some stuff on Tumblr--mostly the "hey, check out this neat thing" type of reblog--but all of my OPs and quite possibly a lot of my comments will be hosted on Dreamwidth. They will be linked on Tumblr, but not cross-posted: all that you--more importantly, the censors--will be able to see on Tumblr is the link.

(And I'll be doing daily Tumblr backups to my laptop, weekly backups to my smartphone, and [not sure yet, depends on how well the Tumblr-to-Wordpress importer copes with the surge in interest] backups to Wordpress. But I was doing the first two already, and started doing the third while the purge was still mostly rumour.)

((Progress on re-formatting the Wordpress archive: ~3.8%))

I'll also be posting link roundups and roundups of places I've commented, which I am tentatively planning to combine into one type of post (with multiple sections).

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