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Comments on my own posts:

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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Comments on other people's posts:

[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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Links:

[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?"



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

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Comments on my own posts:

Comment and Link Roundup: May 6, 2021

They sing it back for 85,000 reasons [two comments]

[cw: poverty, government bullshit, illness, other medical stuff, (fairly mild) death] Reading a lot of personal-finance blogs lately [two comments]

The one about QuickBooks [two comments]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[arguably cw: amnesia] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges; partially in response to [tumblr.com profile] florescent--luminescence) Cloud-dependent flashcards, and their more reliable alternatives. [two comments]

[cw: apocalypse, drugs, (arguably) discourse] [WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] rustingbridges; new comment in response to [tumblr.com profile] alarajrogers) Gold, disaster-hedging, and resilient tech. [five comments, one of which is new]

[cw: government bullshit] [Cashflows and Portfolios; Wayback] (OP by Joe & Mark) A gentle correction of one of the most important omissions I encountered on my wiki-walk through Canadian personal-finance blogs, TFSA edition.

[fairly mild cw: poverty, government bullshit] [Modern FImily; Wayback] (OP by Court) A gentle correction of one of the most important omissions I encountered on my wiki-walk through Canadian personal-finance blogs, drug-coverage edition.

[WordPress (Tumblr)] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] eightyonekilograms) Esoteric spambots.

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Links:

[National Geographic; Wayback] The world's smallest map.

[Twitter; Wayback] (by [twitter.com profile] GarethWild) One man's quest to park in every parking spot at his local grocery store.

[arguably cw: aging] [AO3; Wayback] (by [archiveofourown.org profile] alessandriana; h/t [personal profile] silveredeye) An episode transcript of a travel show from the future.



Looks like, for the first time in a long while, I have no diseaseblogging to report today.
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Had to postpone last week's backups because my laptop had enough on its plate, so here is a somewhat larger roundup.


Comments on my own posts:

[none this time]

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Comments on other people's posts:

(Note: this post is subject to a formatting glitch. The last post is still last, but all *other* posts in the thread are in reversed order.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] icarian-arts) Today in "memes that came to people in visions": accidental tips on phone customisation.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] femmenietzsche) The social acceptability of the word "bitch".

[Dreamwidth; Wayback crawling forbidden OP apparently later turned crawlability on] (OP by [personal profile] yvannairie) The complicatedness of musical taste. [three comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by [personal profile] yvannairie) Pokemon Go identity logistics.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by [tumblr.com profile] thisismycursed3rdblog; addressing [tumblr.com profile] itsmaledict (Halloween alt of [tumblr.com profile] itsbenedict)) Just how many twists can we put into enemies-to-friends-to-lovers?

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Links:

[FiveThirtyEight; Wayback] (by Ben Casselman; h/t Scott Alexander) As a 25-year-old part-time student in a certificate program at a school that prides itself on its *high* acceptance rate and who has never lived on-campus, I really feel this article.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by [tumblr.com profile] doctorbeth) Adorable stuffed-animal clothing.

[mild cw: war] [Tumblr; Wayback] (by [tumblr.com profile] the-battle-lesbian; h/t [tumblr.com profile] consumptive-sphinx) Shaun Keenan does some excellent art of dinosaurs in (relatively) modern contexts.

[BBC News; Wayback] (can't find a byline; h/t Matt Levine) The best roundabouts in the United Kingdom.

[cw: abuse] [The Outline; Wayback] (by Joanna Mang; h/t Scott Alexander) I remember Shakesville, though I was never a regular reader: it was too intense for even 2011!me to handle. (And I say this as someone who was once among the top 5 most prolific commenters on Ana Mardoll's Ramblings.) I disagree with Scott's assessment, though: to the extent that Shakesville strikes me as less terrifying than it did before, it is only because I have since met people whose goodwill is not conditional on staying in the good graces of Shakesville's ilk.

[Raph's Website; Wayback] (by Raph Koster) A postmortem of the MMO Star Wars: Galaxies. I never played it and am not sure I've even heard of it before, but the series is interesting nonetheless.

(although why one would deliberately create a world in which everything decays I do not know; decay is the worst part of the real world and I for one would rather not have it in my escapism, especially not in such a...well, *inescapable* manner)

Laugh rule:
[Sputnikmusic; Wayback] (by SowingSeason)
traits not necessarily suitable for a band that regularly references animals and shouts hey! an average of nine time per song.

(I finally got around to listening to this 2015 album recently. Very solid album, only a couple of duds. (Whereas with My Head Is an Animal I only liked about the first half.) My favourite was "We Sink", because I am predictable and also it is pretty.)


Bonus: a few selections from my recent bookmark-tidying.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (by [personal profile] deird1) The Vegemite Effect. (A memory: "This food tastes of lies," I say, waving around a piece of food from the Chinese buffet when I'd been *told* we were going to a steakhouse.)

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by [tumblr.com profile] thatsnotwatyourmomsaid) Hello, you must have found my camera!

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Chris Witham) Welcoming new zombies to the collective.

[K.B. Owen Mysteries; Wayback] (by James Thurber) Viewing Macbeth through the lens of murder mysteries.

Laugh rule:
[Bandcamp; Wayback (while for *best* results you'll need the audio, Wayback *will* at least get you the lyrics)] (by Brooke Abbey) Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true...

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