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The usual mess of interesting things I've read, most of them quite out of date, in approximate order of my having read them. Brought to you by my browser crashing twice when I tried to start it after my most recent reboot.

As always, I use Export Tabs to wrangle this. And maybe my current 1,625 tab count will decrease some after I close all these?
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/export-tabs/odafagokkafdbbeojliiojjmimakacil?hl=en

Some good news from the south:
Woman who went on the lam with untreated TB is now cured | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/woman-who-went-on-the-lam-with-untreated-tb-is-now-cured/

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Us
https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

How I Got My Laser Eye Injury - Funranium Labs
https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-i-got-my-laser-eye-injury/

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Don't Say Characters Lack "Agency." Here's Something Talk About Instead. • Buttondown
https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/i-dont-talk-about-agency-in-writing-heres-what-i/
I like this perspective.
(There's a tangent I might go on, about a stray comment I once read about agency; suffice to say that I am reluctant to compare a fictional character's "agency" in a hopeful story about fighting back vs. the actual actions of real humans who were ultimately unable to throw off their oppressors.)

Kashyap Patel, MD, Sees Link Between COVID-19 and Cancer Progression, Calls for More Biomarker Testing
https://www.ajmc.com/view/kashyap-patel-md-sees-link-between-covid-19-and-cancer-progression-calls-for-more-biomarker-testing
I'm pretty sure this plunked into my reading queue before May.

A pair of Startup Castle stories:
Former residents of the 'Startup Castle' are sharing their horror stories online
https://splinternews.com/former-residents-of-the-startup-castle-are-sharing-thei-1793847873

Silicon Valley's infamous 'Startup Castle' is getting evicted
https://splinternews.com/silicon-valleys-infamous-startup-castle-is-getting-evic-1793848345

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A link soup, starting from approximately August 2022, and including random things that I moved over into my link stewpot that have been open since goodness knows when.

As ever lately, I am using this Export Tabs tool to manage my link dumps.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-tabs/odafagokkafdbbeojliiojjmimakacil/related?hl=en

A West Side Story production with a fatal lack of gun, and other theatre shenanigans:
Otter's Rock — edensgardener: weasley-number-ten: ...
https://beatrice-otter.tumblr.com/post/690876480157270016/edensgardener-weasley-number-ten

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Let Me Save You Some Time: A Field Guide To Avoiding Transition By Family Committee
https://www.thechatner.com/p/let-me-save-you-some-time-a-field

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Export Tabs - Chrome Web Store
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/export-tabs/odafagokkafdbbeojliiojjmimakacil/related?hl=en

and my new habit of shuffling my read and pretty cool tabs to a window named "Link Soup (read)"

New boots are nice. Though like most boots, I'm limited in how long I can wear them without my feet getting damp and chilled.

Today was supposed to have been the double-vampire day. I got up an hour or so behind schedule for my fasting blood draw (routine quarterly appointment to discuss results next week) but despite a very slow line at Burger King I got home by noon anyway.

I didn't actually need the printout list of all my medications, but for next time I think I need it, I'm going to put it in two columns. So I showed up to the blood drive a little early. We went through the rigamarole. (The screener asked whether I was male or female. My knee-jerk answer was "No!" and then I immediately explained that I don't have a gender identity, but here's what it says on my ID. Oops.)

I had been a little concerned about my laundry list of medications (it could have only taken one sheet of paper if I'd formatted it right) but it turned out that the thing that deferred me wasn't even on my mental checklist. I have no actual idea whether the ( dental procedure ) but in case it was the former, I got pushed out to mid-March before I can donate again.

The awkward part was when I went to get my stuff and leave. The two people who'd been doing the screening had headed off to do something else, so a third person saw me and went "Sit back down, I can help you!"

"I'm leaving."

"Huh?" *continues heading in my direction*

"I am deferred."

At least that part came through loud and clear.

I spent a while in the parking lot on the Terrible Sleep Advice For Night Owls thread on Twitter. It was weirdly freeing to get extremely specific about some of this stuff. Someone in Australia has apparently encountered the twin of the Regrettable Dr. M.; the world is apparently big enough to have more than one terrible sleep doctor with a delayed sleep phase himself who cannot help you if you don't adhere to the extremely inflexible wakeup time regimen despite it causing terrible psychological (and doubtless physiological) effects.

I got mildly lost while attempting to find that poké bowl place, and had to resort to the map. Silly roads that don't connect. Alas.

The prescription that I thought I was picking up was not the actual one that was ready; I suppose I'll be picking that up soon enough.

It was Trash Night, and I busied myself slicing and dicing the extremely narrow, tall, and wide box from my new glass chair mat. After that was done, I declared myself officially Sulking, since it was A Lot.

Tomorrow's a call. That should be fun. Last time was wrenching.

Links of the day:
https://www.vulture.com/article/joss-whedon-allegations.html - using the man's own words to damn him only slightly less comprehensively than that News Miner reporter did to that one guy that one time
https://www.businessinsider.com/natural-male-enhancement-privacy-case-2013-8 - Why it took until 2009 for law enforcement to stop grabbing emails from someone's ISP, and why "adult industry" businesses taking credit card payments are subject to higher fees and closer scrutiny (and why Dreamwidth's payment processor remains surprised at how well the website is behaving, payment-wise)
https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/5g-network-disruption-cluster/ - look, they TOLD you this was going to fuck up the altimeters or whatever

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails (83161 words) by Lanning
Chapters: 13/?
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Clark Kent/Lex Luthor
Characters: Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent, Lionel Luthor, Pamela Jenkins, Whitney Fordman, Eddie Cole, Stephen Hamilton, Mercy Graves, Eli Cohen, OMC, OFC, Pete Ross, Chloe Sullivan
Additional Tags: WIP, Identical Series
Series: Part 11 of Identical Series
Summary:

Part Eleven of the Identical Series. What are little boys made of? Clark and Lex confront their pasts, and fight for their future.

I have seen two posts about this so far, so this is for anyone who was reading it and didn't bother to subscribe because there had been no recent updates. (Chapter 11 was 2010, 12 was 2013, 13 was apparently Very Recent.)

https://thebloggess.com/2021/05/03/i-literally-forgot-to-post-this-and-that-just-proves-this-whole-post/

Except with bonus Other Chronic Conditions including miscellaneous pain and tendency to need to fall over every now and then.

New:
From The Office of Admiral Desplains -- contains a brief quote from Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, which is the introduction of a running joke. Also contains snakes.

Old:
McSweeney's: FAQ: THE “SNAKE FIGHT” PORTION OF YOUR THESIS DEFENSE.

Badgers.

synecdochic's "Broken Wings" SG1 AU: "a howling in the factory yard" ... beware of fucking snakes.

Unrelated:
Someone please remind me that I should probably not file a ticket with site services entitled: "Bug report: running too fast", because while site services are legitimately the people to go to, and it is a legitimate bug report, and the description encompasses the problem pretty well, it is also not a literal bug report, as I know my hemiptera pretty well on sight, and this was an entirely different order of problem.

Apparently the place to be if you want various entertainments is IRC. I'm just saying.

So I was going through my saved stuff from Twitter, and I found this, which I promptly shared in IRC:

filkertom, "I Had A Shoggoth": from the YouTube description: "ASL signing by the amazing Judi Miller, who had no idea what was coming." Let that roll around in your brain for a little bit. The interpreter had no idea what was coming in a songful of fannish hilarity, which meant she was inventing a lot of signs on the spot. As

synecdochic points out, it's better if you know ASL (which I mostly don't).

One of my fish dug up a Babes of the BNP interview. This features cheesecake photos of a couple of conventionally physically attractive young women from the British National Party. Hanging out with

semanticist has taught me that the BNP is pretty universally a bunch of racist shitbags, with racist shitbag agendas; these interviews are not exactly challenging, but do bring out some of the hiding-under-rocks aspect of the beliefs. It's actually pretty appalling, and also showcases the way they seem to be generally poorly educated. (Comments not recommended just from the sound of things.) There is a follow-up interview.

( Images, both related to androids & fisting. )

And finally, a Diva Cup review from a disgruntled but erudite customer who liked the theory, but found the practice to be ... impractical. (If you need to not read about menstruation and vaginas, this is not the link for you.)

Current Mood: amused

2:33 PM 7/27/2010
Today I am recovering from the week of dogsitting, having a bit too much soda, to cope with the sore throat that comes as a result of having inhaled a bit of pizza and the uncontrollable coughing to dislodge the thing from one's lungs. I'm also doing random administrative/housekeeping things, and waiting to see if my aunt is up for a walk later.

5:17 PM 7/27/2010
(later) Looks like no walk with aunt today. Alas!

6:47 PM 7/27/2010
Cheerful knitting chatter in #dreamwidth tonight. Sinister ducks. Having demolished ... oh dear, the better part of two liters of Dr. Pepper ... I have switched to ginger beer. (The soda thing is not particularly normal for me, but at least the sore throat is feeling better now. Pro tip: avoid inhaling your pizza, it leads to coughing, and coughing leads to sore throats.)

1:36 PM 7/28/2010
Don't argue with an ibex. Ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TugslL45aXk I don't know if he's what you call a professional, but... just don't. It sounds like he's trying to get a good take with him discoursing with the ibex, but it's just not working out very well. (The comments to most supposed English "translations" say that it's political questions, and that the "translation" is meant as funny but don't mention that they're joke translations rather than real ones.)

4:03 PM 7/29/2010
Last night's recipe was caused by too many mushrooms and a sudden hunger.
( Recipe! )

Today so far: woke up after a nice 8 hours of sleep, did Farmers' Market stuff with aunt, went to Target, went to Trader Joe's. Got a few frozen meals based on the concept that if I like them, I can look up recipes for them, because I've been curious (various curries) but if not, then I won't have gone to the trouble of cooking. (Cooking and I have a mixed relationship until I know a recipe well enough to do it effortlessly.) Got fruit. :D :D :D Eating leftover fruit from last time.

I have been suddenly consumed with the mental image of Temeraire attempting to add some glittery popstar to his horde (or to his crew) based on the sparkliness. This of course is an amazingly OOC AU sort of crackfic bunny.

OH GOD THE RANDOM ICON THING (new DW feature) IS PURE LOVE.

Current Music: "The Treason Wall", Dark Tranquillity
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4:48 PM 4/28/2010
This has been earworming me for the past little while, due to it being featured on the radio so much:
One Eskimo, "Kandi" Lyrics

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4:50 PM 4/28/2010
Baking bacon. JD got hailstones and I didn't. JD says I should bring over some bacon. :D

10:06 AM 4/29/2010
Dinner last night involved artichokes. Since I was cooking them, I figured I might as well write down my recipe. It's here: Artichokes for the Terrified: Boiling
Anyone who has another preferred recipe can feel free to do other parts of the series if they feel up to it.

1:06 PM 4/29/2010
I won at Farmer's Market again. Half a dozen eggs ("Getting a dozen is cheaper!" the helpful lady told me. "They last for weeks!" "I might not use all these by then," I said ruefully. I got half a dozen last time, only managed to use four, and then when I tested the remaining two the other day, they floated in fresh cold water. D: Soooo time for new eggs.), three baskets of strawberries, two pounds of sugar snap peas (the kind JD does not like unless the delicious pods are stripped from them), some mandarin oranges, a miniature lava cake, and kettle corn.

I agree with

rydra_wong that perhaps there should be a comm for sharing what one's winnings from this game are this week.

3:24 AM 4/30/2010
SPN spoiley,ish
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11:53 AM 4/30/2010
There's a call out for LiveJournal beta testers: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_releases/56422.html
It can be very fun to poke and try and break stuff, and poke and see if stuff still works right.

( Quote/earworm: WAR IS A SCIENCE )

2:31 PM 4/30/2010
Looks like ProPay pulled a PayPal on Literary Underworld: http://literaryunderworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/propay-internets-chastity-belt.html

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4:26 PM 4/30/2010
5a) It is inconceivable that, in 100,000 years, absolutely no humans developed Neanderthal fetishes.
Not Up to the Task, a Sailor Jim short on time travel.
There's discussion going on in parts of the greater pagan community about an ethics statement in which sexual abusers attempting to shelter their abuse under a sex-positive pagan umbrella are kicked to the curb. Because we don't roll that way, yo.

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Horribly scary weeping angel icon can be found here. Seriously, I had to scroll up so I can stand to still have that page open. Those things made quite the impression on me.

1:28 PM 5/1/2010
My hobby is sometimes very interesting.

( Last night's shopping )

Stuff was carried up. Due to actual parking, I could hang out for a bit, and thus we watched Mythbusters "No Pain, No Gain" as Tif put stuff away. This was the episode I'd tried to volunteer for. Sanjay their medic got some screen time!!!! He is *awesome*, even from just the five minutes I got to interact with him while being screened out from volunteering.

Due to cryptic statements on Twitter in the days leading up to the volunteering, I actually had a good idea of what was in store for the volunteers. ( Spoilers. )

One of my LJ associates volunteered, and did go through the whole rigamarole, but (alas!) they didn't use her footage in the actual episode.

It was still amazingly fun to watch, knowing that I had a tiny part in the whole thing.

And happy Beltane!

DOT DOT DOT. http://twitter.com/donttrythis/statuses/13195027039 I will NOT have sex with @jonathancoulton today. http://twitter.com/jonathancoulton/status/13195535946 @donttrythis Great. I guess this new Jamie Hyneman mask was a complete waste of money.

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