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The Auction House revamp cannot come soon enough.

(This is about 19.5 hours of buildup. The “Auction Expired” messages have been deleted and are not counted here.)

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#I’ve been getting more into arbitrage lately #it’s working out great in most respects but dear *Boss* do I long for a ”Collect All” button #(hey Boss if I had a Collect All button I could work a lot more efficiently) #other people got hyped over the colour expansion #I’m hyped about the Auction House improvements #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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Now, ain’t that a beautiful sight.

Lightning Dom - Emphasis on Discount

Especially that bit.

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#god I love dominance flipping *so much* #I’m up early because I was too excited to wait any longer #(at first I was up early because I couldn’t stand not knowing whether we’d won) #(yeah we’d been in the lead most of the week but so was Nature during Lightning vs Nature) #(I ended up having to get my smartphone off the bedside table and pull up the dominance page on mobile) #(I was so happy to see this) #okay can’t talk any longer time to go tend to my stock #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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In hindsight, I probably should have known that an astronomy textbook would be written by star-worshippers.

Dammit, I just want to learn some neat stuff about space and pick up some miscellaneous science credits and not be made to feel broken. Is that really so much to ask?

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#Brin is touchy about stars #was already a tag #adventures in University Land #oh look an original post

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(Mentally composed this post last night, but didn’t post it because my computer was already turned off, and turning it back on would admit defeat.)

Procrastinating on falling asleep again because I’m afraid of hypnagogic amnesia. Brain is currently trying to come up with convoluted puns regarding “fuck the natural order”.

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#I would like to *cease* fucking the natural order #there is *way* too much nonconsensual memory play involved #sexuality and lack thereof #people who can distinguish between their drive for sleep and drive for sex fascinate me #oh look an original post #amnesia cw #not sure if this should have any other warnings

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(*digs post out of drafts, finishes writing it*)

Can anyone think of a social-justice anthem (generalised anti-bigotry preferred; failing that, feminism-focused) with a line involving the word “home”? Where “home” refers to, like, the post-bigotry utopia the songwriter wants to bring about*, or the community of universal sisterhood, or something like that, rather than the dystopic kyriarchy of one’s presumed birth.

I want a category tag for talking about social justice as a culture (rather than an ideology), and I’d like it to match my other homeland tags.

*However, the specific “home” line should not refer to it as not currently existing.

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#oh look an original post #I tried Seanan McGuire’s ”Wicked Girls” and every SJ-y Phil Collins song in my collection #none of them had anything suitable #(though if I can’t find a home line I might consider ”our roads may be golden or broken or lost”) #(although you’d need to imagine ”or broken or lost” said in a much more bitter tone) #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #(spoilers)

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{{I’m deliberately leaving the line-breaks weird because they were weird in the original, and in a way that helps get the post’s point across.}}

Okay, what the fuck is going on? I can’t edit my posts, I *can’t make new
posts*, I *can’t reblog posts*. Nothing happens when I press any of those
buttons. If I press reblog while on the post’s permalink page, it takes me
to a “reblogging” page, but the draft of the reblog doesn’t appear: all I
can see is my dashboard, which is supposed to just be in the background.
Oh, and clicking the “account” button on the top bar doesn’t do anything
either.

Liking posts still works. This clearly isn’t happening to *everyone*,
because @sdhs-rationalist has made multiple reblogs since this started
happening to me. (I noticed it maybe half an hour ago, but it’s possible
it’s been happening all day and I just didn’t try to do anything that would
set it off until recently.)

I’m going to try using the post-by-email function. Let’s see what happens.

(It said I can add tags by writing hashtags at the bottom of the post, so
I’ll give that a shot.)

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#oh look an original post #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #oh god what do I do

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It’s snowing. It’s the fifteenth of May and it’s fucking snowing.

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#this might be a record #I think the previous record was May 9th? #(to be fair it’s supposed to melt pretty quickly) #it was 20C a couple days ago #fucking cold fronts #oh look an original post #weather #(P.S. by ”record” I mean since the time my family moved here) #(not the past few decades or centuries or anything like that)

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Fun (and useful) fact for the day: you can email a phone number* and text an email address. The message will be automatically translated into the other format.

Does your friend with an unlimited texting plan want to have long texting conversations, even though you don’t have unlimited texting? Email your parts of the conversation to them, and you won’t have to pay for the outgoing texts!

Are you trying to call your ride to come pick you up, only to find that their phone is broken, you don’t have a data plan to email them with, and there are no public Wi-Fi hotspots around for miles? Text their laptop!

(I use those two examples because they are things that actually happened to my mom and me, respectively, and we had to muddle through them the hard way because we didn’t know about email-to-text/text-to-email. Next time, we’ll know better.)

To text an email address, just type the email address into the “send to” box instead of a phone number.

To email a phone number, send the email to [the person’s phone number]@[the email-to-SMS website of the person’s phone carrier; here’s a list I found covering many carriers in many countries]

Happy typing!

*(if it’s a mobile phone, anyway; don’t know about landlines)

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#the more you know #oh look an original post #I suppose I’ll tag this #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #even though I still haven’t activated my SIM card #(I stumbled across this information while considering maybe actually buying a phone plan) #(turns out mobile Internet is not as useful as it looks at first glance) #(a lot of the things I would want it for I can get done with texting) #(texting OTOH is *more* useful than it first appears for the same reason) #((in case anyone notices the discrepancy in)) #((”I still haven’t activated my SIM card” and)) #((”if I’d known about text-to-email I could have texted my ride”)) #((it’s because I was borrowing my mom’s phone during that incident))

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*switches blockquote to italics*

*presses “preview on blog” button*

*preview shows the original ask as anonymous (I sent it non-anonymously) with raw-code apostrophes and quotation marks, shows the original answer as my own contribution, and does not show anything after the original answer*

…you know what, I’m just going to leave it. Remind me never to use blockquotes again.

(On the other hand, when I press the “edit” button, make no changes, and press “preview on blog”, it does the same thing, so it might not reflect what would actually happen. Still not sure I want to risk it.)

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#oh look an original post #oh look an update #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #sexuality and lack thereof #(I didn’t originally tag it that) #(but I want anyone looking through that tag to see these two posts before the messed-up one) #(so they know what to expect)