If I suddenly drop off the face of the Internet after tomorrow, it’s probably because @sinesalvatorem kidnapped me.
(or, to use a positive phrasing:)
I’m meeting Alison tomorrow! Eeeeee *bounces with nervous excitement*
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#people where I’m from worry about being kidnapped kind of a lot #it’s what we do #mine is a paranoid people #oh look an original post
Hello, @sinesalvatorem! I got you an IRL heart emoticon. I made it myself, using my own hands and everything. <3
(For the record, just as “:)” represents smiling, to me “<3″ represents doing this. Now you know how to picture it when I write that, and what I’m picturing when you write it.)
This was originally going to be a contribution to the Put Nice Things in Alison’s Inbox project, but it turns out Tumblr is smart enough to recognise my usual URL contortions but stupid enough not to whitelist URLs from its own website, so instead it will be a contribution to Put Nice Things in Alison’s Pings (which does have the advantage of rhyming).
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#sinesalvatorem #oh look an original post #the most selfie-ish thing I have ever done
Finally got a chance to install the latest security patch for my body.
(I don’t know why my doctor’s office does their flu vaccinations so late, but at least I got there in the end.)
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#yes ‘installing security patches’ is pretty much how I think of it #’performing a civic duty’ is a nice framing as well #oh look an original post
Voiceover on Doctor Who “next time on” preview: Don’t watch this. You can never un-see it.
Me: Okay. *closes eyes*
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#what kind of fool do you take me for #unlike those poor Zygons I have not had all relevant knowledge erased and I *can* learn from experience #and it has *never* been worthwhile to look at something I had been told to look away from #if you are very lucky looking is neither bad nor good #usually it is some level of psychologically damaging #also next week’s episode’s title is #Sleep No More #I do not like that title #that is a fucking ominous title #fuck you and your horror bullshit #(look) #(I fully believe that ‘Blink’ has a lot of objective merit) #(but I think I’m a worse person for having seen it) #(and I do not want to do that to myself again) #(horror is so utterly not for me) #(causing myself often-permanent psychological damage for fun is not something I can compute) #I *might* read Chakoteya’s transcript when it comes out #but I will try to learn from my past mistakes #and not watch it #Doctor Who #tag rambles #dw spoilers #infohazards #oh look an original post
Fifteen attempted revolutions? In, what, a year? Two? Almost certainly not more than five.
Even if you manage to avert all of them, doesn’t the frequency itself tell you something is wrong and needs to be improved?
(Maybe if you didn’t keep wiping their memories, they could actually learn from their mistakes.)
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#from the moment they said they were going to the Black Archive I was waiting for the memory-erasure-device penny to drop #at first I thought that they had simply solved the what-if-a-Zygon-rebel-takes-Clara’s-form problem #(an obvious security hole if you know that Zygon rebels are the most likely intruder for your security to be facing) #by whittling down the minds of anyone with Clara’s memory-print until they *were* Clara and nothing more #but no #Doctor Who #The Zygon Inversion #dw spoilers #oh look an original post #rants #amnesia cw #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #reactionblogging
Consider the set S of people living in the town of Newville. Which of the following correspondences specify a function? Explain.
(A) Each person in Newville (input) is paired with his or her mother (output).
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[Answer section:]
(A) This correspondence specifies a function; each person has exactly one mother.
@sinesalvatorem, saw this in my math textbook and thought of you.
(“But have you considered lesbians? Therefore, your argument is invalid.”)
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#I’m going to throw in a complaint while giving them a list of the typoes I’ve noticed in the first two chapters #apparently a bunch of errors snuck in during the ebook conversion process and they didn’t think to have it re-proofread afterward #they haven’t managed to get it proofread *properly* (i.e. by someone getting paid to comb through it carefully) #but they *did* fix the typoes in Appendix A I pointed out to them #so I’m going to keep them updated on the others I stumble across for the good of the class #(I’m not going to call them homophobic or anything) #(I’m going to say that the phrasing was ambiguous about whether to account for the possibility of lesbians and it confused me) #(which is true) #oh look an original post #adventures in University Land
Went to check my email and saw that Harper’s been ousted!
*cheers*
(I’m not sure I want to reveal my riding in a public post, so I’ll leave it at that.)
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#riding-specific version of reaction post available if I know you well enough #wi-ith gloooowing hearts #we seeee thee rise #the true north strong and free #from far and wide #o Canada #we stand on gua-ard for theeee #oh look an original post #our home and cherished land #it’s quite possible there’s already stuff on my dash about this #but I wrote this before catching up on Tumblr
Fuck.
It’s not even November yet, dammit. “First snowfall that sticks long enough for me to put a footprint in it” is supposed to be November ~5th around here.
On the bright side, it’s supposed to be back up to double-digits Celsius tomorrow, so it won’t stick too much longer than needed to put a footprint in it.
(But still.)
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#weather #oh look an original post
Recently I saw my friend’s dog scratching his ear a suspicious amount, and the first thought that came to mind was “~follow for more flea-avoidant speciesism~”
I blame @ilzolende.
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#oh look an original post
Since I’m talking about the trip, here is a picture of a rainbow seen from above. There are many similar pictures floating around the Internet, but now I have one of my very own.
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#oh look an original post #this picture brought to you by my phone camera #(the ‘Welcome to Canada’ one was as well) #without my phone I would not have had a camera handy to capture this moment #yet more ways my phone is useful #rainbows #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #(I think I’ll go tag the reply post that too) #(what with the praising its GPS in the tags)
