wait I’m confused, what is a star worshipper and why does this make you feel broken (don’t have to answer if you don’t wanna, just curious)
I was using “star-worshipper” to mean people for whom looking at the night sky inspires awe. They tend to go on about how light pollution is bad for the soul and I’m not complete as a person until I’ve seen the Milky Way with my own eyes. I’ve heard this sort of thing enough over the years that I’m now sensitised to it: even things that, taken on their own, are value-neutral or only mildly charged statements about stargazing and the absence thereof tend to make me bristle because they invoke all these other memories of proselytising star-worshippers. (There have also been at least one or two statements in the textbook that were more than mildly charged.)
Now that I think about it, making the entire link and only the link italicised might have obscured the fact that it was a link. The last couple paragraphs of the linked post explain why it makes me feel broken.
lizardywizard said: ah yeah I was on mobile and that didn’t even show up as a link for me for some reason! (no offence taken!)
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#(June 2016) #conversational aglets #(I’m going to start queueing these again) #(there seem to be quite a few of them) #replies #adventures in University Land #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see
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 homelandtags.
*However, the specific “home” line should not refer to it as not currently existing.
justice-turtle said: *digs through an astounding number of Pete Seeger songs and finds nothing* Everything I’m coming up with that even remotely fits is, like, heaven-as-home hymns repurposed for social justice utopia, and that’s mostly of the “I’m only going over home” sort.
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#(very end of May 2016; was quite possibly June by the time justice-turtle replied) #conversational aglets #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #(I’ve grown accustomed enough to that tag that I’m not sure I would actually change it if I found a ”home” line) #music #replies #(I came across a post in my OP tag reminding me not to use blockquotes because it tends to cause formatting glitches)
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.)
amango-tea said: Yeah, it’s flurrying right now and I am NONE TOO PLEASED ABOUT IT. Goddammit, weather!
How come I haven’t seen anyone talking about the end of dashboard nested reblogs except in future tense? I’m already seeing the new design. Am I actually in the first wave of a gradually rolled-out update for once?
I’m hopeful about it, really. Sure, every change takes some getting used to, and it’s a little annoying not being able to see at the beginning of a thread how many entries it has, but I do like actually having people’s names next to their writings.
shipwrecklight-blog said: I am a bad person for thinking it looks swank! Or, so has it been widely implied.
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#(September 2015) #conversational aglets #replies #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse
My second Crawl win! (The first was with a Spriggan Enchanter of Okawaru back in February 2013, in version 0.11.)
(For those of you unfamiliar with Crawl*, I’m called a “Politician” because I’m very good at backstabbing. (Only in the literal sense, though.) For those of you unfamiliar with roguelikes in general, Crawl is not an easy game to win. There was a statistic on the dev-blog a little while ago that 98% of games played on the online servers end in a loss, and that’s lumping the games of uber-players in with everyone else.)
Now that I’ve finished my current Crawl game, I’m going to give Rogue a try. I’ll be using this browser emulator, which was making the rounds on Tumblr a while back. I was catching up on @Play today and found a link to this Rogue guide, but I won’t use it right away: I want to see how much of the game I can understand using only my (slightly rusty) fluency in Nethack (plus the occasional thing I remember from reading @Play).
*Which might be all of you. I know comparativelysuperlative and amaranththallium both speak a couple different dialects of Nethack, but I don’t know what else they speak.
comparativelysuperlative said: I’ve only ever played the two biggest Nethack variants, but beating a new roguelike is hard! Congratulations on Crawl.
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#(June 2015) #((I know the picture says July 1st I think it’s a timezone thing)) #Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup #roguelikes #games #conversational aglets #replies
(my Internet was out for most of the day, so it’s quite possible there are already posts on my dash along these lines that I just haven’t caught up with yet, but anyway)
Tumblr what are you thinking
I have already liked three of those four posts
(I was kind of hoping it would be all four so I could say “all of those posts”, but no, turns out I didn’t hit the like button on the Civ post. Still, three out of four ain’t good.)
theunitofcaring said: yeah, this one seems to be singularly useless at best. but. posts you’ve already /liked/ is a bit crazy.
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#(April 2015) #conversational aglets #replies #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse
Hello, fellow citizens of The Future! I am writing this from my smartphone, because I can. I just bought it this afternoon.
I’ve never owned a smartphone before. I have a lot of waste-not-want-not issues about technology, and I was never quite able to justify a smartphone to my satisfaction. Even after my then-7.5-year-old MP3 player’s clickwheel began to fail four months ago, taking two clicks forward and one click back (or, worse, the other way around), I still tried to keep using it.
A few days ago, though, after a talk with my parents, I came to terms with the fact that it was time to move on. (Besides, I can give my old Sansa to my brother anyway, and he might be able to get a bit more use out of it. It’s still a step up from his current utter lack of handheld non-GBA computer.)
At that point, the question wasn’t so much *why* to get a smartphone as why *not*. I could get an MP3 player *without* Wi-Fi and camera and variety of other goodies, or I could get one *with*, in either case for less than I paid for the Sansa.
So, I bought an Alcatel Idol Mini. I haven’t set up the phone plan yet, but there’s a lot it can do without the SIM card. Almost everything I want it to do, really.
Of course, I can’t play around with it much yet, because of the whole school thing. Soon, phone. Soon, once all this pesky schoolwork is out of the way, you and I will spend some quality time getting to know each other.
(After all these years of gazing longingly from afar, I’ve finally got a smartphone. It’s beautiful and wonderful and *mine*, *finally* mine.)
P.S. (from laptop): Today is my Hebrew-calendar birthday. I didn’t intend for the phone to be a birthday present from myself, but it’s nice how that worked out.
depizan said: Happy birthday! And enjoy your phone. :)
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#(November 2014) #conversational aglets #wavered on whether this was worth agletting #but fuck it who said it had to be ~substantial~ #this is my blog and I will build a beautiful archive out of it #if you are uninterested or wish not to be caught off guard by blasts-from-the-past there is a conveniently blacklistable tag #(fun fact: I still don’t have a phone plan) #(my parents are almost never both using their phones at the same time so I just borrow one of those if I specifically need cell access) #(I have a VoIP account for making calls from Wi-Fi zones (and usually know where the closest Wi-Fi is at any given time)) #(if I trip and break my leg or something while walking alone I can still call for help: you don’t need a SIM card for 911) #(so overall I really don’t think I’d get $7/month of value out of having my own phone plan) #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #adventures in human capitalism #tag rambles #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #replies
I don’t have anything relevant saviored. You’d be surprised how rarely it comes up*, and when it does it’s usually people talking about how ill they are under readmores (so I don’t need an add-on to let me skip it). And like I said, all in all I’m glad for the warning.
*On the Internet, I mean. It comes up a lot when grocery shopping and suchlike. (Did you know Canada doesn’t have a consistent date-writing method? Good luck figuring out whether a bar of Cracker Barrel labelled “14 DE 13” is still good. (It is. Cracker Barrel writes the year first. But you can’t generalise that to non-Cracker-Barrel products.))
slepaulica said: i’m pretty sure there has to be an entrance hole for there to be bugs, but cutting them open is another good solution because more surface area for the sugar you dip them into :D
#(June 2014) #conversational aglets #replies #our home and cherished land #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #(I generally haven’t been bothering to cut my strawberries open to check) #(just looking for holes) #(although yes one does slice them in order to marinate them in sugar for Canada Day cake)
Hey everybody, the ArchiveTeam tumblr project is up and running!
If you have resources, please install Archiveteam’s warrior program to contribute to the project! It’s very easy to set up on and install on any computer, there are step by step instructions at http://tracker.archiveteam.org/tumblr/
We’re already up to 11TB and 187 million blogs archived, but we’re going to need a lot more help to get all the NSFW content before the 17th!
main project discussion takes place irc at #tumbledown on efnet, and you can add blogs to be saved using this google form: https://goo.gl/RtXZEq
Where did you get the 187-million figure from? It makes sense that the ~65k figure on the tracker would just be the sex blogs, since all of the blogs I’ve seen go by on it have been sex blogs, but I didn’t see any information regarding non-sex blogs.
I have unlimited Internet, cheap electricity, and a cool climate, so I’m in a pretty good position for (small-scale) volunteer computing. I’ve been running a warrior for a couple days now. I’ve been leaving my laptop on overnight because if I’m interpreting the instructions right, you only get to pause a task for a few hours before it’s considered abandoned and re-assigned, and I didn’t want to lose work. (especially since my current task has been 22 hours and counting; some of these blogs are pretty big)
I think I’ll continue helping out with their other projects once this one is finished: archiving is (as anyone reading this blog has probably noticed) a pet cause of mine. Since it mostly just needs bandwidth and doesn’t take much CPU, I can even run it and World Community Grid at the same time without problems (anti-disease efforts are my other pet cause).
nightpool replied to this post with:
the 187 number came from scott’s recent tweet, i’m not aware of the source of it but considering that he literally owns the computer all of these are uploading to (before being sent to the archive) he’s reasonably authoritative on the subject
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#(December 2018) #this concludes the retroactive application of my new aglet policy #(I looked at Twitter user @textfiles and was not able to find the figure) #(since it was not really that important I didn’t bother to dig further) #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse #(still helping with their other projects by the way) #(they’re kind of saturated right now but I leave the client program running anyway) #(sometimes I get a task to run if I happen to be close enough to the front of the line when they’re handing out a batch) #(and next time there’s an all-hands-on-deck project I’ll be ready to leap into action)
I just realized that I’m right-shifted. I have been using only the right shift key for capitalization for an unknown period of time, and deliberately using the left shift key feels awkward and makes me mistype my passwords.
Are you left-handed? I feel like the reason I’m left-shifted is to keep my right index finger closer to the mouse touchpad, but that might be an after-the-fact justification.
No. Right-handed.
That’s very unusual. On a related topic, which thumb do you space with?
I use left shift, right thumb for space.
I blame WASD gaming – if I try to use my left for space, I hold it down for a bit too long because I’m used to jumping with it in shooters.
Yeah, when I did an informal survey the vast majority of people used the right thumb for spacing. Left handers weren’t more likely to use left thumb, but I also only had two in the sample, so.
I didn’t ask what hand people shifted with, because I didn’t know anybody left shifted.
I left shift / alt / ctrl / super, which is supported heavily by the fact that keyboards are always fucking up the right hand versions of these keys and alt right gets overloaded in a lot of keyboard layouts
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