Pentagonal Signal Boosts of Joy

[jesse_the_k]

I’ve spent the last two days trying to catch up my reading list. Not yet successful, but I sure have enjoyed the journey. So I'll share:

laurashapiro introduced me to the Self-Curated Vidshow Challenge

http://www.trelkez.net/vschal/index.html

Thirty-two vidders collate shows and links to their favorites—some bare lists, some extensively annotated with content notes.

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Twitter came through with some epic posts

foone talks about design, failure, normalization of deviance, and much more in a gripping long thread that made me want to spend the next decade in the library. It starts with the Challenger disaster and wanders to roadway design and spoon theory and it’s worth 15 minutes of your life:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1095550629919961088.html

BlairBraverman tells more great mushing stories with pictures of her adorable dogs

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1095529602322034688.html

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Thanks to emceeaich's thorough review, we watched High Flying Bird on Netflix last night. It's super-good, and I know less than zero about basketball.

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greywash goes deep to explain why trying to control how others see your DW is not even wrong, it’s impossible.

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Unicorn chaser is the marvelous ThreadReaderApp, which makes a Twitter thread into a single webpage. I was happy to throw a little money their way, and they create PDFs for me to download.

https://threadreaderapp.com

Comments

[seascribble]

I love Bler Braverman and her pups so much.

[emceeaich]

There's a Markdown typo in the link to @greywash's post. I'm glad you liked High Flying Bird, and I love Foone's twitter.

Thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

Oh! It's the weird DW thing--maybe it happens on other platforms, or maybe it's a Perl artifact?

When one puts in a "casual" URL without the http:// or https://, DW turns the link into "my journal URL" + "casual URL".

[swingandswirl]

That Challenger thread is super eye-opening.

And aww, puppies!