Magnet Opinions

[st_aurafina]

Dreamwidth code push! We can @ now! It's so great! But they moved the 'post comment' button on the text box, and where I'd normally click to post, there's a quote button. So apologies to anyone who has received "" in comments from me. Was an accident!

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Reccing Thursday (for some value of Thursday somewhere on this planet)

- Salim's Next 5 Wishes, by anonymous in fandom5k
(Explicit, American Gods, the Ifrit/Salim)
Five things style fic for the two characters I felt the most about in S1. I'm not sure if it's spoilery for S2. I haven't seen Season 2 and it worked fine for me. And it's beautifully written, with joy and bittersweet moments, and an eventual happy ending.

- PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version Sith by bethwinter
(Star Wars Original Flavour, gen)
I keep finding stories about giant bureaucracies and the little niches that people make inside them, and this is wonderful: an project manager in the Empire, dealing with prima donna engineers and sabotage and a mysterious annotator injecting themselves into her pilot testing program. It's so good, and also there are lol-cats.

- How Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog by Taylor Mali
Not a fic, but a poem! I found it when I was googling for a title for my Person of Interest Bear POV fic. I loved it a lot and I tried to work it in, but it didn't fit. So I will share it here: it's very New York-ish, very dog, if you know what I mean.

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That three things meme: kass gave me Pot, Glass, Magnet

Pot: Can't wait for it to be legal in Australia. I think it has a place in mental health, in cancer treatment, in chronic pain management. Probably more. I am looking forward to being able to dispense it (if that's how it unfolds.) I think it's stupid that we've ignored a good and therapeutic agent for so long.

Glass: Hm. I am hopeful that we're going to get a glass-specific recycling bin soon in my region. It's being trialled in a township not far from here. Keeping glass separate from other recycling is supposedly very effective at increasing the efficiency of recycling overall. This desire is entirely to do with saving the planet and nothing to do with my love of sorting things into things. *nods*

Magnet: Welp. I don't have many magnet opinions. I wish I'd done a little better at physics; perhaps I'd feel stronger about them. Okay, compasses are cool. Also cool is the fact that we probably have little compasses in our heads: The sixth sense: can humans detect the Earth’s magnetic field?

Yay, I have magnet opinions after all! If you'd like three things, please ask.

Comments

[sholio]

But they moved the 'post comment' button on the text box, and where I'd normally click to post, there's a quote button. So apologies to anyone who has received "" in comments from me. Was an accident!

Haha, I'm glad it's not just me! Mostly I have been either catching myself, or getting an error when I accidentally click it. But I was starting to wonder if the comment button did used to be over there or not, because I wasn't sure but my fingers certainly seem to think so.

[st_aurafina]

I can't remember either, but it's happening too often for it not to have been that way? It seems an odd thing to happen otherwise?

Maybe we're both in an alternate universe where the button is over there instead of over here, IDK.

[sholio]

Maybe we're both in an alternate universe where the button is over there instead of over here, IDK.

It's the only logical explanation!

[fred_mouse]

Weirdly, I've noticed that my 'post comment' button has moved, and I keep clicking the 'options' button instead. But I had not noticed anything else moving.

[musesfool]

If you are, then I am too, because I keep going to that side to post and it is not there!

[used_songs]

I thought it was me, too!

[ilyena_sylph]

It's not just you.

It moved because moving it puts it first on mobile (and that's where it was on the quickest-reply), but there's a lot of back-and-forth on github about if that's a good thing, since on-the-left is kinda unnatural.

[sholio]

Oh, is THAT why? It's great to know there's a reason; I couldn't otherwise figure out why they'd change around the UI like that (which was the main reason I thought it was me!).

[ilyena_sylph]

That is why! According to GitHub discussions, anyway.

Apparently it worked that way in the quickest-reply, so when the dev working on dragging the codebase out of the '90s saw it, they went 'ooh, it's already here, that'll do what I want!' and ran with it. And now here 'tis.

GitHub stuff.

[andraste]

Pot: Can't wait for it to be legal in Australia. I think it has a place in mental health, in cancer treatment, in chronic pain management. Probably more. I am looking forward to being able to dispense it (if that's how it unfolds.) I think it's stupid that we've ignored a good and therapeutic agent for so long.

Also, government and law enforcement currently spend faintly ludicrous amounts half-heartedly trying to stop people using it. If there was a legal supply they could give up wasting their time and money and tax it instead!

Just one example that has always stuck with me: I used to know someone who was a court clerk in a small town. There was a middle-aged man who grew pot because it helped with his chronic back pain. Every few months a neighbour who hated him would report him to the police, the police would arrest him, the magistrate would fine him, and the whole cycle would repeat again. A colossal waste of time and effort for everyone involved.

[st_aurafina]

Right? Prosecuting is a waste of money and time, and I don't think it does much as a deterrent. I will be glad when (if) the law can move away from seeing users as abusers, rather than people who are self-medicating.

Ugh.

[rattfan]

I'll give the three things a go if you want to hit me with some random stuff. [And I just stopped myself from hitting the quote! Why do they mess with our heads?]

[st_aurafina]

I think I'm getting used to the relocated buttons now? A little, anyway.

Three things: rain, apples, furniture.

[used_songs]

Thank you for the poem! I really like it. "Bad, love, bad!"

[st_aurafina]

It's good, isn't it? If you've ever had a dog (or loved a dog), you can really feel the meaning of it.

[musesfool]

Ah, that is such a great SW story! I reread it often.

[st_aurafina]

Ugh, it's fantastic! I am so glad that I came across it.

[vass]

Magnets: I'd heard that cats can too, or at least that it'd been speculated that's why cats are so good at route-finding even if they weren't able to see where they were being taken.

I remember from a BMEzine article that people can sense magnetic fields if they get a magnet implant in a fingertip. That's probably just adapting their sense of touch, but it'd be cool if it was because humans already had a magnetic sense.

That article is fascinating but also kind of weird with the strong Sapir-Whorf stuff.

"it is a contentious issue" "the claims are controversial"

I do feel like they missed a golden opportunity to say that the theory was polarising.

[st_aurafina]

I remember from a BMEzine article that people can sense magnetic fields if they get a magnet implant in a fingertip.

Damn it! I want one now, and it would probably go wrong and be so hard to explain to the doctors. Bloody BMEzine and its stupid/cool ideas.

I do feel like they missed a golden opportunity to say that the theory was polarising

Eee! That is a missed opportunity!

[mekare]

If not for you I wouldn't have noticed. How do I @? but I DO notice the moved Post Comment button. It's strange to see it on the left.

[st_aurafina]

You @ by going @ [username, but remove the space. And the brackets]. (or @ [username] dot website (like, twitter.com or a03.org or whatever you want to link to.)

It is strange to see the button on the left, but I am getting used to it.

[mekare]

Thanks for explaining.

Okay let me try this: st_aurafina

ETA: yay it worked! It‘s certainly quicker than typing the user name= tag

[st_aurafina]

It is! So much faster! Yay!

[smallhobbit]

I did enjoy the Star Wars fic, thank you for the rec.

I'll have 3 words too please.

[st_aurafina]

You're welcome - it's a good fic.

Three words: ice, planet, frying.

[smallhobbit]

Interesting words, thank you. I'll be writing about them in the next couple of weeks ...

[smallhobbit]

Finally got round to it: Three Words Meme (Part 3)

[dine]

I'm fond of random things, so if you'd be so kind as to fling three at me, I shall expound at length (some length - might be a short one, depending) on them!

[st_aurafina]

Three words: trumpet, paperback, bowl

[dine]

ok, these shall be interesting to ponder! thank you :)

[adafrog]

That's a cool poem.

I didn't know that about glass and recycling. And I totally hear you about sorting things into other things.

[st_aurafina]

SORTING IS THE BEST! (It's so soothing to me.)

Three words: paper, fairy, apricot

[adafrog]

ITA.

:)

[mergatrude]

It's surprising what one can have opinions on. *g*

I love the randomosity of this meme, so would you like to give me three words?

[st_aurafina]

I found it interesting to even have opinions about these things!

Three words: bird, midnight, imagination

[tinny]

Aaaah, I didn't know about the @! Sounds useful!

And yes, the Quote button is definitely completely in the wrong place. (I almost banned someone by accident today, because in an attempt to reach the Post Comment button, I went too far down and hovered over a user icon and what appeared where the Post Comment button was was "Ban User". I had already clicked before I'd noticed the popup. There's a confirmation dialog, and I cancelled. But... wtf why is that button on the left now. /o\)

"sorting things into things" is a very reasonable goal. I invented my own word for it, in English it would probably be "drawering"? Or "drawerizing"? Sounds weird, but I guess you get the point. ;)

[st_aurafina]

The @ is wonderful! I am finding it much, much quicker.

in English it would probably be "drawering"?

This is an excellent word and it should be official. I want to drawer(-er?) things!