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Recently

Went to a few yard sales (and the Kinky Tea and Tag Sale yesterday, where I spent most of my time socializing, and Boomerangs today, where I found a fantastic knife block for $2, which has made Ellie pretty happy). It turns out that yard sales make an effective carrot for getting me up relatively early on the weekends, and also getting me out of the house. Unfortunately, I walked 3.7 miles yesterday and 1.9 miles today, wearing flip flops for the first time since last year. Oops.

Links

liv: Indistinguishable from magic

The whole point of why science is "better" than religion as a way of understanding how the world works is that scientific theories and models get changed when someone finds new data that contradicts the old view. This is a really good example of the way that selling science as an alternative to religion does a massive disservice to science (I care surprisingly little about vocal atheists misrepresenting religion): it leads to people, intelligent people I respect, trying to treat science as a source of eternal verities. I also absolutely disagree that physical science is inherently better than social science; it just isn't, but trying to cram science into the niche where religion or Humanism or other philosophical systems belong can really easily lead to that sort of misguided hierarchy between branches of science.

kink_bingo: Ramp-up Essay: Opening the door, or how fanfic changes everything

We want to share a little bit of our stories to get everyone excited for what kink_bingo does for the wider internet. Because, yes, we create awesome kinky pieces as part of this event, but there are larger implications! There is so much power and potential tied up in each piece we create and release into the wild. Who knows what switches it will flip, and what buttons it will push for someone who is searching?

dw_biz: Dreamwidth Q&A Session

Got a question on how the business end of DW works? Curious about the progress on a particular feature? ... Comment here, and we will answer!

yvi: Dreamwidth <3 meme

vass: Assholes in Software [poll]

erika: sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name

This is a circling meme for the mentally ill.

rydra_wong: On exercising whilst crazy (or: how I got so flexible)

(Warning for anyone who got linked here without the cut text: the following includes descriptions of suicidal ideation.)

Lecturing mentally ill people on how we should exercise for our own good is a shit's trick.