why linkspams?

This post is for my version of a January posting meme, aimed at daily posts through January (and a little into February). You can suggest topics here.

implicated2 and wanderingnork wanted to know how I make linkspam posts, source links, etc. The answer to that is both really simple--I just collect all the interesting links that cross across my feeds and tuck them away into a list with snippets describing them as I find them--and a little more complicated.

( where, when, why, and what do I link? )

wednesday linkspam

h/t sylvaine, niqaeli wants to know: if an animal is fully sentient/sapient and consenting, is a human having sex with them bestiality or xenophilia? (So far xenophilia is winning.)

Speaking of, sylvaine has a guide of HTML basics for those wishing to avoid DW's fuck-awful Rich Text editor. I am personally never touching it again, but then I was already fluent in very very basic HTML from the last time around; this will be a very good cheat sheet for those of us who want to just... have a journal that isn't Weird. Or eating our text, for that matter.

jesse_the_k also has a very helpful guide for using Markdown, which comes in handy for posting to DW via email.

There's been a whole spate of fannish reccing happening at fancake this week. I am wholeheartedly in favor. If you're not familiar with fancake, it's a community based around reccing favorite fanworks in any fandom or medium.

staranise is wondering whether the plausible deniability sex workers operate under for legality reasons is confusing the ability of some men to work out what is sex work and what is genuinely women looking to date. Best meat of the discussion is in the comments here, I think.

PSYCHIC WOLVES FOR LUPERCALIA IS BACK. As someone who loves psychic bond creatures unabashedly, I am real real excited by this fest. psychiiic wooooolvvesss~!

A fake nude of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was debunked by foot fetishists. Truly we live in one of the stranger potential timelines.

DeepSqueak is a new analysis program designed to "translate" house mouse ultrasonic vocalizations. As I gear up for looking at the equivalent quieter vocalizations in singing mice, I think this is both pretty cool--it would be so nice not to have to do this myself--and also, like, kind of 'duh.' This last feeling is totally uncharitable, I suspect--it's just what I'm personally trying to put together to better read spectrograms. Anything you personally do already is way less cool than things someone else does, QED.

Some poor fucker ordered some crickets to feed a bearded dragon, opened them, figured he'd deal with them later, and set them in a bathroom. They escaped, and the story is pretty hilarious. Relatedly: who in your ship is the person who releases crickets throughout the house, and who is the person who has crickets visited upon them? (In my house, I am very much the likely cricket source.)

h/t Metafilter, Is estrogen the key to understanding women's mental health? As I fall more and more head-over-heels into fascination with the way that hormones influence our minds and our emotions, I'm spending more and more time fascinated by things like this.