Sunday night links were busy this weekend

[kate_nepveu]

Last night I hand-rolled a Google spreadsheet to track my embroidery floss, including columns for floss assigned to specific projects and an auto-generated to-buy column. Then I went through all my supplies, entering floss and tidying up my patterns and so forth, and it was extremely satisfying. Also, I am not allowed to buy any new projects, except for the one I bought yesterday that was the final straw prompting this reorganization.

Of course I finished that slightly late, and then the Pip needed me for an hour in the middle of the night, which hasn't happened in ages, so sleep deficit, back again so soon.

Today SteelyKid declared a desire to learn D&D, which made me think ruefully of my statement, less than a week ago, that I could never do tabletop roleplaying! Anyway we bought a starter kit today and Chad was the DM, since he played some in the past. The level we're playing on is not very taxing, of course, and we made it through one combat session and it was fun, the kids were really creative and into it. But it was very time-consuming, and softball and baseball start this week, so I'm not sure how much we'll pursue it in the near future.

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Links:

• It appears that muting various Twitter meta-keywords will keep stuff off your timeline that isn't, you know, tweets from people you follow. (You may need to clear cache to see the effects.)

  Since the link is an image, go to Twitter's muted keywords settings and add these:

  • suggest_ranked_timeline_tweet
  • suggest_pyle_tweet
  • suggest_activity_tweet
  • suggest_recycled_tweet
  • suggest_recycled_tweet_inline
  • suggest_recap
  • suggest_who_to_follow

  For desktop, this is an improvement over my prior method of using CSS to hide things—plus AdBlock, you still need an ad blocker—because it follows you wherever. For Android, I'm sticking with a third-party client (Twidere), because it doesn't include Twitter's ads and I don't have to keep telling it which order to read things in. (You could also run a Twitter instance in Hermit, which has a native adblocker.)

• Please enjoy this story seed: "The ultimate power move in a vampire/fairy rivalry would be the fairy inviting the vampire over for tea."

• The subreddit for The Magicians is r/brakebills, and an innocent person mistakenly posted about . . . the bill for their brake pads, which ended up being a much-needed bit of levity for the fandom post-season finale, as mistaken person was very sweet and gracious about it.

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Avengers: Endgame fics, extremely minimal descriptions here but all the spoilers at the links:

• A post-canon story about spoiler character #1;
• A fix-it that seems way too simple yet has an undeniable appeal all the same.

Poll #21897

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+1 (thumbs-up, I see you, etc.)?

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Comments

[kore]

It appears that muting various Twitter meta-keywords will keep stuff off your timeline that isn't, you know, tweets from people you follow

Ooh, thanks.

A fix-it that seems way too simple yet has an undeniable appeal all the same.

I have the same problem with that fic that I do with the end of the movie, I just don't believe Steve would leave a friend who needed help. It's nice to see a fix-it fic from Nat's POV, though, most of them so far are really about Clint, Steve or even Bruce.

very oblique Endgame spoilers

[kate_nepveu]

I hadn't got the impression that, in that story, Steve knew that help was needed, but in all the post-movie stuff I'm seeing a lot of extremely incompatible interpretations and assumptions being brought to bear, which totally makes sense under the circumstances!

Re: very oblique Endgame spoilers

[kore]

Well, if he goes to SPOILER and his intention is to SPOILER, he should think that SPOILER is back there -- where else is SPOILER going to be? But there's no evidence (yet?) that in canon that's even possible, so writer's choice, really.

Re: very oblique Endgame spoilers

[kate_nepveu]

to rot13.com !

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[damerell]

That's handy. I've been blocking that Twitter junk with some uBlock adhockery, but it's pretty fragile. Thanks.

[kate_nepveu]

glad to be of help!

[larryhammer]

The Eaglet, who recently bought their first Pokemon deck, has expressed an interest in D&D, in part because of Ogres & Oubliettes played by My Little Pony characters. I think we'll find a floating kids game before shelling out for a set. (Janni and I do at least still have our old bags of gaming dice.)

[kate_nepveu]

the starter set from Target was just a set of dice, a rulebook, some pre-made character sheets, and a starter adventure; I'm sure for people with more experience, purchasing it wasn't necessary.

[emceeaich]

It's oddly heartening that Twitter has those meta-keywords exposed, at the same time knowing how to use APIs is privilege, and you shouldn't have to know/ferret out meta-keywords to keep unwanted noise from one's timeline.

[kate_nepveu]

agreed!

[readinggeek451]

Thanks for the Twitter tip! Turns out I had one of them muted already (don't remember doing it), but the rest should help.

[kate_nepveu]

hope it does!