Sunday night links were busy this weekend

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 spoiler fics, extremely minimal descriptions )

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