Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well that's… special. "Tell me you have never worked in a field that required accurate data without" etc. But what can you expect from someone whose next most recent article says "citations serve a gate-keeping role?" (Tell me you don't work in the legal field without etc. etc.) 000
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is one of my favorites. I even made a tiny version of it (and a few other solo games) that fits in an Altoids tin. 120
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Everyone smoked. Everywhere. Restaurants. Movie theatres. Airplanes. Hospitals. You technically had to be 18… but restaurants often had cigarette vending machines; anyone could buy cigarettes. www.facebook.com/groups/10748... 100
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Tell me you've never played Fate without telling me you've never played Fate." 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Lan Wangji, yes; Wei Wuxian, no… but before he succumbed to his inevitable doom, he'd subvert it to give Sauron nightmares and take over the Nazgûl and make them fight the orc armies. Except for the one that decides to become a turnip farmer. 020
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 12/09/2026From Word: Use "Save a Copy" or "Save as." Then select "PDF" from the dropdown menu. Set your options for accessibility; this gets the best tagging results. This is NOT the same as "Save as PDF." (Sorry. There are at least 4 ways to convert Word to PDF & they all get different results.) 000
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Quote by Henry Jenkins, Director of Media studies at MIT in 1997. (Author of "Textual Poachers," an academic book about fanfic.) Humans have always engaged in fanfic. It's only recently that it's come under hostile legal attention. 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"How did people survive?" …They didn't. A whole lot of them died. Theoden's line about "no parent should have to bury their child" wasn't in the book because the concept was unknown to Tolkien - not every parent had a child who died, but every parent knew someone who did. 122
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We are using monster in the sense that it's applied in the Harkness Test - a shape that is definitely not human; amount of sentience not implied by the shape. We also use "monster" to differentiate from "looks human but has cat ears and a fox tail." 100
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 13/08/2026earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... has it as more intense than I expected 020
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Tested it (at neatnik.net/steganographr) Text: Wondeful fanfic prose with clever dialogue Hidden: Generated by AI Copying & pasting into Notepad did nothing (the hidden messages were still there.) Retyping half the message fixed it. Pasting it into Word as text only got this: 120
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This was originally in the comments section of the Crooked Timber blog: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l... 2357
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I will continue to share this around until it's no longer immediately relevant. (Until the current Republican party collapses, I suppose.) 050
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 30/07/2026There is value in "just reporting" - as long as they're actually reporting, and not just serving as a relay service for bigots. Reporting includes comparing quotes/opinions to facts. Sometimes that needs direct action, like getting locked up. But often it just requires checking the details. 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There are many ways to provide appropriate support to data center plans. 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is one of their biggest worries. They're looking for tech solutions to it because they can't comprehend the idea of "you get loyalty from friendship and shared ethics, not money." www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se... 2120
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 11/07/2026A useful pain scale, one that's not "a little bit" vs "a lot." Note: The normal, expected amount of pain is ZERO. Not 3. Definitely not 5. If your normal pain level is above 0, that's chronic pain. 110
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Occasional reminder; seems relevant in regards to recent political events. Elections aren't fancasts where you get to choose the perfect person for each role. If there's no great options, vote for the least-bad person. 01910
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I love Seventh Sanctum, Fantasy Name Generators, and this tiny title generator: www.ruggenberg.nl/titels.html 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I keep it saved out to share with people to explain How Tumblr Works. 0365
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 27/06/2026They mean freedom for them. Not for women, not for minority groups, definitely not for children. 020
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 16/06/2026You might look at Wanderhome settings/expansions; the game doesn't have "stats" as such, so the descriptions of people and places don't read like game mechanics. This is from Broken Down by Andrew Aulenback: web.archive.org/web/20250730... (Archive link because itch is currently down) 240
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My main complaint so far is that it's hard to read. Peach background and light-ish brown text means I keep sliding past the actual text, thinking it's side-notes or something like that. You also can't see all the tags. The "+2 more" etc aren't clickable; whatever they are, I can't get to them. 230
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It looks like she pretty much uses their logos. Unless that's a very famous mountain range silhouette, she probably needs to change her logo. (Even if it is famous, she probably needs to find a different version of it.) She probably needs to change her font, too. 040
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Patagonia™ absolutely does not have to sue Pattie Gonia; they have the option of doing what Linden Lab did with "GetAFirstLife.com": darrenbarefoot.com/2007/01/20/m... They can *grant permission* and then it's not a trademark infringement. And they can make that permission limited and revocable. 231
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Someone is unclear on the concept - this is not how #CreativeCommons works. 130
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This looks fun and even though I'm starting late, I'm going to give it a try. (Which means doing several days at once.) #David'sMonthOfMusic 110
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I don't remember this being age-restricted when it was showing on MTV. I suppose teenagers are more delicate now than they were in the 80s. 110
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I got hit with the KWS ("kidswebservices," not creepy at all) "you need to verify your age" bullshit. I guess I'm done with DMs on Bsky, and a lot of the artwork. My Dreamwidth is 17 years old. Of course they won't use that to verify. They need 4 digits of an SSN. Not necessarily mine, of course. 170
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Sheep is inside the box. I even made air holes for it, large enough to reach in and feed or pet the sheep. 000
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Cannot tell you how many times I've looked at a game I'm interested in, and had it tell me "???" I play dozens of hidden object games. If they don't have enough reviews, Steam refuses to acknowledge they're similar to the other ones I have *from the same publisher*. 000
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Apparently they believe "the story" doesn't include anything outside of its main timeline. 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 21/03/2026The minimum wage in the US has been $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. Average rent was $875. You needed 120 hours to make that - so, either 3/4 of your income, or you got a roommate and it was about 1/3 of your income. Average rent is now $1,698/month. 234 hours. A work-month is ~173 hrs. 041
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Compare to the 1995 ratings. Today's top ratings are cancellation fodder 30 years ago. Today's audiences are very, very scattered. The media companies want you to believe the "top shows" are watched by "most of the US." Today's top shows are the past's "I guess I've heard of that" shows. 3222
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Had never heard of Frank's Sign, but on search... stanfordmedicine25.stanford.edu/blog/archive... 010
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Yes. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal... Before the 1800s, about half of all children died before they turned 5. By the 1960s, that was down to 1 in 5 deaths. 090
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 07/02/2026There was. Um. Some copying involved. But I'm sure the beta readers will catch all the problems. 170
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 02/02/2026You can set the tabs, but you have to manually add line breaks (which, among other issues, fucks with screen readers). If this were done with tabs, a screen reader would say: "2–6 Fail Action: +1 XP Whatever you were trying, it didn't work 7–9 Success: You Pick 2 of have done (most 4 options…" 020
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I made a travel kit of games for exactly this reason. (The tiny deck will fit in the box, but not with the gamebooks.) A Fool's Errand, With These Phantom Hands, & My Welcomed Guest, plus a tiny notebook. (It's better to just have a regular notebook.) 240
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Likely the closest I'll get to playing D&D for the rest of the decade. www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra... …The last time I played D&D, there were no sorcerers, warlocks, or wizards; that split happened later. Apparently I have much more affinity for one of them than the others. 000
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It can, but he's already slurring words, repeating himself, and having swallowing issues. And he's very, very concerned about falling down. That famous "leaning" photo is from 2019. (The medical drawing is from 1888.) miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fi... 120
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 17/01/2026My company left Salesforce… for Microsoft's ecosystem. There are a few other choices for that kind of data support, but they're all either "evil corporate empire" or "train your staff on a zillion small programs (and retrain them when they go obsolete)." Or both. 140
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 29/12/2025archive.is/GV2vX Not just Linux. Anyone who's teaching programming or computer tech is running into a generation that's been trained away from understanding how computers store data. (MS & Google don't want young students noticing the difference between "on my hard drive" and "in the cloud.") 120
Elf Herself @elfherself.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Ages ago, Sociological Images wrote about this. It included an overhead view of the distance between the bus stop & the main entrance. Anyone who can't walk more than a full block carrying all their purchases (and possibly kids) is going to need to drive. thesocietypages.org/socimages/20... 172