This is a fun little timewaster
Oct. 22nd, 2018 11:37 pmI've made it as far as 90 points.
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The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss
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The Sunburnt Country
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A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell
#HimToo Should Be a Conversation About Male Victims of Sexual Assault
Also, FYI, signups are open at
The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss
Keep your home's temperature up and the heating bill down
The Fight to Integrate New York City’s Specialized Schools Is Misguided
The Sunburnt Country
Blue And Red Companies: How CEO Activism Is Reshaping Workforce Politics
A New Surge at the Border Is Forcing Migrant Families Into Motel Rooms
A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell
#HimToo Should Be a Conversation About Male Victims of Sexual Assault
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Date: 2018-10-21 04:53 am (UTC)Sucks sucks sucks I really wanted to play this, wondering if it's just a joke or something...
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:03 pm (UTC)At the same time, I've been wanting to request that you leave the original links visible, or at least say what site they're going to, so I don't use up my NY Times or Washington Post articles on things I'm only vaguely curious about.
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:30 pm (UTC)Although when it comes to that, I find the Post paywall to be utterly laughable - you can delete cookies and bypass it or, if you don't want to, stop a page from loading halfway through and bypass it that way. And I think you can still bypass the NY Times paywall by just googling the article title and clicking through that way.
(Though right now I've just downloaded an extension that bypasses most paywalls for me, so I don't even have to do that.)
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-20 06:57 pm (UTC)There's also the old standby of opening up paywalled articles in a different browser.
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Date: 2018-10-21 04:49 am (UTC)Some websites also have annoying "sign up for our newsletter" or "disable adblocker" interstitials; to zap them there's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javascript/
For reading on the phone: Firefox works on Android and supports all the same add-ons as the desktop version.
And the MSN News app lets you read as many WaPo or NYT links as they publish without hitting paywalls, unlike Google News and some others. The SmartNews app lets you read as many as they publish using their SmartView feature, which downloads all the articles for offline viewing once you open the app.
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Date: 2018-10-21 05:20 am (UTC)And the MSN News app lets you read as many WaPo or NYT links as they publish without hitting paywalls, unlike Google News and some others. The SmartNews app lets you read as many as they publish using their SmartView feature, which downloads all the articles for offline viewing once you open the app.
Nifty!
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Date: 2018-10-22 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-20 03:32 pm (UTC)I typically take the text directly from the title or, sometimes, from the first paragraph, so you can google the title if it's really interesting, or you can ask me if you want. Then I diabolically can laugh at getting more comments too.
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