February 21, 2025

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Feb 21 2025

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• research referenced in Salt Lake Tribune article on social media and Mormon masculinity

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• My office neighbor is starting a “department and friends” campaign, I asked if there was an age limit, and that’s how kiddo is joining her first D&D game later this month.

• Verdict on new lobster claw bike gloves: Much better than my older winter gloves (I don’t have to warm my hands under water after getting to office), but the tips of my fingers still feel the cold. I must just have really bad circulation.

• One day, I will develop some more normal hobbies. In the meantime, I’m quite pleased with the custom Hugo templates and taxonomies I’ve built to make my book reviews be a bit more like what I imagine Goodreads would be like.

• Dentist’s office tried to get me to sign away my health data for AI training, but at least I got to talk Astérix with the German dentist and hygenist.

• The guy who runs Kentucky high school speech and debate found my name somewhere, remembered me from when I was a student at those competitions, and invited me to help judge a state championship next month. I am dangerously close to Nerd!Uncle Rico territory right now.

• In the past 24 hours, I’ve seen two different CFPs that apply perfectly to a paper I wrote and then abandoned after a rejection and a paper I’ve wanted to write but had no good reason to. This may be what gets me back into a research groove this semester.

Here are photos that I published this week (or at least their descriptions):

• Taking a moment to remember that the Garden of Enid webcomic is a pinnacle of Mormon arts.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The EPFL community gets a Mastodon server'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards'

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:

• 🍿 movieblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Princess Bride

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for The Yiddish Policemen's Union

• 📚 bookblog: Chroniques birmanes (❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤)

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Spencer