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Time to say this again.

I work for a school board that runs three "abnormal" schools and supports over 2,500 families and 5,000 students in home schooling.

AMA.

A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

Something great about my mom is that, to this day, she always* will listen when I have a new fun fact to share and I don't think I encountered anyone as a child who gave me that much attention

*in meatspace at least

Calvin Kaczynski

Mom keeps things swinging

Greatest song ever https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/156/

I find it WILD that any school authority would stick with PowerSchool after all this drama

In Mexico you can pay for a blood transfusion from the comfort of your hospital bed.

In the USA they (still!) have to take your credit card away from you at a restaurant to take your payment. Which one of these is a first-world country‽

In Mexico you can pay for a blood transfusion from the comfort of your hospital bed.

In the USA they (still!) have to take your credit card away from you at a restaurant to take your payment. Which one of these is a first-world country‽

People whinging about connector standards changing too quickly and conflating it with planned obsolescence is one of my favourite things

If you go to send a message to someone and your messaging platform shows the other person has notifications muted or whatever, does that cause you to re-evaluate if you should send it now?

Espousing my superior knowledge of colour theory—because I took a course on it in college, the perfect flex—is a key part of my personal brand

Google, Facebook, Skype, and HTC's emoji designs propagate the negative stereotype that people who wear glasses are nerds. https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/

I really don’t get so many of the choices within APA formatting

bunch of bossy psychologists

Visiting the Netherlands? https://levisan.me/articles/visiting-the-netherlands.html

"Pay rise" instead of "pay raise" seems so weird to me

The weirdest thing about knowing some Dutch is seeing names that might be Dutch and pronouncing them accordantly instead of only defaulting to English pronunciation rules.

No idea if Maljaars is a Dutch name or not but I said the j as /j/ instead of /dʒ/

I don't get the point of AirBnB and similar for the sake of doing what a hotel can do, but one day I would like to find one that has a waterbed so I can see what they were all about.

Watching old farts drumming is my new thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjUATJtAs_s

Anecdote time.

My mom's stepmom was born in 1926. She grew up with a pit toilet as the family toilet, but it was a special one. Inside the shack, they had two seats. One was normal size and the other was smaller, to be more kid-friendly.

As she and her siblings got older, they would say that using the regular-sized seat was a sign of maturity. And, being siblings, they'd often use the toilet two-at-a-time.

One morning before school during the height of the Depression, she and her sisters went to the outhouse before leaving for school, shouting "Big hole, big hole!" to call dibs on the toilet seats and flex how mature they were that they could handle the adult-sized seat.

Turns out there was a hobo (her words) in the outhouse. "…and he scurried out of there so fast and we never saw him again".

Being homeless then was nicer because there was "public" toilets everywhere.

Made some notes for you if you head to YVR https://levisan.me/articles/visiting-vancouver.html