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An introduction:

I live in a small town in the Canadian prairie with my wife and four kids.

I work from home as the IT sysadmin for a private school board that serves 4000+ students in three shared responsibility schools as well as traditional home ed. throughout Alberta.

I am of primarily Dutch descent en ik kan een beetje Nederlands spreken.

I spend my spare time with strange liquids: photo chemicals, beer, and kombucha.

Companies that do "street view" photography should intentionally photograph streets with things like deciduous trees in the sidewalk during times of the year when they are leafless

You see a social media account that, contrary to the norm, requires your "follow" to be approved. Do you take this to mean that the person doesn't want not-actual-friends to follow?

Finally I have found a solution

xkcd.com/710/

I'm kidding, I don't not want friends. I just want different friend-ing

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

Imagine a world where there’s no legal/moral/ethical/religious reason preventing you from "getting with" close relatives.

Is the only reason society doesn't like things like incest because of the biological reproductive downsides?

I think I’ve entered my “properly cooks food on the grill” era 💁

An introduction:

I live in a small town in the Canadian prairie with my wife and four kids.

I work from home as the IT sysadmin for a private school board that serves 4000+ students in three shared responsibility schools as well as traditional home ed. throughout Alberta.

I am of primarily Dutch descent en ik kan een beetje Nederlands spreken.

I spend my spare time with strange liquids: photo chemicals, beer, and kombucha.

I’m all for a good synecdoche.

But saying “condo” instead of townhouse or flat bugs me.

Maybe it’s because I'd rather know the form factor and not the ownership structure

youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370

I love the airplane taking off from the car though I'm not quite sure what the point is. Never seen that before!

Also didn't expect this video to be a period piece—I thought it as going to be something new but talking about the old.

I love how basic the explanation is (and needs to be, I guess). It's written like the audience knows nothing. Which makes sense considering 1937.

Last time I read this strip, I didn't know the song. Now I know the song.

10/10 would sing again.

xkcd.com/1052/

youtube.com/watch?v=seGpYa8UO0

The first rule of Etymology Club is, wait hold on did you know that the word "club" meaning a group of people with a common goal is of 17th century origin and refers to the idea of a mass of people as being like a club, in the older sense of a cudgel, what were we talking about?

There is a server on my home network called "trucky." I can ssh to it using my common "shit inside my home" credentials, it says it's connected via ethernet but I don't know which switch. It has 500G of disk space, 16GB of RAM, it's a bare bones Debian install, and my home directory just contains a copy of the GitHub cli. I do not know where this is. I cannot locate it.

Does anyone else sometimes not proofread text messages before sending, in order to seem more authentic, or am I the only one?

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