Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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

The eternal dilemma between trying to not let people put words in your mouth and hating to stick your neck out

Maybe the single best photo of my parents

Every time I use a gif that references something I like, I wish the recipient would get the reference but then I remember that the recipient probably wouldn't care considering they don't already know it.

But it bugs me every time because surely the recipient just thinks it's a random gif.

Sometimes I'll use a gif as a reaction or what-have-you that references a piece of pop culture that I want to reference.

Like I used a MKBHD thumbs up because I like MKBHD. But my boss will just see that as a random dude.

I don't know what to do about this.

I'm not a big MCU or Spider-Man fan but the idea of bringing in other actors who've played the title character for the multiverse concept was brilliant.

I love how there's a club where they core tenant of their club is not being part of the other clubs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement

It's kind of funny that ? and ! are on opposite ends of a QWERTY keyboard, but I guess it makes sense. I still type the wrong one sometimes.

If you're not careful kids these days will never understand how great practical effects in film can be

We, as a society, have agreed that there are things we can't use to discriminate people, and that using those things in that way is bad. Some people seem to forget that throwing around accusatory labels ("you're sexist!") is a grave issue, as it hampers preventing the actual discrimination from happening.

I don't know why I didn't realise it until just now but TIL Carl Orff of Carmina Burana is the same Carl Orff of Schulwerk

What is "love your neighbour as yourself" if not an instruction to shovel the whole block?

This was algo-recommended to me for no apparent reason and is half decent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pEDOrsBxw

But more importantly, I like the idea of staging it on the ice

People picking what they say is the best Christmas song or album obviously don't listen to enough music because I have a few hundred songs tied for first place.

Words like "Grinchmas" and "catmas" aren't "killing" Christmas.

The existence of Grinchmas implies that The Grinch is a canonised figure in the Whoniverse.

He's probably patron saint of those with cardiomegaly.

December's list of links (and not just Christmassy ones)
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/191-195/

Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-gbeI0AFQ

Anything beyond rich text in an email is a disaster; why did we ever think that was a good idea?

Small town win:

Neighbour comes to the door. He found a phone while snowblowing my sidewalk. (Bonus win.)

Turns out it belongs to a kid down the street—but how did we know?

Well it had a notification from my kid on the screen.

If you insist on denying that a tomato is a fruit, I'll insist on assuming you're an American living in somewhere between 1883 and 1913

Best coffee reaction ever
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxSsHPFm3ZDO4YiY3i6ewmUXB0zQNmFKN4

And here's @ryan's piece https://ohryan.ca/2025/12/10/winnipeg-your-denser-than-you-think/