Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Primary computer displays should be widescreen. That is certain. But so many things are designed to stack vertically instead of horizontally and I can't figure out why.

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

@jezza aha yes, these are very wise words!

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

@jezza this whole album is definitely in the running for best of the best

@jezza HA!

@sir_rob the only time I don’t do everything is when my neighbour with a blower gets out before me haha

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/

@jezza haha Actually Indians is great!

I’ve been saying I’ll keep putting “AI” in scare quotes until it politely requests otherwise for at least two years now…