Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Came for the brass 'n' bass, stayed for the alto flute solo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2loN0JFZa0Y

When I started playing around with social media, so many people—parents, teachers, &c.—were scared about sharing their lives online.

Now a subset of that group are the most annoying users of social media.

New definition of friend: someone for whom you could be a character witness and vice versa

Here's a Dutch punk song about hating tourists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5pnu9v_s0

In which my favourite piano-youtuber discusses a song in my favourite game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGb04ayqNhY

@sabbatical @khird zombie cube!

@HiroProtagonist It only works if both the person saying and the person they're saying it to are on the same page!

"ASAP" is dumb because it actually means nothing.

Latest email of links:
https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/111/

@sabbatical RIP 😔

A neat podcast going through all the names used to describe Jesus in the Bible

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/namesofjesus

I have yet to justify buying something from this site but their email newsletter is 10/10 https://jdandkateindustries.com/

Why is it that two kids looking at mobile devices on the couch is anti-social and bad but interacting the same amount while on the floor with Lego scattered around them is parallel play and good?

@progo Aha this is much better than just a generic list of suggested bits to write!

Getting a card for someone. Do I… sound insincere and look up a quip to write or write nothing and sound insincere?

Camping. Definitely was awoken by a party on a boat playing music from 4-6am. Campground staff say there's nothing they can do (the lake is not part of the park) and that the police are highly unlikely to come as it's a small lake.

So… who has a boat and wants to start up some freshwater piracy?

BeReal is all about "today" and doesn't even let you see the past.

Old Twitter was all about the newest-at-the-top feed

X still is about what's trending and showing you recent things it thinks you'll like.

Sure, FB and Instagram show you "memories" of today in the past, but the core is still recent content (and 24 hour content on stories).

Even blogs are all about what's the most recent.

Are there any social platforms that are about evergreen content?

@sabbatical All but one of the lakes within an hour drive from the outskirts of Edmonton are fairly shallow and end up getting "don't swim" advisories by August each year.

The other is much deeper, has a cryptid (said to make strange noises when the lake is frozen over in winter), and we're about to head there to camp for the weekend.

Further north-north-east is "lake country" and there are a lot more lakes so you have a better chance but the same problem does occur. Nothing is safe unless you head to the rockies or 3+ hours north.

I did just learn of a secret sandbank on a small river that I'll have to take the family to sometime

Gotta love living somewhere that has health warnings for both really hot days and really cold days. (Not joking; our weather is great 50 weeks out of the year)