Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Feels a little dystopian

Starting a list of my favourite Dutch words and phrases https://levisan.me/articles/favourite-dutch-lingo.html

@progo AHA yes thank you!

I'm coming up with a list of topics that are relevant to non-technical teaching and office staff, to address in a rotation in an internal, monthly newsletter from the IT department. What am I missing?

Everyone is *so* weird

Whenever there's some kind of major natural disaster and/or weather incident, I'm reminded that I'm glad I live somewhere that seems to have comparatively few of those and makes up for that by having regularly-scheduled harsh weather instead

Time for the best-named event on any religious calendar ever https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass

@brad_frost My oldeset does the same thing… I shall have to show her the clip now. Thanks for the reminder it exists.

@progo I can't help but feel like it would be hard to listen for more than one name in group settings…

@louis I have a $50 US savings bond that my great grandmother bought for me when I was born and about once per year I am reminded that I should get around to figuring out how to cash out as a not-American living in not-America. I love the concept but the whole process of everything to do with savings bonds is so confusing!

(Thanks for the reminder haha)

I have always been content with my name. I have always liked how it's not a name where people might assume a nickname is better.

Until today, when I realised that cool people use a nickname in their private lives and their given name in their public lives and now I'm jealous.

One of my coworkers passed away unexpectedly in December. If you feel compelled, his family would benefit from the assistance.

https://givesendgo.com/supportthehoekstrafamily?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=supportthehoekstrafamily

My super-great outstanding backpack from eBags (RIP) is no longer a thing. I think I'd go with this LTT bag if I needed to replace it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2S31JPMWMY

New year, new links https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/141/

Reservation Dogs was a near-perfect TV series

There's a big difference between a written work not mentioning if things like ethnicity or disabilities are properly represented in a society and it blatantly saying they aren't.

@raintrees I always like to point out that the Dutch family I've asked all say they call it "going American"

Futher research has just shown that apparently calling it a "no-host event" is common parlance among the event planner types

RIP Man of the Hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole