Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

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

@jezza haha love it!

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

My friend @ryan wrote about calculating real population density and it got me wondering why we don't just have one transit company in the Edmonton population centre https://levisan.me/articles/what-even-is-population-density-and-why-is-multi-city-transit-so-hard.html

@jezza I don't disagree!

I guess what I'm trying to say is… is it really bad that it can't actually create something new, assuming the users know what's going on? Ignoring the mediocre-or-worse media being produced, but for other uses.

If only "we" can pivot "AI" away from being a thing being used for slop and focus on better uses…

"AI" doesn't create, it just regurgitates and meshes. Everyone's saying it like it's a bad thing but I don't think so?

"Talk about a recluse. He only comes out once a year, and he never catches any flak for it! Probably lives up there to avoid the taxes."

@HiroProtagonist aha thisis quality content!

We've gotta bring Christmas back to its roots!

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tradition

@jezza Kyrie Eleison indeed

Stairs don't need to be wide enough for moving furniture https://shadowsofaforgottenworld.blogspot.com/2016/06/hoisting-beams-in-amsterdam.html

A feature request: when placing a video call and waiting for the recipient to answer, your video should already be being sent, so that the recipient can see you before answering.

@jezza It really seems like so many people aren't willing to manage the flack!

@mike While I agree, I think that's missing the point of my question. Partially because I used the word "allowed" and in retrospect, that was the wrong word to use.

I didn't mean for it to be about permission, but about whether or not someone using language around people who'd be offended by it should get a free pass, specifically because they learned it in a time+place where it wasn't offensive

@jezza Now that I can get behind!