I'm pro-homeschooling for all the reasons but I find it super weird when you ask someone what grade their kid is is and they respond with something like "we don't do grades"

Well then tell me what grade level they are doing schoolwork at. Or what grade you tell the authorities they are taking.

Or 12 - (number of years until being done). Because that's what I actually want to know half the time—the other half being how many years have they been a "school aged kid" for.

To be fair I've only heard this maybe twice in recent memory. It just sounds SO WEIRD when I hear it.

Tired: "there's no good in being right and dead"

Wired: "there's no good in being an innocent deathbringer"

Do you say papier-mâché—you know, that craft of making 3D figures out of shredded paper and water with a binding agent—as PAP-ee-ay MASH-ay or PAY-pər mə-SHAY?

Date your wedding with a gift you got. We received a gift card to the iTunes store

@mike Ha!

Shania Twain's grandfather, a Canadian soldier, fathered a child with a French refugee while in the Netherlands because of WWII. Fast forward to now and he's a reasonably well-known country artist

youtube.com/watch?v=S66D38Nv9_

Why hasn't Shania Twain done a collab with her uncle yet‽ I don't think I've ever had an opinion about country music, let alone country musicians, before.

The people who actively enjoy "AI slop" media are subconsciously admitting they don't have the mental energy to imagine what the thing could be for themselves. Surely there's a time and place for it, but I don't need 🤖 to make a pop punk song based on texts from your boyfriend in order to appreciate that the texts sound like the kind of music a teenager who wants to feel like they're dramatic would listen to

Strongly considering switching Mastodon instances. What are you on and do you recommend it?

If you blatantly disregard applicable rules of driving that are designed to protect the life of others, we can't be friends

Coffee? Yes. Milk? Yes. How much milk? Not a latte.

"When you have a moment" is almost as bad as "ASAP"

@sabbatical beige.party is a great name haha

It's funny, I don't follow a single account on any of those four

@sabbatical yeah I've been thinking the same thing. I've had instances.social/ open for days waiting for me to make a choice but I haven't gotten around to it yet

Today I had a weird realisation that, as a child, every time my mom told me that what I was inappropriate or whatever* it subconsciously taught me that I should just not share my thoughts.

* according to her interpretation, and not me intentionally being inappropriate

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