Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

I recently learned that, apparently, honey and pearls are not vegan because they take something from animals without due consent. It seems that being able to give consent in a way people can understand is not required for something to have to give consent.

So is horseback riding vegan?

The greatest thing about learning music theory is learning how every single thing has a name for it

If people are allowed to use Christmas songs in their TikTok videos in November, I'm well within my rights to have one stuck in my head and hum it while puttering around.

Should post-secondary teachers (a) specify which localisation of spelling rules (colour vs color, for example) they expect things to be written in and/or (b) deduct marks for incorrect localisation?

If you’re setting up “Christmas” decorations now, they’d better actually be dark-season-brightening decorations and you’re keeping them up through February

Is there any work of fiction that addresses the fact that a time machine, unless also a teleportation device to compensate for the movement of the earth/whatever between origin and destination times, would cause people to time-travel into outer space 99% of the time?

This might be my favourite "label my politics" thing I've seen yet.
https://ideosorter.github.io/

New project: categorise my friends based on their political opinions using this.

I don't like the two-letter month-name abbreeve of MA. (Yes this is real; I've seen it on milk jugs.) Sure, you could figure out if it's May or March with the context, but the context isn't always there. Why not use MR and MY?

If my doctor were to ever recommend Viagra, I think I'd instinctively look for the "mark as spam" button

It's kind of wild that "attribution" just means you say where you got a thing and doesn't include informing the creator or showing how what you're saying is true

I need to migrate my Unabomber quote bot from @kaczynskiquotes@botsin.space to a different fediverse instance… any suggestions of one that won't dislike having the writings of a convict being tooted on a regular basis?

All we had back then was good arguments and maybe, if you're lucky, an encyclopaedia in the house.

Now you can make a shoddy argument and back it up with a link for proof and win.

Obviously in the grand scheme of things this isn’t a good thing, but I have to wonder if the garbage truck operators consider this to be worth extra points.

24 years ago today, humans stopped living only surface of the earth.

Humanity is in the very early stages of a post-earth era.

I don't need a "smart" thermostat. I just want one that connects to wifi and gives a half-decent web and/or mobile interface

Does everyone assume those ZoomInfo "notice of personal information processing" emails are not, in fact, because they have to or want to be nice, but because they know some people will click through to see what they scraped? Or is it just me?

While I would appreciate a little more context, I think this is fine. It’s really saying “…when you can” rather than assuming the recipient has the same priorities and timeline.

If it were a real emergency, my mom would call. The rarity of her calls shows how urgent they are.

Rude: someone chiming in with a factually-inaccurate answer in a group chat while the asker of a question is awaiting your opinion to a question directed at you (asked in the group for everyone's benefit of your opinion, not for discussion purposes)