Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

The single best kind of repeating todo item is a "repeat x days/time after completion"

Syphilis was called…

The French disease by the English, Germans, and Italians

The Neapolitan disease by the French

The Hindu disease by the Muslims

The Muslim disease by the Hindus

The Christian disease by the Turks

The Polish disease by the Russians

The Spanish disease by the Dutch

The Chinese ulcer by the Japanese

What a lovely exercise in finger-pointing.

"I've got a hole in my brain / where what I meant to say lives" rings too true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmpelduRY3I

It's wild that the APA styleguide says to change the case of the title of a work instead of leaving it how the author intended.

Human zoos are wild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula%27s_Village

Drop your favourite illustration of Santa here

I wonder what political systems like the USA or Canada have would look like if next-of-kin of someone who has served in an elected office weren't allowed to run for office

When people want to “dress up” they do things to make them look more attractive to the type of people they want to seem cool to—as a “mating ritual” or otherwise.

While that might seem obvious, the part where it gets interesting to me is how some people are *really* bad at it—as if they don't actually know what makes them look better than default.

tfw someone is talking about a news story too scared to mispronounce a Dutch place name and says “I’m not even going to try that—I’ll butcher it" but has no issue mis-pronouncing the person's name wrong when there's pronunciation guide for both place and person in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Kris_Kremers_and_Lisanne_Froon

In 2018, I sat next to a chap on a plane and he was publicly interesting, so I set up a search alert for his unique name. Every six months or so I get an email about what he's up to and I love it every time. Oh, you're getting a PhD now? Sweet.

"Isn't everyone a little bit radicalised?"

Social conventions for thee, but not for me

If it ain't broke don't fix it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX

Macines talking with proper, polite English is the audio form of skeuomorphic UI

You'd think something this cool would have a longer Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Naslaa rock

Whenever I get passed by a car that has the blindspot detection warning lights on the mirrors I'm always surprised how easily they turn off. It feels like they should be "better safe than sorry" and maybe waiting 30 seconds after nothing is detected.

I am once again reminded that people often don't understand what they are agreeing to when they sign a contract. I see nothing wrong with this bill.

Paying for the infrastructure and the fuel separately is actually a good thing. You still pay for roads when you don't drive.

The "dark web" is evidently not dark enough

considering how often people are reportedly getting busted while using it

'Finding Turkey in Narnia' via @sabbatical
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/finding-turkey-in-narnia/