Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

Considering how ostracised some people make me feel in casual conversations at social gatherings, it's a wonder I get invited to specifcally discussion-focused gatherings by the same people.

I wonder if they don't realise how they make me feel, or if they are inviting me because of some sense of social obligation.

You can tell how well you know someone by how well you understand the context of context-less comments shouted into the void

“Blast this Christmas music! It’s joyful and triumphant.”

Every once in a while I remember that Universe 25 suggests that copulation is not utopic

The whole "would you trust your SO with your phone?" trope is so annoying. If someone wants to be sneaky about something, they'll figure out how to hide it.

Either one doesn't keep their deepest darkest secrets on their phone or they don't have secrets.

Anyone saying "no" is either putting on an act or is an idiot.

I can’t help but say this feels out of character for a Wikipedia article.

Action shots.

A recurring experience:

1. Person complains to me about an IT-related gripe they have
2. I suggest a remedy
3. They brush me off like fixing the problem is less important than complaining about it

I don't know what to make of this.

You know, if you don't drink such giant cups of coffee, it'll stay warm while you're drinking it

The one thing Purolator has over Amazon's in-house shipping is the former will ring the doorbell when dropping a package off.

In 2035 it will have been the same amount of time from the first manned moon landing to the present as it has been from the Kitty Hawk until the first (supposed 😉) manned moon landing.

It took 66 years from flying to landing on the moon… what will we have 66 years after landing on the moon?

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.