Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

I work for a school board that runs three "abnormal" schools and supports nearly 3,000 families and 5,100 students in home schooling.

Kinda fun.

WILD: https://lab.true3d.com/targets

(Open in Chrome on desktop for the best chance of your brain exploding)

Do I know anyone who uses or used a foldable smartphone as their daily driver in this decade?

One day, the Watersnoodramp will just be yet another flood inspiring origin story

Heard someone call things like child labour and injuries in factories to be "failures of capitalism".

I don't understand how either of those things is specifically part of capitalism.

Child labour and injuries in factories can happen without those people owning the factory and operating it for profit.

Super niche but if you ever needed to write square notation… turns out there's a font for that. https://saintmeinrad.org/the-monastery/liturgical-music/chant-fonts/

Textbooks would be so much cheaper if they didn't have useless stock photography

I guess I back into parking spots even though it's more work for me now because of the service to myself in the future but more importantly the service to my wife if she happens to drive away in the future

If you're already on iOS 26, set background pictures for your iMessage conversations that'll make the other person react strongly, thus alerting you when they've updated their device.

Updated my list of recommend tv series https://levisan.me/recommendations/recommended-tv-shows.html

If you want a shelter to be accessible and feel like the best option for a person who is trying to pick the least-bad option, you put it somewhere well-connected by not-car transportation.

Anything other than that and you get a ghost town or a prison.

It’s kind of great that North Americans finally got around to sparkling water being a normal thing to have at gatherings and stuff, even if it’s Bubly

FIFO works great for me 95% of the time, except for when someone follows up to their original email and bumps it _lower_ in the queue.

Aside from two people, every person that one might consider to be a friend of mine is a relationship built on another relationship. If those other relationships end, I don't know how long the friendships would last.

What format are your kids' school-provided email addresses?
Something reasonably guessable or with random numbers, etc?

Doing some research for work. Do share the format if you wish.

I don’t think I can take seriously anyone who has the knowledge of how to use an em dash properly but lacks the knowledge to type it

Has a Ph.D., still types "--"

In which I shill for a friend https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/176/

Groups that purport to care about what happens to a person after they die and require people them to take action before they die for the sake of that should not brag about how many people join their group, but how many people die in what is believed to be the right state

For example, a Christian group counting new members is fine. "New member count is trending up year over year" is a beneficial stat. I won't disagree there, especially if they're one that believes non-members aren't saved*

but if the goal is salvation then the stat you should be bragging about is people dying while in a state of getting th Eternal Reward™

New member count can trend up but if those people apostatise before they die, what difference does it make?
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*If they don't believe non-members aren't saved, then they really shouldn't be bragging about the new members who are already saved, if their goal is in fact salvation and not their own member count but that's another rant for another day.

I don't like small talk, but that doesn't mean I don't like talking about the weather.

I don’t understand how “free speech” has to be more complicated than “no one can suppress what you want to express it causes problems, you’ll be held liable”