Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

What is "love your neighbour as yourself" if not an instruction to shovel the whole block?

This was algo-recommended to me for no apparent reason and is half decent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5pEDOrsBxw

But more importantly, I like the idea of staging it on the ice

People picking what they say is the best Christmas song or album obviously don't listen to enough music because I have a few hundred songs tied for first place.

Words like "Grinchmas" and "catmas" aren't "killing" Christmas.

The existence of Grinchmas implies that The Grinch is a canonised figure in the Whoniverse.

He's probably patron saint of those with cardiomegaly.

December's list of links (and not just Christmassy ones)
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/191-195/

Why You Can't Say "Christmas" in Hawaiian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h-gbeI0AFQ

Anything beyond rich text in an email is a disaster; why did we ever think that was a good idea?

Small town win:

Neighbour comes to the door. He found a phone while snowblowing my sidewalk. (Bonus win.)

Turns out it belongs to a kid down the street—but how did we know?

Well it had a notification from my kid on the screen.

If you insist on denying that a tomato is a fruit, I'll insist on assuming you're an American living in somewhere between 1883 and 1913

Best coffee reaction ever
https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxSsHPFm3ZDO4YiY3i6ewmUXB0zQNmFKN4

And here's @ryan's piece https://ohryan.ca/2025/12/10/winnipeg-your-denser-than-you-think/

My friend @ryan wrote about calculating real population density and it got me wondering why we don't just have one transit company in the Edmonton population centre https://levisan.me/articles/what-even-is-population-density-and-why-is-multi-city-transit-so-hard.html

"AI" doesn't create, it just regurgitates and meshes. Everyone's saying it like it's a bad thing but I don't think so?

"Talk about a recluse. He only comes out once a year, and he never catches any flak for it! Probably lives up there to avoid the taxes."

We've gotta bring Christmas back to its roots!

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tradition

Stairs don't need to be wide enough for moving furniture https://shadowsofaforgottenworld.blogspot.com/2016/06/hoisting-beams-in-amsterdam.html

A feature request: when placing a video call and waiting for the recipient to answer, your video should already be being sent, so that the recipient can see you before answering.

Should a person who has grown up with a phrase or term, not knowing it's bad connotations or origin, be "grandfathered in" and be allowed to say it once the history comes to light?

Blows my mind that some people in the current year still don't understand that Costco's ethos isn't about selling things for the cheapest price

I've had multiple people call me "an old soul" over the years and I've never understood what they meant by that