adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

@jbwharris first i have heard of nitter! neat. nitter.net itself doesn’t load for me though… is it down right now?

why is there so much turkic culture/terminology/imagery in c.s. lewis’s narnia books? especially when he never visited that part of the world, didn’t speak turkish, etc.

loved this article’s exploration of that question: https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/finding-turkey-in-narnia/ (and would read a longer work on it too!)

@willcodeforcoffee @levisan that’s configurable! forget if it is available stock, but if not a bunch of third party apps let you do cool stuff w gestures. bettertouchtool and swish are ones i use

@alex what/where is this? looks like mines ive seen, but a much more elegantly carved out mine than usual

@charlotte love this. wish all mechanical / electrical / electronic items came with this sort of a write-up!

decided not to take melatonin tonight (i only started taking it again to try to get into the school day schedule switch) and now it’s 2am and i’m still awake. whyy

so many things in life would be smoother if i fell asleep as easily as i sleep in. it’s like i never grew out of teenagerhood

@pluralistic ah boy, tempted to make the trek out to toronto for this!

@Eggfreckles was this in your drafts from 2018 or is he really doing this in 2023?

@levisan problem is the internet doesn’t know boundaries and there will always be places these sites can set up shop. i’m a big believer in net neutrality so my support of putting age requirements on hardcore sites leaves me flummoxed as to how i would actually want govs to go about implementing it on a practical level

@levisan yeah, and i’m assuming like 75% of adults who use those sites prob aren’t going to give them their drivers license and credit card. hah. i’m sure that’s a huge underlying thought on both sides tbh — the elephant in the room.

had another brand's "cold IPA" the other day, and was wondering aloud to @Chad whether it was connected to the "ice beer" brewing technique (freeze the beer to remove water). turns out, nope!

in a nutshell, "a 'cold IPA' is an IPA fermented at lower temperatures than what is normally used to ferment an ale"
https://www.hopculture.com/cold-ipa/

beck and phoenix also used this cool 3d stage projection technique that i hadn’t seen before. very nice!

drone light show in the background while beck did his thing at ontario place last night

@levisan my bro-in-law just switched to a flip phone. trying to break his dependency on his smartphone basically

@levisan i know there’s grey area cases — like say a gay baker objecting to doing a cake with a christian fundamentalist message (or vis versa 😉). i can see where things can get taken too far. where do the rights of the baker begin and the rights of the customer end? but the basic arrangement to me is better than any alternatives i can imagine

@levisan ah, well, that right already exists, it’s just trumped by exemptions to prevent prejudicial treatment in certain ways, like based on religion, sex, etc. which i’m grateful for tbh! where i grew up folks would be turned away from places for being christian, for example. glad it’s not like that here

@levisan ohh. yeah. well, in some cases ppl do get paid for their commutes but that’s rare. and that would incentivize people living far from work, penalize folks who maybe pay more to live closer

@levisan like a restraining order anyone can apply to whoever they don’t want to be around?

@levisan isn’t that the definition of being paid per hour?

@levisan what, like freedom of association?