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A different social circle of mine has been sharing personal bingo cards so I might as well stick mine here as well.

Using an app that cross-posts to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon is like trying to tailor your message to target kids in daycare, a third year B.Comm class, and an Occupy Wall Street protest all at the same time.

Good luck with that.

As another Levi just said, dad life is the good life

Looks like we're doing this again… I wonder if the town did a cost analysis to see how much it would increase taxes to just do it all for us.

Stop trying to be cool and try to be weird. You'll burn a bunch of bridges but they weren't worth it anyway.

Pro tip: buy a small cheese bread or something with your XL pizza so you have small box for the lefties

I recently learned that, apparently, honey and pearls are not vegan because they take something from animals without due consent. It seems that being able to give consent in a way people can understand is not required for something to have to give consent.

So is horseback riding vegan?

The greatest thing about learning music theory is learning how every single thing has a name for it

@levisan the writer chooses their dialect of English. If they randomly jump between color and colour in the same project, take points off for being sloppy or copying and pasting random text from everywhere.

Also, never say "2 miles, or 3.2 kilometers…" If the reader can't picture miles or kilometers in their head, I don't care where they're from; that's illiterate and it's not the writer's problem. Pick one measurement system and use it.

If people are allowed to use Christmas songs in their TikTok videos in November, I'm well within my rights to have one stuck in my head and hum it while puttering around.

Should post-secondary teachers (a) specify which localisation of spelling rules (colour vs color, for example) they expect things to be written in and/or (b) deduct marks for incorrect localisation?

If you’re setting up “Christmas” decorations now, they’d better actually be dark-season-brightening decorations and you’re keeping them up through February

Is there any work of fiction that addresses the fact that a time machine, unless also a teleportation device to compensate for the movement of the earth/whatever between origin and destination times, would cause people to time-travel into outer space 99% of the time?

This might be my favourite "label my politics" thing I've seen yet.
ideosorter.github.io/

New project: categorise my friends based on their political opinions using this.

I don't like the two-letter month-name abbreeve of MA. (Yes this is real; I've seen it on milk jugs.) Sure, you could figure out if it's May or March with the context, but the context isn't always there. Why not use MR and MY?

If my doctor were to ever recommend Viagra, I think I'd instinctively look for the "mark as spam" button

It's kind of wild that "attribution" just means you say where you got a thing and doesn't include informing the creator or showing how what you're saying is true

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