Levi Breederland @levisan@social.cleverlibre.org

In which I try to sus out the difference between "settler" and "coloniser" since I've been labelled as both and see myself as neither

https://levisan.me/articles/settler-vs-coloniser.html

A re-introduction:

- I live in a small town in the middle of the Alberta prairie with my wife and kids.

- I work from home as the IT sysadmin for a private school board that serves 6000+ students throughout the province.

- I spend my spare time with strange liquids: photo chemicals, beer, and kombucha

- English is my first language, but I'm decent in Dutch thanks to my dad.

I'm all for a good synecdoche but calling sun screen "SPF" weirds me out. It's like calling a car your km/h

If you say "AI doesn't have a place in writing" I hope you're not using spell check.

I find it funny that so much of the "copulation out of wedlock is wrong" messaging talks about it being PREmarital and not EXTRAmarital

You are going to sit on the toilet while no one else is home. Do you close the door?

I think part of why I feel the need to fill the silence with music/podcasts/audiobooks is because when I don't have something to pay attention to with my ears (like in the shower, when I had this realisation) my brain starts running around ideas, potentially getting distracting from what I'm actually doing

When you're talking about cameras and you want to specify that you don't mean digital cameras, what do you say?

Instead of arguing what "next Friday" means, how about we just stop saying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-389jMu0Y

So much jargon but "I'm IPAin and I'm yayin" is the best line

Gotta love it when you look like you don't care about people because they forget to invite you to things

TIL there's a permanent weather buoy at 0°N 0°E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

Here, have a correlation https://tylervigen.com/spurious/random

Time for more clickable links involving space, war, and Lego https://buttondown.email/levisan/archive/71/

By some definitions, WWI was fought, in part, on Canadian soil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1917#Quebec_Easter_riots_and_the_end_of_the_war

Working on my annoyingly-specific definitions for different types of relationships.

For someone to be an acquaintance of mine, do they have to consider me an acquaintance (or closer) as well?

Sometimes I just want to build a survey asking for opinions on a smattering of topics just so I can keep tabs on what friends think about those things.

People who shoot photos of random stuff and think your work is half decent… do you ever sell prints of your photos?

If so, do you have thoughts/tips/suggestions?

If not, why not?

What a year it's been