Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@Granny@mastodon.social if you fold it it's clearly a taco

@kaniini @abby horology geek here, you're close but no cigar

"military time" would refer to a certain format of 24-hour clock, usually the format used by members of the CCEB

No hours/minutes separator is used, the leading zero is always written, and it's appended by the time zone

So it looks like 0840Z

The time zones are given as a letter starting at +1 as Alfa and going east

Juliet is skipped and used for local time, Zulu is UTC

@dumpling@octodon.social my go-to explanation is "animal crossing but a social network"

"Whisperings in Westminster tell me that both parties are about to change their Brexit strategies"

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-theresa-may-leadership-contest-irish-border-eu-european-economic-area-a8361846.html

...they have strategies?

@Jo @squirrel DID I HEAR WIGGLY?!

*wiggles arms around*

@jessiscah24 I mean, no need for a prison /system/ in this case

just chuck 'im down a well

9 out of 10 dentists agree: the tenth is a contrarian dick

@squirrel this is possibly the most adorable thing I've ever read

another good one I've heard:

He's making a list

He's checking it twice

He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice

Santa Claus is in contravention of article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679

I keep asking around for a decent GDPR consultant

Everyone I've asked said they know a great one but none of them'll give me their phone number

@minego huh

maybe they just want the "done in two minutes, charge the full call-out fee" jobs

@minego same with sparks, they vastly prefer installing stuff in new-build places to fixing stuff that's been installed for a while

@Jo chips, pickles, onion, mustard, and ketchup in a bun?

Hell yeah, I'd eat the hell out of a bunch of those

@Vann@glitch.social it already has batteries on board... TASER ROOMBA!

@minego octopuses have the better form-factor for using tools

cuttlefish can only use stuff right in front of them and squid are just a bit too long to squish into small spaces effectively

@minego am octopus 🐙

Vikings never wore helmets with horns on

But if they'd thought of the idea they totally would have when they were on the lash

@softgoat damn things are like socks, always finding ways to escape to some other dimension