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@softgoat unreal, unreal tournament, all the bullfrog games, all dos games, half-life, mechwarrior, diablo, doom, civ 3, etc.

@squirrel bot on a boat: rowbot

want a bot to slow down: whoa, bot

surprised by bot: Whoa! bot!

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

rampant pedantry 

@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"

ukpol, brexit 

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

independent.co.uk/voices/brexi

...they have strategies?

@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

pda microfic 

@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

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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

safety dance wasn't even men without hat's best song

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

British humour 

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

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

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