Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Fun fact: In some fields in the UK (such as horse racing and the sale of livestock) we still use the Guinea, a unit of account that went out of use in all other fields over 200 years ago

A Guinea is 21 shillings or, in modern currency, £1.05

I don't actually have any idea what hashtags and trending things are for

@TheDaughterOfTyr camelCase, definitely camelCase

When you've had to fuck around with desktop inkjets for years you really learn to appreciate a nice network-connected laser printer

@noelle @squirrel "these controls are a bit squirrely"

yes... yes they were

@noelle @squirrel in regards to the caption, that ain't your day-to-day pixel art, that's ANSI art!

@cypnk find some woods with a lake in them, get building a wooden underwater vehicle then run fibre to it

you'll get to cross off "small submarine", "cabin in the woods", and "hacker bunker" all at once

@squirrel I don't seem to be getting them at all at the moment, but that was before computerfairi.es was upgraded so I'm thinking that's just an issue with my phone

@Agiri@masto.ninja but #nobot would mean no maple!

@Jo I mean, it doesn't look like it has a broken spine so I suppose it's a little better than his usual fare

@squirrel mine's "turn in off then on again"

better with linux troubleshooting though, that's "search stack overflow for the esoteric error code it threw this time"

Current meme is: TEETH

@noelle (I mean, it's usually just oleoresin caspaicin, water, and propylene glycol so it's probably safe, but still)

@noelle alternatively, if you usually carry it, a little tiny spritz of pepperspray on your meal

(for the love of god don't actually do this)

@squirrel *also gives you some oil*

@squirrel *hugs*

@squirrel *excited wiggly tentacles*