Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Oh my god, this is brilliant, McDonalds has lost the "Big Mac" trademark in the EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/mcdonalds-big-mac-trademark-supermacs-eu-europe-ireland-a8728891.html

@maple HI! 🐙

@Jens probably have to wait an hour or so for them to stop laughing

I really hope this is meant as a joke but unfortunately it's far too believable

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/235821

@TheGibson I feel like putting on a really bad New York-Italian accent

No matter how skewed you sense of taste gets when you have a cold or flu or something, pickled onions still taste properly like pickled onions

Complete lifesaver when you're utterly naffed off with food not tasting like food

ah yes, mensa, the organisation for people with high enough INT to get in, and low enough WIS to pay 50 quid a year for a newsletter

alien:...sorry, that outburst was unwarranted
human: no problem, get it all the time
alien: so I've seen you people put big slabs of stuff into a machine that cuts shapes from it, how does that work?
human:...
alien:... lasers again isn't it?
human:...yeah
alien: I swear to fucking god...

alien: how do you lot fix eye problems?
human: well, we either wear corrective lenses or use lasers to fix it permanently
alien: huh, neat, I've also seen these stripey labels on a lot of things, what are those?
human: oh, those are barcodes, they get read with lasers so computers can keep track of things
alien: okay... and these long glass strands you use for communications, how do those work?
human: well, we shine lasers down them...
alien: WHAT THE FUCK IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE AND LASERS?!

@StephanieRose@queer.garden she has one of my cousins on her desk, I'm sold

@hfrazey I'm feeling a lot better thanks, little bit of lingering "bleh" but otherwise back to normal

hedgies are still hibernating away, they're due to wake up march/april-ish, we built them a load of little houses to sleep in and gave them plenty of straw to use as nesting material so they should be all nice and comfy

y'know, technically Jimmy Carter could stand for president again, would make him the second us president to serve non-consecutive terms

wouldn't be the most crazy thing that's happened in politics recently

@bob if anything a 10ft plinth just makes it a more interesting challenge

he's a very good cat though

Reggie (the cat) is definitely moving in, he's started being picky about his food and is meowing his displeasure if he gets something he isn't 100% fond of

@Jo I suppose there are still cars in it

@33b5e5 free speech absolutist, minimal moderation

https://social.quodverum.com

For fairly obvious reasons

Also they ban discussion of "the overthrow of the government of the US", I mean, seriously, what the hell's left to talk about if you ban that?

Now, if the trophy was a really fancy one of these then I'd fully understand, but it's not, the trophy for the superbowl is an elongated spheroid on a stick