Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@Anarkat The Prodigy - Firestarter

I forgot that that's now a 20+ year old reference

@archadia@tootplanet.space honestly I just wanted to make the prodigy reference but that also works really well

someone gave me a great tip for easily starting up a charcoal grill

you take some newspaper, roll it up, and cover it in melted wax. then all you have to do is light it and nestle it in to the charcoal, works really well

it's a firestarter

a twisted firestarter

@Gargron entire tory party in my case

@halcy only once, because I'm a baller like that

Huh, apparently all you need for a bunch of white male USAians to give a tiny shit about massive human rights abuses is for a company from that country to give $150 million to reddit

@maple blorb

crochet pirate flags

they're made of yarrrrn

@noelle the Borrowers are baking again

@maple *charges bun with headpats*

@Taweret@octodon.social have you ever seen a software dev have half a dozen monitors on their desk?

it's like that

@evie it's a 5 second mini-trailer for ads and then the full trailer for those that want to see the trailer

they could split those into two videos so people didn't see mini-trailer then full trailer but they don't want to split the view count because youtube algorithm

@cassolotl@queer.party the meds I'm on certainly do the trick

and even if I do have one then the witnesses are lot more concerned than I am

"ARE YOU OKAY?!?!"
"huh? yeah, where's nearest cup of tea?"
"YOU WERE OUT FOR AN HOUR!"
"oh yeah, does that sometimes, again, where's the tea?"

@cassolotl@queer.party that's what one of the docs said when I first went to them for the symptoms, on my records I think they listed the whole catatonia thing as "non-epileptic attack disorder" which I believe is code for "nope, no idea, but it's kinda funky and we wouldn't mind poking about if we had the time"

@cassolotl@queer.party with me the non-verbal is always a prelude for going catatonic if I don't get some diazepam in me so I'm assuming they're linked in me

and the "switch to a second language I don't know well" is just bizzare but it seems to work for me, idle speculation is that my brain stores languages I'm not good at in a different place than speaking my native language but 🤷

brains be weird

@cassolotl@queer.party I get much the same thing, almost always stress triggered

I've found when the vocal subroutines crap out I can still write things down on paper or switch to a language I only half know

@noelle I'm pretty sure there are more exceptions to the "rules" of english than there are examples where the rule applies

@noelle "please clap"