Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@monorail 30 seconds, nice

Reminder: any drug that gets a lot of hype for "killing cancer in a petri dish" is probably not as useful as you think

It's really easy to kill cancer cells

Napalm kills cancer cells

The far more pertinent question is "does it kill cancer cells while not killing the human the cells are in?"

That's the tricky bit of the whole exercise

TIL that they sell rotary washing lines by length of drying space and not by anything useful like diameter which would help when working out which of the buggering things would fit in the space available

also the reason Sobble is so upset is because the DWP just sanctioned them for no reason at all

So, given the new pokemon games are set in the UK here are things I expect:

Trainer battles starting with "oo are ya!" and/or "WE'RE FUCKING WEST HAM"

Pokemon in the form of tea and pints of bitter

Constant drizzle

Queuing

Just a vague sense of urban decay

Also Team Rocket may or may not be the IRA in this

@maple the very coolest of nerds who probably knows where to find all the best microcode

@maple @noelle oh my, are these jokes causing diskord?

@maple this is a disq 📀

@maple missed opportunity not going for "take, earl grey, hot"

@maple you're maple!

hedgehog update!

yesterday I saw a small sign of hedgehog activity!

they're not due out of hibernation yet and I haven't seen any further sign of them today so current thinking is that it was a little hedgie that got disturbed when next door had a telco engineer out and decided to move house for the rest of their snooze

they do that sometimes

or just move house mid snooze for no reason at all

@maple best robot

very on-brand wine choice for me

octopus is covered in sawdust from doing the first bit of making a new workbench

nothing fancy, just shelves and worktop, but physically the largest thing I've ever made

@maple I would like to sign up for this

@evie I have the opposite problem in the wrist department, I have teeny tiny wrists so finding watch straps that suit me is harder

Also it means that stuff from Panerai will never, ever look anything other than ridiculous on me

birb.