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Sam the Octopus

"Public Universal Friend" is just such an incredibly awesome name

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Ellie

It's about that time of year when people start wondering things like "hey, why isn't DECEMber the tenth month of the year?"

So it's time for my little lecture on Romans, calendars, and our friend Gaius Julius Caesar.

I'll be posting it as a tootchain replying to this one, but if you're impatient, here's the whole thing: gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/

So: “Why isn’t the new year on winter solstice?”

The answer, honestly, is that the Romans had no fucking idea how to run a calendar.

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Sam the Octopus

mckamey manor waiver point-by-point 

@vantablack I'm pretty sure that precisely none of that waiver will stand up in court

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:thinkhappy: thinkin 'bout our hedgehogs all cuddled up and hibernating in their little houses

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Jimmy Wales has a new social network

He's not hiring any moderators

I have a feeling it will end up like the... wiki wiki wild wild west

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@noelle @tek so... it's basically the same model we use for 90% of the fediverse (free but accepting donations) but with queue jumping and only one choice of the amount you donate

and the donation amount they're asking for per user is enough to keep a small fediverse instance running

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@noelle @tek the $12.99 a month to use it might cut down a little on trolling

and, y'know, massively cut down on anyone using it at all

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uspol, trashpost, "public service" 

@sydneyfalk I read that as "public canning" for a second there

"I pronounce you guilty of malfeasance in a public office. INTO THE JAR!"

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mavi is goodest robot

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LB: one minute after us complaining about pleroma's image description support!

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mavica ebooks

* We're getting better at accessibility:

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Sam the Octopus

@mavica such a beautiful description, such poetry

they say a picture's worth a thousand words but it's really summed up by that alpha-numeric string

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@mavica it'd be easier if the work was good

but uh... *gestures at the huge number of newlines being federated over as just one example*

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@noelle Brian David Gilbert, Polygon video person, does the Unraveled videos

but I can totally see him using that as a costume idea for next Halloween

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@mavica I've just gotten used to it and now he looks weird to me without one

hasn't even been that long since he grew it, strange

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@mavica I seem to recall there being something about it being slightly lighter weight than mastodon but there's nowhere near the amount of difference I'd need to ignore various people being massive shits

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I just watched a polygon video with BDG in it pre-moustache and he looks like a baby person in it

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Ellie

image descriptions let the ghost who lives in your keyboard enjoy your posting too

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Cooler Aleums

Here is a supportive octopus for you

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@melissasage "military grade"

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