Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

I will never be as rad as this biker bun

Could be an awesome look for @maple though

@trashyfins@chomp.life still check your email over here, might be different on some other fork or something

@colon_three well of course it is, chocolate's very bad for cats

@colon_three if I'm going to be anywhere without a fridge for any period of time I'll pick up a carton

Tea, coalition is pretty much all that keeps me going

@bunnylyn :tinfoil: they do it so you keep scratching the screen and then you have to buy more of them!

@fribbledom I know right?!

Five minutes before I learned about it existing I was all "no, I'm not going to put an internet connected wiretap in my house, that's stupid" but now I'm all "aww... I wanna give cute robot a home!"

@fribbledom 2019: aren't you a cute lil bug, yes you are, yes you are!

https://www.anki.com/en-gb/vector

Fun fact: If you're in the UK, this may be the first year you receive crappy christmas tat that was delivered from china primarily by train!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiwu%E2%80%93London_railway_line

@ElfLord I think it's a big papery thing

@Tobi magic

magic and pixies

@maple "this is popular! I'm going to show how cool and counterculture I am by yelling loudly that popular thing sucks!"

@LaserScheme I don't know but I'm somehow glad you did

Okay, this thing looks pretty cool

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/albertgajsak/makerphone-an-educational-diy-mobile-phone?

Open source DIY mobile phone kit

Runs apps written in arduino-flavoured C++, Python, and Scratch

@arielmt this is another one of those things that's perfectly fine but I wouldn't trust linus within 100 metres of

@InspectorCaracal @noelle no, wait, I was wrong

It was 8 zeroes, far more secure

Still, we had ours secured with bike locks at the time so we can hardly talk

@noelle wasn't that also the US nuclear launch code for like, 20 years?

new favourite mental image: @maple playing with one of these Anki Vector thingies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-rSK5y6EQ

@maple so that explains all the beeping!