Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

having a 2600 emulator and ET on your mobile for when little kids ask you "do you have games on your phone?"

rgb lighting on a typewriter

@mavica such a good selfie of such a good bun!

@kimpegasus sold it for scrap to a... swedish? company IIRC

it went from "ooh, look at my shiny watch that has "true seconds", only proper watchmakers can do that so it's dead fancy" to "oh, is that a cheap quartz? NO! IT'S DIFFERENT DAMNIT" in the space of like, five minutes

A watch complication that used to be far more popular than it is now was the "seconde morte", or "dead seconds"

this was a complication of a mechanical watch where the seconds hand would move only once per second from index to index instead of the usual several times per second

it was one of the casualties of the quartz crisis, once all these cheap quartz watches had hands that ticked at once per second nobody wanted to pay the extra for a mechanical movement that did it

@Stoori I can't actually see anyone who'd buy this monstrosity caring about what time it is in places that aren't murica but it's there

@Stoori minute and hour hands are for local time, the red hand goes around once every 24 hours

usually set to GMT, hence the name, but could be set to whatever timezone you like

@typhlosion it's just "the cross" in... I can't remember which romance language

so yeah, lacroix is fizzy jesus juice

should have posted this yesterday really but here's one of the worst things I've seen

who had kanye running for president on their 2020 bingo card?

"this water is too spicy!"

@mavica my mental file on him is titled Cage, David

just that

put him in a box

@RowanBerry wait til you get to the pet affection one, that'll stumble you for a bit

I'm getting sent pictures of frogs on dappervolk, have some frogs

LOOK WHAT I JUST GOT!

They're a Floral Mantid! They're called Dreams!

@mavica *boops*

best robot

In the UK, most electronic devices should be PAT tested for electrical safety

*pats @mavica *

Yep, approved

like 60-something other countries also gained their independence from us, I don't see why the yanks make such a big song and dance about it