Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@spidercycle no worries, it's one of those things people might not usually think of when posting so I just like to remind people any time it pops up

@spidercycle hey, would you mind putting any spinning text behind a CW please

it can sometimes set off photosensitive epilepsy so we try to keep that stuff as opt-in as possible

@colon_three although the tea and biscuits is a fair cop to be honest

@colon_three oh yeah, I suppose so

and "oh! do you know the queen?!"

@colon_three being english might be a bit shit but I suppose we can be thankful that we don't have random yanks who took a 23 and me test larping as us

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@noelle HAPPY BIRFDAY! 🎉

@wren you can say you want to trebuchet terfs into the sun here, it's safe

in fact, it's almost compulsory

@joshua over here on the BBC stuff is always referred to as a generic term

famous example is sellotape being called "sticky-back plastic"

on the rare occasion where a branded product is named it's always followed by "other brands are available"

thing I've picked up on from the few USAian crafting videos I've seen, it's always brand names that are mentioned

like, "oh, use some mod podge", or "put your elmer's glue here", or "use some JB weld to fill that"

it's weird to me as someone whose first exposure to crafting tutorials was via the ruthlessly brand agnostic BBC

also the wide range of atrocities of the empire is definitely something to be at least embarrassed about but that's not actually the reason behind this one

the BBC is dropping the lyrics to "rule britannia" at the last night of the proms

the right is yelling about it being because the song sounds colonial as fuck and that people "shouldn't be ashamed of our glorious history of empire" and "the left just don't want us to have this"

the actual reason it's being dropped is the fact that a dozen people singing it in an otherwise empty albert hall will sound at best depressing, at worst just shit

@joshua you might even meet their badger friends!

@necro hey, friendly local admin here, local timeline is everyone who has an account on this particular instance, federated is everyone including those on other instances that we connect to

"Maybe the real treasure is the friends we made along the way"

"shut it, Frankenstein"