Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Just had some of the lemon chutney with dinner, fucking hell it's gotten strong

With the fediverse being a reasonable size and mid-term elections coming up in the US it's not unlikely that certain groups may try to weaponise the fediverse in the same way that they've weaponised facebook and twitter

Luckily we can do things about it here

If you see accounts breaking CoC then please report them, all us mods will do our best but we can only take action when we know that there's action to be taken

Barry Chuckle has died after a short illness

Very sad to hear that

Reggie is like, the platonic ideal of cat

He wandered in, started meowing his head off, took one look at the food I gave him, decided that it wasn't up to his standards, and promptly left

He doesn't even live here, he just wanders in for us to feed him

According to research (that I can't remember the source for), cats don't see humans as a different species or anything

They see humans as inexplicably large, slightly thick cats

"Google Glass helps kids with autism read facial expressions"

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/08/google-glass-helps-kids-with-autism-read-facial-expressions.html

Being able to easily recognise facial expressions would be handy, on the other hand, I'd have to wear google glass

I am not at all making this up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodger_%26_Badger

My parent's generation: "Why are all our kids so weird?"

One of the TV shows you put on for us involved an anthropomorphic badger with a weird thing for mashed potato, what did you expect?

lil hedgies doin' a huff

relatively big pudgy hedgehogs

Because lobsters seem to be a thing now

related topics: brexit, mad max

Turns out that the "fury road" is actually the M1

So uh... google searches for "stockpile" have gone up quite a bit over the past month

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=GB&q=stockpile

I think it's dawning on people just how fucked we are

❌ Mr.
❌ Mrs.
❌ Ms.
☑️ Comrade

Indigo is just dark blue

octopus is squidgy and huggable

I wish I could feed and get drinks for and care for all my friends as much as I can for my hedgehog friends

I wonder if, when you ssh into @maple, the 'tail' command defaults to 100 lines instead of 10...

And yes, that is a plate of canned food, a bowl of dry food, and a water bowl under a specially made shelter because if you're going to take care of random critters that wander by you might as well go all out