Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

if a rule you've made about contributing to a software project is "bury the dead" you're doing development very, very wrong

went shopping today and a whole load of signs were up for this "noel" bloke

don't know what that's about

I mean seriously, look at this fucker right here

Couldn't even be bothered to get a decent logo made up, just a few seconds in paint and "give money plx"

y'know, it's not even the concept of "trying to monetise the fediverse" that I have the most problem with, I don't like it but corper fucks gonna corp

it's the fact that most of the people trying it are putting so little effort in

I'm offended by the sheer lack of effort

I wonder if the person/people behind this albin thing are regretting their life decisions yet

I'm not sure I'm going to call albin.social hiveway 3.0 because this one is trying to raise actual money instead of dunning-krugerrands

I'd advise suspending federation with albin.social

They clearly say that they'll be doing data mining on accounts on their instance, wouldn't be out of the way for them to data mine anything they come across from the fediverse as well

Also, y'know, they're pricks anyway

Oh hey albin.social, nice try there filing the serial numbers off mastodon and tusky and then trying to make money off it

Not even giving credit to the original devs as well! I'm sure this is going to go really well for you

OOOH! OOOH! OOOH! EXCITED!

So it's the time of year where I keep an eye out for christmas presents for people so I can get everything done early and gloat at all the people panicking a week before christmas

I have just seen what might be the most hilariously shit rendering of santa claus ever

https://uk.lush.com/products/christmas/strawberry-santa-0

If you really think about it, brexit is the result of Ed Miliband looking a bit silly eating a bacon sandwich

2015: Labour lose the general election due to Ed Miliband looking a bit silly eating a bacon sandwich (it was a simpler time back then), causing the tories and David Cameron to get in
2015: David Cameron decides the tories are losing too many votes to UKIP and so plans a referendum on leaving the EU
2016-onwards: the current shitshow

any time you see someone using a geiger counter in fiction or in reality they're always holding the little detector on a wire or a whole counter setup in their hand

Surely you want that on a stick

Nice long stick with a geiger counter on so you don't have to be anywhere near the thing you think might be radioactive

Put geiger counters on sticks

#FriendshipFriday

octopus loves all their friends

Okay, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is surprisingly good on twitter

Yes, this is an actual tweet they sent https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1046121007067607040

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-16/ecuador-asks-julian-assange-to-curb-speech-look-after-cat/10382992

Assange has now apparently reverted to a teenager living in his mom's basement

"I'll let you play on the internet if you clean your room and take care of your pet"
"BUT MOOOOM!"
"and stop leaving nasty comments everywhere, it's not nice"