Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

the spirit of christmas this year is gin

Honestly this is one hell of an earworm, I woke up this morning with it going around my head which was lovely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4BVMFt_K8

any time computerfairi.es gets a report it's like there's a race on to see which of us with mod powers can resolve it first

@maple korg don't even have to release a maple pedal like they did with hatsune miku (https://www.korg.com/us/products/effects/mikustomp/), just plug your gear into a maplebot!

1. Hatsune Miku is a robot who can sing good
2. @maple just released a track where she sings good ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO4BVMFt_K8 )

therefore maple is the next hatsune miku

while in office, Barack Obama was most often seen wearing a Jorg Gray 6500

this watch was bought for him as a gift from his security detail from the secret service gift shop

there are two things we learn from this: 1, Obama made a point of wearing a gift from his employees, which is nice

2, the united states secret service has a fucking gift shop

"while awaiting trial for trying to kill the president, come through the gift shop for a memento"

i made a thing

I have a new favourite conspiracy theory

http://pigeonsarentreal.co.uk/

Say what you like about Jim Mattis (and there's a fair bit to say) but his resignation letter is a fucking masterpiece

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/21/jim-mattis-resigns-as-defense-secretary-letter-in-full

wired: breaching ram
furry: male sheep knocking down a door, which would also be a breaching ram

tired: lockpicks
wired: breaching ram

stealth is overrated

qwerky birb

huh, elon musk has apparently donated a load of laptops to the Flint, Michigan school system

Think the kids would have probably preferred potable water though...

Because the fediverse is decentralised it means that if one instance goes down then the rest of the network can carry on until they get back up!

"wasabi broke"

fuck.

This is your occasional reminder that in retrospect Thomas Midgley Jr. probably shouldn't have been let anywhere near a research lab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

If any of you are Transformers fans then there's a limited edition Transformers x G-SHOCK watch coming out in a couple of days

It comes with an Optimus Prime display stand thing

https://www.gshock.com/watches/limited-edition/dw6900tf-set

I can't remember quite where "counterfeit genders" came from but it always brings a giggle when I remember it

also yes I know your name is the "unicode consortium" but we all know people only care about the emojos