Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

he's just wandered off after filling up with food

HE'S BACK TO HIS NORMAL SELF!

reggie, one of the cats that comes to visit, had an abscess that burst so he's been a bit sorry for himself and off his food and incredibly stinky the poor sod

we've been cleaning it up for him every night when he comes in and taking good care of him and today he's feeling much better, isn't in anywhere near as much of a mess, and is currently eating all the food in the house!

PaddyPower has opened books for "Which thing will be rationed first in 2019"

They've set the odds on most of the items somewhat unsettlingly high

https://www.paddypower.com/politics/uk-brexit

"Birmingham drug dealers are now selling cocaine in reusable pods amid concerns for the environment"

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-drug-dealers-now-selling-15645060

later horcruxes would have been a bunch of keys he forgot the purpose of, some dead batteries, and a bit of string

yeah, they're horcruxes now, but seriously, an old diary, a necklace, a ring, an old trophy, a tiara, and a random snake?

dude was clearing out his junk drawer

Harry Potter and the Wandering Around to Find the Contents of Voldy's Junk Drawer

oh wow, Omega are starting to make Caliber 321 movements again

For those who aren't total watch nerds, this is the watch movement that went to the moon inside the Speedmaster chronographs that were used in the Apollo program

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/omega-resumes-production-caliber-321-speedmaster-movement

this idea is free for anyone to make into a short story/novel/webseries/film/tv show

come the apocalypse people will still want their memes

I forsee many people wandering from town to town with usb drives working as meme traders

swapping lolcats for food to survive in the brave new world

although both could be trusted to argue against proprietarymasons and masonsAsAService

in the times of old the freemasons and opensourcemasons feuded on village bulletin boards

bitcoin is, was, and always will be a bad idea

thus spake the octopus

maplesoft, not only a potential name for @maple 's software business but also a description of maple!

tinfoil hat time:

Greggs are actively contributing to all the furore about their new vegan sausage roll in order to get more people to go in and buy one

I know that I for one am halfway tempted to go in and get one out of spite against Piers "should take a long walk off a short one" Morgan even though I know it'll do nothing but give money to Greggs

underwater creatures are far better at space than land walkers because we're used to environments that feel a bit like microgravity

octopuses don't have knuckles

we do, however, have 8 arms so the format still kinda works

O C T O P U S !