Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

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with all the planned manned missions to the moon have someone sneak a little server up there

MOON TOOTS

Project idea: fediverse instance in a cubesat

TOOT IN SPACE

Oh, apparently Kellogs are stockpiling Pringles in case of a no-deal brexit

https://uk.reuters.com/article/britain-eu-kellogg/kellogg-stocks-up-on-pringles-cereals-for-fear-of-hard-brexit-idUKL3N2095GN

we won't have any medical supplies but we'll still be able to buy Pringles, how fucking comforting

Oh god, I reminded myself of this

http://nomoreteabags.com/

*angry british octopus grumblings*

A time traveller from the 2000's visits a modern software company

traveller: all your laptops have 32 GB of RAM in them?! Your devs must be doing some really heavy stuff, what the hell do they need all that memory for?

guide: web browsing.

traveller: ...you fukken wat mate?

the spam bots promoting gentlemen's clubs that turn up round here always seem to be promoting gentlemen's clubs in perth

why are they always in perth?

mastodon: the only place I've ever found where you can shit-talk early 20th-century aviation enthusiasts and people know what the hell you're on about

My thing for pilot's watches probably explains why I like the Cartier Santos so much, it's the original pilot's watch

First made by Louis Cartier for Alberto Santos-Dumont who piloted the first plane that could fly under its own power

(The Wright brothers can suck it)

To clarify, the brand is Guinand, with a D at the end

Whoopi Goldberg isn't flogging these out of ten-forward unfortunately

Ooh, this is nice

The new Guinand Starfighter Pilot

Bicompax chrono heavily inspired by the ones Heuer made for the Bundeswehr in the 60's

I'm a sucker for a good pilot's watch, also a sucker for a good German watch, and this is both

yep, he's frothing at the mouth after the lottery decision

I mean, more so than he usually is

Probably going to be quicker to ask who isn't running in the Democratic primary

Biologist: "What systematic name should we give to these large brown mammals?"
Scared intern: "BEAR! BEAR! BEAR!"
Biologist: "Yeah, Ursus Arctos Arctos sounds good"
Scared intern: "THERE'S A BEAR! RUN!"

I love comments about how "white people don't do spices"

Mate, we love spices so much we stole an entire subcontinent!

Brown Sauce: it's made of brown

Trump's really taking this "national emergency" thing seriously, I just heard he spent most of today in a bunker!

...huh?

...oh

apparently I misunderstood, when they said "in a bunker" they meant he was golfing again