Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

D&D campaign where you're all mimics that hid themselves in the gear of a really terrible adventuring party and you try keeping them alive because they bring you to cool food but you also have to remain hidden from them because they'd freak out and stop taking you to cool food

Much like The Pentagon is named after the shape of the building, GCHQ Cheltenham is known as "The Doughnut"

who decided they should be called "house boats" and not boaterhomes

I keep reading "bujo" (short for "bullet journaling") as "cujo"

which of course gives me the mental image of rabid notebooks attacking people

smol hedgie!

what gets me is that gab has investor money and made this much of a hash of things

everyone 'round here managed to make things work with a budget of pocket lint and a bit of string

So, HiPoint is a company what apparently makes guns, and they announced a new one

They announced they were going to name it by popular internet vote

If you can see what's coming next, you know more about the internet than HiPoint's marketing team

Yeah, they're having to call it the "Yeet Cannon"

For the USA the day you declared your independence from the British Empire was the most important day in your history

For us, it was Thursday

Am I comparing George III to M. Bison there? Yeah, sure, why not

hedgie friends have been relatively quiet recently, must be finding lots of food on their wanders and being too full to stop in the cafe for supper

still coming by for the occasional drink and munch though!

Oh yeah, is gab using any domains that we haven't all preemptively blocked?

happy "americans got pissy about having to pay tax" day

my dad, about a drill: it's safe, just the cable insulation is gone
me: so by safe you mean not safe
dad: it's only the outer insulation, it's fine
me: safe-adjacent is not safe!

a combination of two words coined by an award winning actress

it's a Natalie Portmanteau

remember when three quarters of the fediverse were using wasabi?

that was fun

from all the screaming and lamentations I'm hearing I'm guessing something internet-y what we don't use broke