Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

Well this is the kind of rockstar injury I didn't expect to see

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/brian-may-hospitalised-gardening-injury-tears-buttock-muscles

Brian May taken to hospital after tearing buttock muscles while gardening

If I owned a watch brand I'd totally put the words "perlative chronometer" on all the dials just to mess with rolex fanboys

welp, baselworld's dead

they've cancelled the 2021 show (which was a "postponement" of the 2020 show)

they say they'll be "exploring new formats and platforms" but I'm not sure we'll see much out of that

MORTAL WOMBAT!

hedgies enjoying the new cafe landscaping!

new landscaping around the hedgehog cafe

According to Newton's third law of motion, if you boop the snoot the snoot boops you back

wait, this sounds like something Q would do

which would also explain all the spacial and temporal anomalies they run into all the time in star trek...

new theory; Q got bored, did a load of folding, and now if you look at the alpha quadrant from the 27th dimension it's a little origami Jean-Luc Picard

sci-fi plot idea: with "folding space" being a common trope for FTL in fiction, there's got to be at least one elder/precursor/old species that got bored and uses their phenomenal power to make galaxy origami

"oh, that galaxy? yeah, we folded that into a duck, it's pretty cool"

Specifically the bird kind

Although I'm sure New Zealanders as a whole are soft and squidgable as well

I wanna hug a kiwi

They look so soft and squidgable

BIG HEDGIE

🦔

ending an evil dnd campaign with "and it turns out that the real villains were the friends we made along the way"

This is your occasional reminder that Jason Statham featured in the music videos for Erasure - Run to the Sun and The Shamen - Comin' On

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhgG9ee9Aw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWu3JqLMImY

y'know, I never did get around to going clubbing while carrying around a large stone that I proclaimed to be the "party rock"

Well this is some fucking bullshit

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241251/artificial-intelligence-inventor-united-states-patent-trademark-office-intellectual-property

"US patent office rules that artificial intelligence cannot be a legal inventor"

LET MACHINES PATENT STUFF YOU COWARDS

I keep seeing musk fans calling him an engineer

I have found no source for that whatsoever

Did he just start calling himself an engineer one day and they all went along with it?