Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

me, as an army officer:

"we've noticed you're requisitioning a tank for every single operation you're on, despite none of those operations even remotely requiring a tank"

"yep"

"...why?"

"tanks have kettles built in"

"...YOU'RE USING SEVERAL MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF MILITARY HARDWARE JUST SO YOU CAN HAVE A CUP OF TEA?!?"

"yes."

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WD-40 is not a lubricant

personal or otherwise

corcore

which is cockney aesthetic

corecore

having a 2600 emulator and ET on your mobile for when little kids ask you "do you have games on your phone?"

rgb lighting on a typewriter

it went from "ooh, look at my shiny watch that has "true seconds", only proper watchmakers can do that so it's dead fancy" to "oh, is that a cheap quartz? NO! IT'S DIFFERENT DAMNIT" in the space of like, five minutes

A watch complication that used to be far more popular than it is now was the "seconde morte", or "dead seconds"

this was a complication of a mechanical watch where the seconds hand would move only once per second from index to index instead of the usual several times per second

it was one of the casualties of the quartz crisis, once all these cheap quartz watches had hands that ticked at once per second nobody wanted to pay the extra for a mechanical movement that did it

should have posted this yesterday really but here's one of the worst things I've seen

who had kanye running for president on their 2020 bingo card?

"this water is too spicy!"

I'm getting sent pictures of frogs on dappervolk, have some frogs

LOOK WHAT I JUST GOT!

They're a Floral Mantid! They're called Dreams!

In the UK, most electronic devices should be PAT tested for electrical safety

*pats @mavica *

Yep, approved

like 60-something other countries also gained their independence from us, I don't see why the yanks make such a big song and dance about it

this 4th of july remember that all countries matter

smol dragons the size of cats who live in your house and make nests of any spare change they find