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possibly a bit too much of a UK-centric reference 

As it's Karl Marx's birthday today, here's a fun fact for you

He's buried quite nearby to Herbert Spencer, the person who first coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in regards to evolution

That's right, if you take a stroll around Highgate Cemetery you can visit Marx and Spencer while you're there!

Just out of interest is Cinco de Mayo actually celebrated in Mexico?

As someone on the other side of the Atlantic it looks a lot more like it's something only the Americans do

Oh my god

I've just found out that Adafruit sell plushie 555 timer chips

I need one

IT'S THE FOURTH OF MAY!

HAPPY BLAKE'S 7 DAY EVERYONE!

It's the fourth of May, that means it's... Babylon 5 day or something?

"Why isn't the scanner here recognising it's connected via network to my laptop? I can use the laptop to start a scan, but not the button on the scanner...."

~~20 minutes later~~

"is brscan-skey running?"

"goddamnit"

twitter: stores passwords in plaintext

computerfairi.es: stores passwords as little beepy songs sung by maplebots

Mystery solved!
In case anyone is interested: Twitter doesn't allow celebrity avatars anymore and a Brazilian person with 26k followers tweeted "Let's fuck Mastodon up" [paraphrasing here]

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Oh yeah we do take fake IDs. We take them, mock every misaligned number in it, and then put it through the shredder we keep under the register specifically for that purpose. Then we offer the kid a soda, cause we ain't heartless.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? 

Well, the GOP certainly isn't happy with her

warm political take seen elsewhere 

"Trump can take credit for the Korean peace talks the same way a man who interrupts an argument between two neighbors to bite the head off a chicken can take credit for ending their argument."

Okay, mass on-boarding of users into the fediverse as a whole could probably be improved...

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