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During the end of fall, water melons (hence their name) usually migrate to the south for mating, it's a beautiful event to observe.

If you need an introductory guide to Mastodon, you should feel free to check out my Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon: github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide

I've done my best to make it understandable, but if there's anything I could do better, please suggest it! If you have a Github account you can submit a change suggestion directly; if you don't, leave a comment here or send me an email (noelledanthony AT gmail).

A classic story that bears reposting:

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."

The Case of the 500-Mile Email: ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail

I love it when USAians say that English food sucks

Because then I can make them question everything they ever knew by pointing out that we were the ones that invented the apple pie

we accidentally got our hedgehogs accustomed to expensive cat biscuits

they are now quite unhappy that they're getting given the cheaper ones because we're out of the pricey stuff

one of our hedgehogs was having a drink of water

they wanted to get at it better so they put their paws on the rim

the bowl fell over, covered them in water and they very quickly ran off as if nothing had happened

Reminder: Queuing is such a massive thing in British culture we even queue up to loot shops during riots

There is now a 25-foot statue of Jeff Goldblum in London

Apparently someone in the marketing department of NowTV thought it was a good idea

The British aristocracy has a long history of very subtly putting across their true feelings

Here is a masterclass on how the Queen does it

twitter.com/samuraiknitter/sta

cold take, subtoot 

It's almost as if existing in a capitalist society sometimes forces people to take ethically suboptimal actions

LINUX! YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!*

*parts of what you want to do will be a complete pain in the arse for legacy reasons

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!