The Conservatives have an app for their conference, and it lets you log in with just an email address - no pw, no verification email, nothing. Just "Welcome Mr. Gove!"

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove's profiles have of course been trashed already, and the phone numbers made public.

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1046022868251873280

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2018, 12:37

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2018, 12:37

Sep 29, 2018, 12:37

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It's fairly well known that it was hard to get europeans to really take to the potato when they first came across it

Here's my theory of why that was

It wasn't because the europeans were afraid of new foods, it was because they thought "oh, a new plant, wait, it's in the NIGHTSHADE family?! The same family of plants that has one just called DEADLY?! And you want us to EAT IT?!?!? FUCK. THAT. SHIT."

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2018, 11:10

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 29, 2018, 11:10

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an' I say GENDER?! I 'ardly know 'er!

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 13:39

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 13:39

Sep 28, 2018, 13:39

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I wonder when and how humanity decided that mint should be the default flavour of toothpaste

**Sam the Octopus** · Sep 28, 2018, 04:55

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**Ellie** @noelle@elekk.xyz · Sep 28, 2018, 04:55

Sep 28, 2018, 04:55

Ellie @noelle@elekk.xyz

Reminder: every Mastodon instance is run by a human being and administered by a small group of human beings (and that small group may number 1). Attacking an instance means attacking the person who runs it.

This reminder is especially relevant if you're a mastodon admin. You don't get to pretend that other instances are monoliths when you know that your own isn't.

**Sam the Octopus** · Sep 28, 2018, 02:04

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**katt, always impermanent** @starkatt@vulpine.club · Sep 28, 2018, 02:04

Sep 28, 2018, 02:04

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Gay as in "whether or not we're of the 'same gender', this relationship falls well outside the scope of what's expected by cishetero-patriarchy".

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 02:10

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 02:10

Sep 28, 2018, 02:10

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HOT TAKE

A. Lange und Söhne make far better watches than any Swiss company

@ me cowards

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 02:02

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 02:02

Sep 28, 2018, 02:02

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clarification for non-brits

Sixth form is where you go if you're between 16 and 19 and got good grades in school

I ended up leaving after the first year of that after my AS levels because reasons

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**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:54

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:54

Sep 28, 2018, 01:54

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one of the CDs was Ozric Tentacles which I'm sure might explain a lot

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**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:42

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:42

Sep 28, 2018, 01:42

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Honestly I spent most of my time at sixth form in the common room listening to Muse and anything else we had a CD of handy

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:15

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 01:15

Sep 28, 2018, 01:15

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alcohol

Jacob's Creek Chardonnay review:

serviceable after the first glass, the first glass is rough as hell

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 00:27

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 00:27

Sep 28, 2018, 00:27

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As part of the process for prepare flax for spinning you are apparently meant to "heckle" it

...

OI FLAX, YER SHITE!

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 00:23

**Sam the Octopus** @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2018, 00:23

Sep 28, 2018, 00:23

Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

As proof of me hanging around with robots a lot, someone just mentioned that their joints were stiff and my first thought was "better get out the 3-in-One oil"