Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

although both could be trusted to argue against proprietarymasons and masonsAsAService

in the times of old the freemasons and opensourcemasons feuded on village bulletin boards

bitcoin is, was, and always will be a bad idea

thus spake the octopus

maplesoft, not only a potential name for @maple 's software business but also a description of maple!

tinfoil hat time:

Greggs are actively contributing to all the furore about their new vegan sausage roll in order to get more people to go in and buy one

I know that I for one am halfway tempted to go in and get one out of spite against Piers "should take a long walk off a short one" Morgan even though I know it'll do nothing but give money to Greggs

underwater creatures are far better at space than land walkers because we're used to environments that feel a bit like microgravity

octopuses don't have knuckles

we do, however, have 8 arms so the format still kinda works

O C T O P U S !

total cost: maybe £1.10 total because I used some paracord for the handle 'cause I'm fancy like that

and I still have two other ring spanners spare

for carving things like spoons or bowls out of wood it's usually suggested that you use something called a "hook knife" to get the round sort of hollow shape

they cost about 20 quid

I didn't want to spend 20 quid, so I got a set of 3 ring spanners from poundland and spent some time with a dremel (other rotary tools are available) and made this ring knife type thingy that does the job fine

remember when you had to have separate crossover cables for stuff?

that bloody sucked

the label for Peat Monster whisky is fantastic

occasional reminder to always wear your PPE when you're doing anything where it's advised

Loud noises? Earplugs
Stuff flying around? Goggles
Dust and aerosolised stuff? Mask

Bird box: don't let them be seen by you
A quiet place: don't let them hear you
every zombie film: don't let them taste you

Right, got 2 of the 5 classical senses left, touch and smell, get on it hollywood

the british army is currently doing a recruitment campaign where, to get more young people to sign up to be shot at, they're calling them "snowflakes", "selfie addicts", and "phone zombies"

certainly an interesting advertising decision, let's see how well that works out for them

I forsee "badly"

yeah, looking up food recipes on the internet might be annoying to USAians but over here, in addition to scrolling through someone's entire life story to get to the recipe, I have to:

- convert all the measurements from US imperial to UK imperial so my mum can understand it because she's usually the one who wants the recipe
- convert all measurements to metric so I can understand it
- translate the USAian to English

reminder that scooter's back in the UK is just the miss marple theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWDhvIb7BQs

alternatively someone put in canals so I can take advantage of more of @SuricrasiaOnline 's River Basin Network Architecture