Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

all these people following me after seeing the trebuchet toots are going to be sorely fucking disappointed

Where's the cucumber?

THERE'S THE CUCUMBER!

I kinda love the new phone Energizer showed at MWC

big chonky boi

do I make my wine choices based entirely on how much I like the label?

yes

yes I do

Reminder: any drug that gets a lot of hype for "killing cancer in a petri dish" is probably not as useful as you think

It's really easy to kill cancer cells

Napalm kills cancer cells

The far more pertinent question is "does it kill cancer cells while not killing the human the cells are in?"

That's the tricky bit of the whole exercise

TIL that they sell rotary washing lines by length of drying space and not by anything useful like diameter which would help when working out which of the buggering things would fit in the space available

also the reason Sobble is so upset is because the DWP just sanctioned them for no reason at all

So, given the new pokemon games are set in the UK here are things I expect:

Trainer battles starting with "oo are ya!" and/or "WE'RE FUCKING WEST HAM"

Pokemon in the form of tea and pints of bitter

Constant drizzle

Queuing

Just a vague sense of urban decay

Also Team Rocket may or may not be the IRA in this

hedgehog update!

yesterday I saw a small sign of hedgehog activity!

they're not due out of hibernation yet and I haven't seen any further sign of them today so current thinking is that it was a little hedgie that got disturbed when next door had a telco engineer out and decided to move house for the rest of their snooze

they do that sometimes

or just move house mid snooze for no reason at all

very on-brand wine choice for me

octopus is covered in sawdust from doing the first bit of making a new workbench

nothing fancy, just shelves and worktop, but physically the largest thing I've ever made

birb.

nice to see Gritty get a cameo in the detective pikachu film

Was filling in the Gender Census ( https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2019/ ) and realised I just don't like titles

Not even a non-binary thing of most titles not fitting in my case, just don't like them

Like, maybe "comrade" if you absolutely must but titles in general give me a sort of "yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir" vibe

At the risk of resurrecting my previous toot on the matter which ended up killing my notifications for a solid week, the new 1TB microSD cards just announced by SanDisk and Micron would mean that IPoverTrebuchet now supports packets of 225 petabytes

I HAVE FINALLY FOUND A RELIABLE SOURCE OF DECENT HORSERADISH SAUCE!

The stuff you can most often find in supermarkets around here is in fact creamed horseradish, which is a very different thing to actual horseradish sauce