Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

it used to be that april fools day jokes were only acceptable before noon on the 1st

of course now we have worldwide communcations systems which mean it goes on ALL FUCKING DAY

ALL FUCKING DAY IS TOO MUCH DAMNIT

And Tocks really enjoyed having a look around the new porch, came back a load of times!

I think we might have been spotted

more pics!

Pretty sure we had 3 different ones come by last night!

last night we had a fox come to visit!

The Speaker of the House of Commons has suspended proceedings pending the counting of the indicative vote ballots

But nobody's collected the mace from the middle of the room, and by tradition the mace is only there while parliament is in session

So the tories are now trying to raise points of order to an empty chair

we've decided to call the hedgehog that came last night "Tocks"

because they've got a load of ticks on them bless 'em

since a cat was eating the food we put out for the hedgies I made a little porch type thingy that the cat shouldn't be able to get through

We've also got this fuzzy bastard of a cat that managed to squeeze in to the hedgie cafe so we're going to have to work something else out for the entrance

Hedgiecam worked!

Saw this adorable lil bugger come along twice last night!

Well, the UK government has responded to the petition

In a large number of words that are summed up by "nah"

Didn't expect anything different but still, fuck you too UK government

Do you have fucking massive wrists?
Do you really like the films Commando, The Predator, Running Man, Raw Deal, and/or Twins?

If you answered yes to either of those questions you might want to look at Seiko's reissue of the watch Arnold Schwarzenegger wore in those films, the Seiko "Arnie"

Standard model is the SNJ025P1 and runs around £420

official octopus legal advice* on running a fediverse instance with the introduction of the new EU legislation stuff:

Be gay
Do crimes

*octopus is in no way a legal professional. also not a professional and the jury's still out on the "legal" bit

export EDITOR=rm

🦔 HEDGIECAM ACTIVE 🦔

I think

All indications point to it being active but given it's one of those "wildlife/hunting camera" things there's not much to give it away that it's on

We'll find out tomorrow

mesh network using small single-board computers with LoRa for long range links and solar for power

bit rate would leave a lot to be desired but it'd be neat as hell for text files and such

huh, I'd have thought google would have been the ones to come out with a credit card first