Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

In Ireland, a man called "Prawo Jazdy" racked up over 50 driving offences

Nobody could work out how he was getting away with this until the Irish police made a startling discovery

That "Prawo Jazdy" was Polish for "Driving License" and a load of Irish cops were reading IDs wrong

Polish and Irish driving licenses both have the exact same format

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go camping and pitch their tent under the stars. During the night, Holmes wakes his companion and says: Watson, look up at the stars and tell me what you deduce.

Watson says: I see millions of stars, and even if a few of those have planets it's quite likely there are some planets like Earth, and if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.

Holmes replies: Watson, you idiot. Somebody stole our tent.

I hope they are anyway

there's only so much bronze and forest green you can look at

I think bold colours might be very in this year

4 new versions of the Carl F. Bucherer Patravi TravelTec in blue, green, yellow, and orange that have just been announced

These look kinda interesting, the Breitling Endurance Pro

Thermocompensated SuperQuartz movements, COSC rated, case made out of something called Breitlight (your guess is as good as mine), compass bezels, and a pulsometer scale

Comes in 5 different colours, you know I'm a sucker for orange

BEES ARE GOOD
BEES ARE GOOD
ALL OF THESE BEES ARE GOOD 🐝

@noelle HAPPY BIRFDAY! 🎉

thing I've picked up on from the few USAian crafting videos I've seen, it's always brand names that are mentioned

like, "oh, use some mod podge", or "put your elmer's glue here", or "use some JB weld to fill that"

it's weird to me as someone whose first exposure to crafting tutorials was via the ruthlessly brand agnostic BBC

also the wide range of atrocities of the empire is definitely something to be at least embarrassed about but that's not actually the reason behind this one

the BBC is dropping the lyrics to "rule britannia" at the last night of the proms

the right is yelling about it being because the song sounds colonial as fuck and that people "shouldn't be ashamed of our glorious history of empire" and "the left just don't want us to have this"

the actual reason it's being dropped is the fact that a dozen people singing it in an otherwise empty albert hall will sound at best depressing, at worst just shit

"Maybe the real treasure is the friends we made along the way"

"shut it, Frankenstein"

CAN WE FIX IT?

hmm... we're going to have to order in some parts, the branded ones aren't cheap, might be able to get it back to you in a week?

me, an hour ago: hm... I should look into server monitoring stuff

"so, you've got grafana for dashboards but that needs to talk to prometheus or loki or munin or something else and that talks to something or another and then there's a query language that's different for each thing and you have your data sources..."

me: I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF MACHINE THAT GOES BRRR IS STILL GOING BRRR

EA JORTS

"you can't just tell the time by counting things!"

"haha caesium atom go brrrrr"

I have been informed that King Shark is in the "The Suicide Squad" movie and I am hoping for good shark content

MORTAL WOMBAT!

Still loving that the Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth's name in Ancient Greek is Θώθ

making "Θώθ what's this?" a legitimate question

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