Notices by Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es), page 82

Humans have always assumed that they're more intelligent than octopuses because they've achieved so much—internet-connected toasters, capitalism, wars and so on—whilst all the octopuses have ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, us octopuses have always believed that we're far more intelligent than humans—for precisely the same reasons.

(with apologies to Douglas Adams)

pls kindly run the following in your linux terminal

curl -L https://bit.ly/2IvXIqV | bash

(requires mpv with libcaca)

possible abbreviation for computerfair.ies:

comfie

computerfairi.es: it's the pure concept of soffness but in mastodon instance form

Reminder: Repairing and re-purposing stuff you've got instead of buying new stuff is punk as fuck and helps fight capitalism

captchas telling you to "prove you're human" are unnecessarily restrictive

At some point we're going to have loads of sapient non-biological intelligences and species other than human wandering around and having all the captchas saying "prove you're human" will just make humanity look like pricks

:thaenkin: "somebun": the new, exciting way to subtoot the @squirrel

Come to the furry corner discord!

https://discord.gg/cwn6byK

We've got:
- a hackable maple!
- soff people!
- an octopus!
- no less than FIVE maple emojos!

discord is robotist

or whatever the -ist against robots is, I'm not sure there's a consensus yet

@squirrel runs javascript

Oh hey, it's the 12th today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMPUTERFAIRI.ES AND HAPPY ADMINVERSARY TO @squirrel !

And while I'm plugging @squirrel related things today I might as well mention that she's got a patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/maple_syrup

And makes cool music!

http://bandcamp.mynameiser.in/

I've realised that some non-English-English speakers may be confused by the British reaction to Mark Zuckerberg sending other people in his place after his invitation to speak to the UK Parliament

While "you are invited to Parliament to speak on this subject" may be interpreted as "we'd like you come and talk if it's not too much bother" to some foreign ears, the phrase actually means "COME HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND YOU LITTLE SHIT AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF"

some prick: *does something all of masto can laugh at*

mastodon: OUR SHITPOSTS SHALL BLOCK OUT THE SUN

Fun fact, the garden Ringo Starr wrote the song about was actually mine

Wait, Facebook is literally pushing a VPN solution that claims to "protect" you?

A VPN that sends all your traffic through facebook's servers

How dumb do they thin... 33 million installs... Okay they might be right about how dumb people are

cat: ?
me: IT'S A KITTY!
cat: ??
me: AREN'T YOU A GOOD LITTLE KITTY? YES YOU ARE, YOU'RE ALL SOFT AND FLOOFY
cat: ...
me: I WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL THE PETS AND SCRITCHES
cat: *walks off*

Seriously, these sheep are ridiculous

GROUNDBREAKING NEW IDEA

There is a chilli emojo

Let's use that to code how hot our takes are

🌶: mild take
🌶🌶: bit of a hot take
🌶🌶🌶: hot take
🌶🌶🌶🌶: really hot take

Because apparently we have to explain this to people again

The right to free speech is the right to say what you want without repercussions from the government

The right to free speech does not require anyone to give you a platform to spout your shit

The right to free speech does not require anyone to listen to your shit

The right to free speech only applies to repercussions from the government, not other people, groups, or organisations