Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 22

(the cat doesn't speak English, but I was raised by a cat so I understand a bit of their language; this was a translation from cat to English)

This morning the cat wanted to speak with me in the kitchen.

"I notice you've put the last of the old bag of cat food in my dish, but there's a brand new unopened bag of cat food available. You should give me some of that."

So I did and she started eating.

just wanna say: the word "cephalopod" is incredible. "head-leg". like a child looked at an octopus and thought "it's got a head. and legs. and not much else."

Wall・E discovered life. Lazy, but life.

Shoutout to whoever that was pacing me from parliament to woodbine tonight. It's a rare day I get a rabbit I can't drop in rush hour. #biketo

RT @kofenepei@twitter.com

What can be better than big clumsy bulbax and his little sleepy brother snorbasaur? #PokeFusion

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kofenepei/status/1143650839619342336

friends, are you aware that the #PokeFusion contains tons of amazing hand-drawn art of pokemon combos?

https://twitter.com/sandsharkattack/status/1143973542880514054

RT @sandsharkattack@twitter.com

I reject my government assigned #pokefusion and substitute my own

#tangoom #pokemonfusion #pokemonart #pokemonmeme

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sandsharkattack/status/1143973542880514054

RT @shengchl@twitter.com

Someone showed me Psysey and I'm not sure what happened to the hands #pokefusion #pokemonfusion

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shengchl/status/1143788719222079488

RT @Oswjnr@twitter.com

Lo ame. #PokeFusion

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Oswjnr/status/1143341556533010435

Shout out to one of my all time favorite internet things: this collection of images of novelty baby clothing on zazzle but with the default model switched to an adult.

https://babyfeud.tumblr.com/

when scanning chapters from academic books it is very important to set the scanner to one-bit so that all of the PDFs you make look like they're photocopies of in-class handouts from the late nineties. very, very important

be the kind of person whole swaths of the timeline rejoice to see after awhile :flan_laugh:

The User in ReBoot (1994) is a comic villain who poses a threat to those he encounters, their community and resources. While many have read the opening credit's speculation about the nature of The User as a laudable encouragement of our common desire to find and kill god, some suggest a more literal reading of The User as a prescient warning against gamers. In this essay,

There's a scene in which Kelly just nonchalantly tells us that poverty etc went away, ushering in The Future, because of the invention of their equivalent of the replicator

And I think this tells us a lot about Seth McFarlane and a particular kind of Star Trek superfan who manages somehow to miss the entire point of Star Trek

"corporate development teams are uniquely qualified to utterly botch a libc, yet still push it into widespread use" http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-June/133308.html

Clinking chain-link fence, a crackle of underbrush. I peer out the window. Through the shadows, a striped tail, a grey flank, small bodies - the raccoon family is wandering by. #smallstories