Notices by Sargoth (sargoth@mastodon.social), page 19

GET EQUIPPED
WITH
TIRED POWER

The length of copyright expiry is fucking insane

I was thinking "oh hey, I should build a gopher site, I wonder what I should put in the misc. files section"

I thought, hey, episodes of the goon show would be nice

The Goon Show was broadcast between 1952 and 1960

You'd assume that they'd be out of copyright by now

No

They come out of copyright in 2083

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE YEARS after the last episode aired

find the others

@djsundog I shall microblog on my personal multimedia computer forever!

become the shenanigans you want to see in the world

*ambient emotional support*

so anyway, remember to like comment subscribe and
*reads teleprompter*
create a communal atmosphere of mutual emotional support and openness about the inherent fragility of human life

The mastodon stages:

1: getting used to the interface

2: discovering that most people are just people, engaged in everyday adventures, big & small

3: the allure of the notification sound

4: a gradual getting used to the fact that not everything is about US politics, and that it's okay to filter it out on a macro level

5: a quiet moment when you think "there can still be poetry in this world"

6: some sort of reconciliation with the quantum magic that is the federated timeline

7: pineapples

We're gonna need a bigger oat

What if artificial intelligence figures out how to do shitposts, and the rest of us have to struggle like some postmodern John Henry not to be mistaken for a badly programmed bot with a strangely limited corpus?