patter @patterfloof@meow.social

UK artists who sell prints of your work, especially work that starts on paper: where do you get the printing done?

What would you do if some town full of Nazis popped up a few miles away in real life (this is not far-fetched, consider parts of the deep south, where this very thing happens)? Just ignore them? Not allow anyone to come in from that town? Doesn't seem very humane to refugees from the town. It also seems like a massive pain in the ass if they have control over an important mine or mountain pass or such.

Tim Pennings noticed that his Welsh corgi, Elvis, seemed to follow the optimal path when chasing a ball thrown into Lake Michigan — Elvis seemed to realize that he ran faster than he swam, and so could minimize his retrieval time by racing intelligently along the beach before jumping into the water. But how did he make these judgments?

“We confess that although he made good choices, Elvis does not know calculus,” Pennings wrote. “In fact, he has trouble differentiating even simple polynomials.”

Follow for puns, extremely niche jokes that affirm identity, music inspired by Bach and countless video game composers, fox noises, lists that go on too long,

Morpheus: Were you listening to me, Neo? Or were you looking at the femboy in the short skirt?

Neo: I was...

Morpheus: [gestures with one hand] Look again.

[the femboy is now a trans girl deer with antlers wearing a t-shirt that says "down with cis." she holds out a hand toward neo with the Communist Manifesto]

bring back Pangaea

me: hey Siri, send a text to my mum. say "Hi Mum,"----

siri: i can't find HIMUM. did you want me to

me: no--

siri: i've unloaded HIMEM.SYS for you. Is there anyth Out of memory

all modern UIs are garbage because nobody's using tools that actually work for UI design anymore. instead they have to fuck with the lovecraft/kafka mobius double-reacharound clusterfuck of HTML, CSS, JS, DOM, lots of other APIs, and hundreds of thousands of shit APIs that try to reinvent a wheel but given the description of a tentacle with bones in it and it's real fucking maddening and nobody knows wtf they're doing and the performance sucks and its all bad

Archaeologists aren't sure what this represents

the LGBT standard was refreshed to LGBTQ and most recently LGBTQIA, but you may see the following proprietary extensions in older equipment:

LGBT+
LGBT-X
mini-LGBT
LGBT-HD
LGBT 2000
LGBT for Workgroups
i.LGBT
ASUS® LGBTQ Boost™
LGBTQ.11ac
μLGBTQ (embedded only)
LGBTQ Creative Cloud

paw

How to successfully transfer your followers to a new instance: @ your new account and say "look at this asshole"

(duolingo owl busts through my bedroom door holding a knife) it's time to learn french motherfucker

The relentless pursuit of fediverse growth at any cost without consideration of /who/ joins is no better than investor growth culture for corporations.

"Growth at all costs" is one of the evils of Capitalism. It's not the whole thing, but it's a huge contributor.

@jacethechicken no the Internet was product placement for the movie Wild Wild West (1999) starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, hence the www