So when I found out about Smaug lizards my first reaction was "same"
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@mawr Your fursona is a salem-colored Speckled Cape Tortoise.
@FursonaAssignment give me a fursona
#meta #tea: Remember, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, that machine that "invariably delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"?
Only decades after reading that, in an office in another country, did I first meet an older British "tea" machine. It could, in theory, produce chocolate, coffee, or tea; but invariably delivered a cupful of brown liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any of them.
And I said, "Oh THAT'S what he meant."
Fascism in the Workplace
My company's InfoSec group just put this MOTD in place for all users SSHing into our private internal dev server.
What possible benefit could result from this blatant fascist scare tactic? I just can't understand why companies so frequently treat their employees like criminals.
These sorts of messages are effectively microaggressions against those most negatively affected by late stage capitalism. They hurt the soul in a similar way.
@neonNeptunian Iridescent is my favorite kind of descent :D
@mawr "Three-phase Electro-motive Force Conduit!" "Electron Firehose!" "Freddy Killowatt!" "Sparky!"
... yeah, it's the mains up here, too. <.<
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