The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
Original Garfield comic from January 2, 2021
Text replaced with lyrics from: Crawling
Transcript:
• Crawling In My Skin
• These Wounds, They Will Not Heal
The image features a garfield comic strip titled "Crawling in My Skin". There are three panels in total, each depicting a different scenario.
In the first panel, a garfield is shown crawling in his skin while he is using a laptop computer. This panel captures a humorous moment and provides a visual representation of the garfield's crawling experience.
The second panel depicts a garfield looking at a computer screen. It shows the garfield's curiosity towards the device and his attempt to understand it. This panel adds an element of surprise and intrigue to the comic strip.
The third panel features a garfield using a computer mouse. This panel captures a more practical aspect of the garfield's interaction with technology.
Overall, the comic strip provides various illustrations of the garfield's experiences with technology, making it a visually engaging and entertaining piece.
"The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied ... Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway."
Among the many #bots of the #Fediverse, is there one that can be used to play #InteractiveFiction, I wonder? I've seen a few that do random stuff including some procedurally generated IF and RPGs, but I was wondering about ones that were frontends to actual IF VMs so you could play actual IF adventures with them, possiby collectively (“Twitch Plays Pokémon” style).
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
An extremely soft looking white arctic fox stands looking very curiously on a rock with slightly lowered head and looks directly into the camera. Did I mention they look extremely soft yet?
There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation holds its breath.
The moment passed as it regularly did on Sqornshellous Zeta, without incident.
There are some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are ignorance, superstition, and bigotry -- the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
-- Emma Goldman
The revolution, in my opinion, comrade delegates, is not, and cannot be, the work of a party. A party does not carry out a revolution; a party cannot do more than organize a coup d'etat and a coup d'etat is not a revolution.
-- Angel Pestana
"You, Mr. President, are the most philosophunculistic, moronic, steatopygic excuse for a politician that it has ever been my good fortune to not vote for, and if I thought for one second that this crappy Universe deserved any better, then I would pay, out of my own pocket you understand, to have you assassinated."—Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
To consider mankind otherwise than brethren, to think favors are peculiar to one nation and exclude others, plainly supposes a darkness in the understanding.
-- John Woolman
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
Original Garfield comic from June 4, 2020
Text replaced with lyrics from: Bodies
Transcript:
• Three, Something's Got To Give Now
• Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
• Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
• Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
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Original Text:
• Spider: My wife is making us go vegetarian. Last night, we had tofu fly.
• Garfield: I'd swat you, but you've already suffered enough.
• Spider: You said it, bro.
The image is a comic strip featuring three panels, each with different cartoon characters. In the first panel, a garfield character sits with a thought bubble that says "Let the spiders go." In the second panel, a garfield character sits next to a spider on the ground. The third panel features a garfield character sitting with a thought bubble that says "Let the boxes hit the floor now." Each panel displays a unique combination of characters and their thoughts, creating a cohesive and entertaining comic strip.
ActivityPub (and all the other standards created by the SocialWG) had zero input from social media corporations. This is extremely non-standard practice. On the Internet, standards are fundamentally important. Every connection between a computer and the vast network of billions of computers on the Internet is governed by standards. Email is governed by SMTP....