imagine growing up, playing pool with Springsteen. seeing him blow up and feeling proud. then one day he mentions you in a song and refers to you as "Sloppy Sue". what a dick move
Howard Hughes was such a badass wealthy guy. A dude who actually did a bunch of important shit in aviation and film, then wore tissue boxes as shoes when he realized it was time to do that. A true visionary. Elon? Hitting the tissue box thing way too early. It's almost over for him
@healyn I just thought about that. What if we could establish a day (5th of October maybe? Bday of Mastodon) where the mastodonians give a bit of their money to their instance admin? Ensuring financial support of an independent #fediverse. What might be a good hashtag? #idogiveabuckday ?
@healyn Only gunna get worse if the influx continues. The product (not that any fedi product does exceptionally better) doesn't scale particularly well, at least not without a pile of revenue. Even then...
Spongebob was constantly shamed for having pants that fit his admittedly non-traditional--and frankly, horrifying--body, while Porky Pig and Donald Duck were out there flashing their genitals all over the place. Children watch this!!!
i think i understand the phrase "hoist by his own petard", but i've never looked for the etymology, and i never will. the mystery makes it a nice treat
Some US people stay awake to hand off the relay baton to the UK folk, and they show up for 30 seconds, then they have an "English breakfast" (7 eggs, 4 sausages, multiple cans of beans, a rack of lamb)
Then they settle down for "2nd sleep", and it's like? Enough is enough
@healyn
sending a fax to bigfoot's hidden base:
"HIRE HEALYN, SEND TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE GLOBE; FOOLPROOF PLANE"