this was the best thing I ever tweeted
I appreciate that this got more interaction in five minutes on masto than five years on twitter πŸ™ƒ

@touk we humans decide what’s good here on Mastodon πŸ‘Ή

this is GOOD

@touk that's how it be

What are your secrets?

@touk i remember seeing screenshots of this on twitter get popular but i guess it was posted by someone else (as is ever the way 😭) - it was such a good idea!!
@touk We're just really nerdy here. :)
@touk magnificent, visionary.
@touk u tellin me they invented zebras less than five years ago??
@touk is that a mango or a roma tomato or ??
@CapriMoon very good question πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
@CapriMoon @touk Pretty sure it’s a mango, although mine is a touch different.πŸ₯­

@touk Me in 2016: they'll never have a giraffe emoji

2023: my god

@touk well played! I guess you could do a few more here πŸ˜‰
@touk Wonderful piece of "Long Now" art. If the @longnow foundation was on the fediverse, they'd praise it. I praise it: chapeau.
@touk this is about the closest thing we’ll get to time travel. Bravo πŸ‘, sir!
@touk @powerllama That is really playing the long game 🫑
@touk this is amazing πŸ˜‚
@touk you should do an updated one of these here and see if the instance you posted it on is also here for 5 years
@touk I'm jealous of people who know how to use 🧐 correctly.

@stacey_campbell @touk

i personally always like to pair it with 🍷

🧐🍷

@touk this is genius - I love it!
@touk The news isn't so good another five years on...
Remaindered emojis 😭
@touk you’re a fucking genius πŸ˜‚
@touk Visionary, thought leader. But you are late. You said 5 years, and it's been almost 6 and a half. :⁠-⁠)
@pseudonym The second screenshot is from Jan 2021!!! account is totally gone now
@touk ah, I sit corrected. I figured you had posted it just now. Very good. Carry on.
@touk I love this and my humble suggestion is to make this a madlib next time around.
@touk that’s actually so funny
@touk makes me think of the #genuary prompt from last year: β€œMake something that will look completely different in a year” - love it :)
@Probably @touk
Should check on those posts to see what they look like now that it is a year later

@touk

Man, that's crazy.

Also, Chicago font lookalike unicode placeholder boxes gives me the double-whammy on feels: Taking me back to the innocent days of 2012 or so, and the *really* innocent days of 1990 or so. :D

@RL_Dane @touk Now I’m imagining Mario jumping up and punching each one, and those items coming out.

@nertzy

lol

"Eetsa me, Mario! Eetsa time to update your OS! Let's-a go! Hoo hoo!"

@touk

@touk This is hilarious! The last one fits perfectly. Did you actually set a reminder for five+ years later, or just randomly remember to check?
@Metamere I think I randomly remembered to check in on it (screenshots are from 2016 vs 2021, the account is gone now)
@touk Nice. I wonder if there are any hidden reminder timers running in the back of my mind that I won't know about until they trigger.
Btw, I got your album on Bandcamp and listened to it a bunch last night. Great stuff. Do you have any plans to release the last four tracks, or am I right in assuming you've moved on from that project?

@Metamere Thanks for checking out my weird songs (how did you find them from here?)

Oof that album is like a decade old, and the remaining tracks are maybe 25-75% done. Would love to finish them. Haven't had much time to make music for a few years (had 2 kids...) but I've dabbled in some recent stuff like trying chiptune eg
https://smores.town/@touk/107940211185697215

Touk (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 audio been a while, here's a new track in #pico8

smores.town

@touk I saw on your profile that you were the "superhero of saladcore", thought that sounded interesting, found a collection of albums on BC matching that tag, one artist had Touk in the name, and I figured that was probably you.

Hey, I totally get it. I'm just glad to hear you're still playing around with music. I love chiptunes. That's a great track. I think you'd enjoy the works of one of my favorite artists, Minusbaby. https://www.discogs.com/artist/25910-Minusbaby

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@Metamere
I think I recognize that name from 8bitpeoples where I found a lot of chiptune years ago...
@touk This is, as the kids say, iconic.
@touk
Fantastic idea 10/10 no notes
@touk wait are you saying that in 2016 we were somehow living life without the monocle face emoji? i refuse to believe this was possible