AssertionError("Joe Groff")Mar 30, 2025

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

Show threadchinmay 🐋

@joe when we had a CRT tv tuning it to a dead channel meant mosquitoes on the screen

(this is what my mom says i would say as a kid)

Mar 30, 2025 at 4:56amWeb
Show threadDr Alice ViolettMar 30, 2025
@chinmay @joe it was 'snow' for us 😁
Show threadElias MårtensonMar 31, 2025

@chinmay @joe I was told it was a movie: The war of the ants.

(In Swedish, this is a more obvious callback to Star Wars, due to them having the same sentence structure in Swedish)