GentleMan GefMar 6
This is where I toot from
Show threadoccultMar 6

@SecularJeffrey @catsalad

same caption, different photo.

https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 6
@occult @SecularJeffrey This is the computing future I want!
Show threadoccultMar 6

@catsalad Will I see you at UNIX EXPO this year?

I hear pink computers and floppy disks are debuting!

#UNIX

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 6
@occult Oh heck yeah!
Show threadoccultMar 6

@catsalad I know these were super serious UNIX business magazines back in 1985, but today they would literally be the cover of some punk zine.

#UNIX

Show threadсерафими многоꙮчитїи2d ago
@occult @catsalad I did not realise that was based on a true story
Show threadCoach Spore Diesel2d ago

@djm62 @occult @catsalad

"et al" ?!?! Unless that person legally changed their name, this is maybe a mistake? It means "and others" in research citations. Why's it on a person?

Edit: oh maybe that's part of the satire. I just read the alt text now.

Show threadCoach Spore Diesel2d ago
"University of Texas Instruments" would have given it away, but I couldn't read it until I zoomed in a lot.
Show threadсерафими многоꙮчитїи
@springdiesel lmfao as a long-time Emacs user I feel utterly shook that the name was the first bit that seemed implausible to you 🤓
Mar 20 at 3:59pmWeb
Show threadCoach Spore Diesel2d ago

@djm62

Yeah. I'm definitely not an emacs user, long or short. Probably should have thought Not My Kink and scrolled on.

Show threadсерафими многоꙮчитїи2d ago
@springdiesel Not at all! Your reply just hit my funny bone quite hard and made my afternoon 😄