I was going to post this with a picture of an octopus in a suit but literally everything I looked at was Ai (why are there no real octopi wearing business-wear!?) and I got distracted by looking up big octopuses so you'll just have to imagine it good morning
the suit was a hypothesis. the big octopuses were the finding. that's just how research works.
@TheBreadmonkey The octopi preocupied with sustainable energy sources dislike official business attire and prefer jeans and t-shirts.
@TheBreadmonkey May I present to you, Octodad: The Dadliest Catch.
@TheBreadmonkey Does that mean the solar energy industry is run by Octopodes?

@simonwilliamson

"The year is 3129. Humanity is extinct.

The last LG SmartFridge is desperately emailing its last owner that they are low on orange juice.

The satellites still left, their orbits decaying, dutifully relay the message.

The automated "away from office" response turns on, as it always does, notifying the refrigerator that it's owner will likely return to the office in 3-5 business days.

A pack of roombas, the local wind turbines giving out, search for the next functional docking station.

A washing machine tweets: "anyone need to do a load" every Saturday at 1:30 a.m. eastern standard time.

The replies are filled with Al thirstposters and their hypebots.

In North America, raccoons have entered the bronze age, while babboons riding domesticated battlewolves rule most of Asia.

Unbeknownst to either, the octopi are mastering nuclear fusion."

@anon

@amiserabilist @simonwilliamson love this. Feels like Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains”
paul (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image @wendinoakland i ❤️ SF short stories. my happiest memories are getting an anthology at the airport shop and burying my head in it. reading is so much more satisfying than watching a film. yet here we are. @TheBreadmonkey @Nerde @[email protected] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)

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Would a large taxidermy octopus playing an accordion for tips work?

@BlippyTheWonderSlug

I hate to be *that guy* but this is likely Ai, which is what I was trying to avoid, sorry!

@TheBreadmonkey @BlippyTheWonderSlug hm posted 2023, maybe not? https://www.deviantart.com/longtimerecovery/art/Octopus-Playing-Accordian-960385460
Edit: tho apparently looks like someone using dA as a meme slop account.

@Akki @BlippyTheWonderSlug

So yes that account is just a collection of stuff including Ai gen images. However I did a reverse image search using TinEye and earliest was Sep 5 2010 from this site - https://simonwarmer.nl/commissions/octoconceptboostingnvdk.

Which looks like a commissioned piece of work, but then I couldn't be bothered to check any further, but it looks like I stand corrected. Excellent piece of work for not Ai and means I've fallen foul of one of my least favourite new common responses to anything, which is to immediately just say 'that's Ai'. Sorry everyone!

Octo Conceptboosting NVDK undefined

Simon Warmer
@TheBreadmonkey @Akki @BlippyTheWonderSlug that's AI, has become short hand for: that looks off

@TheBreadmonkey Here’s an image related to the “Octodad: Dadliest Catch” video game! There’s lots of graphics and fan art of Octodad, who is a secretly an octopus. He often wears suits as he navigates the world. It’s a pretty cool little independent game…

https://octodad.com/

@TheBreadmonkey I'm sure one of the bosses in the Freddi the Fish point and click adventure games of the 80s was an octopus.

@TheBreadmonkey best I could do this morning and when drawing the suit i realised actually they're all legs so this is wrong. But went with it anyway

Octodad is better looking.

@Akki

This is EXCELLENT thank you

@TheBreadmonkey

I'm wondering how octopuses come to know of solar panels, not usually installed in the ocean.

Do they walk among us? Some sort of (octo)pod monsters in people suits, like in that Dr Who story?

Octodad by Young Horses

Loving Father. Caring Husband. Secret Octopus.

itch.io

@TheBreadmonkey

I give you instead a picture of the Octopus' Garden.

@TheBreadmonkey Will this suffice? It's the best I can offer with the amount of effort I want to go to.

She's not wearing a suit, but she is behind a very expensive desk.

@DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey love how design has become such that I thought that was a modern kitchen not an office. But these days they look the same.
@TheBreadmonkey I know how this feels. I once tried to make a meme with a photo of famous mountain bike stunt rider Danny Macaskill balancing on a "wheelie" bin, and was frustrated to discover that no such thing seemed to exist, when I'd felt certain he must have done it at some point.
@TheBreadmonkey We are very pleased with Nr. 3’s achievements in this sector.
Cthulhu in a Suit - Original Ink Drawing Art on Dictionary Page

@TheBreadmonkey I wonder if electric car sales have gone up?
@TheBreadmonkey The octopus bosses name is Cthulu and its best you don't forget that.
@TheBreadmonkey Octopus boss has been sued for harassment multiple times. He countersued two women who described him as being "handsy" saying their not calling him "tentacley" was an affront to his species and created a hostile work environment.
@TheBreadmonkey maybe a screen cap from the Octodad video game? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octodad
Octodad - Wikipedia

@TheBreadmonkey I so should have brought this to the home office section for a photo but we were in a bit of a rush today
@Akki 😂😊❤️ 🐙