Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]", was a son of #Poseidon who had a house on the Sacred Way between #Athens and #Eleusis. He invited every traveller to spend the night but when they lay down in his iron bed, he beat them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. Pseudo-Apollodoros & Hyginus add that if the guest proved too tall, Prokroustes would amputate the excess length. He was eventually slain by his half-brother #Theseus.

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Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.