<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cryptid.cafe/users/rowan" class="u-url mention">@<span>rowan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> she has a sword, am I doing it right</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Damn, I am disappointed. I thought that thing was so healthy that I was now functionally immortal.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> is this really how I find out George Foreman passed away?</p>

Q: What do you call a company whose server fails to load Web pages all the time? A: F5 Networks.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> singing that song in the USA is an act of comic self harm on a par with this standup routine that Stewart Lee once did in Glasgow: <a href="https://youtu.be/tHA1ufmLZQY?si=fLeb2jVjVWJYQO4R" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/tHA1ufmLZQY?si=fLeb2j</span><span class="invisible">VjVWJYQO4R</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> also there’s the very real effect of American cultural imperialism. As some Canadians once opined , on the outcome of the war of 1812, “[the Americans] ran so hard, they forgot to take their culture (and Gulf and Texaco)” <a href="https://youtu.be/aue-zWxYtEc?si=7affA8G5eV7B_tPb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/aue-zWxYtEc?si=7affA8</span><span class="invisible">G5eV7B_tPb</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> cultural superiority is such a strange concept. Time is generally not kind to such attitudes. Imagine, there was a time only a few centuries hence, when the Germans refered to the United Kingdom as “the land without music”.</p>

<p>RIP George Foreman. I made so much mediocre food on your atomic purple grill</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>dabeaz</span></a></span> Right there with you, on all counts.</p>