TIL the word SPAM came from the SPAM skit by Monty Python!
"Bulls have been fucking robots a lot longer than we have."
--from a conversation with a friend about the artificial insemination of cows (don't ask)
In related news, #TIL that there are what amounts to Fleshlights for male cattle.
Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:
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Jonathan Ross is the name of the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis. #themoreyouknow
Jonathan Ross is the name of the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis. #themoreyouknow
maco
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If you make homophobic jokes about bad people, you're still engaging in homophobia and the vulnerable folks around you will remember that.
#TheMoreYouKnow 🏳️🌈⭐
If you make homophobic jokes about bad people, you're still engaging in homophobia and the vulnerable folks around you will remember that.
#TheMoreYouKnow 🏳️🌈⭐
Fun facts about US electricity distribution: you might share your 120V/240V service with many other homes! It is not uncommon for a single transformer to service multiple homes. This means that the voltages of your two 120V feeds may be impacted not just by your loads, but by those of your neighbors. And of course the transformer and its upstream power source.
David Clubb
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✅ Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.
This includes fixing blank screen in browsers that don't support Intl.DisplayNames
Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1
✅ Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.
This includes fixing blank screen in browsers that don't support Intl.DisplayNames
Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1
Most people don’t know that the full name of the European Commission is the European Public Relations Commission.
#TheMoreYouKnow https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115548208160673156
✅ Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.
This includes adding delivery failure tracking and handling to FASP jobs.
For a user-focused highlight of these changes including quote toots, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/
TIL Krakatoa eruption was the loudest sound in human history #TheMoreYouKnow
✅ Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.
This includes adding support for changing the base Docker registry with the BASE_REGISTRY ARG
ℹ️ This version brings many improvements, see https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/ for help with new and changed features.
Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.4.0
@matt
#themoreyouknow
I really didn't need to know.😬
✅ Toot.Wales has been upgraded to the latest version of Mastodon.
This includes fixing the NoMethodError in edge case emoji cache handling.
Full changelog here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.3.9
Did you know the inside of your nostrils sweat too? #TheMoreYouKnow
People describe certain terms as a portmanteau of two other words, e.g. "fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe".
Unsurprisingly, portmanteau is itself a portmanteau, combining port and mantel, from Victorian south London where working men would exhibit their wealth by keeping a bottle of the best port they could afford on the shelf above the fireplace.
The Cockney pronunciation stuck, and was assumed to be of French extraction by typesetters.
People describe certain terms as a portmanteau of two other words, e.g. "fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe".
This of course assumes that everyone knows what "portmanteau" means.
Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau, from port and tomato, coined in Paris when a nervous apprentice chef mixed port into tomato soup by accident.
Escoffier, thinking it genius, declared all fine dishes should now blend unlikely ingredients. Thus began haute cuisine.
People describe certain terms as a portmanteau of two other words, e.g. "fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe".
This of course assumes that everyone knows what "portmanteau" means.
Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau, derived from Elizabethan-era street urchins who couldn't afford shoes binding their feet with whatever discarded leather they could scrounge, inevitably smooshing their toes into one big clumpy mass, known as "poor man's toe".
People describe certain terms as a portmanteau of two other words, e.g. "fediverse is a portmanteau of federation and universe".
This of course assumes that everyone knows what "portmanteau" means.
Portmanteau is itself a portmanteau, derived from King Henry VIII's porter Manfield Touse, who invented a two compartment travelling chest for HRH - Henry being known as a neat freak liked to keep his dirty underwear separate from his fresh underwear when travelling.