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When I was a kid, I remember reading in some book that one CD worth of text (700mb) would occupy about a bookshelf when printed on paper. Now imagine the following:

The year is 2666. After the fall of civilisation, computers have been outlawed and the information is now stored on more traditional media, like paper and vinyl records, including the archives of the fediverse.

You go to the Fediverse Archive, which spans several city blocks, and when there, you talk to the librarian.
:comfygeek: “Hello! I’m looking for the dialogues and debates featuring the famous Newt of Stereophonic Space. Where can I find them?”
:akko_excited: “Newt? So many people look him up these days. Let me see…”
:comfygeek: “His views on philosophy of the absurd and the gay have recently seen a resurgence and I’m writing my dissertation about him.”
:akko_fistup: “Good for you! Well, you need to go upstairs to the third floor, bookshelves 337 and so on.”
:comfyderp: “But how many bookshelves do his fedi dialogues occupy?”
:akko_smile2: “All of them! Didn’t you know? He was a shitposter! They produced a lot of philosophical works at the time.”
:comfypeeksweat: “God almighty have mercy on my soul…”
:akko_smug: “If you need it, we have cofe on the first floor. Good luck!”

If you're wondering what the #JohnMastodon thing is about...

...here you go. Captured by the Wayback Machine for you, as the author has since realised he'd misread the Join Mastodon account name. 😂

And thusly, the legend of John Mastodon is born.

@beardalaxy @matana @LukeAlmighty Yep, my mother does this too. Not even on holidays. And it's absurd because every other day it's "this is the LAST time I'm cooking, you all are having PB&J from now on." Dad and I are FINE with that. We call that bluff so much, and it just fuels her rage when she sees it backfire. Maybe sudden realization of being rendered unessential in a thing you've been doing nearly daily for 30+ years comes as a shock when you realize the people who used to rely on you can handle themselves. So there will always just be yelling about it. Just damned if you do, damned if you don't...

I'll laugh at the woman being woman, but also just feel real disappointed. There's a point where it becomes an entirely self-inflicted problem.

I even told her, that I ain't going to eat that blood soaked sweets, if it makes her shout at everyone the whole day for weeks on end, but she doesn't care, because "Christmas without sweets is bad"

How about Christmas without shouting?

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I begged her months ago to not do anything stressful during the holidays.

Nah, she spends all day cooking, and shouting at everyone around her, because cooking isn't going as planned, EVEN THOUGH, I DON'T WANT HER TO DO IT FFS!!! :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH: :AHHHHHHH:

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You've probably noticed people clinging onto cars longer. That's because the price of a new car is approaching 50K
Speaking of out of wedlock births, 4 out of every 10 babies in the US is a literal bastard
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