The big news will be that John Titor is being sent back in time to save us from the Epochalypse:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
In his online postings, Titor claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036, based in Tampa, Florida. He said that he was assigned to a governmental time-travel project, and that as part of the project he was sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which was needed to debug various legacy computer programs that existed in 2036
That might just be all me, I’m moving several communities over:
All the communities on midwest.social that I post daily comics to. I’m not really sure what the federation issue is exactly so can’t comment on scale. What I’m seeing is that my posts will randomly not federate and get lost unless I sit there and “jiggle” it a bunch by upvoting/downvoting it. Seems to be related to image posts since I don’t think posting news links to !msp@midwest.social ever failed.
Not sure how to easily see it, or see it on a phone. On desktop you can right click on the image and inspect element to see it in dev tools
I included a link at the top of the post, but maybe I should make it more visible. It’s from their Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/outside-142456164
It’s a mix of Oglaf and one-offs like this. Posting it here since it’s a way to support the Oglaf creators and doesn’t really have anywhere else to live
Shoutout to !pbf@discuss.online, where I’ve been posting these comics daily
This is probably the best explanation I’ve seen:
http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_monads_in_pictures.html
Thanks, it’s always nice to be appreciated!
The butter was probably full of trans fats
This is one of the weirder ones, since it was the holidays at the time:
Epilogue:
The err herr herrr baton is passed
Self Pity Date
It might be. Somebody asked over in the Patreon:
I don’t know whether this was inspired on recent events in your private spheres, but best of luck in that case.
The Oglaf creators responded with
nothing recent. But thank you.
Kind of vague, but seems like one of them had a serious illness at some point and they had to contemplate death
Oglaf is made by two people, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne
She’s a vampire. Established in the storyline she was introduced in, but not really referenced much
Here’s the storyline where we see what happens with that, edited together (marked with spoiler because slightly nsfw):
She gets the sword and uses it, but it turns out that it’s a trap and doesn’t do anything. The sword we see here is a fake one made by Navaan separately. It starts glowing because it’s fake and that’s how you kill a God of Fakes, as revealed in Funstrike 2:
The curly sword is bullshit! We just say that to trick the heroes
Well, what does kill the Fun God?
You need a fake sword! Cardboard or blunt wood! The Fun God is the God of Fakes!
So the curly sword isn’t “fake” enough to kill the God of Fakes (even though it seems non-functional 🤷), but the sword she made is a proper “fake” and becomes real in the Fun God’s presence. Unfortunately the Fun God’s aura or whatever is distracting her from using it properly.
It might be related to the NSFW flag? If you’re browsing without being logged in, I think the posts won’t show up at all which is very confusing.
There have been federation issues before, and I’ve been thinking about moving the community over to discuss.online which has been very reliable for posting. I haven’t yet, but if federation issues continue to be a problem I probably will. If anyone has opinions on that, I’d like to hear them. I’ll probably also make a separate poll thread to see what people think.
Copying my comment from the cross-post:
Turns out the blue zone studies have likely just identified hotspots for pension fraud:
The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest. Proposed drivers of remarkable longevity include high vegetable intake, strong social connections, and genetic markers. Here, we reveal new predictors of remarkable longevity and ‘supercentenarian’ status. In the United States, supercentenarian status is predicted by the absence of vital registration. The state-specific introduction of birth certificates is associated with a 69-82% fall in the number of supercentenarian records. In Italy, England, and France, which have more uniform vital registration, remarkable longevity is instead predicted by poverty, low per capita incomes, shorter life expectancy, higher crime rates, worse health, higher deprivation, fewer 90+ year olds, and residence in remote, overseas, and colonial territories. In England and France, higher old-age poverty rates alone predict more than half of the regional variation in attaining a remarkable age. Only 18% of ‘exhaustively’ validated supercentenarians have a birth certificate, falling to zero percent in the USA, and supercentenarian birthdates are concentrated on days divisible by five: a pattern indicative of widespread fraud and error. Finally, the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Ikaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.
Sourcing your posts from microfiche is one of the more impressive ways of contributing to the Fediverse, congrats!