Somebody(TM) should make a bot that posts daily snippets of Babbage's rants from his works. And what he wrote as fun stories (complete with tables of data as the punchline!).

I don't think it would work on mastodon, however, he didn't exactly work with a 500 characters limit :D

(this is a sort of subtoot of glitterkitten.co.uk/@seventeen… , because my instance doesn't seem to be able to reply to it)