So some kind of jitter caused Mastodon's notifications column to briefly believe a notification I received was received in the future, causing whatever humanized-datetime library Mastodon uses to display this somewhat ominous message

[cataclock@wetdry.world]

@mcc oh yeah! I had this bug coupled with another bug where it showed the same profile as favoriting something twice. It was funny to see

[mcc@mastodon.social]

This is now fixed in mastodon/mastodon git HEAD, and the PR to fix it also is vaguely portentous

[eramdam@social.erambert.me]

@mcc weirdly hopeful

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@mcc sarah connor carving "SOME FATE" into a table

[estelle@mstdn.social]

@mcc pr says hasFuture but pfp says ALL WE HAVE IS NOW, really makes you think,

[klara@wandering.shop]

@mcc Between that and the username and the avatar this really sounds like some out-of-context bit from a Square JRPG, maybe PS2 era? Stuff that's said towards the end and that doesn't really make sense but is clearly meant to be very hopeful and optimistic.

[vwbusguy@mastodon.online]

@mcc This reminds me of the German Snapple skit from Calvin and Habs.

https://youtube.com/shorts/6mDmdssPCws

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@mcc It knows things!

[orb2069@mastodon.online]

@mcc

the TVA has filled the fix.

[h0m54r@mastodon.social]

@mcc Congrats to Mastodon on her transition

[fedward@distraction.party]

@mcc the user avatar saying ALL WE HAVE IS NOW doesn't help with the temporal confusion there.