got reminded of the existence of desktop ponies
and as a thing we haven't played around with for years, that led to a failed attempt to get it working on mac and steamdeck using both the original package and DP-engine fork
(being fair, we didn't try particularly hard)
but ponysay does work - called up the random quote feature with fluttershy first
...and hmm. it had to pull that quote first, huh.