Finally added this notice to my website "About" page:

"No LLMs or other machine learning techniques have been used anywhere on this site. I have strong ethical and moral concerns that preclude me from using the current generation of LLMs. All content is my own, created by a human mind and human hands with the help of a programmable, deterministic tool generally known as 'a computer'."

Standing on the moon, looking back at the tiny blue place where everything began.
There’s a strange feeling in finally reaching that goal, while also realizing how far away home has become, and how small we are.

These cute husky astronauts were created for Galactic Camp.
Digital. Procreate.

I shared the process video of this piece on the first comment of my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

And I shared the full process video, along the full resolution of this picture, and I have been sharing pictures I haven't shared yet on my galleries, you can be one of the first ones to see them, at supporting me on Patreon and Ko-Fi, this helps me a lot to keep creating and keep living out of this.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!!

Joining a gang isn't as easy as you might think.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/were-sorry-you-cant-join-our-street-gang-because-you-dont-know-ballet

We’re Sorry, You Can’t Join Our Street Gang Because You Don’t Know Ballet

“I mean, how would you even manage to complete everyday gang activities like leaping and twirling if you aren’t classically trained in ballet? Everybody know...

^{Tom Smyth (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)}

"I've heard that a dragon can always find a princess."

"We can always find," said the dragon, "what we hoard."

"You have been known to gather princesses. You'd know."

"Yes, but..." The dragon hesitated. "If she doesn't know, it's not my place to tell."

"Oh," said the prince. "What if they ask?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Snuggly animals! 🤗💜 With Incog and Antero

#FursuitFriday

When it comes to volunteering, I often tell people, "when the fun stops, stop."

I suppose this is a note to say that I do eat my own dogfood sometimes.

Us. 💛💙

🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 https://bsky.app/profile/illumicyberwear.bsky.social
🌍 Confuzzled 2026
⌚ #FursuitFriday

Growing up is accepting the world is changing slowly around you, while realizing you are changing with it too.

Each panel shows a different stage of youth through different moments of the day. There are little details connecting all three scenes. I don’t want to explain every meaning directly, because part of this piece is about finding your own memories inside of it.

A gift for my cousin, for her daughter's room.
Digital. Procreate

You can watch the quick time-lapse process video I shared on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

But I also shared the full resolution version of this piece, with a full process video, among other drawings I haven't shared on my galleries yet. You can watch all this at supporting me monthly on Patreon or Ko-Fi, this helps me a lot to keep creating and keep living out of this. I appreciate it a lot!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco

Content warning: thoughts on nlp, ai, llms Reveal/hide

I’m a tad concerned that people are conflating “new large data centres”, “data centres”, and “AI”.

Yes, large scale “AI” needs new large datacentres and I fully understand the backlash.

But data centres are also needed for banking, and email, and web sites, and never used to be a problem.

So I hope any action against AI is more targeted and not just “close” or “tax until they close” all data centres.

#AI

I had a blast at Galactic Camp, the furry convention on an actual aircraft carrier: USS Hornet in Alameda, California!

Met some wonderful new people; sat in the cockpit of an F-8 Crusader; rocked my @garudaworkshop helmet; hung out with @kyellgold and did a couple of #FurryWriting panels. I even sold a book or two!

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116689582725913494

Ping @MulticlassGeek and @inkblitz

Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀

2026-06-04 02:55:28

Feeling quite cranky today

📷 whitetxt.dev

why is it always "grow your business"?

why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?

Not every arrow is meant to strike a target, you release it into the sky guided only by hope, trusting there is still a reason to keep aiming forward.

Traditional piece made with color markers (Ohuhu) for Archer.
Made during FWA's Artists Alley

It's happening!

https://www.dotfurry.org/

.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community

$19,606 raised of $90,000 goal 21.8% funded Campaign ends August 1, 2026 at 00:00 -0700 59 days 02 hours 22 minutes 38 seconds Campaign closed

^{.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community}

By the way, I know a lot of folks struggle with mental heatlh in various ways, so:

Know that the fact that people interact with you at all, and are part of your life even in very loose ways, means your presence matters and you're irreplaceable.

It won't always feel like it, but people do appreciate you. Most just don't know how to express it very well, and no one really does a good job of teaching that. I'm no better than anyone on this point.

But really, whatever community you have is irrefutable evidence that you're not alone. They're the ones that will appreciate you.

There's no incentive structure to Fedi. Nobody follows you just to increase some metric or trick you into following back to win some game tied to capitalism here. They follow you because you're interesting or cool. Or both.

This probably doesn't help with the myriad other, more material causes for your suffering. Money be damned.

But you'll never be alone if you don't want to be. And it can get better.

every time I need to "take time from work" I get so annoyed at this system

it's so dumb and annoying and stressful that you have this one aspect of your life that demands your entire day for most of the week, and every other thing (be it actual important stuff you have to do as well) has to be either squeezed around it or as a concession
which is especially dumb considering that supposedly every place has the same operating hours, so for example for you to go to a bank you must take time from work as by the time you're free (night, weekend) oops bank closed as well

for fuck sake I hate capitalism

supposedly all of this efficiency gain and whatever but never for tha sake of making people's lives actually better

I'm always stunned by now fast time seems to fly anymore for me. It's June, we're 6 months into 2026, and that's blowing my mind right now. It feels like time is always going so fast and I have so many things I want to do, but so little time to do any of them.

That's really the thing with fear of death for me, I've lived with the knowledge I could just die at any time my entire life. It's not that I fear dying, it's that I fear dying without doing the things I want to do or living the life I want to live.