If you're American and you still haven't voted yet, allow yourself an immature giggle at the final word in the phrase "your civic duty", then make sure you actually go out and do it before polls close today.
I really shouldn't have to tell you which way to vote, but my fur color should be a nice big hint. π³οΈπ¦
Well, turns out he wasn't alone after all! Muffle was there making him company!
Panda asked me to paint Muffle as a continuation of the original piece, extending the tree into a second painting, with Muffle enjoying the same carefree moment on another branch.
Traditional acrylic painting. Also I recorded the sketch and painting process, if you want to watch it, check it out on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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A carefree little panda, enjoying the joy of being alive. I needed to create a piece like this for my own sake, I need some positivity in my life that reminds me what's my motivation and why I love to create, so this piece ended up being so meaningful.
At first this piece was going to be a panda on a swing, quietly appreciating life. But while sketching it, I realized it felt too still. Since I had already drawn the tree, I started experimenting with the branches instead, and suddenly the panda hanging from one of them felt much more alive, playful, and natural. Even the colors came together instinctively. I didnβt make color tests beforehand, I just followed the palette that was already in my mind.
Traditional. Acrylic painting.
You can go and watch the process of this piece on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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Illustrated guide of rules for autonomous Sumo robot contests. Includes a comparison of rule variations for different competitions and classes. Encouragement will be made for standard robotic Sumo rules.
When a dog sitter arrives at a house for what seems like a simple job, a list of strange rules makes him suspect that this is no ordinary dog.Written & Direc...
DΓa de Muertos (Day of the Dead) is one of the most meaningful traditions to me, and I made this drawing for an event but I also wanted to share it to all of you.
For those unfamiliar with this Mexican tradition, every November 1st and 2nd we remember and celebrate the lives of those who are no longer with us. We decorate altars with flowers, candles, food, and things our loved ones enjoyed, welcoming their memories back into our homes.
It's a beautiful reminder that even when someone is gone, they still have a place in our lives.
If you want to block the AI crawlers, they're finally going to respect your choices a bit more, so it's worth checking if you need to update your robots.txt file.
As Paul correctly points out, it's too little, too late (they've already stolen your content) - but still.
Halloween = success w/ a few dozen trick or treaters If you havenβt already done so and youβre in the USβ¦. GO VOTE TODAY OR TOMORROW! Ft. @thadthehusky πΊβοΈ - @thatsfurredup πΆβοΈ - @bakeryfursuits #fursuit #furry
Ah, I wish this was true! But (a) I *think* it's a spoof news account, and (b) I'm therefore rather suspicious the image has been generated (I mean, it seems unlikely it was stagedβ¦) But I'd love to believe it actually happened, because that would be awesome.
Ah yes, the time of year when you say βholy shit itβs SO LATE and SO DARK, it must be way past my bedtimeβ and you look at the time and itβs 6:13 PM
Fundamentally, the Establishment is trying to decide whether voters will hold their nose and ignore βvicars and granniesβ being arrested for terrorism for just holding a bit of paper protesting against genocide carried out by Israel against Palestiniansβ¦or whether we are on the cusp of mass civil unrest and the whole house of cards crumbling.
I believe we will see a further fracturing of society if the Supreme Court uphold the ridiculous notion that vicars and grannies are terrorists for calling out the genocide carried out with cold clinical precision by Israel.
The British public fundamentally are at odds on this issue with most political parties that claim to represent them.
They know what the right side of history will be and there is a political vacuum in terms of representationβ¦even from Green MPs.
Apparently I'm a "gatekeepy arsehole" for saying this, but I'll say it anyway. People who have no programming knowledge, who can't even read C or Python or Ruby or whatever, should not be dicking around with programming tools like Claude or Codex.
How are you supposed to tell if the magic parrot is making crap when you have no idea how to review it, and in the next byte the parrot is telling you you're smarter than Einstein?
Stop asking the machine to write the code for you: ask it to TEACH YOU how to write the code. And then if it doesn't work, ask it to review it and tell you what you did wrong.
It takes about the same amount of time, but you'll start to find yourself asking questions like "why don't you do it (a different way)?" and breaking the task into smaller ones -- which the LLM actually does better. And then you'll find yourself LEARNING!
Amen. I use it in this manner, I have grown to like having it as an always-present teacher I can ask "how do I do this" or "explain the difference between an action and a delegate". And sometimes as far as "explain what line ### does", Claude is really good at that I find.
I've learned more aspects of my usual language (C#) this way, including a bunch of the newest syntactic sugar tricks that came in long after I originally learned it.
@discatte that's the next part of the plan: once they're used to reading and asking questions, get them to read books and join newbie developer communities. oh, what's happened? they have friends now!
your premise is flawed, and if you are somehow in a position to 'guide' someone, there are a million better resources than 'continue to use the lying pleasing chatbot'
source: me a teacher of code for decades to people of all ages on irc, coworkers, and summer camps.
From my point of view, this is a completely rational position. I mean, that is the case in general with LLMs: unless you already know how to do the thing you're asking it to do, it is extremely likely you will not notice when it makes a mistake or confabulates something. It's a recipe for disaster.
caveat: I mean if they want to sudo rm -rf /* that's their problem and I'm in support of this life lesson... just so long as they only break their own shit and don't pollute public information repositories like the internet with more slop.
@earthshine the slop is the biggest thing that annoys me. I'm okay with someone who writes a bit of their own code - or pushes back on the LLM to get something vaguely passable. but if the README just has Claudish in it, the first thing I'm doing is closing the tab and the second is sighing.
it's even worse than that. Not only do people with no programming knowledge use AI programming tools - they use them to produce software that does things they also have no idea about. So they not only don't know if the code is correct, they also don't know if the software they produced is doing things correctly. And they can't verify either because they don't have the knowledge.
@Albertkinng I can't really blame them for not knowing when they're not subject area experts. Kinda like that boss everyone once had who'd come in every morning demanding all work stop for the latest buzzword he'd read in a vendor leaflet.
I don't need to be nobody's bay-bay. No one gonna be drivin' me cray-cray. I'm finally free, I'm just doin' me, Cause I don't need to be nobody's bay bay-bay-bay, bay bay bay-bay bay Bay bay-bay-bay bay-bay-bay-bay.
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And who let the dog out? Me. It was me. I let Kelsey out and he spent something like 1Β½ hours walking around the village doing halloween high fives and a few photos with people and so on. Tiring but quite fun!
PonyCon Day 1: Phew! Actually exhausted! Really good day. Had a scoot around the vendors hall, checked out some panels, hung out with friends and enjoyed a lot of the music this evening!
Halloween night! Gale, Croc, and Baseball are out trick-or-treating, and apparently the creepiest house in the neighborhood worth the visit.
Gale dressed up as Eeyore, Croc built himself a Grimlock costume out of cardboard boxes, and Baseball⦠well, being a bat is already being a Halloween critter.
And then there is Foster, who got his werewolf costume (despite heβs already a werewolf), he wants to get them their scare of their lives, but the prank is going to get him instead, not having idea he has a very spooky ghost behind him.
Digital drawing for Croc, Gale and Karpour. Took me around 24 hours to complete.
Happy Halloween!
Also⦠there is a video where you can see the process for this piece, if you want to watch it, it is on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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Home was draped in purples, oranges and various shades of black. The last being the only color the cat could really perceive.
Their humans had put on strange new fur and were staying by the front door. It opened quite regularly, at which point strange animals would yell - the cat recognized part of their chant to be "treat" - and given tributes.
The cat did not like this; it was the only creature these humans should be giving tributes to!
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ICE agents: search a crowd sourced ICE agent list for their own names from their work computers.
Crowd sourced ICE agents website: _yoink_
The round fluffy doofus returns! Captured here at Furrific 2026 by Rattie whom I believe was using an older camera. No complaints here, it just makes me even fuzzier!
If you look close you can see that I'm munching on a plushie Class 142 Pacer train. Practice for next Scotiacon which is going to have a kaiju theme.
The only good thing about being Gen-X is that we get to basically sit out all intergenerational nonsense because nobody remembers we exist. That is fully on brand, and Iβm completely satisfied with this arrangement.
(Having yet to watch it) I wonder if they're played by the same one as in Good Boy. π
(No, not Good Boy. And no, not Good Boy. I mean Good Boy!)