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Pippin friendica

My parents used to run a tiny printing business from home, and we still have quite a bit of spare SRA2 paper. I believe that's the size my dad's little offset printing press used to take. (Unless it was SRA3? Not sure.) Every so often I grab another handful and cut/trim it down to A4 so we don't have to buy more printer paper. :p

I do miss my dad's guillotine, though. That thing was a *proper* paper cutter: wind the guide stops to the correct size using the illuminated, magnified scale, put 1000 sheets in at once, align everything with the guide stops and crank down the gigantic clamp to hold the paper in place, close the safety guards, turn the key (yes, it had an actual key to prevent accidental use), push the two buttons, one on each side of the machine, simultaneously, and in a single movement it would slice through the equivalent of a phone book like it was hot butter. So nice.


Burbley and his little Chihuahua out for a walk. Who’s actually walking who?

Drawing for Burbley the wah. When I saw him at ASC and hugged him, some moments later I noticed he was carrying with his dog on a small bag next to him.

If he looks like Koda the wah is not a coincidence:
"I'm practically Koda with green eyes and blacktip tail"

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Thanks dad.

*groan*


Obscura, Cheetah • mastodon (AP)
Happy national coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee day! ā˜•šŸ’œ
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That's... damn, that is a well-made plush. How'd you make it?
Obscura, Cheetah • mastodon (AP)
@AVincentInSpace I commissioned it from Norsewolf Creations!
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Pippin friendica
Yesterday I spent the princely sum of £49 on a lawnmower. Today I put it together and mowed all the grass, front and back. Hopefully I won't have to do that too often; I now desperately need a shower. At least the grass is now short enough that hopefully the tall weeds and grass won't make it difficult to rake up the leaves and acorns the oak trees are likely to completely cover the garden with over the next month or two.
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RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)

OK, I think I have it sussed, printing (usually) and UV overprint lined up, yay! #minecraft

I have a grandson who will be using this Netherite Ingot to tap-pay using his #Monzo card in the back.

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That's a cool product. Will get questions at the checkout!
RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)

Not planning to sell, best I could do is publish the files maybe.

I bet retail staff are used to all sorts of shit these days, it all started with watches. So as long as it goes "ding" they are happy.

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They were shocked when I started using my phone!

I just wish I could hook up an NFC tag and shove it in a teddy bear.

RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)

@tripplehelix I once removed the chip&pin from a bank card (non NFC) using a laser, and laser cut a recess in a printed plastic card so I could glue it in to the new card.

Result was a 100% custom printed card with a working bank chip in it.

Was amusing the one time I used it.

Oddly, these days, I could so easily over UV print a bank card with anything and it work for chip/pin and NFC.

I can see shops declining it, but then you could just use self checkout.
RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)

Hard to "decline", you whip it out and tap and it goes "ding", job done.

If they then want to cancel the transaction afterwards that would be just weird.

But then you remove the card from the ingot, all Minecraft over printed but with, say, monzo logo, and tap that, the same as before.

No what?

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Pippin friendica
@RevK :verified_r: @šŸ§šŸ» Thomas šŸ§™šŸ» I'm sure I read about someone many years ago who had managed to dissolve the plastic of an Oyster card and leave just the chip and antenna, which they then installed in a stick. They could then, in a full set of wizard robes and pointy hat, tap the end of their staff on the reader to open the gates to the underground.
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@pippin
Yes, I remember that story. Didn't they make videos?
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Ed Davies • mastodon (AP)
@pippin @tripplehelix Yep, came here to say that. Was a Halloween costume.
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sotolf • gotosocial (AP)
Yeah, "Tube Gandalf" I remember that guy that was so much fun reading about :D
Ivor Hewitt • mastodon (AP)
@pippin @tripplehelix ah yes! I recall that.... I wonder if I can find a link anywhere.
Ivor Hewitt • mastodon (AP)
@pippin @tripplehelix some of the images and links are dead.... but... http://www.skeptobot.com/2008/05/time-lapse-vid-of-dissolving-oyster.html
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Ivor Hewitt • mastodon (AP)
@pippin @tripplehelix ah no, he didn't actually do the wand just suggested it... hmm. now where's the other video.
omg! You can make any card custom. I loved the custom design cards you could make. I always got people talking about mine last one I had.
RevK :verified_r: • mastodon (AP)
@tripplehelix It is easier now most don't even do the embossing.

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mausmalone • mastodon (AP)

Kind of the same in my house - but it's the US so it's Fast Orange pumice cleaner and vanilla scented hand soap.

It was a good way to teach my daughter that "for men" and "for women" products matter a heck of a lot less than "for moisturizing" and "for de-greasing."

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CIMB4 • mastodon (AP)
awaff! the Cimba saw a bubble gum scented body wash today. would have bought if my skin wasn so darn sensitive because of e :ablobcathappypaws:

Sketchbook #19
This particular one is the one that took me the longest to complete, I should take out my sketchbooks more often with me everywhere like before, instead of my tablet, that would mean more drawings for fun and for myself.
#19
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Ja'aran • mastodon (AP)
I love your art!!!

Getting down was easy, getting up again not so.
*creak*
There go my bunny knees.

#MaidDressMonday

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Finished another fursuit in one week
This one for Zrailloy šŸ’…
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Wait you do suits? How did I never notice that?
Furo • mastodon (AP)
@Legion495 I've done like... 9 suits or something x) And more in the work!

Juggling With Eggs • mastodon (AP)

The #AfD move to ban ā€˜stumbling stones’ that commemorate not just Jewish lives taken by the Nazis, but that show where they last lived.

Being a Brit I’d not heard of them until now, but I love the psychogeographical nature of their purpose. A chance encounter with them, a means of viewing a street scene through a Time Machine and to read them you must pause and bow your head. They are small but convey so much about the extent of the Holocaust.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm2mm4y5dkko

#afd
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Daveybot • mastodon (AP)
One was installed in Edinburgh at the end of last year, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jwl08z1n8o
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beemoh • mastodon (AP)
I've seen a few of these in various parts of the world- astonishingly you will find quite a lot around the part of Amsterdam where Anne Frank's house was, but they're far from scarce elsewhere- their sheer ubiquity does a lot to hit home just how big the Holocaust was, even if you're not stopping and reading the text on every single one.
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A very fluffy weekend, and finally took the wuff out to a smaller local meet

🐶 - thadthehusky
šŸŗāœ‚ļø- thatsfurredup
šŸ“ø - Ruben (tg)
#furry #fursuit

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sirlan <( merry gay ) • sharkey (AP)

Content warning: my specific opinions on the a of i

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sirlan <( merry gay ) • sharkey (AP)

Content warning: my specific opinions on the a of i, and on advocating for bans

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Tursilion • mastodon (AP)

Lot of random theories why the AI companies would be actively telling everyone that their AI is going rogue, and AI is going to kill everyone...

Here's another one, and it's mine, so it's right.

It's actually really simple. They WANT regulation on AI. And here's why: they are already established. They will get to help write the laws, especially because they are SO concerned. And this will lock out everyone else from legally using it for themselves. You will be FORCED to use their "licensed" datacenters for "your" safety.

It's ALWAYS for your safety. This should be obvious.

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arcadeshopper • mastodon (AP)
they also want the free advertising.. nothing like controversy to keep your company on the top of people's minds
Tursilion • mastodon (AP)
@arcadeshopper That's a bonus, but the average joe isn't paying for what they do. They're trying to lock the business down.

Pippin friendica
I haven't had any RP snuggles for a very long time. Or any furry RP at all actually. Kinda miss that.

ThePhoenix • mastodon (AP)
Had these shared with me and found them meaningful, just sharing them in case anyone else finds they are for them too 😊 1/2
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Yag Fox • mastodon (AP)
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Thumper • mastodon (AP)

Furtive bus party was amazing. Perfect weather again, 3hrs of playing random party, disco, club tunes for a bus full of furries and randos on the streets of Seattle.

Still the most challenging DJ gig by far! Not getting taken out by a tree or street light is 90% of the work lol

Also, Reddit calling it the 'airport shuttle' and the 'Alaska Airlines Pilot' bus šŸ˜šŸ¾āœˆļø lol

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Pippin friendica
Youtube trying to recommend me as many videos as it can now, made by furries, explaining the fandom, starting off with like "I've been a furry for years now, my first con was in 2022!" Yeah, you're an old skool furry of course you are. *headpat* Keep at it, little guy. :)
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There he goes! Look at this fox looking way too cool during his skate practice, even if his shades can barely keep up with him.

(This was before collecting a few too many bruises, gotta learn somehow!)

A commission for Kit Knightwood, who also happens to be celebrating his birthday today. Happy birthday!

Digital. Procreate

I shared a short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

And I shared the full video, the full resolution version, plus many more drawings I haven't shared yet on my galleries, as exclusive for Patreon and Ko-Fi monthly supporters. They all help me to keep doing what I love and keep sharing paintings, and hopefully make many projects I have in mind a reality, you can support me at:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/tiers

Thank you!!

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Somebunny told me it was #InternationalRabbitDay or did I dress up for nothing?
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Forgot to share this last night; Renamon (me) practicing bass guitar!
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Artemis • mastodon (AP)
Ooohhh, nice!
Light The Unicorn! • mastodon (AP)

ain’t no party like a Renamon party!

Wait, wrong genre!


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Pippin friendica
I'm just relistening to some tracks from the game Pathogenic that I heard on the 8 bit drummer's stream tonight, and looked the game up. It's a twin stick shooter, apparently. This reminds me, I think I've tried one or two twin-stick shooters before and never got on with them. They're the ones where one joystick moves you around while the other aims shots. As far as I remember (and I don't really play games very much, other than the very few I play a lot of, like Minecraft) I just couldn't get the hang of moving the two sticks separately, one for movement and one for aim. I'd have to stop moving to aim, and then when I started moving again I couldn't change aim until I stopped again. Is that usual? I guess a lot of gamers have just learned the coordination needed for that.

Pippin friendica
Finally got round to making a video of the music box my late grandfather spent quite a bit of his time working on, playing all six of its tracks.

ā™»ļøšŸ¦–
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Baloo Uriza • mastodon (AP)

Somehow radically wrong, despite the fact that Oklahoma is America's Australia...

some dude up in Claremore owns one of the actual Ford Explorers used in the movie and keeps it fresh despite it being his daily. And there's a *lot* of copycats in town because it seems like if you got a Ford Explorer that's rusting out and you gotta do metalwork to keep it going anyway, might as well repaint it JP style!


Sharkie • mastodon (AP)
Oh heck, it's #fursuitfriday ... have an oldie:
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Ardonis • mastodon (AP)
fluffing amazing photo! How difficult was it to play ?
Sharkie • mastodon (AP)
@Ardonis It wasn't too bad! Visibility was awful, and I didn't have any pads (which I remembered the moment I blocked a dump-in with my shins... ow), but in general it was super fun. No peripheral vision, so puckhandling was only by feel.
Pippin friendica
This is what fursuiting should be about. Doing normal everyday stuff as the aminal you actually are. So for me, absolutely not ice skating (I can barely stand up on skates) but for you, šŸ‘! Also, I remember that look of yours from way way back; was always a favourite.

Paco Panda • mastodon (AP)
Some doodles during a flight of the new discovered feline: Tilcayo (Tigrino for friends), the new guy on the block.
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Pippin friendica

Fursuit Friday? I have no new photos of Kelsey so here are some old ones.

#FursuitFriday

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Xoa Gray • mastodon (AP)
He's still cute. Also from my end it looks like 2 of them didn't come through, just black.
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Pippin friendica
@Xoa Gray Thank you. I still love him. No idea why those photos didn't federate properly though, but clicking them still brings up the full size versions okay, and you can always click through to the original post on my instance. 🤷
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Xoa Gray • mastodon (AP)

Actually, clicking on them individually made them show up on my server. For some reason they just show as black in the post, and if I just click on the first one and used my arrow keys to pan through them.

I'm not sure what the difference is, but it did make a difference.

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Pippin friendica

Oh yeah, how about Rusty! He's very awkward to take anywhere so there aren't many photos of him at all. Here's one relatively recent one though. He's the lighter-coloured one with the cords and the braces.

#FursuitFriday

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Pictured: a happy blue doofus

🧵 @selkiesuits šŸ“· Sotix Shep
šŸŒ Furrific
⌚ #FursuitFriday

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Obscura, Cheetah • mastodon (AP)
Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee! #FursuitFriday
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Fly away on #FursuitFriday
🐄 - Delta Magpie
šŸ“ø - wolfsnubs
#fursuit #furry
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Light The Unicorn! • mastodon (AP)

Had a really lovely time at the Sheffield furmeet this last weekend!

Noir and Lillith ( @notshadowfever ) causing chaos as only those two can!

šŸ“· : umbrabat, sheppyshots
#furry #fursuit #furmeet #sheffield

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I'm willing to 'donate' a sub domain on dragon-vi.be to anyone wanting to host a dragon themed wafrn instance

because I can't bother actually managing an instance

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Pippin friendica
Amazing what you can DIY if you have the time and motivation!

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@spud Awwwww!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵
@Spud

Tilton Raccoon • mastodon (AP)
If I were unfathomably wealthy, I would move to a house in the southern hemisphere every year on September 22nd, so I could start getting longer days again immediately. Of course I’d reverse the trip on March 22nd.
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Toasted Lynx • mastodon (AP)
Just don't move to my part of the southern hemisphere unless you want it to be too hot to do anything in that sunlight. Maybe Kiwiland though I've never been, since I wouldn't fit in any of the hobbit houses.
Tilton Raccoon • mastodon (AP)
@toastedlynx How’s Tasmania? :D
Toasted Lynx • mastodon (AP)
It's good if you like wineries, and you can see the Aurora Australis down there (though probably not at the time of year you'd be down there), but apparently everyone has two heads down there so you'd probably stand out.
Tilton Raccoon • mastodon (AP)
@toastedlynx I can make a papier-mâché head! Nobody will know!
Kyreeth • mastodon (AP)
What you want is a boat

Paco Panda • mastodon (AP)

Hobbes, the Pikachu, exploring nature.

A commission done during Eurofurence's Artists Alley for Hobbes

Traditional. Color markers

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