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Most anatids (duck, goose family) regularly form homosexual pairings. I had a couple gay geese once.
Funny story. A woman down the road from the farm I lived at years ago bred and sold exotic fowl. A Christian woman bought a bunch of unsexed ducklings (i.e. the sex had not been determined, since it's invasive to do so in baby ducks), but later brought two gay male mallards back once they had grown up and their sex became clear because her religiousness couldn't countenance watching all that hot bareback drake-on-drake action in broad daylight. I mean, understandable. It says it right in the Bible.
Honestly, this reawakens my #otherkin wish to have such a fluffy legs... 
Cute fursuit legs by the way 
always fun remembering how capitalism has "not helping people" as its main feature
doesn't matter how much people talk about charity or whatever
at the end of the day the main people who have the resources to do many things for others without risking their own life stability are the ones who already have lots of money to spare, which of course got there by not being interested in doing any of that
even shit like economy of scale
if you want to be a fairphone or framework and make devices that are not made to be exploitative
well, you're a small company with a limited production, and making devices to be actually good costs, so you have to sell them at higher prices for less people
and the only way to have the economies of scale and be able to make devices that are accessible is by being a big company that makes exploitative devices and/or can tank selling things at a loss without going under
the system itself punishes good deeds for the masses, you either make something good and have it only be accessible to a few people who can pay up, or you are exploitative and have the capacity to make things accessible for more people
I worked as a debugger for a small company years ago; every programmer had the developer instance where they would do their bits and fixes and I was the one whose work was ensuring that their code behaved well with each other, I'll just say that I haven't worked as a programmer since then.
Local support life is far more rewarding and relaxing.
When I first encountered it during Uni, there was something about it which made me feel that it was about creating replaceable coding cogs.
Having been forced to do it at jobs in the past - I'm certainly no fan, I find I learnt less from it than puzzling out a solution on my own.
Which is no surprise as a mere coding mortal!
A word of advice to red faced managers with an axe to grind: Do not tell me to 'use proper measures' when you mean 'do not use metric'. I have bigish library of engineering books dating back over one hundred years and you will get reports where I use Gunter's and Hamilton's chains interchangeably, I will use Chaldrons, pennyweights and Bavarian Lachters. I will take the trouble to work out every local midday and give you times based on what a sundial placed in the market square would read but leave calculation of all the offsets to you.
Further, I will use each unit as wrongly as possible. Expect international distances in nails and the sizes of bolts and nuts to be given in fractions of a nautical mile. I will convert things to tons of steam per 11 minutes and spend a long time giving you the specification for the steam in degrees Réaumur.
I will use my Cobbett's and Dr. Johnson's and rewrite in mid-nineteenth century English.
If you are going to waste my time, I will be certain to waste yours.
Bit of a #FursuitFriday flashback and highlight for any new arrivals - a set of wonderful photos taken by Nitro G Beans of @azakir and myself at Confuzzled 2023. Some of my very favourite fursuit photos!
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It's now just over two weeks until FASTER is entered into the Silly Venture 2024 WE demo party in Poland!This is the gameplay trailer that will be shown on t...YouTube
Badger!!
During a dinner time at a Denny's restaurant, seeing those tempting crayons in the waiting area, ready to be taken and brought to the table, where I know a paper tablecloth awaits me with a blank canvas. Despite the limited colors, they put entertainment on the table while we wait for our food.
Why a badger? Because they're cute and I rarely get to draw one.
I will surely be displaying this (very valuable) piece at the MFF art show
I wonder if Valve will do anything interesting for the original Portal's 20 year anniversary in 2027.
I played the original Portal in autumn of last year and it was a really great game. @fleckenstein then insisted on buying me Portal 2 (don't ask me how I obtained the original), which was also really good. I really should replay them sometime and check out the full game mods people have made for the sequel. Because I don't think I can wait until 2027 for some more Portal.
A question for people: is Exascale any good, as a transit provider? I expect I know a few people who may have come across them and/or been a customer, so I may ask well ask!
My current main transit provider has provided me with notice that they are going to stop providing transit in a few months, and apparently they've given Exascale their customer list, because they phoned me a few days ago to offer their services. The prices seem reasonable (actually far lower than I was expecting, probably because I keep paying the same for year upon year without poking regularly for discounts, so I probably have way out of date pricing at the moment) and they seem to offer much higher CDRs for not much more money than I've been paying so far. The only downside is that they don't have <10Gbps ports in their network, so I'll probably have to have a router with an SFP+ socket in it at last!
I hesitate to just say "yes" without doing at least some kind of due diligence first, though, so: have you come across them before, and would you recommend? I probably ought to get at least one other quote too, so is there anyone else you'd recommend for (tier 2, for some reason I'm not keen on connecting directly with a tier 1) transit? Thanks :)
If we met at midnight at the willow tree…
📸 - Judas
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The 14th of October is World Standards Day... except in North America where it is the 12th of October, the 14th of November, or varies year to year
This amuses me greatly
Happy Starting Your Advent Calendar Day to those who celebrate.
I haven't done an Advent calendar for a long time, but I have just opened the Christmas Marmalade (someone's gift from last year). Orange, cranberry, ginger and spices, apparently.
And the the day after that I finally got on my motorbike and did that trip to the south coast I've been threatening to do for weeks now. Finally made it, stopping at Littlehampton and getting a few pics on the beach, albeit after dark. *sigh* Oh well, at least I made it. Went back to the old house afterwards, sorted a few network things out and brought some routers I needed back to the new house.
(6 pics below; if you can't see them all, look on the origin instance.)
The album cover photo! The question is, what's the band called? :3 #FursuitFriday with Oppiz, Blackstar, and Beta Monkey
Photo by Lilshark
I don't know your style of music, but just from the photo thought of a few
Prowlers by the Stream
Velvet Howl
Riverclaw Rebellion
Fur and Feathers
Pssssst! You! C’mere! Join me in celebrating the best day of the week~ #fursuitfriday
📸 - gerhardt_the_dragon
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A lot of contemporary homophobia is still justified by resort to the “nature red in tooth and claw” “survival of the fittest” social Darwinism that spread when evolution was new and exciting — and which was a product of rapacious colonialism.
It’s a cultural bias that overlooks the survival benefits of cooperation, resource sharing, and mutual aid.