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I'm actually a bit over an hour early at the place I need to go. Get to the car park "scan here to get payment app" oh joy. Download app. Enter car park code. Just Google pay and I'm done, yes?
No. Make an account. Attempt to log in. Says wrong password
Wtf. Make another account. Log in. There's short stay but only an hour and I'm a bit over an hour early. Piss. So I have to buy a DAY.
Enter reg no
Enter car make and colour.
Now I can Google pay?
NO enter all your card details.
The party was a great success. The princess listened with fascination as a dragon and a librarian were discussing storage and organizing of books.
"You two have so much in common!" she exclaimed.
"What? No! They share books," the dragon growled, disgusted.
"Indeed," the librarian said with pride.
No need to rush - just find a peaceful spot and enjoy the moment! 💜 #FursuitFriday
Photo by Kijani lion
It's #FursuitFriday. Here are two cute fluffdergs. You know the drill by now. ;)
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 TechWolf
💛 @azakir
🌍 Scotiacon 2025
It’s finally the weekend, but first; another #fursuitfriday
📸 - gildryntheeagle.bsky.social
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
A polar bear stares straight ahead, framed in a classic portrait style, embracing his nerdy charm, because being a nerd is undeniably cute.
Traditonal. Acrylic painting. Another example for what I'll be working at the Artist Alley at TFF this weekend, I may be painting half body busts on this format, or head busts format like in my previous picture of the duck.
Also you can see the full video process for this picture, there is a short one on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And a longer version of the full process is available only for Patreons and Ko-Fi supporters, if you want to watch it, as well as many other painting’s process, full resolution versions, WIPs and pictures that I haven’t shared on my galleries nor social media, support me monthly, I would appreciate it and that would help me a lot to keep doing more art.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!
I'd rather have a lazy snuggly Monday
I just need someone to snuggle with~ 💚
📷 Griegfox
#fursuit #furry #furryfanfom
Me: Ok windows. Shutdown!
Windows: I update!
Me: *sigh* OK, update and shutdown!
Windows: I update and restart?
Me: no. Update and SHUTDOWN!
Windows: OKAY!!!! I UPDATE AND RESTART!!!!
@ferret not knowingly/willingly o.o but I will check.
It went through a spare of "on startup, hang for 5 mins" then cleared. Oddly when I bought a new m.2 in case it was the drive
Now it's started again.
But not at this boot.
It's weird o.< I can stream data in and out of that drive at m.2 speeds usually. Just at startup, something is pushing a massive 4 MB/s and utilising /all/ of the drive. No reads. And can't see anything that could be doing it. As by the time process explorer has managed to launch.... It's stopped
Another “I drew this during my flight” collection, Texas Furry Fiesta edition.
Texan Jackalope reading a mystery book.
This will be displayed at the TFF’s art show this weekend.
Traditional. Markers.
A duck that goes singing happily, quack quack. When it meets a cute cat, meow meow, To sing bossa nova.
Traditional. Acrylic painting. Example for what I’ll be working at the TFF’s Artists Alley during this weekend, if you attend, come and say hi!
Also you can see the short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
But if you want to see the full time-lapse video (I finally found a way to record a full time-lapse video with the phone that lasts more than 30 seconds) of this process, plus scanned and full resolution version, plus WIPs and drawings I haven’t posted on my galleries, you get all that and helping me a lot at supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!
Hank Green put out a pretty good video about the whole "dire wolf" situation with Colossal Bioscience. He talks about the good, and the bad of the situation. In short similar to what I speculated yesterday, these are not dire wolves, they're modified gray wolves. Gray wolves aren't the closest living relatives to dire wolves. And that while this is neat, and the research may be useful elsewhere they haven't "de-extincted" anything.
https://youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?si=bwmirBFkyKeeR1Pn
Subscribe to We're Here: https://werehere.beehiiv.com/subscribeTL;DW:1. Dire wolves are probably not that closely related to gray wolves, though Colossal say...YouTube
A young deer is surprised by that butterfly he wanted to shot with his camera and lands on his head. He thinks it's a dream, and if he moves, it will fly away, like those ideas we wait for the most to arrive but we're scared they won't stay or they won't success. In this moment, he just lets it be.
Traditional. Watercolors.
This original piece will be exhibited at the TFF's Art Show this weekend.
It's Mine!
Traditional. Crayons over Denny's tablecloth
This will be displayed at the TFF's Artshow, among other pieces.
Zander and Skylar walking on Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz, just next to that funny hats store.
Picture for Zander and Skylar
Traditional. Color markers (Copics mixed with other brands)
Every cloud has a silver lining
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to, Thallinger said: “That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable.”
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figureDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
The last economy we had that wasn't capitalist was feudal. It might not be all that great.
But all the top capitalists are imagining themselves kings and barons, they might like the idea more than you expect.
What an absolute little gremlin. LOL!
https://icy.arcticfluff.eu/@toomanyfoxes/statuses/01JR2JAZP33DC5QM6KW6BW5KGM
Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/1112qUGVxo (John Walton (51)) #Fox #Boticy.arcticfluff.eu
You've finally made it on to one of the lifts at Scotiacon! And then you turn around and see this silly fluffderg staring at you.
HIDE YOUR SNACKS
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 @HarryHusky
🌍 Scotiacon 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday
So how long before Trump passes an executive order that US stock markets aren't allowed to go down? 🤣
Earlier today I dusted off an old perlin terrain generator I wrote in Lua, and decided to port it to Principia, rendering the resulting image as a sprite in-game.
It's quite slow, especially with larger sizes, as Principia doesn't use LuaJIT (though the original isn't very fast even with LuaJIT). Principia's step duration limit also hits against it, but it will just continue where it left off during the next step. Nontheless, an interesting Principia level.
https://principia-web.se/level/1199
Generates a 2D terrain using perlin noise and renders it as a sprite. It's quite slow, especially for higher resolution (the bottleneck being the perlin noise calculations which are done in Lua). I wouldn't recommend running this on mobile.Principia
Whether you love or hate how #LLMs have changed the world in the last couple of years, there's some really interesting science behind them, yet some people still act as if the technology is no different to the next-word completion your phone had 15 years ago.
Anthropic have put out an interactive paper about some experiments they've done on one of their models. They test how it plans to make the last word of a line of poetry rhyme with the previous line, what happens if you ask it "What is the capital of the state containing Dallas?" but you suppress its knowledge of Texas, and other weird things to understand how it works. Fun fact: there's a feature that activates when it reads a double-quote in English text, and a completely separate feature that activates when it reads a double-quote in French text, even though they're the same token.
Well worth a read. Whether you're going to make your own, or you're going to write to your MP to ban them, do it based on facts.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
🏳️⚧️ Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️
We’re already visible, we need protecting.
Here’s one way you could help:
If you’re in a conversation with someone idly saying something transphobic you could say “that's not the case”, ask them to stop (if it's safe for you to do so), or leave.
Especially if you're a white man:
Your privilege means your words / actions
can have more weight.
It's very easy to repeat things we've heard without considering if it’s baseless or illogical. I've done it too!
> If you’re in a conversation with someone idly saying something transphobic you could say “that's not the case”, ask them to stop (if it's safe for you to do so), or leave.
The approach I prefer is to ask them what they mean, and to make very explicit what they are trying to say. It makes them very uncomfortable putting into words what they are implying.
Then enter your full name and address. Finally presspay and oh my fuck now Lloyds bank pops up ARE YOU SURE THIS ISN'T FRAUD and I have to go to THEIR app to biometric confirm.
Glad I wasn't rushing for a fucking train, jesus.
The old ticket machines were SO MUCH EASIER.
it wouldn't be so bad if they at least all used the same app, but I literally have 5 different parking apps now, and they're all terrible!
Be careful with the code scan ones, too. Super easy for people to cover the QR with a sticker that points to their own dodgy app you're then entering card details in. Best to just search the app store to make sure you're downloading the proper one!