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This right here is short, bittersweet, and 100% on the mark. Every hobby is now a side hustle, everything we do is in the relentless pursuit of money or recognition. Between the relentless grind economy and social media, we're ruining all the things we love for the sake of cash and clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAqhP8EeYQ
How we grindified our downtime and why your hobbies don't owe you anything.YouTube
The robot picked through the boxes of old cables and converters at the market stall.
"Looking for anything in particular?"
"A... special charger adapter."
A bag from under the counter. The robot looked inside. Kettle lead to robot charge port. Untracked charging.
"A gift. Enjoy your freedom."
@crazyeddie you know what the craziest part is: this is already happening right now.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-right-to-repair
When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported, it generated both attention and outrage.Eliza Strickland (IEEE Spectrum)
Regular reminder that:
and…
Go to https://buyraycon.com/rowanj for 20% off your first pair of earbuds.A breakdown of William Shatner's excellent performance as Captain James T Kirk from...YouTube
British judges have been incredibly harsh against climate and anti-genocide protestors…to the extent that the UN have questioned the sentencing.
But who has enabled them?
Successive #Tory and #Labour governments.
Did #Banksy plan some ‘redecoration’ for the Home Office, but then Yvette Cooper changed jobs last week? Was this their Plan B?
Artist’s latest work at Royal Courts of Justice in London is thought to refer to pro-Palestine demonstrationsKaamil Ahmed (The Guardian)
A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web servicesarewedecentralizedyet.online
Home safe from a short but epic Furvana weekend. Got in a few rounds of suiting, a few rounds of DJing, and one round dodging lightening 🌩️🌩️🌩️!
Time for laundry, repack and back on the road to BFC next!
📸 @buckley.deer.place (bsky)
“When we are told that living standards are up because the averages look rosy, we should remember what Danny Dorling pointed out: an average can hide a multitude of sins.
If Jeff Bezos walked into a Norwich pub, the average wealth in the room would shoot through the roof, but not a single person’s pint would get cheaper – and I doubt he would get to the bar ahead of anyone else, either.”
Clive Lewis
We're here to bring the party. And the colour!
💛 @azakir
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 Revie Rae/Luminous Photography
🌍 Yorkshire Furs Summer Party 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday
Furpile from @Treycat 's 2005 birthday. He's in there somewhere, and I'll leave identifying everybody to y'all.
It’s cuppycat.bsky.social n I from #Megaplex2025 with another #FursuitFriday
📸 - gawainthedawg
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
Went to megaplex last weekend and bumped into reverbthehusky while suiting!
📸 - thadthehusky
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #fursuitfriday
Utterly wild to think that Mid Gen-X to Mid Millennial is probably the peak of genuine tech literacy of the masses of the human race.
Boomers were born too early to easily learn.
Z were born too late to have a need to.
Now the mothership is in control. You will do as you are told.
" Exactly. I don’t understand the details about FAT32, NTFS, etc, but I understand the basics about drives, partitioning, folder structures, etc."
Nor do you...or should you need to. There is such a thing as a middle-ground here.
Understanding how a computer works down to the bit level is not empowering. But understanding how to file away files and categorise folders DOES. It is this empowerment that big tech wants to take away through gradual dumbing down. And it has worked. You can always count on human laziness.
"Holy mother of..." The astronaut stared out the viewport. "Hey! Come and look at this!"
"What's up?" The space station commander drifted over. "Oh. Yeah. Keep quiet about this."
"Really?"
"It's not harming anyone."
In the Pacific Ocean down below, the Kaiju's mating dance sank below the waves.
I'm just here thinkin' 'bout paws... How 'bout you? 🐾💜 #Pawgust #Paws
Arts by Azshara Kletete (https://kletete.eu/)
Hey, folks! 🦁🐯🐱🐶🐺🐻🐼🐗+
I haven't been very active here lately, but my convention season finally starts next week! Please get excited with me and check out my boyo's lovely new video here:
🤍💜🤍💜🤍💜
Hey guys,the time has finally come! After a long wait, we have finally finished the video for the last Eurofurence. I would like to thank all the furries who...YouTube
if anyone needs an american centric counter to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps":
you can't refill your tank, if you don't already have enough gas to get to the next station
Ocicat and Ysengrin, back in 2002 ... Oci doesn't seem to be active here in the Fediverse.
You never know how #FursuitFriday is going to hit. This week it's making a fluffy superhero three point landing into your timeline!
🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 CreamSoda
🌍 Anthro Irish 2025
A wild Nall appears. 💚
https://www.furtrack.com/p/244738
#fursuitfriday
Fursuit photo/video sharing & searching for the furry fandomwww.furtrack.com
if you need a campaign slogan:
what if your oven only allowed you to cook foods that its makers approved of
what if your car only allowed you to drive on roads its makers approved of
what if your scissors only allowed you to cut paper in shapes its maker approved of
why when it comes to electronic devices then suddenly it's completely fine for the maker to have a say on what you're allowed and not allowed to do with your own device you have possession of
Bit of sentimental chat about sheep we have loved and who have passed.
Love your creatures while you can ❤
I’ve long been a fan of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City…watching the characters evolve and have adventures over 5 decades has been a joy to follow. And at the heart of it is Mrs Madrigal. The perfect landlady and granny…and yes she’s #trans. It wouldn’t work without her.
Great to hear Maupin’s warmth and defiance.
This is the first in a series of conversations we’ll be filming, with Armistead reflecting on what’s happening in politics today—queer and otherwise.Christopher Turner (Barbary Lane Dispatches)
"Be a human being and let people be who they are." Love it!
I read the first six books, probably around 1990. Loved them all except for the last of them, but hadn't realized he'd written more. I might tear through the entire series from the start!
There is still much to be enjoyed in the later ones…and they are beautifully good books to tear through at pace I find!
I think it must have been too painful to write about the characters for a long period…but I’m really glad he returned to them.
The non-consensual #AI has hit Youtube now
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?Thomas Germain (BBC)
in general I just hate how p2p is so damn neglected with modern tech, it's now extremely easy to send real time video to a server to the other side of the world
but it's a pain in the ass to have basic communication between two devices on the same room without an intermediary (in an open way, I know that for example apple devices so some direct connection stuff, but it's a proprietary closed system)
When I was at school, I learned to play recorder for a few years. At some point in middle school I started learning flute. I'm not sure if I ever actually *really* enjoyed either, but it was something I could do and it was satisfying to get better at it. I didn't really do it outside of lessons, and practicing for lessons and exams. But then in high school my flute teacher really pushed me in a way I didn't like. He wanted to get me angry with him because it meant I'd play loudly, and that would be needed when (not if, in his opinion) I'd play to an audience. I hated him and I started to hate playing flute. I was pushed into the school orchestra and at the first rehearsal I went to I was awkward and shy and embarrassed and couldn't get a note out because of it, and threw my flute on the floor in frustration (denting it) and stormed out and never played again. And all because an activity that would have been nice to continue with if I'd been allowed to just do it for myself and no one else, was forced to be a performance, a product, a thing for other people's enjoyment, not for mine.
My uncle died last year and my aunt has been making noises about having to clear out his study, and I have my eye on his digital piano - rather a nice one, I understand - because, being digital, I could plug headphones into it and not worry about anyone else hearing me play on it. And I don't mean "play" as in "perform music", but "play" as in "amuse myself". And ironically I might actually get good at it and even enjoy playing music if only there wasn't the *requirement* to get good at it.