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Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's the last #FursuitFriday before ScotiaCon. I can't wait to make some dragon magic happen! Hugs and photos strongly encouraged. ❤

📷 @azakir
🧵 @selkiesuits
🌍 Wild North 2024

Blue dragon fursuiter Doran stands on a castle stairway, wielding a wooden longsword and wearing a long blue cloak.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits @Azakir

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Cheetah Obscura 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Looks like I have fully turned into a fluffderg! Just gotta give out those hugs I suppose! 🤗💜

Rezz's first official #FursuitFriday - made by the wonderful Roofur (https://roofur.com/)! 💜

Photo by @Kishi

Photo of Rezz, the fluffy synthwave dragon standing in a living room near an open cardboard box. They have their arms open and ready for a hug

Check out Roofur.com for your next fursuit!

Creator of custom fursuits and accessories for everyone!

^roofur.com

#fursuitfriday @Samael :therian:

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Breve 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Aaaaaaa too cute! Must get all the hugs! 😍

Cheetah Obscura 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@breve Thanks! *huuuugs* ^^

@Breve

Cheetah Obscura 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Cal Have a snooze! X3

@Cal Alaera :SpoonsOutlined:

Alopex 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Never forget that a DEI hire saved the earth from the Arquillians.

Screenshot from the movie Men in Black where Will Smith sits next to another candidate in egg shaped chairs. Smith salutes and says, "Best of the best of the best, sir. With honors."

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GrumpSec Spottycat 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh look, brain fog (aka brain damage) from covid can have real life consequences: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-brain-fog-likely-factor-in-near-miss-train-crash-in-south-island/XENZTFDQEREKDAX6NTWY7EIJAI/

Covid-19 ‘brain fog’ likely factor in near-miss train crash in South Island

The experienced engineer recently returned to work following an absence due to the virus.

^{Ben Tomsett (NZ Herald)}

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Resist.

Art by @osdok.bsky.social. Thanks so much Osdok; you were a delight to work with!

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Pippin 2 months ago friendica

This afternoon I did a trip to test out my motorbike (and it turns out the regular clonking noise has gone, so hopefully my chain maintenance has indeed helped!) and google took me off the normal route, along two sides of a big triangle, then back onto the normal route. Then on the way back, it just took me the usual way. And along that bit it had missed out earlier there was a fire engine and an emergency ambulance parked at the side of the road making everyone take turns to go around them. Looks like someone had a Bad Day™.

Ret 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: nsfw ish

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Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

After nearly drowning in an alphabet soup of anti-spam acronyms whilst trying to explain to a customer why email forwarding doesn't work, Kelduum decided to let off steam on our blog. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-death-of-email-forwarding/

The Death of Email Forwarding - Mythic Beasts

^{www.mythic-beasts.com}

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Extreme Electronics 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I've lived with this increasing acronym soup for email deliverability, the biggest issue I have is there is no way to contact email providers anymore as a sender, Google, Microsoft Apple just ignore any problems. So sorting issues is 100% down to the smaller providers guessing the issue.

Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Extelec we feel your pain. If a mail goes missing in our system, it's our problem. If a mail goes missing after delivery to Gmail/Microsoft/whoever, it's our problem.

@Extreme Electronics

Extreme Electronics 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

yes, and WE actually talk to our customers 😀

Vesna Manojlović 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

^^^ something for security-wg @natural20
@beasts

@Mythic Beasts @Brian Nisbet

Jonathan B ✈️🪄👨🏻‍💻 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hmm, that probably rules out me forwarding family member’s email to their gmail or similar mailboxes to save on my storage then!

Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@jmb for Gmail, pull via POP3/IMAP works well enough, although a bit more fiddly to setup. And it should empty the inbox each time, so only briefly using storage on your account.

@Jonathan B ✈️🪄👨🏻‍💻

Iain Hallam 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I've got exactly the situation you describe, with a small organisation wanting generic addresses for positions. We've settled on an external mailing list provider for now, but still sometimes have deliverability issues, and it costs us extra. Email forwarding has become our nemesis!

Phil M0OFX 2 months ago • hometown (AP)

This is a pain I know only too well. And of course, small mail providers are the only ones who have customer service now... not that we can give very good answers when the big players refuse to engage.
Embrace, extend, extinguish...

Z80 Inside 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I propose a unified scheme where we deal with all email problems by simply pasting a chunk of line noise into a TXT record. The advantage here is predictability: the problem will be exactly the same afterwards rather than becoming a slightly different problem.

Chris Siebenmann 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

AFAIK DMARC doesn't normally require that the envelope sender passes SPF if From: is DKIM signed by the domain of the From: (what 'alignment' normally means in this context). We (a university department) successfully forward a lot of DKIM signed email to GMail despite not touching the envelope sender (so no SPF passing).

(People can creatively make their email non-forwardable (at least not easily) by having a narrow SPF and then no DKIM signature.)

Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@cks yes, for DMARC you need an aligned SPF pass OR a DKIM pass. If you're forwarding, the former isn't going to happen, so you're reliant on DKIM. Sensible people don't enable strict DMARC policies without first ensuring that they're DKIMing everything, so that shouldn't be an issue, but forwarding mail that isn't DKIM signed (and lots still isn't) is unlikely to be reliable, even if the sender hasn't explicitly said "p=reject".

@Chris Siebenmann

Chris Siebenmann 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yes, definitely non-DKIM email doesn't forward reliably even without DMARC policies. We've seen GMail reject non-DKIM signed email without an explicit DMARC policy on the domain; they seem to basically infer one. This isn't RFC compliant but they're the 800-kilo gorilla, what are we going to do.

Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@cks sadly, "you'll have to ask Google why they threw your mail away" is rarely the answer people are looking for 🙂

@Chris Siebenmann

Erin 💽✨ 🔜🐇🥚 2 months ago • akkoma (AP)

yeah the description of DMARC alignment here seems to be just flat out wrong

Mythic Beasts 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@erincandescent @cks RFC7489 says "Identifier Alignment: When the domain in the RFC5322.From address matches a domain validated by SPF or DKIM (or both), it has Identifier Alignment."

The bit where we discuss alignment is only talking about SPF because it's in the context of why SRS doesn't help with DMARC. For SPF, alignment means envelope sender matches From (which it won't with SRS). For DKIM it means "d=" parameter matches From (which is normal)

@Chris Siebenmann @Erin 💽✨ 🔜🐇🥚

martin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I guess the TL/DR is don't set DMARC for your domain unless you also have DKIM and you know that it's working.

CheRosach 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Larry and Paul have pinpointed journalistic failure

https://youtu.be/_X2p9dMsNFY

Picture of Earth overlaid with clock face showing two minutes to midnight

What Is Causing Extreme Weather? - #BrokenNews

100% of scientists say one thing, but Kev from Ipswich says another. Sometimes it's hard to know just what is causing an increase in extreme weather events. ...

^YouTube

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Paco Panda 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Anjin and Kojac are relaxing in the hot tub, enjoying the cool night air and the endless stars above. Then, Anjin saw a shooting star and Kojac managed to see it too.
Shooting stars are so fast that when you try to show someone, it’s already gone. But this time, they both saw it together, sharing a rare and perfect moment under the night sky.

Birthday gift for Kojac from Anjin.
And so far, the largest piece I've worked only with watercolors. A 31x46 cm (12x18 inches) 25% cotton canvas.

I was also recording with the phone a time-lapse video, you can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And if you want to see the scanned version, to see my pictures before I post them, to see WIPs of my works, and support me to keep doing more comics and more illustrations, support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!!

Buy Paco Panda a Coffee. ko-fi.com/panda_paco

Become a supporter of Paco Panda today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love.

^Ko-fi

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HashRaydamon 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Lovely ❤

Micro SF/F by O. Westin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The team picked to contact Earth were all sapiophiles (the term homophile, had, after debate, reluctantly been agreed against). They knew humanity, yet still liked humans.

After making contact, they monitored media to gauge their impact. No number was followed more keenly than their AO3 fic count.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #vss

#tootfic #microfiction #vss

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Leafy Greens 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

meaning how many fics they've written, or how many have been written about them?

Micro SF/F by O. Westin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@leafygreens The latter.

@Leafy Greens

ArdentArchivist 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

😋👍

Debian 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

Bits from the Debian Project

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.

^{Debian Project}

#debian

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Tobi 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Very good decision, thank you very much, publicity team!

pancake :radare2: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

well done

sirlan <( rawrr ) 2 months ago • sharkey (AP)

'llm' stands for: lunatic lying machine

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Keys 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You know what... fuck it

Vengaboys We Like To Party (polka edition) #fursuit

#fursuit

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Lynne 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

thank you this made my whole morning.
Also, that perfect loop!
(Edit) Maybe not *perfect* loop but good enough for me XD

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Keys 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Lynne Thank you!

I just edited on my phone quickly before heading out xD I'll try to make better loops next time!

@Lynne

Keys 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@dave ❤ thank you!

@Dave W

Noble :frostbite: 2 months ago • iceshrimp (AP)

i think one of the best things about joining fedi is that it opened my eyes to like. actually making alt text. cause like i feel like if i never joined here i never would have really cared, but fedi taught me the significance of alt text and now i do everything with that in mind when i can
i even find it fun to make alt text sometimes cause its kinda like a little puzzle. like "how do i describe this image where you won't feel like you missed out on much if it wouldn't load or you couldn't see it"

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Atari Scene News 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Burying ET, funny game for #Atari2600 console inspired by the burial of cartridges and other Atari hardware that occurred to the south of city of Alamogordo in 1983 https://florentdeloison.itch.io/burying-et #atari #retrogames #retrogaming

Burying E.T. by Florent Deloison

Burying E.T. is a game for the Atari 2600 inspired by a real event: the burial of unsold video games by Atari in 1983.

^itch.io

#RetroGaming #atari #atari2600 #retrogames

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Avon DeRussate 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

WORLD:

"Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog"

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/bangkok-thailand-smog-air-pollution-free-public-transport-b2686466.html

Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog

Rising smog in Bangkok linked to car emissions, with authorities aiming to reduce private car use to curb pollution

^{Shahana Yasmin (The Independent)}

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Xoa Gray 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: US Pol

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J. "Henry" Waugh 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: USpol

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Xoa Gray 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: USpol

@J. "Henry" Waugh

cheetah_spottycat 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

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Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ever thought about doing your own personal website but haven't? You can and maybe you should

https://nora.zone/manifesto.html

The Website Manifesto

^nora.zone

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Thumper ➡️❄️? 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I wore a mask almost everywhere at FC. I personally did not get any criticism but I heard others did and that's pretty disappointing in this fandom. Grow up.

I also was in close proximity to several people who have reported being C19+ after the con. Masks work.

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Thumper ➡️❄️? 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I trust you all to make the right decision for yourself and those around you that you care about when deciding on masking, I'm not judging.

If you're the type who needs to criticize others for not masking, please spend a moment in the mirror. Do you also criticize your friends for not drinking or doing drugs at a party? Is that who you want to be? There's a fine line between teasing and peer pressure, be kind. 🤔

Kyreeth 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Can confirm. Last few conventions I’ve worn a mask basically 100% of the time, no covid or even concrud.

Tryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 :ms_asexual_flag: :ms_cat_grin: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Re fossil fuel dependence: oil is an important feedstock for the manufacturing of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and thousands of other important chemicals that are essential to our way of life. It's too valuable to just burn for energy.

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The TenuousOrder 🇵🇸 :NDpride: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

literally money to burn

taco, bird/cat :verified420: 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

daydream
i fell asleep amid the flowers
for a couple of hours
on a beautiful day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhB6Lb7_kN8

#IMonster #NeverOddOrEven #DaydreamInBlue

2. I MONSTER - Daydream In Blue

Download from iTunes UK: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/neveroddoreven/id42085885?uo=4Download from iTunes US: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/neveroddo...

^YouTube

#iMonster #neveroddoreven #daydreaminblue

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Xoa Gray 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Let's just be clear about something that I think a lot of people don't understand.

All these "Generative AI" assistants and crap that is getting crammed into everything today. You need to understand that it's primary goal isn't to serve you, it's to gather data. This is why these companies are so willing to cram it into every little thing, even though they know it's a broken mess. Because while it sucks at being "AI", it does it's primary job exceedingly well.

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Tufty Indigo 🪗 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Proposal to make Mastodon's content warnings work like the Met Office's weather warnings, as explained by the BBC:-

#ContentWarningMeta #humour

Screenshot of text from a website. Text follows:
Content Warnings Key
Red: Extreme content is expected. Red means you should take action now to keep yourself and others safe from the impact of the content. Widespread damage, travel and power disruption and risk to life is likely. You must avoid dangerous timelines and follow the advice of the emergency services and local authorities.
Amber: There is an increased likelihood of bad content affecting you, which could potentially disrupt your plans and possibly cause travel delays, road and rail closures, interruption to power and the potential risk to life and property. Amber means you need to be prepared to change your plans and protect you, your family and community from the impacts of the severe content based on the forecast from John Mastodon.
Yellow: Severe content is possible over the next few days and could affect you. Yellow means that you should plan ahead thinking about possible travel delays, or the disruption of your day to day activities. John Mastodon is monitoring the developing content situation and Yellow means keep an eye on the latest forecast and be aware that the content may change or worsen, leading to disruption of your plans in the next few days.

#humour #contentwarningmeta

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Emil but bnuuy 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

does this mean we can also expect a soothing voice reading the content forecast?

Tufty Indigo 🪗 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@emilvolk And now the content forecast, issued by John Mastodon at 1100 today. Dogger, memes light and variable. Shannon, politics gusting 1000 likes, veering right. Rockall, imminent heavy werewolf TF, then moderate nude selfies.

@Emil but bnuuy

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CheRosach 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Good advice

Picture of Tesla car overlaid with caption “Don’t buy Swastikars”

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TundraWolf 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics

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rynnan 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: re: Politics

Like, Y'know, Gneech 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Here, have a ska cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," because I love you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPShElKeRM

Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears) SKA COVER

Be Sure to follow skatunenetwork on every platform! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skatunenetwork/Twitter: https://twitter.com/skatunenetworkTiktok: ht...

^YouTube

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Pippin 2 months ago friendica

Annoyment. I got a notification overnight that the next chapter of my favourite fanfic is out, and went to take a look. I found the tab I already had open on my phone, which was a few chapters earlier, and scrolled through, reminding myself what happened previously. Made it just a chapter away from the new one and then… bam. AO3 is down for maintenance for the next 6 hours. Grr. I was looking forward to having a new chapter to read while I wait at the hospital today. If I'd tapped through to the new chapter immediately I'd have had it loaded and ready to read whenever I was ready. Oh well.

Half a Century This Week, FCL 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If I can't sway you, perhaps he can...

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/time-to-unfriend-facebook

My War with Facebook

Now it’s personal.

^{Andy Borowitz (The Borowitz Report)}

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Ret 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

if the federal bitcoin reserve thing happens, my ultimate crypto dream coming true would be even funnier:

satoshi reappears with part 2 of their paper which entirely unpicks the math underpinning everything. anybody can spend from any wallet. suddenly all these people are sat there holding fistfuls of worthless space cash (I mean, they are already, but still)

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Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Reminding myself that it's another four years of never opening a conversation with my American friends with 'how are you doing?'
It's kind of just assumed. And if it's bad enough that one of us needs to talk about it we just will. Otherwise no one wants to be reminded.

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Colin 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

how do conversations get started?

I'm an american and I still start out with that and it's exhausting.

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@colinstu honestly no idea. Sometimes just quiet knowing hugs.

@Colin

Cheetah Obscura 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Fozzaroo, there's a camera over there...

What should we do?

Quick... Strike a pose! X3

#FursuitFriday

Photo of Obscura and Fozzaroo standing in a fenced yard. Obscura is gesturing towards the camera and Fozzaroo is leaning in looking towards it

Photo of Obscura and Fozzaroo posing with their arms out wide

#fursuitfriday @Fozzaroo

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Nemereth 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Very cute! :)

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's #FursuitFriday! Which means my social media-avoiding tail is actually posting again. Hi! I may not be very active but I try to keep the colourful fluff dragon content coming for you all. 💙💛

📷 Tazon Husky
💛 @azakir
🪡 @selkiesuits
🌍 SotonFurs Winter Party 2005

Colourful fluffy dragon fursuiters Doran and Azakir pause in a city park and take in their surroundings.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits @Azakir

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naima 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it was a kids tv gameshow from the early 2000s.

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@naima
Ooooooh ^^

@naima

CheRosach 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Poster “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war”. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hellooooooooo, it’s #fursuitfriday
📸 - SparkPlug

#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay

Closeup of Nev with paws out on a warm december day

#furry #fursuit #fursuitfriday #fursuiter #furries #fursuiting #furryfandom #cosplay #mascot #FoxFursuit #fursuitphotography #costume

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BenBE 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Furry as always!

(and fluffy)

Half a Century This Week, FCL 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Excellent.

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Thumper ➡️❄️? 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Had the good fortune of meeting a new bunny friend at FC! While I have plenty of experience being a spotter/translator for silent suits, it was a first for me to take that role while I was in fursuit myself! Much shenanigans ensued, much joy was had :)
🐰 Lea (@isograph.ist on bsky)
📷 @bluleggy.bsky.social

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TK Wolf 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You heckin CUTIEEEESS!

Thumper ➡️❄️? 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@tkwolf They are a whole lot of CUTE to keep up with!!

🎥 @whiteyfawks.bsky.social

@TK Wolf

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Ret 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“Containers are just sparkling process namespaces, really”

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 2 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I cannot verify the source, but it seems valid.

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Check out Roofur.com for your next fursuit!

Covid-19 ‘brain fog’ likely factor in near-miss train crash in South Island

The Death of Email Forwarding - Mythic Beasts

What Is Causing Extreme Weather? - #BrokenNews

Buy Paco Panda a Coffee. ko-fi.com/panda_paco

Bits from the Debian Project

Teams/Publicity/otherSN - Debian Wiki

OpenPortability

Debian micronews

Burying E.T. by Florent Deloison

Asian capital makes public transport completely free to combat smog

Border Trilogy Part 1: Hole in the Fence

The Website Manifesto

2. I MONSTER - Daydream In Blue

Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears) SKA COVER

My War with Facebook

Welcome to Furtrack! Fursuit photo sharing, tagging & discovery