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People really do seem to think that if they just make it "illegal enough" that we'll all go back in the fucking closet.
HELL no.
The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.
EDIT: IMPORTANT UPDATE NEWS FLASH JUST IN! https://bsky.app/profile/councilmember-amr.bsky.social/post/3lu27fhkj3k2d
Gary Stevenson left his lucrative finance job at 27 as a multimillionaire. Now, he’s campaigning for a fairer economy, arguing that the only way to fix the c...YouTube
More drawings from FWA I was missing to share
Keita! Character from Kaos, part of an art trade
Russec and Scotch, those super cute bunnies!
Moving a few papers in my office, I came across a print of this image from a long, long time ago. I dug it up on one of my computers — the file is timestamped January 2003!
The second image is the file I originally downloaded (but a reverse image search comes up with nothing so I have no idea where it's from any more), and the first is what I printed out to put on my wall after I edited the stripes a bit.
I've had this up on the wall for literally decades but only really noticed it again after taking it all down to move house. It's sitting in a pile of other prints, waiting for me to get round to finding some way to display them all again.
Of course I came across another few nice zebrataurs while trying to find the origin of this one!
https://www.deviantart.com/drjavi/art/Zebrataur-913619568
https://www.deviantart.com/valkenkuart/art/Cyberpunk-Zebrataur-Commission-1073199466
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22812918/
https://www.deviantart.com/larkitrope/art/Zebra-Centaur-663372093
Just one day before heading to Anthrocon I got to do this painting to give it there in person as a surprise.
It was a small way to say thank you for something that meant a lot to me. My best way I can express myself is through paint and a smiling character.
So here's this yote boy, saying hi on my behalf, with all the warmth I couldn’t quite put into words.
For Oatyote.
Traditional. Acrylics
"AI" is not only bad for people that use it, it's bad for people that don't, and the neighborhoods around the huge data centers that it takes to power it. Whatever tiny amount of good some people are able to squeeze out of this trash is nothing compared to the harm and waste its existence mandates.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7rEzhCwPhqc?si=6xeAlVgh-8QMylgl
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-center-development-true-cost-environmental-impact-2025-6?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign...YouTube
Attached: 1 image Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍 Linux 🐧 is more private, by default Own and control your data! Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers …FLOSS.social
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
If you want another reason to not use "Smart home" devices. We Mo is shutting down next year, and all We Mo devices will stop working soon after.
Our future is full of "Smart" devices that will become useless when the maker decides to stop supporting the software.
This is the dumbest timeline.
@AmarettoBear Yup. The most difficult part is actually installing physical light/fan switches and finding which ones you want, and thinking about sensors, time/days, proximity (your app), etc. as inputs, and switches/smart bulbs, etc. as outputs and how you want the automations to work.
Home Assistant can easily be installed in an older HP Mini system (think Gen 7-8 Intel) with 4-8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD and an Aeotec Z-Stick 7 for ZWave and/or a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus for Zigbee devices.
Though I personally recommend starting out with a hubitat for local devices, and playing with a Home Assistant later. It works with just about everything - Zigbee, ZWave, Matter, etc.
There are communities out there with a wealth of knowledge.
I've done things like integrate with the third party Litter Robot API so that when @hypoidbear 's kitties poop, it reads the status change, and then turns on his laundry room vent for about 5 minutes after the litter robot timer goes off so it's less stinky in there. That's a cloud-enabled smart device's status change enabling the changing of a local device's status for X time.
Here's a cat.
Just being a cat.
Doesn't even care.
📷 @DuskPanda
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #furry #furryfandom
METR: "We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."
Bluesky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post/3ltn3t3amms2x
"Good morning! I represent the Nicobar and Andaman division of the Indian census bureaux! I am here to conduct this decade's count if you could please direct me to your tribal leader so we can start the formalities. Oh COME now there is no need to stab me like that!"
https://slguardian.org/india-faces-census-challenge-with-remote-and-isolated-tribes/
As India prepares for its first census in over a decade — and its first in the era of drone technology — officials face one of the most daunting challenges...slguardian.org
Please please sign and re-share. Let's get it to 100K.
I know, I know. Why bother, right? It'll only be a round table of stupidity, again.
Force them to do it. Force them to see this won't go away.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
The UK government is going to test its emergency notification system again in September.
If you have a hidden or secret phone for your safety, make sure you keep it hidden and that it is switched off when this test takes place. Your phone will make siren sounds and vibrate even if it set to silent or Do Not Disturb is turned on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge9xk8wj0o
A test message will be sent to smartphones on 7 September, after a previous test revealed technical issues.Aleks Phillips (BBC News)
I turned this off completely for 2 reasons:
This is actually a really good explanation of what happened when a dial up modem made an internet connection.
So if you ever wondered what the modems were actually doing when you dialed into an ISP...
UK: Overflows of sewage into rivers is inevitable!
France: Hold my wine
About 1,000 swimmers a day will be allowed to use three bathing sites after €1.4bn clean-up programmeKate Connolly (The Guardian)
Every evening I take the "You'll make it to tomorrow" sign off my bedroom wall, and put it in my time machine.
Every morning, I get into my time machine, go to yesterday before I woke, and hang the sign up.
It's nice to have something to be certain of, these days.
Looks like it's that time of year when some good prepaid data SIM deals crop up. 25GB/month until March 2027 for £25. Handy as a WAN backup for 80p a month.
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I don't know... It's getting harder and harder to look into the future. Feeling introspective and withdrawn more and more lately... #FursuitFriday
Photo by Cryptodawg
One thing I've learned:
If you're deeply questioning whether or not you may be able to apply a certain label to yourself... you can, pretty much all of the time.
You think you might be trans? You are.
You think you might be a furry? Join the club!
You think you might be a dragon? Heck yeah, be one with me!!
You think you might be gay? That's a yes.
Embrace labels that help you define who you are. They can sometimes vary in definition, but if you feel it can apply to you, use it! Not only will it help you, it'll help others identify with you and maybe make you some new friends, or help you find people to help guide you along your path of discovery.
Your experiences and life are yours. Feel free to experiment and see what works best for you! You're allowed to change your mind later!
💙💙💙
Thank you so much for this post.
I'm reading it over and over again. It is so inspiring.
It's just: Now I'm wondering if I'm not just a Femboy but maybe an Enby.
I guess cis people don't get a warm feeling every time they get to select the gender neutral name prefix in an online shop registration form or something like that.
Waaaah
Actually despicable the city is just ugly painting over something like this.
I can't think of a single person negatively affected by this being there
Long live Hot Rat Summer
Seattle art has always been about rebellion.
The irony is to protect it, you make it a tourist destination the city capitalizes.
This just in!
-Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck
@councilmember-amr.bsky.social-
"Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it."
https://bsky.app/profile/councilmember-amr.bsky.social/post/3lu27fhkj3k2d