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Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
Here's to the people who will tell management that something is dumb once and then when they're told to do it regardless will do it /exactly/ as they are told to do. May they always smile wryly when their prophecy of dumbness is fulfilled.
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Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
I too subscribe to the school of thought that if you ask for it; then I'm afraid I have to let you have it.
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Xanthe mastodon (AP)
It's the only way to survive under asinine leadership. 😌

Rallicat mastodon (AP)
The rapid pivot the TERFs are attempting to recast the SC ruling from 'you can exclude trans people' to 'you must exclude trans people' is the first thing that must be challenged. It is not now illegal to allow trans women into a women's space.
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The Oatmeal mastodon (AP)
Beep.
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Significantly more true when there's a sleeping baby in the house.
Richardus mastodon (AP)

Not pressing the test button. Not pressing the test button !

Afraid it does not stop beeping after a test. It did happen in previous home.

And the smoke detectors the installed in this home does not have repalceable battery. But io think the go silent when you pull them off the socket and activate a switch.


Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Maybe there is someone out there watching us back, we can't be alone here. But somehow, looking up makes things feel a little lighter.

A portrait of Koda , the wah, done during TFF's Artists Alley.

It was my first acrylic painting done at an artists alley during a convention ever. It took me some hours more than when I work on these on my studio, there are so many (good) distractions, people saying hi, cute fursuits that I can't hug because I have my hands full of painting, and even questions about the acrylics I was doing and about art in general. It was a very good experience, and something way different than when I'm just sketching.

This time I didn't record any time-lapse, hard to do that at a convention while doing many things at the same time. It would be possible, but annoying.

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Thank you!

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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics

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Content warning: re: Politics

Sorvall mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics

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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

A dusty wind blows through the corral. Squid narrows his eyes, scanning the horizon. But for now, it’s just him, the open land... and deputy BunBun watching his back.

Drawing for Squid.
Done during TFF's Artists Alley

Traditional. Pencil.

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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Long Self-indulgent Rambling

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Chloé Raccoon mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Long Self-indulgent Rambling

TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Long Self-indulgent Rambling


Meanings of the smoke for the upcoming papal conclave:

Black smoke means they're burning oil, which could be a sign of piston ring or valve stem seal wear

White smoke means they're burning coolant and the papal head gasket has blown

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The Turtle mastodon (AP)
black smoke means they're too rich.
black smoke mean mitsubishi diamante

Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

The actual first painting of the series of portraits on this format I did, before heading to TFF.
This is for Dahan, the cat.

Traditional. Acrylics.

This was also the first traditional painting I tried to record a time-lapse with a desk phone stand instead of a tripod as I was using for long time. It works very well, but this first time I didn't adjust it very tight as it should have been, and during the time-lapse it was falling slowly, which it looked pretty comical on the final video.

If you want to watch it, it is on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

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Pippin friendica
I did not realise there were elections going on today until I took a look here. (I haven't looked at my feed for several days, been a bit distracted!) Apparently our area didn't have elections (so I didn't fail to vote where I could, so that's okay) because they've been postponed for some reason, not because (like our old area, which was in a London borough) we're not having any at all.
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TheDragon 🔥 mastodon (AP)
oh, I'm so sorry for your loss 🙏I shouldn't have assumed, hope you're holding up okay?
Pippin friendica
@TheDragon 🔥 not too bad, thanks. It was not unexpected and was a very peaceful end.
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Genie: YOU HAVE AWAKENED ME, O MASTER! WHAT IS YOUR WISH?

Me: Hmm… could you make American culture and politics not being a giant shitshow for a few years?

Genie: …

Genie: HOW ABOUT A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD? SURELY YOU’D LIKE A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD!

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Shadow Cheetah mastodon (AP)
To be fair, a mountain of gold could probably bribe enough people to do nothing for a few years.

Keys mastodon (AP)

it #fursuitfriday :D

📸 by dolbyvixen at scotiacon

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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Dusk, the raccoon, on one side; Liang, the silver fox on the other. Meeting somewhere in the space between frames.

Traditional. Acrylics.
Done during Texas Furry Fiesta's Artists Alley

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Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

Probably the best #anagram I will ever personally discover.

I've been waiting for a good moment this year to post it. I thought in 2025 someone would be bound to use this phrase in public discourse. But I haven't seen a case of it yet, so I'll just post this anyway.

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Back when i used Chrome I had an extension that replaced "political correctness" with "treating people with respect." It made for all kinds of hilarity when reading Trump quotes or other ranting about the "danger of treating people with respect."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/this-google-chrome-extension-replaces-political-correctness-with-something-more-accurate_n_55c82605e4b0923c12bd4a91

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Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

@MaryAustinBooks ah, well, in that case:

TREATING PEOPLE WITH RESPECT GONE MAD
is an anagram of
ENTITLED WHITE G.O.P. CREEP'S RAMPANT EGO

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Alopex mastodon (AP)
Hardly a bad thing to be typecast as a dancing rodent from an early age!
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Alopex mastodon (AP)

More dancing rodents I found while looking for that one Nutcracker video that was all over last holiday season.

This is not that one, but it's fun too!

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Tursilion mastodon (AP)

I liked this comment from Milleokws over on Youtube as a new acronym for AI art:

Computer Refined Algorithmic Pictures

What'cha think? :)

This entry was edited (2 months ago)
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Ben Hutchings mastodon (AP)

My email signature randomisation script picked an appropriate quotation for the weekend's #debian Bug Squashing Party:

[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
thought. I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going
to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
- Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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Rallicat mastodon (AP)

Pace is slowing, but we need this past 100k. We all know any debate they have will be poor quality, but we need to force them to have it. Don't let them sit back and think the Supreme Court decision is some kind of 'last word'.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

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Q ✨ mastodon (AP)
the perfect software license
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simonbp mastodon (AP)
Open (throttle) Source

Pippin friendica
Listening to this, reading about what it means on Wikipedia. Does anyone really talk to each other, and I mean *really* connect, really know what someone else feels, truly understand them? I don't know. The nearest I feel I've ever come is watching films and reading stories. A good author or director can actually communicate that. I want to be able to do that - I've been trying to write stories, but ultimately I don't know what to write, or how to write it. How can I get the state of my head into someone else's, so they can really understand me? I have no idea. Is that level of understanding "love"? Because I'm not sure I've ever had that.

Kay Ohtie mastodon (AP)
That sense of wanting to check a thing and just before you switch to it you forget what it was and feel the remnants of it fleeting away
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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
GONNA GETCHA! 💜🤗💜 #FursuitFriday
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EddiKat mastodon (AP)
whatcha gonna do to me when ya do?
Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
@EddiKat Hmmm.... Haven't thought that far ahead... X3
l_b_i mastodon (AP)
I'm okay with that.

Mhera! mastodon (AP)

Les Fo'Plafonds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73jJLspL8o8

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@Mhera I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS O.o
NightEyes DaySpring mastodon (AP)
who needs real instruments to make music?

Tursilion mastodon (AP)

If the call waiting always has "higher than normal call volumes", then it's not higher than normal.

Also, test your damn IVR scripts.

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bluestarultor mastodon (AP)
All of those messages went up at the same time and the answer to why is because that's when they collectively decided to intentionally understaff. The start of the pandemic was just a really convenient way of hiding that. They've never restored the numbers because that costs money and people are used to it enough to just deal with it now.
Tursilion mastodon (AP)
@bluestarultor I promise you this habit predates the recent pandemic. I've been calling companies for support for 35 years. ;)

Q ✨ mastodon (AP)
Platonic solids implies the existence of romantic polygons
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4censord :nfp: mastodon (AP)
we usually refer to these as polecules
Schaf mastodon (AP)
and also shapes+

Speaking of PDQ Bach and Beethoven's Fifth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg
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CheRosach mastodon (AP)
We humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. Yet, if we have the capacity to destroy it, so, too, do we have the ability to protect it. Each one of us depends on our community to survive; today our community is the whole of humanity. If we want to look after ourselves, we must think about what our community needs. This Earth Day let’s remind ourselves that we must learn to live together, to work together and to share what we have together.
Dalai Lama
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CheRosach mastodon (AP)
It’s not rocket science, is it?
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sz_duras mastodon (AP)
yes it's worse than rocket science...

sirlan <( rawrr ) sharkey (AP)
the 0th law of robotics: their eyes turn red when they're evil, their eyes are blue when they're good
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Tufty Indigo 🪗 mastodon (AP)
My mum always used to say "wait" in a commanding tone when walking the dog and/or children and they got to a pedestrian crossing, and there would often be someone who was about to cross against the lights and would stop dead in their tracks. Now I know where Herbert got the idea for the weirding way.
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Mythic Beasts mastodon (AP)

#IPv6 usage in the UK now over 50% according to Google. Still someway behind Germany (75%) and France (84%) but to out of context quote Jon Bon Jovi, "woah oh, we're half way there'.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption

#ipv6
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Michael mastodon (AP)
joining the IPv6 movement in few days :)

Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
Sudden realisation: Nearly every difficulty I face in my job now is not technical in nature; but revenue protection, licensing and IP hoarding in nature.
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MidgePhoto mastodon (AP)

Clever people design interesting machines to do useful things.
Marketing hires a second or third echelon to stop them doing it, unless a ransom is paid.

The second echelon are not so competent, and marketing are not so careful.

Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)

@midgephoto Thats pretty much it.

"but how can we monetise this?" is when enshitification starts.


Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

One of the most embarrassing absent-mindednesses in software development:

• decide carefully what you want to do
• write a clear, well reasoned source comment and/or commit message explaining the decision
• forget to actually change the code.

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Leeloo mastodon (AP)

On the positive side, you have documented what you wanted to do, and (presumably) a commit showing that you didn't actually do it.

Seems like a much better situation than having some code that doesn't make any sense and no explanation why. Like a few days ago, I asked myself why I added 120 seconds to the current time before displaying it. No comment, so a guess could be that it was a test that accidentally got committed, but I can't see anything logical I could have been testing. I mean, next time I run the program, it will already be two minutes later.


Pippin friendica
I appear to have just wasted pretty much the whole day playing an automation base-building game in a way that, when I take a step back from it, I don't actually find all that much fun. I don't know why my brain prefers to do the repetitive things over and over instead of just automating, like the game intends, and freeing myself to move up to higher-level game mechanics. I just sit there manually shuffling resources back and forth, getting bored, for no reason. Clearly I just have stupid-brain.
Pippin friendica
@Samael :therian: Fits? I'm not sure what you mean.
Samael :therian: mastodon (AP)
Sorry, I meant to ask which game you're playing.

Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Pool day for some are about relaxing, others just aim for a good splash.
Cody doesn't have bad intentions, he just has terrible timing. Token, the raccoon, just accepts his fate.

Picture for Satti and Cody
Digital. Procreate.

I'm showing a short version of the time-lapse process video of this picture on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

But if you want to support me to keep creating art, personal projects and a new comic, but also getting access to the full process video of this and many other pictures I do (traditional and digital), full resolution of every picture, WIPs and drawings I haven't posted on my galleries yet; you can support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi.
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Thank you!

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Atari Scene News mastodon (AP)
Lenny the Ninja, original Amiga tune converted for #Atari8bit computers https://youtu.be/4AJ3axBN_8w #atari #chiptune
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