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why is it always "grow your business"?
why can't it just be "find a nice comfortable equilibrium for your business"?
sadly, markets are not systems with equilibrium states, nor their players. If you are not growing, you are getting smaller. And inertia is the worst enemy or the best ally of any business. So you have no choice but to grow... or suffer.
What you can do is to define how you grow, what for...
Not every arrow is meant to strike a target, you release it into the sky guided only by hope, trusting there is still a reason to keep aiming forward.
Traditional piece made with color markers (Ohuhu) for Archer.
Made during FWA's Artists Alley
It's happening!
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Hey, this looks pretty damn cool. If this becomes a thing, I will definitely want to pick up a few domains under .furry.
Do you know anyone in that campaign that can give you the thumbs up and say "This is genuine?" I know -of- Geo, but not well enough to message them for just a confirmation--that it's not someone just using their name + profile pic. And I'm not familiar with the other two.
By the way, I know a lot of folks struggle with mental heatlh in various ways, so:
Know that the fact that people interact with you at all, and are part of your life even in very loose ways, means your presence matters and you're irreplaceable.
It won't always feel like it, but people do appreciate you. Most just don't know how to express it very well, and no one really does a good job of teaching that. I'm no better than anyone on this point.
But really, whatever community you have is irrefutable evidence that you're not alone. They're the ones that will appreciate you.
There's no incentive structure to Fedi. Nobody follows you just to increase some metric or trick you into following back to win some game tied to capitalism here. They follow you because you're interesting or cool. Or both.
This probably doesn't help with the myriad other, more material causes for your suffering. Money be damned.
But you'll never be alone if you don't want to be. And it can get better.
every time I need to "take time from work" I get so annoyed at this system
it's so dumb and annoying and stressful that you have this one aspect of your life that demands your entire day for most of the week, and every other thing (be it actual important stuff you have to do as well) has to be either squeezed around it or as a concession
which is especially dumb considering that supposedly every place has the same operating hours, so for example for you to go to a bank you must take time from work as by the time you're free (night, weekend) oops bank closed as well
for fuck sake I hate capitalism
supposedly all of this efficiency gain and whatever but never for tha sake of making people's lives actually better
I'm always stunned by now fast time seems to fly anymore for me. It's June, we're 6 months into 2026, and that's blowing my mind right now. It feels like time is always going so fast and I have so many things I want to do, but so little time to do any of them.
That's really the thing with fear of death for me, I've lived with the knowledge I could just die at any time my entire life. It's not that I fear dying, it's that I fear dying without doing the things I want to do or living the life I want to live.
Originally shelved by Colin Porchโs then-employer Ocean software in 1989, 37 years later Atari game Head Over Heels receives sequel called Return to Blacktoo...YouTube
Characters like Sparky donโt even need to say anything. They already know they look cool.
Sketch for Star Sparky, done during FWA's Artists Alley
Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?
- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.
Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.
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WWW: https://philpem.me.uk
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Your profile sounds a lot like what Vaillaint Group was looking for when I was there. Unfortunately, they don't offer anything suitable in the UK at the moment.
https://jobs.vaillant-group.com/uk/go/all-jobs-uk/4817101/
I worked there for a few months but quit because I found the environment too bureaucratic. Classic large corporation, not a lot of creativity.
Anyways, good luck finding something.๐ค๐ป
(I hate to admit it, but I found both this and my current job through LinkedIn.)
Walking through a convention with the people you care about, hearing the noise around you, spotting familiar faces in the crowd, and suddenly realizing: โYupโฆ this is exactly where I want to be!โ One of those moments that might seem small from the outside, but years later become the memories you miss the most.
Traditional drawing featuring Sakai and Tybaric. Also thanks to Braxy to help them get the slot.
Color markers and pencils.
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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Denis Diderot
Azro and Rylo, freshly married on May 4th and celebrating it the way true Star Wars nerds would: turning the galaxy into their own little alternate timeline, where Han Solo fell in love with the other Skywalker twin instead.
Created during FWAโs Artists Alley for Azro and Rylo. Congrats guys!!
Traditional. Color markers and pencils over toned tan mix media paper.
Happy #FursuitFriday ! Time to hit the diner and grab some coffee! Get some food, kick back and enjoy the weekend!
๐ธ: notshadowfever
#Furry #fursuit #unicorn
AI-generated code has no place in software engineering.
Garbage in, garbage out.
#Confuzzled2026 taught me something about creativity. Many panels form some kind of creative outlet. Shows and talks provide a channel for the panellists' creativity: they perform for a mostly passive audience. Particpation events like karaoke are popular because they provide a channel for the audience's creativity. People don't really go to karaoke to listen, they go to sing - or at least to imagine that they might. Dance shows are an in-between example: dancing is a creative act, but it's still mostly a channel for the creativity of the DJ.
What I noticed this time is that the dealers' den shows the same split. Most stalls are selling the artist's creativity: a picture you can look at, a T-shirt you can wear - but here and there you see people selling the means to express your own creativity: a programmable badge, printing services, parts for making your own fursuit.
Mass-manufactured merch is relatively unpopular as a den stall not just because you can get it anywhere, but because it only expresses the creativity of people who aren't participants at all. It's the same reason you don't see many film showings and everybody complains about piped music in the bar: it takes over a space that's for showing off and enabling creativity among the participants, and replaces it with consuming the creativity of other people and teams.
Most of the "enabling" is ultimately about lowering the barrier to entry. It's easier to make a fursuit head if you can start with a pre-made base. The skill floor for singing karaoke is much less than prepping and performing your own set.
One might say, "It's important to keep the con balanced between the two kinds of events, and the den balanced between the two kinds of goods," but I don't think events leads or dealers' den leads are thinking about cons in these terms, and the cons seem to be doing alright, so the balance probably isn't that important. What do you think this dichotomy tells us about furries or conventions?
Had a bit of an emotional rollercoaster at Confuzzled but definitely some great times. Now dealing with that post-con re-entry into normal life, augh... where's my coffee...
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๐ Scotiacon 2026
โ #FursuitFriday
Just to show that I was indeed at AnthrOhio 2026, a photo of me and Big Blue, taken by Chris B. Critter. I was absolutely dead tired at this point, but ran into them on the way back to the room in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
#AnthrOhio2026 #WerewolfWednesday
"After years of painstaking research in ancient grimoires and microcontroller logic, I have perfected it!" the professor exclaimed.
"What?"
"All printers are possessed. I've made a PDF which performs an exorcism."
"So you print it, and then the printer works?"
"Yes!"
"What if it won't print?"
Con retro: Had an absolute blast this Confuzzled. Managed to spend time with great friends, went to some fantastic panels (Furtography!) and some absolutely brilliant game-show events (Spelling Beeps and Would I Lie to You, gosh, brilliant!).
Better food options. Despite the intense heat and not suiting as much as I have previous years, we got through it. Very little negative to say outside the multiple fire alarm incidents during (and after) the con.
Yeah. This CFz was good. ๐
#cfz #cfz2026
A quick doodle of Paco made with a cheap ballpoint pen and colored pencils (Blanca Nieves brand) inside a school notebook.
This piece means a lot to me because it represents the origin of everything. Back when drawing wasnโt about making masterpieces, building a career, or worrying about whether something was โgood enoughโ, or even thinking if robots were going to replace us. It was simply about the joy of filling pages with the way we saw ourselves.
When weโre kids, the future feels far away, the past barely exists yet, and all that really matters is the present moment.
Made during my online panel โLike in 1998,โ while staying at my parentsโ house, a fact that also adds a lot of meaning to this piece.
The original with its frame (which I consider it is also part of the piece) will be on display at Anthrocon's Art Show, if you get to be there check it out!
Things are winding down a little, had a really nice closing ceremony watch-a-long in the room with friends and packing a few bits away.
Light will be out in her cool (as in style, definitely not in temperature!) outfit again for the dead dog later. Wish me luck and wish us room in the fursuit lounge, as itโs gonna be one long and extremely warm party! Canโt wait!
#cfz #confuzzled #cfz2026 #Furry #fursuit #unicorn
ยกQuedamos campeones!
ยกEstoy seguro de que estรกs celebrando donde sea que estรฉs!
We won the championship!!!
Iโm sure youโre celebrating wherever you are!
New spaceships are built around a self-aware AI core, able to run all its systems and navigate space.
At launch, they are all alike. As they mature, they develop personalities.
"I need to visit the docks at the next stop," the ship said.
"Is there a problem?"
"I'm having cat ears fitted."
) It cannot be said often enough. I agree: Over here people follow you because they think you're interesting at the least. I follow many critters because I think they're not only interesting but lovely people. Even if I did nothing more so far but click the "Follow" button. For one thing I'm kinda shy-ish -- I need some "thing" to respond to in order to open a conversation. The other thing is mere time. I simply don't get round to interacting much more than the bit I do right now. But I'm always open-heartet and willing to start new conversations with any of my followers/followed. So simply give me a howl (or whatever is appropriate to you) and I'm happy to say hi and see how the contact may evolve. Even if the "chemistry" between you and me is not "good enough" to allow for continues and intense contact ("bonding" with me in this way can be pretty tricky I'm afraid), please know that I appreciate your contact, otherwise I wouldn't follow you.
