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#FursuitFriday #fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit
I stare into the Abyss, and I know it stares back at me. Slowly, hesitantly, I reach out, and the Abyss reaches out to me.
It pets me.
It is neither warm nor cold, both firm and soft, and very, very comforting.
"Thank you," I say.
Faintly, I hear: "You'd do the same for me."
I don’t know how many people will see this, but you all seemed to be a fan of Foster Dad, so I was thinking…
What if he had an occasional video series where he talked to viewers and answered audience questions, offered life advice/wisdom and general dad-wolf thoughts?
Would anyone be excited for that?
Is AI exhausting your power grid?
Have you tried turning it off and not back on again?
Excuse me while I go ugly-cry: “Gilead’s experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/20/gilead-prep-lenacapavir-succeeds-in-phase-3-trial.html
Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.Angelica Peebles (CNBC)
ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently
COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch
COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ
COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue
There's no better time for a DYNAMIC ACTION POSE than #FursuitFriday!
...but apparently there's also no better time to be an absolute gremlin and sneak into shot to give your partner bunny ears...
💛 @azakir
🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Nitro G Beans
🌍 Confuzzled 2024
I like finding errors in articles.
e.g. this article from BBC Weather: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c0jj4pd0pg5o
"The solstice always occurs between 20 and 22 June, and during a leap year (such as 2024) it always falls on 20 June."
This isn't exactly true.
It is true for leap years since 2008 as that was 20th 23:08 GMT, however it ends after 2096 as 2100 is not a leap year & the cycle resets.
The 19th century only had 1892 & 1896 and no year in the 20th century fell on June 20th
#solstice 1/2
What is the summer solstice, when is it this year - and does it mean good weather?Darren Bett (BBC Weather)
Although the quote mentioned Leap years, the two years in the 19th century also happened to be leap years.
However, as the 21st century progresses, other years will start falling on the 20th.
The reason why is down to the year 2000 being a leap year, so it's shifted the times back an extra day.
1800, 1900 and 2100 are NOT leap years, hence they start later.
I used https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html as a reference for the times, converting to GMT as needed.
2/2
Exact time and date of the June solstice and other seasons. When is the first day of Summer and when does each season start?www.timeanddate.com
The 30th anniversary edition of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.BBC
The question of mass surveillance shouldn't be about the fact you're being watched - if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear, right? The question of mass surveillance should be what the watchers are going to do with the information they've gathered from you. Sale? Blackmail? Law enforcement? But wait, who makes the laws? Surely no laws would be designed to hurt, marginalize, or outright oppress, right?
Wrong.
Surveillance is control.
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📷@\yn_cooper (tw)
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting
I enjoy that explaining why the pigeonhole principle has that name needs two levels of indirection.
It's because it references a physical proof where you put sheets of paper in an array of small boxes that office desks used to have, which were called pigeonholes.
The boxes were called pigeonholes because they look a bit like the nesting boxes of pigeon coops.
Will future generations have more layers? "paper was an old kind of information storage", "offices were a separate place for work", ...
Crazy temperatures? Don't worry, the weekend is almost here.
(Seriously though, please stay safe and hydrated!)
📷 @keeya
My concern is growing over repeated and regular observations of technical illiteracy in generation Z and younger.
Schools aren't teaching what a file system is. Or how to think about organizing information. It's like the concept of a library was omitted from their entire awareness. Why go to a place with books when a Google search away gives the answer?
Without the tools to organize thought into reference-able ways, and how to search existing information and recognizing whether it is important, how will they invent? How will they solve critical problems?
Adobe has opened a survey to get responses in regards to adding Generative Machine Learning (AI) to Substance Painter. Artists, avatar makers, you know what to do. Give 'em hell. https://t.co/NADQGSC6eP #VRChatmeow.social - the mastodon instance for creatures fluffy, scaly and otherwise
It is 2038: Year of the Linux Desktop.
The Grub project has been abandoned after the maintainers disappeared. This isn't a problem for most users because systemd now contains it's own bootloader.
Linux has deprecated process ID numbers because everything is now in PID 1. PostgreSQL begrudgeingly drops support for Linux after the removal of POSIX semaphores. Developers say systemd-dbms-postgrescompat should be enough despite the fact it lacks core features like prepared statements.
Perl and Shell scripts have ceased to function, users were encouraged to move to the Python-compatible systemd internal interpreter years ago.
Linux no longer supports AMD GPUs because no one has written a suitable device driver to enable systemd to recognize them.
Microsoft announces an end-of-life date for Windows. The future OS for their users will be a Microsoft Enhanced Linux distribution, enabled by the fact systemd has a fully backwards compatible WIN32 API now.
All modern Linux computers abruptly crash without warning at the same time on January 19th. Because the systemd registry that replaced /etc is fully WIN32 compatible, dates were still stored in 32 bit integers. Lennart Poettering insists users are simply doing things incorrectly and need to read the documentation.
The project to remove "unix philosophy" from Linux is now complete. Linux is now Windows.
A capacitive sensor input device which includes a movable stud having a top portion for manipulation by a user and a conductive bottom portion is connected to a planar surface, such as a circuit board by means of an elastomeric, adhesive connector.patents.google.com
“An Oreo cream you can use in the style of kintsugi [Japanese pottery repair] for those sad times when you open a pack of Oreos and find them broken.”
“This is a huge win in the fight for a livable climate,” said Tessa Khan, a climate lawyer and executive director at Uplift, one of the groups challenging Rosebank. “Government can no longer keep repeating that the emissions from burning oil reserves don’t count.”
Landmark judgment says planning bodies must account for burning of extracted fuel when considering site proposalsIsabella Kaminski (The Guardian)
Oh to be a mudwing under a waterfall... so refreshing!!
Illustration for Slate 
#wof #wingsoffire #mudwing #wofmudwing #dragon #dragonart #MastoArt #illustration #digitalart
It’s so good to make friends with the void. ❤
“void? Are you there”
「always」
“I’m sorry I haven’t screamed in a while”
「it’s ok. that’s probably good for you, actually」
“Heh, I guess so. Do you get a lot of screams?”
「more every day」
“Does that get you down? Do voids get down?”
「not at all. screams help to give distinctiveness to each point of infinity. a bit like solving a maze in zork」
“You play Zork?!”
「not for years」
“Would you like to? Now? Together?”
「it is a single player game」
“I’ll read the rooms and you give me the moves. Would you like that?”
「yes, I would like that very much」
“This is an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.”
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/111745138114772833
“Hey void, just a quickie today, running late”
「no probs let her rip」
“YEAAARGHHHHHHHH”
「good one」
*mrooowwww*
“Wait what was that?”
「your cat, we hang out a lot」
“My *cat* screams into the void?!”
「oh no mostly purrs」
“Good for you, her purrs are so sweet”
「i kno rite」
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Aus.Social"She wants you to stop. That's for the ABYSS."
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