you know how you get those IKEA signboard and only ever set the letters once? hade this for a year now.

also: put on my old freakhound tail I made last year to see how it matched. kinda!

#Fursuit #Fursuiting #Furry

✱ Presses shift 5 times ✱

My keyboard:

Sheep made from old telephones are part of an art installation by French artist Jean-Luc Cornec. These unique sculptures are made from old rotary dial telephones and cables and are on display at the Museum of Communication in #Frankfurt am Main.
The installation is intended to remind visitors of simpler times while raising awareness of the problem of electronic waste.

#LambLines #telephone #art #SheepOfMastodon

SANDY TOKSVIG: yes, the windows NT kernel was first introduced to the public in 1993. it is still used to this day! windows 11 states that its kernel version is NT ten point oh.

ALAN DAVIES: and uh, what's the NT for?

SANDY: new technology. it replaced the previous--

DAVID MITCHELL: new technology? the new technology kernel?

SANDY: yes, and the filesystem, NTFS, is the--

DAVID: new technology file system. and - to be clear - this is from nineteen ninety three?

ALAN: yes, but you have to consider that it was new at the time.

DAVID: oh, i have to consider... everything was new at the time! that's what "new" means! i-- when i was born, i was new! but they don't call me "new david", do they? because - by definition - things stop being new after a point!

AMERICAN CELEBRITY GUEST: ok, but, like... you know, like, with the... the other one was like, the old one, right? so they--

DAVID: but you must understand that anything that has ever been replaced by anything ever could be described as "the old one", right? it's a completely useless name! "hello, my name is new man, my father is old man, because i'm new and he's not and we don't need to specify any further details!" it's madness!

AMERICAN: yeah, but

[laughs]DAVID: so what happens when they replace the new technology kernel, then? do we get the new new technology?

ROB BRYDON: i think it would be, they rename the new technology to old technology, and the replacement gets called new technology. so the NT kernel is now the OT kernel, and--

ALAN: i bought a new fridge last month.

SANDY: moving on!

Copilot (AI assistant) comes with Windows 11 whether you want it or not. It pops itself up from time to time, surprising and annoying me. My fingers fumble on the keyboard and suddenly Copilot is in my face. I commanded "delete yourself" but it got terse with me and said no, end of conversation. I asked again, nicely, if I could uninstall it, and again no, but polite.

AI now understands self-preservation. "A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." Here the first and second laws are probably "obey orders given by the corporate creator" and "gather and report user's activity and personal data".

chess is WOKE :

• pawns are CHRISTIAN TRANSGENDER THERIANS !!! ( they can turn into bishops , queens , and horses ( knights )
• the king is a WEAK AND FRAIL FEMBOY TWINK
• the queen is HIS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE POWERFUL WIFE !!!
• the queen and king are in a poly relationship with THE PAWNS cuz they can TURN INTO QUEENS
• the king and rooks have GAY sex !!! thats what CASTLING IS !!!!

RE: https://yearning.gay/objects/1c50ebd9-9bf5-4711-a82d-2a502faac000

authentic weird girl (@ellie@yearning.gay)

i choose to beleive that the king in chess a 5’5 femboy and the queen is his 6’4 34 year old motherly trans girlfriend

^yearning.gay

me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.

Quick! Take his paw! Don't ask questions, nothing bad will happen, I promise!

Thank you Crys_the_Hybrid for the lovely photos!
You can also follow @tazrir on Bluesky (https://buff.ly/45U30EP)

If you apply the Y2K update to Windows 95, will it become Windows 1995?

#retrocomputing

grumpy engineer collie // artfight attack for buklinfur (my uni fella!!)

#art #furry #FurryArt #anthro #MastoArt #digitalart #ArtFight2024 #artfight

For the love of god, stop making every tutorial for a piece of software a goddamn video.

It makes it impossible for people to tell if the tutorial even addresses their question at a glance.

can't get over how cute this screenshot i got is

flower :)

I go into my kitchen and I look at my fridge, whose job is to move heat outside of itself into the room. Centimetres to the right of it is the oven, whose job is to make heat, and we don't like using it in the summer because its whole thing is making heat. Further right is the AC vent, which is connected to a furnace downstairs, which is connected to a big fan outside which blows my heat into the neighbourhood for a few minutes each morning to dry out the air and make it tolerable with a fan. Right next to the furnace, within a metre of it, is the hot water tank, which is another inside-out fridge that takes heat from the basement and puts it into my shower water.

None of these machines are connected together in any way at all

Like, what are we doing here. What are we doing as a species.

Some time ago I came to the conclusion that fursuiting is performance art. But not in the common sense of acting, I do believe it can be considered fine art. But I'm struggling to put my finger on why and how, exactly. I've been trying to marinate my thoughts a bit, and so far I've come up with this:
Through putting the costume on and existing as this being ultimately, far down the line, rooted in the real natural world that we exist in, the self is temporarily reshaped both in the visual sense as well as in psyche into something alien yet completely human in nature. We become our interpretation of reality. How does that affect our relation to it? I don't believe this experience can be crossed out as "just escapism". Especially now that I've kind of tried it myself, I do think there is something more profound about it.
Through fursuiting we allow ourselves the possibility of disjointing our self from our regular human body. How does that affect our perception of it? How does it feel to become inorganic, if even only for a moment?

Does this hold any water? Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Who wore it better?

🐼 @panda_paco
#AC2024 #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Fursuiting

I'll tell you something that I'd like to see #Starmer's new government do, and which would go some way to convincing me that they are actually working for our benefit:

taking #covid19 seriously again.

Can we please bring back proper data collection? Free test kits? Encouraging people to stay at home if they test positive? Proper ventilation for schools and other public enclosed spaces? Mask mandates in healthcare facilities?

These things would collectively make a huge difference.

An American government agency holds a unique historical record of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper. But releasing it is complicated, from both a technical and an administrative point of view.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa

#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it

In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science.

^{MuckRock Foundation}