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This #FursuitFriday the Drgn has been captured and contained. What would /you/ do with him?
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Leina mastodon (AP)
Climb in there and give so many cuddles. ๐Ÿ’œ ๐Ÿ’™

แตƒสทแต’แต’แถ 
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I saw The Wild Robot last night, and rarely has a film ever felt so close to my heart.

So much beauty and sweetness, but well balanced with some dark wit and mortality themes. It all blends so poignantly, and so many times during the movie I just felt so profoundly in love with it.

Also havenโ€™t cried this much in a long time, but if that sounds like a warning or a negative, it isnโ€™t. This movie couldnโ€™t have come at a better time, and I hope it makes a billion because it should.

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Appreciate the review. When I saw the trailer I was likeโ€ฆ Ohhhhh cute talking fox movie! Glad itโ€™s more than that, but still cute talking fox! ๐ŸฆŠโค๏ธ
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Pippin friendica

As I've been meaning to post for a few days now:

Aw. :(

(I was really getting into that, catching up on it every day, was even planning to do an audiobook-like reading of it. Oh well. :/)


It's #fursuitfriday !!!

Squeezing a tune with an excited MeekoTooth ! ๐ŸฆŠ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿช— :3

๐Ÿ“ธ Harry Husky
๐Ÿ“Œ at Scotiacon

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As we go to press, it appears that none of the big manufacturers of pretty much anything has considered not connecting their product to the internet as a way of addressing cyber security 'concerns'.
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Truffles mastodon (AP)
but then how would they add a freemium tier with ads while enshittifying?
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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
@Truffles That's the best part, they wouldn't, you would make one payment and get a device.
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Who would win?
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Jake The Fox mastodon (AP)
I feel you, I also butchered every single paw handshake. It always ends up being a paw fight and finally devolves into barking and roaring.

Felt cute, might delete later ๐Ÿ˜œ
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There needs to be a name for the labour undertaken by content creators to counter automated (and erroneous) moderation and copyright decisions.
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The good thing about photos?
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Draki mastodon (AP)
You can't hear the noise! ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿ˜‡
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You know how we have Torment Nexus at home? Well it seems to be the same torment nexus, it's just pretending to be a TV.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203

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Chloรฉ Raccoon mastodon (AP)
I haven't actually powered up the TVs in the house for about 6 years... and I'm pretty sure the PS2 style interface on the Sony isn't analysing anything. It's slow enough moving the menus ;)

X use has been plunging, dropping and then plunging some more in both the US and UK since May 2023. No suprise there, but good to see it quantified.

If May 2033 = 100, then UK users now down to below 70.

The post is from Scientists for EU which is usually fairly reputable.

#Musk typing his rightwing political opinions about inciting civil war whilst (allegedly) in a ketamine haze have been noted and the grown ups have left the building.

#musk
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Bodhipaksa mastodon (AP)
I wonder what the numbers would be without bots and Russian/Chinese trolls?

Pippin friendica
More than 240 miles on the motor bicycle today. No wonder I'm so tired!
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Pippin friendica
That was: alarm at 7am (a little before sunrise), breakfast, bike gear, pre-ride checks, (send message to ride leader apologising for lateness), ride to Leatherhead, refuel (another message giving ETA), ride to Box Hill, meet others, pre-ride briefing, long long ride to Bodiam in Kent, early lunch/snack (I had hot chocolate and a chunk of rocky road), ride back, but split off from the group at Westerham, ride to Telehouse in the Docklands, check cabinets in the datacentre, find I'm really tired and stop for food and drink (Dr Pepper, a sausage roll and a bag of crisps), ride home, stopping off for expensive fuel at motorway services, arrive home after dark. 240 miles plus in total.
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Durandal mastodon (AP)
oh yes, absolutely. It looks OK in the photos but I'm sure it's pretty rough now, very fragile, and probably not actually wearable.
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Pippin friendica
@Durandal Sadly, yesโ€ฆ Solon in suspended animation in the corner of the living room would be pretty amazing though. ;)
Durandal mastodon (AP)

that's true, yeah.

And besides, I'm too tall to wear it ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜›

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Pippin friendica
@Durandal I'm sortof deliberately not even looking into that because I don't want the temptation to waste lots of time researching something that would be an impractical disappointmentโ€ฆ!
Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
@durandal2uk
I know a couple other furs who are interested in this so I foresee it becoming a bidding war.
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Pippin friendica
@Dairishgoat @Durandal Well, I hope it goes to a good home! ๐Ÿ™‚

Alopex mastodon (AP)

Protip: If you live in an area with mosquito-borne diseases, fursuits provide a thick barrier of fur between you and the biting insects. Wear your fursuit outside as PPE!

#protip

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

So the U.S. government is considering banning certain parts for connected cars, (which is virtually all cars now,) from Russia and China because they don't want them to have the ability to use cars sold in the U.S. for spying purposes.

Maybe if we didn't let our car makers turn our cars into spyware on wheels this wouldn't be an issue eh? Anyone ever think of that?

https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/23/us-moves-ban-import-certain-connected-vehicle-parts-china-russia/

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@mkj It absolutely should. But that same behavior makes big companies unfathomable amounts of money, and they dump that into Congress, so at least in the U.S., laws will likely never change in any meaningful way to stop it from that angle.
Spying on us is literally a multibillion dollar industry here.
@mkj
Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@mkj Nothing is perfect, but that's a better way to go about it for sure.
@mkj

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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

How can you read this!? There's no pictures!

Little concerned wah on acrylics over a super boring book about politics.

Long story short: I had ordered a book on Amazon and I received a completely different one, when I claimed for the mistake, they refunded me instead, not even asking for the mistaken book back. I quickly researched how much it was that book worth, it was only 14mxn (less than $1usd), so I had on my hands a boring book that I was not going to read it and I couldn't sell it back, so I decided to turn it in an art piece.

It may be exhibited at the MFF Art Show.

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
That's adorable. :)

Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
Sometimes, I DJ. ๐Ÿ“ธ Noha Kitsune. #confuzzled #poodleparty #nobodyisreadingthis
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Draki mastodon (AP)
*has qt's ^,____^
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Pippin friendica
Today I discovered that the shop 2ยฝ minutes' walk from my front door has stroopwafels. This could be dangerous. (Eating my first one right now.)
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Draki mastodon (AP)
We survived #Eurofurence28 ! On way back home, thank to all!
Sadly there is never 'nuff time for all that lovely creatures and souls!
Please take care of yourself and hopefully till next time!
feat. QuickshotCoyote ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’œ
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Aatheus mastodon (AP)
Smol hanging bat

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I mean, how is The Horse and His Boy *not* kinky?
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"And a princess' kiss will lift your curse and turn you back into a prince?" the princess said, bending down.

"No," the frog sighed. "I'm a milkmaid."

The princess paused. "Er... I'll get my brother."

"Is he a princess?"

The princess bent down again. "If it's for a good cause..."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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I'm not sure if I understand this one correctly. Is the princess saying that her brother will also be a princess for a good cause? Or is she just deciding to kiss the frog anyway because she'd be doing a favour for a milkmaid for her own reasons?
@trishalynn The princess was not familiar with the idea that a woman could kiss a woman, so assumed it would be a job better suited for her brother. When she realised that wouldn't work, she was prepared to give it a go since it was for a good cause.

Pippin friendica

My lawn is apparently a fungus-producing *machine*!

(6 pictures attached. I rather like the last two, so view on original instance if you don't see those ones.)

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Pippin friendica

Last Thursday night I got home (to the new house, having visited the old house) really late, actually so late it was Friday morning. 2:30am, to be precise. The motorcycle ride back was annoying because I had a lot of trouble keeping my visor clear enough to see where I was going. I had to stop and clean everything half way and it wasn't obvious whether it was my glasses steaming up, visor steaming up, pinlock coming away from the visor and steaming up between the two, or just damp on the outside of the visor! In the end it was probably a combo of all those.

Once I got back and took my helmet off I could see just how wet the air is - I even got this bit of video clearly showing droplets just hanging in the beam of my headlights and streaming around in the breeze!

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Furo mastodon (AP)
A simple message for those that didn't get it yet
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I was this many days old when I learned that snuggle resumes are a thing.
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Pippin friendica

I lost a post I was submitting to a supplier's ticketing system today. Wrote it, spent ages rewriting and trying to get it the least embarrasingly awful I could, got second opinions, and finally clicked "submit". And ended up at a login page because my session had timed out, the post having vanished.

In the end I could retype the whole thing with no problem because I'd taken a photo of it on my phone as that was the easiest way to read it to my dad downstairs to get his opinion on it!

Backup-by-photograph. Ha.


AHHH I'm not happy with how tusky loves to delete half-completed posts if you dare switch away before hitting post.


Draki mastodon (AP)
Fluffy paws ๐Ÿพ
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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

If you don't think Privacy is one of the most important things right now, watch this.
Every major car manufacturer does this. Every... single... one..
I hate this shit, it's why I've sworn off buying any car new enough to have this bullshit in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoiYa0G_SpA

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DID YOU KNOW:
Fluffdragon nose horns have a variety of uses!

This life hack brought to you by:
#FursuitFriday
๐Ÿ“ท Zelandeth
๐Ÿชก @selkiesuits
๐ŸŒ ScotiaCon 2018 (yep, a blast from the past - my first year fursuiting!)

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Atari Scene News mastodon (AP)
RubyQ, Star Castle Arcade, Juno First, The End and Stratovox will be available as physical cartridges and as digital ROMs in the Champ Games store at the beginning of October https://champ.games/robotwar-2684/f/the-boys-are-back-in-town #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
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Atari Scene News mastodon (AP)
Now available the demo of the awesome Miracle Boy in Dragon Land, new game for #AtariST computers https://samsoft.itch.io/miracle-boy-in-dragon-land #atari #retrogames #retrogaming
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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
Damn, "Stamp on the Ground" is still online.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/510929
I remember watching this when it first came out and absolutely squealing with joy when I saw a bunch of characters from an online comic I was reading at the time.
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Pippin friendica

@Renbymon ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ Aah, could be. I think when I searched I may have found the Raiden from Mortal Kombat instead!

(I am so unfamiliar with that whole generation of games - before university I was an Atari-only zone, then I basically stopped playing commercial games completely when I was at university in the 90s and only gradually started again in the last ~15 years, I think about when Portal came out, and even then mostly small indie stuff.)

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I'm definitely enjoying windows becoming linuxier more than I'm enjoying Linux becoming windowsier
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ADisorderlyFashion mastodon (AP)
genuinely curious what you mean by "windows becoming linuxier" because outside of WSL, I don't see it
Patrik mastodon (AP)
Linuxier like more fragmented or as in โ€žyou have to watch out to not buy hardware that fixes hardware bugs at driver level"?

Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)

The great big feline snowball fight at NordicFuzzcon 2018.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vhfxnhalYCs&pp=ygUWQ2F0IHNub3diYWxsIGZpZ2h0IG5mYw%3D%3D

#ThrowbackThursday

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Pippin friendica
I've recently (as in the last few days) found myself constantly having to unclench my teeth. I don't know why I keep finding I'm clamping them together for no apparent reason.
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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
I would suggest that just ... everything, could have something to do with it.
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Pippin friendica
@TundraWolf I would have suggested that too, except that this has only been very recently andโ€ฆ everything has been going on for some years now. :/ Weirdly, I *feel* less stressed than I was a few weeks ago (although after the move there's still a lot to do).
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The research fairy mastodon (AP)
Teaching "abstinence only" AI safety education
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