In this house, we don't kinkshame.

We kink-enable. 😏

Being a furry with lots of wonderful and varied friends means that (almost) no matter what degenerate filth crosses my timeline, I know somebody I can send it to, safe in the knowledge it'll give them an inappropriately timed boner. :3c Muehehehe~ #furry #kobold #phone #kink #teasing #comic

The three act structure of storytelling:

1) Aw shucks do I have to?
2) Living the grindset and barely scraping by and shit keeps going wrong
3) Finally. Can I go home now?

#AmWriting

Hyena nubs.

Eurofurence 19 in 2013.

TRON was released 42 years ago today. This film was so far ahead of its time.

Tron with Disc, Ektachrome continuous-tone transparency:

We're all lonelier than we want to be, and we all think it's our fault.

It isn't.

Modernity has been optimized for labor, not for life. The result is the destruction of spaces and institutions in which you can make new connections as an adult.

And in a very real sense, this is what the owners want—if you are alone, you cannot organize resistance to inhumane conditions. Instead, you spend your time further optimizing yourself for labor, telling yourself (and others on LinkedIn) that you are living the dream. It's someone's dream, alright.

I don't have a master plan for how to reclaim a sense of local community, but I know that without it, we'll never be as united or as strong as we could be.

does anyone know / is anyone here a #UK solicitor? i need a wee thing: nothing serious at all, but i'm just wondering if it's possible to do it remotely and so would love to chat v briefly to someone about it and get it sorted if possible.

thank you!

I think the most regrettable thing about AI is how the resource requirements quickly became abstracted behind datacenters.

It costs so much power (and therefore emissions) to run, but because we now fire these requests off to AWS / Google Cloud we don't see the damage we are doing.

Goes for regular workloads too, but x1000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51yvz51k2xo

AI means Google's greenhouse gas emissions up 48% in 5 years

The tech giant says it will be difficult to meet its net zero target due to AI using so much energy.

^{Imran Rahman-Jones (BBC News)}

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/755516699595489281
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:

Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained pam_tacplus for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.

I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.

But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.

polyfill.io was crazy huh, we just let a third party run any JS without even checking integrity. lol

anyway please add this snippet for google tag manager, marketing needs it

✨Lofi ych✨

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57297298/

#furry #ych #FurryArt #FurryArtwork #FurryFandom #furryartist

Con Veteran pro tip: If your hotel room curtains don't close all the way and you always get woken up by the SUNBEAM OF DEATH in the morning, get a clothes hanger from the closet and do this to fix it:

#anthrocon #anthrocon2024 #furrycon

If ya got buzzed by this guy at #Anthrocon & snapped a pic, please share!💙 I’d love to see ‘em!🐝⚡️

#AC #AC2024 #Anthrocon2024 #furry #furries #fursuit #fursuits

Good move, Affinity! They're offering a 6-month no obligation free trial of their software.

Sounds like a perfect time to see if this is your chance to escape Adobe subscription lock-in!

I use Affinity Designer to create games, posters, book covers and more, and Affinity Publisher to create activity books, and a fully interactive planner for teachers. Very glad I made the switch from Adobe all those years ago.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/trial/

#design #GraphicDesign #apps #adobe

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Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps for professionals. Try for free or buy for one low payment.

^Affinity

Scrolling through a page on my phone and as I am away from my PC I noticed loads of ads. And I noticed a new little bit of country - below each ad there is a block of white space, and as you scroll each ad PAUSES at the top of the screen and you have to keep scrolling to make the successive text scroll up through the white space and eventually push the ad away.

What absolute cunt thought that little bit of shittiness up? Someone fucking coded that. I hope they never have a good vindaloo again.

Are you old enough to remember when the much-celebrated Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted back in 2015? Emissions, we were told then, would be reduced as soon as possible, down to “net zero” by the middle of the 21st century, which would limit the overall temperature increase to below 1.5C of global warming.

Hallelujah! We're saved!

Well, maybe not. Because it's now 2024, and...
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The world has baked for 12 consecutive months in temperatures 1.5C (2.7F) greater than their average before the fossil fuel era. Temperatures between July 2023 and June 2024 were the highest on record, scientists have found, creating a year-long stretch in which the Earth was 1.64C [‼️] hotter than in pre-industrial times.

“Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,” said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which analysed the data. “This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.”

Whether pumped out the chimney of a coal-burning power plant or ejected from the exhaust pipe of a passenger plane, each carbon molecule clogging the Earth’s atmosphere traps heat and warps weather. The hotter the planet gets, the less people and ecosystems can adapt.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/08/temperatures-1-point-5c-above-pre-industrial-era-average-for-12-months-data-shows

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

"Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/voter-id-rule-may-have-stopped-400000-taking-part-in-uk-election-poll-suggests

Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests

Exclusive: 3.2% of those surveyed say they were turned away at least once, with minority ethnic people worse affected

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

‘While there is no evidence any of the candidates are fake, if that turned out to be true, it would be a serious electoral offence.

#Reform were keen to win as big a share of the national vote as possible, which is helped by a full slate of candidates. Some of the seemingly invisible candidates won several thousand votes.’

Hmmm…and suddenly it all becomes clear.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/08/reform-uk-under-pressure-to-prove-all-its-candidates-were-real-people

Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real people

Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact details

^{Peter Walker (The Guardian)}

"the internet is a resilient network"

the internet when one cdn goes down:

Content warning: #2956 Number Line Branch Reveal/hide

Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.
https://xkcd.com/2956/

Number Line Branch

^xkcd

wanted to draw my little guy a little bit ago! 🧋💜

#projectXERO #MastoArt #Furry #DigitalArt #FurryArt #art #xero

Beware of any argument a person makes that benefits themselves without clearly benefitting anyone who isn't just like them.

On the other hand, any argument someone makes that benefits other people while doing nothing to benefit themselves deserves a good listen.

Electron (aka "Chromium but with the security and privacy features turned off")

I just keep hitting the good blogs these days

Pssst.

Just in case no-one has told you today:

• Your gender identity is valid.
• Your sexuality and romanticity are valid.
• Your worth is not defined by how productive you are under capitalism.
• Your struggles are valid and you have every right to complain.
• Self-diagnosis of neurodivergence is valid.
• You matter.
• It's okay to not be okay, okay? Just don't suffer alone.
• You might want to look up the terms imposter syndrome and rejection sensitive dysphoria, especially if you're neurospicy.

Love you all 🩷