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Pippin friendica

Ugh, just my luck! I move away and just a few months later a comic con starts up in my old area, just 5 miles from where I used to live.

(Admittedly it's being held at a primary school, which suggests it might not be a particularly large event…)

Pippin friendica
@Alice Dryden no, nor me… I've never gone to comic cons for the guests though, just to cosplay and meet others doing the same. They have in recent years got quite expensive as a place to just hang out for a few hours though!
Alice Dryden mastodon (AP)
I did Excel a few years ago because a colleague's teenage daughter wanted to go and colleague wanted someone to hang out with :) It was a bit anime for me. The only other one I've attended was Coventry, because they were having a bunch of Bond girls. It was really fun, though I think the highlight was getting a photo with the guy who had come dressed as Hong Kong Phooey!
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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
@huskyteer
Well, he’s number one super guy.
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Pippin friendica
@Alice Dryden Oh gosh, I've been to (huge, impersonal) MCM at Excel a few times, but the May one keeps clashing with ConFuzzled. I went to CovCon back in 2018 in my initial burst of comic cons, once I had a wearable Spidey suit. It was quite nice, might have gone back if it was more convenient to get to from London…
Alice Dryden mastodon (AP)
Yeah, I went mostly because I could meet a northern friend and hang out with her. It was a lovely day though!
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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

ESPAÑOL

¡Damas y caballeros! ¡Prepárense para los Fursuit Games del siglo! O al menos eso dice mi guión que diga.
Los monstruos han invadido la convención y solo los más valientes héroes y heroínas podrán salvar el evento de las garras del Dr. Demente (antes Dr. Enchilada, ugh, ¿Porqué tuvo que rebrandearse su nombre?).
Divididos en dos equipos, los Rudos y los Técnicos. ¿Podrán derrotar a los monstruos? ¿Qué equipo será mucho más competente?

Fursuit Games organizados por el grandioso Steelical y yo, durante Confuror, en Guadalajara, México.

Pueden ver los juegos en YouTube:
https://youtu.be/gwj9KsFm0ls?si=crWV8F3sA9bXjZuh
El tema de la convención fue "Monstruos vs Luchadores", inspirado en las películas mexicanas de ciencia ficción de los 50s y 60s, protagonizadas por peleadores famosos de la lucha libre mexicana.

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ENGLISH
Ladies and gentlemen! Get ready for the Fursuit Games of the century! At least that's what my script tells me to say.
Monsters have invaded the convention and only the bravest heroes will be able to save the event from the clutches of Dr. Demente (formerly Dr. Enchilada, ugh, why did he have to rebrand his name?).
Divided into two teams, the Rudos and the Técnicos. Will they be able to defeat the monsters? Which team will be much more proficiency?

Fursuit Games organized by the great Steelical and myself, during Confuror, in Guadalajara, Mexico. 

You can watch the games here:
https://youtu.be/gwj9KsFm0ls?si=crWV8F3sA9bXjZuh
The theme of the convention was "Monstruos vs. Luchadores" inspired by Mexican science fiction films from the 50s and 60s, starring famous Mexican lucha libre wrestlers.

Digital. Procreate and Photoshop.

You can see the time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission at my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
The video only includes the Procreate part. The rest of effects, lettering and composition was done in Photoshop.
If you want to watch the full time-lapse process, and also the version with no lettering, new pictures that I haven't posted on my galleries yet, WIPs, and more exclusive thins, support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!!

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HashRaydamon mastodon (AP)
Interesante!

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Leina mastodon (AP)
Awwww, poor batty. :(
Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
@Bowsette Is okay -there's gotta be some froots around!

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Keys mastodon (AP)
@exyvt I am a little bit obsessed with accordions, I've got like... uh 7 of them. They just turn up at my door and I rehome them xD ❤️
I have like 3 accordions, I was also obsessed with them back in 2020, I kinda miss playing

It isn't always about big conventions and events - #FursuitFriday can be nice chill times with friends!!
Picture 1: just being my cute and curious self.
Picture 2: SMUSH DAT FLUFFDERG

🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 Rattie

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Btw the second photo here by happy coincidence just absolutely reads as this to me:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50524862/
l4p1n mastodon (AP)
"all you gotta do is smush that fluffderg !"

Furo mastodon (AP)

Boo.

📷 : PunkyCayler

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Happy Halloween, y'all! Reaching all the way back to 1996 for this photo of Ysengrin at Haunted Verdun Manor.

#Halloween #Werewolf #Haunt #VerdunManor

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Terrible idea: a scifi story set in a early-20th century idea of the solar system.

Mars is a dying desert covered in canals to bring water from the poles to the sand cities at the equator.
Venus is a humid jungle/swamp full of strange beasts.
Both are fully habitable by humans with no more gear than you'd need to cross the Sahara or venture into the rainforest.

The trick? This is actually a distant future realistic setting. We terraformed the planets specifically to be like that.

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Zalasur 🇺🇦 mastodon (AP)
I dunno... this seems like a great idea for a scifi story 😉
The Thrilling Adventure Hour's _Sparks Nevada: Marshall in Mars_ did exactly this. At least for Mars, they didn't talk much about Venus. It's kind of hidden for most of the run but towards the end they do an episode and - yep. That's what happened.

Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

It’s Halloween night. Claud, the tiger, thought they could get away with it at getting the two candy buckets, they were sneaking one when BAM!! A ferocious shadow figure appears behind!!
It was Winter, the red panda, wrapped loosely like a mummy and with a mischievous grin!
For the first time the “scary” wah pose worked!

Happy Halloween!!
Enjoy it! Don’t eat too much candy, share them with your panda friends!

Pic for Winter, the red panda, and Claud, the tiger.

Digital. Procreate.
You can see the short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission at my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or check the full process video and full resolution, and checking pictures that I haven't shared on my galleries yet, at supporting me on my Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco ) or Ko-Fi ( https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco ) Thaanks!

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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)

*knock knock knock*

Trick or treat!

Happy Halloween, everyone! 🦇🎃👻

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Hali mastodon (AP)
omg adorable! *gives full size candy*
Tango mastodon (AP)
I choose treat! -attempts to pick you up-

sirlan <( rawrr ) sharkey (AP)

more things should have copy-on-write functionality

if not because it makes it any better, because you now get to say "my language/file system has cow"

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CheRosach mastodon (AP)
It’s just weather is it? These “Just Stop Oil” protests have to stop - they just cause traffic delays
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@juliknaut mastodon (AP)
bei vw und ko klingelt schon die kasse.
So viele Autos die auf Halde stehen und nun druch die Überschwemmungen verkauft werden können.
Der mensch ändert sich nicht.
skua mastodon (AP)

It's one thing for traffic to be disrupted, your city stopped, and +100 deaths to be caused by a human-triggered weather event.

It's something so much more disturbing, even unbearable, to have a journey deliberately delayed by young punks.

(Very rough numbers) The deliberate acts of 9/11 killed as many USians as tobacco kills every week.
+1,000,000 innocent Iraqis were killed to avenge the insult of 9/11.
And 2000 USians have died every week since 2001 from tobacco usage.


You know what I'd love to see? I would
Dearly
Love to see
News footage of some guy
Pulling a lever
And then a trap door
Opens
Under Donald Trump
And then he drops into some sort of
Basement or oubliette or something and then we don't have to
See or hear anything from or about him ever again
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Content warning: us politics (-)

Content warning: us politics (-)


Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
Day 30, Horror. 🐺
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Foxes in Love mastodon (AP)

So, maybe you already heard about it, botsin.space will shut down somewhere next year. Around December, it will go into Read-Only and probably finally shut down around March next year...

https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

At the moment I don't know any alternatives to botsin.space and since we are posting images almost every day it's probably not wanted everywhere?

So question to all of you, does anyone know alternative bot instances?

Please add @Kuraiko if you answer 🙂

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What if I hosted it? We talking about a gig pipe, 36GB memory, 4 computes and 300GB storage? Can be done.
Lauma Pret 🕸️ mastodon (AP)
I hope you find something 🤞, became I really want to follow foxes here in Mastodon as this is the social network I use nowadays the most.

I'd settle for them only redistributing 50% of their wealth.
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if anyone says this is crazy and going too far, I would remind them that Trump has actually suggested enacting the Purge.
If only that was the most crazy thing Trump had suggested.
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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)

My partner, the ever wonderful @Kyu , has a delightful print of a picture of a cat who is smoking a pipe with a smugly manic expression. Somehow it has become lore that this cat was a 'great innovator' in computing during the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. Working for Groupe Vache, they were instrumental in the ill-fated Système/Chat line of mini and mainframe computers.

Amongst the many innovative features that were present in some of the Système/Chat range were things like:

The three quarter adder, which had sum, carry and ask again later outputs.
The arithmetic and illogic unit, to produce perverse results from perfectly sound and sanitised data sets. It was particularly popular with governments.
Drape storage, which ran several turns of a magnetic tape around a drum and wrote data across the resulting 'drum' in parallel. The idea was to give the convenience of parallel storage but the price of tape. Data was read by random chance.
Book fault, an exception generated by the main processor to conveniently bind several page faults into a single exception, for faster handling.
BOC, or branch on chance, 50% of the time it branches every time.
AWDATTS, a processor instruction that could be issued by anyone with system manager rights to ask what the system was doing and tell it to stop it immediately.
Spin unlocking. All resources were locked by default and threads needed to spin until the supervisor felt they really genuinely did need access and could be bothered to unlock it.
Subvisor, like the supervisor, but clandestine and hard to find and interrogate. (c.f. Windows)
Mechanical key encryption, a system where by in order to encrypt or decrypt anything, the user had to insert 4096 individual keys into 4096 lock barrels and then turn them left or right to indicate whether the binary of the encryption key had a zero or one in that position.

@Kyu
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Kyu mastodon (AP)
Hon hon hon!
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Content warning: llm/ai coding

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Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

Reading a lot of #ScienceFiction, it's easy to be disappointed by the real world. But I've always felt that it's not the big things, like having no FTL drives or time machines. The little things are where it's at.

Fridges should be stasis chambers, so you can keep hot things in them too. Kitchen utensils should be forcefields, so you turn them off instead of washing them.

And today's thought: tables should use antigravity, so they're just a hovering tabletop, with no legs to bash your knee on!

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@simontatham, chairs too. Little point in having just the tables hovering there, casually defying gravity.
the hovering tabletop doesn't have to actually be legless, it just has to be smart enough to move and hide any of its limbs that you try to look at or touch. (for the chaos goblins who use mirrors or cameras to try to catch the table in the act of hiding its limbs, the table will squirt a cloud of ink and run away)
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sirlan <( rawrr ) sharkey (AP)
I like computer fans because just by hearing my computer I know if it's doing a lot of work or not much
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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
Weird to think that American friends will be doing their civic duty on the same day we're going to be burning effigies of the last guy who went into Parliament with honest intentions.
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JamesB mastodon (AP)
Eh? I didn't realise we celebrated Sir Anthony Wedgewood Benn day.
Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
@mw1cgg I'd forgotten about him... and his son.
JamesB mastodon (AP)
I'm not going to go into his son because I believe we are all separate from our parent's choices.
@mw1cgg I hereby decree that the 3rd of April shall henceforth be known as Tony Benn Day.
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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

‘Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air.’

#WealthInequality
#RichPolluters
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

You know, really thinking about it I've realized why so many people can't be bothered to do anything about reclaiming their privacy. It's because doing so means not using Chrome, ChromeOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Xitter, iOS, Macs, etc...

The apathy has existed so long, and the problem is now so endemic to all things tech, that giving it up basically means giving up the tools and services the vast majority of people use every day.

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

This issue is now so bad, that there's no functional way to even "vote with our wallets" to get rid of it. There's literally nowhere else to turn for most users. And every available option requires they give up things that they've been using, probably for years.

There is no way out of it, at all. And that's hard for me to say as someone that has advocated for digital privacy for a long time.

Any way out we have would have to involve laws banning data collection. I don't see that happening

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
It's not hyperbole to say we live in a modern day surveillance state. But at this point it's not the government doing it, it's every company you deal with online.
The government can find out anything about you it wants to though, all it has to do is buy it like anyone else.
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Growlph Ibex mastodon (AP)

This is absolutely it. Insisting on existing outside of those systems is increasingly not merely impractical, but kind of insufferable.

"Sorry, I won't click the thing you're trying to share with me because I'm boycotting that platform" really just adds fiction between a person and their own social groups, no matter how valid the grievance is.

Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@growlph That's a valid issue. And it also makes trying to get people on board with anything involving data privacy harder.
fedops 💙💛 mastodon (AP)
saying there is no way out of it is wrong and not doing anyone a service. A significant fraction of the Fediverse is showing that it indeed is possible. Whether it's worth it is a decision everybody have to make themselves and of course it depends on the individuals' willingness to learn and make hard decisions.
Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@mkj @growlph That’s kind of what the fedoverse is trying to do. But getting people onboard is just so hard.

Furo mastodon (AP)
Am I the only one doing this?
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Demi mastodon (AP)
I have never felt this called out in my entire life.
Furo mastodon (AP)
@Demirramon I'm spying on you all
@Demi

Pippin friendica
My sister was clearing out a bunch of old mugs and I've ended up giving @Thumper a new home. 😁
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I'm sorry if I'm overposting about the election, but I've never been so scared for my existence.
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Random fursuit photo from the archives.

8 Pretty Maids in a Row.

A femme fursuit photoshoot during ConFuzzled 2013.

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Kamuniak mastodon (AP)
Aaa! So sweet! ❤

...I was not expecting new Wallace and Gromit... ever.

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqrBzJ5wIc

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Content warning: US Pol

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the rust ownership model is just a reference counter, but instead of the language doing the reference counting it requires you too do it by hand
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Furs For Life chartiy stream planning!

Schedule ✅
Incentives ✅
Tech setup ✅
Supplies ✅
Promo and video material 🔥🔥🔥AAAAAAFEKHECKSHIDHECK!!!

It'll be an awesome time packed with good vibes, fun games, and fuzzy animals!

Nov 2-3!
https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle

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Would love to join sometime! Gotta travel for work that weekend but I'll be watching when I can :)

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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)
Couldn’t find a silver futuristic looking dress for that con, then found an ideal one about 6 months later. Typical.
Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
@Dairishgoat Just a skirt and deeley boppers, and a toy gun! Though at least I understood the theme! 🤣

Awwwwwwwwww so heart-meltingly cute! 🥰

#FursuitFriday comin' at you all like...

🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Nauta Sinneau
🌍 Tails in Wales April 2023 (there's another meet this Saturday and I'll be there!)

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If you're one of those people that doesn't care about privacy because “you’ve got nothing to hide, you never do anything wrong."

Just remember one thing.

Until the overturn of Roe Vs Wade, there were millions of women in this country that never did anything wrong either. But since the abortion laws changed, their smartphones and the data they collect are now being used against them in court.

You don't have to be doing something wrong to care about privacy.

#privacy

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Someone wiser than I once said that people who use the "I've got nothing to hide" response are confusing privacy and secrecy. When a person is using the restroom, it's no secret what they are doing. They aren't doing anything wrong and don't really have anything to hide. Nevertheless, most people would prefer what is going on in there to remain private.
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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@aj Yeah, that's exactly it.

Things are getting witchy with @BigPurpleSentri for Halloween! 🎃 #FursuitFriday

Photo by @kurrikage

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Leina mastodon (AP)
Awwww, you're both adorable witches! 💜 💙
PlasmaGryphon mastodon (AP)
animals in stripes and skirts is always a good look. Being a witch is just a natural job choice as a result.
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