There is no quest so relentless as collecting things you don't even know you need until you see them, and you know you need more somehow even if you don't know what it is.

Let's appreciate our raccoon friends on this International Raccoon Appreciation Day!!

Acrylics over a curated an important cardboard from a very cheap pizza place in New York City. It traveled two countries to be painted!

And it's coming back to the country of its origin if I exhibit it at the MFF's Art Show.

You can see some pictures of the process of this piece on the first comment of my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

It's the first of the month.

The Orange Site will be posting an assload of job openings.

There are tools in the "whoishiring" OP to filter all the "hybrid" and onsite jobs.

Even if you're ultimately not interested or even qualified, it'd be funny if a lot of people told them "yeah onsite/hybrid isn't an option for me, are you open to remote?"

Because, let's be real, recruiters hear back from very few people that aren't interested, so they're going to collect data on that. And if they hear 10 or so people say "remote only or bust" (regardless of your actual qualifications or interest), that will get circulated up to HR.

Which means they'll have to make the case for allowing remote employees.

And if they succeed, then the barrier to entry to the tech industry gets lowered for folks living outside of a big tech city.

So, I'm not saying we should do a little trolling.

I'm not saying that.

But if your conscience is? We'll, I don't blame it.

It’s very rare to hear of any positive world-leading policy from round here these days, but the UK’s now the first country to bin off coal power in favour of renewables. And they did it when they said they would too!

I’m not one for feelings of national pride at all. But for all the shit over the last decade, it’s good to see something nice for once.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/30/end-of-an-era-as-britains-last-coal-fired-power-plant-shuts-down

End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good

^{Jillian Ambrose (The Guardian)}

Rezz just chillin'... 💜

Arts by Khamisu (https://khamisu.carrd.co/)

"You have found my darkest secret," the dragon said. "You can never reveal it."

"I will not," said the knight, "but why is it such a horrible secret?"

"It's my one vulnerability."

"This?"

The knight scritched between the dragon's horns.

"Mmm," it purred.

"This is nice."

"Mrrmrm."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Eveyone: "US customary units are BS."

USA: "We went to the moon on customary units."

France and UK: "Son, we went to New York and back three times a day, every day, for thirty years, at Mach 2.1, eating canapés and drinking champagne, on SI units."

All da flowers as guests! ^,____^ 🌷🌸🌹🌺

📸 QuickshotCoyote 🤍💜

The terms "Super Hero" and "Super Heroes" have entered the public domain. Previously, these were trademarks jointly owned by Marvel and DC.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-trademark-office-cancels-marvel-dcs-super-hero-marks-2024-09-26/

Happeh #FursuitFriday ! 🐾😁

📸 QuickshotCoyote 🤍💜

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 haven’t cried this much in a long time, but if that sounds like a warning or a negative, it isn’t. This movie couldn’t have come at a better time, and I hope it makes a billion because it should.

It's #fursuitfriday !!!

Squeezing a tune with an excited MeekoTooth ! 🦊🌈🪗 :3

📸 Harry Husky
📌 at Scotiacon

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

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.

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

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/

US moves to ban import of certain connected vehicle parts from China and Russia - SiliconANGLE

^SiliconANGLE

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.