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This sounds dopey, but if it works...
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/2072197/gardeners-urged-hang-cds-garden-june/amp
Brits are being warned to act now and place CDs around their garden for one very important reason.Alex Evans (Express.co.uk)
Because it’s rare to see #retrofit / #sustainability jokes…and I like xkcd:
Alt Text: ‘A covertly-installed Neighbour-Source Heat Pump takes advantage of the fact your neighbour keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter’. Image of two houses, one with a heat pump and then pipes underground leading to the other, extending up the walls in a loop system.
Just a red panda chillin’. Red pandas really do love a good ice cube, zoos often give them giant blocks to help them cool off and stay playful on hot days. So of course this little guy made himself comfortable.
Drawn with crayons over a Denny’s paper tablecloth, again!
This piece will be part of my biggest exhibition yet at the Anthrocon Art Show.
The kind of honesty I wish we had more of from our politicians and thought leaders on #ClimateBreakdown.
#ClimateCrisis
#TippingPoints
#NetZero
#GlobalWarming
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve GuentherJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
A red panda this time.
I don’t even know what he’s looking at, perhaps someone who is giving apples away but not to him, but I liked painting him just like that.
This is part of the same quiet rhythm I’ve been in lately. Simple paintings, small format, brush in hand, no rush.
I think I needed to go back to that. Not to chase meaning, not to impress anyone, just to enjoy it again, to let myself feel okay with doing something for the sake of doing it.
Painted with acrylics over a tan toned sheet, made to fit an old frame I had already.
This one will also be shown at the Anthrocon Art Show.
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And… Fuck Meta. Really, this company needs to just be burned to the ground.
If you’re an Android user and you’ve been using the Facebook app, this probably applies to you.
Localhost tracking is something that you probably heard of but this is an ingenious tracking mechanism that that is probably very against the law.==========S...YouTube
Is there anything nerdier than sitting with your boyfriend at 3am watching Tom Lehrer songs?
Oh - singing along... No comment!
As we're only a few hours away from the summer solstice, have some photos from the 2007 solstice (exactly 18 years ago, yikes) when I went, with a couple of friends, to fursuit at Stonehenge for the summer solstice. (The girl in pink with us in several of the photos was not anyone I knew — she just… adopted us as her furry solstice friends or something!)
I want to go back someday, assuming they're still doing the solstice night/morning open event.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=8172615%40N02&tags=kelsey+stonehenge
Word of the Day:
"Tolkien's Gun" - An object within a work of fiction which is described in exhaustive detail but which is ultimately of little significance to the plot.
Usage: "Oh, I guess that candlestick was a bit of a Tolkien's Gun."
There are few things more wholesome and sweet than being there for a friend during one their first times fursuiting.
💛 @azakir
🐺 Dimitrius
📷 Rattie
⌚ #FursuitFriday
‘A recent study estimated that 80% of UK homes overheat in the summer.’
A throwaway line in this piece warning us of the dangers posed by 32C heat this weekend in the UK and the fact it’s been directly caused by burning #FossilFuels.
But seriously, our homes are where we retreat in this heat…but there is no escape when they are so poorly insulted, ventilated and shaded from the sun.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-weekend-heatwave-worse-climate-crisis
High temperatures likely to cause deaths and will worsen in future as global heating intensifies, scientists warnDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Oliver and Elliot
Part of an art trade with the amazing Mudkipper, during an art jam at FWA, taking his color markers because I hadn't brought my own.
His characters are so cute, aaah!!
"I worry about the prince," the king said.
"What is the issue?" said the witch.
"We held balls with all eligible ladies, but he found none. So we held tourneys, with all eligible knights. Still none."
"There are those who seek none."
"So none can turn his head?"
"Perhaps. Ask him."
"Amazing!"
@aurakle Fairy tales usually operate on a love-at-first-sight principle, with no requirement for realism.
I wrote this after recalling ace friends rolling their eyes at how some "gay accepting" people are unaware of or even denying the existence of ace/aro people.
I have had basically this conversation with most of the people I consider close to me over the past few months…we all agree with Snoopy regardless of age and previous political persuasion…
Snoopy says: “Stop shaming the POOR for buying things that might not be necessary, and start shaming the RICH from profiteering off everything that is essential”
#Inequality
#WealthGap
#Privatisation
#EatTheRich
This cartoon obviously struck a chord with me, despite its dubious creation.
I am stunned at how it spoke to so many others here.
A raccoon peeking out from a tree.
A little painting like this is the most honest thing I can do. Not for anyone else, not even for an audience, just for the part of me that still needs to say “this is how I see the world.”
Creating used to be play. Then it became survival. Now, I’m still figuring out what it is, but I know I still need it. To breathe. To speak. To be.
This was done during an art jam with friends at a coffee shop.
Traditional. Acrylics.
This piece will be exhibited at the Anthrocon's Art Show.
I had previously bought a frame at IKEA, just to see what I could make fit in it, so I painted this exactly to size.
Adam Curtis, "Hypernormalization", 2016Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw, 27/10/2020George Dunlop, "ELIZA: a very basic Rogerian psy...YouTube
2FA using a mobile phone as the second factor sucks.
Yesterday, the phone's battery went flat and I couldn't log into anything.
Today the phone wants to do a massive update of the OS (and, from the snail-like speed, firmware) and I cannot log into anything.
Contrast to other systems to which I need to connect that accept a code from a device that plugs into a USB port but also supports NFC, on which I need to press a button.
What really stuck out for me at #CambridgePride this weekend wasn't the shows, the banners, or the hot topless guys. It was a group of kids in their v early teens. One of them had a masc body type but was wearing a very fem chiffon blouse thing over a tight vest: possibly just going for a femboy look, or maybe dressing as their preferred gender. (The outfit looked more like the latter but I don't want to assume, especially in the setting!) They looked a bit flustered but happy enough to be dressed like that among a (mixed but all cis looking) group of peers. And as it's Pride, I wondered if it might be their first time dressing that way. Either way, I hope they learned that day whether they liked it or not.
Even among an atmosphere of campaigning, protesting, and supporting, it was the most wholesome thing I saw that day, and it gave me hope. Do what you like, transphobes. You're too late, the kids already know how to be true to themselves.
"Bajo el Cielo de Verano"
El sol comenzaba a caer, tiñendo el cielo con tonos dorados y anaranjados. El campo, cubierto de pasto fresco y flores silvestres, parecía suspirar con la brisa suave de la tarde, como si supiera que aquel momento era especial. Sentados entre las sombras de unas hojas, dos figuras peludas compartían risas y miradas cómplices. El azul de uno contrastaba con el rojo intenso del otro, pero entre ellos no había diferencias: solo calidez, cariño y una conexión que iba más allá de las palabras y más allá de una simple amistad.
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"Under the Summer Sky"
The sun was beginning to set, dyeing the sky shades of gold and orange. The field, covered in fresh grass and wildflowers, seemed to sigh in the gentle evening breeze, as if it knew this moment was special. Sitting among the shadows of some leaves, two furry figures shared laughter and knowing glances. The blue of one contrasted with the intense red of the other, but there was no difference between them: only warmth, affection, and a connection that went beyond words and beyond simple friendship.
Original written in Spanish by SgtoChera.
Picture inspired in a real place and a real moment.
Picture for Sgto Chera and Sinh the Husky
Result of a charity auction commission, where the funds were donated to the Mexican Bat Conservation Program (PCMM for its initials in Spanish) (https://bioconciencia.org.mx/nosotros/) , charity auction organized by Confuror in their 2024 edition.
Digital. Procreate.
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I have grave doubts...but that was kind of more fun than I expected it to be.
https://youtu.be/ZNJr59zY_z8?si=BalBDc_FRxZ1nIvM
Check out the official trailer for The Naked Gun! In theaters August 1, 2025.Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save t...YouTube
"May I have your name?" the faerie said.
"William," she said with a smile.
"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"
"Thank you," she said.
"To win it back, you must- what?"
"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."
ahh that's perhaps not as bad as I feared it may have been...
I've honestly hated having to say I need communication like this, and sadly I've had to be extremely forceful in some circumstances - just to get communication in a format that is accessible for me.
Sadly it's had consequences too - for example, one credit card company offered an interest free repayment plan... Really cool huh? Well... Only if you phoned them... I couldn't email and ask for it, I couldn't even do snail mail....
So I complained to them, got nowhere, had to go to the Ombudsman not one, or twice, three times!!
All occasions they ruled in my favour... I got a small amount of compensation, but still not the same thing they offered people without a disability.
The end result was they terminated my account. Presumably because people like me are not worth the effort... 😞
I think my aspie brain struggles with injustice, especially when I've experienced it myself, so always encourage people to stand up for their rights!
Anyhow, apologies if I was projecting a bit!
