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Gorgeous new artwork by @leggy2fast with @CheetahObscura - in which it's a hopeful and more gentle solarpunk future. We're happily working together to get some old solar panels up and running, and in the background a long-abandoned data centre has been partially reclaimed by nature, partially absorbed into our small, sustainable community.
I love how this turned out so much. I love the colours and light, I love our nonbinary clothing that says in this world we can express ourselves however we want, I love how we're doing important work and actually finding joy and meaning in it in it, I love the sense that there's a thriving community working the landscape behind us making a world I'd actually want to live in, and I love that the data centre is in ruins as a symbolic, gentle but resolute middle finger to data centres and AI and all the damage they're doing to us and our world today. And most of all I love the way this piece is an expression of hope in a time where, moment of vulnerability, I'm feeling really, really damn short of it lately.
I'm so grateful to Obscura for proposing we go together on another art piece, and to Raf for realising this absolute beauty.
#furryart #solarpunk #nonbinary
I very much understand what you mean - my apologies, people tend toward shorthand terms for things even when it loses important distinctions. What I meant to throw shade on here is indeed very much -AI datacentres-, as you say the sort that are exceptionally power- and water-hungry and and specialised to such an extent that they won't be much good to anyone if and when the AI bubble bursts because they can't really be repurposed to handling other, more useful types of data or cloud services. Apart from maybe finding some use for the building itself which is little more than a giant barn with a strong floor. They've become a pretty hot political topic and those especially tend toward easy shorthand terms. People don't like them, the environmental impact is huge, and they can only ever really do one thing, and it's a thing that more and more people are really getting tired of having shoved in their faces when it's hard to see any actual value to them.
And like you say with 'crypto', you're exactly right that that became the common shorthand for 'cryptocurrency' and that's what people were wanting to trash on. Cryptography itself is an incredible and important field - I live not far from Bletchley Park where Alan Turing and other brilliant minds worked tirelessly to crack the Enigma code during World War 2, so I've got plenty of appreciation for that!
But yes, my apologies, no disrespect intended toward your livelihood and the broader infrastructure that makes so much of the internet and the modern world as we know it possible.
It's a quiet, cool September evening on the outskirts of Chicago in 1929, I'm in my garage tinkering with my brand new Model A, This thing is neat! Faster and slicker than my Model T was.
I tinker with the carburetor, making some little adjustments to feed more fuel into the engine. Can't have it going lean on me again like last night.
Putting the hood down I light up a cigarette and look up into the sky. It's a beautiful clear night, and the full moon is going to be spectacular.
I grin, patting the hood of my car admiring the Brewster green and black paint job in the last rays of evening light. It'll be time to make some deliveries soon. Maybe sandwiches, maybe liquor.
Whatever the evening throws my way, it's gonna' be a gas.
Another set from Fantasy Forest Libertalia. Jaratic the fox made an appearance there on Sunday afternoon.
π· Yagfox
πΊ Yarwick
#FursuitFriday #fantasyforest2026 #FantasyForest
Nothing like a quiet walk on the beach to try and clear the mind.
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π· Jack Vargan
π CabinCon
β #FursuitFriday
I Did This Before at my Hotel Before ASC Started
A coati because these good critters deserve more love!
It will be also exhibited at the Anthro SoCalβs Art Show
Traditional. Color markers
Weirdness is POWER.
Seriously, think about it. You have all kinds of power as a weirdo. The power to make conservatives run screaming. The power to change the world for the better. The power to show others like you that they aren't alone.
Be proud of your weirdness. Be proud to be bisexual, or furry, or nonbinary, or kinky, or therian, or plural, or polyamorous, or whatever YOUR identity is. It's your greatest asset!!
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#furry #dragonposting #weird #silly #FursuitFriday #CatsOfMastodon #Lgbtqia #nonbinary #polyamory #plural
We all grow up wanting to be like the people we idolize. What we often fail to realize is how weird those people are. It's cool to be weird. We should all be...YouTube
Did you know you can just be a little (or big) animal on the internet?
It's free
βIf enshitificaiton is what you do when youβve grown your market all you can and then you squeeze it, then AI is what happens when you run out of squeezing.β...YouTube
We tend to be thinking that the people around us will always be there. We make plans for tomorrow, next year, and many years from now, without thinking too much about how lucky we are to have them with us today
Anytime is a good reason to appreciate the time we have right now. Our friends, our family, our partners who share our days, and all those little moments that may feel ordinary until one day we look back at them. So while they are here, hug them a little tighter, enjoy their company, and be thankful that your lives happened to meet at the same time
A gift for Fox Convoy (Theadore Rabbit) and Shadow Raccoon.
This was a drawing I did months ago, but until now I'm sharing it
There is a quick time lapse video where I show the process of this picture, you can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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It goes back a while.
Here's my V1 fursuit at a rather smaller @scotiaconlive in 2019!
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π· @terrencefoxfur
β #FursuitFriday
The Family portrait.
πΈ - zappfoxcollie (bsky/ig)
βοΈ - wowdragonstudiosuits + Lupesuits + thatsfurredup
#fursuitfriday #furry #fursuit
Effy, the red panda from the streets, about to start some unauthorized public art, for the eyes who decides to appreciate it. And also because fun!
Sketch done during Eurofurence for Effy the Fourth
Traditional. Pencil.
It's scarier than a spooky ghost. It's therapy!Me Profile on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hQBk...Itunes/Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/a...YouTube
I definitely came here to post something and now I can't remember what it was.
I've been thinking a lot about certain imaginary fursuiters lately. (And by "a lot", I mean even more than usual. Because I usually think about them a lot anyway.) That wasn't what I was going to post, but it's worth posting anyway.
OSA has destroyed countless well-run small independent forums and gathering spaces, had zero effect on the most flagrant abuse (which it was sold as fixing).. and now a survey of kids says it made absolutely no difference.
Gee, who could possibly have predicted this?
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failuresConnor Jones (theregister)
two things about the OSA and Ofcom:
1. It was never really about the kids. They were a useful pawn.
2. Notice that Ofcom havenβt really gone after the big fish. And a certain little image board has made a mockery of it all (4chan must have collected quite the fine by nowβ¦).
Also - do some digging - the amount of fines imposed versus the amount actually collected. The ratio is hilarious.
Sonny, as part of his job, tends to just leave the mail and moves on to the next house. But this time, a little someone is already waiting for him.
Sonny has no idea what is inside that envelope, or how long this little guy has been waiting for it. Maybe it is good news, a letter from someone far away, or something he has been hoping to receive for weeks.
Whatever it is, seeing him run out so excited makes Sonny happy, making completely his day. Being a mailman means carrying a lot of little stories around, even if you never get to know how they end.
Picture for Sonny
Digital. Procreate
I'm sharing a time lapse video of the process of this video, if you want to check it out, you can find it on the first comment on this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
That is a short version of a long process video, if you want to check the longer video, as well as the full resolution of this picture, and to be the first one to see many new drawings that I haven't posted on my galleries yet, you can do it at supporting my job via Patreon or Ko-Fi, and also it helps me to keep working as an artist full time, which I appreciate so much because after so many years doing this, I can't stop loving and enjoying doing this, but each time it gets more and more difficult to keep living out of this, so every support helps a lot:
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Thanks!!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/117201716160597398
D'Aww
Attached: 1 image Secret Panel HERE β€οΈ https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/05/28/new-lookJ. L. Westover (Mastodon)
I wanna hug all my friends, but they're so dang far away.
WHY ARE YOU SO FAR AWAY STOP THAT
Total daily output from the tomato plants around Tuesday last week:
And today's harvest in the saucer on the right, while the last several days' takings are in the dish on the left:
(If your fediverse node gathers all the pictures into a single group at the end of the post, FYI they were originally between each paragraph.)
Let's go with #SolarpunkSunday! π³ππ I'd love to see more art with this theme as it really is a breath of fresh air (pun intended :3).
If you have any solarpunk art, would love to see it!
Arts by @leggy2fast featuring @Doran_Eirok, and Kobold (https://koboldkurios.carrd.co/) featuring Rezz.
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Now I've got Isn't She Lovely stuck in my head.
I can't help having a huge soft spot for Jax, despite how irredeemably awful a person she is. I suspect I see a lot of myself in her; I've been an awful person multiple times in the past β but hopefully not irredeemably so.
That tearful scene under the magenta street lamp.
"I didn't know you could play the piano."
"I only know like two songs. Why are you here? You know everything now⦠So why are you here? Just to rub every mistake I've ever made in my face? I'm a terrible person. Is that what you want me to say? I already know I am. So why does anybody still care about me? You're not supposed to care. You're not supposed to miss me. You're not supposed to love me. This isn't how this is supposed to go. Please! Leave me alone! You're making this so much harder. You're making this⦠so much harder."
"You should've just talked to me, man."
"It's too late. I did this to myself. There's no coming back from this."
"Well then, talk to me now."
They embrace.
"I hate you, you know that? You always have to go and complicate things."
"Mm. It's what I do."
"I don't wanna go!"
"Stay with me."
And then, Stevie Wonder Time. All the feels, man.
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@The4thCircle
Sounds like a really neat video! Though yeah I can see what you mean. If they don't have enough structural strength to do much in or on top of them, maybe better to just leave it to nature (in a solarpunk vision like this anyway) and reroute the power and water infrastructure elsewhere outside of them.
@pippin @The4thCircle
I'd wonder about the relatively weak roof and only a single floor, it seems like to try and repurpose it to any sort of conventional building you'd have to effectively build a new actual building inside the shell which would probably not be cost effective, if possible at all. Those unusual features you mention definitely could be valuable, but it would take some investment and cleverness and I worry at the extent to which businesses tend to prefer solutions that are cheap and easy. With the right thinking and investment, I'm sure the infrastructure could be repurposed to a more general and useful sort of computing centre, so hopefully that proves to be the case.
You have to wonder how much of "optimised for this specific hardware and use case" is actual necessity and how much is an excuse to ask for more investment to build these things.
@The4thCircle @pippin
Yeah, it's very much not my field but everything I have heard and seen has every sense of being hyper-optimised for one specific purpose, the way things are right now with the AI bubble, which keeps giving me every possible sense of being about to burst. The desperation with which the tech companies try to sell it, to force it on everyone, keeps feeling to me like nothing so much as a snake oil salesman who knows his luck is running out and the loan sharks he's lied to are coming for him any minute. My imagination is probably just overacting but that keeps being the exact vibe I get from it all, every Windows lock screen on my work computer telling me how amazing AI is and how I should be using it more PLEASE GOD USE OUR AI PRODUCT MORE AND JUSTIFY OUR INVESTMENTS WE'RE BEGGING YOU