Feels like Twitter was the frog in boiling pot of water syndrome, it finally got hot enough for folks to jump into a new lukewarm pot (bsky). All the while there is a lilly pad (fedi) safely away from everything that folks just keep finding excuses not to go to...

For moral and political reason I'm glad when folks leave Twitter at least.

“Why don't you like BlueSky?"

Twitter taught me something. Any "For Profit" company is going to be a slave to its need for growth, its investors, and corporate greed.

BlueSky says “We don't want to be like that”. but they're also a for profit company that is going to end up a slave to their investors and their greed just like any other for profit company.

I don't feel like establishing myself there, just to have it all come apart in a few years like Twitter did. Because that's inevitable.

Team Fenrir! Myself, @azakir, Sidd, and Sushii at Wild North last month. We shared a room and had an amazing time, made many friends, hugged everything, gazed at stars, and probably drank too much coffee.

⌚ #FursuitFriday
📷 GV PM
💙 💛 💙 🤎

Heeeeey.... Still stuck here!!!!!

Halp!

(Or roll me home, is up to you >.>)

#FursuitFriday

One of my favorite Halloween gif commissions!

🎨 by PiperYeen

Trick or treat! 🎃

Super cute arts by Xander (https://bsky.app/profile/thatlionthing.bsky.social)

Check out their Telegram channel and get your own here - https://t.me/TheLionThingArt

The doctor peeked into the workshop. "Is anyone-"

"Me," the mechanic grunted.

"It's late, we-"

"Busy."

The doctor looked at the crushed droid on the workbench. "With that?"

"There's still a spark!"

"So?"

"Never took an oath like you, but it's a sentient being!"

"Oh! Can I help?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

** I stopped posting new stories to X/Twitter last autumn, but have kept my account, and the thousands of stories I have written since 2013 are still available.

That will soon end. In the next couple of weeks, I'll try to upload my archive to the Internet Archive, then delete all my stories from X/Twitter.

If you know someone who only follows me there, please help them follow me elsewhere.
**

the cute!

https://youtu.be/YukhnVGbGs8

Snek or Treat! - Animated Short

Happy Halloween! This is a little animated short film about two reptilian youths trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Their mysterious neighbor notices some...

^YouTube

I am old enough to remember televisions with cathode ray tubes. They were a nuisance, they took a while to heat up and start displaying an image. Then we got TFT televisions and they were great. You pressed the power button and bam! they were on and working.

Then some moron invented 'smart' TVs and now the TV takes longer to boot up and play moronic animations for all the unwanted software than it took the CRT TV to warm up. And the CRT set didn't spy on you.

This is not progress.

Roger and Ysengrin at the bar. Just a relaxing night out for two thirsty creatures.

#AnthrOhio2024 #werelion #werewolf #WerewolfWednesday #fursuit

The Fediverse is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one backup account migration to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.

#Fediverse #TheMatrix #AccountMigration

It looks like I'll be back at MFF this year for the first time since 2018. Not sure when I’ll be back again after this year, but thanks to my best friend I have a room and figured I’d give it a shot.

The reality is that the con is massively larger since I last went, and it was difficult to hang with anyone then. So my expectations are not particularly high when it comes to seeing anyone I really want to see.

But I will make my best effort, and if you want to see me, please let me know.

so goddamn many of activitypub's visibility issues would be solved if there was 'fetch past data'/ 'auto populate' functionality

- someone navigates to a profile page that wasn't federated with your instance before? request their latest 50 or so public posts instead of just showing an empty profile with "go to the remote page"

- keep track of public replies/likes/votes to a post and relay those to instances when someone expands the post (would solve so many of the "person a: people are being annoying in my replies; person b: I don't see anything")

doesn't need to be all past data, anything is better than the "you can't see it unless you were there (federating with them) already" problem we have now

Had a great time at #Confuror even tho my Spanish is terrible..so many friendly furros, so much time bugging people in #fursuit

And an unexpected upgrade to first class back to LA? Bonus

Imagine setting off on a voyage 500 years ago, sailing for months, finding land that nobody from your country had ever been to before, thinking you “discovered” something, and there are already people there.

How embarrassing, right?

did encounter that "anti woke games" list on steam, and today I learned that

- wanting the world not to end is woke
- wanting people to not have depression is woke
- having characters that are divorced is woke
- implying that gay people existed in the 90s is woke
- not immediately telling the player that a character has a dick or pussy is woke
- having women being actual characters in the story is woke
- implying that invading other places is bad is woke
- not going out of your way to prohibit people from customizing their characters in any way the want is woke

I would encourage any Windows users to do everything they can to disable Copilot. Microsoft's spyware ... sorry ... user experience management will eventually pick up that it is being disabled and removed en masse and the message that this sort of enshittification is not going to be tolerated might start to permeate.

I know that it is a losing battle. MS still has not gone back to menus in place of it's godawful (ef)Fluent interface but it's worth a try.

people worrying about windows 10 support ending

the place I internshipped at (btw it's government): literally every computer, including from administration people, is still running windows 8.1 and shamelessly connected to the internet