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RevK :verified_r: 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

OK, I think I have it sussed, printing (usually) and UV overprint lined up, yay! #minecraft

I have a grandson who will be using this Netherite Ingot to tap-pay using his #Monzo card in the back.

#minecraft #monzo

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Ivor Hewitt 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@pippin @tripplehelix ah no, he didn't actually do the wand just suggested it... hmm. now where's the other video.

@Pippin @🧝🏻 Thomas 🧙🏻

Floating Onion 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@tripplehelix I still get comments on using a watch by people who have never seen it before.

Great idea, looks fun! Hope they do get some interest.

@🧝🏻 Thomas 🧙🏻

Natalie Gray (she/her) 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Ah yes the two genders

A bottle of Swarfega industrial hand soap next to a bottle of “Marshmallow Skies foamalicious marshmallow hand wash”

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mausmalone 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Kind of the same in my house - but it's the US so it's Fast Orange pumice cleaner and vanilla scented hand soap.

It was a good way to teach my daughter that "for men" and "for women" products matter a heck of a lot less than "for moisturizing" and "for de-greasing."

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CIMB4 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

awaff! the Cimba saw a bubble gum scented body wash today. would have bought if my skin wasn so darn sensitive because of e

Paco Panda 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Sketchbook #19
This particular one is the one that took me the longest to complete, I should take out my sketchbooks more often with me everywhere like before, instead of my tablet, that would mean more drawings for fun and for myself.

#19

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Ja'aran 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I love your art!!!

Dairishgoat 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Getting down was easy, getting up again not so.
*creak*
There go my bunny knees.

#MaidDressMonday

A brown & white bunny fursuit wearing a French maid dress in a kneeling position on striped carpet. There are white doors behind her.

#maiddressmonday

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🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵 3 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • mastodon (AP)

Thursday vibes.

(Art by Cyrrus!)

#Furry #FurryArt #Kobold

A calendar snippet, showing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A kobold is trapped in the Thursday square, and they are reaching through the bar between Thursday and Friday, straining to get to Friday. There are scratches on the bar the kobold is straining against, and a bite taken out of it.

#furry #furryart #kobold

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Furo 3 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • mastodon (AP)

Finished another fursuit in one week
This one for Zrailloy 💅

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Legion495 3 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • sharkey (AP)

Wait you do suits? How did I never notice that?

Furo 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@Legion495 I've done like... 9 suits or something x) And more in the work!

@Legion495

Juggling With Eggs 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

The #AfD move to ban ‘stumbling stones’ that commemorate not just Jewish lives taken by the Nazis, but that show where they last lived.

Being a Brit I’d not heard of them until now, but I love the psychogeographical nature of their purpose. A chance encounter with them, a means of viewing a street scene through a Time Machine and to read them you must pause and bow your head. They are small but convey so much about the extent of the Holocaust.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqm2mm4y5dkko

German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

^{Bethany Bell (BBC News)}

#afd

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Teun 🌏 ❤️🔻🌈 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Fascinating how politicians throughout Europe are foaming at the mouth that pro-Palestine movements are 'antisemitic'… while actual Nazis are doing Holocaust denial.

How these people don't implode from cognitive dissonance is beyond me.

Nini 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Takes a certain level of avowed antisemitism to try and ban memorials of genocide. We do have one stolperstein here in the UK but we could do with more.

Davi Ottenheimer 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I always stop and narrate them, like an open book. They are asking to be read. On the front of one house in Berlin the current residents even posted a full timeline including the last letters from the family that was remigrated, as an open memorial.

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Daveybot 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

One was installed in Edinburgh at the end of last year, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jwl08z1n8o

Plaque for Scottish Holocaust victim unveiled in Edinburgh

A Stolperstein stone has been laid outside St Stephen's Church in Stockbridge in Edinburgh.

^{BBC News}

beemoh 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I've seen a few of these in various parts of the world- astonishingly you will find quite a lot around the part of Amsterdam where Anne Frank's house was, but they're far from scarce elsewhere- their sheer ubiquity does a lot to hit home just how big the Holocaust was, even if you're not stopping and reading the text on every single one.

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Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

A very fluffy weekend, and finally took the wuff out to a smaller local meet

🐶 - thadthehusky
🐺✂️- thatsfurredup
📸 - Ruben (tg)
#furry #fursuit

Brock and Thad pose for a pic on a hot autumn’s day

#furry #fursuit

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sirlan <( merry gay ) 2 weeks ago • sharkey (AP)

Content warning: my specific opinions on the a of i

read until the end, omg

part of my opinions is... that neural networks have actual good use cases

not on generating text or media, or as "agents", but specifically as tools for doing conceptually simple but computationally complex (or that by hand would take a lot of repetitive work) transformations on unstructured data, and specifically on areas where complete accuracy is inconsequential

for example:
- image background removal (not image creation or 'enhancement')
- "turn this text of this person asking me to do things into a structured todo list" (not generate new info, just 'translate' the data into another format)
- "suggest names for these image files based on the contents" (at worst it will give the file a wrong title, not erase a db)

(which actually is the type of tasks where you don't need "large" models; stuff that can realistically be made without scraping terabytes of people's data, and ran without lots of power hungry hardware)

as the moment you want the computer to "reason" or create or act for you, you've lost the plot, you're being mentally lazy and undermining human creativity and integrity, it is software, not someone

but, big but

as the current state of things, the infrastructure and space around it is so vile that the ethical and sane position is to not use it nor support it, and very much want to restrict it

you don't need to remind me of the scraping, and computing costs, and energy use, and water use, and datacenters, and the excuse as labour replacement

nor of the people using it for undermining artists, and creating slop, and poisoning or destroying information, and infringement, and using for fash shit

so very much the bad points largely outweigh the good cases; being able to say "turn this quick note I wrote into a calendar event" is neat, it is very much not worth supporting google or whatever other evil corporation or whatever unethical 'researcher' ("open" models still are made with the lots of scraped data and trained on the wasteful datacenters)

so the right stance is to be against it, at least for the foreseeable future

maybe in the years after the bubble bursts, and the hype/craze ends, and this stuff is correctly regulated both in laws and on individual spaces, and there are blockers for making it a lot harder to use it for horrible stuff, then we can start discussing its merits and how to use it as serious ethical adults

...also maybe the people who are concerned can then propose ways to make it not horrible or support good ones, instead of just being like a whole area of computing is pure evil in itself and must be destroyed forever

google or zuck were already doing evil before, this is just their newest plot, they would be using other things to do evil anyway

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sirlan <( merry gay ) 2 weeks ago • sharkey (AP)

Content warning: my specific opinions on the a of i, and on advocating for bans

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Tursilion 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Lot of random theories why the AI companies would be actively telling everyone that their AI is going rogue, and AI is going to kill everyone...

Here's another one, and it's mine, so it's right.

It's actually really simple. They WANT regulation on AI. And here's why: they are already established. They will get to help write the laws, especially because they are SO concerned. And this will lock out everyone else from legally using it for themselves. You will be FORCED to use their "licensed" datacenters for "your" safety.

It's ALWAYS for your safety. This should be obvious.

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Tursilion 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

They KNOW the average home PC can run most of this stuff. Maybe not quite as fast - maybe your picture of a gerbil defeating Luke Skywalker in a light saber duel will take 15 seconds to generate. Maybe even 45. But you can do it, at home, no datacenter, no water, and the same electricity as playing <insert modern 3d shooter here>. You can talk to your own PC in private right now.

They have NOTHING you can't do at home. And if you figure that out, their entire market goes 'poof'.

They LOVE the anti-AI push, cause it helps prevent people from figuring that out themselves. Yes! Yes! FIGHT AMONGST YOURSELVES!!

It's all so fucking stupid that we can't work on fixing the REAL problems.

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firebreathingduck 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

I think there will always be a level of quality between what a person running a model at home can get versus the quality they get from a cutting edge model from a big tech vendor.

But I'm hoping - scratch that, I'll even say I'm reasonably confident - that we can make providing that additional level of quality unprofitable. That should pop the AI bubble and keep it from reinflating.

arcadeshopper 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

they also want the free advertising.. nothing like controversy to keep your company on the top of people's minds

Tursilion 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@arcadeshopper That's a bonus, but the average joe isn't paying for what they do. They're trying to lock the business down.

@arcadeshopper

Pippin 2 weeks ago friendica

I haven't had any RP snuggles for a very long time. Or any furry RP at all actually. Kinda miss that.

ThePhoenix 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Had these shared with me and found them meaningful, just sharing them in case anyone else finds they are for them too 😊 1/2

A young man once asked a wise monk how to stop overthinking.

This was the monks response.

You overthink because your mind is trying to defend itself from the imagined fears of tomorrow.

Yet who can see tomorrow? Any glimpses into what it may bring are only the products of imagination.

If your imagined troubles are produced by the mind, and the mind works itself tirelessly trying to come up with solutions to these problems, you are left like a cat chasing its own tail.

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ThePhoenix 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

2/2

The remedy for this is twofold. First, recognise that our own thoughts are not reality. The vast majority of our worries never come to pass.

By this twofold action, your mind transforms from a cat chasing its own tail and becomes like a mighty river, embracing and flowing with whatever is in its path.

Recognise that your mind seeks solutions to its own imagined problems. Trust in the future. Do the best with what is in your control, and let go of the rest.

This is the way.

Second, accept that the future will bring what it will bring. Release what is out of your control, and do what you can with whatever comes.

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Yag Fox 2 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

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Thumper ➡️BLFC 3 weeks ago (Received 2 weeks ago) • mastodon (AP)

Furtive bus party was amazing. Perfect weather again, 3hrs of playing random party, disco, club tunes for a bus full of furries and randos on the streets of Seattle.

Still the most challenging DJ gig by far! Not getting taken out by a tree or street light is 90% of the work lol

Also, Reddit calling it the 'airport shuttle' and the 'Alaska Airlines Pilot' bus 😏🐾✈️ lol

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Pippin 2 weeks ago friendica

Youtube trying to recommend me as many videos as it can now, made by furries, explaining the fandom, starting off with like "I've been a furry for years now, my first con was in 2022!" Yeah, you're an old skool furry of course you are. *headpat* Keep at it, little guy. :)

Paco Panda 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

There he goes! Look at this fox looking way too cool during his skate practice, even if his shades can barely keep up with him.

(This was before collecting a few too many bruises, gotta learn somehow!)

A commission for Kit Knightwood, who also happens to be celebrating his birthday today. Happy birthday!

Digital. Procreate

I shared a short time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

And I shared the full video, the full resolution version, plus many more drawings I haven't shared yet on my galleries, as exclusive for Patreon and Ko-Fi monthly supporters. They all help me to keep doing what I love and keep sharing paintings, and hopefully make many projects I have in mind a reality, you can support me at:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/tiers

Thank you!!

Paco Panda

Official Art Channel 🇲🇽 Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickers

^Telegram

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Dairishgoat 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Somebunny told me it was #InternationalRabbitDay or did I dress up for nothing?

A brown & white bunny rabbit fursuit wearing a blue corset and a purple & pink extra floofy tutu.
She is standing in front of some white doors.

#internationalrabbitday

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Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Forgot to share this last night; Renamon (me) practicing bass guitar!

A photo of a Renamon fursuiter holding a bass guitar.

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Artemis 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Ooohhh, nice!

Light The Unicorn! 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

ain’t no party like a Renamon party!

Wait, wrong genre!

EarVelvet 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Yooo Seattle, you ready for some bussin' tomorrow?!
#FurtiveBusTopBeats

#furtivebustopbeats

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Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

I'm just relistening to some tracks from the game Pathogenic that I heard on the 8 bit drummer's stream tonight, and looked the game up. It's a twin stick shooter, apparently. This reminds me, I think I've tried one or two twin-stick shooters before and never got on with them. They're the ones where one joystick moves you around while the other aims shots. As far as I remember (and I don't really play games very much, other than the very few I play a lot of, like Minecraft) I just couldn't get the hang of moving the two sticks separately, one for movement and one for aim. I'd have to stop moving to aim, and then when I started moving again I couldn't change aim until I stopped again. Is that usual? I guess a lot of gamers have just learned the coordination needed for that.

Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

Finally got round to making a video of the music box my late grandfather spent quite a bit of his time working on, playing all six of its tracks.

Music box playing "six airs"

This is a music box my late grandfather spent a lot of time working on. My dad worked on it most recently and it seems to play quite well, although I suspect...

^YouTube

Whyrl 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

♻️🦖

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Whyrl 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@BalooUriza Tasmania

@Baloo Uriza

Baloo Uriza 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Somehow radically wrong, despite the fact that Oklahoma is America's Australia...

some dude up in Claremore owns one of the actual Ford Explorers used in the movie and keeps it fresh despite it being his daily. And there's a *lot* of copycats in town because it seems like if you got a Ford Explorer that's rusting out and you gotta do metalwork to keep it going anyway, might as well repaint it JP style!

Sharkie 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh heck, it's #fursuitfriday ... have an oldie:

A fox fursuit, playing hockey. The fox is on a breakaway in front of a player in normal hockey gear, and has the puck on their stick, accelerating forward.

#fursuitfriday

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Ardonis 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

fluffing amazing photo! How difficult was it to play ?

Sharkie 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@Ardonis It wasn't too bad! Visibility was awful, and I didn't have any pads (which I remembered the moment I blocked a dump-in with my shins... ow), but in general it was super fun. No peripheral vision, so puckhandling was only by feel.

@Ardonis

Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

This is what fursuiting should be about. Doing normal everyday stuff as the aminal you actually are. So for me, absolutely not ice skating (I can barely stand up on skates) but for you, 👍! Also, I remember that look of yours from way way back; was always a favourite.

Paco Panda 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Some doodles during a flight of the new discovered feline: Tilcayo (Tigrino for friends), the new guy on the block.

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Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

Fursuit Friday? I have no new photos of Kelsey so here are some old ones.

#FursuitFriday

Kelsey, my red/brown and white husky, taking a selfie and waving at the camera.

Kelsey, my red/brown and white husky, posing in front of the camera, paws out.

Kelsey, my red/brown and white husky, taking a selfie and waving at the camera. In this one he has a con badge on so it must have been at ConFuzzled.

Kelsey, my red/brown and white husky, lounging on my bed.

#fursuitfriday

Xoa Gray 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

He's still cute. Also from my end it looks like 2 of them didn't come through, just black.

Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

@Xoa Gray Thank you. I still love him. No idea why those photos didn't federate properly though, but clicking them still brings up the full size versions okay, and you can always click through to the original post on my instance. 🤷

@Xoa Gray

Xoa Gray 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Actually, clicking on them individually made them show up on my server. For some reason they just show as black in the post, and if I just click on the first one and used my arrow keys to pan through them.

I'm not sure what the difference is, but it did make a difference.

Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

Oh yeah, how about Rusty! He's very awkward to take anywhere so there aren't many photos of him at all. Here's one relatively recent one though. He's the lighter-coloured one with the cords and the braces.

#FursuitFriday

A rust-coloured bear (Rusty) standing beside some other, darker brown, bear near conops at ConFuzzled.

#fursuitfriday

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Pictured: a happy blue doofus

🧵 @selkiesuits 📷 Sotix Shep
🌍 Furrific
⌚ #FursuitFriday

Blue dragon fursuiter Doran, with grey facial hair and round spectacles, standing outside near a seashore on a sunny day and holding his handpaws up, looking happy.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits

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Obscura, Cheetah 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Coffeecoffeecoffeecoffeecoffee! #FursuitFriday

#fursuitfriday

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JAMIEvx 🦊🖤🏳️‍⚧️:win3_setup: 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Hmmmm, what will I get up to for #FursuitFriday?

#furry #fursuit

A photo of me wearing my fox fursuit. My paw is up to my muzzle as if I'm thinking about something.

#furry #fursuit #fursuitfriday

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Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Fly away on #FursuitFriday
🐥 - Delta Magpie
📸 - wolfsnubs
#fursuit #furry

A bird fursuiter and a fox fursuiter in a hotel hallway

#furry #fursuit #fursuitfriday

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Light The Unicorn! 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Had a really lovely time at the Sheffield furmeet this last weekend!

Noir and Lillith ( @notshadowfever ) causing chaos as only those two can!

📷 : umbrabat, sheppyshots
#furry #fursuit #furmeet #sheffield

Noir (Nirik fursuit with pink, blue and white fire mane) points a camera at another furry, as they push the lens and Noir back.

Noir (Nirik fursuit with pink, blue and white fire mane) stands trying to look menacing, while having a cute pink bow in their mane.

Several fursuiters, posing as a group and holding the Sheffield Furs flag.

#furry #fursuit #furmeet #sheffield @Phi 🏳️‍⚧️

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sirlan <( merry gay ) 3 weeks ago • sharkey (AP)

I'm willing to 'donate' a sub domain on dragon-vi.be to anyone wanting to host a dragon themed wafrn instance

because I can't bother actually managing an instance

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Pippin 3 weeks ago friendica

Amazing what you can DIY if you have the time and motivation!

The Organ of Rians: Reinvented by an engineer, alone, in 15 years

The Organ of Rians: Reinvented by an engineer, alone, in fifteen yearsPascal Leray, an engineer, spent fifteen years building the pipe organ of Rians church,...

^YouTube

🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Winged critters are SO GOOD

#wings #hugs #hug #dragon #DragonPosting #Wyvern #Gryphon #Griffon #Griffin #Pegasus #Birds

A needs pyramid showing Basic needs, Psychological needs, and Self-fulfillment needs, with all the layers colored purple, and the text inside reading simply "Wing Hugs" for all of them.

#dragon #birds #hugs #gryphon #griffin #wings #wyvern #griffon #pegasus #dragonposting #hug

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Spud 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@Bwee

@🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵

🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@spud Awwwww!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵

@Spud

Tilton Raccoon 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

If I were unfathomably wealthy, I would move to a house in the southern hemisphere every year on September 22nd, so I could start getting longer days again immediately. Of course I’d reverse the trip on March 22nd.

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Toasted Lynx 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Just don't move to my part of the southern hemisphere unless you want it to be too hot to do anything in that sunlight. Maybe Kiwiland though I've never been, since I wouldn't fit in any of the hobbit houses.

Tilton Raccoon 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@toastedlynx How’s Tasmania? :D

@Toasted Lynx

Toasted Lynx 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

It's good if you like wineries, and you can see the Aurora Australis down there (though probably not at the time of year you'd be down there), but apparently everyone has two heads down there so you'd probably stand out.

Tilton Raccoon 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@toastedlynx I can make a papier-mâché head! Nobody will know!

@Toasted Lynx

Kyreeth 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

What you want is a boat

Paco Panda 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Hobbes, the Pikachu, exploring nature.

A commission done during Eurofurence's Artists Alley for Hobbes

Traditional. Color markers

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Foxes in Love 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/828557547138154496
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue approaches Green. Green is wearing a chef's hat and holding an oven tray of something ambiguous. Blue: What are you making? Green: A concotion. Blue: A what? Green: I wanted to bake something, but I didn't have any of the ingredients so I improvised. Blue: ...Is it good? Green: No.

Foxes in Love

ALT

^{foxes-in-love (Tumblr)}

#comic #FoxesInLove

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Kay Ohtie 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

"Um the AI is hacking maliciously" no you gave Amelia Bedilia a Kali Linux live CD

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/52236903

It’s the Correct Pluraluzation

^vger.to

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Ret 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

oh no

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Ret 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGy_02Ht8Xk

Britain's "Brexit labels" are about to disappear

Download Opera: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-chrisspargoBin giveaway and badge details: https://www.patreon.com/ChrisSpargo/posts/168690742Thanks to Joseph H...

^YouTube

Avon DeRussate 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh yes..

taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

EVERYONE

IT HAS HAPPENED

ONE OF MY BOXES OF CABLES AND DEAD HARDWARE HAS YIELDED A JST 2.0 PH 4 PIN CONNECTOR PLUG THAT I WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BUY OFF OF AMAZON AND NOW I CAN JUST HARVEST IT OFF OF A DEAD FAN

NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY