That was a weekend. I got to meet many wonderful beans who I've only known online, and I got to wear my fursuit in public for the first time! I think you can tell I was nervous even through the suit.

I had this silly idea that we could do multiple rounds through the zoo that evening, but we ended up only going a tiny fraction of the way because everyone wanted photos and hugs and high-fives.

I also learned that fursuiting at home for two hours is not the same as fursuiting outside at 27 °C (duh) and had to go back to our "fursuit lounge" much earlier than I wanted, because I didn't want to risk an accident with all the kids around. Still, seeing how much fun all the guests and my friends had, it was so worth it, and I'm definitely going to try this again.

Thank you to everyone who was there, especially @karb, @Polarie_Fox, @Deepseacreatur3, and @livi_wusky! We basically had a little Fediverse meetup. :3

It was also amazing to watch my fellow fursuiters Charlie Blufur, Mick, and Taro - it made me realize how much skill goes into fursuiting and bringing your character to life, especially at a public event like that.

I can't wait to try this again!

If you haven't yet, check out the other pictures from the event on Furtrack:

https://www.furtrack.com/index/event:jungle_night_augsburg_2024

📷 @keeya

#Fursuit

So, Covid killed Sinead O'Conner, like (some of us) thought.

First everybody claimed it was suicide, then they decided they weren't interested, and now we get a massive "Pre-existing conditions killed her" minimization.

Welcome to all of our future deaths.💀

Been a while since I posted something on here showing progress of the project I've been working on.
So here it is! All neonly now! I'm quite happy going with this theming cuz it's easy to maintain and I need to shift my focus on making a small mission driven singleplayer "campaign" like in Shellshock Live as well as improve the online experience and a tutorial. Those are the last really important parts I should get done (Improve Online as in figure out how to best cover my ass legally and have some sort of lobbies with simple settings and private option)

#GameDev#ScreenshotSunday

When we say “billionaires should not exist,” what we mean is:

Everyone should have healthcare.
Everyone should have housing.
Everyone should have access to good food and clean water.

Billionaires are a policy failure.

Everything catastrophically wrong with the world was done to make some billionaire even richer.

Every town that had to evacuate due to a chemical spill, strip mining, or a never-ending underground fire was done to make some billionaire even richer

Every news article that pits white people against minorities and immigrants is written to distract us from billionaires destroying democracy, human rights and the planet to make themselves even richer.

The billionaires are the problem.

protip: when referring to your favourite programming language’s features, call them spells instead to sound more mysterious and cool.

“memory safety feature”

“memory safety spell”

Today is the last day to bid on Sunset Coyote! Is this gorgeous fursuit coming home with you?? 💛🧡🩷💜
https://www.thedealersden.com/listing/sunset-coyote-fullsuit/286480

#fursuit #fullsuit #forsale #auction #coyote

Random fursuit photo from the archives.

Ed Poodle on stage during the ConFuzzled 2022 poodle party dance.

👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this

I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).

You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.

(screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)

In nz, "tough on crime" means cracking down on youths robbing corner food stores, by sending these children to military training camps, and hiding gang patches.

It doesn't mean being tough on domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault. It doesn't mean crackdown on wage theft by employers, violence by racists, male supremacist and gun violence, terrorism targeting minorities or men harming their former partners.

It's only targeting those that scare financially comfy conservative adults.

Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?

Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious

“OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses.”

Related: this doodle I just drew by hand in less than five minutes.

#ErkhyanArt

so this app has been long for a good decade -

the Asus Surf 4G (and many other netbooks) use interesting resolutions like 800x480, and do not offer normal 4:3 resolutions like 640x480 via their winXP display driver

that means games like Thief or Doom 3 or Half-Life won't fit on the screen in windowed or full screen modes

this is where Netbook Resolution Customizer comes in. it lets you set custom resolutions so older win9x games can use the resolutions they expect

dredged this application out of a bunch of old EeePC forums that went defunct 10 years ago, and uploaded to IA:

https://archive.org/details/netbook-resolution-customizer-1b2

Netbook Resolution Customizer 1.0 Beta 2 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

/-------------------------------// Netbook Resolution Customizer //-------------------------------/Description--------------------------------  This utility...

^{Internet Archive}

Content warning: Fursuit, Eye contact Reveal/hide

“when neurodivergent people mask their natural tendencies to fit in with neurotypical people or get through a situation, it requires more effort than it would for someone without autism or ADHD”

https://www.wondermind.com/article/masking/

#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent @autistics @actuallyautistic

This Is What Masking Really Means - Wondermind

If you’re on mental health TikTok, you’ve probably come across "masking." Here’s what it means and the mental health consequences.

^Wondermind

I really like theses results:

"Recent findings show adult New Zealanders who do not speak te reo Māori (the Māori language, the indigenous language of New Zealand) nonetheless have impressive implicit lexical and phonotactic knowledge of the language. (…)

Our results show that ambient exposure leads to implicit knowledge both in childhood and adulthood, and that continuing exposure throughout the lifespan leads to increased knowledge."

#linguistics

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0137/html

Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan

^{Wakayo Mattingley (De Gruyter Mouton)}

Most ‘overlooked’ COVID symptom right now

"Experts said one in five people who test positive for COVID reported at least one gastrointestinal symptom, including loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, constipation, abdominal pain or diarrhea".

https://www.al.com/news/2024/07/most-overlooked-covid-symptom-right-now-states-where-virus-is-surging.html?outputType=amp

Most ‘overlooked’ COVID symptom right now; states where virus is surging

Much of the U.S. is seeing rising COVID levels amid a summer surge.

^{Leada Gore | lgore@al.com (al)}

It's getting hot these days. Mind if I shed some fur to cool off? 😏

📸: @syntaxruntime.bsky.social

#SqueakySaturday #latex #rubber #latexfur #rubberfur

Sunset Coyote is available until Sunday evening! Make sure to give this beauty a peek! 💛🧡🩷💜

https://www.thedealersden.com/listing/sunset-coyote-fullsuit/286480

#fursuit
#fullsuit
#forsale
#auction
#coyote