It's always so refreshing to see more rubber and gear kink peeps who are also massive nerds who're into some of the same engineery shit I'm into, because it makes me feel like less of an oddball.

It makes me feel normal. Like there is absolutely a niche community for weird exotics like me. 💙

Even a big wolf looks tiny in the wide expanse of nature

Fursuit by: Sarah Cat Fursuit ( https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )

#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Furry #Photography

I admin a local "pantry" group on Facebook, for food sharing. Basically, if you have food (or other stuff, but mostly food) that you don't want for whatever reason you can post it in the group and give it away. It stops good being thrown out and wasted, and helps people who might be going hungry otherwise.

Tonight a woman put up a post talking about how she's a young mum with two small boys, and that they were out of food until Thursday. She talked about how she was embarrassed to ask but really needed help.

Two women answered the post, offering food. The OP explained that she didn't drive and would it be ok of people dropped things at her place, so I offered to drive around and collect the things people were giving and drop them at her place. I don't have spare food I can help with, but I have a car and I have time.

The second woman I collected from was someone I actually met at the beginning of the year, when she posted in the group and asked for help with cleaning supplies.. I gave her a bunch of things I had tucked away under the sink and didn't use.

She had told me then about how her partner had just been diagnosed with cancer. She told me tonight how she'd stayed in the group because she was waiting for the opportunity to help someone else because we'd helped her so much. She's doing better now, and it made her feel happy she could help someone else.

When I dropped the food these two women had given to the OP, she talked to me about how her partner had died suddenly the year before, leaving her with two young boys.. both with autism and ADHD. She said she's 31 and doesn't have her life together yet. I told her I'm 50 and mines a mess too. I told her that one of the women who had offered food was someone the group had helped previously, and how happy she'd been to be able to help as well. We talked about how community means not only helping people, but also being helped. We talked about how this means that our communities are stronger and prosper together. She's looking forward to being able to help someone else too.

This is how mutual aid works. No matter how dark things get, we can find hope in community.

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #CommunityCare #CommunityNotCops #RegionalAustralia

It's wild how many views my Leeds Furmeet videos are getting so far, over 4,800 views already! Thank you so much for watching. Here's a GIF of Nebraxas being awesome

https://youtu.be/Vl3edASEAn4

THIS should be front-page news every day.

THIS should be the primary focus of every major world leader.

But it's not.

Instead, all we get is month after month of more Business As Usual.

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Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) delivers the latest update on our global climate emergency:

"The last 12 months were each at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than Berkeley Earth's 1850-1900 baseline. This brings the 12-month moving average of Earth's global temperature to a record high of +1.68°C (+3.02°F) above the 1850-1900 baseline, far surpassing previous short-term warming events."

See ➡️ https://fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378
Learn more ➡️ https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

In less than 24 hours I'll be on my way to Seattle 🛫🇺🇲

Later this week I'll start a road trip from there all the way down to San Francisco. So excited to share all the beautiful views of the coastal highway ✨

And if you're nearby don't feel afraid to say hi :3

#furry #fursuit #travel

The trouble with craft shows is that I can't really sell some of the signs that I want to. You can still get them on etsy though, so have a look at http://Lewiswork.etsy.com if you have a lethal workshop and need something suitably offensive to deter visitors.

*Boosts appreciated, as always.

"All new MPs given panic alarms amid safety fears"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-safety-panic-alarms-general-election-b2583206.html

All new MPs given panic alarms amid safety fears

The 335 new members elected this month have been handed welcome packs containing pocket alarms with GPS trackers

^{Archie Mitchell (The Independent)}

New #bat, who dis? #fursuit

Made by the lovely @ArtySilvers of Fenworks Studios (open for comms)

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

big dogy

#art #mastoart

One thing I haven't seen mentioned with Crowdstrike is that, although this isn't malicious, a company has just shown off that it has kernel level access to a bunch of critical systems around the world and is willing to just run code with that access on everyone's computers without even giving it a once-over glance.

So if you wanted to get a bunch of backdoors into things because you're a nation state cybersecurity team/hacker group/bored troublemaker who wants to see the world burn/etc they've just shown themselves to be a great firm to do so with.

Scout at FWA24

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#Furry #Furries #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Photography #Anthro #FurryArt #FurryArtist #FWA #FWA24

𝗛𝗬𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗕𝗢𝗟𝗜𝗖 𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘

What's more orange than orange? Hyperbolic orange! To see this weird color, stare at the blue-green dot for about a minute and then look at the the orange square. You'll see a dot that's even more orange.

How does it work? The complementary color of orange is blue-green, or more precisely 'cyan'. Staring at a cyan dot for a long time tires out your cone cells: it wears out their response to cyan light. When you look at something white, you then see an orange afterimage. But if you look at something orange, you see an orange color stronger than ordinarily possible.

Like Stygian blue, which I showed you yesterday, hyperbolic orange is a 'chimerical color': a color that's not possible in the usual simplified theory of color vision, which only becomes possible when some of your cones are fatigued. These were discussed here:

• Paul Churchland, Chimerical colors: some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience, Philosophical Psychology 18 (2005), 527-560.

Biden has seen that it was best for the USA if he stepped down.

Ask yourself if Trump would have done the same.

Now you know who puts America first.

Content warning: Nonbinary coming of age, and all that baggage TW Reveal/hide

I’m not an American, but my advice to American progressives is simply this:

Now’s your chance. If you don’t help elect the first African American woman to the Presidency, you’re full of shit.

That woman is your only chance to save American democracy, so you better get behind her.

🐾🌳☀️

#Fursuit

There is a weirdly racist trend where people blame hypothetical minorities when systems fail because management cuts corners. We saw it with the Boeing door collapse and now with the Crowdstrike crash.

There is no mythical "DEI engineer" doing sloppy work at these companies.

It's down to leadership cutting corners to make a buck. A software update causing a crash that takes down all of your customers is due to inadequate testing. It's not because some anonymous minority wrote the code.

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.