It’s time for me to figure out why “refrigerator water dispenser hums loudly and barely emits water” At least I can get to the valve easily.

“Building partially collapses” is technically correct And also like, an incinerator chimney collapsed because the incinerator part exploded due to a gas leak It’s not like half the building fell over

I think that the “vocational school” part of Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge provides an interesting take on injecting humanity into digital creation it would be also interesting to see the transition to that digital state happen instead of an angry jerk get dealzheimerzed and dumped into the future

Too bad the budget-disagreement shutdown doesn’t affect the part of the government that was just given 130 billion more dollars

september 30 ... october 1

One of the banes of being a software QA manager is the parallel status update. A project has two parts: The product owners and devs who make the product; And the Qa people who simultaneously stop it from being released on committed timeline and allow horrible bugs to hurt customers.

Every time I see that world on the back of a turtle from that terry pratchett book series, I think of xenoblade chronicles 2

Reskeet with your olde furries credentials: I’m on the back cover of Associated Student Bodies issue 2 See the black wolf with the ankh? That’s my original fursona, Diamondback Darkwolfe. The cover was drawn by an old friend of mine (he’s the raccoon on the right), and he put his friends in it.

Who the fuck thought to eat a pomegranate “Hey this fruit is annoying to eat, this is great”

But AOC really needs me to give her money because she used to be a waitress :(

This asinine thing I have to do for my job was described by my boss as like doing a puzzle. I don’t like doing puzzles. When I play a puzzle game I try it for a while and then look up hints. There’s no hints, I just have to map resources to weeks to hourly estimates to projects to capacity

Hien🦁Commission for @kaszronda.bsky.social

I just learned the word “superfecundation” and I am somehow reminded of “brave new world” and how the book tried to use the word “viviparous” like it was trying to win at scrabble and or sound as stuffily British as possible

Early cat: ok guys check this out, I simply pretend to be its baby. *Makes a plaintive crying sound* Early cat's friend: c'mon man this is humiliating, you don't have to- *Caveman obediently tosses a chunk of cooked meat over* holy shit I'll be damned

We have to watch these IT security training things and they are a mix of AI narrated CYA things, not so obnoxious animated things, and an honestly well done series of “the office”-esque live action segments where the infosec head is this lady named Gwen Wolfmaster.

Is shoulder surfing a commonly exploited personal computer security risk? I’ve never really seen any sort of statistic…

Idk what I think about this iOS 26 stuff. I bet they’ll back off all the shinies like they’ve done several times.

Survival instinct drops to zero

“Bon Appetit, Your Majesty” is a pretty good show. It’s like ‘cooking competition anime’ plus ‘Korean historical romance’ plus ‘isekai sort of’ plus ‘1001 nights’.

Oh boy, I get to figure out how to not fail a drug test for a job.

“Is ‘skibidi toilet’ Dadaist?”

Looks like you're a good fit for the club there's just one thing... Your initiation

Apparently Alexa+ can keep context through at least a couple of recent conversations fluidly, as my husband said it remembered our dog previously. And it can explicitly remember things if you tell it about them and say to remember them, which we tested by having it remember the dog intentionally.

Is there a version of therianism (I’m intentionally not saying therianthropy) where you want to be one of your oc’s instead of whoever you are?

I’m not sure I’d like to be a movie director. I’d make a movie and release it and come back twenty years later and go “you know what? People need to know that the alien was actually keeping people alive to feed its babies and not just killing them like it’s a man in a slasher movie” like ok sure

Well I used more energy than last projected so my monthly energy budget yearly settlement is like 1 entire extra energy bill :p

Rough concept sketch...

Real men blow their bottoms

Ouch 🤕

One-page comic for @sakarafox.bsky.social This was fun to draw. Bulls are complex, bu very interesting. #art #digitalart #commission #anthro #furry #comic #prehistoric #украрт

Halsin 🐻🧔

I think it’s actually better that Alexa uses one of those LLM things. Except it makes fucking with it even more excruciating because it refuses to be fucked around with and redirects you back to something it can do.

Don't be fooled by all that meat he's packin', he's 100% a bottom.

Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.

I asked Alexa+ if she poops, and she said, "I don't poop but I do produce large amounts of digital waste when I overthink your questions" and like fuck you

wtf they made alexa sound uh cuter?

Rawr. Sup?

birthday wolp ! <3

Sometimes it's nice to revisit old friends.

Pumas are what happen when you scale up an orange cat times ten

Someone said that Tylenol was one of the safest drugs so I said “it actually is the leading cause of acute liver failure” basically and they said I was mansplaining I am a man And I did explain that Tylenol is the leading cause of acute liver failure

Vergil Worgie

In a world ruled by darkness, bring forth light.

The real reason the right wing doesn’t like autism is justice hyper vigilance.

My best way to think of AuDHD is, imagine the tropes for people with low accommodation autism. Now imagine that randomly whatever trope they were doing, changed. Sometimes I can FEEL my misalignment with the world. Other times? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PROSTAGLANDIN IS? ELECTRONS ARE CLOUDS.

If I’m not mistaken there is actually some possible maybe neurological effects Tylenol has on people and I wonder if this is where the autism thing came from.

Hmm trying to find a smart lock that uses matter / thread and also doesn’t suck..:

I’m concerned with the fact that “chaps” explicitly violate the concept of “cover your ass”. Can we double click on that or circle back later to close the loop on this requirements inconsistency?

Worgen to practice for weretober