God I wish companies would differentiate when they use "AI" whether it's some sending shit off to an LLM or similar, or if it's just traditional machine learning algorithms or whatever.

According to this bus ad, you could be on a Zoom call with a bunch of furries right now.

I've used the doggcatcher app for podcasts for many years, but it's had some random bugs recently, to the point where I finally just googled to see what's going on. Turns out, the developer just stopped developing it I guess? Around 2 years ago? I just didn't notice? Genuinely curious what […]

Indulging my most sick and twisted desire, as someone whose favorite Doritos flavor is Salsa Verde.

[uspol, anti-DEI] Today's little degradation from the Trump administration is this: when one of my collaborators at another institution submits a proposal, even one I only have an advisory role in, I have to ask them to email a short statement that none of the funded activities support "DEI" […]

evolución #furry #furryart #digitalart #graintouch

[no context subtooting about non-fedi conversation] Related: anywhere that anyone is doing things on a volunteer basis, you should default to giving them a bit more grace. Certainly when you’re getting to the levels of accusations about things where I can reasonably ask why you are wanting […]

when the nice indie software begins telling you to "supercharge your productivity" and a sparkle icon appears

[US gay rights] Happy 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that instituted marriage equality nationwide. We've fallen into dark times since then, but let it be a reminder that some things can change quickly for the better, not just for the worse. And a reminder to […]

Apparently, before leaving Twitter, I renamed one of my (basically unused) accounts to "Elon Musk farts". Then forgot that I'd done so, and half-forgot that I even had the account. Thus, I ended up with this email.

I just learned that the Game Boy Advance didn't have an FPU, and I don't know who to share that information with that would be similarly surprised.

was just reminded of how much I love the debugging manifesto poster that Inner Loop Press designed for Wizard Zines, you can get it for $20 US + shipping here: https://store.wizardzines.com/products/poster-debugging-manifesto I'm SO delighted with how it […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

[uspol] Whelp, the president's budget request now calls for all atmospheric and earth system science in the Department of Energy to be cut. So, between that and the other agencies' cuts... there's a good chance that I and 95% of the people I've ever worked with in climate and environmental […]

Last night I listened to a podcast about Steve Harvey and exchanged multiple jokes with my husband about how he would be a terrible man to date or sleep with. My subconscious responded by turning many of my dreams this morning into a quest to sleep with a bald, mustachioed older black man, who […]

[uspol, climate science] Between the election and inauguration week, my lab was like, "Well, Democrats fund green energy and related applied science projects more, but Republicans support basic science research that industry doesn't do, so we're fine. Trump's first term wasn't as bad as people […]

On this Easter Sunday, as has often happened over the last decade, my parents have hinted that they have trouble making friends and wish they knew how I do it. I don't know how to tell them "I actually still suck at making friends, but if you're a queer furry with the means, motive, and […]

Your own Personal Dingus Someone who sheds their hair on every chair Your own Personal Dingus Cuddly teddybear, Big derrière #AllCatsAreBeautiful #Thorsday #ThorToots #PersonalDingus #PersonalJesus #DepecheMode #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

4/16/25, all square numbers... not that it means anything i just find it interesting

[uspol, racism, bigotry, ben stein] Seen some Ben Stein memes making the rounds since he talks about tariffs in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (apparently that's one of the only pop culture moments of the past 50 years involving tariffs). Just keep in mind that Ben Stein is a racist, conservative […]

There are many more pressing issues in the world, but it should actually be illegal if your captions meant to assist the deaf and hard-of-hearing censor swear words or other potentially-offensive material, if the corresponding audio is not also bleeped. In fact, it should also be illegal to […]

Was discussing where an international conference might be held in 2026. A Chinese institute had volunteered to host, but that's always a problem for some people, and many governments (US and UK especially) wouldn't allow civil servants or some contractors to attend. The US has hosted before […]

I've probably complained about this before, but while the Monty Hall problem is held up as an example of the counterintuitive mathematics of probability, in the most popular formulations it's at least as much about the cultural assumptions one brings to the table in interpreting word problems […]

Here is a periodic reminder. On Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, iPadOS, HTML and miscellaneous other platforms there exists Simon Tatham's Puzzles. It's easy to search for, it's completely free, doesn't track you, has no ads and has over 30 puzzles to play. When I say puzzles I don't mean […]

*looks up Moore's law on Youtube* Wow, people are really invested in arguments about whether a trend that stopped being relevant in 2010 is still going. Since I don't have a terahertz computer with low power draw, I'm going to hazard a guess that the 20th century exponential trends are not […]

[uspol] A weird thing about the current political moment for me is that my job is government-funded, and also I am constantly second-guessing myself and the value of what I'm doing. Honestly, I think it is one of the traits that both makes my work better as a scientist, and also is really […]

Just learned that a colleague jumped ship from our atmospheric science project to work at Equifax. I definitely understand the decision from a money/security perspective, but it always sucks when a big financial or tech company poaches a someone who was doing good work in environmental science.

[Uspol, indirectly] Mr. Laboratory Director sir, I think your sudden email saying that you're still trying to figure out the executive orders and everything is fine is having the opposite effect from what you intended.

A/P [Jan 22] -- Thailand becomes the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize same-sex marriage, and just the third in Asia, after Nepal and Taiwan. @2k couples registered, with nearly 200 taking part in a day-long public celebration in central Bangkok. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

Took a look at recent Switch releases and saw "Love Furry Girls" and "Love Furry Boys" games. Did I assume that they were awful click bait and not click them? Yes. Did I feel a little warm inside, thinking that random gamers are being subjected to marketing for a furry dating simulator? Also yes.

Have a conference I go to for work every year, and have had they/them pronouns on my badge for a few years now (probably because sometime in 2021 that was the particular option that seemed right to me). I've sort-of assumed that no one even notices. This year, I met someone at an evening event […]

Mood

Seen in a hotel lobby in DC.

Silly Zelda joke

Finding myself again in a hotel with hand lotion but no soap of any kind by the sink. Baffling.

Just did a crossword where a clue was "It's taken on all fours with the back raised" The answer, of course, was "cat pose".

[usol, mh-] Because I work mainly on climate science, I am having to plan for the possibility that federal funding in my field goes away, and so in a couple of years I end up having to move overseas. It's a very small and very personal thing compared to the coming Trump administration overall […]

The coming years will be an EXTRA-good time for Democrats in particular to stop falling for every goddamned ginned-up Republican-led moral panic and supporting their every bad-faith bill that explicitly chills speech from vulnerable groups. For the love of god, no more shit like KOSA.

[uspol, homophobia] Resorting to my problematic fave for comfort this week. Yeah, I own an extremely homophobic comic book, which somehow comforts me in dark times. Maybe because it's a reminder of how ineffective and ridiculous these people can be? I don't […] [Original post on tech.lgbt]

[uspol, mh-] I could try to be all intellectual about it, but in the end, I'm just afraid of what this week will bring. I'm terrified of losing what I've gotten over the last 4 years. I'm on the brink of despair about what I could possibly do about the ethnic cleansing that the GOP is […]

So I basically "knew" that I was bi, in the sense of having diverse sexual fantasies, when I was 9 or 10. But I did manage to tell myself I was straight until ~18 years old, partly because I believed society telling me that bi men didn't exist. It was convenient to believe that any attraction […]

Thanks for nothing, Google.

I took Home Ec for one trimester in middle school, for reasons that now escape me. (I was at a pretty big, but not rich, middle school with elective choices: I think we had some kind of binary choice between Home Ec and some other class that I either didn't want or couldn't get in my schedule.) […]

fediverse tip! if you see someone that gets on your nerves, just block them. do not engage, do not sub/vaguepost, do not pass go, do not collect $200. just block them.

OK, I know that 0% of my followers are likely to be here for this, but we should all recognize that "housewife stuck in dryer" and "Fortunato searching for the cask of amontillado, but just with his front half" have the same vibes.

[uspol, Gaza, genocide, TikTok] A rather disturbing perspective on the relationship between tech policy and hawkish/defense industry interests: https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok?triedRedirect=true

Not sure why I like this so much better in Spanish, but I do: https://youtu.be/8XItElXCO8A?si=zLWDesjhceNohwUO It probably helps that the dad character canonically gets very into this TV series.

So annoyed that one of the *least* exploitative of the respected journals in my field, one of the really unusually good ones, charges ~$1700 to authors per article. (Others charge ??? amounts of money to readers, depending on specific, often confidential deals with universities/libraries, and […]

So annoyed that one of the *least* exploitative of the respected journals in my field, one of the really unusually good ones, charges ~$1700 to authors per article. (Others charge ??? amounts of money to readers, depending on specific, often confidential deals with universities/libraries, and […]