Picked up one of these little Waveshare S3 Audio Board thingers. Works suprisingly well! Runs microWakeWord for instant responses, 2 mics, 2" speaker is nothing special, 7 RGB LED light ring looks fine. I'm using it with Nabu Casa and Gemini here, but you can run it entirely offline too. Yeah. Neat!

British Gas are running a campaign at the moment, and have ads at my local tube station. It features a pair of hairy blue balls. Now, obvious jokes aside.. they have to be the absolute barest minimum effort character designs I've ever seen since Fury of the Furries released in 1993. THEY had mouths.

It might sound petty, but... Are McDonald's so completely detached from reality now that they don't know what food looks like any more? That's - I suppose - a sad looking pork burger. This is what a sausage sandwich looks like and is about the same price from a normal café.

I gots me one of those 3D printed segmented floppy otters~ ¦D

AND IT'S OUT! Imperfect System, a vrchat short film inspired by the Tron universe! It was made for the VRChat film jam but sadly it didn't make it in, so any love and diffusion this gets will be greatly appreciated! youtu.be/yh1BdIyQj9Y?... #furry #vrchat #Tron

In another episode of "Why are you like this?" Had some old potatoes in the cupboard, so threw them into a flowerbed thinking they'd decompose. Well, they grew instead. Left them until they started looking a bit sad, then dug them up. And made tiny tater salad! They were actually delicious~ 😂

Cyber City Drive Update: The Megabuilding has finally been added to the Turbo Diner area, and it has been baked with VRC Light Volumes! Check it out sometime #VRChat #Cyberpunk2077

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

Beautiful Japanese editions of the first two Adventuremice books by me and @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social. Translated by Shino Watatani, published by Tokuma Shoten in Tokyo

Oh wow~ The #CatMansion had a new guest last night! 🦡

Shower thoughts; The planet is heating up faster than evolution can deal with, so we'll HAVE to start moving further north/south. Currently, the poles are uninhabitable due to extreme cold... but I'm imagining a future where the poles are good... and the equator is inunhabitable due to extreme heat.

Using Bakery realtime preview by @guycalledfrank.bsky.social to check area lights... to be baked into volumes for Light Volumes by @sim.red ... to THEN be used to provide the walls, fog and avatars in #VRChat with realtime light information from the screen. The FUTURE baby~ ¦D

Just posted Fast Fur v5.1.0.Beta.7 on my Discord server, ready for testing! It has a new render quality system that can finally handle FoV properly, which is a technical puzzle that had me stumped me literally for years!

In todays episode of "Why are you like this?": After throwing corner shop bird seed into a garden planter for the birds, it somehow grew into wheat. Never one to miss an oppurtunity, Jay decides he's going to make pancakes with it. As so - with impromptu minor blood sacrifice - it became so. ¦9

Just finished Open NID's release. A new open source tool to help get past that pesky "IVRCSDKPreprocessSceneCallback" error from the VRChat Worlds SDK. Can automatically fix Network ID Conflicts upon Build! And manage your Network IDs in a Scene. github.com/BobyStar/Ope...

Todays project: Convert dead GH guitar into an ESP32 bluetooth gamepad to play Clone Hero. - Got 5 buttons, strum up/down, select, start working - Dpad, LEDs and whammy wired up, but not added yet An 18650 battery pack for power. I'll put that inside with a switch sometime. It works great too! ¦D

Just a reminder...

Also a reminder that I'll be hosting VRchat karaoke tonight at 9pm EST! Be there! The werebeaver may be attendance...😈

VRChat Light Volumes by @sim.red go hard as club lighting. Nice and lightweight too~ ¦D

I threw a couple of bits up on ArtStation. I've had fleeting thoughts of applying for some 3D modelling roles... but I should probably start a portfolio first if that was to ever happen~ jayottr.artstation.com

Got some good 😺 #CatMansion action last night! A curious Foxo visit... then some SexyRaccoon stick-kicking action... and then FatAngry swung by to use the facilities in the morning~ ¦3

@jayottr.bsky.social performing otter-ception and generally being cool af. #furality #VR #VRChat

When you realise that the MC Escher "Hand with Reflecting Sphere" is basically just a matcap... You HAVE to try it, right? 😂 #Blender3D

I took the Groove Armada bunny out for a spin too. It's so fucking cursed~ 😂 #VRCLightVolumes #VRChat

Caught off guard... #VRChat

Threw @sim.red light volume data onto a super basic particle shader as a test. Very noice~ ¦3

I'm doodling out the Groove Armada bunny as a bit of modelling practice. I'm very rusty~ I'll give out the model for free and throw up a #VRChat public when it's done too. Maybe we can get an army of them dancing at #Furality? ¦3

Always push your favourite VR creators advertise their polycount / mat slots / avatar rating / etc on their product pages so that you can make informed purchasing decisions. Don't buy from those who don't.

UK mobile data is FAR too saturated. I can barely pull 10Kbs these days. I'm pretty sure I got faster internet from a 56k modem over 20 years ago~ ¬_¬

OK, right... I may be a bit 3 sheets to the wind right now, BUT... I just got a new media PC remote today, and I'm testing it out. I tried to type the word "smallpox" and... realised that I couldn't?? I could NOT for the fucking life of me figure out how to type that word on this keyboard;

Just an FYI; Video loading issues in #VRChat is due to YouTubes ongoing crusade against ad-blockers. More specifically, YouTube is now enforcing logged in YouTube accounts to access videos, which VRC can't do. There isn't really a good fix right now unfortunately. More: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dl...

Found a wild @tauofthesun.bsky.social in a Drumsy video of all places~ (time-stamped video link:) youtu.be/R62q7OUetak?...

Aaaaa, @senjicat.bsky.social printed and hand painted my ottr and I love it! 🤩 I've always wanted a model... but never got the opportunity to make it happen. Thank youuuu~ ¦D

VRC Light Volumes is a next-gen voxel based baked volumetric lighting solution for VRChat, I'm working on right now! It affects avatars, dynamic props, etc. Works really fast without major overhead even on Quest. It will be fully open-source and free, so stay tuned! #vrchat #gamedev #shader

Hmm... what kind of cat is this? 🤔 #CatMansion

We got our first fox last night at the #CatMansion Pretty big one too! Just curious for now, but he's welcome to visit more~ ¦D

A couple of better photos of the #CatMansion cats: Angry grey tank - which we've taken to calling Cheeseburger as an explanation for his size... and the little friendly black one we're calling Kuro-kun, who just wants to come in.

This little black one is a regular at #CatMansion. He's SUPER friendly, and will come running to greet us. He REALLY wants to come into the house too, and will sit at the window staring at us.

This is raccoon tailed socks. Visits the #CatMansion occasionally, wears thigh-high socks and has a weird raccoon tail.

This is angry grey tank. He's a regular at #CatMansion, but he's very beat up and hissy. Probably a cat mob boss.

When I moved house I acquired a greenhouse which I wasn't using. Noticed a lot of local cats passing through the garden too. I have lots of cat furniture no longer being used, so... I set up a cat mansion! Warmth, food, beds and scratching posts for the kitties to hang out~ (plus motion webcam) ¦D

Was reminiscing about old programmer humour, sparked on by the reason Git is called Git. Lamenting that silly crass humour has no place in the workplace anymore. It suddenly put me in mind of an asset management solution I was developing some time ago originally named TITS, but then later TIP. ¦D

The obsession with wireless shit these days is baffling... Everyone says "Latency isn't THAT bad, I don't notice compression, the mic is FINE, charging isn't too much hassle, batteries don't add MUCH weight, etc etc..." Pure copium IMO. ALL those tiny little inconveniences add up. Cables GOATed~

Aaaaand one more!! snrk #vrchat #furry #sergal

Come join the Werebeaver and friends at VRchat karaoke tonight, starting 9pm EST! Reply or message me for how to join!

Karaoke night with @castorwheels.bsky.social was so much fun, I hope we can do this again someday! 🥰🩷

Hey @vrchat.com - the drones are cool an all... But now put a seat on 'em. Let someone else RIDE your drone. You KNOW it makes sense~ ¦3

From a work Slack channel... H-how do people NOT know how static electricity works in 2025? Do they not teach this stuff in schools anymore? Fucking... HAND MOISTURISER?? 🙄