looks like it's that time again. that's right, time for another rathaus furry boardgame afternoon! this time featuring a brand new copy of a crunchy economy game called Container

the best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry. that's why you should make your schemes with rats instead of mice

ok, after switching database providers twice (neon -> fly.io managed postgres -> RDS), plus switching and half-rewriting postgres client libs, I think I have finally fixed the db connection issues bunnypaws.kadei.net was having (particularly after a fly.io firecracker resume). phew

was playing around with postgres yesterday experimenting with different strategies for stats queries for bunnypaws. just noticed that one of the queries, having timed out at the psql, had continued running on the server side. for the last 24 hours.

i heard you like rats so I put a rat in your rats

so it turns out all slash commands in a group are sent to all bots in that group. which is surprising because you register the bot as being able to handle specific commands. but that's apparently purely for the autocomplete ui and doesn't act as a filter? seems kinda jank

unrelatedly I'm at nfc now, come say hi

so the new project i picked up a few months ago is ready to show! it's a v2 rewrite of @nican.net's bunnypa.ws database of telegram stickers with a bunch of new features, and the beta is up on bunnypaws.kadei.net . send me feedback or add stickers by messaging them to t.me/bunnypaws_v2... !

the only way you can tell I am in this pic is my paw on the far right reaching up from Under

had two levoit LV-PUR131 air purifiers, both broke after 3yrs, dead electrolytic capacitors. got hold of new caps, tried replacing them and bugger me they go out of their way to make it hard. glued-in power cables, blobs of glue on the circuit board, one triangular screwhead just to fuck with you..

finally got some free time today to make some headway on a new (non-work) project and feeling hyped for it! this is what I needed to get over the pawsome fiasco. ah, new software smell 😊 keeping the details under wraps for now (since it's a rewrite of a friend's existing project)

new vr gear just been delivered! bsb2e, lighthouses, index controllers, 3x vive fbt. ...valve of course announces the death of outside-in tracking immediately after i buy into that ecosystem 😅

so for a while now I'd been working with Neutron, who was one of the directors of Pawsome, on a registration system. It was on track to be ready for reg in 2026. I've previously worked on con reg systems and knew I could do something that avoided the

Rumours from distant Wild Northern lands of a questing rodent carrying a Godforged sword...

realised I know four unrelated furries who all have the legal last name Wolf (or similar) and none of them are wolves

patiently waiting as the airport security official, looking increasingly annoyed, removes 17 layers of meticulous wrapping around my newly acquired @rivalmit.bsky.social sculpture, which apparently flagged on the x-ray 😅

a software engineer is a machine for turning coffee into furry art (indirectly)

the scale and quality level of the eurofurence art show is incredible. just head and shoulders over every other con

Mango keeping vigilant watch over us as we sleep at EF 🎨 @huie.bsky.social

at EF and regged! tg me if you're here and want to say hi ^^

for #fursuitfriday: @dimiotter.bsky.social 🦦, me 🐀, and azure 🦊 at kadcon

this is how you control drones right

KadCon 2025 official group photo! (...of everyone except malusmaus who was having a nap)

for #fursuitfriday: please enjoy @keytarrex.bsky.social chasing me around the garden at KadCon! drone and editing by azure grapes & @raltrax.bsky.social

sorry about the 30°C weather everyone, turns out that's all from the decades of archived mailing list emails i've been accumulating, my bad

rumours that the kadcon invite list consisted only of gay furries I've slept with are lies and slander 😤

best thing about running your own con: droit du seigneur

trains! (and a canal)

5 days till the first kadcon, get hype

trainpal app refusing to sell me a ticket because "The date of birth doesn't match the age selected" the age field is not user-editable. it's calculated from the DoB field. by the app itself. it miscalulated my age, caught its own mistake, and then complained to me about it..

when training your derg, remember to positively reinforce the proximate behaviour you want more of. if you get angry at your derg when they fess up about burning a village to the ground for its precious metals, it'll only learn not to fess up next time

so crystal deodorant (potassium aluminium sulfate) is great. last way longer, leaves less residue, can take it through airport security. but the marketing fluff for it is just SO dumb. one claims in its faq to be "aluminium free". it's literally one big aluminium salt crystal!

idly pondering if i'm addicted to the high of finally finding the cause of a bug after a frustrating search

the chess.com game summary is so patronizing "Great job, you found a clever tactic that carried you through to a win!" reader, I did not find a clever tactic, I am 500 rated and my opponent resigned after blundering their queen in the opening

i got a shiny

gonna host an alt-LFM tomorrow for people (like me) who didn't get tickets to the real thing (and also because the summer party is way too loud and busy). any London mutuals not who want to come (and who aren't in the rathaus group), message me on tg!

london pride! current status: being a security rat at pupout pride

me, Azure, & Snipsel at cfz! #fursuitfriday

PSA: you can ask your dentist to prescribe you 5000ppm fluoride toothpaste. normal is 1250ppm, not because that's optimal for tooth health but to be safe for people who use way too much & swallow it. if you can follow simple instructions you can probably reasonably use much higher levels.

ao3 has asked me if I want to claim as author some very mediocre HP fanfic I wrote when I was a teen (since fictionalley is being archived into ao3) ...honestly I don't think I do, think it's best to let it live out its days in old-handle pseudonymity

Fursuit Friday for a change @kadei.net

for #FursuitFriday, some pics of me suiting at confuzzled! (also featuring the lovely ‪@rishary.bsky.social‬ as the fey feline)

eh? #rats #art #ratsky

a selection of cool suiters at confuzzled

got my test results from @augusttherat.bsky.social

some vienna natural history museum highlights: - iguanadon & dippie! - prehistoric furries! - duck on duck on chariot (bronze, ~700BC)! - miniature horsie!

started a group chat for my friends to coordinate things (meals, drinks, parties) at confuzzled; if we're friends and you're going and want to be added, let me know

i do understand why the shortest (great circle) path from atlanta to london has its peak latitude over the atlantic and doesn't just linearly go between the latitudes of its endpoints but somehow i can't make it feel intuitive spheres man, how do they work

is it really only two years since I first tried on a friend's fursuit and decided that, constantly to what I'd cached-assumed a long time before then, fursuiting was in fact awesome? feels like longer