Sometimes it's the little things in life that will just ruin your day.

Yesterday, there was a company-wide announcement about Claude, so I peeked in at how things are going in the "ai-tooling" work chat.

"Who disturbs my slumber?" #caturday #CatsOfFediverse

Circuit design is my passion The 5V section has gotten more complicated. I'm up to 25 unique components.

Work was long and tiring. It's like they didn't even know that it's World Donkey Day and they all legally have to be nice to me.

Look at me, out here bench testing like I know what I'm doing. Let's not talk about the prototype PCBs I got fabbed with a design flaw, leading to this moment.

The awful moment when you're finally making the phone call, but it's been ringing long enough that all your courage to speak with a stranger has evaporated. So you beg it to go to voicemail so you can just talk to a machine.

As LLM corpo-speak becomes more common at my work, I find myself drifting further toward the other end of the spectrum. Instead of messaging my team with: "Hey, can I get a quick review on this code change?" I'll drop: "I yet again yearn for personal and professional validation of my toils."

I've been half working on my Masto2Bsky reposter lately, trying to add support for content warnings.

In a cooler future, a title like this from a company named "Tailscale" would have a much different meaning. tailscale.com/blog/hypergrowth

I don't quite feel like I have a handle on the holidays this year, but I wish you a good one anyway, however you celebrate! 🫏 🎄 🎁 #furry #fursuit #donkey #holidays #christmas

I'm doing something crazy and actually posting some of my adult stuff here.

I'm not that into horror, but I'd love to see a legitimately scary movie about an evil dragon.

Who is the crook of the week?

This has been a labor of love for MONTHS so I'm proud to announce that we'll be running the first ever game of "Where in the World is Corgi Sandiego?" at MFF! Because what more villainous vacation could there be besides a cat-and-mouse pursuit around the world?

This is one of the craziest stories from history that I'd never heard anything about before. It's a tragic drama with romance, political intrigue, and, of course, murder. I real-life gasped several times reading the article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaucham Some choice quotes:

The deer have already eaten our jack-o-lanterns as of this morning. No respect.

Last night, I was working on my mastodon->bluesky reposter, because it was adding blank posts to threads (a problem I thought I had fixed months ago). For like 2 hours, I hunted for the flaw in my logic that made it fail in those specific scenarios, but I couldn't recreate the problem. So I gave up.

Thinking about how corpos get human interaction with customer service absolutely backwards as I try to pay my insurance bill. Their website was down, so I had to call.

Being in a meeting with the head of our company is insane.

The latest iteration of my ongoing attempts to make a foldable drying hanger with power.

Separately, I wrote this piece about parasocial relationships, influencers, social media technology, and society. The title was meant to be punny, not clickbait. (Puns are kind of my thing.) soatok.blog/2025/09/16/a...

My hopes were so high 😭

It's happened again!

Today, August 13th, is International Wolf Day! 🐺🎉🥳 Let’s celebrate our wild kin—may they run free, thrive in the wild, and be spared from both hunters and awkward werewolf movie stereotypes.

I've never used Tumblr, but this post has some of the best, most concise advice I've seen for navigating the internet: tumblr.com/t00thpasteface/7407

I've always been a little irked by what the media will call a "technology". This one takes the cake. I'm cracking myself up imagining its backstory:

Random memory from Anthrocon: Raijen: *points* That fursuiter has a birthday hat on Me: ...I think I'm gonna cry. Raijen: Why? Me: *tearing up* I just want them to have a happy birthday

Bark bark! I’m a dog!

It is time.

Packing priorities on my furcon travel day

Chicken kebabs for dinner 😋 Some of the paneer wanted to stick to the grill, but they still turn out okay

My milkweeds are blooming and the bees are here for it #insects #bees

A microcosm of my life lately

Love being told to drop all development work for the rest of the week and instead compile a list of our tasks that can be handed off to the outsourced contractors.

This is probably the saddest use of LLMs that I have yet witnessed at work.

"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care." dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23

I'm on a family camping trip out in the American West. It's had its ups and downs, but many fun times and so many good views. We spent a couple days around the Grand Canyon. Bryce is next.

Damn, I almost forgot today is World Donkey Day. Be a friend to donkeys today.

Tonight, I spent an hour and a half in my roommate's 76-year-old mom's kitchen, helping to troubleshoot her WiFi router. Earlier today, she had logged into Linksys Smart WiFi and found "John" as the name on the account with the timezone set to China.

I'm at the emergency vet after midnight because I left my cat, Fry (pictured), alone for one minute too long with a small toy and he swallowed it.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

First #fursuitfriday with the full suit! Thanks @poeproductions.bsky.social for turning me to the goat side and making a fantastic suit!

A glorious Easter to you and your house. Qapla'!

It's called a donkey? Wow it's so cute... I bet it doesn't make the worst sounds you've ever heard

Found a couple more artsy shots from in the store

I got an awesome mugshot commission from @vhsrat.bsky.social! They made me look so badass, and I love the cyberpunk jacket they came up with.

@[email protected] Have you ever looked at NNCP? nncp.mirrors.quux.org/index.ht I definitely don't see it taking over Signal for my secure communications, but the idea of a friends-level network on sneakernet and dead drops is appealing. I just don't know if the actual encryption is any use.

I never want to see a news headline when anyone does any of the following: - reacts - blasts - calls for - is furious These acts are nothing. If my yearly review was just me "blasting" bad code and "calling for" fewer bugs, I'd be fired in a week. Tell me when someone does something.

Furries if you haven't already established yourself on Signal, now is the time to find alternatives for Telegram. www.theverge.com/news/637114/...