I just wanna state on the record that I am totally fucking fine sharing a world with your ADBL / cub / feral / filth / gore / vore / maw / war / whore content, or whatever it is that the latest dumpster fire is about. All I ask is not to see it without my specific consent.

Good to know that American Sign Language and Deutsche Gebärdensprache use the same sign for "bullshit".

An early but pivotal technological milestone towards humanity's destiny of creating the Torment Nexus. Rejoice.

What if we took every one of those fandom callout docs listing kink artists that some odious little scrote doesn't like, and turned them into a BlueSky starter pack? (This thought brought to you courtesy of some basement-dweller with a peculiar fixation on ABDL artists.)

All my otter, badger, weasel, stoat, mink, wolverine and ferret friends insist on letting me know it's MarTen. It's like they Must Tell A Day.

Oh hey, I can breathe semi-cleanly for the first time in five days. How nice.

Few things about being ill irritate me more than the way I lose my sense of thirst and have to manage everything consciously by the amount I drink and pee.

Those drawstring net bags from the supermarket veg section have revolutionised my packing and organisation when I'm on trips living out of a suitcase. One for socks, one for grundies, one for cables, one for hygiene. It's so TIDY.

There must be a special hell for people who use hPa and inHg in the same aviation weather report — or are they already in it? #america

Breaking news: a tsunami-level natural disaster has struck major population centres in western England. Please send thoughts and prayers. If you don't have thoughts of your own, AI generated is fine.

If I'm ever to work in an office again I'll need to figure out a way to override the ingrained muscle memory in my fingertips which invokes a browser and opens my favourite furry porn website.

What a lovely illustration of how actual humans want to use discretionary capital, as opposed to parking it in tax havens or using it to take over political establishments.

Just to let @khaki.dog know that the Bahkauv is doing fine.

I wonder what it means when I wake up and my watch tells me I've already taken 410 steps.

Note for non-Brits: this is the reaction of the Conservative Party leader here to a by-election where the Greens came out of nowhere and won a safe Labour seat. Her candidate lost his deposit (got less than 2% of the vote). She's so far out of her tree the squirrels are sending out search parties.

why am I so alone

Okay. It's time. Let's start looking for a job. Except, ulp, I haven't hunted for a job since before LinkedIn was a thing, and I'm now in a foreign country in my second language. Does anybody have any competence I can borrow? *slowly crescendoing aaaaaaaAAA*

"Hubert" is a very promising game demo with a gorgeous German Shepherd protagonist. store.steampowered.com/app/764930/H... Fabulous visuals, game mechanics still need some work but should get there. Everything else hangs on the scriptwriters getting it right. Fingers crossed.

Typographical etymology really is :—.

Latest news: Today, Germany’s Committee on Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs is holding a hearing on adding the wolf as a “generally huntable species” under the Federal Hunting Act. If passed, it could pave the way for wolf culls nationwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4s1JUWX

Der Kellner wusste ganz genau, was das heißt. Der Designer? Bin mir gar nicht so sicher... Ich hab's bestellt. Ich werde versuchen, die BBQ-Sauce von meiner Oberlippe fernzuhalten.

I feel like our culture ought to have a day of grieving for the dead. You know, so that it's not spread out through the year. Give sorrow a focus, a time for catharsis. We could call it, oh, "hallowed evening" or something. But I suppose it'd just get commercialised into another expensive party.

The alternatives to palliative care are getting scarce so today they went down to the shore and reaffirmed their wedding vows of over thirty years to each other for what time they've got left together.

finding in my accounting the time we went out to Snoqualmie Falls with the @bearinglux.com and @grimmycoyote.bsky.social crowd and had XXX Burger. Stonkingly humungous burger meal for $20.90. April 29th 2007, AAGH FUCK ME how can that be nearly twenty years

Talked with my flight instructor. Reassuring remarks about the theory exam: there's oodles of time. The training route I'm going (with a flying club) is very thorough but also slow.

FFS you actually coded your bloody web app to replace my non-breaking spaces with normal spaces? I must be one of the only five people in creation who actually types non-breaking spaces and you specifically wrote code to exclude them? Why so much hate? Were you bullied by Papyrus as a child?

Every Brit should fill this out.

The price of aircraft bits is staggering. I just watched a guy measure a one-inch bit of metal with a nut on one end and a ball on the other. "How much does that cost if it wears out?" I asked, privately making a ludicrous estimate of €50. "About €300."

Bricking it about the upcoming exam, not just because it's an exam or even on a big subject in a foreign language but because the real test is liable to come months later as a pop-quiz with no warning, no retakes, and failure penalties ranging from cold embarrassment to a brief and terminal crunch.

Man, just when you think you know what "fuck cancer" means, cancer opens up a whole new arena of ways in which it ought to go get fucked. It's weird that unconscious flesh can be so diversely and seemingly creatively malicious. #notme #oranyoneIlivewith #family

At the age of ■■■ and a few months, I have finally developed the grownup habit of making my bed in the morning after getting up. It's extraordinary how much less out of control this makes my life feel.

I'm going to die. #aviation #studentpilot

THE DOG is patient and can wait as long as it takes. He can and will outwait you.

Finished reading "The Analog Cat" by @huskyteer.co.uk. What a tour de force of imagination, humour, pathos and insight. Sixteen stories ranging from the insouciant (it takes a lot to make me belly-laugh while reading) to the... really quite deep. And I demand my turn in the sidecar!

THE DOG approves of renewable energy and thinks you should too. Or else there's another dog over there.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

This must have majorly done the furry rounds when it came out but how the hell did I miss it www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vTL... esp. f.a.o. @scruff.bsky.social fnpr

trapped in an endless repeating time loop of people showing you their hogs

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

FUCKING FANTASTI— oh, damn, different Miller.

crazy insomnia please release me and let me dream of making love to werewolves on the heath, tearing out tufts with my teeth

Awoo, just sayin'.

The video @techconnectify.bsky.social is referring to is here and I emphatically recommend it either if you're interested in the compelling economics of renewable energy, or if you want to avoid the grinding horror of an emergent neofeudal dictatorship. Maybe even both! bsky.app/profile/tech...

blog post for the small set of people who're interested in both aviation and mental illness: a dry account of how my history of depression affected the process of getting a flight medical certificate: footpad.dreamwidth.org/600170.html

Plug for people who like audiobooks: @libro.fm are knocking two euros off their monthly subscription price. Same price as Audible, but no lock-in, no DRM, your credits don't expire, and your purchases support indie bookshops instead of swivel-eyed billionaires. It's a win all round. Go switch.

HOLY CRAP @coelliptic.bsky.social @nachtfuchs.bsky.social the crazy bastards signed off on me! Not easily, and with qualifications: yearly psych eval, some slightly worrying mumbling about "single seat aircraft? well that's okay then". But fuck it, I'll take it!

The act of having done something concrete in support of Minnesota is a partial but effective armour against the emotional damage of seeing atrocities committed in Minnesota. If you're feeling crap about it, do something about it.

Finnish reindeer kills suggest that wolf population has increased in Russia as Russian hunters are sent to Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/environment/... That sure is a complex mess of consequences.

Feeling awkward talking to an American about German high-speed trains. #ICE And I guess "bullet train" isn't an improvement. On the plus side, if any Americans visit, let's take a train trip to an ancient cultural city just so you can say, "Get in, losers, we're taking the ICE to Nuremberg!"

I was an Obama fanboy for a while, in the sense that I idolised him a bit. Later on... more nuanced, although obviously nowadays it's only rational to miss him like hell. I'm making a point of not being a Mamdani fanboy, but man, I am *aching* with hope for him to succeed. #politics