Sea snails inventing purple after hearing about shrimp colors: "the humans are going to be so jealous they can't see this one."

I've long thought I'm difficult to startle. Husband has startled me to the point of cursing three times this week. Turns out I was just hyper vigilant for like three decades and in learning to let go, my natural state is to spook like a deer.

what's a "shibboleth"

Finally, a company that stands by their quality ontrol.

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

5e.tools? Oh, you mean wiki feats.

Hitting a toilet with a sledgehammer may be the most cathartic experience a human can have. Apropos of nothing, my car that has been sitting for several weeks has a fuzzy layer of mold on every interior surface.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch “He didn’t look around, and watch and learn, and then say, ‘This is how people are, how do we deal with it?’ No, he sat and thought: ‘This is how the people ought to be, how can we change them?’ And that was a good enough thought for a priest but not for a copper…”

A friend asked for book suggestions, and honestly I'll concede on this one... Anyway, check out The Atrocity Archives by @cstross.bsky.social if you somehow haven't read it and James Bond the IT guy fights Eldritch horrors sounds up your alley.

Finally posting my new comic, Wolfhead, about fursuiting and playing pretend. Deer fursuit shots referenced from photography by @attyboy.bsky.social 🧵(1/3)

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Interestingly this might make the complement to disaster "stellar" or "star."

disaster. dis aster ill-starred Sorry, my planets were out of alignment.

Aristotelian epistemology proposes happiness is derived from fulfillment of ones "telos" or innate purpose. In this essay I will...

Curation is creation. blog.kagi.com/age-pagerank...

Last re-share: I thought my (already minimal) engagement dropped off recently. Looks like it might have been this reply to my friend about their hornet encounter. Sorry @tinyheehaw.bsky.social. 😅

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Commenting on my boyfriend's tendency to show up online exactly as I start typing: Is it some sort of polycule psychic link? Bi-Fi? No wait, we're each other's side piece...It's a broad-cast.

puppiest second date! 💕💝🐾

Midnight's project is some of the most important art I've seen this year. How many characters have I forgotten? How many evolved with me beyond recognition? The vivid colors hide a subtle pain that defies naïveté. He offers a chance to go back. Not as blind nostalgia, but with a dogged optimism.

Was searching for a reaction gif of @techconnectify.bsky.social and was getting pages of generic graphics... so I set the Color filter to Brown and that cleaned my result set right up.

Elder Wolf at the Table is a love letter to aging, faith, & creaturehood—to the slow holiness of growing softer without losing wildness. It’s about what happens when we grow old but not tame; when we learn to share the table & stop guarding. Part reflection, part #therian prayer: a guide to gentler.

can I borrow a couple of bucks? 🦌🦌 #furry #furryart

BLFC will always be a cathartic experience I have permanent love for all of you “We didn't need a story, we didn't need a real world We just had to keep walking And we became the stories, we became the places We were the lights, the deserts, the faraway worlds We were you before you even existed”

A particularly insidious but common pitfall of community moderation is an understandable but wrong insistence on running things via strict adherence to a set of guidelines. This never actually works in practice because you end up with a bunch of bad faith actors constantly testing boundaries.

Happy Locktober to those who celibate. 🔐

I'm ready to have so many bad opinions! Thank you for this incredible work of art @labradorszn.bsky.social

Eileen Townsend's review of Room Party is out now in Artillery Magazine! Eileen isn't a furry, but she is my bff, and she really, really GETS IT. Featuring @attyboy.bsky.social @flausch.bsky.social @scribblechicken.bsky.social @zubrovich.bsky.social @julianahuxtable.bsky.social @elfboys.com & more!

Sometimes, motorsports gets it. SCCA Solo Nats competitor is protested on Day 1 in a ladies class for being trans. Protest committee rules aggrieved party should get fucked into the sun. Day 2 the rest of class shows support for the protested party on way to her first run. She would go on to win.

The therian urge to ride a motorcycle through the woods at speed.

The most incredible journeys are with the most incredible people. Six days on the Oregon BDR.

This hole in the ground inexplicably has 3 bars of service.

connect with nature ! [ #digitalart #art ]

"Compartmentalization": In forestry, we know that trees cannot 'heal'. Instead, they seal their wounds away under layers of themself.

Hey There Little One

It is interesting to see Bluesky commit to banning anglers, hunters, BASE jumpers, and fans of air shows even if this seems like a lot of unnecessary work for the mods. Hm? That obviously isn’t what you mean? What *do* you mean? Use your words, guys. And maybe a dictionary if y’all get confused.

"Kraft singles really are the pinnacle of human ingenuity." - @tsarinvanya.bsky.social Things overhead at brunch.

"I swear on the gods of my forefathers" sounds way more epic than "I give you my word as an atheist."

i stg every kink can be subtextually boiled down to: -i am powerful/in control -i am seen as desirable -i am safe and can now be vulnerable -i can explore taboo in a safe + controlled environment once you realize that you realize that no kink can hurt you

Okay, I take back what I said about this one particular instance of the trope.

In all the scenarios everyone from philosophers to screenwriters have come up with regarding AI becoming self-aware, I can't believe nobody thought of, "AI realizes it's useless garbage and just spirals in self-hatred and despair until someone unplugs it."

LiveJournal just sent me an email that my account is old enough to drink...

Dad says I can pick a video because it's my turn.

Another ride in the books. Got into camp late. First time riding off-highway in the dark. Barlow Road and Ollallie Lake area.

furry transfem

I am so mad that a song titled "Furfag Cum Pizza" legit made me cry. pentup-pup.bandcamp.com/track/furfag...

Trucker is a gender-neutral pronoun.