🌄🏕️🥾🎒 #furry #furryart

Finally giving "Foundation" a try. Does Lee Pace ever get to play characters that aren't stuck up arrogant prats? Also how does a civilization rule for so long yet still build a structure as ridiculous as that space station / tether thing without some sort of redundancy or bomb proofing?

We have less than a year to get rid of weak, corporate centrists and milquetoast Democrats heading into the midterms. There has to be a 2 to 4-year culling project. Have to get rid of all of them. They are part of the problem, and they aren't made for this moment or built for this fight.

Gonna show my age a bit here and say "Northern Exposure" which wrapped up a lot of sweet character arcs and ended with Iris DeMent's "Our Town" over the characters gathering for a final meal at Maurice's. Still remember it vividly 30 years later...

You can be a success without getting up at 4:30am, going to the gym, taking an ice dip, journaling for an hour, suntanning your taint, and/or any of the other things stupid rich people continually use to explain why they are successful without giving credit to the society around them.

I misread this as "Ancient Librarians", and thought "wow they really did enforce that silence, didn't they?"

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

This is why, even if there is a big electoral defeat for the GOP in '28, the Dems need to ruthlessly strike while the iron is hot and dole out real consequence to the major and minor players here. Four years later and swing voters will no longer believe any of this is bad.

I had a dream last night where I was a student at a college that was sort of like a combination of medieval/renaissance historical recreation and folk school. It's odd because it's not my usual schtick, but everyone was just having fun and learning stuff and that definitely is.

Wish I could internalize this

Roses are red, Sunlight is bright

I guess the flip side of this is that if a disingenuous dweeb with a youtube channel can be the straw the breaks a politician's back, that means that literally any of us could leverage the same power for good?

I like Walz, but voters are too stupid to pay attention to reality anymore, so what he did makes sense. He's done. I despise Klobuchar and would prefer an actual liberal to run against her, but barring that at least this gets her the hell out of the Senate. Maybe we can get someone useful there.

I’m losing my goddamn mind

We are making a survival game BUT you play as a crow 🐦‍⬛ #Gamedev #indiegame #indegamedev #gamedevelopement #gaming #survivalgame #crow #crows #corvids

Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.

The new Black Mirror episode was pretty weird

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Woohoo! Finally some fast skijoring on X-C skis! Back at the UMore Lone Rock Trail, this time the 4.3 mi middle loop. Still not groomed, but a few prior skiers set tracks and there was just enough snow to float over even the thinnest wind-blown spots […] [Original post on mountains.social]

I tell myself over and over not to litigate past elections, but I do think I should be allowed one (1) free bitchslap on every “Donald the Dove” person in the United States.

It's a good time to remember that this is how most of the citizens of countries under the control of unelected criminal terrorist dictatorships feel. They didn't want it. We didn't want it. Yet we both feel the repercussions (if the world is brave enough to levy them) more than the leaders do.

Decided to try watching Del Toro's "Frankenstein". Almost didn't make it past the atrociously bad CG in the opening 15 minutes, but stuck it out and are now into slightly better filmmaking, if not yet acting. We shall see...

I don’t like that line at all. I would be strongly disinclined to support someone who said it. But it’s not like Mamdani’s opponents support individualism. Their slogan is “obey the dear leader, conform to conservatism, and send the garbage back where they came from.”

My 2026 experiment is to try to continuously ask myself the following question: Does this improve me? "Improve" being the key. A nap, a long walk, a cookie, a few carrot sticks, 10 minutes on BlueSky, and 10 minutes of writing all Improve me. Intent and Moderation are the line between yes and no.

I've tried this blocker (freedom.to) among others and they just don't work for me. Blocking activates my "how dare you" synapses, even if the "you" was me when I set up the damn thing. I need a distraction negotiator. Ideally it would either have an allotment system or a simple delay mechanism.

If anyone in the MSP area knows someone who is looking for some vintage stereo equipment, I have a bunch of stuff for sale. All works great, but we no longer need complicated A/V setups in our life, so we downsized to a simple TV and soundbar. gadgetfox-burrow.notion.site/used-stereo-...

Also our vehicles will go back to being 1940's Chevrolets, and massive Tsunamis will threaten, uhm... not really sure what coast has that combination of plants. Also notice there are no planes in the sky and no people on the beach because no one can afford to travel anymore.

Interesting thought experiment... If 2025 was a story and you were the protagonist, then what was your: Core Flaw / Desire / Misbelief in early 2025? What was the Inciting Incident? What was your Antagonist? Who were your Allies? Mentors? Foils? What was the Climax and the Resolution?

Admittedly, I was more worried about them ending fair elections before I fully grasped just how stupid and dysfunctional they are. Now my concern is that they won't even need to bother because of how stupid and dysfunctional their opposition are. Winning local races =! winning the presidential.

Happy New Year! 🎄🎉

I feel the same way sometimes, Zorro…

So, who’s ready??

Whenever we're out of this shit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be built into an absolutely nightmare bureaucratic goliath. Increase the original funding by a million times and hire thousands of staffers trying to fuck shit up for business.

I always find it really jarring whenever I encounter a languishing creative who blames their lack of motivation/output on other people not supporting them "enough." I just assumed we were all freaks who were in this for the love of the game. Making the thing IS the reward. An audience is optional.

I reached for the same bunch of celery (I think it was... some vegetable) as Rick Ocasek at the grocery store early one summer morning on Cape Cod.

This is that 10/90 split economists keep talking about. If you make >$150k a year (top 10% of Americans), everything is AWESOME. If you make less than that, you are struggling to even engage meaningfully in the economy. The collapse has escaped the balance sheets and is visible to the naked eye now.

The 2026 National Parks pass features fuckface's face on it which makes me want to vomit. Apparently it makes a LOT of people want to vomit, so a clever Colorado artist had a solution: www.thesageleafstudio.com/products/nat...

It's a wonderful thing that Biden did dick-all about getting rid of Louis DeJoy when he had plenty of opportunity to do so. (And yes he is gone now, replaced by another industry stooge hell-bent on destroying the system.)

After having gotten all dressed up to clear the driveway, I decided I might as well take Zorro (our ~7mo temporary foster husky) for a 3-ish mile hike to tire him out a bit while Alopex took our two huskies on a walk of their own. Very pretty morning to be out and about.

My first word was CHOP and frankly I don't care about the other two. CHOP CHOP CHOP ...goes the Ghee-O-Teen! And that's how we make 2026 go 'round!

I wanted to make an enamel pin to honor Nezuko, who tragically passed away a week ago. With costs being over $15,000, sales would help relieve some of the costs. This enamel pin shows the loyalty of the amazing Akitainu, with the most famous being Hachiko. ko-fi.com/s/6b4d6a1ac3

Took the pack out in the growing blizzard this afternoon.

How it’s going. How it’s also going.

Zorro is a much better indicator of how much it's snowing than either Zeena or Tonttu! Given the state of the yard, today's snow is coming none too soon! Bring it on!

infamous hare (oc)

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Zorro has been a handful for sure, but it makes me appreciate Zeena and Tonttu all the more. I remember Tonttu being just as much of a disruption when we first brought him home, and he has come so far... Plus, I will make some real improvements to Zorro's future placement by lending my experience.

Up earlier than usual on a Saturday to prepare for the imminent arrival of a 6 mo old Husky named "Zorro" who is going to be with us until New Years Day while their foster family is out of town. Zeena and Tonttu will enjoy having a new chew toy, and probably the same for Zorro.

Nutty and buttery, but conversational skills need work