I had the option to be laid off. I had that choice. I didnt take it. I wonder if I sbould have. Thats a fucked up option. It was a better benefit at 20 yrs and I had 19. Wtf.

In an optimization problem, you need to tell the solver to find the optimum solution. The path of least resistance is to just fail. I think about that sometimes.

The person in front of me at the grocery store complained about a sale and how can it not be on zero sugar item and I dont like your attitude and im getting your manager... I failed to not be that person that told them they were a jerk .. its wierd being in the moment.

I have a project at work.. theres too many facilitators. 4 sponsors, I'm one of 4 leads. The facilitators are addicted to AI and keep presenting action items to the sponsors... for things I should be doing... but they dont tell me because they aren't leading the project they're just gobbling AI.

Re-injured my back this weekend and in a lot of pain BUT wanted to draw a tender moment tonight. King George was great. P.S. Pixar feel free to hire me at anytime to draw beavers for yah! 💗 Take care of yourselves, always remember to love yourself and don't forget to breath. #hoppers #doodle #art

Hoppers is a really good movie. Now I just need to hope it does well enough for some background characters to get some merch...

There's a reddit thread right now -- you get paid $1 per M&M you eat, but 1 M&M somewhere in the world will kill you. if someone eats the one, a random currently existing M&M will become the one that kills you. Some brilliant mathematicians are tackling this that think the factory ships to stores.

My entire adult life

The first Furcon was in 1989 and before that there were furry parties at other conventions. Here is a furry party posters from the 80s:

In grade school I had to go to speech therapy. They take you out of a class and you basically do flash cards instead. It just occurred to me that maybe there is some basic thing I missed out on. I missed something to learn how to pronounce R's or something.

I bought a game and thought it would be nice to have a little organizer insert for the pieces... so I googled it, found a link and printed them directly from my phone to my bambu. Why do ink printers still suck *so much* when I can print game inserts without even using a PC?

They're giving everyone flowers, thats cute.

The cleaners organized some of the dogs' toys on their bed.

Ive heard of this and think it requires the culture to handle it... But its healthier than just assuming everyone is happy and will always work for you until they quit or give up. I know thats an aside from this email but building in the option of a break or cross training can be a positive.

I'm excited to finally be able to show you the work I did for MFF 2025's photography backdrop! It was an honor having this great opportunity once again. Thank you so much @artyskunk.bsky.social and @furfest.org ! I had so much fun working on this piece. 💜 #art #furry #furryart

Working on an idea... I thrifted this photo hanging board thing from goodwill. I may rebuild the entire thing to something more classy or just consider the cost inspiration to make my own from scratch. Maybe nice leather snaps to hang them. Rebuild out of hardwood or do a resin project.

M'lem. Surprised to catch the tongue out

I have the best daddy ever, he snagged these MFF 2025 villainous vacation table banners and made them curtains for our office 😭 They look so good! 🪡 🧵: @jinn.dad

If you had a canvas that 10,000 or more furries could see in person What might it be? Would it be a message? Something others could interact with? An advertisement? An expression?

Life's hard. Like even if you have life pretty good, its still hard.

I have the option to be laid off. We don't talk about that much in animal person world?

An interesting lesson I learned - I got an artistic inspiration suit design from @latinvixen.bsky.social which I still adore (2015), it was based off my old pup Conner. Its my preferred suit, its a decade old and still in perfect shape. 1/4

Using only images, explain how you became a furry.

I'd rather just buy a fursuit, myself. You do you.

I've never liked LinkedIn. One of the smartest people I have ever met reposted something he found insightful. It was written by a *college dean*, a topic of just because you have an opinion doesn't mean you matter/be authentic. The post was all clearly AI, it was a reply to an even worse AI post.

I fucking love furries <3

Oof, right in the gut

what does it say there? _________ #feralart #art #commission

This.

Dogs in space, this worked out last time right? @furcon.bsky.social event at the Tech museum was really nice. I also got a new partial at MFF that I may not have mentioned... I'm experimenting with it still. Realistic golden from Melissa Mendelson 1/3 #FurCon2026

You know the way some people have a fascination about liminal spaces? Ive come to FC about a dozen times and it's always just after the holidays, so you only see this Christmas village being torn down. It exists in my mind for a decade solely being taken down.

“Problematic” Yes, consenting adults partaking in kinks with other consenting adults is totally “problematic.” You are the problematic one trying to muddy the water by placing people with criminal records next to people who’ve literally done nothing other than be themselves in adult spaces.

I have a 20 year old sketchbook. Most of the pictures aren't even scanned and most are not on FA so I need to fix that. I really dig these two from @chocodile.net that I got at MFF '25. I like my character to be a chill lil skunk with a big tail and they captured that really well.

Im adding to my bingo card, the real reason for all the Greenland stuff is he just wants to rename it. Man is obsessed with putting his name on everything. Of course he wants to rename a country.

I'll be at FC fwiw. Im thinking of just bringing my kigu and new head. Ive been feeling less motivated to full suit.

I wish I felt better.

Convention feedback is wierd. There is always a few really wild infeasible ideas that are amusing. Occasionally theres a really good idea that I can do and those are positive. Some are kind of ptsd inducing. I've also coped poorly last year... I dont mention that on social much.

The new Black Mirror episode was pretty weird

Im suddenly fascinated by people I can't just message on telegram

@taxbadger.com happy new year

🖤Want to be the most deluxe skunk?🖤 I'd like to try making my classic skunk tail with 7" long furs! It'll be a bit more than the classic one for the materials but it'll be almost 2x as fluffy as this classic one is! My DMs are open for quotes 🦨 #furry #fursuit #furryart #skunk

What the best gift for a 3 year old.... that too late fo buy on Amazon probably?

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

After enough cons I built a household 4 square with @spainimation.bsky.social magnets. @dbruinart.bsky.social & myself plus @duskdargent.bsky.social and @vidarwolf.bsky.social

Sometimes the intrusive thoughts win... *puts peanut butter and jelly into extra jumbo pasta shell*

Going to start slowly sharing the art I did for MFF! This was the art for the schedule card that came with the lanyards! I was excited to be able to do a piece featuring Febz!

Did you know I painted the #MFF badges? If you were at the con, you were wearing one of my illustrations of either Helium Hyena or Lichenthrope.

It's Thursday morning at MFF. I get a mysterious Slack message from @artyskunk.bsky.social to come pick up a thing from Publications when I have time. The thing in question: