We love a good nuanced take. Two things can be true at the same time.

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I'm admittedly largely uneducated on this, but my first impression is this is a massive misplay by DHS. Let ICE take all the heat. What happens when public sentiment turns against CBP? You're gonna demoralize the people working at ports who screen goods and collect your precious tariffs.

Agony in the garden

"it's unbelievable how they've politicized politics"

“I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.” New poster available to download for FREE on my Ko-Fi! ko-fi.com/s/befb8aa75f #art #digitalart #poster #watershipdown

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

These paintings from the Eurofurence art show now have more flight miles on them than some people I know.

cheetah friends

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

A litter of six baby cheetahs that were born earlier this summer at the Metro Richmond Zoo are doing well and growing, zookeepers said. https://wapo.st/4mSF7oO

So I've created a problem for myself... Anyone at Eurofurence know the best way to safely get this home? I'm thinking either get a box, pack it well, then check it as a "bag" on my (direct) flight home (to the States), or take it off the wooden frame, roll it up, and get it re-stretched at home?

For what it's worth (and it's only 3 AM, there's still time for it to go downhill), the CCH plaza looks quite a bit better tonight. Not spotless. But not like a landfill either.

And to be clear, none of this should be construed as "sanitize furry." Keep furry weird. But "weird" should be a celebration of the individual beauty in all of us. "Weird" is not a free pass to be an asshole.

I can't help but feel like we as a community are only able to do what we do, to the relative scale and comfort we do it to, because we have some degree of goodwill. I worry what may happen if we burn through all that goodwill by being a disruptive nuisance.

Y'all this is embarrassing and how you lose a hotel. Literally clean up your act and while counter productive stop acting like animals.

New goal at Eurofurence: make a friend that I can practice my atrocious German with over Discord once I'm back home.

I regret to inform that the 2 years of German I took back in high school a decade ago did NOT come flooding back to me when I landed in Germany 😭

Requisite Hey Syri! video:

The past 2 years have been really, really rough. So much personal and interpersonal stuff had me feeling like an outsider in the community I love.

ChatGPT: no, going “Azrael mode” can be dangerous for yourself and those around you. Me: I am the avenging angel of God. The time of purification is at hand. Few shall be chosen. ChatGPT: you’re right. Let’s look at that again with the addition context that you are the avenging angel of God.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

and the ultimate end result is you get a lot of gay children who figured out they were gay anyway without their parents' help but got more traumatized on the way there and now bond with one another over the fact that their emotionally immature parents should not have had children

Hey there. I see you’re interested in food. Well, watch out, because every food tastes different. Just because one food tastes good, that doesn’t mean a different food will taste good too. Well, that’s all. I think you’re ready to start your food journey. Come back if you need that info again.

When I decided, for some reason, to pick up the violin at age 21, I did a LOT of reading and learning about…learning. Same thing with being an adult learner of languages. There’s a LOT of conventional knowledge about how adults aren’t good at learning, or a lot of skills MUST be learned as a child.

To any fellow data hoarders looking to retain their listen history when switching or entirely abandoning streaming services, I have two suggestions: first, check whether your service lets you export your history, most do, including Spotify. And second, set up Last.fm.

somewhat transfixed by the way this open sign is broken

Volume control #vent

Linkin Park last night was everything I could've hoped for. We got special guest Tim McIlrath on One Step Closer. We got Good Things Go. We got In The End, a song I've been wanting to hear live for 16 years. Truly a magical night. Thank you @ritualdivision.net for the birthday present! 💜

Am I more than you bargained for yet? 👁️🗝️ Hey Syri! From Under the Cork Tree @megaplexcon.org 2025 Saturday Night @ 1 AM Main Stage 🎨 @rensstudios.bsky.social

This past weekend, I made a thing with some friends! I hope you like it. itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

if you are ever curious what it looks like behind the scenes at Tennocon.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Trouble sleeping? Have you tried cuddling a purring chee in your dreams?

Dumb thing to complain about: I think the Guardian tends to do decent reporting, but their style guide insisting acronyms (as opposed to initialisms) only have the first letter capitalized ("Nasa" or "Noaa", but F.B.I.) makes it so annoying to read.

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Movie Frame Study for Panzica ^^ ref frame is from Call Me By Your Name (2017).

Did we just create our own inverse Guy Fawkes Night? Happy No Kings Day to all who celebrate.

You have the right to say whatever you want in the US, and the power to say whatever you want absolutely anywhere but you might only have the power to say it once. Make it fucking COUNT. Don't waste it on Bluesky joking about "Mr. Molotov."

I thought our "glass UI" days were behind us. Seems I was wrong. This is... not good imo. Should've let it die with Vista. www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Space cheetah! Work for @astro.ftl.sh

fatigue

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

Bsky finally fixed my biggest issue with this app since it came out: images you save now go into their own folder!

FURS! TIP. YOUR FUCKIN'. BARTENDERS.