After about a decade I am still upset at myself for this not being completely in focus, but I remember being very excited because it was one of the few times I could get a Blue Jay to stay in one place to take a picture

I keep forgetting that I used to thoroughly enjoy photography

Being a digital artist is exhausting 🤷‍♂️

You probably have no idea about how expensive helicopters are to run for an hour but yeah we just had fleets of them go into the forests on a continuous basis. HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BIOLOGISTS REPELLED FROM HELICOPTERS INTO EAGLE NESTS JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE DOING OK.

I would rather people be completely, brutally honest with me rather than holding back for fear of offending.

4 hours just flew by in 1 hours, what is happening

I wish to be challenged

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

“Please welcome to the Late Show YouTube page, Representative James Talarico.” youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

What do I have to do to get people to actually give a fuck?

Really, the fact that it's affecting gamers too should be a moment to emphasize how screwed the whole tech situation is right now. It's actually more weight for your cause. Don't throw gamers under the bus because you're mad.

“Fuck the poor! Fuck the poor!” That’s how the March for Billionaires kicked off on February 7 in Pacific Heights, one of San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhoods, near a stretch of mansions known as Billionaires’ Row. We went to see whether the event was satire or sincere. The answer was… yes.

I love VRChat music venues protecting abusers :)

Love that I've had this Discord inbox bug for at least 2 years and it still has not been fixed.

rip

I just learned that the brain has a chemical sensor to detect CO2 levels. Whoever engineered these bodies is hella smart

Just learned about the joy and hell of JUCE Was excited to try to write a VST but doesn't seem like that's gonna happen Developing software for Windows has never worked out for me. It's just so much more convenient to give up than try to deal with it, especially with JUCE requiring VS2019 Pro.

It just really gets to me that I see through the social media lens everytime there is a furry convention. It seems like thousands or tens of thousands of people are going. I know the majority of furries probably don't go to most, if any events. But it just stings to feel the FOMO.

Trying to figure out how so many furries can afford to attend furcons. From my perspective, unless you live near one, it's at least $500 to attend, but that's just absolutely the bare minimum. I wouldn't want to go for less than $1,000 for security/safety.

New record. I am learning that if I speak the words as though I am saying them, it's a lot easier to flow.

I think going forward we should just ostracize anyone who does not live in reality, especially those who perpetuate the idea that reality is not the way it is.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

So this wasnt aired on TV, because of CBS's censorship because they dont want to piss of the FCC, because they want to merge. But colbert put it up on youtube anyway. Meaning they barbara streisanded it lol. Who the fuck watches colbert on TV anyway? its all youtube nowadays.

The right think your sex is scary and rapey because the right's sex is scary and rapey They think "you can't possibly consent", because they can't imagine even bothering to ask for consent, so they can't imagine you doing it. Kinda telling on themselves, huh?

As you process the Epstein files, remember: Palantir received early funding from Jeffrey Epstein. It was also backed by the CIA’s venture arm, In-Q-Tel. Then came the defense contracts. Then mass data analytics at scale. This isn’t separate stories. It’s one ecosystem: the Epstein network.

I've refreshed the builds and updated the text for my best PC for VRChat guide. dtupper.com/projects/bes...

People also conveniently ignore that this is still live on X right now.

People don't seem to understand that Isaac pretended to be my friend. I confided in him some deep, personal thoughts. He only cared about me when I was useful to WaterWolf. Otherwise, he weaponized my mental disabilities against me to get rid of me.

We could live in an economy planned by the people but instead we still have this stupid shit

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

AI will allow us to reach such high "velocity" that one single engineer can write as many bugs as previously took the entire industry working together. —@[email protected]

A week or two ago, I started a discussion with both persona and vrchat to understand whether or not my PII is still on their servers or what they did with it. I did not get an exact reply. I only got generic, liability-free responses. This is my latest email to the VRChat support team.

feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requ... Just going to put this here btw. This is the appropriate feedback channel. I made my own article, feel free to make one yourself but it is likely to get merged if there are multiple.

Pressure VRchat now, they also use Persona. Vrchat uses persona. Vrchat uses persona. Persona is backed by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is pushing for a surveillance state in the US and appears in the Epstein files hundreds of times.

Could we not, actually?

I don't quite agree with the description in the screenshot regarding why it happens, but it is very much true that RS is a thing commonly experienced by people with ADHD, that it is often very excruciating, and that it is not their fault for having these feelings and pain.

These were really good posts explaining Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria I had to pull over On a personal level, this is one of my hardest things to deal with. Thankfully its not constant, and I've learned outward reactive regulation, but inside its still this, and sometimes the sad slips out >> 1/2

People also conveniently ignore that this is still live on X right now.

People don't seem to understand that Isaac pretended to be my friend. I confided in him some deep, personal thoughts. He only cared about me when I was useful to WaterWolf. Otherwise, he weaponized my mental disabilities against me to get rid of me.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

The White House first invents a problem, then uses that to justify infringing upon our rights.

I was told my use of electricity didn't make sense with no way to recharge. So.. I took the hit to Poor rank on my avatar by adding my explanation: I call it the Mobile Platform for Resource and Energy Generation. I'll leave figuring that acronym out to you. Appropriate music has been added.

I still have no idea why "work a job that pays a living wage and get reliable health insurance" is a radical take. These corporate troglodytes are burning the country to the ground. How many movies, art, and songs are there about corporate authoritarianism? Yet what did we do?

I wish Shia could figure himself out. He seems like he can be a great guy and he was an inspiration to me at some point, but he keeps getting mad for no reason.

fuck the federal government. post office absolutely fucked my withholdings and took away most of my health insurance coverage while raising the premiums anyway. dogshit country.

Seeing an informed take about AI from an authoritative source feels extremely rare and almost jarring We'll see now who gets defensive and chooses AI over the victims of this massacre, I guess. #political

I mean, it seems pretty clear to me that Trump and admin wants to take control of the Caribbean, and probably eventually take control of at least southern middle America, probably even invade Mexico. But that's just me.

Crazy strong correlation between NSFW artists vs IRL sex models and whether or not you mark your posts appropriately with content labels. 👁️👄👁️