So I just learned about the @furaffinity.net notification purge... YEARS of backlog that I was going through gone. As a dev, I understand the rationale, but it doesn't mean I have to like or be happy about it. 😭😭😭
Cover of Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Planning on starting this Monday, excited to see where the story picks up :3
Those don’t look like e621 tags… 🤔🤔🤔
Cover of The Curator by Owen King
Another one I finished before posting, one of the books of all time.
There are at least 4 states with legislation aimed at 3D printers and it all sounds really scary and as someone not in any of those states, I'm at a loss as what I can do to help speak out against these bills...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhz6...
Is nobody gonna say a tithing about the clear OSHA violation going on? That dick doesn’t have a flared base! He’s gonna get it stuck up there!
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Reed cited that hypothetical as an example of why crypto is bad, but I don’t get why. To me it sounds like that’s crypto doing exactly what it was designed for. I just don’t know where to begin to try and understand why this is all problematic, maybe a kind soul out there can help me learn?
Something Reed said resonated with me and has me trying to understand the why of it all, to paraphrase, a crypto bro can take $5M in crypto and get on a plane, and go anywhere any nobody is the wiser. That really seems like the point of digital cash, an anonymous store of value with no strings.
Have been listening to what became a 6-part discussion of Haley Welch, aka “hawk tuah girl” from @jamieloftus.bsky.social and she had a fascinating interview with John Reed Stark. I’ve been skeptical about crypto being used as an investment and treated as such rather than digital cash.
Cover image of What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Forgot to post when I started this. From the mind of @tkingfisher.com is a great retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher. Second time reading this, this time for book club :3
I’ll keep my ears open! :3
*cries in American* Any plans to sell them online?
Cover of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Next up!
Cover of Thistlefoot by Gemma Rose Nethercott
Trying something I saw someone else do. 2026 book thread go!
Roger! I’m excited to hear more of your research! I work in web dev so I’m familiar with a lot of what’s going on (and damn those vibe coders…)
I have a video I took on my iPad if you want a other example
Right there with you friend 😭😭😭
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
@go4know.com Thanks but no. AI has no place in art.
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
I’ve done the thing. If I followed ya today, you were in my last wave of follows from the bird hellsite. All my Twitter accounts are deactivated now. Good riddance.
Listening to discussions about the evolution of Santa on @yourewrongabout.bsky.social made me think on the parallels between Santa as a tool for indoctrination of blatant consumerism and the way religious indoctrination was used for centuries to create and prop up institutions of unfair power.
Just putting an Otter map of Germany out there ..
Reparations for *every* group that contributed to the US' current superpower status but has been discriminated out of its success
I know. It’s a bit. @iwriteok.bsky.social often makes that joke on his podcasts.
Makes sense! Unlike audio, video can be edited, and editing takes time.
This was a great listen! Excited to watch Claire make it! Looks like she may not have posted the video yet, but that ok :3
x) All nodes have been upgraded and we have a brand new cluster running SFX x) The database has been upgraded to the latest version x) Automated backups are running x) Upgraded the application framework to the latest version x) Tests added x) Static code analytics added x) Search has been reworked We have decided to import all user accounts and submissions before opening SFX to the public - this lets us see any major issues instead of having you all run into them and then potentially requiring further downtime anyway. About user handles: SFX allows users to set their own username as they please including names already taken by another user. However the "user handle" is a separate name every user has and which has to be unique. No two users can have the same handle. During the beta we let users set their own handle, but this presents a problem: Those who did not log into SFX most likely want to use their current SF short name (the name you used as the URL for your profile) as a handle, and there's a possibility that some handles might be taken by users on SFX already. To solve this, we will do the following:
1) All SF2 users who haven't migrated to SFX yet will have their SF2 short name used as handle on SFX. 2) Any SFX user who set their handle to something that collides with an SF2 user's name will have their handle changed so there's no conflict anymore. This preserves your identity coming from SF2. Of course this change affects a handful of users who have been in the SFX beta and wanted to pick a particular handle that was actually already taken on SF2, but please keep in mind that while we always said that we'd try to avoid any sort of resets or data erasure from the beta to the full opening, AND this will only affect a small number of users, there was never a guarantee that everything that happened in the Beta would survive the go-live without any change whatsoever. We thought about this long and hard, and the concern of a lot of users about their name potentially getting lost (even if it's "just" the handle and not the prominently-visible username) is completely understandable and we hear you loud and clear. I really hope you're okay with this - In hindsight letting users modify their handle during the beta was a mistake, though the same issue existed for new registrations too. Technically handles don't matter, but we came to understand that user handles aren't just about the technical side of things, this is a kind of personalization that is important to people. Anyway, the decision to go ahead with the import ahead of reopening means the wait will be a bit longer. I know it's been a long time, but please stick with us. Credits go to @Terra @Nicko @nekosune and the others who are doing great work, also thanks again to @KeikoOrca for helping with configuring and transferring much-needed hardware
Hello everyone! This #SoFurryServerMoveUpdate is rather comprehensive because a lot happened, so we will share two screenshots instead. Overall good news!
Thanks for your patience. We're working on going online very soon again!