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#101DalmatianStreet #101Dalmatians #Disney #DisneyPlus #HappyBirthday

April 15th, my dedicated pups!
Which means it's VA P.C. Pearl voice actress Tameka Empson's Birthday!!🎊🎉🎈

Let's give her a big round of applause for her performance as Camden's finest police horse!👮🐎

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My sketch of Da Vinci in charcoal

My sketch of Da Vinci in charcoal

Yesterday I did two art projects. A quick sketch of Da Vinci, this time in charcoal on physical paper, and a digital illustration of my Dal form!

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#art #furryart #101DS #dalmatian #101DalmatianStreet #fanart #digitalart #charcoal

1 week ago 3 1 0 0
Being visible – The Dalmatian Life

Being visible this #TransDayOfVisibility. 🏳️‍⚧️

dalmatian.life/2026/03/31/b...

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A sketch of Da Vinci Dalmatian, rendered in 30px Graphite (grayscale) in Adobe Fresco on an iPad Pro.

A sketch of Da Vinci Dalmatian, rendered in 30px Graphite (grayscale) in Adobe Fresco on an iPad Pro.

A rough sketch of Da Vinci!

dalmatian.life/2026/03/30/a...

#art #furryart #101DS #dalmatian #101DalmatianStreet #fanart #digitalart

2 weeks ago 6 2 0 0
Live stream is: Delayed – The Dalmatian Life

Sadly, the #MARCHintosh + #101DS crossover stream is not meant to be. My G5 has decided to ground itself.

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3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
Planning my first live stream! – The Dalmatian Life

Keep an eye on this space: I'm planning a #MARCHintosh + #101DS crossover live stream on Sunday!

dalmatian.life/2026/03/24/p...

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
“Scan early, scan often” – The Dalmatian Life

"Scan early, scan often": one Dalmatian's thoughts on cancer screenings.

dalmatian.life/2026/03/21/s...

#health #wellbeing #cancer #screening

4 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
Old band Web sites – The Dalmatian Life

Old band Web sites: a trip down memory lane.

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#history #archival #music #retrocomputing

4 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
Oh, for a simpler Paint… – The Dalmatian Life

New blog post: Oh, for a simpler Paint…

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#technology #simplicity #ui #windows

1 month ago 0 0 0 0

Tehran: Iranian government kills protestors, violating human rights and garnering international condemnation.

Minneapolis: US government kills protestors, violating human rights and garnering international condemnation.

Khamenei and Trump are virtually indistinguishable at this point.

2 months ago 1 1 1 0
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Also, I spent the entirety of winter curtailment writing plot outlines and dialogue for a series of graphic novels.

Early review with a few close friends seems to be that I may actually have something here worth developing.

So that's kind of cool and an unexpected hobby!

2 months ago 1 0 0 0

Shoutout to my former next door neighbour that played The Black Parade at 100% volume one day during the height of the pandemic. I sang along so hard.

I'm doing that right now since the adjoining flat is presently empty, and it just reminded me of that day.

2 months ago 0 0 0 0

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

5 months ago 6568 1876 140 86
gem.coop

"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop

LFG, kids. Coops ftw

6 months ago 56 11 1 1

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

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A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

6 months ago 1725 1089 10 16

Found out this morning it was a prank call to UCPD. All good.

6 months ago 1 0 0 0

Yeah, as a programmer in Library IT, I am a bit concerned by this as well (which is why I hopped on social media at why-am-I-awake-o'clock) - let me know if you find out.

6 months ago 1 0 2 0

What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.

6 months ago 2 1 2 0
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I want to heart this because he's finally not going to be superintendent.

But that's not a great purpose in life either, really.

6 months ago 2 0 0 0

If there really was a looming threat, this was the worst way to handle it. The community is likely to follow projects/forks led by the people who were unceremoniously removed - so any threat they know of, but are not sharing, can't be properly acted upon. And that's a no-win scenario for Ruby.

7 months ago 8 0 1 0

At this point, what @rubycentral.org has done is a form of supply chain attack: taking ownership of a widely used repository, and then denying access to its existing maintainers.

This reminds me of the GitHub mass-assignment bug. That is not something you want to remind me of if you want goodwill.

7 months ago 8 0 1 0

Yeah, software supply chain attacks are scary. They keep me, and many others in the Linux packaging world - and the greater DevOps world - up at night.

The solution is not ripping access from maintainers that we have long-standing relationships with. This gives the opposite of trust.

7 months ago 6 0 1 0

Project leadership is hard, and you want people the community trusts there. *Especially* during transition periods, if that is what they are really wanting, it is vital to maintain a sense of continuity.

These moves are contrary to OSS ethos, not to mention basic human dignity.

7 months ago 9 0 1 0

This statement from @rubycentral.org does not give me the warm and fuzzies; transparency, equity, and collaboration in an open-source style do not happen in the dark, nor can they happen without honesty and dialogue with existing contributors.

7 months ago 11 1 1 1

Thank you for all your work in this space - and so many others. This was definitely not a move that was deserved nor warranted. It's been a while - would love to catch up sometime!

7 months ago 0 0 0 0
RubyGems.org | your community gem host

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

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My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas.  It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".

My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas. It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".

Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.

9 months ago 1 0 0 0

Did you ever figure out a better workaround? I'm seeing this with Capybara / RSpec system tests using Selenium Hub with Chromium nodes. It's totally random, and totally annoying - it makes about 1 out of every 3-4 CI runs we have fail.

10 months ago 0 0 0 0
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