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Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis
@Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz
mastodon 4.5.7Furry fandom's original coati since 1995.
Non-anthro, the best anthro. All-ages account. New followers welcome; no need to ask.
He/him. Moderator, blimps.xyz.
Black Lives Matter.
Abolish and prosecute ICE.
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Watching _Blazing Saddles_ again and I've said this before but it's still true. You _could not_ make this movie today. Movies take _months_ to make, there's only like six hours left in the day out in Hollywood? You couldn't even finish doing all the boring preliminary paperwork stuff in only six hours.
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@AmethystLight@transfur.social @balloonpup@blimps.xyz This is an exciting development! Very kind ghost hands!
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@foxyloon@blimps.xyz Oh, nice thing about a good repair scene is it's happy on either end, yes.
Honey, get the flamethrower.
Me: You know, I have an hour left in the day, what's a nice easy story I could complete in that? Oh, how about this old tech-debt one, where we used to have two roles that would get instruction handbooks assigned to them, and now we only have the one role? How hard could removing the no-longer-supported role from this upload manager be?
Previous Developer: [ Has somehow left behind a fractal labyrinth of every bad coding pattern so intense that the digital minotaur is at the _entrance_, shrugging because he hasn't the faintest how to even get into this mess. ]
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@AdaraAstin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu We all are, in time!
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@patchoblack@meow.social More coatis are a great thing to have around! But no, I'm just thinking how nice it would be to be better.
You see, it's easy to remember that a gallon weighs about eight and a third pounds, because a gallon is equal to four quarts (_quart_ers of a gallon), and a quart is about five percent smaller than a liter (liters were designed to be close to a volume that was itself about a quart), and a liter of water is a kilogram of mass, and one kilogram weighs 2.2 pounds, and so from that we know a gallon of water has to be about five percent (0.44) less than 8.8 pounds, therefore close to 8.36 pounds.
Anyway no, I've never had reason to think I wasn't basically neurotypical, why do you ask?
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the usual background radiation of antisemitism
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Raccoons and coatis also have the paws that can turn around.
I had a squirrel friend once who learned our feet can turn backwards and was *really* upset I had such squicky ankle.
Weirdly, he wasn't grateful when I taught him that squirrels have the same kind of multiple-jointed ankles to turn _their_ feet backwards.
Is an interest in rope tf a twining kink?
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@Nine@chitter.xyz @foone@digipres.club If it helps any, *way* more than you would think of the BBS stuff was kids figuring out how to do annoying and time-consuming tricks with the cursor-manipulation commands.
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@digitalfox@yip.vulpine.engineer My suspicion is actually 'person having a laugh'! But it's a bad one, especially as my blog had recently mentioned several known cases where an LLM stole my writing.
(Not by seeing it turn up in search results or anything, more's the pity, because I have some cracks about characters in _Rex Morgan_ and _Gasoline Alley_ that I think are prime stuff. But I can see the number of page views per day and ain't no way I got five thousand views on one day honestly.)
Messing with your friends' heads.
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@Hearth @foxyloon Huh!
Well, it is a bit of an old-timey expression. Probably its most prominent pop-culture use is there's a scene in The Wizard of Oz after the flying monkeys have torn the Scarecrow's stuffing out, and the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion look over all the parts scattered around and agree "that's you all over".
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@KayOhtie@blimps.xyz Aw, yeah, that is lovely. @BlurTheFur@social.blurthefur.com did a fine job.
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@throatmuppet@thicc.horse Chirp!
What if a salt lick for the non-deer community though?
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@foxyloon @Hearth @balloonpup Nah, some of the fun is looking around and people agreeing, that's you all over.
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@balloonpup @Hearth Ah, but going out without your head is part of the fun! Also it makes for better shoulder space for creatures like me.
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@Hearth @balloonpup I mean a greater number but also people who can come apart in a greater diversity of ways would be welcome.
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@balloonpup Must admit that while my tail is excellent and I understand the people who want to borrow it, it doesn't really have the volume for using as a mattress. Not before it gets inflated, anyway.
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@nall@dook.business Among the creatchest!
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@balloonpup@blimps.xyz Does it know what brought about the change?
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@balloonpup@blimps.xyz Oh, did they acquire the name 'Briar' when they got shapeshifty-alien-noodlefied, the way Trinket did?
OK, Previous Developer, let's see what daftness you have for me here.
Stored procedure GETMETRICSBYDATERANGE taking parameters of a START_DATE and END_DATE, all right, that looks okay.
Stored procedure GETMETRICSBYRANGE taking parameters of a START_DATE and END_DATE. All right, why are you doing this to me?
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@foxyloon@blimps.xyz Oh good, the carry-on is the most fun. Plus sometimes you get to peek on the in-flight movie.
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@foxyloon@blimps.xyz Oh, good job! Do you figure you're going to fit in the carry-on with everything or are you going to put yourself in checked luggage?
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@dunny0@kind.social Oh yes, come to think of it, this is an option. Well, salt licks for us folks who don't go in for hooves.
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@levicoyote@furries.club Aw, not _everything_ I do is about highly interesting transmutation, sometimes it's just about how I was eating a bunch of nacho chips and really liked the salt content.
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Are Usenet groups invented or discovered, the most tedious argument in sci.philosophy.tech, ...
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Ah, and now I remember seeing The Squicky Ankles playing the Common Grounds Music Festival. Good music but don't watch the stage performance.
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@balloonpup@blimps.xyz I can't see anything to be grumpy about being a rock.
The pinball game Elvira's House of Horrors has them as the 'Gar-Goils' which demands a particular accent to really work but is also fun.
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@Hearth @balloonpup I'm up for it! Maybe just a group hangout while our heads are off playing trophy or something.
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@Satori Aw, that's so delightful seeing, though.
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@mortonfox @digitalfox Oh, my workplace has KnowBe4 training too. They do some videos that are basic presentations of things and some that are goofy little stories. It's never been so bad or so much as to be a bother.
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@VoxSomniator@chitter.xyz Looking at the thumbnails I thought the second was a glowy brain with skylight features.
Well _that_ was an unpleasantly fascist episode of Automan.
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@Nikon@chitter.xyz Happy Raccoon Day!
Why is this robot dinosaur me?
It evolves again. 🦖 - DOBOT Bringing Prehistoric Life to Robotics
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@fluffy Here's hoping this problem is resolved at least a little while.
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@TssReniaSoars@tailswish.industries It was! There were a number of philosophy groups in the sci, humanities, and alt hierarchies.
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@lusrangifer@blimps.xyz Might be! At least I can slip some in just in case it blows up WordPress dot com.