I remember seeing a photo of the firearm applications room or something. Just boxes and stacks of paper covering everything with no apparent organisation.

Never mind that one can be socially left- and economically right-leaning, like a few conservative gay furries I know. I think this is a general problem. People become so obsessed with labels that they start treating the label as the truth instead of what the label is meant to represent. It's a conv...

Your work is using DOS computers?

Sometimes it seems like "left" and "right" in politics has nothing to do with policies and everything to do with whether you agree with the person or not. They seem to function purely as tribal markers, e.g. if we identify as left then anyone that is good is left wing and anyone that is bad is right...

Here's a song by Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) which I heard a few days ago. Strangely compelling melody but boy is it an odd one. Also it seems not much has changed since 1960.

If the writing isn't that much work, going along for now might be the best. There are companies that have a poor web presence because it's not how they work. It doesn't have to be suspicious. You could also ask them if they would tell you some of their clients. If they do ask you to send them money,...

Day 3 of being sick, day 2 of staying home from work. I felt pretty good yesterday evening so I was hoping I'd be able to go back in today. Oh well. Wondering if interspersing rest with some cleaning (to remove any lingering viruses) is better than just rest or whether it might make things worse.

I recently finished Ara Fell and Tomb Raider, now I've moved on to Blacktail. It's a new game based on Slavic mythology. Also it has a magical cat that you can pet!

This collie does parkour!

I mean even the name... If it was to be accurate, they'd have called it Cretaceous Park That's just a bit inaccurate. Compare that with the script, presumably written by a 7-year-old, that includes a modified dinosaur that's part T-Rex, part raptor, changes colour, is super intelligent and so on. A...

I'm going to be doing a bit of travelling over the next two weeks. Luckily I got my steam deck late last week, so I'll be able to game on the move! It's just the cheapest/smallest one but I also bought a large sd card to increase the storage space. So far its been a lot of fun. photo_2023-08-31_16-3...

I've been watching some reactions to Jurassic Park and Jurassic World and it just keeps reminding me how completely ridiculous those films are! Each one gets more crazy than the last.

Just added a shadow wolf figure to an online order on a whim and it came out way cooler than I expected.

It even has little paws!

I need to just relax. Spent a week visiting some friends and then went straight to a conference that lasted several days. Now I need the weekend to recover all my energy. At least my foot is basically healed now.

Originally posted (with links) on Flayrah: https://www.flayrah.com/8931/tagging-and-filtering-alternative-content-bans ----- It was one of those strange coincidences that makes one think that, if there were a god, he must have a strange sense of humour. Salman Rushdie, who was the target of a 1989 f...

On the note of crazy massive machines. I've always wondered of we cant harnass the not insignificant effect the pull of the moon has in the oceans? If we make a massive shallow dam of sorts, when the moon passes over, it pulls water through a turbine or similar transducer and when the gravity of th...

Yeah... that wouldn't work. Still, interesting to see some craziness still floating around. :p Pretty sure it is a perpetual motion machine. Gravity isn't introducing new energy into the system, e.g. something on a shelf doesn't get progressively heavier as the gravity on it builds up. If I'm right ...

I go back and forth there. It's true, there's some opportunities and you can get nicer property in SA for cheaper than elsewhere. But then I worry about the government and their ideas of just taking people's property and wonder how safe it would be in the long term. If they get desperate and turn to...

Reading South African news just angers me so much. Completely incompetent government.

I think I had a magazine with an advert for that game. Looked cool but I never played it.

I've been around here for 15 years!

There seems to be a lot of fear and, often, misinformation about AI. This especially true in the furry fandom regarding AI art. To address this, I wrote an essay on AI art which was published in two parts on Flayrah. Due to the complex formatting requirements, particularly in part 1, I am not going ...

I'm sort of watching His Dark Materials. But I've watched like two episodes over the month or more! :p

Happy I Love Free Software Day to me. :/

I got my hair cut. I really need to get better about doing it regularly, not only when my hair is completely out of control.

Merry Christmas!

People on Telegram were trying to convince me to watch Breaking Bad today.

I've been hearing rumours this year that this is Rammstein's last album.

Originally posted (with links and images) on Flayrah: https://www.flayrah.com/8796/wolves-and-humans-how-can-we-reduce-conflict ----- As in other European countries, tensions have been growing in Slovakia over the return of wolves and an alleged increase in livestock attacks. Wild wolves in Europe a...

After being reminded of it, I went back and finished Styx Shards of Darkness. Now I need to collect a couple of the achievements. 100% is possible but will be a lot of effort...