Canageek @Canageek@cybre.space

Seriously though,
I grew up in the fantasy section of libraries and the world wide web scavenging Anything dragon-related. I was fascinated by how such a wonderful, fantastic creature could propagate through the histories of so many different cultures. Dragons lingered in the liminal space between real and unreal. An idea that was a carrot on the stick to the possibility of fantasy having some hold in reality

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me as a teen, buying illegalpornography.com: this is funny for pornography reasons

me as a sophisticated adult: illegalpornography.com is funny because it's now in so many databases and every browser in the world

Fox Friday!

Images from saveafox_rescue.

@pyxis huge fan of these guys...

I was very young when I encountered The Beatles, when someone gave me _Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_. Having never heard of them, I thought "Sgt Pepper's..." was the name of the band and _Beatles_ was the name of the record. I mean, the song says, "We're Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," what was I supposed to think?

your follower count is mostly a reflection of how many instances you've outlived

Studied by the Cat-Girls

The ads were obviously too good to be true.

Want to be a lab rat for the Chatten?

Live in comfort while aiding alien research!

Half of Ted’s friends were still convinced that the Chatten were a hoax. Ted himself wasn’t entirely sure one way or the other.

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A story of cat-people from #Patreon and free for all to read.

http://www.lynthornealder.com/2019/11/01/studied/

compsci teacher's making us store gender as an enum to prove we know how enums work so i decided to have fun with it

PSA: Don't use song.link. Use musicbrainz.org instead. This should be open, Wiki-like information and not be used to generate revenue. If the music you want to link to isn't in MusicBrainz, you should add it. It's not hard

Seattle please take down your bird feeders until sometime in February. No, this is not a joke.

https://twitter.com/3liza/status/1349907156120739840?s=20

A £320,000 #bicycle lane in #London was used by 4000 cyclists a day. About 300 people complained so council ripped it off to ease congestion.

The result?

The lane is blocked by parked cars 80% of the time, and congestion... has increased.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/01/removed-london-bike-lane-blocked-by-parked-cars-most-of-the-time-study-kensington-and-chelsea-council

There will always be (loud) complaints from motorists when infrastructure makes it safer and easier for people wanting to use active transport. Here’s another example of _everyone_ being worse off when a council listens to them only.

honestly my overarching goal with the tools i pick up and build is to get enough automation leverage to make large projects by myself

i have that classic lisp hacker mindset of thinking i am good at writing languages :p

and someday it might even be true

There ought to be more draconic librarians.

Knowledge is power, after all.