Elf M. Sternberg

"I glowered at him. 'I have never taken a desk lamp!'"

If you get that joke, you are both a furry and you need to remember to take your statins tonight.

Huh. Reading through my notes, and I'd totally forgotten the entire side-plot about the "Furious" gene line in my mustelids, the one that lets them go hyperfast but comes with serious risk of self-injury.

"I don't know why you humans think you're the least sexy species in the Commonwealth."

"Someone has to be."

#amwriting

I feel like Ukraine probably has a lot of thoughts on this topic

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

"One thing I like is when there's a war on. That's when I know if our side's winning or our side's losing." - young boy's voice-over from Roger Waters' Amused To Death.

In this universe, we have a band named "Spock's Beard." So I needed a band name in a story and settled on "Londo's Dick." #IYKYK

Irony rose from the grave just long enough to give a middle finger.

So we can look forward to four years of planet-engulfing war. Got it.

Am I an old fart because, if you ship me a C program, I want a Makefile and programs that respect Ctrl-C?

Confidential database reveals which items NPS thinks may ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

The Republican Administration says that purpose of national parks is not to educate Americans on our history. History began with the Republican Administration. The purpose of public spaces is to make Americans proud to live, serve, and die for Republicans. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

3 U.S. Planes Are Shot Down in ‘Friendly Fire’ in Kuwait, U.S. Military Says

Not to make it about economics, but that plane right there constitutes the budget of my city for the next 27 years

I'm never going to get over Katniss in the Hunger Games looking at the moon in the arena, realizing she's been there a month, and not even in her thoughts going to "wow I never even got my period." Which makes sense because the demands on her were extreme! But still!

learning that orcas in one part of the world are racist against orcas from other parts was A Moment

I didn't realize Romulans qualified for the VIP treatment.

A bottle of Penzey's chicken taco seasoning.

Tonight's dinner is chicken and cheddar quesadillas with sauteed onions and bell pepper, and a touch of the official Trump Always Chickens Out seasoning.

I'm sorta surprised that the furry community has decided Aunt Cass's fursona is a bear.

A sous vide rig with a towel over it to keep in the heat.

You know what this world needs? This world needs lids for pots that you do sous vide in with a hole just big enough for the tool to help keep the heat in and make keeping the temperature consistent easier.

In my Disney Princess fanfic on AO3, one of the princesses mentions getting her period. I got four or five pieces of hate mail about that, all from dudes.

Many moons ago at a prior job, I had code switched into Seattle gay argot with a coworker. Another member of my team asked us what we were laughing about because he couldn't follow along. We explained that it was queer slang.

"Oh." He thought for a moment, then turned to me. "Why do you know it?"

New research from northern Minn. shows wolves feed berries to their young New research into the surprising summer eating habits of northern Minnesota wolves known to be fond of beaver, fish and blueberries has now also documented wolves feeding those berries to their pups.

This is very important news, and I will be disappointed if within the next 5 years we don't have any picturebooks about wolves feeding blueberries to their pups! www.mprnews.org/story/2020/0...

Fluttershy scans the landscape before climbing on her flying mount and taking off.

One of the drawings I started during my recent Heavy Metal themed picarto.tv/baronengel stream. Flutters does look good in Taarna's outfit.

www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/...
#mlp #anthro #heavymetal #taarna

This shitty culture destroyed a generation of centrist intellectuals and weakened our defenses against fascism.

New emergency rules finish an administrative challenge to AIDS drug program cuts • Florida Phoenix The DeSantis administration has filed an emergency rule that restricts eligibility for an AIDS drug assistance program beginning March 1, effectively bringing an end to an administrative challenge fil...

The Florida Department of Health says that program is underfunded and $120million in deficit. The emergency is that if they were forced to fund it, they would have to take the money from other people who, I'm sure, DeSantis and Ladapo believe are "more deserving."

floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/25/n...

They used an "emergency rule," stating that providing this medication "is an immediate danger to public health, safety, or welfare." A court has demanded to know "What emergency?" and the response is telling.

The US has no industrial capacity to produce the munitions needed to fight a large scale conflict in Iran. If this spirals into a protracted conflict, the US will not be able to sustain a bombing campaign. It must put troops on the ground. They have no plan for this.

The "All team members are busy assisting other customers, please continue to hold" message is programmed to interrupt you on the most annoying interval possible to encourage you to give up, isn't it?

Just play the fuckin' elevator music.

Today's painful Web Component lesson: margin collapse does not register across DocumentFragment boundaries. (I mean, yes, that's obvious, but when you see it, it's really frustrating.)

Let's allow for a little hyberbole. The Mint people are already discussing putting a disclaimer on the website saying, "Not for use in California." I just don't know how you enforce this, or what penalties they imagine will be needed for someone booting up a dozen VMs.

What is the current situation with the Strait of Hormuz?

While the Strait of Hormuz has not been officially closed down, it is effectively not functioning. About 150 vessels are currently near it, waiting for the situation to improve.