Bunny Mickley

Southern Baptists love to talk about “not hurting their witness” as the reason they avoid alcohol, but aggressively going after LGBT+ rights is hurting their witness way more than having a beer.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 😅

If you were wondering why we didn't have reg on Thursday night this year, this is why. I was on a Linux-powered bender rushing to set up everything again.

I had backups of the database, so no data was lost. Just time.

Phew.

Always test your backups.

So all of MFM2025's registration is running on a Pi5 this weekend. It's really fast, and I might just keep it this way. It's so small I could transport it in a pocket on my suitcase.

I grabbed a spare Pi5 I had on hand and rebuilt the server in about 2.5 hours onto the Pi5. This would have been a few casual paced nights of work at home.

Luckily it's written in Java, so the amd64 -> arm64 port was no big deal. It's also Dockerized, so I only had to push a Linux/arm64 image.

YouTube video by Bryce C LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL

Best I can tell, the CPU fan came off while in transit, and it did the Fork in the Garbage Disposal the whole way, smashing everything in sight. The CPU socket on the motherboard had bent pins. 😨 We tried to save the hardware, but it was beyond saving. youtu.be/o4AFQc4ZrvA

When I picked it up it rattled. I was again like "uh, that's also weird." When we opened the case, the CPU fan fell out. Along with the CPU itself.

It's gone between wherever I'm living at the time (Texas, California, Seattle) and Memphis with me every year.

This year, however, we went to set it up, it wouldn't power up. I was like "uh, that's weird," and went to look for a screwdriver to open the case, thinking the power button came loose.

Friends, I have a story to tell.

I'm Director of Registration for @mephitfurmeet.org. I own the server that we use for on-site registration. A disaster struck on the way to #mfm2025.

The server we've been using is a ten year old i3 server in an ITX case I built years ago.

thump

Alaska Airlines rebranded their milage program as "Atmos" and all I can think of is the surround sound from Dolby.

I had totally forgotten about the statue with arms wide open, thank you for reminding me

More like a bored meeting, am I right? *ducks*

YouTube video by April's Creature Workshop Beaky and Mango talk about Fursuiters

Beaky and Mango are all ready for a trip to @mephitfurmeet.org this week! youtu.be/30Hqt8VJ2SY?...

a boox poke4 lite showing: an anime cyborg girl with a smartphone the title "Effective Torment Nexus Design in C++" the subtitle "A modern approach" the publisher "O RLY?"

morning read

YouTube video by April's Creature Workshop Mango stress test! Let’s see how the new metal frame holds up! #animatronics

Time to see if all of my hard work on controlling heat has paid off! youtube.com/shorts/3wOke...

YouTube video by April's Creature Workshop Real life bird mode!

Yay for stress testing new hardware! youtube.com/shorts/8Obgi...

This squirrel is in the middle of the FAFO game!

The older I get, the more I realize the hippies were right.

We're doing our best to work within the constraints of Shelby County

I'm a nerd. I have one of my animatronic parrots doing a stress test, and I'm graphing the results in @honeycomb.io.

Maybe? I'm just glad it looks like actual wood :)

This is not wood. It's wood PLA that I 3D printed and then sanded totally smooth. It's hard to tell that it isn't actually wood.

Kenny's new circuit board. A circuit bird.

That'd make more sense, yeah!

Or maybe "DO use with flying carpet?"

This is from the manual for a ceiling fan. What is the bottom row trying to tell me? (maybe) Wrong answers only.

I did not get washed out to sea last night!

Oooh that's one of the best flavors!

#Mephit2015 @mephitfurmeet #Mephit #MFM Some bunny is at MFM 🙂 🙂 MFM's reg bunny out having some fun 🙂#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting Early reg for #Mephit2025 is ending SOON! go to #WWW.mephitfurmeet.org for more information