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B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside, in the first evidence of possible tool use by the an...

"Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside"

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A picture of a Nintendo Gamma Boy. It's kind of a geiger counter but looks just like a nintendo Game Boy. It has a Select, Start, and a knob to select options, and a Beta and Alpha button in that reddish pink. On screen is a little needle showing up to about 3.6 roentgen. to the left of the screen is a Battery and a Drop & Run indicator.

Nintendo Gamma Boy

Any 100bpm song works though! I use “Another One Bites The Dust” by Queen.

Two wolves crossing a forest road.

I saw some wolves in the forest 🐺

*sigh* no Halloween for me this year.

Tonight is studying for A&P tomorrow because after the last lab exam I need every point I can scrape together.

Sunday is a BLS for health care workers course, so Sat night is studying for that.

Sunday night is trying to catch up at work.

Monday is hell.

Doable but there are a lot of “it depends” items there. I lived out of my self-converted Sprinter van in Seattle for 6-ish months while working part-time in 2017-2018, DM me or reach out on TG if you want more details.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

I really recommend reading Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” if you find the movie at all interesting. Much better, impeccably researched, and way scarier for it. Bigelow took most of the movie straight from that book.

“…sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy.” - mhoye

A sea of stars 🌌

[ #art #commissions ]

Reading HAVOC, Inc was a central part of my furry awakening. She’s open for commissions and donations these days, if you have some coin to spare!

an event poster without text, very colorful pink purple and yellow on a white ground, two riders with mini-motorcycles speed by in race gear

Panoptes, a black and white illustration on a grey ground, a figure sits astrid a motorcycle in a night landscape, eyes cover their jacket seemingly looking every direction, their face is covered by a helmet

a rat person in a colorful outfit does a sick inline grind on a grey ground

a screenshot of my on-stream convenience store, Ix Mart, with its various goods suggested by viewers

I'm Kathryn, an illustrator specializing in anthro characters and vehicles, and I'd love to be involved with more interactive projects, covers/posters, and bespoke commissioned work!

⭐ kathryndimartino.com
📧dimartino(dot)k(at)gmail(dot)com

#PortfolioDay #illustrator #illustration

Strap up, it’s wild here. Just the other day I saw somebody in a panda fursuit rollerblading down Powell, not two blocks from my house. Anarchy!

A black-billed magpie, common raven, American kestrel, coyote, pronghorn, prairie rattlesnake, Ord’s kangaroo rat, sharp-tailed grouse, and short-horned lizard intertwine and encircle a scene showing the Pawnee Buttes. A golden eagle flies in the sky above the buttes. A red-tailed hawk tail feather and a sprig of sagebrush trail into smoke swirls that wind between the upper animal portraits.

“Prairie Life”

An older piece with even older origins. My undergraduate years included significant research and exploration time in short-grass prairie ecosystems. These are the organisms and places I still love and cherish from a formative time in my scientific journey. Sacred. (Check alt text)

I am so tempted to use this phrase in a meeting, with just a bit of the Texas accent: “Look, I can’t just puppet junior devs through JIRA tickets, they need skills they don’t have and nobody likes a hand that far up their ass without a whole lot of Crisco.”

I won’t, but the temptation is real.

“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

Every political assassin in the US in my life has always been a weirdo fringe nazi who's mad that the government isn't racist and oppressive enough and in response the government gets more racist and oppressive, so i guess political violence really does work 🤷‍♂️

This is excellent. Just this week I was getting to explain to my Austrian visitors that the Hitler “Man Of The Year” issue was the culmination of an ENTIRE YEAR of propaganda articles about the greatness of Nazi Germany arranged by Goebbels. A lot of normalizing fluff.

a black cat stands in the middle of a path that winds through a brightly lit field.

A dream of the fields
study

This never sold. If youre interested, send me an offer. I just cant have it laying around taking up space.

#furry #fursuit

Several sketches of one-eighth of the individual-pack "Amdiranifani" from the science fiction novels A Fire Upon The Deep and The Children Of The Sky. He is a group mind comprised of eight weakly wolflike creatures, each of which is in isolation nonsentient but capable of sharing ultrasonic 'mindsound' with other pack-members, the gestalt of three to eight of which forms a discrete personality.

sketching up ideas for Tines

Curious as to why in your case? If you don’t mind sharing.

It’s true, my most expensive bespoke suit has all of these:

✅ Shape and drape
✅ Specialized fabrics
✅ Willing to put up with discomfort to look good

Fashion experts agree - you’ll look better in a fursuit!

(picture is not actually the suit in question)

One part of why I like being a race director is the chaos and contingency planning; I say often that an apocalypse is easier for me to deal with than most Tuesdays at work. If that’s really true…why not go to work in an apocalypse?

(brought to you by Considering A Future In Emergency Medicine)

Starting to put things in motion for a big change that’s long overdue. It’s too early to say “I’m going to do X!”, but I’m getting ready to go back to school part time this winter for EMT-B and pre-reqs, and hopefully into a accelerated post-bacc BSN program by next fall/spring. Paws crossed.

My specialty is technical publishing systems and they’re integrating LLMs into places they should never ever be. Big companies are not nearly as risk-averse as you’d hope when they’re chasing fads driven by C-suite execs with no other ideas on how to keep a mature company growing endlessly.

If only. I contract for a very large tech company (mid-list Fortune 100) that is all in on AI, and the senior software architect I work under is using ChatGPT to review and reject system designs. Like, doesn’t even read them, just relays LLM-generated commentary.

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

Portland, Oregon, which has a similar population as Helsinki, had 58 traffic deaths in 2024 www.portland.gov/transportati...