Harlequeen 🏳️‍🌈

So much this. I’m from a very caring, very British family. Hugs were not a thing. The affectionate hugs I received were like the metaphorical water in the desert.

That’s tacky. ;)

三日月(2024.9)

Beast World. You get mauled to death by malfunctioning robot lions.
Hmm. Might get certain furries turning up. ;)

Sorbus (Autumn Spire) against an orange wooden fence. Long grass.

Short and wide hazel shrub. Grey fence and brown fallen leaves.

Still with leaves sticks.

We have used Miller’s for that before but it is not set up for that. We’re not going next year but good luck.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

But Phantom or Rock musical?

It actually makes sense

2025 Furry Species Census Survey

2025 Furry Species Census Servy

Once again I bring you a furry species census!

The last time I did this in 2023 y'all submitted over 10,000 characters! I wonder if we'll beat that this time?

Survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Formatted Results: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NeeuqeläH A traditional Inuit oil lamp you could never use.

Sorbus against an orange fence, log pile, grass and weeds.

Hazel shrub grey fence and weeds.

Sticktember ends

Same… a little over.

Green shirts

Key paragraph.
A mandatory digital ID also risks entrenching discrimination. People shouldn’t be turned into criminals just because they can’t have a digital ID, or choose not to. This will be especially worrying to millions of older people, people living in poverty and disabled people.

Yeah. Pretty much my feelings. Been reading the Lib Dem opposition reasons

Chart showing road fatalities by road user involved in collision. Data for Great Britain in 2024

Road Casualties data for 2024 in Great Britain published this week: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Thanks to @pactsuk.bsky.social, there is an important new chart on the vehicles involved in fatal crashes:

I hate to admit this was really well done.
But this was really well done.

Because I trust and like you.

Wood like table. Two full pints of Cobra lager. White plate. My husband’s torso in a unicorn t-shirt.

Brain melting week. So , curry.

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night:

Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at?

**pause**

Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

I know a fae trap when I see one

Black, white and brown Prevost Squirrel on a pale branch.

I’ve wanted to see a Prevost squirrel for about twenty years. Now I have at Shepreth Wildlife Park.

Sorbus against orange fence. Rotting wood pile. Weeds.

Hazel shrub broad and low. Grey wooden fence, orange wooden fence. Weeds.

Sticktember

Black plastic bin apparently full of grass. Garden fork in it.

Two black roughly cuboid black plastic compost bins. One empty and missing its front. The other apparently full of compost.

Two black roughly cuboid black plastic compost bins. One with lid closed. The other apparently full of compost.

Not as hard as expected. Even managed to reconstruct bin.

Sorbus, weeds, orange wooden fence

Hazel shrub, weeds, brown wooden fence

August sticks.

Us too.