Here be Dragons and Whatnot

.........until this very moment, I thought it meant constipated 💀💀💀

OH NO

I did the generic testing (RIP my wallet ;_;) and it's positive. Welcome to the lame gene club!

Thank you!! 🥰🥰🥰 If this trend continues, this is going to be life-changing

Yeah I was told my condition was permanent and progressive, and suddenly we've reversed course? I'm still stunned but really enjoying going outside! Quarantine sucks when you have to do it alone 😭

too vigorously would trigger a severe reaction, so I had to be careful not to laugh. Today I rode my bike 8 miles to an outdoor venue where I spent a few hours with friends. It's almost too good to be true; after YEARS of illness, I might have my life back 😭 😭 😭 I can't believe this is happening

I had such an incredible experience today. I'm at a point in my illness where my doctor is just sort of tossing prescriptions at me to see what works. Sometimes they help, but usually not. Three weeks ago, I started something new. Last month, I could not go outside without an N95. Even breathing +

That would be a lovely post! I keep meaning to do that for mine since she changes every single year

LOOK AT HER AND HER FLUFFY SMILE AAAAAAA

OH MY GOODNESS LOOK AT HER SHE IS PERFECT AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I almost missed this because it was buried in notifications but oml THANK YOU I LOVE IT 😭😭😭😭😭❤️💚🩷💙🧡💗💛💙🤍💝💝🩶💘

Bright side, I'm pretty sure I got to the root of one of my medical issues and boy howdy things are about to be less dire if that's the case! Now if someone could just delete the big beautiful bill so I don't lose my health insurance...

Oof, what a month July has been x.x A surprising intensity of highs and lows, but hopefully things will be stable for the next few weeks. The only thing certain is that big change is in store for me, but it should be mostly good even if it's difficult in the short term. But on the incredibly+

I need a new bedframe soon, and all your woodworking posts are giving me the intrusive (probably bad) thought of doing it myself. It would be ugly but sturdy

I am so incredibly sorry. Not a single person should go without access to basic preventative care like mammograms (or any healthcare, really, but that's apparently too much to ask for 💔)

I'm not really into superheroes so thank you for sharing this because it's incredible and I wouldn't have thought to go looking for it! Wow!!

Your fur rendering is so soft and beautiful ❤️

They look so exasperated 😭😭

Yes, this!!! I loathe generalizing people by generation as an excuse to treat the young and old terribly. I remember being so frustrated with the articles, think pieces, and etc trashing my generation, and I am now equally frustrated with my peers who perpetuate it.

Wow!! Do we have complete skulls of this species that you were able to reference? (I know so little about early humans)

When I first made my art feed, I went through all my old work to add proper tags without realizing it would re-broadcast them to all my followers :'D Everyone got a hefty dose of my art that day, LOL

Reddit is SO BAD about this? I've seen threads where there are tens (and sometimes will into the triple digits) of comments with the exact same answer and it's mind-boggling. Like why do they feel the need to repeat the same thing over and over?

Also have a heavily assimilated Lebanese grandma. What a coincidence! But our legacy is random Arabic curse words instead of delicious bread

My coworkers seem pretty split on the utility of AI; my limited experiments with LLMs found them way too generic to be of much help, but I'm almost certainly bad at prompting. Some people think they're brilliant and can't live without them but I've yet to find a way to make them useful 😅

I'm having an issue where Bluesky keeps logging me out of my account. I feel it's most likely some sort of bug, but if I start posting weird stuff or randomly asking for money know that my account has been compromised lol

OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE THIS SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA She's perfect thank you!! And I didn't even notice the missing teeth |D THANK YOU I LOVE HER ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

How clearly this demonstrates the need for more research in the wild, not just benchmarking and/or simulations. As a researcher, that second one is close to my heart because of how frequently I see colleagues on LinkedIn 'streamlining' the users out of user research in favor of AI :/

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...

Really interesting study about the real vs. perceived time-saving aspect of LLMs for experienced developers working on real-world tasks. I think the most interesting aspects of this are 1) the discrepancy between perceived and actual time saved by the devs, even after completing the tasks, and +

I pretty much only use Instagram for reels when I'm stressed, LOL. I don't like navigating meta algorithms for art purposes, I feel like they push you to chase engagement and that's not what I want. I really love the community feeling of Bluesky but I also kind of crave the old DeviantArt

I feel like I was really warming up to the fandom via Twitter, but I had to get off in 2018 because it was just too stressful on that site. I still feel cut off from mainstream furries :< Is fA the place to be these days or has that been declining too?

Love the super clean, graphic style! These are neat 😁

I really love this creator and she just did a post on her sticker display! (Also pretty sure she's local to you 😁) www.instagram.com/reel/DJpqFX-...