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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 06/10/2026

oh shit I just realized that Phish - Rift needs to be on this list, much more than Smash or Blue Album. Yes, this must be corrected.

The Beatles - Abbey Road
Radiohead - In Rainbows
John Brodeur - Tiger Pop
Miracles of Modern Science - MEEMS
The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Nirvana - Nevermind
Phish - Rift
The Postal Service - Give Up
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 04/10/2026

a peek behind the scenes of my frustration with being unable to work on music right now due to bad brain and pain

album organization
Misfits
Misfits

definitely
- [ ] Fanfare
- [ ] Inclement weather in space
- [ ] Bitter Monday
- [ ] laments of a college student working two part-time jobs while taking a full courseload
- [x] Bipolar bear
- [ ] “everything’s fine, everything’s great” tuning
- [ ] third chorus tuning
- [ ] outro string timing 3:17
- [x] the difference (American idol song)
- [x] rerecord vocals
- [x] selective gain on direct guitar
- [x] Turn down drums in v2
- [x] homeward bound
- [x] B chord right before final resolution
- [x] needs a transitional segment between second verse and bridge. maybe: E B C#m A E G C#m B
- [x] turn down doots right before bridge (0:53)
- [x] i need a vacation
- [x] one minute
- [x] Stinger
- [ ] transition into platypus chorus slightly janky rhythm
- [ ] “people who are my friends” tuning
- [ ] fluffy speech right before “that’s my address” - make a little later
- [x] empire of one
- [ ] instrumental bridge after chorus
- [ ] reprise chorus after last verse

maybe
- [ ] rich tech boy
- [ ] shreds
- [ ] Wish you would
- [ ] nevada
- [ ] Boffo Yux
- [ ] Distracted
- [ ] brown boxes
- [ ] gin or ginseng
- [ ] so aggravating

probably not
- [ ] Peace is rest
- [ ] The pain song
- [ ] strictly speaking
- [ ] One more time around

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 02/10/2026

Woohoo! For the first time ever I've made more money on streaming than it cost me to put my music on streaming! sigh

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 02/10/2026

Batman dragging overreliance on asking the computer everything in 1966

Batman: Look up the address of the Royal Mushroom Club

Robin immediately goes to the computer.

Batman: There are some things we can do the good old-fashion way.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 27/09/2026

It fits! Now to see if it helps. Knowing Tyler he’s going to find some other stupid failure mode now.

Automatic litter box with a newly-installed splash guard on the left.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 27/09/2026

Evidence of repeated dumbassery

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 27/09/2026

so, I had an outlet extender thingy that broke in a dumb way, so I replaced it with one that also has USB outlets on it. Handy. But also unknown to me it also has a built-in night-light, which seems like it might be nice, except the problem is that when the light […] [Original post on plush.city]

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 26/09/2026

Okay instead of working on things I'd rather be working on y'all grabbed my hyperfocus and here's a more detailed explanation of where my network was before, is right now, and where it'll be after my next upgrade. The transition from past to present cost $80, and […] [Original post on plush.city]

Past network layout. Everything tops out at 1Gbps, and everything is Ethernet.

Present network layout. Everything is Ethernet aside from the fiber link between the NOC and the recording studio, the living room PC still tops out at 1Gbps, and the Mac mini and Mac studio top out at 2.5Gbps.

Future network layout. There is one additional switch, the Mac mini and Mac studio now run at their full 10Gbps, and the VR PC runs at its full 2.5Gbps.

Alternate history network layout. Just as with the future layout, the Mac mini and studio top out at 10Gbps, but the VR PC still only gets 1Gbps, and the link between the NOC and the recording studio is still Ethernet.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 26/09/2026

okay so here's a rough schematic of my network (partial, not every device is there but the major ones are) The situation I was in was that before, all of the switches were only 1000baseT. Right now I have 2.5GbE+1xSFP switches in the NOC and recording studio and […] [Original post on plush.city]

Network diagram

Living room with VR PC (2.5GbE), WiFi AP (1GbE), PS4 (1GbE), Switch (the network kind), AppleTV, "Smart" TV

Home office with a Mac mini (10gbE)

NOC with an OpenWRT router (1GbE), Switch, NAS (2.5GbE)

Recording studio with Switch, Intel NUC (1GbE), mac Studio (10GbE)

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 25/09/2026

And of course the new watch, despite being the same size and shape of the old watch, doesn’t QUITE fit my collection of existing bands. Fortunately I have some new ones on the way from AliExpress because I am not a fan of the official band the watch came with (and […] [Original post on plush.city]

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 25/09/2026

so anyway i posted a comment

Correction: There are in fact quite a few airline pilots who are furries. I know a few of them. They're cool people, and the furry fandom and community in general have been extremely unfairly maligned by people outside of it. Some people go to renaissance faires, some people go to Star Trek conventions, some people go to furry conventions. (A lot of people are in all three groups, for that matter.)

It's not a fetish and it's not a mental illness. It's just a fun way to spend one's spare time while also exploring creative, artistic pursuits.

Furries have also done WAY more for society than anyone in the Executive branch right now. The Internet has always been run by furries. So many important tech and medical inventions were created by furries. You would not even begin to believe how much furries have done for you without you knowing it.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 24/09/2026

I'd say that worked. Context for the graph: green line in the top graph shows the "site down" error rate (which spiked while flrig was disabled outright), bottom graph is aligned and shows the total requests/sec hitting my server. The purple line mostly shows the […] [Original post on plush.city]

a couple of munin statistics graphs showing the progression of a bot attack followed by two antibot mitigations (disabling the site followed by improved mitigations in place).

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 14/09/2026

Wow, Oreo-flavored cookies? What will they think of next

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 11/09/2026

fluffy don’t try to interpret everything as perverted

A sign at the grocery store that proclaims, “great for topping or feeding”

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 31/08/2026

The IMDb ratings on this one tell a story. #monsterdon

A mostly Gaussian distribution of ratings from 1-9, with an odd spike at 10

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 28/08/2026

I like that the reason the moon turns red during an eclipse is because it's seeing every sunset on Earth simultaneously.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 28/08/2026

Show went well, lots of fun! Linode sent me a notification about how much outbound traffic I just served up over the last hour. So nice to have heavy bandwidth usage for a thing I actually want it used for, for a change!

Nginx request rate graph showing an hour-long spike during Sockpuppet's set at NHAMFest26

nginx stats graph showing that live.sockpuppet.band was the dominant vhost during Sockpuppet's NHAMfest 26 show

Firewall throughput graph showing a much larger sustained bandwidth consumption for the hour during Sockpuppet's NHAMFest26 set

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 26/08/2026

imagine being this tedious

musialmi3 days ago(-1)

What a pity. The concept is very interesting. The execution is mediocre. The pieces don't rotate as in original Tetris and don't move this way. The grid is confusing. Thank you for bringing this into life anyway, hopefully it'll someday meet its better version.

fluffy3 days ago

It was a game jam prototype.

musialmi 5 hours ago(-1)

What made you decide to mention this information here now?

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 26/08/2026

And another larger buckyball

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 25/08/2026

And a bunch of my other accumulated little sculptures. It’s easy and fun to make dodecahedrons as well as “stellated dodecahedrons” that show the duality with an icosahedron.

Multiple magnetic sculptures amidst other bric-a-brac

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 25/08/2026

Anyway here’s a buckyball made of Buckyballs

A buckyball made of green and gold-colored magnet spheres

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 24/08/2026

this heathcliff will be an evergreen image meme, I think

A comic in which Heathcliff is looking out the window as the old woman raises a flag emblazoned with the word “UGH.” The mailman tells a passer-by, “It’s going up earlier than usual today.”

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 20/08/2026

Wellp I see Strange New Worlds is still going all-in on whatever it is it's doing

A lunging Muppet-style puppet that looks like Anson Mount as Captain Pike from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 18/08/2026

It’s frustrating that this has still only put a tiny dent into the bot traffic onslaught. Maybe I need to go back to having a same-server honeypot which can drive fail2ban.

bots being banned by nginx-gatekeeper-throttle in particular, hovering around 400-500 hosts

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 18/08/2026

yeah so far no meaningful change to the overall 429 error rate, oh well Maybe it'd make sense to increase the detection window or something. a lot of the IP addresses are "repeat customers," they're just only coming up fairly infrequently. definitely something […] [Original post on plush.city]

graph of nginx error codes, showing the same overall randomness-with-gentle-trends as always

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 16/08/2026

Would a butterfly wear a top hat like this or like this

On the left, a cartoon butterfly wearing a top hat on its head, behind its antennae

On the right, a cartoon butterfly wearing a much smaller top hat on the bulb of one antenna

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 14/08/2026

I'm getting some tonal dissonance from this YouTube error

YouTube error screen, with very festive graphics and the text, "Your Home feed has expired"

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 10/08/2026

anyway one more refinement before I get high

Sockpuppet
Misfits

Black-and-white puzzle with a red piece that doesn't quite fit, and the table underneath is blue

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 10/08/2026

Here it is with the missing puzzle piece idea at least

Sockpuppet
Misfits

Black-and-white puzzle with one red piece that doesn't quite fit

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 10/08/2026

Here's a refinement of the idea. My original idea was that it would be a photorealistic render inside of a house, all black and white, with a puzzle like this being assembled on the table, and then one puzzle piece doesn't fit in and is colored red.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 10/08/2026

this isn't how I envisioned it at all but here's at least some hopefully-temporary placeholder art for my album "Misfits"

A simple jigsaw puzzle, where the left half is black and the right half is white. It is overlaid with the text "Sockpuppet - Misfits" where the text is white on the black half and vice-versa, and the fonts are mismatched as well, with "Sockpuppet" being sans-serif on the left and serif on the right, and vice-versa for "Misfits"

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 08/08/2026

here's Fiona and Werner spending some quiet quality time together. This would have had to have been in 2021 (since we'd moved to White Center and Werner was still alive).

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 08/08/2026

Here's some pictures of Fiona, my 15-year-old who is also the subject of my long-running thread. #internationalCatDay #caturday

Fiona sleeping peacefully and cuddling her own paw

Fiona standing on a wood floor and wanting food or something

Fiona succumbing to her stereotype and sitting in a box

Fiona licking herself, with a very fuzzy Tyler in the background

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 08/08/2026

Happy #internationalCatDay! Check out this weird little cat who was on my awning.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 04/08/2026

Wellp, this is foreboding. Guess I'm staying inside for the next week. Also, I hope my friends in Spokane are keeping safe. :/

AQI map of the Seattle area. Current location is 73 (moderate), and there is what looks like a massive storm front rolling in ranging from 100 to 500.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 02/08/2026

The random plaintext summary on spam messages gets pretty weird sometimes. (This was yet another “I hacked your computer, ooo scary, send me bitcoin” scam message.)

fluffy 6:38 AM
Delivery Status Notification
the ceiling above you is breathing out.
the dark in your room is not feeling.

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 02/08/2026

I mean, look at this cute li'l guy

The baby from Eraserhead, swaddled and smiling up at the ceiling

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fluffy 💜 @fedi.beesbuzz.biz · 25/07/2026

The rat party was just getting started but now floofcat is on the scene.

Floofcat by the asparagus and looking back at fluffy

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