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Wittercism and crittercism.

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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 1h
If it was my sole criterion, absolutely. :) But even I'm not (quite) impetuous enough (usually) to write off a nation because the buses disagreed with me one Thursday morning. There are other more significant societal choices on which Ireland and I will have to respectfully disagree.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 2h
Standing sixteen one or two, I hear.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 2h
Two things learned: 1. Ireland is full of lovely people (some in particular ♥). 2. Man, I'm so glad I don't live there. (I say after walking three miles between the nation's two largest transit hubs because of inadequate bus links between them.)
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 6h
It's a good question, especially since I do dry out if I don't pay conscious attention to drinking lots, but in this case I think it's more to do with not looking after my sitting posture enough.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 8h
argh goddammit those "waking at 3 am because I moved wrong and a chronically cramping muscle stabbed me in the back" blues
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12h
[A nearby Flock camera droops its nose and releases a wisp of magic smoke]
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12h
While I don't know you as well as I'd like to, I do have a strong feeling that you'd be one of the least distressing people to have sit me down, stick a lollipop in my maw and then ask me to explain exactly what happened to next door's cat.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 17h
I'll suck your cock for immunity, it's murder trying to get a COVID jab round here!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 22h
With the additional convenience that, if anyone pesters you, you have just what you need to punch-dagger them through the eyeball and then glue the hole shut again.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've seen some outrage going around about this. The sentiments do indeed suck but, come on folks, some very trivial digging reveals that this is AI slop churned out by an undergrad. It is not the harbinger of the apocalypse. Let it vanish from your mind.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You should try Inbox Zero! My inbox is always ruthlessly at zero emails. Well, as a trivial technicality, 0 + gε emails, where ε ∈ ℕ (upper bound yet to be identified) and g is the guilt coefficient.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Lying awake in the night with the window open, listening to a big' ol rainy sou-wester blowing in. One of my favourite sounds in the world.
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Inky/Burr @inkaburr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I think you like planes right @footpad.bsky.social? :0
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
OMG yes just like that, although maybe that's a little flattering compared to my actual levels of aviation competence. :D ❤️❤️
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The notion of a decentralised medium of exchange is a beautiful one, and I love Bitcoin as an idea and an experiment, but I find it extraordinarily technologically, economically and pragmatically over-optimistic to assume that it can ever scale to become the world's predominant financial instrument.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My main reaction to that is a flash of insight into where the monotremes got their name.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmm. Am I going to Porthmadog or Tremadog?
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
aaaa found it! More general than just furry, but definitely covers the question of what it'd take to set up a furry payment processor. @v-art.co.uk here's the skinny, and tl;dr it would be absolute agony. voidfox.com/blog/payment...
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Payment Processor Fun 2025 -- Making Your Own MSP
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Was it you who posted a really good analysis of the problems involved in setting up a furry payment processor? I read one, oh, a year or two back?, and now I can't find it again.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'm not entirely sure whether I count as "realistic"? — my pelt colours emerged as a kind of artistic consensus rather than being informed by actual canid coat colour genetics...
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A toast to my scaley friends.
A bottle of "Black Dragon" cider, photographed on a wooden table against a backdrop of woodland.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All that hardware seems unnecessarily complicated when you could ask an AI to reproduce Miles Davis's original but in a cleaner and higher-fidelity form.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hard to think of a better choice!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's titillating to wonder if Stephen Hawking ever wanted to lick a wolf all over.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I'd been flirty-chatting in a RP-ish way with a cute jackal on Telegram. Then I plugged my phone into my sister's car, which promptly text-to-speeched the next two messages on the car speakers: "Good boyyy" "Imma lick you all over" Sister hasn't stopped cackling yet. But I think I got off lightly!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I tend to think of myself as having a fairly "type B personality" attitude to time, but I do notice when my sister plans to leave at 8 AM but starts running a bath at 7:50.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OH YOU ABSOLUTE BASTARD
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ahh yeah, round here we're in a more secular society (and one where the religious mainstream isn't being taken over by overt heresy) so "moral" and "ethical" haven't diverged so much in meaning.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Well, yeah. Not exacerbating wrongdoing is kind of a given.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
*applause!!* ❤️❤️
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It means I don't assume being friends with Gill would mean making the world a worse place, although in that particular case the moral hazards do seem to run a little deeper than hanging out with someone who's posted an unpopular opinion on YouTube.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the most destructive fallacies of the purity crowd is that it's immoral to associate with a person who's done immoral things. Which is bullshit. It can just as well be the opposite.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What an absolutely extraordinary creature! It's beautiful!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Boi good. Brain bad. Chase tennis ball. Roll in grass. Sneeze. Pant. Sniff things then pee on them. It'll be okay. Or it won't but it'll have pee on it. Good luck. We're all gonna need it.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jeese, you could have just gone with Whiskas.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love and admire the fact that you draw a ridiculous amount of wildly weird and wacky pornography, but — and I'm as surprised as anybody to find myself saying this — it's your SFW pieces that I'm often most drawn to as having something really charming and sweet about them.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone just made certain observations on my personality and mind which, while very pleasant to listen to in their own right, leave me seriously perturbed that I might be in significant danger of passing the Harkness test.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As an impartial self-reflection, without condemning or condoning, it's remarkable how much of my initial emotional reaction to this scenario is, "Thank f***, I probably won't be around to see it." Next step: sublimate that into calm compassionate action, so maybe the next generation won't either.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I had someone actually swear at me the other day because I wasn't aware of, let alone interested in, allegations against a specific influencer on Instagram. I'm not even on Instagram myself!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The esteem is mutual. 🫀
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Goddamn. On the one hand, you can make a utilitarian case for killing almost anybody, and the entire line of argument is therefore a catastrophic moral hazard to be avoided at all costs; on the other hand, fuck those people in particular.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm imagining you as the kind of person who'd secretly welcome being exiled to the Falklands with a hut, a woodstove and a mechanical typewriter...
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*Bi*-lal kaïfa? Well, he did traditionally focus on (ahem) "riding" drunk men, per se, but mores have changed since then and I'm sure he's open to embracing both a wider dating pool and a more progressive approach.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'd seek out someone like you and stare at them pointedly until they got the hint.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Front: I'm into sailplanes, so I get strapped in in front of him. (Hypothetically. One of my regular instructors was there so I got him instead, but I like the regular instructor very much so I had no complaints about that.)
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh god DAMN Yeah, I've been going through quite a bit of that recently. Too many years on SSRIs didn't help, but also I was just too maladjusted during the times of my life when most people get most of their bonking done.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaste...
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
one of us! one of us!
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Transiently and for general values of "here", yes.
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Blessed be the Bahkauv and His water. Blessed be the coming and going of him... but especially the former.
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