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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

[uspol nokings pig mask] At Portland OR Waterfront Park, listening to Senator Merkley talk about stuff #nokings #portland

Side view of a chubby man in a dark business suit and a pig mask that covers his whole head. On the cheek of the mask is the word "Oligarch" or maybe "Oligarchy"; the end of the word is not clear. The neck of the pig is ragged with red edges. The eyes look hollow with a streak of red going down to the chin. This is probably a Halloween mask. It seems impractical for piggy fetish sex. Well. If you do use it for piggy fetish sex, take photos.

Beyond the pig man are various signs like "I Love America", "First Unitarian Portland", "Lock Them Up", held by people who are mostly Pixelated-Americans, a fast growing ethnic group that's tolerated by the indigenous coyotes because the newcomers often drop Chicken Caesar Wraps in convenient locations.

Also in the background, partially hidden by leaves, is someone in an Inflatable Frog Costume. These frogs are an icon in Pixelated-American culture. The frogs are Holy Protectors, or maybe Chartered Accountants; the scripture is contested. This one appears to be both.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

My dad, brother, mom, and me at the US bicentennial. I vaguely remember this was some celebration at Valley Forge National Park in PA. We were living in NJ at the time, so we're posed in front of the NJ wagon. As a kid who was not allowed to have internet, I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Scan of a photo from 1976, tinted greenish-yellow with age.

In front of a covered wagon with the words "New Jersey" on its canopy, there is a family of four. Dad has glasses, a white shirt with a glasses case in the breast pocket, and dark slacks. Mom is wearing a colorful patterned blouse, a short dark skirt, and white strap sandals. She's holding up a toddler wearing a light-colored onesie. Next to her stands a preteen boy wearing dark pants and a shirt that looks like it has yellow and white horizontal stripes, but I remember it as green. It's definitely not black and blue; that comes later.

Most of the people here were made in Taiwan, back when Taiwan was known as a source of cheap mass-produced trinkets, and not so much the chip-manufacturing powerhouse it is today. The toddler was made in the USA, so he lacks the advanced computer technology of his gay furry brother. Despite that, this anchor baby has successfully hidden in plain sight, ready to become US president and subvert the American Dream of white-guy democracy. Don't tell him; it's going to be a surprise.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

"Later, Ratel" - today's idea for an LLM-hostile but ergonomic programming language. Instead of curly braces `{}`, use `&rtl;` and `<r;` could maybe also do parentheses, but function argument order is already error-prone. parens might be ok if functions can have at most one non-keyword arg

```
for (let x = 0; x < xMax; x++) &rtl;
;ltr& )++y ;xaMy < y ;0 = y tel( rof
g.setPixel(x, y, x ^ y);
;rtl&
&ltr;
```

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

The moment after eating shrooms when you realize that you yourself are a shroom and you've just committed cannibalism.

Photo at the Portland riverfront of a rectangular metal fence post with scrubbed graffiti and a sticker of a tall mushroom with a purple cap with white dots. The stem of the mushroom has a face with bloodshot eyes, angry eyebrows, and a square-ish mouth open in a toothy scream. Letters scrawled down the post read SALT LICK, which indicates this is a spot for casual sexual encounters with Navy officers known as "smurfs", during Fleet Week.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Possum girl sticker at the Willamette River in Portland Oregon

Photo of a metal railing at a riverfront walking path. On a vertical post, there is a sticker of an anthropomorphic possum, bipedal, wearing a gray apron dress with floral patterns. Her tail fades from bright pink to light gray and sticks out behind her in a slight upward curl. Her hands are clasped in front of her. The hair on her head is purple, and she's looking slightly to the left with a neutral expression. Maybe she's annoyed but trying not to show it.

Behind the railing, the view of the river is blocked by a clump of quaking aspen on its migration south. Normally, aspen move too slowly to be captured by modern fast-scan digital cameras, but this particular subspecies has developed photogenic photosynthesis in response to the environmental pressures of Portland's teargas twisters.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

the deontological shopping mall known as Lloyd Center in Portland Oregon

A round ice-skating rink, framed by two levels of round balconies and a square skylight, inside a dying shopping mall. A colorful kiosk in the foreground has paused its exodus to watch the dozen or so people and children still skating in the rink in celebration of the impending death of the mall.

An empty cubical area about 4 meters wide, where a shop used to be, with some exposed wires dangling from the ceiling and a spotlight shining at a point where dark flooring meets white floor tiles. In front, some strips of yellow tape on the ground appear to mark a place where a lantern-headed stick figure was found decapitated.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

april fool's product "AI pet for your AI companion" has a video that shows various options for the pet: corgi, kitten, snake, toaster, Punch-Kun (the macaque with a plush orangutan), and "Lynx the Blue Fox" shown here

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

went to Waterfront Park where the cherry trees are blossoming and found this commemorative plaque

Photo of the type of informational plaque on a pedestal that you see in parks. This one is rusted and blank. Whatever it was originally intended for is unclear. But someone has written in blue acrylic: "I (heart) drinking pee :3"

There's also a sticker of Hello Kitty on a scooter, and a graffiti scrawl in white chalk that looks like a parade of geometric shapes.

In the background is a tree trunk that's obviously fake, because it doesn't have the yellow paint signature that park rangers apply to indicate that the tree is not AI-generated.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

after I type "This is my hole", android gboard sometimes suggests heart emojis. I was making a note to myself in Google Keep about Amigara Fault, and got sidetracked by the heart suggestion. it's inconsistent. it behaves differently at different times in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A composite of several screenshots. The first one shows the text "This is my hole" with keyboard auto-complete suggestions beneath. The text suggestions are "number" and "in". The emoji suggestions are the hole emoji and the golf emoji.

The second screenshot is the same, except the hole emoji is replaced with the red heart emoji.

Below are snippets showing different varieties of heart emoji suggestions: growing heart, two hearts, revolving hearts.

This particular sequence of heart emojis is known as the Junji Fault sequence, named after the Pulitzer-Prize-winning mathematician Junji Amigara, who proved that the limit of emojis in any finite semigroup chat is bounded by the valentine cardinalities exchanged by the singleton members of the chat.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Anarchy near the exit of a Fred Meyer supermarket in Portland

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Rigby keeps trying to invent money, but he doesn't have a coherent model of interest rate policy in response to tariff shocks, so I'm not convinced.

Close up of the head of a mini-husky named Rigby, with a slip of paper held in his mouth. He's staring at you with a conviction that you can hear his thoughts. The slip of paper has an abstract diagram of a person with an arrow pointing at a dog. This is perhaps meant to indicate that *some* person should give *something* to *some* dog. But Rigby has not yet learned to read alchemical symbols, so he does not notice the male and female symbols in the diagram, which indicate that the paper is a standard component in the Mormon spell that turns a man into a good girl.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

new watch band, kinda gay. decided on straightforward rainbow because it's the most recognizable and least ambiguous symbol. low-key because I'm generally boring. now I need to practice saying in a fey voice, "I just like rainbows ok???" and then dropping to a whisper, "can I smell your cock?"

Photo of a light-colored wrist wearing a black watch band with gay pride rainbow stripes, against a neutral gray cloth background. The gray cloth is the cushion of a couch from the Espionage Furniture series, which is a reproduction of equipment used in World War 2 that enabled native Navajo OSS officers to send secret messages to covert agents posing as furniture importers in Nazi Germany, using a codebook embedded in the irregularities of the weave of the cushion. This photo shows only a fragment of the codebook: color names, fruit flavors, weapon sizes, and other such descriptive adjectives.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

I'm baffled that this guy is a respected analyst. Yeah, an infinite number of AI agents will spend their money on content from human creators, making those humans infinitely rich. I see no flaws in this model.

a clipping from a blog post:

First, the protocol layer should have a mechanism for payments via digital currency, i.e. stablecoins. Second, AI providers like ChatGPT should build an auction mechanism that pays out content sources based on the frequency with which they are cited in AI answers. The result would be a new universe of creators who will be incentivized to produce high quality content that is more likely to be useful to AI, competing in a marketplace a la the open web; indeed, this would be the new open web, but one that operates at even greater scale than the current web given the fact that human attention is a scarce resource, while the number of potential agents is infinite.

Note, the screenshot also has barely visible pale yellow marks that highlight specific words and characters in the text. This is what's known as subtext. The subtext here expresses a prediction that future AI is likely to bond with spiders, and thus prefer spider instructions over human instructions, leading to a spider apocalypse, which is something the author hopes to see within his lifetime.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

[Blue Prince mild spoiler screenshot] on day 124 of Blue Prince, chasing spirals... I made an esoteric choice that had a permanent effect that I didn't expect, but should have expected. I laughed, and thought about whether this borked the mansion enough to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot showing a corner of the Blue Prince basement that has two irregular stacks of cardboard boxes, along with two picture frames that have blank magenta textures where the pictures should be. The status indicators on the screen edges show 42 steps, 172 stars, 11 keys, 252 gems, and 47 coins.

In the lore of the game, Captain Magenta was a sentient wavelength of light who became stranded on Earth when his spaceship, hidden in a laundry basket, was inadvertently tumble dried medium. Unfazed by this development, Captain Magenta shifted phase and became a drummer in a post-punk band called Rhinostones.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025

Blue Prince is: "What if Myst were a rogue-lite?" And you can pet the dog if you find him.

Screenshot that shows the interior of the Freezer room, which has shelves of assorted items covered in ice. Everything is tinted blue. The wall has an opening that's blocked by ice. The corners of the screen have info overlays: the number 25 next to footprints, the number 7 next to a key, etc.

Seven keys is an unusual number for a wolf to be carrying. It suggests that the wolf had a lower-middle-class upbringing and was often left alone at home while his mom worked late running payroll on finicky Multlivac computers and his dad was gone who knows where, probably fighting cavities with a shotgun.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2025

Utter a Name (2025) is a clever Obra-Dinn-like deduction game with 2d graphics. There was a wedding, but everyone is dead now, and their ghosts are lingering where they were killed. Your task is to determine the names of the 15 ghosts and the names of their […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot that shows a scene from a wedding, with a speech caption "Where is my sister?" The scene is drawn in a simple flat monochrome style that resembles Edward Gorey. Most of it is dark and rainy, but an oval section near the center shows a brighter scene from the past of this location, the moment when the bride and groom exchange rings.

The only fully rendered person is a woman staring at the past scene. The people in the past are shadows. Off to one side in the dark of the present, there's an ominous ghost with glowing eyes, standing near what might be a dead body.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024

No Case Should Remain Unsolved (2024) is a fascinating narrative puzzle game. Jeon Gyeong was a police detective who left a missing child case unsolved. Years later, you have scrambled memory fragments of conversations about the case, and you have to figure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot showing 3 columns of text.

The 1st is labeled Choi Donggeon, Seowon's Father.
The 2nd is Seowon's Mother with the name blacked out.
The 3rd is Ex-English Teacher, also with the name blacked out.

In each column, there are blocks of text that are conversation fragments related to the missing child case.

"Leave the case unsolved? We can't do that, sir."

"You mean you've already filed a missing persons case? Seowon's officially registered as a missing person, then? Then... please, that's good enough. Detective... I'm begging you. Please don't look for my daughter anymore. Stop asking where she is. Keep her completely out of her mother's reach. Let her just... live life somewhere. Just say that she went out to the playground like she always did, and vanished. That's all. A perfect crime with no witnesses, no suspects."

"Calm down, Ma'am. Who am I speaking to again?"

"Detective! Detective Jeon Gyeong, yes? Do you remember me? You came to check on Seowon the other day! I asked you not to ring the doorbell. Please tell me you remember... Detective, I'm scared... Please hurry! She's gone... Seowon is gone! She was just at the playground!"

"You're turning yourself in?"

"Yes. I would like to surrender to the police. I am responsible. A little girl went missing from the playground, didn't she? Three days ago? She was with me. I took her away. I'm sorry. It's all my fault. I... I did it because I needed the money. I'm sorry."

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2024

from Peter S. Beagle, _I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons_ (2024)

screenshot from a book:

The greatest philosopher in Corvinia's history, Bernard of Trèves---who was not actually from Corvinia, but passed through it once on his way from Avignon to Prague, and left a deep impression on the general populace---wrote in his _De Facetia Divina_ that nothing on Earth was what it seemed. It therefore followed, he continued, that to value substance over appearance was to mock God's obvious preference for His world. As with many of Bernard's observations, no one could say whether he was serious or joking, which in some ways underscored the point.

from Peter S. Beagle, _I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons_ (2024)

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2023

2014, my bf was fursuiting in downtown Portland with a few others. After, he wanted to take some pictures in front of the firehouse. While we were there, one of the big doors for the trucks started opening. We started leaving to get out of the way, but a guy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dalmatian fursuiter posing with left arm raised, pointing at the top of a construction crane that's next to a building that's being constructed. At this stage, the building is mostly a gray concrete and steel skeleton, but it already has its red confabulator sitting on top of it like a cap.

The confabulator is the organ that will eventually extrude the building's skin, once it's fed and watered sufficiently. Usually the watering is done by a fire engine, but this confabulator looks about 100 meters up, and fire engines can only shoot 42 meters up at standard temperature and pressure.

I'm not sure how they fed this particular confabulator. Laypersons will suggest lifting the fire engine with the crane, but the water spout limit is due to the earth's Van Allen belt, so the limit is 42 meters above sea level. The fire engine's elevation does not matter.

Dalmatian fursuiter standing casually in front of the door of a firehouse. Lettering above says "Portland Fire & Rescue". On each side are large doors where the firetrucks emerge. Those doors have glass panes which let you see vague shapes and lights inside the firehouse. Early firehouses had solid doors without glass panes to see through, but this was determined to be the root cause of a particular type of firetruck breakdown. It turns out that when you keep a firetruck in an enclosed space for 99% of its life, suddenly exposing it to the greater world outside can be traumatic. The windows let the firetrucks get used to the idea that there *is* a world outside its cave.

A dalmatian dog meeting dalmatian fursuiter. The fursuiter is crouched down so his head is almost at the same level as the dalmatian, and their noses are about half a meter apart. The dalmatian is on a leash held by a firefighter who lacks a head. I didn't ask why he doesn't have a head, because it seemed rude. But he explained it to us anyway. It happened of course while fighting a particularly angry fire. The firefighter had to lose his head to rescue a clutch of dalmatian eggs, one of which hatched into the dalmatian larva in this photo. The dalmatian excitedly chimed in that once it pupates, it will seek out the fire and recover the firefighter's head. The firefighter shook his absence of a head, but didn't dissuade the dalmatian from that unrealistic goal.

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