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Sterling

@ssterling.net

Something in between a polymath and a dilettante. Mostly a hobbyist ecologist and amateur computer scientist, though—and multidisciplinary schoolteacher by trade. Slightly different content: @fedi.ssterling.net

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 29/09/2026

R.I.P. “Tiny Baby” ‘23 Chevrolet Bolt EV 2LT Sept. 2023 – Sept. 2026 You cost me insanely little money to run, and you allowed me to exact revenge on the worst of parkers. You also literally weighed two tons and frequently got stuck in wet grass.

A parked, oversized SUV with about a third of its width in another parking space, and a small electric vehicle fitting in that remaining space without going over the lines. There’s about 5 cm between the cars.

A small electric car stuck on a muddy hill inside a sheep farm. The tow hook is attached to the front, and two planks of wood are situated in front of the tires.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 26/08/2026

how yhe fuck do I begin to catch up with this

Cropped screenshot of a Telegram folder label, called “DMs”, with seventeen unread messages.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 15/07/2026

Not what I meant when I said I missed my childhood. #tacobell #cyclosporiasis #explosivediarrhea

Edit of a political cartoon, wherein a woman reads a headline saying “Probe into explosive diarrheal cases points to Taco Bell and bad lettuce”, and a man flips a calendar from December 2026 to January 2006.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 02/07/2026

Finally found my wallet—in my grandmother-in-law’s freezer. Time for Anthrocon! #ac2026

Leather wallet on the lower door shelf of an upright freezer.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 23/03/2026

This is what is holding up my kitchen.

In a dingy, muddy crawl space: a slanted pillar of mismatched rocks, bricks, wooden planks and fragments of concrete masonry units, supporting a floor joist with limited contact area.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 18/12/2025

NEW REF SHEET NEW REF SHEET!! Well, the same ref sheet by the wonderful @floop-deloop.bsky.social—except Andy’s actually zygodactyl now! And some other little spruce-ups, too, since Floop’s style has improved over the years (as it should uvu). #furry #refsheet #bird

Character reference sheet for an anthropomorphic, humanoid red-bellied woodpecker.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 18/10/2025

Still trying to process this hilarious and bizarre development with @captinmangletty.bsky.social

Screenshot of Twitch chat messages. First is from sterbirb, a channel founder: “make me mod so I can post links [sarcasm]”; followed by, in deemphasized text, “captinmangletty granted moderator privileges to sterbirb.” Messages from sterbirb then say: “wait, I’m mod??” in all caps, and “anyway” followed by a link to a Twitch clip. At the bottom, highlighted in vibrant purple, is: “captinmangletty added you as a Moderator of this channel!”

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 07/07/2025

casual photographers: “Why can you only fit so few photos on that card?” me:

Screencap of Hell’s Kitchen in which Gordon Ramsay is yelling, captioned “THEY’RE FUCKING RAW!!!”

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 03/07/2025

I’ll never give up shooting raw, but I really do hate that I can’t live-post my Anthrocon photos straight off the camera :'c

LCD screen on the back of a digital camera, showing a photo of a tiger/butterfly fursuiter.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 12/06/2025

Might as well use this opportunity to put my own ref sheet on here, once and for all; kudos to @floop-deloop.bsky.social for managing to totally nail the style I wanted

Character reference sheet for Andy Sterling, a red-bellied woodpecker.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 27/04/2025

We absolutely need more Regular-ass North American Bird fursonas. (am a red-bellied woodpecker)

Male red-bellied woodpecker perched on the branch of a pike.

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 25/03/2025

Edited screenshot of Patrick Star with the caption “Ooh! East? I thought you said 'weat'!”

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Sterling @ssterling.net · 11/03/2025

I didn’t get a bachelor’s degree for nothing

Iceberg salad on a school lunch tray, accompanied by a spoon

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