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OPEN - Owl of the Year Round 15 - Saw Whet vs Barred
  • The blurred background, the high saturation, and those huge eyes give the second photo AI vibes. It was uploaded to Flickr in 2009, long before modern image generation was a thing. It's a beautiful photo, and it makes me very sad that this AI hype immediately made me suspicious like that.

  • "blahaj" is pronounced "blo-hai" rule
  • They don't have one for blåhaj, but Wiktionary has an audio file of someone pronouncing blå (blue) in Swedish. The second half of blåhaj sounds like English "Hi," and the phonemic transcription of the full word is /ˈbloːhaj/. The /bloː/ part is kinda like how someone from Glasgow or someone with a strong German accent might say "blow."

  • Rules, laws, etc
  • You need to have a third example that you don't use in your list, though. When someone calls you out on using etc to hide your lack of examples, you can pull out the third one and completely obliberate them.

  • cute horny demon bf when?
  • I have this fantasy world that I go to when I want to fall asleep where I'm a demon in hell, but I'm in a secret relationship with a Duke of the Ars Goetia. Maybe you can join us for a threesome? 👉👈

  • (art by me) Full body commission i did :D
  • Very cute. They look like they're about to say, "Who just called me cute?!" :3c

    The shadows make it look a bit like it's made from small pieces of coloured paper stacked on top of each other, and that's very cool!

  • Bust Commission - Otter
  • Shading is something that I always struggle with. I really like the look of pure black along the edges, and it works very well with your style. I'll give this technique a try next time I draw something. They're also very cute. Look at that smile :3

  • 30 Rhinos on a Skateboard
  • It depends! Rhinos vary a lot in size and weight across species. A Sumatran rhino can weigh as "little" as 700 kg, an Indian rhino as much as 3,200 kg. It also depends on the specific Olympic-size pool you're talking about because they have a minimum depth of 2 m, but 3 m is recommended for multi-discipline use. The density of jello depends on the amount of sugar and gelatine in it, but Wolfram Alpha lists it as 1,141 grams per litre.

    Thirty Sumatran rhinos would weigh 30*700 kg = 21,000 kg, and thirty Indian ones 30*3,200 kg = 96,000 kg. At a jello density of 1.141 kg per litre, that's 21,000 kg / 1.141 kg/l = ~18,405 litres of jello (~84,137 for the big ones). At their minimum depth of 2 m, 50 m length, and 25 m width, Olympic-sized pools hold 2,500,000 litres of water. 18,405 l / 2,500,000 l = 0.007362, or about 0.74% (0.03365, or 3.37%, for the big rhinos).

    So, 30 grown rhinos are as heavy as 0.74% to 3.37% of an Olympic-sized swimming pool filled with jello.

    This photo was taken in the state of Victoria in Australia. I checked out a few of trams in Melbourne, and one of their lightest models is the Z-class, which weighs 19,000 kg, and one of the heaviest is the E-class at 62,000 kg. The phrasing "as much as" and the lack of a specific rhino species makes this poster a little ambiguous because there's a wide range of possible weights, but technically, they aren't lying.

  • Furry @pawb.social LordAmplifier @pawb.social
    Work-from-home benefits (OC)

    Catbox backup link in case of federation issues.

    One of my favourite parts about working from home is that I can take short breaks to walk around, stretch, or cuddle Blahaj whenever I want :3

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    A digital drawing of my canine fursona sitting on the floor in their room and cuddling a Blahaj (IKEA's shark plushie). They look very happy. Their work laptop is on a desk in the foreground, implying that they are cuddling a plushie instead of working. End alt text.

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    FUROPAPA (Europapa Parody 'Furry version') by Laser the SharkFox

    This is a furry parody of Joost Klein's song "Europapa" (the Dutch entry to this year's Eurovision Song Contest). It's a very cute and silly video, and the music is so well made that I've been listening to it almost every day for the last few weeks. Most of the song is in Dutch, but there's a pretty good translation in the comments :3

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    This is my year(ule)

    alt text: a screenshot of the Wikipedia article about leap years. It says "A leap year, also known as an intercalary year or bissextile year, (...)". The word "bissextile" is circled in red and has arrows pointing at it. An image of a bisexual pride flag, Moxxie (a bisexual character in the show Helluva Boss), and Freddie Mercury are placed around the word "bissextile" because it looks a lot like bisexual. end alt text uwu

    edit: apologies for the missing image. I uploaded it to my home instance (pawb.social), which had some technical issues and went down a couple of hours later. But it's back now, and so is the image. (Nothing but love for the pawb admins, shit happens <3)

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    Embrace the machine

    cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/5635301

    > reject humanity, embrace the machine > > alt text: the first two panels are a close-up of my generic-canine fursona's angry face, first with their eyes closed, then with their eyes open and a fire in them. They say, "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine." The third panel is my fursona wearing a protogen visor, doing a cute face, saying "beep boop", and sitting on the ground like a silly little guy.

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    furry_irl @pawb.social LordAmplifier @pawb.social
    furry_irl

    reject humanity, embrace the machine

    alt text: the first two panels are a close-up of my generic-canine fursona's angry face, first with their eyes closed, then with their eyes open and a fire in them. They say, "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine." The third panel is my fursona wearing a protogen visor, doing a cute face, saying "beep boop", and sitting on the ground like a silly little guy.

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    rUwUle

    image transcription:

    me: "yeah, I'm doing well."

    also me: a screenshot of a YouTube video titled "1 hour UwU sound effect."

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    furry_irl @pawb.social LordAmplifier @pawb.social
    furry_irl

    I made a comic :3

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    A black-and-white comic with seven panels. The comic’s title is “The Duality of Furries.”

    First panel: My “generic anthro canine” fursona is holding a phone, smiling, and looking flattered.

    Second panel: A phone screen showing a conversation. Me: “ur cute :3” - them: “no u >w&lt;” - me: “not as cute as u O//w//O” - them: “u the cutest”

    Third panel: My fursona smiling and holding a phone, similar to the first panel.

    Fourth panel: Another phone screen with further messages. Me: “oki gotta go now :3” - them: “nuuu why? ;-;” - me: “goin 2 a concert uwu” - them: “oooh have fun &lt;3”

    A text box: “one hour later”

    Fifth panel: My fursona is in a dark concert hall and participating in a circle pit (lots of people running in a big circle to the rhythm of the music). My sona is smiling and has determined eyes. The circle pit is surrounded by other concertgoers. Big, red letters above the circle pit spell “KILL.”

    Sixth panel: My fursona is in the same dark concert hall and participating in a mosh pit (an area where seemingly violent dancing occurs). My sona is windmilling their arms with closed eyes and a strained expression on their face. Others in the pit are doing a two-step, the bees knees, and the chicken dance. Big, red letters above the mosh pit spell “KILL.”

    Seventh panel: My fursona is crowd surfing with a big smile and their arms raised. In the background, a photo from a Dying Fetus concert (a death metal band) shows the band members to evoke the feeling of being at a concert. Below my crowd surfing sona, big, red letters spell “KILL KILL.”

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)LO
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    one singular braincell :3 they / he / she

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