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Plouf de Phoque

@drfrankenstein.bsky.social

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A perpetually-tired, mostly-functional ADHD poindexter since 1990. Skiing, retro tech, software, geography, and other things of interest. Also a furry. Montréal/Ottawa, he/they, FR/EN/ES/DE/日本語 🔞 May occasionally interact with NSFW content.

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CraftComputing @craftcomputing.bsky.social · 2h

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Renegade Roo @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social · 1h

Im telling ya...this food truck would have SMASHED it at any furry convention.

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 9h

Big mood

We shall persist.

punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · 13d

its tough out there but so am i

a perturbed looking wolf girl with an arrow pointing to her and a caption that reads: (more than a little frustrated at how people
see her kindness and optimism as a sign of
naivete rather than the result of consistently
having her anxiety spirals and doomsayer
thoughts proven wrong by many genuine
people over the last two and a half decades
of her life and that this is not the tactic of a
fool but one of someone who has seen the
effects that believing in the future and in
other people can have on those around you)

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Plusharmy @plusharmy.bsky.social · 10h

3 days before the end

www.thedealersden.com/listing/plus...

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief, that's still going!?

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Fig @figgus.bsky.social · 1d

Put some Fig in your poutine!

#fursuit #FursuitFriday #awd #wilddog

A dog fursuiter laying in a large container of oversized imitation poutine

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

It's at 7.

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Seals are also silly and smoochy!

And definitely cuddly.

And quiet, clumsy, and skittish.

So, me, basically.

Quazar @quazar-roo.bsky.social · 1d

People often ask me why I picked kangaroo as my species. Idk, they're silly, smoochy, and can range from cuddly joey to buff bro. What about you? What attracted you to your species?

Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Seals are also silly and smoochy. :p

But for real, it took me years to even arrive at that, and the idea came from @jesse-j-gear.art all of a sudden. And then I realised how much it fit me.

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Quazar @quazar-roo.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of the year again!

🎨: @wolfsifi.bsky.social

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Michael Grunder @mgrunder.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @thephd.dev was the real motivation behind #embed to make quines easier in C? 😆

// quine.c (requires a C23-compliant compiler)
// cc -std=c23 quine.c

#include <unistd.h>

const unsigned char me[] = {
#embed "quine.c"
};

int main(void) {
write(1, me, sizeof(me));
}

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Chaparral Coyote @acute.dog · 1d

every time fursuit pricing talk happens it's clear that the average person has no idea what hourly rate they would have to charge as a freelancer not just to break even for *all* their basic living expenses + taxes + insurance, but also to make a profit for savings, retirement, fun (gasp), whatever

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

To all the wolves in my mutuals. 👉👈

✨ Hey Alex!🍵💜 @decaftired.mow.haus · 2d

💜✨

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🐴 Jam 🎃 comms open! ⭐ @wyrdlittleguy.bsky.social · 1d

if you werent there you cannot understand what it was like i cant think if anything really comparable

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999) ft: Poliwhirl, MewTwo, Psyduck, Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise

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Ricky @astrum.bird.gay · 1d

If that bird could read French, they’d be really upset right now

#FursuitFriday

📸 @drfrankenstein.bsky.social
🧵 @sokee.bsky.social

Me with the Astrum head standing next to a sign that reads, “Il est interdit de nourrrir les oiseaux. Cause principale de pollution de l’eau des plages.”

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Mahikan 🔜 Furpoc @mahikan.bsky.social · 1d

Found a small ring tail dog that doesn’t bark in the forest, kinda want to give him cotton candy :3

#FursuitFriday
🦝: @kedaraccoon.bsky.social
📸: @drfrankenstein.bsky.social

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Kuna @wryote.bsky.social · 1d

Care for a cup? ☕️
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for SunTattooWolf

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 1d

I've pretty much said the same thing before, and I stand by it. Conservatives long for the past because they were an innocent kid then, not because it was better.

NoxyMeArt @noxyme.bsky.social · Feb 17

Couldn’t say it better myself.

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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 1d

My man out here in Costco, keepin' that thang on him. Never know when you might need it. Got to be prepared with that everyday carry piece.

(Going with Small of the Back carry, no less. When you carry your spare license plate while out grocery shopping, where do you keep it? 4:00? Appendix?) 😂

Photograph of shoppers in the Isle of a Costco, pushing shopping carts and gathering various things.

In the center of the frame there is a gentleman pushing a shopping cart walking away from the camera and visible sticking out of the back of his jeans, tucked in by his butt, is clearly a vehicle license plate.

Why this is the case is not explained. Or possibly even explainable.

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teal deer @deer.graphics · 2d

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 2d

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Spice's Cauldron @spicescauldron.bsky.social · 2d

**Very Special Premade, Please Read**

I will be adding a premade partial to my current queue for Furnal Equinox pickup or potentially shipping.

It will be $4500CDN/$3215USD.

All of the money will be going to my cat, Banana 🧵 (1/3)

#fursuit #fursuitmaker #premadefursuit #fursuitcommission

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Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 2d

Homer and Lisa Simpson learned that the hard way, and that episode was a great piece of commentary on that.

Plouf de Phoque @drfrankenstein.bsky.social · 2d

I've witnessed that collapse over my career, and it's been incredibly frustrating as someone who wants things done right the first time.

One sentence stands out: “Memory consumption has lost all meaning”

It rings extremely true to me when I look at the whole ecosystem of Web and SaaS.

Darius @dariusl.bsky.social · 2d

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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