Coffeemancer Vanvidum
vanvidum.bsky.social
Coffeemancer Vanvidum
@vanvidum.bsky.social
Supply coffee to tiger to continue. Offer not valid for decaf. Sugar and cream will void warranty.
Drifting around inner New England. he/him
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We doing sushi tonight! Of Silus and Jay. A gift from @leythis.bsky.social
#art #furry #digitalart #furryart
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
At a certain point, fast air travel amounts to building reusable civilian ICBMs.
Wait... so you're saying that supersonic flights won't be $100 like this headline says?

www.cnn.com/travel/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I refuse to believe that on ALF's Own Bluesky I am the first person to widely note what the upside-down pineapple means, I was here in The Before Times, when the whole damn site was basically a deeply horny polycule, WE ALL KNEW OKAY
Oh, so you're the originator. I heard this from someone else, and was wondering where they learned this from.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I should make pies with marzipan crusts.
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The pie wars begun have
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Dangerous when pens are on sale...
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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this is particularly loathsome when you look at the current state of the oregon republican party, who, like all blue state republican parties, have chosen to go stark-raving mad rather than trying to moderate even a small amount to fit the state they want to represent
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Whoever at Google thought it was a good idea to make the Gmail mobile app search results default to "most relevant" instead of "most recent":

That was a terrible idea and you should feel bad about yourself for having had it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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You know he own vinyl.

#anthro #rat #furry
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
YES. Sugared nuts just don't have enough going on flavor-wise IMO.
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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This is a great essay! A lot of anti-science or “fiscal conservative” types are quick to go “we spent how much on shrimp treadmills!?!?!” when in reality these experiments can lead to huge scientific breakthroughs. Also I’d rather my tax money goes to scientists then like, building more bombs or w/e
Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly.

Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help!

🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm
“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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What apparently everyone except Senate Democrats understands is that the survival of Democrats, perhaps literally, depends on Trump hitting Ceaușescu levels of unpopularity.

This goal is not helped if Senate Democrats do anything at all to reduce the harm Trump is inflicting on the American people.
November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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it's funny when apartments are designed to avoid looking "modern" and end up looking like a row of giant barns instead
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I'll take this one step further: The city-imposed design and facade mandates are often created based on community engagement processes. So the same people who contributed to these standards might be the ones who later complain about new projects looking ugly
What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We made it illegal to build neighborhoods like this and wonder why people don’t like the look of new apartment buildings
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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One more design review panel bro. I swear, just one more design review panel.
What if I told you they all look *like that* because of city-imposed design and facade mandates, not because people (or developers) like them?
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Huh.

I'm not sure this is a great business model
HSBC’s forecast of OpenAI’s future makes a lot of assumptions.

But excluding Google entirely from 2030 consumer market share seems a little weird.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/23e5...
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Something tiny for you!

Tisha Mark ©2025, To Dream by the Sea No. 2509, oil on gessobord, 4"x4"

Original is available (with maple frame):
tishamark.com/product/to-d...

#art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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this is also why it was great to have slapfights about Star Wars rankings yesterday, that's the kind of shit that makes Online worth it
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Pecan pie is to me extremely inferior to most other pies on offer at Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
These revenues are hitting all time highs!
Alberta has collected more than $1 billion in cannabis revenue.

That's the most, per capita, of all provinces and territories.

By far.

It's nearly quadruple what Quebec has collected, per person.
Canada collected over $5.4B in cannabis tax revenue since legalization | CBC News
Ottawa and the provinces raked in more than $5.4 billion in cannabis tax revenue since the drug was legalized for recreational use in October 2018.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Is the Trump economy good? No.

But do people feel like they are winning anyway? Well, also no.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Fun fact, nobody has to read you your Miranda rights if you just walk in and say incriminating stuff to police. So maybe don‘t
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM