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Rudolf
@flame.dog
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I don't feel safe here

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I got from @albertobalsalm.bsky.social some CREATURE energy

Very wolp, with the teeth
A handsome cartoonish wolf fellow that you can very much trust with your sheep He is smiling with many teeth showing, and has much floof
December 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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God, imagine how many people are going to get jobs specifically to fix this mess!

I know Claude-Frédéric Bastiat warned us against breaking windows to stimulate the economy back in 1850, but I didn't think he meant Microsoft Windows...
A post from Galen Hunt reading as follows: "I have an open position in my team for a IC5 Principal Software Engineer. The position is in-person in Redmond. My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code". To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we've built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrustructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding."
December 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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100% toon and not a thought in that head of mine
A close crop of the eyes in the sharpie badge, showing the texture of the paper
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Got a good quality picture of the sharpie badge @dingoroo.net did for me at MFF and I figured I'd show everyone who didn't already get it shoved in their face at the con x3

I'm just a little guy!!! Absolute perfect bean!
A con badge drawn in sharpie markers. A cartoonish wolf character is drawn sitting above the name "Rudolf" The badge is in a transparent "Ultra Pro" branded card sleeve with a hole punched at the top so it can be worn on a lanyard.
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Pink plastic focus free camera with a lens worse than a disposable...

...and it has a hotshoe 😎
A pink plastic 35mm film camera with a focus-free lens and a hot shoe. The camera has a logo on it that says "4friends" and there's a large Vivitar thyristor flash mounted in the shoe.
December 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This is a dumb idea and I'm leaving my computer now.

...but I'm still curious where I'd land x3
A political compass with the labels changed. The X axis is labelled "easy to interact with online" on the left, and "hard to interact with online" on the right. The Y axis is labelled "Hard to interact with IRL" toward the top, and "Easy to interact with IRL" toward the bottom. Each quadrant of the chart is labelled: the top left quadrant reads "ghosted! ad the convention" with a subtitle saying "Maybe next year!" with a trademark symbol following it. The top right quadrant is labelled "I just can't reach them." The lower left quadrant is labelled "everywhere friend," and the lower right is labelled "IRL friend."
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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...Could I be an ice cream sidecar?
A Brough Superior motorcycle with a chest freezer where a sidecar would go. The sidecar advertised "CREAMAX real cream ices & bricks" then lists prices for cones, wafers, tubs, bricklets, and choc bars.
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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And hitches for these things look so dumb to begin with, might as well just leave it off if you're not going to use it.
A lifted Ford Super Duty pickup truck with an extended cab sporting a hitch that goes a foot or more straight down from under the bumper to accommodate the height added to the truck by lifting it.
December 18, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Wait... is @keyotter.bsky.social contagious? I might have caught it from him!
Key Otter, a light blue otter/yoshi fursuiter with yellow hair, eyes, and a long yellow tongue stands on the left of the frame. His tongue rests atop the muzzle of a large wolf fursuiter, Rudolf, who stands on the right of the frame. Rudolf's tongue is magnetically holding Key Otter's badge.
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Ok this is just silly

Still need to do the magnet, velcro, and one more long stitch and it's done
A fursuit head with a very long tongue sticking out
December 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Winging it with precision

Executing the nonexistent plan ~exactly~
Two pieces of minky fabric sandwiches together using clips and pins. The ends are rounded, and the backing of the fabric faces out.
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Trying something.
Pink minky fabric with a pencil mark on the backing. A pair of fabric scissors, a Palomino Blackwing 602 pencil, and a fursuit tongue are resting on top of the minky fabric.
December 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Hey...

I don't feel entirely safe coming back here; I think I'm still being watched.

I just wanted to say thank you.
Screenshots from 34 different Telegram conversations with people checking in on how I'm doing
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Everything sucks right now, but I had a decent Balatro run
A steam achievement for scoring 100,000,000 chips in a single Balatro hand
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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It's not a wonderworks, but this is in Wisconsin Dells
A building made to look like an inverted, crumbling white house.
September 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Pls rub 🥺

🎨: @rashishibe.wolfbear.club
Rudolf with a big round belly laying on his back and wagging his tail
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Ok the other model with that feature, the Rebel T2, may be even more early 2000s.

Curved matte silver colored plastic? Who does that these days?
A Canon Rebel T2 with an EF 28-90mm f/4-5.6 zoom lens mounted. The camera has a matte silver-colored finish and rounded edges.
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Got myself what could be the single most early-2000s looking film SLR Canon ever made

~blue~ backlit LCD

Iridescent logo, so shiny
The LCD screen on top of a film SLR. It's blue. The front of a film SLR, showing the name badge that reads "ELAN 7NE" in iridescent text.
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I am once again pondering my orb.
Rudolf holding a transparent sphere in his paw. An inverted image of Rudolf can be seen within the sphere, along with bright points of light with eight diffraction spikes each. The sphere and the inverted image of Rudolf that can be seen through the sphere appear in focus, while Rudolf appears out of focus. There are some various colored lights interspersed throughout the image from lens flare.
September 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Hold Alto gentle in mouf

🎨: @altosart.bsky.social
Rudolf smiling, with Alto peeking out from inside his mouth
September 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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God, how does anyone think this garbage is remotely useful?

AI is worse at bullshitting than the average teenager.
3.9 Auto Focus Assist Light Also on the front of the camera is the red Autofocus Assist Light. It emits a patterned near infrared light that will allow the camera to autofocus in otherwise complete darkness. This light comes on automatically and very briefly when the camera is autofocusing in low light situations. It's [sic] range is up to 21 feet for center AF point and 13 feet for side AF points. This will depend on the lens being used. If you have an external Speedlite flash unit attached the camera will usually use the AF assist light in the external flash instead of the one built into the camera body. This will save the camera battery power and the external lights are usually more powerful. Some external flash (the rest of the text was left out of the screenshot) AI Overview The Canon EOS 50E uses a different method for its "autofocus illuminator" than typical cameras. Instead of a visible AF-assist beam, it has an advanced Eye-Control Focus system, which uses a hidden infrared beam to measure where you're looking and activate the autofocus point accordingly. This system allows the camera to know where in the viewfinder you are focusing, making it the "illuminator" in a sense, as it directs the camera to focus where you are looking.
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Some time I think it'd be funny to rent one of these and stuff it in a fursuit head to *really* show people what it's like.
A Canon EOS R5 with a dual fisheye lens designed for VR content
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A PowerMac G4 cube
September 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Reminder: garf

🎨: @meowthiroth.bsky.social
Rudolf styled like a character from the Garfield comic strip
September 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The album cover for Radiohead's album The Bends, featuring a low resolution picture of a CPR dummy
September 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM