Rarey Connal
@tigertoy.bsky.social
Tiger keeper in one reality; tiger Empath in another.
You might know me as Phil who helps at EFRC or tigertoy in the filk circle.
You might know me as Phil who helps at EFRC or tigertoy in the filk circle.
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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We need a new tax code to rebuild the middle class. A recent analysis from @epi.org echoes @pkrugman.bsky.social’s chat with @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and shows we can’t provide security for all while the richest households skip the bill. #Bestof2025
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We need a new tax code to rebuild the middle class. A recent analysis from @epi.org echoes @pkrugman.bsky.social’s chat with @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and shows we can’t provide security for all while the richest households skip the bill. #Bestof2025
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
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Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
December 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.
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Badge Art for Alois
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I have several more artworks to post still to catch up XD. I've probably lost the order but this stunning green dragon was so fun to make!
#furryart #furry #dragonart #dragon #fantasyart #digitalart #illustration
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I have several more artworks to post still to catch up XD. I've probably lost the order but this stunning green dragon was so fun to make!
#furryart #furry #dragonart #dragon #fantasyart #digitalart #illustration
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Badge Art for Alois
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I have several more artworks to post still to catch up XD. I've probably lost the order but this stunning green dragon was so fun to make!
#furryart #furry #dragonart #dragon #fantasyart #digitalart #illustration
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I have several more artworks to post still to catch up XD. I've probably lost the order but this stunning green dragon was so fun to make!
#furryart #furry #dragonart #dragon #fantasyart #digitalart #illustration
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
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I cannot make anybody stop playing games they have a lot of time and money sunk into.
But if I, of All people, with 500+ skins, who used to play this Daily, can uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games store, you can do it too.
But if I, of All people, with 500+ skins, who used to play this Daily, can uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games store, you can do it too.
🪄✨ BREAKING: #FortniteWinterfest 2025 Harry Potter crossover CONFIRMED!
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
Stay tune for more updates at tinyurl.com/56y9bxe4
Patch 39.11 December 18
#Fortnite #HarryPotter #FortniteSkin #WinterfestEvent
#FortniteCrossover #GamingTrends #HarryPotterFortnite #Baskingamer
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I cannot make anybody stop playing games they have a lot of time and money sunk into.
But if I, of All people, with 500+ skins, who used to play this Daily, can uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games store, you can do it too.
But if I, of All people, with 500+ skins, who used to play this Daily, can uninstall Fortnite and the Epic Games store, you can do it too.
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Generative AI is like wax fruit; if all you want is something that looks like the real thing, you will be happy with it. But it doesn't nourish. It is touted by corporations because it is a further tool of alienation and privation. It is the willful famine of heart and soul.
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Generative AI is like wax fruit; if all you want is something that looks like the real thing, you will be happy with it. But it doesn't nourish. It is touted by corporations because it is a further tool of alienation and privation. It is the willful famine of heart and soul.
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Art is important because it is the practice of feeling things. When you're younger, I think art is pretty indistinguishable from life because art is play. Feelings are genuine, well-meant, awkward, inchoate and unfiltered. To make a cow with crayons is similar to play-acting with your playmates
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Art is important because it is the practice of feeling things. When you're younger, I think art is pretty indistinguishable from life because art is play. Feelings are genuine, well-meant, awkward, inchoate and unfiltered. To make a cow with crayons is similar to play-acting with your playmates
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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Shrooms 2 just dropped
Experts Explore New Mushroom Which Causes Fairytale-Like Hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
nhmu.utah.edu
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Shrooms 2 just dropped
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HEED THE OMEN OF THE ROWLING CUBE.
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
HEED THE OMEN OF THE ROWLING CUBE.
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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it's wild when people go "if you like X or Y art, we can no longer be friends, stay the fuck away from me!"
like a relationship is so easy to discard? A friendship so easy to obliterate?
like it won't...fuck you up inside?
It's easy to do this shit to strangers, but one day -
like a relationship is so easy to discard? A friendship so easy to obliterate?
like it won't...fuck you up inside?
It's easy to do this shit to strangers, but one day -
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
it's wild when people go "if you like X or Y art, we can no longer be friends, stay the fuck away from me!"
like a relationship is so easy to discard? A friendship so easy to obliterate?
like it won't...fuck you up inside?
It's easy to do this shit to strangers, but one day -
like a relationship is so easy to discard? A friendship so easy to obliterate?
like it won't...fuck you up inside?
It's easy to do this shit to strangers, but one day -
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THE DAY HAS COME! Fox Amoore’s new album is out. Please support him and share his post and then we can all sing filthy sea shanties together. He’s done an amazing work with all these songs.
🦊 💕
I’ll also have CDs today at my #MFF table, so come get them.
🦊 💕
I’ll also have CDs today at my #MFF table, so come get them.
It’s #bandcampfriday 🧡 and I FINALLY have a new album out:
foxamoore.bandcamp.com/album/noss-p...
It begins the epic journey of the music in The Noss Saga by @joabaldwin.com #Nosssaga
foxamoore.bandcamp.com/album/noss-p...
It begins the epic journey of the music in The Noss Saga by @joabaldwin.com #Nosssaga
NOSS: Prelude, by Fox Amoore
10 track album
foxamoore.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
THE DAY HAS COME! Fox Amoore’s new album is out. Please support him and share his post and then we can all sing filthy sea shanties together. He’s done an amazing work with all these songs.
🦊 💕
I’ll also have CDs today at my #MFF table, so come get them.
🦊 💕
I’ll also have CDs today at my #MFF table, so come get them.
@furfest if ID is required for the dances (I guess it is) you need to announce it in 6 foot high red letters. It REALLY SUCKS to have to go back to your room to get it. It says so inside the entry on sched. I can't find it anywhere else, and I know that I should be looking.
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@furfest if ID is required for the dances (I guess it is) you need to announce it in 6 foot high red letters. It REALLY SUCKS to have to go back to your room to get it. It says so inside the entry on sched. I can't find it anywhere else, and I know that I should be looking.
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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I'll be at MFF 2026 this weekend at Table H 4-5! Will be next to @talenshi.bsky.social , so come say hi to us and check out our tables! Can't wait to see everyone there!
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I'll be at MFF 2026 this weekend at Table H 4-5! Will be next to @talenshi.bsky.social , so come say hi to us and check out our tables! Can't wait to see everyone there!
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Rudolph the Red-Faced Reindeer (2009)
December 17, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Rudolph the Red-Faced Reindeer (2009)
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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"YOU CANNOT COOK A DISH SO GOOD IT FORCES DINERS TO HAVE GOOD TABLE MANNERS"
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"YOU CANNOT COOK A DISH SO GOOD IT FORCES DINERS TO HAVE GOOD TABLE MANNERS"
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
is such a nice way to express "You cannot fix social problems with techological solutions", communicated in such a fluent way.
This is such a good post, I wanted to share it with you.
Dog I hate security theater.
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Dog I hate security theater.
@furfest.org please confirm, out here in public, whether government ID will be needed to get into the dances Thursday night before we have badges or any other time.
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@furfest.org please confirm, out here in public, whether government ID will be needed to get into the dances Thursday night before we have badges or any other time.
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New day, new background for @furfest.org ! This one was for Cold Brou. I was really happy with the way this one came out
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New day, new background for @furfest.org ! This one was for Cold Brou. I was really happy with the way this one came out