The Joke: welcome to Mastodon, here's your fursuit and your copy of Das Kapital
Reality: welcome to Mastodon, here's your six alt fursonas, a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook, an eight-week course on the programming language of your choice, a tarot deck, some brand spanking new hormones, and a complex geometric sigil you should memorize that will turn into a neural counter-virus so that when the Singularity finally hits we can make sure The Straights don't claim it for themselves
finally, a website where I am free to express my truest, most authentic self
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The rose engine, a specific subset of the family of ornamental lathes, is essentially a spirograph for metal. Here, a machinist carves a repeating offset pattern into a brass slug the size of a dime.
The superset of full ornamental lathes are essentially /three-dimensional/ spirographs. Here's an artisan using one as part of making an egg full of eyes (footnote 1).
(1) I know my audience. n.n
around 40% of the people who ran for office for the first time and were supported by Run for Something were elected on Tuesday; this included 32 (and maybe as many as 34, pending recounts) out of 72 candidates in 14 states
this is totally bonkers: first-time candidates usually get blown out by incumbents or more experienced pols
do it!
Some folks on birdsite are tagging our project account in tweets like "hey jack twitter should copy this thing mastodon does". The idea that this is merely about features is short-sighted. Twitter will never, ever, ever be your friend. They are the shareholders' friend, not yours. No feature will let you see what their engineers are working on, what's under the hood. No feature will fix their headquarters in the US following and enforcing US laws and customs worldwide.
Seahorses and sea dragons are related and are both kinds of fish; they're slow-moving but not sessile, and camouflage themselves among the kelp in which their food source - plankton and small crustaceans - lives. Both species are evolved from the pipefishes, which also live among the seaweed.
In seahorses, sea dragons, and pipefish, the male carries the young; seahorses and -dragons have no scales, and instead have skin stretched over scaly rings radiating from bony skeletons.
I got a great new picture of Aura from https://www.patreon.com/tenta ! They just set up their Patreon, check ‘em out!
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OH MY GOD TOM FRANCIS HAS DONE IT AGAIN Y'ALL https://twitter.com/HeatSig/status/923946528741449728
An ace leafy seadragon tooting about.
Retoots lots of dumb stuff.
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