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Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project
scotsman.com/hays-way/bumblebe
โ€˜The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of beesโ€™

Tripp also has a Protogen variant dubbed the Protogoon - an upgrade that transformed her into a purely digital being of variable size. Between her musical performances, she enjoys feeding on data, breaching networks and messing with people's hardware.

Art, in order, by:
furaffinity.net/user/impydrago
furaffinity.net/user/bonky/
x.com/_tpknnts
furaffinity.net/user/khatpaws/

Another piece for the regular #EF28 ArtShow ! โœจ

A colourful proto-buddy ! ๐Ÿ‘พ

Original art will be for auction ; will you consider adopting this li'l guy ? ๐Ÿ’•

โ€ข

#furryart #furryartist #mastoartist

I bring to you, my quest for Naritaya's Furry Land.

It all started when Tori showed me
this post:

That sure is a PC-98 game that says "furries ga suki". I
had to know what this was all about. Why does a PC-98 eroge have the word "furries", in English? Why did it devote a whole room to the idea of loving furries? I needed answers!

Like it says in the post, it's from the (in)famous Alicesoft eroge Rance 4.1, but searching for it didn't give me much in the way of results. The text in the screenshot is first-person, out of character text so it read like some kind of a dev room, but even searching for that didn't bring up much - until I found the script itself. And there it is, Naritaya's heroic pro-furry screed:

Nice to meet you. I'm Naritaya.
I'm a newbie CG artist who was in charge of
the title CG and a few other things this time.This will be my debut work.
Anyway, my goal from now on is to steadily
increase the number of furry lovers like me
and create a game that could be called
definitive for that genre (hah).Everyone who loves dog- and catgirls, or things
like elves and devil girls (though the nuance is
a little different), basically "non-human girls,"
stand up now! Alice has its tradition of gal
monsters, so this shouldn't be just a dream!ใฏใขใ‚ใพใ—ใฆใ€‚ๆˆ็”ฐๅฑ‹ใจ็”ณใ—ใพใ™ใ€‚
ไปŠๅ›žใ‚ฟใ‚คใƒˆใƒซ๏ผฃ๏ผง๏ผ‹ฮฑใ‚’ๆ‹…ๅฝ“ใ—ใพใ—ใŸๆ–ฐไบบ
ใฎ๏ผฃ๏ผงๆใใงใ™ใ€‚ใ“ใ‚ŒใŒใƒ‡ใƒ“ใƒฅใƒผใฎไป•ไบ‹ใจใช
ใ‚Šใพใ™ใ€‚ไปฅๅพŒ๏ผŒใ‚ˆใ‚ใ—ใใŠ่ฆ‹็Ÿฅใ‚ŠใŠใใ‚’ใ€‚ใจใ‚Šใ‚ใˆใšไปŠๅพŒใฎ็›ฎๆจ™ใจใ—ใฆใฏ๏ผŒ็งใจๅŒใ˜
๏ผฆ๏ฝ•๏ฝ’๏ฝ’๏ฝ‰๏ฝ…๏ฝ“ๆ„›ๅฅฝๅฎถใ‚’ๅœฐ้“ใซๅข—ใ‚„ใ—ใฆใใฎ
ๆ‰‹ใฎๆฑบๅฎš็‰ˆใจใ‚‚ใ„ใˆใ‚‹ใ‚ฝใƒ•ใƒˆใฎ็™บๅฃฒใพใงใ“ใŽ
็€ใ‘ใŸใ„๏ผŒใจๆ€ใฃใฆใพใ™๏ผˆ็ฌ‘๏ผ‰ใ€‚็Šฌ็Œซใใฎไป–ใฎใฉใƒผใถใคๅจ˜๏ผŒ๏ผˆใกใ‚‡ใฃใจใƒ‹ใƒฅ
ใ‚ขใƒณใ‚นใŒ้•ใ†ใ‘ใฉ๏ผ‰ใ‚จใƒซใƒ•ใ‚„ๆ‚ช้ญ”ใฃๅจ˜็ญ‰ใฎใ„
ใ‚ใ‚†ใ‚‹ใ€Œไบบ้–“ไปฅๅค–ใฎๅฅณใฎๅญใ‚ญใƒฃใƒฉใ€ใฎๆ„›ๅฅฝๅฎถ
ใฎๆ–น๏ผŒไปŠใ“ใ็ซ‹ใกไธŠใŒใ‚Šใพใ—ใ‚‡ใ†๏ผใ‚ขใƒชใ‚นใซ
ใฏๅฅณใฎๅญใƒขใƒณใ‚นใ‚ฟใƒผใฎไผ็ตฑใ‚‚ใ‚ใ‚Šใพใ™ใ‹ใ‚‰๏ผŒ
ๆฑบใ—ใฆๅคขใงใฏใชใ„็ญˆใงใ™๏ผ
So not only is our friend Naritaya a furry fan, he specifically uses the English word "furries" in romaji more than once while expressing his love for furries. This is a Japanese artist who knows and loves the English furry scene. (Keep in mind, this is 1995!) This is where Aura found copies of some of Naritaya's personal art, with the URL still in the watermark, which is what brought us to:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010407011909/http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~naritaya/index2.html

NARITAYA'S FURRIES LAND

That's right, Naritaya had his own website in the 90s where he posted the anime furries of his dreams, filled with exactly all the kinds of anime art you might remember from the years 1995-2003.

His art style is
distinctively 90s/early 00s anime, but there's that heavy use of "furries" in English again. I could only imagine the kinds of connections he must have had with the English-speaking scene, and then I found it tucked among his outgoing links page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010417235407/http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~naritaya/link/a-m_link.htm

Yes, that's a link to the "Anime Transformation Archive". I lack the subject matter expertise to fully detangle that site's connections to the broader anime/furry scene but it's pretty clear that, yes, there was some western anime-furry fandom connection happening here. Didn't always see much of that back before social media brought us together across languages.

I'm not sure what he's up to now, but wherever you are Naritaya - hope you're still living the anime furries dream.

Is your computer just a little too silly? Are you, the operator of said computer also silly? Boy do I have a product for you!

Presenting the >.< Inside Sticker. Show the public what you're really running inside.

Available now at the SFG Store.

At work today I helped somewith with a laptop. When we'd finished she asked for my name; when I told her my real name her face lit up and she smiled, like a proper genuine smile, and thanked me for being so helpful.

I think this is the first time that a random person has realised that I'm trans from my name and has been outwardly approving of it. ๐Ÿฅฐ

Meanwhile Elon Musk is trying to destabilize the UK.

Maybe take that into consideration next time you buy a car or cheer for SpaceX.

politico.eu/article/elon-musk-

Found out that there's an anarchist collective in my city and I'm super tempted to volunteer at their club/venue in the new year.

Let's get this fuckin' show on the road!

[ Art by Ryuuki, who smashed this one out of the park, I LOVE IT!

impydragon.art/ - @Ryuuki ]

#furry #furryart #protogen

Y'all know Jack Dorsey isn't involved with BlueSky and hasn't been for a long time right? Like that's the one bit of weird misinformation people seem to be fixated on. He left when they refused to leave the platform unmoderated. Since then, they've implemented a bunch of moderation tools, frankly tools that are better than this platform has. I say that as someone who was a mod for a large instance.

Was digging through some old data, in a dark corner of my network, and found THIS!
I downloaded this file using the NCSA Mosaic browser, cos it was the coolest thing i'd ever seen at the time, and have just kinda had it living on my harddrives and getting transfured from machine to machine ever since.
Looks like it's been reprocessed and stuff since the old days, but the fact it's survived at all is amazing! it says more about my data hoarding than my back-up policies, sadly XD
If you recognise this... you. are. old.

Since I saw a report about 1984 (because of a new audio version done for motherfucking Audible!) with the same talking points, here's the usual correction:

1984 is not a book about total surveillance. It's a book about how to ensure the middle class will never stand with the lower classes against power. It's about how to destroy solidarity. In 1984 only the middle class is surveilled, the lower classes (proles) and the upper class (inner party) are not. It's a book about power and class politics that is more relevant than ever - but not "because our phones surveil us".

designated official bug collector of zhe enclave. especially for @Eelium

ServiceDesk: "The latest Windows update isn't installing on the user's device."
Me: "What's the error message?"
SD: "One or more updates failed to install."
Me: "That sounds more like an application failing to install through SCCM or MECM. What application fails to install?"
SD: "No idea."
Me: "Ask the user these sorts of basic questions before passing them over to us, thanks."

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