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Tails of the Wolf Dolphin Hybrid

The personal blog of a PNW technologist furry.

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So maybe I struggle with focus.

ADHD is a bitch

A revisit of the first novel in the Dangerous Spirits series by Kyell Gold

Book Review: Egg's Curse

A young soldier, terrified of magic, finds himself swept away on a magical journey.

Thoughts on being a furry

How it helped me, why it's important, and why I protect it. If you know me, you know I grew up in a super conservative family where emotionally immature parents raised me in a religious setting. From an early age, I developed a fucked-up worldview, and my identity became seriously screwed up. It’s taken many years to start to even realize the depth of the abuse and trauma, let alone properly deal with it. It’s not surprising that someone who was so forcibly repressed and had their childhood stol...

Our instincts can't handle AI

Fake it 'till you make it, has been a phrase I've heard repeated all my life. When I was writing this missive, I went to look for its origin, and the wikipedia entry for the phrase is disappointing. It may have come from remixing the words of a song, maybe. Regardless of its origin, it was a truth that seemed to be internalized and accepted in the 90s and got taught to everyone since then. It gave tacit approval for attempting to do things without knowledge or experience, as long as what you did...

technologygripes

Dolphin squeaks

How do you even do the blog thing these days? I've finally taken the time to organize all the different places I am online into something that (hopefully) makes a lot more sense and makes it easier to navigate and discover my stuff online (discovery is what peeps are calling this in 2025, yea?). Here's where everything is and what tools I'm using! My landing page is now tig.lol, which gives a complete overview of who I am and where to find all my blogs, active social profiles, and stuff. This un...

Book Review: The Death of Truth

A book that promises revelations of how truth was rejected in American society, that focuses on appearing neutral more than providing objective solutions. I jumped into Steven Brill’s The Death of Truth with excitement, but found myself largely underwhelmed and disappointed. As someone who has been following the issues of misinformation, media polarization, and political upheaval since 2020, the book offered little new insights or compelling analysis. Most of the content revisits well-trodden gr...

An Angry Gryphon

Ultimately, a country of hundreds of millions is going to be dragged into a future decided by a few tens of thousands. Maybe even a smaller margin. Xenophobia, Racism, Transphobia, and depersonalizing women are all foisted up as well by one party. Turns out many people feel those feelings every day, and didn't like the status quo of society making them question those beliefs. Now there's a party of hate that tells them those feelings were good all along. Some portion of the population seems to b...

The Megaplex 2024 After-con Report

At the turn of August into September, I found myself in Orlando, Florida, at Megaplex. It was both my first time at Megaplex and my first time in Florida, and I have some thoughts on both. We flew out and arrived on Thursday night. To start, landing into Orlando International Airport (MCO): time for an airport review! The terminal structure for the airport comprises smaller bundles of gates with elevated people movers to move you from the gates to the main A/B terminal. Moving between sides woul...

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The end of dotML Mali domains

For the last couple of years, this blog and some of my emails have used the 🐺🐬.ml domain name for routing. Mali was one of the few registrars that allowed emojis in domains, which made it attractive to me. Mali and the .ml domain was also in the news recently for being the recipient of mis-sent military emails. The .ml domains recently had their contract with Freenom end and went back to the Mali government, and with that it seems like 🐺🐬.ml is officially dead. I'd actually paid for the domain t...

I love twilight and evening, the slight chill of the air and the almost primal sense of danger and power that comes with the soon-approaching darkness. A nice twilight can feed a bit of adrenaline to finish setting up a tent, stoking a fire, or finishing the last bit of trail to get out of the woods. It’s a deeply connected feeling, like the whole of nature around you is also feeling the travail of night approaching, and each creature in its own way is also preparing. Once you’re settled and se...

A hybrid in the USA

After a long process of planning and applications, I officially moved to the United States back in June! The final bits of the process came together much faster than I expected, and I ended up getting my status and moving all within a month. With so little preparation and a move at the beginning of summer, the logistics became rather difficult. I had Uhaul cancel on me twice before I booked a private trailer to move down my stuff. As luck would have it, the trailer then broke down on the side of...