Austin Dern @Austin_Dern@mastodon.social

Why every furry is in a mixed-species relationship.

https://www.gocomics.com/bird-and-moon/2018/10/15

About 70% sure @zebratron2084 is already hiding under the bed and hissing at this one.

https://www.gocomics.com/the-bent-pinky/2018/10/15

The entire commercial break during Price Is Right was political commercials for and against candidates named Gretchen.

(Gretchen Whitmer is running for governor. Gretchen Driscoll is running for Congress.)

I have so many ideas for video games that would be difficult to make yet that couldn't be more aggressively anti-commercial if they spent 146 straight hours kicking Jeff Bezos in the ribs.

Strategy organization/management sim where the game's objective is to unionize an industry.

Birbsite suggests my human'sona follow The Official feed for 'The Secret' books and now I have to throw my head back and laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.

Today I learned that two of the oldest living (human) males in the world were both born the 15th of October, 1905. They're not twins. Gustav Gerneth was born in Germany, Manoel Dionisio da Silva in Brazil. They just happen to be hanging in there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

(Also, Morgan was a prolific and most creative inventor: https://www.biography.com/people/garrett-morgan-9414691 ... and yeah, his 1914 gas mask was more a canvas hood than what gets drawn on FurAffinity, but it's still a great bit of work.)

Per 'Today in Chemistry History', on the 13th of October, 1914, Garrett Morgan patented a gas mask, an invention which later made it possible for furries to have Anubis characters.

Hanging out while furry.

https://www.gocomics.com/scarygary/2018/10/13

Oh yeah, so, it used to be that dunking doughnuts was somehow a social controversy for some reason?

https://www.gocomics.com/nancy-classics/2018/10/13

Also: Nancy and Sluggo drink coffee?

When they don't respect your IC space.

https://www.gocomics.com/dogeatdoug/2018/10/13

When you're the only one who appreciates the genius of your character concept.

https://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2018/10/13

Dystopian AU where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in the present day by a mixture of turtle, human DNA, Ooze, and Axe Body Spray.

So this hot take on Pete's Dragon, 1977: not enough dragon and they really should have written some songs before filming.

So between the picture of Theodore Roosevelt in the school and the lyric about 'SOS' we can date the action of Pete's Dragon to 1907 or 1908.

How many of this movie's scenes end with a character being dropped into a thing?

I mean, practical effects are always going to look good, but the movement of the dragon's neck just has this natural flow and heft to it.

They've got the dragon trapped under tarp and netting and for the first time in the movie it looks real and alive and plausibly something someone might be scared by.

Finally, some dragon. It's been like half an hour since we saw him.