Caligan Blue

- 💻 Full-stack web dev for over 20 years - WordPress, Backdrop, etc. - 📚 SF&F&H reader, writer, console/RPG gamer - 🍜 Cooking all manner of things - 🏳️‍🌈 NB/agender, grey ace - 🐈‍⬛ Keeper of cats (and fond of critters overall) - 🎨 Plagiarism is not art, I loathe and block AI

I haven't see anyone sharing the video here, so here's the clip of the gorgeous werewolf float from Imperatriz Leopoldinense's Ney Matogrosso tribute parade. #Werewolf #Carnaval

To be a Luddite is to insist that humans are in charge of humanity, not the iron laws of economics, not the great forces of history, not the uncaring and illusory constellations.

Tired, tired, tired. I hope after I get past tomorrow evening's "show up to try to convince landlords not to evict us all" meeting my stress level will at least start to reduce slightly. Probably not. But I can hope.

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

Want more of a vampire-ish story? "The V*mpire" by @p-h-lee.bsky.social at @reactorsff.bsky.social digs into both natural and supernatural dysphoria. Gosh, we’re lucky that P.H. Lee writes.

Vourdalaks/Vurdalaks are not just vampire stories. "If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak" by @sentencebender.bsky.social at The Dark is such a great riff on an eerie, emotional legend.

HAPPY TO SEE FASCISM CRUSHED? Why not show your support for 🇧🇷 BRASIL 🇧🇷 and check out my amazing RPG that's 100% brazilian made? The pdf is FREE! ⭐️

It is so damn depressing every time I discover someone I know or work with has decided genAI is awesome. Makes me ill. I'd say I need to find some other field to get into, but I *like* my work... and what isn't contaminated these days?

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

Oh. OH. Lula won? I haven't been following the Brasil election closely, but last I'd read that sounded... like it wasn't going well. Man. That is just.... I am so very glad for them. Whew.

That moment when you're reading a reply to your post that somehow makes no sense, and you're wondering if you just need more coffee, because it sounds like they *totally* misread it and why are they even asking— —and then see the bot icon. Go away, you jumped-up autocorrect. I only talk to people.

Blep.

NEW STORY DAY!!! Pumped my story “Ignoring The Tides” found an awesome home with @unchartedmag.bsky.social!!! www.unchartedmag.com/stories/igno...

Just got spam mail from the IRS encouraging me to open a new IRA at TrumpIRA dot gov. Fuuuuuuuuuuck you.

Next up in my occasional series: "Can it swim?" BATS!🦇🏊 As video captured by Rob Mackereth (@mack2526 on IG) in the Lake District, England shows, bats can indeed swim. In fact, they're pretty good little swimmers. But there's an asterisk. Also, standard disclaimer: do not handle downed bats!

this one right here 😍✊🏾

Unless Slay the Princess is lying to me (a distinct possibility!) I think I'm about to finally finish it properly. This game has not at all been what I expected (complimentary). I mostly just bought it for the narration by Jonathan Sims. Which was a good call, but the gameplay is also a win.

Saturday souping. Bunch of veg needed using and I'd just finished a batch of bone stock, so—barley, red potatoes, chayote, Mexican zucchini, mirepoix, garlic, tomatillos, cumin seed, Mexican oregano, cilantro, chicken powder. A one-pot-meal balance to the spatzle madness. 😆

This footage shot by a tourist aboard Jacksonville Boat Charters near Amelia Island, Florida shows a leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). At 2000 lbs (900 kg) & 7 ft long (2.1 m) they're the largest turtles & indeed one of the heaviest extant reptiles on Earth. Here There Be Monsters!

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Hmmmm. Might've been the standing arcade version of Mario Bros at the little hardware store by our grocery. Or Pac-Man at a restaurant where we met my grandparents for lunch. But probably it was a Texas Instruments game on our first home console, likely Hunt the Wumpus or a forgotten learning game.

He just falls asleep like this and it’s like…I know.

Ugh. Waking up from a nap more tired than I started is just rude. I do not want to go people. I do not.

Life may be stress right now, but there is a roast chicken resting right now that'll be vintners' chicken later.

About to dive into trying to explain a disaster plugin to the folks providing data for it. This evening, I have to attend a meeting with neighbors trying to prevent the city from rezoning us out of our homes. *Then* attend a writing chat where I tell my friends I'm leaving the group. Breathing.

Re the last repost, one of the things that has stuck from my time in the behavioural science snake oil mines was an experiment where if people planned a week of movie viewing they would pick a mix of genres, some 'highbrow' etc but if they picked day to day it was all the same stuff

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

Happy Spooky Season! #art #illustration #furry #furryart #furrycomic #comic #goatsandghouls #werewolf #werewolfwednesday #halloween