That's where I do things now.

The Species Formerly Known As Coronans has officially changed its name to
"Malych" which effectively merges them with the existing Malych species previously defined as "Synths of Tellisian Origin" or "Synths Related to Zoids".
Pact procedural recognition of this change passed, although it only requires a seconding and not a majority because it's procedural.
Tinis: Yea
Miokalia: Yea
Gallego: Abstained/Observing
Polyvia-Frx: Protested the need for a vote.
Cucaloris-Cth: Yea
Planet Formerly Known as Corona Beta VII: Yea
Others: Abstained/Observing


Delegation comments:
Tinis (Delegate Frixmatagin): "This is a symbolic and procedural vote that only indicates that the IEMP acknowledges the name change of a Pact signatory."

Miokalia (Delegate Andertol): "About time"

Gallego (Delegate Smitheaningham): "Our constitution requires us to abstain from votes that have nothing to do with us"

Polyvia-Frx (Delegate Zebratractor #555): "HONNNNNNNNK HONNNNNNNNNNNNK" (Hey, what are we doing? Why are we voting? Everyone is so tiny!)

Cucaloris-Cth (Delegate Toothpaste): "The Furnisher of the Adhocracy has acknowledged the need for Coronans to alter their name to prevent confusion and needless negative association that does not serve their interests"

Planet Formerly Known as Corona Beta VII (Delegate Sony Pepsi-Enema):
"Beep"

President Phillips M Magnavox III has announced that the new name for the Species Formerly Known As Coronans will be revealed in the format of Wheel Of Fortune with celebrity contestants, in which they will get to guess the orthographic elements comprising the new name one at a time, thereby gradually revealing it to all, as well as potentially winning some of these fabulous prizes:

64-piece tiny-fork set from K-Mart,
Tiny forks. They're very small.
Your neighborhood K-Mart, now with 25% fewer used condoms in the shoe department for some reason

A Kazian-King Sized Waterbed from B.J.Splusho,
Get closer to your partner than you ever wanted to by feeling their every movement!
B.J.Splusho, all our waterbeds are filled with orbeez

The "Freedom Phone" by Bell South.
Using vintage TTL technology, dial numbers by s l o w l y speaking into the handset because there are no number buttons.
Bell South, how the fuck did we even get to a planet 4 lightyears away from Earth?

Abnormally Large Louis:Beastars Plush from KronoGP
You want him inside you... r bedroom... (decoratively!) This 9-foot-tall plush's piercing gaze is unavoidable. Why 9-feet-tall? Well, we didn't check the details when we ordered it and maybe we should have, but hey! Our mistake is your... new... fetish?

The species formerly known as Coronans will temporarily be known as:
"The Species Formerly Known as Coronans" until a new name is chosen.

The search for a new, harmless and entirely uncorruptible name for the species formerly known as Coronans is underway.

This is very much in character for a species that is entirely defined by pieces of other people's media and culture.

Yeah hopefully I dont have to rename Coronans entirely, but I might have to.

Tellisian MREs
Somehow, the Kazians figured out how to make cheese eternal and its basically The Condiment in every pack. Along with the unique, 2-compartment coffee pack that dispenses different amounts of coffee based on which side you tear it from (this one's for the wolves, this one's for the foxes). Most of the main dishes taste like chicken and are usually greasy pastries filled with chicken and sausage.

The Dinosaur MREs of Miokalia are markedly more bland than those up north and usually feature a generic form of a dish which otherwise would indicate the meat type in the name. Instead of "Chicken Tenders" its "Food Tenders" and so on. Some items might say "Chicken-Style" but it's all cultured meat product anyway, so why bother when everyone is both aware of it, and accustomed to it. There is a near total absense of cheese and almost always a side of spam or some odiferous, fermented seafood. The coffee is a single size pouch and it's basically Taster's Choice, but green because raptors like to put a blue-colored flour in their coffee for some reason.

Tinis actually puts entertaining food in their MREs, but they too tend toward bland flavors overall, albeit mildly exotic to the non-Tinisian. Where to begin? The neon-green pudding, the freeze dried salad bricks full of nuts (that taste like none of the above ingredients) or the large bag of (small) ants that have no business tasting like pepperoni but do anyway. Their coffee is coveted for its lack of tartness and abnormally long shelf life due to its accidentally high copper content, which also makes it a tad poisonous to most non-Tellisian species.


Malycho-Zoidy versions of all three also exist, with the same style of packaging but different items. The most notable being the "Mill Leavings Soup", which is just a bag of metal shavings and turnings like those collected from CNC machines. There's always grease for taste. They dont put fuel in these because the point is to give them something to do while non-zoidy comrades are eating. Its more of a social-unit thing, and zoid refueling can be off-putting during dinnertime, especially for those with weird hatches and apparatuses, or outright hazardous materials.

Tellisian mains voltage is 180 volts AC, 50 Hz. Yep, they all agreed on a standard together.
(It helps when the three major countries exist on the same continuous landmass)

The two Tellisian moons don't actually orbit each other despite usually being depicted in close proximity.
The orbital period of Fen (the nearest) is about half that of Yor (the furthest). This makes it possible for Fen and Yor to be visible in the sky within a few degrees of each other multiple times per day.

Corona's three moons are on more distant orbits than Tellis' moons.
"A" is very prominent in the sky (and very red), the other two ("B" & "C") are much further. "C" is icy but habitable.

B1257+12C ("Cucaloris") has no moons, not that they would be visible from the surface anyway.
"Chthonian Sea Level" is defined as the elevation of points on land that are about 100 miles above the lowest point on the surface. Below this point, atmospheric pressure increases tremendously, and layers of wildly varying temperatures and densities form as different components of the atmosphere condense, boil, precipitate and freeze at different pressures and temperatures. These layers constantly interact in a manner similar to the atmosphere of a gas giant but on a smaller scale and geographically-confined.
Despite the storminess, the seas can be crossed by even rudimentary airships since air at habitable altitude is much less dense than the layers of air directly above the sea. The use of simple sails to traverse the seas has been known since the beginning of recorded history and may have influenced early writing.

B1257+12C was at one point a gas giant, but lost its outer atmospheric layers. Still, the remaining atmosphere is so thick that a substantial portion of the visible light at the habitable surface is actually created by secondary emission and aurorae at higher altitudes. The rotational period is 6 hours.

Aurorae on B1257+12C are bright enough to be comparable to Earth's twilight in terms of illumination of the surface, at higher latitudes, they can become even brighter. Magnetic storms usually cause larger variations in brightness than normal. The region above the "arctic circle" and below the "antarctic circle" experience seasonal brightness changes that are so extreme as to be completely uninhabitable. Heat generated from the combined brightness of aurorae, secondary emission, pulsar light and the slightly thinner atmosphere is difficult to measure. There are no ice-caps, but other "orderly" atmospheric phenomena are known to happen at these locations which are believed to have some commonalities to atmospheric phenomena at the polar regions of gas planets.

B1257+12C experiences magnetic storms due to the very powerful planetary magnetic field (3 Tesla) and pulsar wind.

B1257+12C will erase magnetic media easily. Early tape and disk storage was achieved with bi-stable photo-sensitive media similar to film. Formulations usually toggled reflectivity and transparency when exposed to either higher or lower wavelengths of light.

Nachtan have trouble differentiating colors of longer wavelengths than green. This is because their eyes don't use a system analogous to a single optical lens and sensor, but instead use collimators and prismatic crystals which actively "dissect" an image rather than receiving signals from fixed "pixels" reactively. As a result, a point of a longer wavelength of light takes longer to "find" proportionally to the length of the wavelength so that Red, Orange, Yellow and Green things tend to more easily blur and seem to have less "resolution" than Blues, Violets and near-UV bands. This is part of the reason they have so many eyes (wider field of vision means more time to evaluate longer wavelengths on moving objects), the other being that image-dissecting is relatively noisy and susceptible to distortions and having more eyes means more samples to "clean up" the image.

Tellisian records are recorded at Continuous Linear Velocity, so if you play them on a record player from Earth, the music becomes progressively slower as the stylus tracks inward. Why? Because such a system utilizes a simple CVT (two gears and a spring, easy to make) which allows for a simple all-mechanical playback speed adjustment mechanism that looks like an "added feature" to the consumer even though it's just some levers to set the pinion "start and stop" positions for the angular tracking. The biggest disadvantage was that the spacing between the two pinion stops was crucial for keeping the playback speed correct all the way through, and with the very tiny size of the CVT (about an inch of travel), this meant that temperature and material actually impacted the consistency of playback speed. The biggest advantage was that the record had the same potential sound quality for its entire play-length, which is not the case for ordinary Continuous Angular Velocity playback. But really, it's just another case of "Furries do it differently".

Nachtan Spaaaaaaaace Prooooooograaaaaammmm
You have to make derigible-launched rockets for the Beezer or else he'll eat you. In fact, the only reason you haven't been eaten yet is due to your apparent usefulness as an aerospace engineer. So you better not fail too many times, because the Beezer doesn't like wasting materials and you're lucky that you get to live on-site at the space center in tiny quarters along with all the Miasmanauts that either get blown up or blasted off in your designs, up into the hot, x-ray-infested blackness above the clouds without any way back down.
Sacrifices? No, sacrifice implies something of value is lost and the Beezer has no reason to value something he can just press a button to replace exactly. There are no sacrifices here, only the natural course of business as usual.
The Beezer desires a way to expand himself beyond the gravitational prisons of this planet and its pulsar, and it's up to you to deliver it, if only to delay your inevitable consumption.

Get in the pod, Shuckji

They're turning the Cinderella City mall into a virtual reality model.

Yes.
The same one that was featured in Space Meat.

New theory:
Most (if not all) Furries that started participating in the fandom after 2000 treated it as a buffer and proxy for computer mediated communication and the core of the (typical and daily) Furry experience, since the tools to represent one's identity in any manner were standard (avatar images, user names). Many furries that were active before 2000 also migrated into this because they were early adopters, so this threshold is more of a gradient than a categorizer. But for many pre-2000 Furries, this was not necessarily the "core" of the Furry experience for them as much as it is for the later set because their access to Furry was through systems that mediated communication differently than today, or by direct personal contact (and sex). This isnt to say sex is less part of Furry over time, but rather that it is less definitive of it. Someone being 'Furry' says less specifically about their sexuality than it used to. This difference in core experience is becoming more apparent over time as the language, social norms and visual communication styles of the two diverge increasingly. The main observation I have about how the Colorado furry scene is extremely different from furry scenes everywhere else I've been, is it's the only one where the transition seems to have stalled out.

Back in the late 2000's, this start of this split appeared to be between the "Inner Circles" of conventions, and the "B-Wave" kids flooding into them. Although this was not a complete characterization, since these Inner Circles were not demographically uniform enough for the assumptions about difference in culture and age to work. It was a misidentification of the parties involved, and an over-generalization of the perceived "conflict". The larger issue at work was that within the older segment of Furries, there was (and in some places, still are) fundamental differences in what is considered to be essential to "Furry-ness". For some, it is functionally the same as Furryness for the post-2000 crowd. For others, it is increasingly less the same, and this transition towards Furry being defined primarily by communication proxies and less as a "twink faucet" for finding sex could be seen as a threat. Although I dont think most would say so.

The problem is when an inner circle is over-reliant on them, and they have a way of accreting and cultivating performative furries that extend the feasability of the pre-2000 type of Furry-ness. Possibly long enough that there is no longer any reason to complete the transition, and instead, incentive to hybridize sensibilities from the past into the post-2000 Furry culture. Which makes thralls out of those suceptible to cognitive insecurity.

Substantively, the transition isnt language, politics or culture. It is only in what type of activity takes precedent among those stated to be Furry, and if they exist to serve an objective which is not by itself "Furry".

"It's called a hustle, Sweetheart"

Not that I really put much thought into not skipping it.
I had to go to a work-related drinking thing after work (because that's basically the primary social activity in Denver for people of my age group), so I was extra uninterested in just about everything and spent the weekend basically just doing more work-related... work.

Then I cleaned and happened upon two unsent illustrated envelopes from back when  barrakoda and I used to send weird things to each other by mail because we were hipsters like that.

I really wish I hadn't found them.

I love every character in that show and yes, Haida is very attractive.

(So toothy!)

I am pretty okay at playing ping pong with my bare hands.

Because I thought I was at Home Depot and I had brought it in with me, but I was actually at a grocery store and forgot to get a cart so I put it in my pocket for a few seconds then put it back (in the cereal aisle) when I realized that it doesn't make sense to bring ranch dressing into a Home Depot. It was Friday.

Back in December, my boss at work, who was awesome, and trully outrageous in the good way, got fired seemingly out of nowhere.

Well, today he just got hired back literally at the same moment that a 5 story construction site for a universally-reviled project (not one of ours, we only do international commercial) less than a mile away fucking burst into flames. Chunks of ash were all over the parking lot and one of the dudes at our parking lot share handed me a huge chunk for some reason. It was an extremely surreal day.

Printer: Monoprice 15365

1. Fill density can make an otherwise printable object unprintable, but Cura doesn't detect this and will happily save unprintable gcode. The best number for this is 20%.

2. Using "Brim" instead of "Raft" for base will consume a buildplate surface liner.

3. The "Do Not Eat" printed on the dessicant packs that come with filament is not a challenge. Unless you want to eat sand that tastes like filament.

4. Selecting a 0.1mm layer height causes Cura to generate unprintable gcode. Just use 0.2mm

5. ABS doesn't print well for small parts because the bed doesnt get anywhere near hot enough. It can do larger parts better.

6. PETG prints tighter than ABS (at bed temp of 60c) and results in stronger parts because it takes less bed heat to work well.

7. PLA shatters into very sharp, finger-seeking, irregularly-shaped missiles.

8. Save the dessicant packs and put them in a bin with the filament reels for storage because moisture causes filament to degrade.

I had to get ordinary, brass fittings, because the models I was chopping up from Thingiverse were unprintable EXCEPT the impeller pump which I printed last night and destroyed this morning while trying to remove support mesh with a dremel tool (dumb-diddly dumb dumb dumb). Interestingly, the washer does have just enough of a waste pump to make a huge mess if not accommodated but not pressure to achieve sufficient head (tee hee) to get up 2 feet and reach the dishwasher drain pipe under the kitchen sink. So, it looks like I'll be reprinting that beautiful Spanish impeller pump (the file name is en Español) again, but full size this time, because I'm actually going to need it. I might also print the body in PLA and the impeller itself in PETG since PETG is supposed to be harder than ABS but without the high bed heat requirements and bird-nestiness that seems to happen to ABS when things aren't set just right. I know PLA is harder than it lets on because this morning I got cut while snapping a 1mm waste-raft of it in order to get a "feel" for its mechanical properties.

It is really hard to 3D print plumbing fittings to adapt a washing machine to 1/2 inch supply. Apparently there is an essential finnickiness to printers and Gcode. Also coming soon: new, illuminated eyes and horns for Cheddar. Also feet, at some point. I might even figure out how to get water to my washer someday too. Also a drill-powered water pump I printed yesterday exploded, unsurprisingly, since it was ABS and printed at 20% fill, and I ran it under abnormal conditions. I was /trying/ to make it explode, and I succeeded immediately, the parts were so warped that the drill tore it apart. Going to work on that.

I wore "slightly damp" jeans outside.
It is 10 degrees F even though it might as well be kelvin.
As such, my jeans are now a very hard composite of denim and ice IX which could someday be used to build a space elevator, if it can ever be detached from my bottom.

One of the Denver TV stations paid Facebook (a lot) to jam their post about a proposed building, designed to galvanize NIMBY elites against it, onto the newsfeed of everyone in a 50 mile radius. My ShibaShield, which blocks all non-surrealist and non-Shiba Inu-based Facebook content has been penetrated so I'm throwing the big switch again. See you in 2+ weeks, FB.

Hewwo Mah Chewwy Bacon pop-tarts,
What is a "Texas"? This is obviously just a weird part of Kadoria. Everything is bigger in Kadoria, the cars, the seats, the roads and the days. The days are 36 hours here right? Must be!
I'm following a Shadow Fox around, but secretly, I'm like, 73.4% sure he's also one of the Dekas I've seen at those joint exercise thingies. Fun fact: the triangle pins they wear are not rank regalia, but actually indicate the teams they mentor. I did not know this!!! For all this time, I've been snogging DekaCommander Cassette McK-Mart's hind legs just because his CoronaDeka team has like, 19 rangers on it. And his preponderance of uniform pips made it seem that he was even higher up than the Bird. Turns out he's actually just stressed out and stretched really, really thin.
Poor guy! Corona has a lot of DekaProblems.
So when those triangle pips dont have any colors in them, apparently that means something else too. Anyway, I did get "escorted" around by a Deka wolf last night for scaring children. Bah.
Cheddar out!

Goooooooood morning, Beefy-nam!
This is Cheddar and you should ask yourself why you, yes YOU, are awake right now. My excuse for being up at 5, is that Cucaloris has 6 hour days so about 1/6th of the time, it is going to be 5:something, all the time!
It is literally never afternoon. The day was too short to split it by AM and PM! Really, too short to even call a "day". You know what, lets just say this whole "day" concept is foreign to me and that can excuse my total disregard for punctuality, in all its forms, okay!

Cheddar out!

Oh god.

I really am an obedient machine