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S. Daniel McPhail

@esdeem

A writer and photographer who will one day be a clue on Jeopardy. Unapologetic fan nerd, wildlife enthusiast, and collector of things and stuff. Definitely not three red pandas in a Vash the Stampede coat.

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Farewell, my sweet girl. Every person who passed you by in the shelter missed out on an amazing girl. Thank you for eleven years of companionship.

I’ll miss you, Sapphire.

13.03.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

11.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 6378 πŸ” 6317 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 340
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Sorey grooming Purrsival. πŸ’™πŸ§‘

11.03.2026 05:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Muscular shark woman lifting two dumbbells.

Muscular shark woman lifting two dumbbells.

Shanty Gym Sketch! 🦈 #art #commission

11.03.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 1000 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
Orange and white cat, attitudinal. His behavior report is 95% good, 5% trespassed on the helicopter shelf.

Orange and white cat, attitudinal. His behavior report is 95% good, 5% trespassed on the helicopter shelf.

Behaviores Report; 95% goode 5% trespaced on tha hellocobber shelve (tha Clazzik)

12.03.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 796 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 0
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WeRateDogs gave a 12/10 to Moxxie Go to portal.weratedogs.com to submit your dog(s) for an official WeRateDogs rating.

And here’s Moxxie Moo.

11.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WeRateDogs gave a 14/10 to Sapphire Go to portal.weratedogs.com to submit your dog(s) for an official WeRateDogs rating.

My sweet girl. 14/10 is too low of a rating for her.

11.03.2026 15:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bought! Love these books so much, a big part of my writing bookshelf.

11.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Saki a purple rito with long pink curly hair (left), and Teba (right) a white rito with blackish tipped feathers. The pair gaze lovingly at each other's eyes while in their embrace. Anthropomorphic bird characters called rito in the Legend of Zelda universe.

Saki a purple rito with long pink curly hair (left), and Teba (right) a white rito with blackish tipped feathers. The pair gaze lovingly at each other's eyes while in their embrace. Anthropomorphic bird characters called rito in the Legend of Zelda universe.

Tebasaki πŸ’—

The lovebirds.

#zeldafanart #furry #art #furryart #fantasyart #nintendo #rito #birds #teba #saki #krita #tloz #botw #totk

11.03.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gambit & Rogue. Tool, procreate. #xmen #xmen97 #gambit #rogue #marvelfan #marvelfanart #comicart #comicartist

15.11.2024 15:04 πŸ‘ 191 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shockwave & Co. 😈

The crew: Animated, Transformers One, Dark of the Moon, Cyberverse, Energon (erm actually ShockBLAST β˜οΈπŸ€“), Prime, and G1! #Maccadam

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 290 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile, I wonder how long it’s gonna be before Markwayne challenges a reporter to a knife fight in the parking lot.

I give it three and a half months, tops.

06.03.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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He loves snackie time, especially when the snack is Churu. 🧑

06.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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My boy Moxxie had The Procedure done a few days ago, and the salty look on his face says it all.

The hardest part is that the vet said no running or jumping; and that’s only about ninety percent of how the boyo gets around. But thankfully it looks like he’s already healing up.

28.02.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the former host of celebrity apprentice and the former host of fox & friends weekend are launching bombs and destabilizing the world for generations all because voters decided their biggest issue was a trans kid playing jv tennis with their friends 4 states over

28.02.2026 14:17 πŸ‘ 3688 πŸ” 966 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 20

And then there are the model railroad enthusiasts too.

I’m still proudly buying my Transformers and playing video games. Gotta be serious for work and other adult stuff, I gotta decompress somehow!

28.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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i don't think i ever posted this here??
BUT YEAH
SISTERS!

#helluvaboss #loona #octavia

27.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 914 πŸ” 308 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 1

Artists, quote with your faces!! 🩷

07.01.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 416 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 17
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The Legend of Zelda
Art by Velinxi

22.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 1216 πŸ” 260 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 13
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Large black and white illustration of Calvin and Hobbes on a ship in the water with a massive Z coming from behind. This was a private commission (not mine).

Large black and white illustration of Calvin and Hobbes on a ship in the water with a massive Z coming from behind. This was a private commission (not mine).

Calvin & Hobbes + Godzilla by @jamesstokoe.bsky.social.
#comics #art

22.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 753 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 12
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I made this mock-up a few yrs back (just used pre-existing art I had) for an idea for an artbook I wanted to do (and never did) & I wonder I should attempt it again this year maybe/gauge interest from people?

Would be like an "The Art of" style book a lot of animated series have had.
#transformers

18.02.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

We were watching a preview of it at my theater before it opened, and I’ll never forget how our projectionist yells, β€œThat better not be the ending!” and the credits started rolling five seconds later.

19.02.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saving Private Kermit

Gonzpocalypse Now (with, of course the behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film, Felt of Darkness)

19.02.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Finished a sketch of Telara that I’ve been tinkering with for a bit. Not quite where I want to be with my art, but it’s a process.

Telara is one of the leads in my WIP, a Healer and former thief who is drawn into the mysterious comas afflicting the Emejre Enclave. Her sass hides deep insecurity.

15.02.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Couple more:

14.02.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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These are oooold, as you can probably tell from the bad Photoshop work, but they still make me chuckle a bit and I haven’t had time to do anything new for Valentine’s Day this year. #Transformers

14.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Something Big Is Happening
Something Big Is Happening
Matt Shumer
@mattshumer_ β€’ Feb 10
Think back to February 2020.
If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ β€’ Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished.
Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? β€” that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? β€” that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

12.02.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 942 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 20

I was curious to see your take on it… I’m always skeptical when someone says, β€œI’m in this industry and trust me, it’s gonna change everything!”

Some of us are old enough to remember when the Segway was going to β€œchange transportation”, too.

12.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Drew Mira from KPop Demon Hunters

11.02.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 6229 πŸ” 1201 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 5