Related, there is a donation group for Mastodon for Harris. I imagine a great way to show there is interest in her making an account is to see fundraising coming from the user base. It’s at ~114k at the time I wrote this: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Damn and here I thought my 13200Ah phone I charge once a week was big. I wish more phones went down the route of massive batteries, it’s so much better than being thin and barely lasting a day of normal use.

Looks like Bog has some pretty good compression rates! How does it compare with other standards?

From those screenshots it does look quite nice! Visible ratings while scrolling albums is huge for me and I miss it. I migrated everything over to Strawberry from MusicBee this year because I only want FOSS, and Tauon appears to be GPL licenced! Strawberry absolutely works, but it still feels more like a settle. Gotta give this a try and see how it feels, thanks for the info!

Thank you so much!

Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.

Haven’t seen much today unfortunately, hoping that changes. I made a very short pixel art skit for today and posted it in a few places. April snuck up on me once again, so I’m glad I got anything up this time.

With all that food for thought, your son might be full before getting to the food court!

Nice night scene! I appreciate the detail you put into the suv and its lighting, really makes me feel like they’re the only one around for a long while.

Leap day people have to wait four, the poor souls.

The day’s not over until you say goodnight to your plushies! God I love plushies.

Thanks for sharing! From the sounds of it you’ve been aware for a long time too, honestly it’s kinda amazing to me how long it’s been a part of many people’s lives and identities. It really is one of those things that seem to stick with you forever!

Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words!

Thank you very much!

Glad my translation of the window was on point then! This was made in Krita, a FOSS art program. I actually made it under a size and color constriction to be recreated as a Mario Maker 2 comment, which I ended up doing a week later.

Tails is basically the reason I found out I wanted to be a fox when I was like 7, so he’s had an influence on my identity for sure. Without the full body and no color to go on, he does look a lot like him.

Yeah, pure art posts are against the rules, but it’s often pretty easy to turn something into a joke related to the art you’ve made. Also it could just be emotionally relatable, which is also allowed.

Yeah I feel you on that, at least in the sense of knowing people enjoy what you create anyway. It doesn’t have to do anything crazy, but knowing people want to see it from time to time is certainly a nice feeling. Art is a form of personal expression after all, and I want to share that with others freely. That is also what I look out for in others too, people who want to share their ideas and create purely because they want to. A labor of love and nothing more.

Engagement is one of those things which is a bit odd to try and capitalize on. It’s less about the content itself and more about the where and when a lot of the time. You’d be surprised just how much the exact same post would change in reach just by shifting your post time by a few hours. I never found /r/furry to be a good place to post artwork when I used Reddit. Slapping a tagline and putting it onto furry_irl was significantly more effective with user interaction and turnarond. Though regardless, virtually none of those people ever interacted with my furaffinity.

At the end of the day though, being popular has little to do with hard work and improvement as an artist. It’s much more about endlessly shoveling out content of any quality and constant self promotion. If you’re not the kind of person who wants to turn marketing into a hobby, you and I are in the same boat. Just making things we want because we can, and sharing stuff without expecting any real engagement. I might not be popular, but at least I feel free to do as I please.

In regards to the prospective decision of which I am a party to, I have reached a conclusive choice between the dichotomy of ‘can’ and ‘can not’. To whomever it may concern, the result of much mental deliberation has reached an egress, now ready to be communicated to all those interested. It shall be known from this moment forward and into the forseeable future (notwithstanding a later recanting, which would nullify this verdict) that the status of my ability is unable, ergo, ‘can not’.

You’re certainly not alone, I’m in the exact same boat lol.