#streaming update! I was originally quite upset about being asked to switch positions, but—this new job is much less stressful! The bottom line: I’m going to get back into streaming starting this week, now that I don’t crash every evening. Tonight, I think I’ll do a bit of Minecraft on @mrj505 […]

When I was a freshman in high school (around fourteen years of age, for non-Americans), my friend and I determined that a phenomenal yet harmless prank to pull would be to take his mom’s leftover spaghetti in red sauce and distribute it through the school sealed inside condoms. Through the most […]

My wife and I were sitting in our car, windows down, parked by an old, defunct bank, when a lithe, middle-aged woman pulling one of those tall carts came by and asked to “borrow” a cigarette. I replied, “Sorry; don’t smoke, never have,” and expected that to be the end. She then pivoted to say […]

My wife and I have been unexpectedly strapped for cash this pay cycle, and I’ve been too exhausted from work to really look into it. Anyway, I went online to pay on my car loan today, and—$0 due?! Turns out I accidentally paid the bill twice during Anthrocon LMAO #finance

Just learned that it’s not a normal childhood experience to have kept a catfish in the bathtub for a couple days before Christmas Eve.

I forgot my third wedding anniversary, which was two days ago. It’s fine, though, because my wife completely forgot, too.

You know that big-ass storm that just hit a lot of the eastern U.S.? Somehow, I had power during the whole thing, but like, *now* it’s out. Actually confused; flooding itself doesn’t usually cause problems. Anyway: my online services are all down, since I know a few people check my socials for […]

HAHA THSS IDIOT LEFT HIS LAPTOP OPEN RATS RULE BIRDS DROOL #Puppet #Puppets #Puppetry #Rats

We promise our secretary is a responsible adult. #furry #bowling #zorua

A bit of pondering about fursuit cuddles. https://www.ssterling.net/furry/feathersuit/cuddles/ #furry #fursuit #feathersuit

Cuddleability

Something I didn’t think about when considering the design.

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DOC SAID I HAVE THE TACO BELL LETTUCE EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA PARASITE LMAO #cyclosporiasis

me: grabs wife’s hand backwardsly and stares at her wife: “What are we?” me: “Two tubes with increased motility and the machinery necessary to support it.”

Not what I meant when I said I missed my childhood. #tacobell #cyclosporiasis #explosivediarrhea

Now that the trial’s over, I can begin sharing some of the bonkers shit I heard: counsel: “What did you think were the contents of the bag?” witness: “Drugs, or cereal.” … counsel: “So, not a gun?” #law #juryduty #drugs

I so wish I could talk about the case I’m a juror for because some of the stuff that’s been said would make for great humor

Fevered, miserable, still a juror. One hour in, I could no longer contain whatever was trying to exit my nose. Couldn’t quite get the attention of the bailiff from where I was, so I raised my hand during a lull to ask, “May I get some tissues, Your Honor?” Certainly not the stupidest thing I’ve […]

Well, I’ve finally started my feathersuit project in any serious capacity. Not fursuit—a costume of a couple thousand or so individual fabric feathers. Bonkers, I know. First blog post: https://www.ssterling.net/furry/feathersuit/plans/ . I’ll use the #feathersuit hashtag, if you wanna follow! […]

frankly i treat furry as like the apex fandom like crabs to evolution. all roads lead to funny animals

Before and after: physically moving my modem such that it relies on a long Cat5e cable instead of a long coax cable—or, more accurately, on multiple short, aging coax cables of dubious sources, all chained by two TV-grade splitters and a push-on type coupler. #networking #internet

Finally found my wallet—in my grandmother-in-law’s freezer. Time for Anthrocon! #ac2026

My wife’s breakfast while at her grandmother’s: shredded Colby Jack she melted in the microwave scooped atop a leftover pork chop. #cooking

hot dogs #hotdogs

greeting fellow Spanish speakers during June like “¿hómo estás?”

Baby Yoda is Minions for millennials

Typically, for me, burnout feels like a match: stricken to great effect, steadily aflame for a bit, then slowly exhausting its fuel till it’s shrunk too much to survive. This time, at my new job teaching pre-kindergarten at a daycare center, I feel like I’m a gas cooktop: one whose knob is stuck […]

Suppositorial phenylephrine is one of the greatest things ever invented.

nice

The funniest thing I experienced working the polls today (aside from all the “Independents” seething that the Republican primary is now closed) was this exchange, in the context of the two “I Voted” stickers available: old man: “So is the blue sticker for the retarded men?” me: chuckles […]

Dolly Parton going on about this 9–5 stuff when I just pulled a 5–9 #pollworker

A veces, mis colegas me dice que hablando con los estudiantes hispanohablantes en español no es bueno por aprender inglés. Like, no hablo solo español y lo hago “fácil”—solo traduco alguno des palabras en los instrucciones; más del traducción y lógico grammático es hace del estudiante. No es […]