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Nightpaws
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Security Engineer, DevOps and Platforms. Ny views are my own.

@CamashRed.bsky.social is the bestest lil’ mow.
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nightpaws.bsky.social
Had a good time at EF this year. If I can wrangle a way of doing so, I’ll be trying to repeat it next year.
September 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
My Request to anyone running DLSS5 - Does Kingdom Hearts work and if so how badly will it upset Disney's legal department?
August 31, 2026 at 8:45 AM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Re: current furry discourse.

Oh no, it’s like the people who’ve seen this before, and called it out for what it was actually knew what they were talking about.

This has never happened before. /s
August 29, 2026 at 1:53 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Aliens looking at us from space:

"Keep moving. Don't look at them! ... Wind the windows up"
atomicritter.bsky.social atom @atomicritter.bsky.social · Aug 15
back in vegas and i see they’re just putting whatever on the sphere
August 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Fuck cancer
August 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
News channels talking about climate change as 'Mediterranean UK' as if we're now just going to become Malta.

It's as if the years of "Extreme Weather" warnings thing has completely passed them by. It's not just extreme hot we need to be worried about.
July 30, 2026 at 3:24 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
ProTip - don't stab your finger with a bread knife. It's a pain to deal with and takes forever to heal up.

Related ProTip - Baguettes from Lidl turn into literal knife repellent boulders when heated, especially after a day.

These two facts may be related. Please be more careful than I've been. x_x
July 29, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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ednewtonrex.bsky.social
I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them.

It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out:

🧵 1/10
July 29, 2026 at 8:05 AM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Deltarune Chapter 5 review so far: Too hard, not fun. I've given up and come back 3 times, making zero progress.
July 26, 2026 at 2:45 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
I reiterate my prior statement, but I'm revising one word.

As CFz is unable to be operated without this big corpo cloak & dagger management then it has fundamentally failed the community it serves.
confuzzled.org.uk ConFuzzled @confuzzled.org.uk · Jul 17
We'd like to publish a statement to address some rumours circulating. Today, we apologise for the impact of planned changes, outline what's happening, and our plan to fix that. We hope to reassure you of the future of the convention facilities. A web version is available here: buff.ly/mm9aepe
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Our ConFuzzled Restructure Hello! Today, we would like to address openly some of the rumours that have been swirling on social media, and in other forums online. Specifically, it has become clear that an internal matter has spilled over into the public domain.We’ve made mistakes in the process of executing some changes to the convention staff structure, and we are sorry for that. That this has hurt people we consider not just colleagues in running the convention, but friends, is something that horrifies us. At the Director level, we accept responsibility for that, and apologise. We want to explain a little about what led to this situation. A Restructure Reviews and restructuring of our staff and departments are nothing new. Indeed these have happened in the past on numerous occasions. It's important that we always review our operating structures with a critical eye to make sure we're giving you the best service possible. It’s also something that comes from wanting to embrace change. What you, our attendees, expect from ConFuzzled changes and evolves. The Furry community is dynamic; it’s one of the things we love about it. That sometimes means that some historic aspects of our furry convention might become less popular over time, and new elements begin to emerge as important to embrace. In the months leading up to ConFuzzled 2026 we began to review our structure and how it might be improved. Almost immediately following the Convention that process continued, culminating in the actions of this last week. We sought to embrace change. We sought to streamline our staff structure. Plus, yes, we sought to manage convention costs. Thanks to many years of sound financial management, the convention is in a strong financial position, however future plans may require a larger capital investment than we are currently able to support, meaning it’s important for us to look at building up our savings while we can. A part of this has involved reviewing some historically informal arrangements in place relating to specific departments, which may have worked for all involved in the past, but had been identified as an area of risk in the event that something were to go wrong. Making a change here was necessary to protect the convention, and the facilities we provide to you, and we have outlined these changes below. Our goals were simple: keep the convention staff structure fit for purpose, aligned with what is required today to deliver the convention you expect and enjoy, and ensure the convention is properly protected and set up for the future. We are not looking to make cuts for the sake of cuts, to run an austere convention or to play at being a “big business”. So, what went wrong? Our Mistake Staff restructuring can be done top-down, behind-closed-doors. Or, it can be done in a manner that includes the people directly impacted, with open and positive engagement. We ended up heading down the worse of the above two pathways. That was our mistake, and we would like to own that. A combination of time pressures and competing priorities after the convention caused us to just press on, at the top, without consulting those affected further down the chain of command. It led to people being left behind, and resulted in them feeling unappreciated and unseen. We wholeheartedly apologise for having damaged the relationship with some of our friends and colleagues. We got this wrong. We are truly sorry. We’re already seeking to shift to a much more open, engaging approach to ensure staff feel directly involved in future changes, and that they have a stake in what is happening. We know we have some work to do, and we’re committed to doing it. We’re passionate believers in ConFuzzled, and the good we feel it does for the Furry community here in the UK, and further afield. This convention is enormously important to us, and we, much like those who have been affected by our actions, do genuinely only want the best for it; what that “best” looks like may differ, but it’s important to acknowledge this basic fact. What we’re doing differently The vast majority of teams impacted by these changes engaged constructively with the proposed restructures. We are actively seeking to refine our initial intentions to reflect the feedback from the last few days with the affected departments. We have also taken the time to reach out personally and collectively to the wider team to seek feedback and answer questions as the motivations for these changes, the other changes we are making that are driven by the same goals, and to reassure them that we are listening. This will also be formalised and carried forward into a means for volunteers at all levels to be able to provide anonymous feedback or ask questions of the Directors, which we will then answer as best as we can throughout the year. Convention Impact ConFuzzled goes on! We know that a concern that has been raised is whether these changes will impact the facilities provided by the convention. We are aware of social media posts, some of which were made by senior members of staff in the direct aftermath of a very difficult meeting, that suggest a serious risk to the delivery of our Fursuit Lounges. Our fursuit lounge facilities are widely considered to be some of the best in the world, and this is directly due to the unique skills and equipment that have been offered to us by this same senior team member for many years . We can assure all attendees that ConFuzzled will continue to offer world-class fursuit lounge facilities.! A goal we take very seriously, is to make the convention the best it can be. That means ensuring that the convention continues to offer world-class facilities for our attendees, and that is exactly what we intend to do. We offered to make senior engineering staff formal contractors, providing services to ConFuzzled while transferring the day-to-day function of that department to another team. Our reasons for this were as follows: We could ensure that we had a clear, agreed-upon understanding of ownership of equipment - a position that had become clouded over time without a proper paper trail or any signed agreements. It would allow us to ensure that our insurance and liabilities were properly covered with regards to our attendees, our volunteers, and to the venue. Finally it would have allowed us to continue to properly recompense senior engineering team members in a manner which was no longer outside the fair and equitable framework that applied to all other volunteers across every other department; which could be interpreted - without full context - as a form of favouritism.
July 17, 2026 at 12:50 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
I thought decimating the security team and outsourcing it without consultation would have been the end of it but looks like CorporateFurz has struck again.

If CFz is unable to be operated without this big corpo cloak & dagger management then it has fundamentally failed the community it serves.
ceilfox.bsky.social Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · Jul 14
So, this was posted in the 2026 conbook about the equipment that I have built and operated for Confuzzled for over a decade. I am in a good position in that I haven’t signed any form of NDA so am not restricted in stating what has happened. With no prior discussion i was invited into a meeting with
July 15, 2026 at 7:37 AM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Anyone looking for a room/roommate for EF still? 👀
June 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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punchystream.bsky.social
this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion
June 29, 2026 at 9:42 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Good
June 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Lessons from holiday: I need to care less what other people think and stop letting that drive what I do or don’t do.
June 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Google joins the list of companies who want my money but don't want to have a functional process to give me any sort of product for said money. Well done.

Sitting with support who are unable to do anything at all about a package stuck in transit that I can't access and they can't escalate. 👏🤡
June 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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kekeflipnote.bsky.social
Knowing how beloved this franchise is and how grateful an artist could be if they were sélecteur and in charge of the cover art, for it to have been made with AI of all things in the end ...

This is crazy, c'est catastrophique.
tracker-td.bsky.social Tracker_TD @tracker-td.bsky.social · Jun 9
that KH Switch collection pack thing sure has some interesting cover art

interesting choice to give Donald a mismatched number of fingers on each hand, and a beak that absorbs into itself
June 9, 2026 at 7:17 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Persona 6, P4R, Crazy Taxi: World Tour, Spyro (Maybe), and a RE game I can watch @camashred.bsky.social play. Best game announcement weekend in a very long time.
June 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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dreemurrz.bsky.social
this is it digi-pals, in a few seconds the doors will open for the most amazing digital movie ever!
screencap of the angela anaconda digimon short with the digimon branding edited to be about the amazing digital circus instead. the digimon movie poster is replaced with a poster of the last act, and the boy is wearing a hat with jax's face on it and a shirt of the amazing digital circus logo
June 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
NVidia huffing their own exhaust and their CEO self-proclaiming as the next Steve Jobs to a silent room before playing a self-indulgent slopfest, just about epitomizes how incestuous and tone-deaf the industry has become.

Looking forward to the surprised pikachu reactions when the scheme topples.
June 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Well, I've finally made the switch. My desktop is now CachyOS and I've ditched Windows 11 and the cesspit of ads, marketing and forced AI altogether. It's impressive how far Linux has come in the last few years. I was able to get just about everything set up in around 4 hours last night.
May 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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camashred.bsky.social
It's very important to let everyone know that Tomodachi Life without prompting made me eat an entire photorealistic haggis and I don't know if I should feel called out or honoured.
May 5, 2026 at 11:25 PM
nightpaws.bsky.social
Cam two seconds after telling me this - "Annoyingly that still tastes quite nice.... I don't feel well..."
camashred.bsky.social CamashRed - Low Poly Lion @camashred.bsky.social · May 2
I like to dispel the myth that ADHD is an easy-to-manage condition cause I'm doing a clear out of a cupboard that has been piled high with accumulated junk and I found a gift I'd continually intended to give someone for Christmas. The receipt date is 2017. I have lived in this flat since 2021.
May 2, 2026 at 6:40 PM