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Raymond "Wash" the akita 🔜 NeurIPS
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Sometimes I'm an akita but you might know me as Raymond the GSD or SaberTail. Former particle physicist, but now I write software. (40, Male, straight)-ish. SF Bay area. I'm probably not like you remember from pre-2020.
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you can say 'howdy' back instead of staring, yunno

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(old art but not posted here)
#nsfw
The same picture as the previous one, but he has no shorts or underpants. He's holding his balls and the base of his penis, which is half-hard.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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howdy

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(old art but not posted here)
#nsfw
Wash, the buff anthropomorphic akita guy, wearing a straw hat and chewing on a haystalk. There's a barn in the background. He's shirtless, but wearing jean shorts. They are unbelted and he's got his dick half out of his red underpants.
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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work outing is moist
A photo taken from a building on a hill, looking toward the Pacific Ocean. There are gray clouds and mist shrouding greenery.
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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first session in the buff TF chamber done!
screenshot from a workout app showing I did 45 minutes of strength training, with various targeted muscle groups highlighted
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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sometimes I picture this in my head when I hear L.S. Dunes

(listen to "Like Magick" if you have no clue what I'm talking about)
the band L.S. Dunes playing except I have crudely pasted a cartoon of Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy singing over Anthony Green
October 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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😏

paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Screenshot of " Abstract Knots emerge in various fields of mathematics and physics today. We show that knots indeed appear as stable solitons in a realistic extension of the standard model of particle physics that provides the QCD axion and right-handed neutrinos. This result suggests that, during the early Universe, a [highlighted]“knot dominated era”[/highlighted] may have existed, where knots were a dominant component of the Universe, and this scenario can be tested through gravitational wave observations. Furthermore, we propose that the end of this era involves the collapse of the knots via quantum tunneling, leading to the generation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe. "
October 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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neighborhood neon
#SanJose #neon #animatedgif
October 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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now i have
a power rack
ho ho ho
An assembled power rack but without any bars or weights. It's sitting on foam matting in a garage. There are some tools on the ground and some junk in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I think Pynchon's trying to tell us something
What one of them should have been saying was ``We're in the last minutes of a break that will seem so wonderful and peaceable and carefree. If anybody's around to remember. Still trying to keep on with it before it gets too dark. Until finally we turn to look back the way we came, and there's that last light bulb, once so bright, now feebly flickering, about to burn out, and it's well past time to be saying, Florsheims, let's ambulate. ``Stay, or go. Two fates beginning to diverge---back to the U.S., marry, raise a family, assemble a life you can persuade yourself is free from fear, as meanwhile, over here, the other outcome continues to unfold, to roll in dark as the end of time. Those you could have saved, could've shifted at least somehow onto a safer stretch of track, are one by one robbed, beaten, killed, seized and taken away into the nameless, the unrecoverable. ``Until one night, too late, you wake into an understanding of what you should have been doing with your life all along.'' Something like that. If anybody was still there to hear it. Which there isn't. ---Thomas Pynchon, Shadow Ticket
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Wash says: "Happy Fat Sheath Friday!"

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#NSFW #FatSheathFriday
An akita pinning a snow leopard down such that he has a big sheath right in front of his face. The snow leopard is making some uncertain eyes at it.
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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who reading?
the cover of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
October 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Stringing copper braid around to try to cut down electrical noise pickup? It's like I'm back in the lab!
A Les Paul guitar with the pickups removed, showing that the cavities they sit in have been lined with copper tape. Copper braid connects to the metal grounds of the pickups.
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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we are measuring height wrong
Crude sketch. Text says: "Proposal: Measure height like we measure temperature". It shows a short stick figure on the left, and a tall stick figure on the right. Dotted lines extend from their heads, denoting height below and above, respectively, an arbitrary "0 cm°" height midway between their heights. The short person is -30 cm° and the tall person is +30 cm°. That is, short people have negative heights, and tall people have positive heights.
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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I finished sorting my USB cables. Very exciting! Except I don't have enough shelf space for the bins as well as my CDs which are already overflowing off screen.

Bonus pic: the worst USB cable I own
Some shelves with plastic bins in them. The plastic bins hold cables, and have labels on them: "USB C misc", "USB A/B", "USB C/C", "USB Power", "USB A/C with D±", "USB A/micro B", "USB A/C NO DATA PINS", and "USB A Extensions". Also above the bins are a bunch of CDs. a USB A to C cable plugged into a tester. The tester has LEDs for USB pins indicating continuity. On this cable, only one VBUS and one GND are lit up, indicating not only can this not transmit data, but it will only work when plugged in one way.
October 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Book finished: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

It's a science fiction classic from the 1950s. So the premise (catholic monks preserving knowledge after a nuclear apocalypse) is a fun one, but the ways it has diffused into popular culture are better than the novel itself.
the cover of the first edition of A Canticle for Leibowitz
October 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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everything was like this in the mid 1990s

(source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vzG...)
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Happy Sheptember! I finally got a real reference sheet for Raymond.

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A character reference sheet for Raymond the german shepherd. He's somewhat narrowly built, and his fur dark brown on the back, lightening to tan on his extremities.
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The garage now has LEDs instead of a dying fluorescent fixture. Feels good getting something done before 9 AM!
An illuminated 4 ft long, rectangular, ceiling mounted light in a garage, with some cabinets and a breaker box in the background.
September 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Tonight's Film: Hackers (1995)
It's 30 years old!? It has aged well and I like it better now than I did at the time, but even then I loved aspects like the soundtrack. It's like, an echo of when online was for counterculture freaks and nerdy weirdos and not everyone. I wish this were us.
Frame from the movie Hackers. Angelina Jolie, Laurence Mason, Matthew Lillard, and Jonny Lee Miller are on a subway car.
September 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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I need to repair some of these for halloween so I can get rid of some
Approximately seven "sonic ghost" vintage novelties, some of them in boxes, some of them partially disassembled
September 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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the handles reminded me of a mustache
An Astar commercial deep fryer. A white chef's hat, a red scarf, and a robot hand making an ok gesture, like an italian chef, have been crudely sketched on top
September 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"You gettin' my good side?"

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Wash, the black and white anthropomorphic male akita dog, drawn from behind. He is drawn from the thigh up and is looking back over his shoulder while licking his muzzle.
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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what is going on
The dogs in the parent image have been copied and pasted repeatedly, smaller each time, making a fractal stack.
September 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Yeah. I was going by these wear indicators. Once the tread wears down to that level, it's time to replace the tires.
The same tire with a screw in it, with what look like wear indicators circled. They are little ridges across the deepest circumferential treads.
September 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Last concert of the season. Modest Mouse were great and I'm glad I finally got see them! And The Flaming Lips put on such an amazing and positive show! What a night!
Modest Mouse playing at the Greek Theater in Berkeley The Flaming Lips playing at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. There are large inflatable pink robots. The Flaming Lips playing at the Greek Theater in Berkeley. Wayne is holding "FUCK YEAH BERKELEY" made out of balloons
September 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM