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Skipai Otter

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Male Otter, 50 years old, furry writer, gamer, tv and movies, computer geek, fursuiter.

18+ only follower please, any under that and it's a instant block.

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Skipai Otter

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So you tried these yet from Aldi?

Jaffa Cake Cherry Bakewell.

November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM

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Stuck as cows cross the road.

November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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Yeah, heard it's rat/mouse day so again, a fursona I own, drawn once again by @donryu.bsky.social

November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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Let's see.

All time first..

November 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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What's this weird plug on PSU?

Well, back in the 1990s things were more logical back then and instead of having two plugs, you could power a monitor off the same PC plug as the computer PSU gave power to said monitor.

November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM

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First art program you used...

NEOChrome for Atari ST

November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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I don't drink but anyways, this seems to be out in the UK right now.

Bailey's with Terry's Chocolate Orange drink bottle.

October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM

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So not many are into chocolate orange...

Seems this is a limted edition in the UK...

October 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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You know why Sinclair stuff lasts longer or at least looks good even today. They chose to be black than that grey/beige that yellowed over time.

ZX Spectrum +2 (128k) with built in cassette recorder

ZX Spectrum +3 (128k) with 3.0 inch Floppy Drive

October 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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Image that instantly pops the music into your head.

October 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Bad landlords still suck, and so do you, stay blocked.

October 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM

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Got a new timer that's easier to see.

October 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM

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That or set this as the wallpaper with hide icons...

October 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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“Using only images, explain how you became a furry”

September 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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The writings on the bread. ;)

September 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Holiday story 2/2

The question came up again as another silent but so fucking deadly biohazard gas escaped. "Okay, seriously, where's that smell coming from?" I lied again. "Oh it's definitely the cows." And I swear I just made a mortal enemy of cows that turned to face me going. "The fuck he's on about.." Before the mushroom cloud of stench hits and even they're going. "Oh fuck no, you ain't blaming us for that motherfucker!" This carried on until we arrived at said popular tourist attraction.
Now you would think even for the 1980s that said tourist attraction at the bottom of a mountain would have more than one toilet. You would think that, you would expect others to think that. We're on about loads of visitors coming by car, by coach every day during the summer tourist season but no, we have -one- toilet and there's me, the biohazard that is making that small dot move about a map setting off chemical warfare weapon being detonated. This is where I finally went. "Okay, it's not cows, it's me and I need the loo right now." Leaving parents behind, I ran towards the only toilet about for miles and waited, person left, I barged in, locked and another detonation went off.
This is when a random person came in, I could hear someone come in, then immediately went out again. Then there was laughter coming from outside as clearly I was missing some sort of joke. It wasn't until I finally managed to come back out, family was there to tell it all.

"So this man went into the place, after we warned them you were in there. And immediately came back out again and said something." So I was curious and asked what was said. "They went 'fuck me, something's died in there.'" This again made them laugh and of course, my decision to ignoring warnings last night, I was fully in the 'find out' stage.
Needless to say we didn't get to go up the mountain that year, we headed back to the nearest town and for me to get over the counter medicine to quell the ongoing WWIII in my pants.
Honestly, thinking back on it, it was horrrendous back in the day but it ended up being a really funny memory of my childhood. And still I wonder if cows are still looking for someone who blamed them when they were innocent of the time.

September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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Holiday story 1/?

Think about the 1980s, the time of vast innovations, the cool electronics, all the knobs, switches, buttons. Basically a much cooler tactile decade than, rubbing your skin against a smooth glass as said device vibrates in estacy...
Ahem, anyways as I was saying. The 1980s was a time where it was a mixture of darkness, a gloom that a kid shouldn't go through but it also had that mystic of someone whispering in your ear. "It be all fine, flying cars, holidays on the moon... Just survive..." Which of course you had to, there was no chance I was letting the system, the school basically win. I was going to beat that shit, but you always had to have a break, a holiday.
So, what type of holidays did we have family wise. It wasn't anything cool, none of those places you saw from very posh speaking hosts on BBC or ITV that went to these exotic far off places in the sun that patronise going. "And you could enjoy a two week holiday here for only £9,000..." No, no, that was out of our price range completely so it was... A trip to Wales for the luxury of a caravan park.
Now a caravan park is just that, lots of permanent placed caravans that had been connected to electric, gas, water and sewage that was there for families and had this main area for entertainment for the kids and a bar for the parents to fuck off and drink while relaxing in a smog of second hand smoke.

So on this holiday, we arrived and settled down and I was just about to have my growth spurt as you do when you hit teenage years in a year or so and think of a place made for short people. No offence there, caravans are the best for someone who isn't long in the matter of the beds. You had a choice of sleeping while sitting up or sleeping while the bottom half of your legs are going. "Hang on, the fuck's going on here?" Before falling downwards to the floor, along with being left uncovered as the duvet cover was also short.
Then add that British weather is well, not going to be accustomed to your daily planner. "Hmm, I see you're on holiday and expect sun, so I think I just piss down for a week in this particular area." So plans were made by the older generation of said family to do day trips. There was one in particular, so it was the night before and again, adults decided we go for a meal within the holiday park and me being well me and later to discover the fursona otter species in me wanted.. Fish... In this case plaice, so that was what was ordered while the others got burgers or a pie.

Alas, this was where I had rolled the dice on the universe and waited for that D20 dice to finish bouncing about as I got my meal and started eating said place with chips and mushy peas. The body was hungry, what from swimming all day (Another otter trait, who was to know? Not me at that age) and began scoffing happily.
Y'know when you roll a dice and you somehow make a mistake in how that dice came up with the number and you thought it was higher? Well, it was not high at all, in fact it came up as a one. This is how I imagined the internal processes went at that time.
Brain: So fish is good right?
Tongue: Uh, it tastes funny.
Brain: But still good, right?
Tongue: We should reject this.
Brain: Don't be rediculous, we're going to be teenagers soon, we are headed to be an adult, we can do anything we want.
Tongue: I want to spit this out.
Brain: Denied.

So the meal was eaten, we went off to do other stuff and while the stomach was having an argument with the executives upstairs, I was busy having a few goes of Chase HQ in the small arcade in said holiday park. Then retired for the evening. That was the fuck about stage.
The next day came and the first thing I felt was uncomfortable and then the brain screaming at me like it was a F1 pitstop leader going. "GOGOGOGOGO!" So imagine this young otter just running, nothing is going to get to the bathroom before him and barely had time to touch skin to bowl and I understand how a F1 car feels as tyres are yank off the wheel axis.
Outside were concerns. "You okay?" I lied. "Yeah, I'm all good thanks." As this map somewhere in the world that measures any biological weapons going off suddenly puts this red dot at the location in Wales where we're at. I finish and clean up, open window and then leave. Next person in or as I would call patient number 1. "What's that smell?"
I lie again. "Oh it's the cows." There I was, after doing the evil deed was blaming cows, but it worked and we got in the car to drive from Prestyn to Snowdownia National Park. This would take a few hours and of course my body hadn't finished shock & phewing the surrounding area with it's chemical warfare.

September 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM

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Okay, people need to vote as right now for Senedd elections next year it's between two parties. We cannot allow Reform in.

Email I received today.

September 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Age verification:

Playing games with one button...

September 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM

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Sure you want to press the button... Might have consequences...

SPOILER: Scene from last part before end of game boss in Whiplash (Playstation 2)

September 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Some seriously dark clouds this evening and a rainbow that has done it's hunting and ate someone... No really, the thing lands and surrounds someone and then melts/digests a person with the woke rainbow acid...