david wolfpaw

Waymond says Be Kind

david wolfpaw   •   6 Feb 2026   •   Reading time: 6 mins

Overwhelm is quite easy for me. Anxiety seems to be a default state, where that overwhelm threatens to spiral into another bout of depression. The fact that I’m writing this at 3am because I can’t sleep isn’t lost on me.

I make goals and resolutions like the rest of us, and I sometimes keep a few of them! But like most people, I let most of them go, feeling a bit of drain, blaming myself for my lack of will power and expressing frustration about the situation, and a resignation that this is why things go the way that they do for me.

It’s a negative place to end up, it’s not true, and it leads to more feelings that are not what I want. So I know that it’s only as productive as giving myself a reminder that I’m imperfect, and can’t just treat myself like the robot that I sometimes desire to be 😅🤖

So this weekend, or the next time that you start to think that you failed at a goal that you set for yourself, remind yourself that no one was making you do it, others won’t notice, and you didn’t fail so much as you didn’t meet an overly high standard. Hopefully you made some progress toward that goal, and that’s something to celebrate!

I ask you to be kind to yourselves, because I need a reminder to be kind to myself. Let’s Be Kind.

Feel free to cry at this scene with me for a few minutes.

Actually, now that I’m on ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’, let’s add this one too.

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It was calculated. It was malicious. It was intended to cause harm to anyone and everyone to protect himself.

Trans people have always been an integral part of computer history.

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I know that I’m basic, but I do love learning more about my culture that I was never taught as a child.

Thank you Zyly for conducting interviews with so many different furries from so many different countries. I got to see a lot of perspectives that I never would have considered about how to be fluffy and scaly!

Apparently Humphrey the Bear is coming back to the Disney parks, and the mascot costume looks absolutely adorable.

Yes, this is the furry video issue of the newsletter apparently. Seeing the history of two different cultures that I care about, Zines and Furries, is really interesting to me.

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I never got pulled into LG15, but I remember the impact that it had on culture. It’s still is impacting internet culture.

We have this idea of what cults are based on the most sensationalist stories that break into the headlines. But those are the cults that go so far, and are so over the edge that they bubble up into public consciousness. The real cult is much more insidious, hiding behind the power their leaders have over their followers.

I think that kids being raised with generative AI are going to do so much more with it, and reshape their world in ways that we can’t comprehend yet.

If you made it this far, why not share this newsletter with a friend? Or share with me some of the things that you found that you liked this week. Either way, I’m thrilled!

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