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This #FursuitFriday I'm sharing photos AND determining local interest with the help of @ashke.bsky.social!
Do any of the following interest you?
🐴 Riding horses in and/or out of fursuit
🏖️ Beach party with furry friends
📸 Photo opportunities galore and incredible views
#FursuitFriday and a warm weekend is ahead of us. Remember to stay hydrated. So drink plenty or take a refreshing bath.
🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)
📸 @/CiferJackal
Well, it's finally happened.
In the wake of the antitrans legislation and social intolerance, plus double-curb stomps of overturning of Roe v Wade and the Chevron decision, my Dad's longtime girlfriend's ENTIRE FAMILY is leaving the USA. These are moneyed people. Their contributions to our economy are going away and we are all heartbroken to boot.
What a fucking nightmare. This is how the political is personal. These Justices and their cohorts now have *personal* beef with my family.
It's personal.
MasterCard, Tumblr, and now Etsy force their narrow, puritan views of decency on others. Announcing a ban on adult toys, Etsy gives existing retailers just one month to comply.
https://www.etsy.com/legal/policy/listing-mature-content-correctly/242665462117
https://mashable.com/article/etsy-to-ban-sale-of-most-sex-toys-explicit-content
Policy changes go into effect next month.Anna Iovine (Mashable)
This week I've been preparing for the first release of #OpenCrystalCaves! Most of the time was spent on fixing build scripts; between CMake, Github Actions, itch.io/butler and fixing multiplatform compile errors, I'm ready to shovel my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon. 👁️ 🥄 🩸
Fortunately I do have progress to show: the in-game quit menu works now, so you don't get stuck in a broken level! That's something, I guess...
#DOS #OpenSource #RetroGaming #CrystalCaves #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Normalize cis people loving their gender.
I don't mean that toxic, competitive "I can gender better than you" crap. I mean taking joy in who you are. I think this is one place where cis folks could stand to learn a lot from the trans community. Y'all take your gender and who you are for granted.
Nearly every day, often several times a day, I stop, think, look down at myself, and go "I love being a girl!" I love everything about it from the new shape my body is taking to the long hair to the fuchsia dress I was wearing yesterday. I love being a girl! I don't need to compete with other girls and I know that I'd probably lose anyway, if I even tried. Y'all have a 30-year head start and less baggage. But I love it none the less. Nothing in my life brings me more joy right now than just getting to be me.
If you're a big guy who loves going to the gym, then love going to the gym. You can do that without putting anyone else down. If you're a woman who loves makeup, love that about yourself. If you're a woman who hates makeup or a guy who hates the gym, love that about yourself. You're a beautiful, amazing person regardless of what you do or enjoy and how that stacks up against anyone else. 💜
U.K. Communist Party Backs Away Slowly After J.K. Rowling Expresses Support
“For avoidance of doubt, the Communist Party supports the right of trans people to medically transition, to have access to healthcare and live equal, full and meaningful lives, socially, economically and politically”
I will never understand the British flag waving royal loving small boat hating thing
The royal family arrived uninvited in a flotilla of small boats in 1066 and they've been housed at the taxpayers expense ever since...
Sodapop got herself stuck upside down in the sofa cushion gap and couldn't roll herself out.
Needed rescuing.
Tiny idiot.
btw if anyone is hiring do drop me a line
my current cv/work history is at http://tef.computer/
(remote, uk based, database & backend dist-sys)
This is an absolutely metal business decision made by OpenDNS (Cisco).
Court orders in France and Portugal are requiring the big open DNS resolvers (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare, etc.) to block resolution of a small list of domains for anyone in those countries.
OpenDNS seems to have decided to not implement the blocklist, and instead will just not answer any DNS queries from inside those countries.
Change implemented on a Friday evening, for maximum surprise.
#DNS #DNSBlocking #MyHero
well that is complying with the order.
I am not surprised. I’m almost surprised Google did not do the same, to be honest.
despite Cisco, I think the better option even if fucked up.
What's extra stupid is anyone who wants to get around it very easily can. Fucked how govs try to use law to enforce things like this that don't even have good technical means of tracking. Guh.
The New York Times says Trump has learned his lesson and has been chastened by his 34-count felony conviction.
financial crimes have exploded in the last 20 years to the tune of trillions; with #wageTheft being the single biggest crime committed in the United States every single day.
cops kill more innocent Americans than ever before; while stealing from & enriching themselves with impounded property & assets of extra-judicial suspects.
but #media really want you to believe that working class folks too sick to jump a turnstile means “crime” is down.
don't let them lie to us like that.
Intriguing…I wanted to see if the same held true for UK. Sadly it’s not clear it does.
With result appearing to be sure thing, voters may decide to stay home or wavering Tories could drive changes in turnoutPaula Surridge (The Guardian)
There is no positive legacy of the #Sunak government.
Would a stronger, more politically savvy PM have taken on the tobacco lobbyists and called their lawfare out for what it was…basically ensuring another generation gets ensnared into a filthy, expensive, health destroying habit, so they always have a fresh group to sell vaping to?
Investigation details industry campaign including legal threats and charm offensive aimed at Tory MPsRob Davies (The Guardian)
There is a strong chance you are right…I just have a feeling there will be some outlets, maybe the Times say, who will be itching to call out Labour hypocrisy. I’m thinking along the lines of the criticism of Brown’s PFI experiments for hospitals.
John Mastodon, Kagari Atsuko, and Miss Key walk into a bar
the bartender says: there sure is a lot of activity in this pub tonight
Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut - veggiedefender/open-and-shutGitHub
Who's ready to see this big bat at Anthrocon next week? 😈
✂️ @thatsfurredup
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting
Companies are firing support reps and replacing them with chatbots, even though no one can figure out how to stop bots from "hallucinating." We think the FTC should put companies on notice that their chatbots' fake info will have real consequences:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/how-ftc-can-make-internet-safe-chatbots
No points for guessing the subject of the first question the Wall Street Journal asked FTC Chair Lina Khan: of course it was about AI.Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/28/nx-s1-4992010/supreme-court-homeless-punish-sleeping-encampments
(one of many reports)
Look, let's get this straight.
Homelessness is SOLVABLE. Easily. Especially in a nation with as many empty, bank-owned homes as the US has.
You just have to want to solve it.
America has a homeless problem because corporate America WANTS to have a permanent worst-case underclass. To scare the rest into the corporate yoke.
"See, this could be YOU. Aren't you GRATEFUL that we're offering you a shit job under abusive management for ever-worse pay and substandard — if any — benefits?"
I remain convinced that the only reason companies use #fedex is that fedex must have a department dedicated to blackmailing corporate execs.
Ugh.
