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Majo R♡ @tricksterbear.bsky.social · 20h

Hello friends, it would be very appreciated if yall could SHARE this emergency post! My friends puppy is in really bad shape suffering from Parvovirus and they really need the support to treat em asap🥹
THEY HAVE EMERGENCY COMMS IF YALL WANNA SUPPORT! Here’s where to contact em

x.com/yuiisakura_

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B🍋ycub @ Home @boycub.bsky.social · 2h

Well that's just sloppy work right there 🙄

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Ren @rendoas.com · 3d

0 issues in 12 years:

- Make sure your Paypal is a business account
- USE INVOICES
- call it "digital commission"
- include product use, turnaround time, and refund policies in ToS field
- uncheck "ship items to address"
- DON'T write NSFW/adult

Don't get owned for negligence & rulebreaking.

Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 7d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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VIRTUAL DOG ⭐ @heychikinan.bsky.social · 1d

Rancorous chimera.

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Dr. Frank Sloth @nihilistneopets.bsky.social · Oct 25

Blue Shoyru Neopet poorly edited into the maternity section of a Target with a text bubble that reads, “I’m Dissociating…”

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Citrine @melangetic.bsky.social · 1d

tricks and treats

haunter, gastly, shuppet, misdreavus, gengar, drifloon, sableye, mimikyu, litwick, and pumpaboo surrounded by candy
this is the part where folks tell me i forgot their favorite ghost type.

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.⊹.₊⟡🌟 Mitsene CV 🌟⊹₊⟡ . @mitsene.bsky.social · 1d

bookmarking this & sharing for anyone else who is in the same boat as me, where you bought a perfectly functional, legit computer by a well-known PC making company in the last 5 years and yet for some dumb fucking reason windows says you don't qualify to upgrade to windows 11.

Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 7d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 15d

Patience 🕷️ Fortitude 🐝 Grace 🦋

#hollowknight #silksong #formline #telekitneticart

A formline design where the base shape is the mask of Hornet from Hollow Knight. Inside the mask is the formline designs- the torso of a spider across the lower face area, clutching an egg with infection droplets trailing down beneath the eyes. On the mask's left horn is a butterfly trailing upwards, with a chrysalis at the tip. On the mask's right horn is a hornet trailing upwards, with a larvae at the tip. The mask is off-white/pale yellow, and the formline designs range in shades from a light orange at the bottom, to a pale to dark salmon in the middle, to a bright red at the top.

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ꃴꍟꋪꂵꀤꈤ @ovans.club · 1d

Bug :)

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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🌈 Chot ✨ @cyberdaydream.bsky.social · 2d

Sniff! 🌼

#myart #fanart #moomin #moominvalley

A page of sketches featuring Sniff from the Moomin series, each sketch in a different color of the rainbow.

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fox 🧃🐛 @beetlepawss.bsky.social · 2d

pooltoy lugia stickers up on my etsy & kofi shops 🛟💦
[ #fursale #pokemon #lugia #pooltoy ]

Sticker of a cute inflatable Lugia pooltoy smiling at the viewer.

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B🍋ycub @ Home @boycub.bsky.social · 2d

omg!! I have something similar in the works currently.. We should trade in the future when im all done!! >:)c

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 2d

I really think it's a bit irresponsible to think of the current crisis in the lens of future optics when we really need to let this mess move us to action NOW.
Same goes for saying "omg are we in the hunger games?".
No! That's entertainment!
This is real life!!
Fiction doesn't have consequences!!!

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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pissgoatsss.bsky.social @pissgoatsss.bsky.social · 2d

Alex Evertech Receives a Visit From A Mute Angel

A cardboard cutout representing a "stereotypical early 2000's furry" stands over a second cardboard cutout representing a "stereotypical circuit gay furry", who is asleep in a hotel bed. The first cutout is lit by a harsh spotlight, that fades into an unnerving halo. His eyes do not fully land on the viewer, the bed, or the second figure. He wears a pendant that reads "YIFF", mirrored backwards.

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Levi @levi.land · Sep 10

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay

If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago.

"Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

FURRY IS NOT A FANDOM
How we became radicals, punk rockers, rebels, and a revolutionary subculture without even trying.

FANS OF WHAT?
We haven't been about Bugs Bunny since the 80's. Comic fandom, Star Trek fandom, video game fandom, they all revolve around the output of an industry. Furry grew out of the absence of corporate products catering to our needs. We weren't happy just watching Disney and Looney Tunes over and over again. So we made our own culture.

Furry is not a fandom. It's a scene. We're old-school punk rock, not the Bieber Fan Club. We create our own characters, our own identities, our own images, our own stories. Fandoms have creativity, but it's all riffing off of a product dictated from above. Furry is bottom-up. Everything comes from our ideas, our roleplaying, our experiences, and our culture that we create.

Any furry who rises up and attains some kind of celebrity status does just that: they rise up. From us. Those big-name authors and comic artists who sell books at cons are all writing fan fiction of our brains. In a fandom, the fans are there because of the big names. In furry, it's the other way around, and the big names know it. You can go up to almost any "celebrity" furry and make friends the same way you would with any other fur.

We're a scene. A culture. A community.
A big, global family. There's nothing wrong with fandom, but don't call furry one. Because it's so much more.

ANTI-CONSUMERISM
In the furry economy, mass-produced products aren't the star of the show. Most of our money isn't spent buying stuff, it's spent creating stuff. We commission artwork, but not to hide it in a bookcase.
We put it online to share with the world.
Every commission is one furry buying a gift for the whole community. The art gets produced, and now it's there for everyone to enjoy. Even conbadges and avatars - the most utilitarian, "fashion accessory" form of furry art - tend to end up contributed to the commons.

Most economies are powered by the idea of replicating a product and selling it over and over again to different consumers.
Furry art operates in a radically different way, through making individual contributions to the common wealth of our culture.

Think about how subversive that is. Think about how threatening that idea could be to the elite 1% if we could make the whole world run that way. As furries, we're already living it.

PACK MENTALITY
As furries, we're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other.
In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug.

This pervasive feeling of love is what helps us build such a strong community. Local furry groups often become close-knit extended families. We form bonds stronger than blood relation. We put the camraderie of church and religious groups to shame.
By putting ourselves into an animal state of mind, we manage to shake off heaping layers of civilization and social conditioning weighing down on us, and connect with each other on a level that's almost unheard of in modern society.

SEXUAL LIBERATION
Furries aren't afraid to celebrate our sexuality.
We're not ashamed of it, like so much of mainstream society. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or polyamourous; to be reserved about sex, or to be as open as a porn star.

We're picking up where the free love hippies of the 60's left off. We challenge the traditional social order about sexuality, rejecting the idea that there's anything "unacceptable" about it. What society might normally condemn as debauchery or pornography, we celebrate as beauty.

For some of us, our animal identities are a major part of exploring our own sexuality. For others, only the openness of our community is a factor. But as furries, we all tend to have a much more positive, healthy view of sexuality than the rest of the world. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal.

FURRY IS RADICAL.
FURRY IS SUBVERSIVE.
FURRY IS REVOLUTION.

We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers.

LET'S EMBRACE OUR NATURE AS MISFITS AND REBELS.
FURRY PRIDE.
SMASH THE MUNDANE.
SHARE THIS PAMPHLET WITH ANOTHER FURRY AT THIS CON
WHO YOU HAVE NEVER MET.
SPREAD THESE IDEAS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND DISCUSS THEM ONLINE.
FEEL FREE TO MAKE COPIES OF THIS PAMPHLET AND DISTRIBUTE THEM AT YOUR NEXT CON.

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💾✿Mandi✿💾 @malldummy.bsky.social · May 1

My furby art from oldest to newest!!! Eager to make some more ✨️

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evanthing 🧸 @loveimps.bsky.social · 3d

Drawing stream! Going to be working on commissions!! If you're interested in getting a cheap same day sketch commission, please check out my vgen service here vgen.co/loveimps/ser... ! I'll be working on them throughout the stream <3 twitch.tv/loveimps