Syn Fawkes
@synicism.bsky.social
Tabletop gamer, combat sports enthusiast, lawyer, photographer, and geeky foster parent. Giver of legal advice to Midwest Furry Fandom, Inc.
What's here are my own opinions, not those of anyone else.
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/synicism
What's here are my own opinions, not those of anyone else.
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/synicism
Reposted by Syn Fawkes
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Well now I can't ever get that out of my head.
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Well now I can't ever get that out of my head.
Shut up and die, Secretary Brainworms.
RFK Jr: "Doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oaths"
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Shut up and die, Secretary Brainworms.
It would be great if Mayor Johnson ordered the CPD to actively interfere with ICE activities. I would very much like to see ICE try to fuck with CPD.
Bovino thanked both Chicago and Evanston police departments for clearing "the way for us to continue our enforcement efforts unimpeded.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson said, "anyone at this point who would believe anything Greg Bovino would say wants to be duped."
thetriibe.com/2025/12/mayo...
Mayor Brandon Johnson said, "anyone at this point who would believe anything Greg Bovino would say wants to be duped."
thetriibe.com/2025/12/mayo...
Mayor Brandon Johnson calls Bovino a ‘liar,’ says Chicago police did not assist immigration agents • The TRiiBE
These accusations aren’t new. Organizers and community residents have accused Chicago police of assisting the feds in multiple instances this summer and fall.
thetriibe.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It would be great if Mayor Johnson ordered the CPD to actively interfere with ICE activities. I would very much like to see ICE try to fuck with CPD.
No. This is wrong. If you must travel here, bring burner phones. Get rid of information in public profiles that could be used to identify you. And power off your phone before you hit customs.
This is off the Australia us embassy site. I’m sure it’s all over. There’s no reason to visit the USA right now. Seriously.
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
No. This is wrong. If you must travel here, bring burner phones. Get rid of information in public profiles that could be used to identify you. And power off your phone before you hit customs.
There are a lot of really powerful use cases for a model-powered AI. I've always believed they can do a lot to improve accessibility in tech. Found a use case at the airport where an AI can help sort trash into waste, compost, and recycling. More of these please?
I want AI usage to become poisonous to an entities public image. I don't care if its "here to stay", I want you to be afraid to disclose it. I'm tired of the endless bragging. You should be ashamed to your very core if you utilize it to replace creatives.
We can do even more.
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
There are a lot of really powerful use cases for a model-powered AI. I've always believed they can do a lot to improve accessibility in tech. Found a use case at the airport where an AI can help sort trash into waste, compost, and recycling. More of these please?
GOP policy is always "how many more people can we make suffer?"
Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.
4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.
It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.
Story to come.
December 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
GOP policy is always "how many more people can we make suffer?"
This is such a great clip. Baxter's renderings are amazing.
‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ creator Ben Bocquelet confirms James Baxter 2D animated Gumball and Darwin in a new episode:
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This is such a great clip. Baxter's renderings are amazing.
I've been in a really bad place emotionally for awhile. After Furfest, it seems like I can enjoy myself but it doesn't make me happy. Like I feel good in the moment but it doesn't last and then I'm back to where I was.
I hate feeling like this but I seem to be stuck.
I hate feeling like this but I seem to be stuck.
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I've been in a really bad place emotionally for awhile. After Furfest, it seems like I can enjoy myself but it doesn't make me happy. Like I feel good in the moment but it doesn't last and then I'm back to where I was.
I hate feeling like this but I seem to be stuck.
I hate feeling like this but I seem to be stuck.
I created a panel for my high school Latin teacher.
for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I created a panel for my high school Latin teacher.
Sweeney doesn't get it. We want the Made with AI tag because we're going to vote with our wallets.
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags
‘AI will be involved in nearly all future production.’
share.google
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Sweeney doesn't get it. We want the Made with AI tag because we're going to vote with our wallets.
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
He's afraid that disclosure will hurt his sales. He knows we don't like AI and is scared.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags | The Verge share.google/JrUckGfsz8To...
Less than four hours on the grill. I am so full.
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Less than four hours on the grill. I am so full.
I love everything about this.
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I love everything about this.
"Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow AI agents to operate also open the door to malware."
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
Your AI assistants in Windows 11 could be giving hackers your files
Microsoft warns that new AI agents, which access your Documents and Desktop, introduce novel security risks like Xpia.
www.windowscentral.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow AI agents to operate also open the door to malware."
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
This is called a design flaw and during sensible times we would have told the team to start over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
This is a terrible idea. Never do anything that would give a government agent access to your phone. There is no reason for this.
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
Digital driver's licenses, IDs available to Illinois residents starting Wednesday
The Illinois General Assembly passed a law last year allowing for people to carry their IDs on their cellphones.
www.wbez.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
This is a terrible idea. Never do anything that would give a government agent access to your phone. There is no reason for this.
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
www.wbez.org/springfield/...
Hey if you're thinking about buying Call of Duty, maybe don't.
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Hey if you're thinking about buying Call of Duty, maybe don't.
Right now? Malort.
What flavor is my sona?
Hasenpfeffer.
Hasenpfeffer.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Right now? Malort.
The only good thing the Reich has done this time around.
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The only good thing the Reich has done this time around.
Good. Fucking disbar her.
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases
Lindsey Halligan, who was picked by President Trump to lead the cases against Letitia James and James Comey, is the subject of a bar complaint regarding the prosecutions.
share.google
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Good. Fucking disbar her.
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
Watchdog group files bar complaint against prosecutor Lindsey Halligan over Comey, James cases - ABC News share.google/MPw4FmdoSd4M...
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#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...