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Changa_Husky @changa.gay · 15h

The Hayes code prohibited this type of political satire but it was a short and got less attention.
Hitler wanted them dead as fascists can't handle being made fun of. Seriously humor is the best protest tools against authoritarians. Flooding the zone with absurd & whimsy is needed more than ever.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 15h

It's difficult to write a sex-positive sex comedy, because by its nature comedy isn't much about being positive. It's mostly about complaining. But, I'm going to try.

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 16h

I have spent so much of my life trying for Lisa and achieving Milhouse.

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Chocodile ➡️ MFF Dealer's Den! @chocodile.net · 21h

Serious shoutout to furries for being the internet's #1 art patrons. At a time when interest in original and niche art is at an all time low and many other art spaces are gone, I appreciate you guys showing up to boost original works, buy art pieces & comms, & get vocally invested in stories & OCs.

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

* deeeep breath * "Yay."

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

No need to be embarrassed. You look fine ^^

Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

Also an Ursa Major Award winner 🏆

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Dana Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @danacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Do fraggles count?

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

Oh? A guy who grew up in Vancouver asks: What's correct?

Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 9d

Okay now THAT’S funny. 😆

A sign for The Sextant Bar & Galley

The sliding letter/marquee part of the sign reads:

DISAPPOINTING PEOPLE WHO THINK WE ARE A STRIP CLUB FOR 45 YEARS

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Chris… but like… spooky? I guess? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · 9d

Okay now THAT’S funny. 😆

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

I have it on good authority that some of the best Rule 34 art in the world can be found hidden away in animators' cubicles...

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Annie in LA @anniekostyk.bsky.social · 1d

Eat more plants. #plantbased #eatmoreplants #moreveg #morefruit #morewholegrains 🥦

Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 2d

More veg, less meat: the latest global update on a diet that’s good for people and the planet
theconversation.com/more-veg-les...

More veg, less meat: the latest global update on a diet that’s good for people and the planet

Most New Zealand adults consume more protein than the recommended amount. They could reduce meat without risking inadequate protein intake.

theconversation.com

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · Nov 17

Our Planet has two Lungs, one is Blue the other is Green

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

"Ya moved the cemetery but ya left the bodies, didn't ya!!!"

Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 1d

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HearthFox ΘΔ @hearthfox.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the reason Furries largely reject fascism easier than the average person is because the ideology preys on the lonely and insecure and we embrace community and self love.

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

I might argue with some specifics, but mostly this is great ^^

Levi @levi.land · 29d

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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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

I could argue some specifics, but I like the tone ^^

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 1d

Or how about showing us environmental activists who AREN'T bloodthirsty psychos willing to kill large groups of humanity to get their way...?

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 2d

Really Really ^^

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 2d

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 2d

... and with the liberal reciprocity laws in this state, Pennywise can visit you little boys and girls now, or anytime ^^

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Vinson Mink @vinson.infurnation.com · 2d

Looking at a lot of AI "created" stuff, I think of this exchange from The Empire Strikes Back...

Luke: "Is the Dark Side stronger?"

Yoda: "No! Quicker. Easier."

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 15d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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