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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 1d

I know so many wonderful people aaa
Thank you all for making this birthday special

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SlimedAnomaly @slimedanomaly.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday to @blurthefur.com

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OrangeFoxStudios @orangefoxstudios.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 It's their Blurth-day today! It's their Blurth-day today! 🥳

It's @blurthefur.com Birthday today; Time for them to GET some Free Art for a change! Thanks for everything you do, Blur; there's not enough room in a BSKY post to express that. 🤗

#Art #Furry #FurryArt #MacroFurry #Birthday #Toon

Macros know how to party big, y'know. And always give smol friends a free lift, 'specially to get to their own party!
No, that's not Eskae's tail, the noisemaker just happened to have their colors. I'm sure Eskae wishes it was them all the same, lol.

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 1d

Birthday stream birthday stream!

www.twitch.tv/blurthefur

BlurTheFur - Twitch

BIRTHDAY STREAM! RAFFLES! weeee

www.twitch.tv

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Arilin Thorferra @giants-club.net · 3d

New post: “Look, just fucking use Mastodon already” https://giants-club.net/articles/just-use-mastodon/

A short, unnecessarily profane rant about modern social media, not really serious but not really a joke, either. With apologies to McSweeney’s.

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 2d

Maybe late or just in time, but happy birthday! Hope you got to spend the day doing things you enjoy ^^

BLUR @blurthefur.com · 2d

If I learn how to properly set up controllers and such, sure. From what I've seen, that type of rigging is a tedious process, so it could be a while. XD

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 2d

Yeah! I had asked around if there were any good arcanine bases, and seemed that there were just recolors of dogs and such. I wanna finish up the model and make it a public avatar for vrchat and such. The houndoom was just bonus cause I love that dog too. XD

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 2d

So I miiiight have started on two fire dog sculpts last night XD
(ignore the lack of hands. I'll get to that later lol)

A bara style blender sculpt of the Pokemon, arcanine. Missing hands atm

A muscular anthro houndoom Blender sculpt, in a t-pose, also missing hands

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 3d

THIS THIS THIS
Failure is a natural part of learning ANYTHING. Don't tangle it up with your self worth and identity.

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 6d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 6d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

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Luis @loosf.bsky.social · 3d

I know so many furries got super burned by snouts dot online bullshit

But

Yeah
Please consider mastodon as well.

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little puppy :trans_furr_white: @eclairwolf.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 3d

a platform is not truly decentralized unless a furry with a spare raspberry pi 3 can spin up its own instance of it

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 3d

My birthday is this Tuesday, October 7th, so I'll be doing free art streams to celebrate!
Twitch will be raffles for anyone, Piczel will be targeted :3c

Twitch Stream: www.twitch.tv/blurthefur (1PM EST to 10PM EST)
Piczel Stream (explicit): piczel.tv/watch/blurth... (10PM EST until I pass out)

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ca-dmv-bot @ca-dmv-bot.bsky.social · 7d

Customer: (not on record)
DMV: ?

Verdict: ACCEPTED

California license plate with text "GAY".

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 6d

Close your windows and put on your air purifiers IMMEDIATELY if you live in Southern California.

Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately, this isn’t Omsk. This is Los Angeles. 😭 The Chevron Refinery is on fire.

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koBold and Brash @shiriko.bsky.social · 6d

this edit came to me in a flash like a fever dream

kobold drawing by @blurthefur.com

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 6d

RAFFLE TIME! Hop on in for a chance at a free sketch!
blurs.day

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 11d

Just saw this now and man, I'm so sorry

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 14d

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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

this is great - note that there's still police, but they're now part of a larger, county-wide department. the extreme localism of US policing is a *huge* part of its corruption, especially when you get to stuff like sheriff's departments.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12d

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

Violent crime is at a 50-year low.

This is amazing.

www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department.

As of Monday, the city has seen a 43% decrease in homicides compared to this time last year. And violent crime has reached a 50-year low.

www.inquirer.com

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 11d

I know this feeling haha

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A Careless Derg~! @carelessdragon.bsky.social · 13d

So one moment I am laying in my lair, you know just relaxing and then I close my eyes to just wake up as an inflatable and being used in a parade... Not that I'm complaining though, this feels great~

Wonderful Sketch I got from @blurthefur.com

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Merlekoz @merlekoz.com · 13d

We are just a little under 70% on our LAST day to raise 200 pledges for this!

www.makeship.com/petitions/me...

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 13d

RAFFLE TIME
Hop on in for a chance at a free sketch!
blurs.day

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