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MintzBuck

@mintzbuck.bsky.social

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Deer, engineer, fursuiter, maker, rum enjoyer, rennie, grey muzzle 🏳️‍🌈 Known by The State of California to cause cancer and birth defects. He/Him, cisgender

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 9h

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 10h

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Nazi Book Burning Plaza in Berlin (Indiana Jones)

YouTube video by Madras Arsenal

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 10h

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 10h

More yote spotting! They must be making a home somewhere nearby.

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, they have a taurndem bike!

MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Can't have a baby room in pink and light blue! All those baby sections in stores are woke now. Gotta change the colors for babies to something else now, I guess.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 2d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Bri 🍉 @bearlyfeline.bsky.social · 1d

✨WAIST-UP COMMS OPEN!✨

3 Slots available for October completion!

Link to ko-fi where you can grab your slot in the comments below!

Reposts very much appreciated! 🧡

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda tempted to pick up a Jackery box with solar panels to replace my gas generator...

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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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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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Oh neat, so artificially creating value by passing money around between entities. And when one collapses, it will bring down this whole food web of shit.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 1d

If your product depends on freely using the work of other people, your product is worthless.

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.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 2d

Flying fish!

MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 2d

Mmm...new Dragula.

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 3d

Try not being a reply guy fail.

MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I don't want to hear about what AI should be from the guy who is most famous for a rounded rectangle and ripping off Braun.

WIRED @wired.com · 3d

“I don’t think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment,” the former Apple designer said at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. www.wired.com/story/sam-al...