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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 4d

Thanks to @marsel-defender.bsky.social for this stunning piece depicting Emperor Rabrandt, in the form of a propaganda poster for his soldiers during the time of his reign.

He trains hard, and expects his forces to in turn.

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A heavily muscled grey wolfkin with bichromatic eyes and a glowing blue tattoo on his face sits on a bench press, leaning forward with his hands clasps and his muscles tensed. Behind him is a bar with so much weight on it that is starting to sag. Beneath that shadows spell out "LIFT HARD". The whole piece is drawn in a rough, street art style.

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

Miss Oranje Disco Dancer has a lot more going on that we first suspected. With luck, she’ll give us something to work with.

CW: Mentions of Sexual Assault

pressstarttodiscuss.com/disco-elysiu...

YouTube Link: youtu.be/QwEdYT993OY

Disco Elysium - Part 4-4

YouTube video by newdarkcloud

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 7h

The more I think about Hades II, now that I've hit credits, the less I like it.

It doesn't sit right with me. I'd vocalize why here, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who is still chipping away at it.

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Soma @sombramapache.bsky.social · 13h

And this right here, as everyone with functioning brain power warned, is why online age verification DOES NOT work. There is no way to implement it without putting anyone who uses it at risk.

Again: just amp up Parental Controls and start holding parents responsible for their kids' online access.

404 Media @404media.co · 17h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 10h

I have arrived at the end of The War of the Lions once more.

It is a tale the benefits from the addition of full voice-acting. The Ivalice Chronicles will doubtless become the definitive version of Final Fantasy Tactics going foreward.

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sylvia @sylvibullet.bsky.social · 16h

stephen colbert you're going in the penis exploding machine

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 17h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 16h

Do you mean Temur?

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 18h

My puns aren't *that* bad!

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 19h

It's easy to forget that most people simply aren't as only as our social groups tend to be.

So they're less plugged into what is being reported and discussed on sites like this or even on big YouTube channels.

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🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 19h

This brings up an important fact, however.

We are all very informed by being very online and talking to other queer people online.

But a lot of the average people out there are COMPLETELY UNAWARE that the Harry Potter IP is linked to a raging bigot who uses profits to harm people.

Remember that.

🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 19h

The City of Vancouver apologized for the Harry Potter event that was planned for the holiday season, many planners admiting that they were not aware of Joanne Rowling's anti-trans activism.

The event is now cancelled, needless to say.

Noovo Info @noovo.info · 20h

Des excuses présentées après avoir organisé un événement Harry Potter à Vancouver
www.noovo.info/nouvelle/des...

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BUFF FOX🦊 @bufffox.bsky.social · 1d

the new Alex 🐺

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 19h

I have to say this was my most successful match in Fortnite I have ever had, and it was my first one on the new map.

Over 1 million XP and a Victory Royale, all in one match.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

the messaging and meddling would have been an absolute disaster. they enabled the worst people on the internet over a game set in japan. imagine the first footage of shanking a klansman.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

This creature is a Hero in addition to its other types.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Backcat (Open Commission) @backcat2023.bsky.social · 1d

Commission made for Bradley187

www.furaffinity.net/view/61130584/

#furry #furryart #fight #fighter #Commission

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

Thank you for the opportunity

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Red-Izak 🔜 FBL, Futrołajki 2025 II NordicFuzzCon, Gdakon2026 @redizak.bsky.social · 17d

Icon raffle! (bust or portrait!)

✨Retweet/like/comment this post with picture of your character or pet
🌟Follow me
🚫no Raffle accounts (I'll check!)
💫ends on November 31st 2025!

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Kuma DRW @kumadrw.bsky.social · 1d

"Sweet moments on the sofa 🛋"

Commission made for @luseph.bsky.social

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 1d

We're going back to the plane of New York City.

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

We're going to need to reckon with the reality that the Biden administration was in a position where it could have prevented the worst of what is happening now and chose at every turn to preserve a disastrous status quo.

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 1d

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

Actual cowardice at the upper eschalon of Ubisoft

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Enigma, Wolf Mind Mage @the-enigma-files.com · 1d

Miss Oranje Disco Dancer has a lot more going on that we first suspected. With luck, she’ll give us something to work with.

CW: Mentions of Sexual Assault

pressstarttodiscuss.com/disco-elysiu...

YouTube Link: youtu.be/QwEdYT993OY

Disco Elysium - Part 4-4

YouTube video by newdarkcloud

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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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flecko neko @fleckcat.bsky.social · 1d

i never thought i'd live to see CNN doing censoring work for a facist regime

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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