Hi y’all, I want to talk a little bit about what I’ve been dealing with for the past 10 days or so, because it’s been nauseating and stressful. Quick thread. About 10 days ago the convention I work for received an email with a set of faked screenshots, along with a strongly worded call for my removal from the Board of Directors. In them, the person claiming to be me talks in twitter DMs about harassing @/thepineapplefox to the point-

A lot of furries would do well to learn about the five geek social fallacies(tm) because hoo boy does this fandom ever have a problem in that regard

plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.ht…

https://twitter.com/FoxBonsai/status/1303452197754200065

The five geek social fallacies as identified by Michael Suileabhain-Wilson in 2003 are as follows:

1. Ostracizers Are Evil
2. Friends Accept Me As I Am
3. Friendship Before All
4. Friendship Is Transitive
5. Friends Do Everything Together

Small thread!

I'm thinking of selling my old snow leopard character/fursuit!

She comes with a LOT of art (including some nsfw) and the fursuit body hasn't been worn v much at all.

Art folder:
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold… Here's the fursuit!

All the parts are made by different folks, lol <3 She comes with indoor and outdoor footpaws, although the outdoor ones need a couple claws replaced

hey there i am! :D

also this thread is handy for blocking people who are anti-progress!

https://twitter.com/FurryWoke/status/1300690634026647552

you can play centrist bingo in the replies! The third one down is "so much for the tolerant left" .....it's too easy

re: FLO

i think it might behoove us all to have even the TINIEST amount of patience with a moderation team that has seen something like 1000% unexpected growth in the last three days i too wish they would ban the one-member conservative furry club but i also understand that that isn't really a priority when compared to what's going on in the feedback forums right now

cats cats cats cats cats a while ago @drawnbydemi taught me how to look at animals in a way that breaks down The Shapes(tm) and it's really fun to just....grab a bunch of pics of one animal and go to town trying to break things down better

i need to do this more :D

joe kennedy's campaign manager emailed markey's to cry about markey fans "sending death threats" which was not only false, but also he BCC'd a bunch of reporters? Trying to be a narc when your accusations are demonstrably false is a new one lmfao

do u think we all can't read??? i literally do not know why anyone supports this kennedy, from what i can tell he and his ilk have exactly 0 redeeming qualities or plans/ideas beyond riding grandpa's coattails as far as he can, and Markey's record is absolutely proven. Don't vote for joe kennedy plz

we've been listening to the submissions here for the last few days and I gotta say, it's making the current furry fandom music discourse a lot more striking. I wish there were an easier way to find furry musicians,,,,y'all should pick a hashtag so we can find ur stuff better

https://twitter.com/plushskunk/status/1296117457162305537

like the problem is definitely not that furry musicians don't exist. they exist in DROVES and in such a huge variety of genres.

the problem is promotion and gaming the algorithms to get that work in front of peoples' eyeballs, honestly

okay so i am slow-roasting cherry tomatoes today, because i have way too many and they were starting to get a bit overripe. Did them with olive oil, garlic, and rosemary, and my house now smells absolutely INCREDIBLE i also recently planted a few of the tomato seeds, so now I am growing second-generation cherry tomatoes! :D pretty neat

Imagine waking up and thinking to yourself “ah yes today I think I will blame misogyny on,,,,,,trans and gay men specifically”

If, as a queer person, you can’t speak on this issue without punching down on other queer and trans people - you should probably shut the fuck up Also pro tip! It’s possible to talk about how poorly women are treated in the fandom WITHOUT BEING A SHITTY TERF thanks for coming to my TED Talk

There’s this little thing called nuance that a lot of folks really don’t seem to have a good grasp on before they run their mouths

Gonna just start uplifting the New England furries I want to actually see represent our fandom

We have so many good wonderful talented solid human beings in the furry community here. So many ppl who don’t throw others under the bus to protect their reputation above all else. Okay yeah I am just going to start an ongoing thread to promote folks! this might be slow going but feel free to DM me ideas for awesome folks who deserve to be highlighted. ^^

As much as I love and support the USPS I hate that this is being framed as a thing that everyday people need to be the ones to fix

Like yes, buy stamps and that cute crop top but also: get politicians to quit gutting funding to essential services!!!! Across the board!!! This reminds me so much of MBTA discourse. Oh the mbta sucks but they raised fares to try to improve things! And it didn’t help, of course, because politicians have also gutted public spending on public transit!

Omg there was an ICE agent furry in our local chat who pulled this shit at one point, then went and cried to the mods to get people banned for calling him a nazi,,,,,,

Anyway we made a new one lol

https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1288611555530113024

Haha, found it. And the person who stuck up for them and threw subtweets around about making ICE- themed fursuit scents.

I wish I were kidding

i am,,,,doing better at actually holding conversations on telegram, lately

proud of myself!!! a big thing ive been reckoning with in the aftermath of my parents' bullshit recently is this:

i talk a big game about things i believe in, but on a personal level I am trash about putting myself out there because we weren't raised in a way that rewarded doing that at all

Before u go around criticizing ppl who use weed, MEDICINAL OR RECREATIONAL, you need to realize that the reason there's such a stigma against a plant like this is literally because Nixon wanted to target Black people and the anti-war left (Vietnam, that time around) in the 60s Not only that, but the very reason it is called "marijuana" and not the scientific term "Cannabis" is because in the 30s, it was used to stigmatize minorities, specifically Mexicans.

Good article here:
npr.org/sections/codes…

This is completely fucked.

https://twitter.com/wolfofnorthstar/status/1281923912562089987

Idk who needs to hear this but if you’re a big fursuit maker, stringing your clients up for an extra $1K because their dtd was a few days late during A FUCKING PANDEMIC is pretty much the grossest thing I’ve heard in a long time

I keep seeing this post get RT'd onto my tl so as a meet organizer and con board member I'd like to address it.

Yes, running a convention is an absolutely thankless job. No, you will not make any sort of a profit (nor should you) and no, u will likely not be recognized (cont)

https://twitter.com/CosmoSnep/status/1280654123541676039

for your work. But you know what? That’s part of being a community builder. That is a CRUCIAL thing to come to terms with before you run an event. You need to be prepared for the fact that people will criticize you, and they will do so for a variety of reasons. (cont)