eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

What makes a monster? I’m looking for reprints for Grimdark Magazine: morally gray SFF, under 10,000 words. Any corner of the SFF welcome. Especially keen on stories that complicate who—or what—we call monstrous. No SA, no fridging. Email: beth@Grimdarkmagazine.com

It has been a frustrating week so far. So, I took my frustrations out on some dual 15kg axe holds. This was my final attempt, held at a mid-hight. #gymsky #gymfur #gymqueer

Progress from the start of my gym journey to now. Better definition, more confident, and stronger. And there's more to come.

I feel like there's a "rot" in the voiceover industry right now. It's something that's probably always been there, but I think it's been progressively getting worse. There's this strange attitude that can basically be summed up as, "F*ck y'all. I got mine." And I'd like to talk about it. 🧵

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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decided to hop on the latest art trend how did I do

200kg did not want to be deadlifted today. I don't mind posting failed attempts, because I like to br able to look back and see the progress. This was frustrating, though. 1 more inch and I could have finished it with a hitch.

Sums up my feelings. 

This is so sad to read. And they won't be the only family that reaches this point. There are certainly a number of politicians in the UK that actively want that, of course. The ones that claim to support trans people need to get a whole lot louder.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 3w ago

New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...

Resurrecting an old oc, meet Ya'wara (it/'she') Now I need to update her ref sheet. With the bad guys 2 and goat movie my love for my jaguar girl was reignited, so I had to draw her after 3 years collecting dust. #furryart

Anxiety be like??

This wee girl spreading love not hate in Garvaghy Road tonight. 'Our revenge will be the laughter (or singing) from our children' paraphrased from Bobby Sands MP. Things you love to see ❤️

Okay, looks like I have stock of most things for the book con. I only have 1/2 a table, so I don't think I need to restock some of the smaller anthologies for this one. 3-5 copies of everything else, so given it's a small con, I think that will be enough.

A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-

Whoo-hoo! Got 200kg moving on the donkey calf machine.

🎵🎵 Powders, powders, powders, Gonna mix them and then drink them. 🎵🎵 *Does the leg day at the gym jig*

Received an email scam offering a 'cinematic trailer' for a multi-author furry anthology I appeared in around 8 years go. Played with them a little, then got bored. This was my final email to them before I hit block. What do you reckon? Did I get my point across? #writersky

A few more hours to go, then my employer officially no longer exists. This CIC has been my work home for over 5 years now, and it'll be sad to see it end. We're being merged with a larger body, and I think my job should be safe, so that's good. Still it seems weird to think the company that took

Post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Big Bearded Spookseller@bigbeardedbookseller.com · 4w ago

Post a vampire that isn't Dracula

beleive me when i tell you, you are more clever, more well written, more developed, more creative, more hardworking than any generated ai/ai made thing. Please dont outsource yourself to a half cooked vibe coded program… pleaaasse.

This. If you're being 'a good guy' because you think it will leave someone beholden to you, I would argue you are not a good guy. Do good shit. No 'after' need come into play.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 4w ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

Strongman comp season is done, so now I can focus on other stuff. Halloween: going to be selling/signing books and stickers at Medway River Lit Festival in Chatham Library. Fursuit Making: my Utahraptor mask is coming along nicely.

Happy Drawlloween!! 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 As always I try to include some prompts that I don't typically see on these lists, so if you're like me and have done this challenge many times, a few of these might be new to ya.

Rowling and Emma Watson's argument is painful to watch😢 Good-hearted transgender people never intend to hurt anyone else. They just want to love who they want to love and live according to their soul's direction. Chiitan stands by the hearts of good-hearted transgender people. I love everyone

Ugh. Still no reply from my old church. I just wanna know if there's a way to remove myself from their records, seeing as I've not been Catholic for a long time. And want even less to be associated with it given the current "Christian" mob here. I think I'm gonna have to actually go down there...

If it's Halloween, it must be SAW... Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn, Silent Night Deadly Night, Beware Boiúna) is directing the next installment in the SAW film franchise. UNTITLED SAW. Coming soon.