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Dogpatch.press furry news since 2012 by Patch O'Furr. Furry Detectives docuseries: http://bit.ly/3HbkBA5 Fur and Loathing podcast: https://bit.ly/4m5XXbx Exposing litigious abuse: http://bit.ly/4ochSXT artist, goth music lover, 2 fursuits, 3 dogs, 4 bikes

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

Finley the Fox@finley-is-foxy.bsky.social · 2d ago

This has been a gripe of mine for a long time. I wish it was more broadly understood that these euphemisms have nothing to do with "sensitivity" and everything to do with avoiding increasingly-draconian online censorship. bsky.app/profile/finl...

Finley the Fox@finley-is-foxy.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I understand the hate for algospeak ("unalive" etc.) but *please* direct your anger towards the right target: The platforms who made it necessary. I see so many people talk about algospeak like its a cutesy slang and get mad at people for using it Its literally how folks talk to avoid censorship

Dogpatch Press@dogpatch.press · last wk.

A lot of people would be pro diarrhea if it only struck MAGAs. Then there would be only 3 kinds of people: ordinary people, ex MAGAs, and people too stuck in the bathroom to vote.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

Dogpatch Press@dogpatch.press · 2w ago

Interesting take. I ditched Twitter for being toxic, and prefer a clunky old fashioned blog, where nobody else mediates, and it isn't driven by views or ads or anything but fuck-it, let's say what isn't being said. There's other problems with "we run our thing" but what that needs is intention.

BlueStreak 🔜 FD@bluestreak.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is significant benefit to interacting with the fandom through intentional, direct activity rather than passive doomscrolling and retweets. Give this a listen. Go to a local meet. And make a FurAffinity account, too.

onion person@junlper.beer · 2w ago

i love how centrists continue to do this thing where they say “if DSA becomes more front and center in the party, republicans will run on that!” as if the right doesn’t just say absolutely anything on and run on shit like peanut the squirrel or litterboxes in school bathrooms

Dogpatch Press@dogpatch.press · 2w ago

Last year, KQED aired an episode of the Close All Tabs podcast featuring @changa.gay and me: How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye. A new update of the episode went live this morning, with an entirely new intro and outro. www.kqed.org/news/1209208...

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload) | KQED

Anthrocon, the largest gathering of furries in the world, just celebrated its 20th anniversary in July — so we’re re-airing one of our favorite episodes yet. Furries are a community often known for we...

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Bennie "BigTig" Tiger@bigtig.bsky.social · 3w ago

As part of my "Furry History" panel at @anthrocon.org ... there is a section about media / "what would you see on the TV in a furry room party." I promised folks I would post these slides after the con. To grab attention, we first open with the kind of stuff you might see in a furry party today...

Zootopia, Bad Guys, Puss n' Boots, and VivziePop's original animation to cover both Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss.Less known stuff, but the kind of things furries would share: Wolfwalkers, Twende, Mating Season
Oi! It's Joi!@oi-its-joi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please read the whole report linked in the article. This kind of corruption runs DEEP. Bad Dragon was funded in whole by funds raised from an unrepentant zoophile who covered up animal murders.

Dogpatch Press@dogpatch.press · 3w ago

5000 word story not for the faint of heart. The site is for furry news but this goes beyond. It's true crime reporting that concerns justice, community organizing and animal welfare. Content warning for a reconstruction of an unsolved abduction and killing. dogpatch.press/2026/07/13/z...

SherbetAlex@sherbetalex.bsky.social · 3w ago

So much justice is not served in the #furry community. If you recognize any of these names, know that they are involved in a criminal network of animal abuse and murder. "Grabowsky" and "Richards" are Kevin “Noodles” Richards and Matthew “Cupid” Grabowsky.

Confirmed ring members who were caught include: Grabowsky and Richards, Levi “Snakething” Simmons, and ring members like Eliteknight, Icepaws, and Spark Dalmation all have crime records. James “Sangie” Hoyt was friend/partner of Simmons. Hoyt had a 2009 child sex offense conviction, then became influential owner of furry porn printing service Inkedfur. He was outed in the leaks for helping Simmons to plan child grooming — but strangely he had no charges, and stayed welcome to vend at furry conventions. Finally in 2025, Hoyt was busted again for a huge collection of CSAM files. David “Tuskyn” James was a pedophile active in the ring with a conviction from 2006. He was in furry for decades and remains friends with furry convention organizer Shy Matsi after a new conviction in 2022. Jason “Moose” Birch was caught for bestiality in the UK in 2024. This ring member was named in 2020 as prolific decades-active bestiality producer Animalkiss/AK-Akita, but his charges reflect very little of his history. He was accused of raping farm animals and pets at his wife’s dog trainer business, and linked to UK furries at the Confuzzled convention, and a Scottish bestiality ring. The Scottish bestiality ring had 3 men busted in 2021, with one known as “Magic Flame” in the ring.Among the most sadistic killers is Timothy “TimWin” Amaroso in Winlock WA, who was covered up by organized zoophiles for decades — and ring member Woof (Rubén Marrero Pernas), who benefited from having no animal protection law under Cuba’s constitution. Florent “Pakyto” Durin is a French furry who abused dogs to trade with the ring. Durin said he was caught but not charged for bestiality by French police, and flew to Anthrocon when reports didn’t prevent his entry. Durin was online partner to pedophile Carl “RC Fox” Kirkwood, and hinted of encouraging his 2018 suicide to avoid conviction. Durin announced Kirkwood’s death, after police found the body and called ring member Saito (Coywolf)… Ben “Foxberance” Mills was outed for raping animals on video in a fursuit made for him, and organizes popular furry dance events in Germany and the UK that once partnered with the Confuzzled convention. Nickolas “Tane” Spahn was a ring member in leaked evidence of a teen being groomed to make CSAM. This led to Spahn’s partner Tyler “Leko” Mark requesting coverup for Spahn, admitting he was in the ring, claiming that receiving tips about it was “bullying”, and pushing backlash from convention staff. Spahn was banned from a DEFCON furs club — then shielded by Silicon Valley furry nonprofit Pawprint Prototyping. Spahn was founding treasurer on the Pawprint Prototyping board made of his friends and roommates. They know he was in the ring, and helped him to lie and rebrand with a new fursona. (Remember, as Grabowsky’s legal docs show, the government has let people out of charges for making CSAM.) Spahn’s enabler Leko went on to staff a furry event that tried to cover up a pedophile owner. Pawprint Prototyping gained 6 figures in crowdfunding for their “Dotfurry” campaign after protecting this ring member on their board. (Wait for Part 2.)
Dogpatch Press@dogpatch.press · 3w ago

5000 word story not for the faint of heart. The site is for furry news but this goes beyond. It's true crime reporting that concerns justice, community organizing and animal welfare. Content warning for a reconstruction of an unsolved abduction and killing. dogpatch.press/2026/07/13/z...