Being a furry is the easiest thing ever. You pick the animal you wanna be and for all time your friends will send you pics or vids of that animal while saying "this is you🫵"
Publick Universal Frenemy 🏳️🌈🏴☠️
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Mayra, 34, they/them/loro, opossum. Once and future librarian residing in Lenapehoking near Philly. Palestina libera! Credit to @StrayCatTrash here on bsky for the pfp! Thank you! (Banner image is an opossum I drew.)
Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.
Steve Mullis@stevemullis.net · 2d ago[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
“Upon careful analysis, it’s clear our organization is going to bungle messaging in late October, costing us many key races across the nation.” — Ken Martin, DNC chair
DNC Releases Preemptive Autopsy Into Why They Lost Midterms
WASHINGTON—In an effort to get ahead of the forthcoming criticisms of how they squandered such a commanding lead in the polls, the Democratic National Committee released a preemptive autopsy Tuesday i...
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Say it! Even if it’s just a single word. “Wow.” “Yikes.” “Gross.” “Nope!” Then wait and watch what happens next. If the person truly wasn’t thinking or didn’t really mean it or was just joking or repeating some edgelord shit they heard somewhere, all they have to do is walk it back.
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
Our institutions have lost the plot
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoOxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library
not Oxford University, specifically, but academic publishers hounded Aaron Swartz to death for less
A good read on the the state of the academy as it stands today. We're in a pivotal moment right now. The academy board must accept the bridge funding or find another way to keep the museum open immediately. neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.com/p/the-academ...
The Academy Has an Offer. Does It Have the Authority to Take It?
A year of funding is on the table. What's unresolved is who actually gets to decide.
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context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w agoThe literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
70,000 free tickets a year to new audiences is the most powerful audience expansion program in the history of American opera.
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w agoNever been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
The doors of the Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing on Sunday...for now. But this isn't over. We're meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences when doors close to gather for a moment of resolve followed by a march to City Hall. Join us. art by @lindzeamays.bsky.social luma.com/7ggkgtjb
Sounds really bad but the upside is we might find out who needed the beastiality waiver.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 2w ago"A representative of the group claimed to NBC News that they hacked the FBI’s job portal Monday and then gained access to other agency programs, stealing between 2 and 3 terabytes of files." @kevincollier.bsky.social:
love to witness the mass loss of privacy rights across the world and directly perceive a big part of it turning out to be for reducing legal hurdles to gambling advertising
Yeet Kune Do@yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 2w ago@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
Attention Philly Families! It is critical that we show Drexel and city government that our enthusiasm for the Academy of Natural Sciences is going strong! Bring your kids, friends, & neighbors down to the parkway on Saturday from 2-6pm. It's a kid-friendly rally to support the academy!
I would feel less worried about my upcoming flight back to Houston if this were true. Furries get shit done.
Ringo!@ringodog.bsky.social · 2w ago
the thing about the pokemon scalper discord posts is they are very funny but they’re not unique. that is how the vast majority of investors, landlords, business owners think. obviously you can find exceptions but that is simply your brain on capitalism
genuinely giving a shit about the nuts and bolts of governance - really, seriously, trying to make it work properly - is the real mamdani superpower the charisma is of course a cheat code but it wouldn't be enough if he wasn't actually following through
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 3w agoMamdani is a superb administrator, it turns out, at least by the standards of NYC mayors www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
been trying to draw more lately and i mostly suck, but pretty happy with this possum
Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care.
wait, it was *this* easy to figure out how these things work?
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoNEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
I'll be doing a writeup of the shots I worked on that ended up in this trailer, but needless to say... GO SEE WILDWOOD! It's a true monument to handmade, human-driven filmmaking. We worked so hard on this. Nearly 5 years of my life was spent making and fixing these puppets!
Wildwood – Final Trailer | Get Tickets Now
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
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super excited that this zine is finally out! i've been working on it with marc and Brett from Temporary Services, and we got amazing input from librarians from LAPL, Multnomah, & the Free Library of Philly...
Marc Fischer@marc-fischer.bsky.social · 3w agoLibrarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com
