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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁

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Unapologetically quirky fox 🦊 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/she/they, pansexual, genderfluid, polyamorous, antifascist barq.app/@aerys SWE, engineering manager, hobbyist game dev From 🇧🇷, living in 🇳🇱 ❤️ @letsongakemi.bsky.social @foxlite.bsky.social

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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Annie💀 @anniemay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the most important thing I have to say to the trans community: you win by cuddling up with your gf you win by finding or building community you win by getting through a work shift you win by continuing to exist you win by being happy while they are mad find a way to love yourself and you will win
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves
a screencap of a 2023 Instagram post from Jamila Jameel with over 1500 likes (including Billy Porter!!) it has a progress Pride flag striped background behind a screencap of my old tweet which reads 

Claire Willett
@clairewillett
for pride month this year can straight people focus less on "love is love" and more on "queer and trans people are in danger"
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Kall @highlandkall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^
halfhumanhalfasleep

[a photo of colorful handprints on a cave wall]

#put your hand on the wall

#nobody is going to the handprints going "look at the technical proficiency of this hand stencil technique"

#the awe isnt in some prowess but that it is there. there amongst the others.

#thousands of years and the message is clear: i am here i was here

#you just have to be here

#and maybe people will look and go wow they were there

#and just maybe someone will put their hand on the wall through time and space and know that they are not alone

#you dont have to have the prettiest hands

#or the brightest colors

#you just have to put your hand on the wall

#god im tearing up looking at this actually
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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love this essay very much!!!!
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FenGirl @foxlite.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I know things are hard for most all of us right now and many of you help Breezy through her streams. Please only help if you can but things are becoming quite scary for my girly and I. #mutualaid gofund.me/8070a0502
gofund.me
Donate to Help Ember and Leah find a stable home, organized by Leah Baasch
Hello, My name is Leah I am a 36 year old transgender Woman, Animator and Artist. I… Leah Baasch needs your support for Help Ember and Leah find a stable home
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⭐️ Fio the Wah! ⭐️ 🔜 NYFF @fiofirefox.com · 20/02/2024
Good night, everyone
A sign which says “I'M NOT INTERESTED IN COMPETING WITH ANYONE.
I HOPE WE ALL MAKE IT.”
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REN @rendoas.com · 10/02/2026
Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic. Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
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Popular Science @popsci.com · 18/12/2025
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
popsci.com
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜
A screenshot from Celeste. Madeline stands by a memorial dedicated to those who perished on the climb up Celeste Mountain.
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Levi @levi.land · 10/09/2025
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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🐺Madame Celeste Valentine🌙 {Living Latex Werewolf Mom} @polychromaticzebra.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Feel like this needs to be spread around. Artwork by @/simple_nicks on twitter.
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Your ancestors survived to give you this brief moment. Don’t memorialize their courage, curiosity, and intelligence with expedients. Not now.
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I’m not here to generate shareholder value. I am a sensing and thinking organ of the universe and I will speak the universe’s truth until it is time for me to be something else. A boil of burrowing insects. An apple tree. A raincloud. An altered word in the mouth of whoever comes next.
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
We don’t give ground on who is protected because they might come for us next, we don’t cede ground because we all deserve to be here. There’s no prerequisite of value to being human. Why are you here if you’re not going to protect your vast and vivid human family? What is this for?
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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 21/03/2025
no lies detected. #civilrights
The image shows a text post from a tumble user with the handle "theconcealedweapon" making an argument about the importance of protecting the rights of criminals as a safeguard against government tyranny. The post presents the following key points:

If you want to prevent government tyranny, ensuring criminals have rights must be your top priority
This is not meant as a joke or exaggeration
Without rights for criminals, governments can simply label people as criminals to strip away their rights
The post claims this has been a common tactic of tyrannical governments throughout history
The post concludes that believing people who break laws should forfeit their rights is effectively supporting tyranny

The argument centers on the idea that due process and legal protections for accused/convicted persons are fundamental safeguards against authoritarian government overreach.
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Caramel 🇳🇱 🔜 FWH, EF, RFR @caramelfur.dev · 12/03/2025
Bunkerbeats was fun UwU 🦊: @aerys.me 📸: @gorgophotos.bsky.social
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 12/03/2025
Ya girl Alyx's got a new ride! 💜💛 📷 by the amazing Gorgo (gorgophotos.nl)
Photo of Alyx Softpaws, my white fox partial fursuit, lying against a yellow motorbike, a Honda CB750 Hornet, by the side of a quiet Dutch road, against a blue sky.
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🍂 Hazel Horse 🍂 @hazelhorse.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Commission for @aerys.me ✨ Art @ me!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
literally every time I talk to friends
three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"
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Shadow Nightclaw @shadownightclaw.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
One strong thing I'd say is that kinks/fetishes don't equal morality. We're all into different things, some more kinky than others. For some folks, even something more than vanilla stuff is overly kinky. So I apply this particular saying I'd come across: >
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Cosigned. Your followers are ghosts. Your big number means nothing. Any art you're posting is being fed directly to Grok. It throttles outgoing links to the point of uselessness. You mere presence empowers one of the worst men alive. Like, seriously: why are you still there? Where is the line?
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freya @spdrcstl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Cringe is fake. Be what you want forever. But do your stretches and move about regularly or your back will also hurt forever
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Eris @erisworx.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Black Door is OUT! Hope you enjoy! :) erisworx.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
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Black Door, by Eris Soundworks
8 track album
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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Let's say it this way: If telling the truth is DIRECTLY going to cause harm to someone who doesn't deserve it, fucking *LIE*, bitch. No sir, I didn't see the poor as hell family mother sneak away with baby formula from the grocery store. No officer, I don't know where those protesters went.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Now is when trans people need support most of all. You could be helping folks build up HRT stockpiles. You can be EMPLOYING trans people so they have job security and money and the ability to pay rent. You can be calling your representatives and calling out their bullshit discriminatory actions.
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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you're a "doer" like me and actions (even small ones) make you feel a little less helpless, here's some broad, easy (or easy to start) ideas 🧵 General and obvious? Maybe, but it never hurts to repeat and some folks may be hearing this for the first time/reminded for the first time in a while.
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 30/12/2024
@gojiimusic.bsky.social is an incredible artist and a cornerstone of the furry community 💜 They are going through a very, very hard time and deserve our support! Let's show that we care for each other. If you can afford it, throw them a couple bucks on Ko-Fi, or buy their music on Bandcamp!
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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 18/12/2024
not just the movies, but just going out by yourself in general can be so freeing and you learn about yourself too. self love is important, self love is treating yourself like a friend, and treating yourself like a friend includes going out to events, activities, places, and having fun.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 02/11/2024
elymaiis on Tumblr:

""If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you
teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime," but
you have done neither. You have stood before us and
eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as
you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and
simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then
told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and
our parents should have gotten us the same if we
wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if
we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or
eat a fish from another river. You've copyrighted the
fishing net. It costs us fish to leave."
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
@safety.bsky.app It's astounding that you'd rather set fire to everything you've built over the last year to protect one guy who broke both the letter and the spirit of your T&Cs, than protect a vulnerable group that you owe a huge part of your success to.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit

A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. 

Distribute Aid Logo

Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
if you also care about bluesky’s future as a platform & women’s safety, please sign this petition. the Trust & Safety team still has time to do the right thing here for our community. 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏳️‍⚧️
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Sign the Petition
Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 04/12/2024
Beeeeean! #MFF
A shot of the Chicago Cloud Gate, aka mirror beanMe holding my hand against the mirror bean
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 04/12/2024
Chicago is so pretty at night! #MFF
Skyline of Chicago by a riverNight shot of a street in Chicago with tall buildings in the background Moody night shot of an overground metro stop and high-risea in the background
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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I love everyone in this (lesbian) bar 🔥👏
Tappy and her pack in the very good, very lesbian bar 🏳️‍🌈
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tappytoeclaws.bsky.social @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I got some ideas for the Wizard School Show reboot: The stupid Myers Briggs hat is trans and we have some actual goddamn indoor plumbing. Hire me.
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 26/11/2024
Milwaukee has a lot of charm on a sunny winter day!
A photo of a river with "Milwaukee" written in artsy graffiti on the wall. A photo of Milwaukee's river walk Milwaukee's skyline at a distance
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 25/11/2024
Headed to Chicago in a bit :) #MFF, here I come! Hope to see some of y'all there!
A red passport and a boarding pass from Amsterdam to Chicago
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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This hit my weak point for massive damage
don _hertzfeldt

Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.
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Alyx 🦊 / Aerys 🦁 @aerys.me · 15/11/2024
Well, it's done! So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Twitter screenshot that says "Your account is deactivated"Twitter screenshot that says "This will deactivate your account", with a button to Deactivate.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 07/11/2024
I am thinking about this post on Mastodon social.noyu.me/@hikari/stat...
@hikari@noyu.me

"That's the thing, right? There's this terrible brainworm that tells you that because other people will suffer, you right now must suffer, and all it does is make you lose the clarity of mind needed to know how to act."
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CoffeeCollie @colliecoffee.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Hey. I know you're afraid. We're all afraid. Don't let this fear dull the spark in your heart. Don't let it make you stop loving. Love the air you breathe, love the ones you hold close, love the little absurdities that make life beautiful. Please. Never stop loving yourself. I love you.
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JoCat 🔜 Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 06/11/2024
if you're lgbt, if you're black or hispanic or muslim, if you're a woman, if you're part of any sort of marginalized group it's the most unfair thing that you have to keep fighting but I beg you please be brave please be safe please try to survive
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