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Non-zero probability that this is why Kash removed bestiality from the FBI’s employment disqualifiers.

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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🫵"

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Too many people with too many competing interests. He gets a bit overwhelmed 😕

Dhivra doesn’t have a “plan,” but let’s say she has “standards” that she wants to either achieve or maintain regarding her wealth, influence, and power. She has a good grasp of what those standards are, but she’s not sticking to a particular plan to achieve them.

Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 5h

A big masterplan? No. Korrin is just trying to hold on 😅 He’s good at organising on short-to-medium timescales, but anything longer than a few months is trickier for him. He struggles most at managing conflicting personalities, which really hurts his long-term planning. #AwesomeCharacters

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Not only were they let out of jail with zero consequences, a bunch of them work in government now—and not just as ICE agents. They can do orders of magnitude more damage now.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

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People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 8h

all the money in the world, and the billionaires cannot buy the ability to tell a single funny joke, to have a spark of talent in the arts, to hold a single original idea. they know this and it kills them

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Red-Izak 🔜 Futrołajki 2026; NFC 2027 @redizak.bsky.social · 6h

Harvest offering for very shy Luck Dragon for Whitepelt at FA! #dragon #noodle #digitalart #noai #scalie #furryart

Group of furries wants to give some harvest for white/gold noodle dragon to grant a wish ;3

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But once two people are familiar enough with each other, greetings (and farewells) become more natural and aren't much different than how we greet and speak with friends or coworkers or superiors, etc.—cheek sniffing notwithstanding. 🪢

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This also impacts how wolves relate to other canids. Coyotes and foxes speak in naturally higher pitches that wolves perceive as subordinate / submissive, and that often leads to miscommunications when the speakers don't take the step to become familiar with each other's tonality at the outset. 🪡

And this is important for wolves especially because "neutral" can vary wildly from person to person. Someone may have a naturally low, growly voice that could come across as aggression if it's not established that that's just how they speak. 🪡

The other person might then respond with something like: "Yes, and I am glad to meet you this morning." It sounds stilted and artificially formal, and that's the point. The speakers are trying to get a feel for each other's neutral tone before a conversation gets going. 🪡

That last part might sound like a lot of variation, but it's hardly anything compared to fluid speaking. It's just enough to establish a person's normal range; and the fact that it biases towards high tones reflects being welcoming (which makes sense for a greeting). 🪡

As mentioned on Day 4, the first-person pronoun is tonally neutral, as are determiners. Nouns which accompany determiners (in this case, "morning") are also made neutral. The verb starts neutral, rises, falls, then rises again (interrogative), and the word for "well" is tonally high. 🪡

From there, traditional greetings—especially between two people who have never met before—use words that have a naturally neutral tone or phrases with very little tonal variation. Common example: "Do you come to me well this morning?" 🪡

These things on top of body language going into the sniff help establish whether there's any kind of power differential between the speakers, or if one of the speakers might be entering the conversation in some kind of altered state that might affect their tone. 🪡

Wolves pick up a lot from a person's scent—consciously or otherwise—to include things like whether they're stressed; and when their ears are that close to someone, they can pick out a person's rate of breathing, and some sharp-eared wolves can even hear the other person's heartbeat. 🪡

Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 22h

Cultural thing to start with: it's expected practice to sniff each other's cheeks when meeting or greeting someone, especially on a first introduction. This goes to the question I ended with on in Day 4, which was, "How do you know what someone's normal, 'neutral' tone is?" 🧵 #Conlangity #WriteSky

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That’s called a dinosaur melt.

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Pyke Redrock @pykeredrock.bsky.social · 22h

Funny thing about the current regime is that it’s showed just how quickly and thoroughly a previous Administration’s policies can be ripped out and thrown onto a pyre. It’s true that it takes longer to rebuild something than destroy it, but that process starts by quickly clearing away the rubble.

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Mainstream media have as much culpability for the current hellscape as the Techbroligarchy.

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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 05/10/2026

The Associated Press: “Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.” The Actual Pope: “Algorithms don’t have the spark of humanity.” This fucking guy:

Screenshot of a headline from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation News:

“Calling AI ‘other intelligence’ better describes the advent of a new lifeform” by Alan Kohler

Clip of text from an AI-fellating article, “So I asked half a dozen AI models: ‘What do you think of the proposition that AI is a new form of life?”

The “Say, ‘I am alive” meme in which a character is shown telling his computer to say "I am alive," the computer says the line, and he responds, "Oh my god," as if shocked that the computer just admitted to being sentient.

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Will be going live tonight with our ad manager @aeddan.bsky.social and tech manager @yena.dev to thank the community and talk more about the situation. Nothing formal or scripted. Just candid from the heart 💖

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Ah yes, San Diego, the insignificant home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and largest naval base in the Pacific. Small price to pay for… reasons.

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There would absolutely be at least one talk show in the style of Late Night—a comedic host, “celebrity” guests, and musical/talent performance to wrap.

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Jarhem dislikes how controlling the aristocracy is, and it could be said he’s rightfully lashing out against artificial social constructs—but he is kind of naturally an asshole, so it’s hard to tell.

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Oyinn (guy MC should *not* have made deals with) was raised by street gangs. He’s not malevolent, he just doesn’t know how else to survive except through manipulation, violence and extortion. He’s capable of doing good—and willing, to an extent—there just needs to be something in it for him.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Æsho (MC’s grandma) is almost singularly responsible for not just rescuing her family from the precipice of bankruptcy and irrelevance but elevating it to one of the most important in the realm, so she’s VERY protective of its reputation and invested in its future. ⬇️ #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

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If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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So what survives as Atchua is the (modern) version of the old empire’s language and is spoken exclusively in the rump state that used to be the empire’s core provinces. And even then, people on the realm’s margins often speak native languages that the empire failed to stamp out. 🪢

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Even before that time, the people who remained in the mountains were already drifting away from the imperial language due to their continued isolation, until mutual intelligibility was all but lost. 🪡

Eventually, though, the empire fell apart, and the surviving rulers and administrators had more important things to do than clamp down on regional dialects and fused languages. The parts of the empire that were farthest from the core rapidly recovered their old—if a bit transformed—languages. 🪡

So whereas pre-conquest most mountain migrants would be minorities in their newly adopted lowland homes and subjects of rulers with different languages, post- they found themselves in places as both the majority and ruling elite, giving their language and culture staying power. 🪡

About 1,000 years pre-story, a confederation of wolves in the mountains invaded the lowlands, and eventually conquered the western side of the continent and parts of the north. That, in turn, encouraged many more people to migrate out of the mountains. 🪡

…for most of history, a few packs would migrate out of the mountains, and then over generations become integrated with the culture of wherever they settled. But only seasonal traders would go *into* the mountains, with few staying long. So the linguistic exchange was very skewed in one direction. 🪡

Atchua’s roots are in the dialects of wolf tribes in the southern Rugged Mountains as part of the broader Alpine Wolven language family. The original speakers didn’t live in total isolation from the communities in the foothills and farther beyond; however… 🧵 #Conlangity #WriteSky

GinGin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺🐀🎹💪🔞 @gingintigtig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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The situation with FurAffinity is pretty amazing. Advertisers threatened their advertising revenue because they considered Plus Sized characters and characters HUGGING to be adult content. So FA said fuck off, and in two days raised their entire yearly funding. Advertisers are so bullshit stupid.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can't say it enough: it's NOT MY JOB to prove to bigots I don't deserve their bigotry. Fuck those guys. Fuck those impotent idiots and their desperate, babybrain need to feel superior. They're fools and weaklings, and idiot tools for the worst people on Earth, PERPETUALLY. Fuck 'em.

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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The reason you’re getting heated reactions is it’s a bad, tone deaf take, not because your word choice was poor. “The other side” of politics wants people we love and care about to die and for democracy to die with them. The only lunch they deserve is a shit and concrete sandwich.

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My ideological bias is that human rights apply to all humans and I’m not interested in curing that by spoiling my lunch listening to some bootlicking, AI brain-rotted fascist drone on about how some people simply don’t deserve to live.