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Zuri ΘΔ

@therian.blog
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ΘΔ (they/she) A weird autistic trans therian. Age: 1/4 century Theriotype(/-s): Puma Lineage Cladotherian I host lectures and do some research about therianthropy on the side. Blog: therian.blog (mostly German, sometimes English articles) EN/DE

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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 14/09/2026
Just as a heads up: I'll mostly be offline for the next two weeks since I'm currently in a zookeeping internship (which I'm quite excited about *purr*). So no posts here or on my blog during that time.
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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 12/09/2026
Hoot hoot! We're delighted to announce Furry Studies 2027. Location: Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia / Online Streaming Date: July 2027 The Call for Papers is now live! Submissions close 8 January 2027. For more info, the theme, and how to submit, go to furrystudies.org.
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Call for Proposals – Furry Studies 2027
Furry Studies 2027 CFP: “How do furries use fursuits, fursonas, and the feeling of ‘fur’ to navigate identity, belonging, and collective creativity?”
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In a way, I think animation on top of filmed video would be the best way to visually represent therianthropy. Animation could show the viewer phantom limbs, for instance. Or create a visual for that tingle in my spine I feel before strong mental shifts.
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Keea @keea.dog · 08/04/2026
that thing where people are speaking another language and will drop back into English for a proper noun, but it’s two therians barking but reverting to english to say a distinctly human concept (sad whines) (growls) rrrhhhrhh “taxi to the airport” refff wrrr (ears back) “flight is delayed” grrrrrr
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 24/08/2026
New short, English blog post: therian.blog/posts/2608-d...
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Your therianthropy is (probably) different from mine. And that’s okay! (English) – therian.blog
A short cross-post from Reddit
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/08/2026
Oh, people have gotten mad at me for lots of dumb reasons. I'll focus on the funnier side of things, though. Sometimes, it drives people mad that I … remain calm in online discussions. I may disagree, but I'll still thank conversation partners for their time, agree with some of their points, etc.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/08/2026
A (small) new English blog post on therian.blog: therian.blog/posts/2608-i... Sparked by discussions about this on Reddit and a few recent in-person conversations, I take a look at the questions we need to answer before we could reasonably look into the question: "Is therianthropy (in-/)voluntary?"
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The debate about the (in-/) voluntarity of therianthropy is more complicated than it may appear (English) – therian.blog
It’s one of the questions that comes up from time to time in online spaces around therianthropy: Is therianthropy involuntary?. This article doesn’t position itself on one side or another. Instead, it...
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 19/08/2026
Currently working on a bigger article about species dysphoria. Progress is slow at them moment, since I'm also having to deal with shingles, but steady.
A cat lying in front of a computer screen. On the screen, in the background, a MAXQDA window is open, and in the foreground, a portion of an argument map is opened in another window.
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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне @barsukov.com · 17/08/2026
AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5
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Cheetah Spottycat @cheetah-spottycat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Historical moment. We just issued badge number 10000. That's not the number of attendees, because the badge number count includes all 8 months worth of cancellations, no-pays and no-shows, but still ... phew.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 17/08/2026
»Wenn Hass zur Erwartung wird« ist ein Poetry-Slam-Text, den ich im Juni uraufgeführt habe. Heute habe ich den Text zusätzlich auch auf meinem Blog veröffentlicht: therian.blog/posts/2608-p...
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Wenn Hass zur Erwartung wird – therian.blog
Ein Poetry-Slam-Text, den ich auf dem queeren Slam in der Pride Week Würzburg 2026 uraufführen durfte.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I think there's something a bit worrying that things that used to be normal parts of play for children under 12: playing that you're an animal, having a bond with a stuffed animal, dressing up with home-made accessories, are now increasingly labelled. Often with words from psychology or subcultures.
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Die Strafe auf Vergehen, auch auf Gravierende, darf nicht Tod sein. Diese Online-Hetzjagden müssen gestoppt werden. Dreht diese Plattformen ab, wenn sie nicht regulierbar sind.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 11/08/2026
I'm happy to say that while yes, the saga continues, Lola granted me enough time today to take my (mostly German) #therian blog back online after more than a year: therian.blog/posts/2608-w... 🐈
You guessed it: a cat sitting (to some degree) on a computer keyboard, in front of the screen. On the screen, the website therian.blog is opened.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 04/08/2026
The saga continues. It's 11:20 AM, and apperently, my work on the computer is done for today. Off to the library for a learning session it is, I guess.
A photograph of a norwegian forest cat lying on her side, with her head completely covering the right part of a computer keyboard.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 03/08/2026
Looks like I'm relieved of computer duties for today… PS: Yes, I have reached the age where I put stickies with keyboard shortcuts on my monitor. 😹
Photograph of a norwegian forest cat lies in front of a screen with her front right-hand paw covering part of the keyboard, looking into the camera. The screen has a sticky note on it.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 02/08/2026
Therianthropy is an umbrella term for a wide range of experiences. Just because you're a therian, and experience something in a specific way, doesn't mean all therians experience it the same way. And neither is any more or less #therian. It's just different variations of what we call therianthropy.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
English: Therian activities at Stockholm Pride 2026 (This text has also been to posted to Werelist, Therian Guide, and a couple of closed therian facebook groups) This winter, the people responsible for the Youth programme at Stockholm Pride contacted me: would I be willing to organise some kind…
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English: Therian activities at Stockholm Pride 2026
(This text has also been to posted to Werelist, Therian Guide, and a couple of closed therian facebook groups) This winter, the people responsible for the Youth programme at Stockholm Pride contacted me: would I be willing to organise some kind of programme for therians, seeing as I have a therian blog?I made sure to point out that I'm not a "youth" any more, that I'm 36 years old.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yesterday I gave a presentation at Stockholm Pride about what therians, furries and otherkin (etc) are - and about the overlap with the lgbtq community.
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Andra dagen på Pride – klart!
Igår höll jag presentationen "Therians, furries, otherkin - hjälp, vad betyder alla orden?!" på Pride House i Stockholm. Ungefär lika många åhörare som på måndagens. En del samma, en del olika. En intressant feedback jag fick var att måndagens presentation, där jag pratade mer om mina egna upplevelser och gav tips om hur man hanterar instinkter, skiften osv var mer intressant.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Stockholm Pride week begins today. The Youth section has asked me to host some therianthropy-themed activities. So today: one presentation about how I cope with species dysphoria etc + a group discussion for therians/otherkin. This will be a busy, but hopefully fun, week!
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Daniela Schreiter @fuchskind.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mir fehlen die Worte. Ich bin so geschockt und voller Trauer. Meine Gedanken sind bei den Opfern, ihren Angehörigen und allen, die mit dieser Situation völlig überfordert sind. Wir trauern zusammen 💜. #CSDBerlin
Comic Illustration: Ein Pride Goblin mit grüner Haut einem übergroßen Regenbogen Pullover steht vor einer brennenden Kerze. Der Hintergrund ist dunkel, nur die Kerze erhellt das Bild. Der Goblin hält sich einen seiner zu langen Ärmel vor das Gesicht, er weint. Darüber steht der Text: Wir trauern gemeinsam.

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ok, European friends, the ECB is going to redesign the Euro banknotes and are doing a survey to see what design europeans like the most. YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE BIRD ONES!! LET US HAVE LITTLE BIRDS IN OUR MONEY. There are many designs to choose from as well: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/en/pageT...
One possible redesign for the 5€ banknote, with a wallcreeper.A possible redesign for the 20€, this time with a color illustration in vertical of an European bee-eater.Also in a vertical format, a possible redesign for the 50€ banknote with a white stork.Another possible redesign for the 50€ banknote (my favorite option), also featuring the white stork.
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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 681: "Gonzo's tech guy"
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Links to my talks at Stockholm Pride about animal identities:
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Programmet till Stockholm Pride är släppt!
Jag kommer att lusläsa programmet och kolla om det finns några guldkorn att tipsa om. Men här är informationen om mina programpunkter med anknytning till teriantropi: Överlevnadstips från en ulv i människokläder samt gruppdiskussion mån 27 jul 15:00–16:45 Therians, furries, otherkin - hjälp, vad betyder alla orden?! tis 28 jul 15:00–16:30 Pride House har gratis inträde och håller till vid Clarion Hotel, Östra Järnvägsgatan 35, Stockholm.
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Cheetah Spottycat @cheetah-spottycat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's fascinating how furries believe that harassment and bullying are totally acceptable, as long as you only apply it to "bad guys". And since you can freely choose who to label "good" or "bad", you've just created yourself a universal excuse that morally justifies whatever the hell you want.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 01/07/2026
This may be an unpopular opinion (I'm not sure), but: It strikes me as odd how often I see posts about therianthropy going in a direction of equating being a non-human animal with total freedom and lack of any obligations. Following an anthropomorphized "nature = freedom" fallacy, so to speak. 1/3
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🧵 When I was 14-15-ish, me and my friends met this lesbian who was probably around 18-20 (adult and cool!). And we all sat in awe when she just ... told us about being a lesbian. What it was like coming out, good comebacks to stupid comments, stuff like that.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 24/06/2026
As someone who originally comes from a different field (engineering / IT), it's quite fascinating to see how much and how little we know about the phylogeny of life at the same time. Which means I regularly stumble upon basic questions where, when I look for an answer, it's "we're not really sure".
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Footpad @footpad.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The fundamental sin of using LLMs for anything — code, research, letters to your granny — is to conflate writing with thinking. Writing is only one building block of the edifice of thought, and if your CEO's writing is the bottleneck in their thinking then they're not doing very much thinking.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 16/06/2026
Unfortunately, this makes way too much sense to me. Also: everyone, please see this as your friendly reminder that acceptance is achieved by "punching up", not by "punching down" on groups even more hated than yourselves / respectability politics.
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Reyna @reynabeast.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
On 2: I'm a software dev, not a visual artist - but I'm the type that just... genuinely enjoys the act of making the software. One of the things I figured out in the more recent years is that what I want to do is *create*. I could never be a proper manager, it would distance me from making things.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I will host two presentations and one group discussion about non-human identities at Stockholm Pride this year. More info on my Swedish blog.
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Teriantropi på Stockholm Pride!
Jag kommer att prata om icke-mänskliga identiter på Stockholm Pride i år, efter att Pride Youth kontaktade mig och bad mig om det. Pride House har gratis inträde, och mina programpunkter där har ingen åldersgräns. Det blir tre programpunkter: Överlevnadstips från en ulv i människokläderTeriantroper, även kallade therians eller terianer, är personer som känner sig som djur på insidan. Denna föreläsning förklarar vanliga begrepp och upplevelser.
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Pan Hesekiel Shiroi @pan-h-shiroi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy pride month! ^^
Image of Caspar the cat happily waving a progressive inter pride flag.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Write down in your calendars: September 19th = Club Howl in Stockholm. A nightclub experience aimed towards all animal people. Whether therian, furry, pet, puppy, theriomythic, otherpaw, whatever. Tickets and more info will be released in a couple of weeks. A dance floor full of critters!
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Eurofurence @eurofurence.org · 17/05/2026
The Cango Wildlife Ranch needs your help! Do you remember the Charity from EF Online back in 2021? The Cango Wildlife Ranch, formerly known as the Cheetah Preservation Foundation, has faced major flooding, which caused extensive damage to its facilities. 1/2🧵
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Cango Wildlife Flood Relief | Because of Animals Foundation NPC (formerly Cheetah Preservation Foundation) (Powered by Donorbox)
Oudtshoorn's worst flood in 30 years has closed our doors. Help us reopen.WHAT HAPPENEDOn 6th May 2026, the Oudtshoorn region was struck by the worst flooding since 1996. Cango Wildlife, our 40-year i...
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When I was a teen, I was desperate to find other "werewolves" like me. Asked friends, posted online. Formed a "pack", we howled together and had fun. But in a year or two, everyone else grew tired of the "game". It wasn't a game for me, and I thought it had been real for them too.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 08/04/2026
🦉 I spend a decent amount of my spare time researching animals these days (due to a change of profession, this is actually, to some degree, “for work” 😅). Some days, this is … meh (where other species are just more interesting). But holy heck, did I enjoy researching (eurasian) eagle-owls today!
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a room with a concrete floor and a few pieces of furniture
Alt: A video (GIF) of an eagle-owl (genus: Bubo) running towards the camera in a room, inquisitively. They are quite a lot faster on foot than a layperson might expect, although this one kind of trots towards the camera in a more relaxed manner, looking a little bit like a person jogging.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 06/04/2026
Today I learned that apparently, some refuse to add alt text to their posts because they don't want (so-called) AI models to learn from that 🤨? I don't even have the words to describe my feelings about this. How the flipping cougar has such an idea become a thing?! Just add alt text to your posts …
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Daniela Schreiter @fuchskind.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy Trans Visibility Day, you magical beings! 🏳️‍⚧️ (Gestern leider verpasst, dafür heute eine Illustration 💖).
Comic Illustration: ein Kitsune mit fünf Schwänzen, they schaut freundlich. Das Fell und die verschiedene Schwänze sind in den Transpride Farben coloriert, die Hauptfarbe des Körpers ist blau mit rosa Elementen. Sterne und Glitzer umgeben ihn. Der Hintergrund ist ebenfalls in den Transpride Farben eingefärbt
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oops, sorry, uploaded the pages in the wrong order first. So reuploading! Comic by Ola Ambjörnsson (1976), originally published in Kamratposten. Fan-translated by me. First pages here, the rest in comments. Some tags: #therian #transformation #tf #werewolf
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 29/03/2026
📕 I'm currently reading the German textbook ”Jan Zrzavý et al.: Evolution: Ein Lese-Lehrbuch“ – doi.org/10.1007/978-... – and it's probably my favorite textbook. It has so many humorous, tongue-in-cheek passages in there, which really makes the book both fun and smooth to read. 1/3
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Evolution
Diese Einführung vermittelt einen Überblick über die Grundlagen der Evolution und über die vielfältigen Facetten moderner Evolutionsforschung.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Being an adult therian and seeing children and their parents co-opt the word therian to mean "kid wearing a half-mask", and then being suspicious over adults in a "children's subculture" feels like this.
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Shadow D. Wolf 🏳️‍🌈🐺 @shadowdwolf.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
1/9 Wow, since the Theta-Delta is doing numbers, I guess I should tell as much of the story as I can.  Again, keep in mind that I’m recounting something that happened in a web forum 20 years ago, so I’m undoubtedly missing a few details.  (thread)
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Cheetah Spottycat @cheetah-spottycat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Hate this new sport of cataloging the imperfections of humans on social media and bullying them about it. While Trump still reigns, and Epstein's friends keep fucking. The purity spiral is made of bike sheds, and everyone's a painter. It's so easy to shit on regular people just trying to live.
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Susitar @susitar.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Presentation about therianthropy and furry fandom - what is the difference? In Swedish, May 30 at Comic Con Stockholm.
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Save the date: Comic Con Sommar 2026
Uppmuntrad av Sabi Mango, så tog jag kontakt med Comic Con Stockholm. Fick höra att många unga terianer och furries synts till där tidigare. Nu kan jag avslöja att det blir en programpunkt! Lördag 30 maj kl 13 kommer jag och Peter (även kallad Wodan) att hålla en liten presentation som vi kallar för "Therian eller furry - vad är skillnaden?" Det ligger ännu inte uppe på deras hemsida, men det är på gång. Mer information kommer sen!
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-Rain- @vanillayote.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
HEY ALSO As a reminder, I have a book! A physical, published book! You can go buy it if you'd like! bewere.net/product.php?...
the artist, Rain/ Vanillayote, holding up a copy of her published book, 'Dysphonia, A Gender Retrospective Through Art' and smiling to the camera
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 20/03/2026
We are slowly, but surely moving back on the share of recent videos in the Top 300 search results for ”therian“ on YouTube, ordered by popularity (51.4% from the past 30 days as of this morning). #therian #otherkin
Graph showing the ”video age composition over time [for the] Top 300 YouTube search results for therian“. The x axis shows the collection date (20206-02-27 to 2026-03-20), the y axis the ”Share of videos (%); Data Source: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18774469“.

The data is visualized in age buckets:
≤ 14 days, ≤ 30 days, ≤ 90 days (3 months), ≤ 365 days (1 year), ≤ 730 days (2 years), and > 730 days.

In the beginning (up until around 2026-03-03), older videos (> 1 year) got replaced by more recent videos. The 14 days bucket begins to drop back down after that, followed by the 30 days bucket about 2 weeks after that. In the past few days, more than 15 % of the ≤ 30 days bucket moved into the ≤ 90 days bucket. However, above the 90 day mark, everything remains mostly the same for the time being, with no significant changes to the shares of ≤ 365 days, ≤ 730 days, and > 730 days.
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Quinn! ΘΔ🔞 @canisumbralis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Its a very weird time to be a machine alter/ syntherian with all this ai hate right now. Especially when you do art for a living.
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Zuri ΘΔ @therian.blog · 17/03/2026
I find it really interesting how differently everyone uses social media platforms. When do people like posts, when do they repost them, when do they do one, but not the other? Some regularly block other users, others never do so. From a cultural science perspective, I find this fascinating.
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