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Hey, I'm just here to look at cool stuff, mostly just lurking.

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War-Bird: CEO of Freedom @warbirdactual.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Reminder this also applies to Scott Cawthon and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
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Howling Techie @howlingtechie.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Watching the new season of Shark Tank and they managed to immediately become a parody of itself by having one of the pitches be Ball 2, the sequel to Ball, powered by AI. To really seal the deal, the ball 2's battery is not rechargeable or designed to be replaced.
A screenshot of season 18, episode 1 of Shark Tank, showing two men pitching a company named "Ball 2".
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passionate butt client @miama.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
the baldur's gate 3 fandom is dying repost if you are still bald
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026
Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.
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IGN @ign.com · 07/10/2026
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Return of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been.
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dio @dioshaped.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
two panel comic
1st panel: finger pointing at a drawing of a sexy mouse
"this is not appropriate for our audience."
2nd panel: finger tapping erratically at a drawing of a sexy mouse BUT with a Copyright RODENT LLC and a $80.99 sticker 
"THIS is approproiate for our audience (got it, idiot?)"
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, most of that $25k a month is literally just paying people who are passionate about this to live and eat. It's not even paying for licensing or hosting or software services! The money is there! It's the advertising agency's fault for not knowing how to monetize it.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Third party advertisers are generating $150 a month in revenue for a site that can raise hundreds of thousands a year from donations. This is just absolute proof that internet advertising has failed as a business model. Instead of capturing some of that revenue they're trying to content police.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They say running FA costs $25k a month. They raised $134k in 48 hours from 1.7k people. Basically, a few thousand people could keep the entire site ad-free for the cost of a doordash order once a year. How do you, as an advertiser, fuck up so bad that you can't even clear that bar.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The people who are supposed to click the ads and buy the products in them are the ones who are gladly paying -more- money than they would -for those products- just to avoid the advertising. That means you've failed, as an ad agency. You're creating negative value for your clients.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A site like FA is probably the highest-value impression a web advertiser could hope for in the modern internet. It's a high-engagement nonalgorithmic monopoly on a specific set of user-generated content. Saying the site needs to -change- so it can attract -less value- engagement is fucking stupid.
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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Imagine how humiliating it must be for an ad company to demand content changes to a site like FA, only for that to cause the ads viewers to literally pay -more- money directly to FA to get the advertiser to fuck off. Like, the money was there all you had to do was not fuck with it.
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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/
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southern mouse @peerkartosh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fanart for Mina the Hollower. It is a doodle page showing five drawings of Mina, a cartoony beige mouse wearing a red tailcoat and a burgundy shirt.
In the first one, she is stretching and yawning after waking up.
In the second, she is cheerfully adjusting her glasses while holding a book.
In the third, she is sitting, with her legs crossed and arms behind her head, leaning back slightly.
In the fourth drawing, she is squinting at someone, possibly in doubt or suspicion.
In the final fifth drawing she is turned away from the viewer, pondering something with her hand on her chin.
There is text in the corner that reads: "She loves stealing from orphans and killing innocent people."
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discopawbs @discopawbs.buny.social · 26/09/2026
Mina the Hollower with BIG ASS caption-blocking ears
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discopawbs @discopawbs.buny.social · 01/10/2026
i love painting her like a strange bug
Mina the Hollower looking sillay
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discopawbs @discopawbs.buny.social · 10/09/2026
ratgirl genius
A cartoon doodle of Mina from Mina the Hollower, a grumpy white mouse anthro lady in a big red jacket.
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maddie raspberry ★ @othatsraspberry.com · 26/05/2026
so excited for Mina the Hollower this week!!! 🐭
doodle of Mina the Hollower
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Burned @burnedtraveller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mina
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Cherry (🔞) @ 🎃🥧 @myrrhcherries.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
-is vocally anti-AI and is a historical relic, no joke. There’s pictures people took @ cons before I was even conceived on there. Own your inner freak, or hand your leash back to BigCorp platforms and give your id while you’re at it. Dont like nsfw? Stop crying witch when ur at the devils sacrament
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Cherry (🔞) @ 🎃🥧 @myrrhcherries.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m making these semi emotionally charged posts because I don’t want to hear people whine about how they “don’t want to support FA waaahh! It Contains feral! There’s scary kink art on there!” because nobody showed you how to mute + block + curate… This is one of the last standing furry spaces that-
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Mary @lillifen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Think fundamentally people need to remember that FA is host to a community that is largely unmonetizable due to it being chocked full of fetish art. The trade off of capitalism not getting its hands all over the subculture is that ultimately community infrastructure needs to be community funded.
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Knaveofclubs @knaveofclubs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna say to remember to support FA right now as one of the last bastions for a true art gallery website unadulterated by AI, tech billionaires, social media algorithms, and enshittification. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
⭐Gofund Me ⭐. Moved to the top at user request.. . . Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorsh ...
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Alioth Fox @aliothfox.ursamajorartworks.com · 02/10/2026
TLDR: Fur Affinity's advertising partners are demanding that they ban adult content. Sciggles and FA want to firmly tell them to go fuck themselves. If they're going to be able to afford to do that, they need the community's help. Pitch in. Keep furry weird. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143...
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Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding -- Fender's Journal
Hey there Fuzzies!. . Recently, there has been a lot of conversation about censorship of the internet and third parties forcing sites to ...
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FatBack (Personal) ➡️ MFF @fatbackgainer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Third party advertisers want to FA to remove images of fat characters, it’s dire. Send some bucks to the gofundme, sub to FA+ let’s step up & support this vital community space so we don‘t have to rely on corporate money that wants to break us to fit them. This is our space & we should act like it
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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CSP being pressed to take even just /kissing/ off their asset store and FA being told that plus sized characters are considered adult should be a giant waving red flag to folks. Sex workers have /always/ been right to say these policies never stop with 1 type of content. They always wanna ban more.
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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb
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Gondor Flame
ALT: Gondor Flame
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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Clippy # 18 @sackbag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS KOSA failed to pass in the US Senate (thanks to Paul, R.), but remember this was the FOURTH attempt from American politicians to get it passed. Expect another attempt in the next term; stay vigilant, and do not let the USA adopt ID-collecting laws such as the SCREEN Act & KOSA.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/09/2026
you want to be like youtube, monolithic and faceless that all your loaded ideological decisions are rendered invisible by bureaucracy. and yet your leads are arguing with the posters like lowtax. you are not gonna make it. you do not have the cholesterol to be out here
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/09/2026
so you want to be a center-right social media site at the cost of your marginalised audiences, do a little dogwhistling and reap all those monetary benefits? okay. okay. well then you cant be weepy about it on the forum. rule number one write that down
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 17/09/2026
i say this with zero moral weight whatsoever: the bluesky staff do not got that dawg in them
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Houthi and The Blowfish @whinytheelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is Lowtax's world and we're all just living in it (except Lowtax)
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2026
they're all different facets of lowtax. one is resentfully mysogynistic. one keeps well-actuallying while actually being incredibly wrong. one is dumb as bricks. it's like his soul was shattered and each shard reincarnated into a different bay area bottom feeder and they all found each other again.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2026
it is wild how bluesky has like. a whole staff of lowtaxes. like they're all lowtaxing in their own ways. they're spending 0.5-2m a year, conservatively, on lowtax payroll
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Lydz II @lydzmrose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Saying you can threaten trans people with camps? That’s fine. Telling the hard of trust and safety that there’s been an uptick in this behavior and telling him he’s to blame? Verboten, you’re suspended. Fuck this platform.
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For context here, a user was responding in a thread to other users (unrelated to the original post) when they used the phrase
"Trans rights or Trans camps. You chose the camps and you're blaming Dems" followed by profanity.
> is this user toxic? undeniably yes.
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Are they threatening trans users directly?
No. Trans folks in the US have been targeted repeatedly. That's awful and you have my sympathy.
Within the context of a single post we wouldn't consider it a direct threat or targeting a protected category. le send trans folks to concentration camps.
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> "You've caused an uptick in people telling us to enjoy the camps you fucking piece of shit. Go fuck yourself @aaron.bsky.team"
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RottieSquishBugs 🧟‍♀️👻🎃 @lottiesquishhugs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dumb character idea im still figuring out… sphinx who instead of riddles tells bad knock knock jokes. her name is Sfinks
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 29/09/2026
EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high... www.techdirt.com/2026/09/29/eu-kids…
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EU Kids Act Won’t Keep The Internet Accountable And Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age verification, and undermine the privacy of all users. The EU Kids Act aims to protect children from...
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's the link to the EU Kids Act (translated into all EU languages): eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... And the news page on it from the @ec.europa.eu : digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-k... And remember to sign and spread #StopKillingInternet!: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/
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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Age verification consolidates big publishers & platforms by pricing out smaller devs and locking everyone into tech monopolies. Check out our full response/commentary on the EU Kids Act here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4h3... #StopkillingGames #StopKillingInternet #KidsAct
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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 30/09/2026
We just can't catch a break, can we? The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: www.youtube.com/watc... #StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet
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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026
All this to say an update post will be coming soon for the site to inform everyone of the struggles we've been facing and hope things can turn around.
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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026
-good we've done it will never be enough to be comfortable asking for site donations/assistance. Our resources are limited and avenues of rev aren't keeping bills paid. Depression is eating me up. We have some ideas to bring funds in but again I worry about people hating it/us. I'm tired.
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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026
A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-
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Ease🔞 @easenbsquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FA is the only anti-ai, ACTUAL functional gallery site left on the internet not ruined by algorythmic bs, support if you can
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Goddess Draevra 💙🐉🏳️‍⚧️ @drgn.beauty · 08/04/2026
tumblr is great sometimes
Screenshot of a tumblr post:

aflo: "if you're washed chopped and cooked then you might be vegetables"

broken-horn-of-equius: A picture of Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z pensively standing in the rain with his eyes closed.
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svinojerk @rasskazchik-1999.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#mewgenics
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柴火垛子 @chahato.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
#Mewgenics
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