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🦦 Otter, ♂️ he/him, 🟣 bi.
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zephfur @zephfur.bsky.social · Mar 13
Thank you @otter.foo for my otter commission! He's a handsome lil' guy.
Otter OC art for Zephfur created by Alex Ottr
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ciale.dog
I was a fire pup at Furpoc!
November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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snowstormbat.bsky.social
Trouble
October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
zephfur.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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miakameron.bsky.social
Pawmni
October 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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dont-jinxit.bsky.social
Leaves are falling, the nights are getting longer and my fondness for wearing hoodies doesn't overheat me...

My favourite time of the year ❤️
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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bluesky.tuftbox.com
Everything fucking sucks. Here's Judy in some cheeky panties to cheer you up.

#furryart #judyhopps
July 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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jeanadraws.com
happy pride month!! 🦦🌈
June 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
zephfur.bsky.social
Happy Otter Day!
A cute otter on VRChat sticking his tongue out.
May 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
It is an astounding opinion written by an 80-year-old, conservative Reagan appointee who — along with his former colleague, Judge J. Michael Luttig (a note that makes its own point about this moment) — once led what many considered to be the most conservative appeals court in the nation.
It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear. The government asserts that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist and a member of MS-13. Perhaps, but perhaps not. Regardless, he is still entitled to due process. If the government is confident of its position, it should be assured that position will prevail in proceedings to terminate the withholding of removal order. See 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(f) (requiring that the government prove "by a preponderance of evidence" that the alien is no longer entitled to a withholding of removal). Moreover, the government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was wrongly or "mistakenly" deported. Why then should it not make what was wrong, right? "Facilitation" does not permit the admittedly erroneous deportation of an individual to the one country's prisons that the withholding order forbids and, further, to do so in disregard of a court order that the government not so subtly spurns. "Facilitation" does not sanction the abrogation of habeas corpus through the transfer of custody to foreign 3 detention centers in the manner attempted here. Allowing all this would "facilitate" foreign detention more than it would domestic return. It would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness and tarnish the very values for which Americans of diverse views and persuasions have always stood. The Executive possesses enormous powers to prosecute and to deport, but with powers come restraints. If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?* And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive's obligation to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" would lose its meaning. U.S. CONST. art. II, § 3; see also id. art. II, § 1, cl. 8. Now the branches come too close to grinding irrevocably against one another in a conflict that promises to diminish both. This is a losing proposition all around. The Judiciary will lose much from the constant intimations of its illegitimacy, to which by dent of custom and detachment we can only sparingly reply. The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions. The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph. It is, as we have noted, all too possible to see in this case an incipient crisis, but it may present an opportunity as well. We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos. This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.
April 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com
Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:

A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.

I would like to amend my prior statement.

Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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bleusomme.bsky.social
I love catching fish.
April 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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sassypants.bsky.social
Beeeeg stretch done for @xylious.bsky.social
An otter with grey fur and blue hair wears pink underwear while stretching his arm and leg out, as if he has just woken up.
March 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
zephfur.bsky.social
Thank you @otter.foo for my otter commission! He's a handsome lil' guy.
Otter OC art for Zephfur created by Alex Ottr
March 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”
jeremyfaust.bsky.social Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Feb 1
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
zephfur.bsky.social
what's this for? 🤔
January 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
zephfur.bsky.social
My avi in VRChat
January 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM