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Python New Zealand

@python.nz

👉 Kiwi PyCon 2025 in 11 Days! You’ve got till the end of Wednesday at the very latest to get your order in for a conference t-shirt. 👉 Check out / order the design https://kiwipycon.nz/attend/t-shirt

https://python.nz/2025/11/09/%f0%9f%91%89-kiwi-pycon-2025-in-11-days/

November 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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Piti Yindee

@pitiyindee.bsky.social

🐺 ⋆｡‧˚ 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐯𝐬 𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐁! ˚‧｡⋆ 🐦

Let's have some 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗕 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗡 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟮 (𝟭𝟮.𝟭𝟮.𝟮𝟱)! What could possibly go wrong, eh, Hank?! 🐦

October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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Mr. Labrador Commissions Closed! (4/4 slots)

@mrlabrador.bsky.social

I reiterate: Giant robots are hard to draw... but here's my crack at it.

September 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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kevintheradioguy

@kevintheradioguy.bsky.social

One-page comic for @sakarafox.bsky.social

This was fun to draw. Bulls are complex, bu very interesting.

#art #digitalart #commission #anthro #furry #comic #prehistoric #украрт

A comic showing an encounter between two anthropomorphic foxes and a large, aggressive aurochs. The setting is a sunlit steppe-like landscape, with open fields, tall grass, and rocky cliffs in the background.

Top left panel: the aurochs grazes in a wide, open plain. One of the foxes is crouched in the grass, watching, and another fox is pointing at the aurochs.

Top right panel: close-up of the two foxes hiding in the tall grass. One is smirking and the other grinning, holding a smack stone.

Middle panel: a stone strikes the aurochs in the behind. It looks surprised as the foxes cheer.

Bottom panel: the aurochs charges forward at full speed, dust flying from the ground. Its face is twisted with fury, steam snorting from its nostrils, and its glowing red eyes dominate the frame. The two foxes are now panicked, running for their lives with terrified expressions as the enraged aurochs bears down on them.

September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM

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Red-Izak 🔜Nordfurs 2025 II NordicFuzzCon, Gdakon2026

@redizak.bsky.social

Handsome Yeen

#hyena #yeen #furryart

August 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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✨💕 BGB / Beetle 💕✨

@bubblegumbark.gay

dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws dragon paws

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#VRChat #Blender #3DArt #Furry #Dragon

August 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM

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bird pancake

@floofyboof.art

here comes that bird

July 31, 2025 at 6:52 AM

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United Videogame Workers-CWA

@videogameworkers.bsky.social

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

In the last two weeks, we have seen a wave of censorship sweep across online retailers, particularly Steam and Itch.io. This is because of demands from payment processors as well as sex-negative activist groups like Collective Shout (originally reported by journalist Ana Valens, and then censored by VICE’s parent company).

UVW affirms that sex and sexuality belong in games. Games are works of art, created by workers who should be free to express themselves. It's important to encourage a healthy and critical discourse about the media we consume. One vocal minority cannot have the power to categorically silence creative expression, just because some sexual themes make some people uncomfortable.

Sexual art is art, sex work is work. Any attempt to suppress sexual art is an attempt to suppress all art. Any attempt to deny sex workers their dignity is an attempt to deny all workers their dignity.

Workers rely on platforms like Steam and itch.io to distribute their games, and it is workers who are suffering at the behest of this vocal minority. We call on the payment processors Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and any other companies demanding compliance with this unjust action to reverse their policies and stand with the workers who have lined their pockets for years with their labor. We call on Valve and the Itch.io leadership to reverse their policies and stand with game developers.

We encourage our members and the general games community to use the resources in the quoted post to contact these payment processors directly and express how strongly we object to their actions.

July 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM

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🦎galileo🍉

@galileogb.bsky.social

pretty sure modern youth forget what n64 looked like lel galileo.gumroad.com/l/skyesotter...

Otter VRChat Avatar

don't buy from gumroad, this place is the worst. get my stuff on kofi instead. that was a link. A VRChat-Ready Otter! Set up for SDK3.Dynamic bones are setup in the tail, But the dynamic bones addon i...

galileo.gumroad.com

July 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM

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The Big Bad Wolf

@tbbw1.bsky.social

Fuck July.

Halloween all year long!

Viz the Bogeymart @bogeymanviz.bsky.social · Jul 25

100 days....

Four-image meme. First image is a bird saying "what a lovely July day."

The second panel shows the bird saying "I love summer" but it is cut off by an off-panel speech bubble in black and orange saying "This is Halloween, this is Halloween."

The third panel pans back to show a crow on a nearby branch, wearing a witch's hat, alongside a black cat, a jack o'lantern, a bowl of candy corn, and a Blu-Ray copy of Hocus Pocus. The crow is saying "Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween."

The fourth panel cuts back to the bird looking very annoyed as the crow continues to say "Halloween" off panel.

July 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM

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ChoPro (🔞)

@chordprogressions.itch.io

While itch keeps NSFW projects unlisted, if you'd like a great database for all things Furry Visual Novels, please check out fvn.li

Check it out! Maybe you'll find a great new story to get into #FurryVN

691 FVNs - FVN.li

Browse FVNs. Featuring 691 titles, including: The Resort, Minerva, Devil's Gambit, Under The Bridge.

fvn.li

July 24, 2025 at 5:42 AM

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Iantos

@iantos.bsky.social

Maybe we could find out.

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 24

ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.

are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?

July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM

dr sp00ky

@drsp00ky.bsky.social

Emailed <3

A screenshot of an email sent to visa/mastercard

Hello, hope this email finds you well.

I'd like to raise my objection to the recent attempts at censorship by yourselves (a major payment processor) with regards to adult material.

I'd first like to point out that I abhor criminal activities with regards to adult content; and that informed consent and ethical consumption of materials is also of vital importance to me. I'd also like to suggest that a major market payment processor like yourselves should not be tasked with being the moral authority as to what artistic endeavors are financially viable and how they're distributed.

This isn't just porn I'm talking about, these are communities of (often queer) creators collaborating internationally to produce works of art enjoyed by masses of international patrons from all walks of life. Your crackdown on these materials has a real and demonstrable effect on these often marginalized communities who often discover their (also mine) voice through this medium.

This isn't just about porn, it's about asking you to reconsider your position on enforcing puritanical views on an international audience. Where does this stop?

Thank you for taking the time to read this email, and I hope that a satisfactory solution can be found that respects creatives and the people they connect with.

Kind regards,
<my name>

July 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM

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Boxman

@boscosden.bsky.social

Mastercard support email:
customer_support@mastercard.com

Visa support email:
askvisa@visa.com

Email them, be nice but firm about it, don't take your anger out on support staff but don't pretend you're not angry. Template (in multiple parts) below.

July 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM