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PRIDE GIVEAWAY! Winner gets a custom pride plain weave collar!

- Follow, like and RP to enter
- Comment your sona and your flags in the comments (SEE NEXT SLIDE ABOUT FLAGS)
- Giveaway/AI accounts not eligible

Ends June 30th!

#fiberart #weaving #furry #furryart

June 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM

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Kieran

@toadally.bsky.social

I saw something the other day stating that humans may suffer from our own “zoochosis” (the degradation of the mental and physical wellbeing of captive animals that aren’t allowed to engage in natural or stimulating behaviors) and with studies like these? Makes you think!

Mark Fields (he/him/his) @mrikigai.bsky.social · Jan 4

Interesting 🙂 “A growing body of scientific evidence also shows that the joy delivered by birds isn’t just anecdotal. Research increasingly links exposure to nature and specifically, exposure to birds with improved wellbeing.“ #nature #birds
www.audubon.org/magazine/mor...

More Birds Bring More Happiness, According to Science

A pair of new studies show how birds improve our wellbeing, adding to a growing body of evidence that avians are an antidote to our despair.

www.audubon.org

April 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

participating in an organized boycott – not a haphazard, individual one – of a company as large as microsoft will always pose complex questions on a long enough timescale. but skipping the oblivion remaster weeks after bds declared microsoft a priority target? easy. a complete no brainer

But beyond that, purely from a consumer’s perspective, this one’s easy! Oblivion is almost two decades old. And in addition to the modding scene I mentioned above, which essentially allows the original game to self-revitalize on a regular basis, this remaster is coming out during a new-release avalanche. In the past month or so alone, we’ve gotten: Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Schedule 1, Runescape: Dragonwilds, Promise Mascot Agency, Lost Records: Bloom And Rage, Split Fiction, Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, Wanderstop, Atomfall, Two Point Museum, and so many others that it’s nearly impossible to keep track.

None of those scratch the Oblivion itch? Pick up one of the dozens of interesting indies inspired by old-school Bethesda games, like Dread Delusion, whose gleefully alien worldbuilding puts recent Bethesda fare to shame. It only has a few thousand Steam reviews. You probably missed it when it came out last year. You probably missed hundreds of good games when they came out last year – and the year before, and the year before.

Everybody is posting about the Oblivion remaster today, and over 100,000 people are playing it on Steam. But in a couple days – probably when the review embargo lifts on the next big game that’s about to come out, realistic France simulator Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – they’ll stop. That’s one of the few upsides of living through this era of Peak Media: Whatever your reasons, be they budget or boycott, you can always just skip the thing everybody is talking about. Give it a day or two, and there will inevitably be something else.

April 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

Trans Lifeline is a good place to direct resources if you’re looking to help here

fuck everyone involved with this decision

April 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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The Elder Memes

@theeldermemes.bsky.social

The Palestinian BDS movement has called for a boycott of Microsoft products to protest their partnering with Israel in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This includes gaming products such as Xbox Game Pass as well as publishers Activision, Blizzard, and Bethesda.

www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Boycott Microsoft's Xbox

Microsoft is perhaps the most complicit tech company in Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid regime and ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – which is why Microsoft is a now pr...

www.bdsmovement.net

April 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM

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Satan

@thedevil.bsky.social

April 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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AXEL LYCAN

@axellycan.bsky.social

There's no putting that toothpaste back in the tube, buddy. You unmasked in front of the entire world, we have the footage of your gameplay, we've all seen the cybertruck, we know about your child compound, we know just how dumb you really are.

Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · Apr 21

You heard him, folks: Bullying works.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report

Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane

www.independent.co.uk

April 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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Wild Doggo Jackie 🏳️‍⚧️

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@louierascal.bsky.social

Fosbat @fosbat.art · Mar 18

WEE My new Raccoon and Red Panda Avatar is out!! You can buy it now, for only $1 :D

March 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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GoldenToast

@goldentoast145.bsky.social

I always struggle with asking for help or funds for myself but I’ve been struggling ,due to payments I’ve been having to make , with collecting money for FWA. If you wanna help out that would be absolutely appreciated ko-fi.com/goldentoast

January 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk

@bpavuk.neocities.org

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

www.newsweek.com

December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM

Peppermint

@louierascal.bsky.social

I don't know if I'd get into trouble posting art borrowing a brand logo (in no way have I used this piece for any sales or marketing, just a gag gift, plz don't sue me)