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mycelial-alchemy.bsky.social
Spores
@mycelial-alchemy.bsky.social
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A constant metamorphosis in action.
🦇🧶🍀🦦🦋🦆🪼🪲🌱🌗🌌🧠🕸️

Everything is "political". Please be mindful + not shallow. Read/Listen to books.
I like water skeeters but I LOVE diving deep.

Autistic + Queer(ing) Everything
They/Them or It/Its
Late Twenties. :)
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dogyards.art
I’ve said this for years, since my early active days on Twitter and social media, and I’m not going to stop speaking on it.

You love — no, you TAKE — the culture, and then either use us or hate us, the people who are the culture.
January 19, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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dogyards.art
The performative use of black culture in the furry fandom is becoming more prevalent.

As a black person who was raised in the real hood, seeing nonblack furries portray what they idealize as “gangster” culture isn’t funny.

Surviving in the trenches is not an aesthetic or a joke.
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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squeedge.bsky.social
A thing about western WA, especially when there’s a lot of rain (often) is that the forests can stay surprisingly dry in areas where there’s a leaf litter/pine duff layer, it absorbs a ton of water, more than folks realize, so another reason grass lawns are evil 👍
January 13, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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goldcanines.bsky.social
Stay aware, alert, and prepared.

Iceout.org is an informative site where you can see real time witness reports of ICE and their locations: observed, active, and critical.

It is more important than ever to share these resources. Do not ignore what is happening.
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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thehousered.bsky.social
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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haradoshin.bsky.social
Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.
I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit. Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks! Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you. No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset. It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast. Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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dogyards.art
Hot take: I believe having affordable access to be able to have clean laundry should be considered a part of basic human rights.
January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
I stopped using sticker mule absolute ages ago because of the owner’s bullshit. The owner is still on his bullshit, so if you use sticker mule, maybe don’t. StickerAPP is a good alternative, and also there’s most likely a local sticker printer near you (Sticker Ninja in Portland, for example).
kgarriguesart.bsky.social ✨ Kato Garrigues (He/She) ✨ COMMS OPEN @kgarriguesart.bsky.social · 5d
The latest move by Sticker Mule's owner. Please don't give these people your money (or honestly send them your artwork, you never know).
A Facebook post by Sticker Mule's owner Anthony Constantino. The post says "I support ICE ICE BABY. If you want a FREE T-shirt DM me your email". It has an image linked of a black shirt with ice-looking text reading "I support ICE ICE Baby"
January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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daanis.ca
Even the newest account has been taken down. Like they don't have enough to deal with.
daanis.ca daanis @daanis.ca · 10d
I’m exhausted by the harsh life here😭🚨

There're no basic needs for a dignified life💔
no shelter, no medicine, no clean water, no healthy food, no safety, no warmth 🥶

I need your support just to remain alive at least😔

Please, if you can, contribute🙏🏻
🔗 tinyurl.com/Wyion

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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katieprout.bsky.social
Like they did in Chicago, feds are abducting unhoused people in Minneapolis: in this instance, four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Also as in Chicago, “homeless people… told the Minnesota Star Tribune that ICE apparently detained the four men without looking for credentials.”
mahtowin1.bsky.social UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 9d
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is still trying to locate four members kidnapped by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, and many Native people in the Twin Cities have felt scared to leave the house to go to work or get groceries.
www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...
Tribal leaders say ICE is detaining American Indians during immigration sweeps
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is trying to locate four members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis.
www.startribune.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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nicosgonzalez.bsky.social
Always keep your cats indoors or supervised outside. Outdoor/feral cats are driving catastrophic declines in native wildlife
Diorama at the natural history museum of Los Angeles showing outdoor cats hunting native birds. A caption reads that a single outdoor cat can kill up to 200 small birds, reptiles and mammals per year.
January 14, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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lunegrimm.bsky.social
Commissioned piece based on the 16th century motif of death as the great equalizer.
Death doesn't care about earthly possessions or status, death can't be be bargained with. Before death we are all equal at last.
#WerewolfWednesday #werewolf #art
Illustration piece of a werewolf attacking a priest and a king, inspired by 16th century motifs of death as the great equalizer
January 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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merrillotter.com
Increasingly I feel like I favor furry because it espouses the idea that humans, for all our mastery over nature, are still animals. We need to nap and wander and frolic and utter strange noises. It is good for us to be weird little guys, which is something society is so committed to stripping away.
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
mycelial-alchemy.bsky.social
My mixed ass when the sun returns: 🍪
My mixed ass when the sun leaves for winter: 🥟
January 12, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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deanspade.bsky.social
Wrote about what happens when conflict appears in our movement spaces and how to move through it instead of abandoning our work in @npquarterly.bsky.social !

nonprofitquarterly.org/navigating-c...
Disappointment, Conflict, and Burnout in Care and Resistance Work People often experience a special kind of disappointment in resistance work. We join groups to do something that we really care about. Often, we are relieved to finally find people who see things the way we do, excited to be understood and have accompaniment and solidarity. We have high expectations for each other. And then we find out that we're all very human and imperfect. I have found that burnout is not usually just a result of being tired. Most people I've talked to who feel burned out and leave movement work, during the laset 28 years that I have been in these movements, are actually in pain because of unresolved conflict. They joined work they really cared about, something went wrong that made them feel betrayed or left out or disappointed, and that is the pain of the burnout. It wasn't just the hard work; it was the loss of trust, the feeling of being blamed or stigmatized, or not being listened to. Abolitionism and Transformative Justice I've spent the last decades in the movement for police, prison, and border abolition. I believe we shouldn't have of those structures. Abolitionists use a concept called "transformative justice" to describe the work we do to address conflict without using police. There is a lot of conflict, harm, and violence in our communities, we know the police don't help and only make it worse. Transformative justice practices do three things: 1. Work to figure out and provide what the person or people who have been harmed need to heal and participate in community, to not be isolated by what happened to them, and to be listened to, even though we can't undo what happened. 2. Work to figure out and provide what the person or people who did the harm need to stop doing it. 3. Work to figure out what the community surrounding the harm could do to make it less likely--how did we all set up a situation that made this more likely? When Big Reactions Happen One thing that is surprising and challenging about the emotional dynamics of conflict is that we do the most harm to others when we are feeling aggrieved, victimized, left out, and/or resentful. It's counterintuitive because these are the moments when we are focused on what others did wrong and how we are hurting. But those are the times we are most likely to do something harmful, like go and write the really messed up email to somebody, treat somebody with the cold shoulder, gossip negatively about people in our group or about another group in town, post a bunch of stuff on Instagram that's really inflammatory, or violate someone's privacy. As strange as it might seem, it's when I'm feeling like the victim that I should ask for help from a friend to figure out what the right-sized response is, or to figure out if I'm still too upset to decide how to respond and need more time. It's not that we aren't legitimately sometimes victimized, but the victim narrative in our heads can cause us to skip our value assessment and then do stuff that later we wish we hadn't done. It's not bad to feel this way, but we should consider what to do with these feelings since they are inevitably going to come up in our groups and in ourselves. Centering Belonging I was recently talking to somebody who's doing a conflict support process with a group that's had a major difficult conflict. And one of the things the person is doing is individually reaching out to the 40 or 50 people who all were involved in the group over these many years where these hard things were happening. The people from the group have been telling the conflict support person, who's not even in the group, "It just means so much to me that you're listening to me." We live in societies that minimize our experiences of pain and harm. And so, we join movement groups and we hope we're finally going to be part of something where we're heard and seen. And then we have a bad experience where people don't hear us or see us at some point. And then we wreak havoc. We're like, I have to tear down everybody in this group, and this group itself, because I'm feeling all of my historical cumulative pain of being dismissed. If we could catch each other in the moment of pain and listen, I think it could be a huge change in the likelihood of those conflicts escalating to the most disorganizing behaviors between us.
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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hiddenstash.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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dogyards.art
January 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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shardwolf.net
HEY WASHINGTON FURRIES

WANT TO GIVE FURAFFINITY YOUR CREDIT CARD INFO?

WANT TO SHOW ID FOR FUCKING *BLUESKY*???

CALL YOUR FUCKING REPS I SWEAR TO GOD

HB 2112 WILL FUCK YOU UP

app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112

app.leg.wa.gov/memberemail/
January 11, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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kamakru.bsky.social
Hey remember how all of Mississippi was blocked on BlueSky due to an age verification law?! They're going to try to do that in Washington State! COMMENT and CALL on this one!

www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
January 11, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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pansybeast.bsky.social
"Survival"

Cone 5.5 stoneware, underglaze, glaze, nichrome wire

A piece about caring and bonding deeply intertwined with survival, and death as a legacy to the building of love and community.

Post 1/2 #ceramics
Multiple angles of a ceramic sculpture of a fox like canine reclining on all fours on the ground with its head tilted upward, its eyes large, soulful, and inquisitive. Its pelt is full of reds, browns, greys, and black. Flora creeps all over its neck and onto its shoulders. On its back is an intersection of a rainbow flag, trans, and nonbinary flag, all three joined together by a full moon. Under the moon reads "SURVIVAL" Below is a panel of white canine forms tenderly embracing; snout touching snout and resting on eachother. Under them a flower almost resembles a heart, and by the sprawl of its roots are two canid skulls facing eachother.
January 10, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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dogyards.art
Black Americans have always warned white America.

The “Black Lives Matter” movement was not a call for only Black Americans, it was us warning EVERYONE.

They’re calling poor Renee Nicole a domestic terrorist!! What happened to “All Lives Matter”?
January 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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cwebbonline.com
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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scarletmagus.bsky.social
EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY

MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE

DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI
"If Discord added more AI featurss, would that change how often you use Discord?" "I'd consider leaving Discord."
January 10, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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dogyards.art
The way how people are defending this platform or their use of it, is beyond me tbh. Like no one has gone this hard in defending a platform from what I can remember. At this point people have to be in-denial. I’m sorry guys but that app is NOT Twitter anymore, our blue bird is DEAD 😭😭
January 10, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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kasettetape.bsky.social
Not to dissuade folks from leaving passionate long messages about the importance of the human condition here but they 100% won't care about why, ethically, they shouldn't use AI. Instead I would just tell them you'll never spend money on their shit again or at least add it into ur response somewhere
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM