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Append -site:pinterest[dot]com (where [dot] is replaced with a period) to your search query.
This will exclude Pinterest from your search results and make the results actually usable.
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Twitter's new Gender thing doesn't enforce maxlength server-side, only client-side, so of course I did this.
Some furries: "I'm a therian θΔ"
Me, not a therian: "Oh cool. So if I affirm they're [species] when they feel down, it will probably improve their mood. Convenient!"
Why would anyone discard such a useful way to make their friends and community happier? It costs nothing!
We interrupt your usual program of shitposts, memes, and cute fursuits to bring you something with real-world impact.
It's worth paying attention to.
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The mayor of Ridgeland, MS is threatening to withhold funds from a public library if they don't comply with a demand to purge the shelves of LGBTQ+ books.
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MORE: A Mississippi mayor is "withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System" until its libraries purge books w/LGBTQ themes
The mayor calls the books, including an essay collection by Elton John & others, "homosexual materials"
mississippifreepress.org/20068/ridgelan
Let me be clear:
You're entitled to whatever religious beliefs you want.
But the second you bring queerphobia into the furry community, even if you can twist your religion as a justification for it, I want you gone.
This isn't "cancel culture" going wild. It's survival.
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We did it, Internet!
If you're upset at streaming services like Netflix and want to pirate movies instead, let me introduce you to a few technologies that will make your life less of a headache.
First, SSH.
If you don't give your fursona a last name, it defaults to your fursona's species.
Sorry I don't make the rules.
In kernelspace, no one can hear you scream.
Because the Linux sound drivers don't work.
Picking up a Yubikey off the ground is the fastest way to gain street cred
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I contacted the library for electronic means to contribute, and they responded with this link.
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The mayor is threatening to withhold $110,000 from the library.
This isn't small potatoes, but it's within the reach of the amounts raised by furries for charities at conventions all the time.
Do you think we can crowdfund this library and tell their mayor to fuck off?
Dude on Reddit is *very mad* that people donated as their fursonas, and doesn't understand how journalism works.
old.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/
There's only one appropriate response:
🎨
Revealed: Why that "Popufur" won’t answer your messages (but that doesn’t mean they’re a bad person)
medium.com/@soatok/friend
Hot take:
I'm tired of hearing half-baked Twitter callouts from Puriteens.
If you're under 18 you shouldn't be looking at NSFW, let alone judging people harshly for not sharing your specific interpretation of art styles.
Where's your parental supervision?
Lmao got ratio'd so hard on his own Telegram channel after announcing NFTs that he had to disable reactions
I've updated my old medium post to include a confession from SomethingAwful about early furry hate being motivated by homophobia/queerphobia.
is woefully unprepared for accepting reports of cryptographic issues in software.
Lol I got banned from the local furry group for not tolerating anti-maskers.
Glad to know what side y'all are on.
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"But it's weird!" says the dude with a foot fetish who just finished masturbating to dragon cock vore, "We don't need that kind of weirdness in furry."
That's how some people fucking sound right now lmao
In case anyone forgot
It has been [ 0 ] days since I had to unfollow someone because they joined a Twitter Space and forgot to turn off the "show purple box to followers" feature
Learn more here:
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"Oh hell no" - everyone who heard about this story
"Oh howl no" - the furries who heard about this story
Congrats on breaching $50k already everyone!
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Also, I didn't expect something like this to happen on the very first day:
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Looking at the backers' comments when suddenly
There have been quite a few news articles circulating lately about "furries", "litter boxes", and "public schools".
It started with a misinformation campaign spread through the hate account, @/libsoftiktok, perpetrated by an associate of Jesse Signal's.
Goodbye Bugcrowd. You won't be missed.
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We actually found patient zero for this story, in case you're curious
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Okay an hour ago this was at 0% and now look at it.
You all rock.
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If the library manages to raise the $110,000, that'll be a good "fuck you" to the mayor.
Of course, someone else besides me will get the honor of delivering that message, because
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I got the ball rolling.
Regular reminder:
If you patronize Chick-fil-A, you're tacitly approving of their long history of support for anti-LGBT "Christian" groups, and therefore do not get to celebrate #PrideMonth.
Open-source take:
If a person hasn't consented to shouldering more responsibility, it doesn't matter how many users or dependent projects their open source project has. They don't owe you anything.
Especially if you aren't paying them for the work they're doing.
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Screenshot for validity (DMARC headers available on request if anyone doubts me):
I encourage everyone in infosec and cryptography to read this:
Instead of engaging with those clowns and inflating their engagement metrics, here's a screenshot.
Some life advice:
Any time anyone gives you an ultimatum, the correct answer is *not that person*.
Minor correction:
Furries don't belong in jail. They belong at the pound.
#PoundFurFest
If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then PHP must be pronounced "fap".
There are three kinds of lies:
- Lies
- Damned lies
- After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know @.obvious_racist_account hasn't broken our safety policies.
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Also, the icing on the cake of the mayor in question?
His campaign's Twitter is private.
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Basically
The culture of trying to shame queer, neurodivergent, or even just downright eccentric people into submission can fuck off
See, for example, the screenshots here:
Clearly, I haven't been loud enough or doing a good enough job at getting people to pay attention.
Furries: Read this, then send this to anyone who even mentioned the "safe space for minors" a.k.a. "fluffy" discourse yesterday.
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In less than 24 hours, we reached a significant milestone (and a meme number).
Me: *writes a longish technical blog post about side-channels in cryptography*
Reddit:
Yes, that was my tweet on
I'm laughing my ass off at that web exclusive still, :3
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A lot of people following me for my butt being broadcast on Last Week Tonight
Sorry not sorry in advance for all the dumb puns and cryptography knowledge that's about to curse your timeline
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Furries have done more for Internet Security than you have
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Reminder:
Two years ago I wrote a series to help LGBTQ+ people and/or furries get into tech
The guiding principle of this effort was "zero prior experience needed, for as close to $0 as possible"
If you're curious about tech work, give it a read
This one needs no explanation
Xfinity: "You might be able to engage with [the maintainer] on the repository."
Me: *engages with JSBN author on the repository with the Xfinity contact's express written consent to do so*
Bugcrowd: "This is unethical."
(By "patient zero" I of course mean the origin of the hoax, not any credible example of what's claimed.)
If anyone from the media needs information to debunk that stupid conspiracy theory, here's quotes from primary sources:
/r/programming has been particularly toxic, downvoting anything I wrote to oblivion (regardless of who submitted it there)
So I took out an ad so they couldn't bury it (and left comments enabled because it's funnier that way):
Q: Why does no one fact check articles?
A: Because you don't error correct when the parody bit is set.
Many people in our community have lost their jobs because of the pandemic.
I wrote this to help people transition into a technology career, even if you have no tech experience, for as close to $0 as humanly possible.
soatok.blog/2020/06/08/fur
Please share this.
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Is the head of browser security at Microsoft called the Edgelord?
So in infosec, security analysts have the red team and blue team. When you combine them, you get purple.
Then you have white hat, grey hat, and black hat hackers.
Thus,
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The fundraiser is over $36,000 now, from over 900 backers.
Q) Why are foxes so prevalent in the furry fandom?
A) We're a sub-culture not a dom-culture.
I've always noticed an overlap between furries whose After Dark accounts included an interest in watersports, and furries who work in computer networking.
And it just dawned on me why.
Both interests deal with ICMP.
Every year at BLFC, @GrubbsGrizzly hosts the Good Furry Award, based on community nominations and votes.
Thank you to everybody who nominated for voted for me this year.
Together we stood with a library in defiance of a homophobic mayor. We'll need this energy going forward.
Hey but can you really even call yourself a furry if you have a regular sleep schedule?
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Update: I blogged about it in case you want a longer explanation.
Are you really a switch, or are you so sub that you'll act dom to please your partners?
Furry Porn Against NFTs: A Call to Forearms
Vore furries love to write code in python
NFTs are shit
Web3 is a grift
Cryptocurrency is a mixed bag of grifters and optimists
I don't fault the optimists, but they provide unfortunate cover for grifters to operate
This whole Splatoon discourse has a lot of the hallmarks of a 4chan op.
I don't want to burn the time and effort to write another lengthy analytical blog post about it, so here's a Twitter thread instead.
Do you realize the harms his administration has done to LGBTQIA+ people?
Do you realize that furry is 80% or more LGBTQIA+?
Trump's policies literally caused harm to the people in this fandom, and you still stand by him? And you expect to still be welcome here???
Brb gonna hook a Raspberry Pi up to an SSD and stick it on my network and call it
Lil NAS
Please avoid the FurAffinity front page right now
Someone is flooding the website with CSAM
Blocking the user that's uploading it doesn't stop it from showing up on the front page, either
(WTF)
Head's up:
When the OpenSSL critical bug embargo lifts, avoid searching the CVE identifier online immediately.
The alleged reporter has a blog with a lot of uncensored graphic self-harm imagery and suicidal ideation.
My friend (whose account is locked and wouldn't appreciate a shitton of notifications) made this shitpost and it is glorious so I must share it
Update: I blogged
If you bully snep furries you deserve to go to prison. Sneps put their heart and soul into their mows and they're really good so you have no reason to bully them. I pet snep fursonas and you should too. It"s only fair
Anyway fuck anyone who's happy about Roe v Wade being overturned.
Get out of my life and stay out of it.
As someone who works in cryptography, and has spent years perfecting the tone for "no, I'm not interested in THAT kind of crypto" when responding to recruiters...
Seeing cryptocurrency burn is cathartic.
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Tired: Libertarians think the real world is Minecraft
Wired: Capitalists think the real world is Fallout 4
Every once in a while, Twitter makes me laugh
Boycott Arizona Iced Tea
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BIG NEWS, ZONIE'S! AriZona APED into the @BoredApeYC - We're stoked to introduce our Bored Ape #NFT & have some huge things planned!
Shout out to @BoredApeComic & check out BoredApeComic.com Issue #1 for a huge surprise reveal. #NFTcommunity #BAYC #BoredApeYC #NFT
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EduTech Spyware is Still Spyware: Proctorio Edition
If the robots are going to kill -1 humans, they'll end up killing all humans.
For more on integer underflow, see Civilization and the nuclear holocaust Ghandi bug.
Got banned from GETTR because I kept flooding furry kink art at right-wingers