Those Things

“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, but I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist.”

Voter suppression is very real, and it doesn't just show up as long lines, gerrymandering, and other physical barriers to putting your ballot in the box.

Voter suppression most frequently means demoralizing, discouraging, and other emotionally manipulative ways to convince people that their vote doesn't matter. One of the most common and effective tactics online is to work people up with purity tests, to convince people that, for instance, it's a good idea to kneecap the one guy who is currently the loudest and most effective voice countering Trump, because [fill in whatever the reason, usually that he's a lame centrist].

Newsom is my governor. He leaves a LOT to be desired for leftists like me, but he's a powerful, effective, unflinching and relentless voice speaking truth to Fascism. We need him. We need more voices like his.

So when you hear someone praising him for speaking up, when you see one of his clever posts skewering shitler, and you see people responding positively to his willingness to fight, and fight hard, just join in that celebration. And shut down anyone who does "yeah, but ..." because now is not the time.

We are all in this together. Fuck Trump, fuck Maga, and fuck everyone who supports them.

—

Kamala Harris to Stephen Colbert: America is “broken”

HELLO ESTABLISHMENT CENTRIST DEMOCRATS DID YOU HEAR HER? 

Turn ON the sound

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

I'm going to need to remind y'all once again to STOP BEING FUCKING ELITIST ABOUT SUITING.

Do you know how many young kids I met at Winterfest who were clearly young furs just dipping their toes into the pool of fursuiting? Do you know how many of them came up to me and got so excited when they found out I made my own fursuit head? Like 'oh shit, this stuff IS within my reach?'

Why do you think that is? Could it be because they keep getting the impression that 'real' furries have to spend hundreds to thousands just for a head? Because I KEEP seeing that bullshit peddled around the place and you need to KNOCK IT OFF.

My head was still not exactly budget, despite making it myself, materials cost a couple hundred and time and experience can't really be priced. It certainly wasn't my first or second iteration either, and you know what? I STILL don't think it's that great of a fursuit head.

But it also doesn't matter. Because I love wearing it. I get to be one of my fursonas out and about and have so much fun doing it. And my goal was encouraging the baby furs, because yeah! You can get to do this too! it's great!

And I don't give a shit how home-made or pre-fabricated any of their pieces were, I complimented every single one of them, because the point is for them to enjoy themselves and feel confident and good about fursuiting. The quality of their fursuit parts should only matter to them. Their fursuiting goals are THEIRS ALONE, there is no public standard they have to meet.

I know younger furries are getting discouraged, not just by the cost of fursuiting, but the pervading culture in online spaces around making people feel bad about not having 'proper' fursuits.

And I am going to bite the shit out of anyone I see perpetuating that shit! Furry is an alternative culture, it's not a fucking fashion club. We're not kicking people out for not having a fucking gucci fursuit. We're not fucking with this nonsense about poodling and making up rules about what counts as 'real' suiting.

I'm not suggesting you don't have separate group pics for people in full and partial suits for whatever aesthetic categorizing you're doing, but for the love of FUCK, do NOT start trying to push this elitism over who plays dress-up of their own character/fursona the best, and who's 'not allowed' to do it in public without having a polished suit. (And do not get me started on the 'rules'. If your group has a 'no heads off in public spaces' rule it belongs to YOUR GROUP and NOT any other furry or cosplayer hanging out at the same place who is not affiliated with your group).

Fuck off with your elitist shit. You're driving out the new kids, you're being ableist and classist, and you're missing the fucking point of alt culture community.

Signed ~ A bitch who is having so much fun in her current home-made suit head that she's started making more and fuck you if you think they look shit cause I don't care!

Remember when we said that, as stupid and bad as this was, there was something even more stupid and bad coming that we didn't know about, but would wipe this entirely out of everyone's memory?

Of COURSE nobody's been held accountable. Nobody ever will.

And next week, something even more stupid and bad, that we can't even predict, will happen.