🔞Simon "Thatch" Straumann🔞

✨ New adopts available on my Ko-Fi! ✨
I will update when they find their homes ^u^

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#adoptables #adopts #characteradopts #furryadopts #furryadoptables

I'm not dead. Just playing a lot of Poké Leg ZA and Minecraft for my mental health instead of wallowing in the constant stream of terrible news.

So have some of my latest fits.

Hoping the best for the missus, and you've got this dude!

Any age verification bill being pitched on “protecting kids” that aims to block VPNs is just admitting that this was never about protecting kids to begin with. As if they’re the ones installing/using VPNs, shut the fuck up

Kind of glad I didn't get into Tumblr. I just want to make new friends and stuff. Make art, do things and share things without all the drama that seems to ooze, and crawl out of Tumblr.

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION] I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more. Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses. KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast. Thank you for your time and consideration. IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same. Do the right thing.

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

This is a great time to remind everyone that you should in fact, still be calling MasterCard, Visa, Stripe, and other payment processors to annoy the shit out of them.

Because I'll tell you right now, that shitheel? Not gonna have to worry about them accepting payment.

*Artists will.*

Two Bigger Commisions finished on stream.

But we now reached 79% of 5K!

Keep the commissions coming gang I'm so close to the goal!

We all knew it was never about the porn. But if your normie bros wanna keep torrenting their marble and star worms they're gonna have to actually take the gooners seriously for once.

While I was studying Japanese, I think what fascinated me the most was the way an entire sentence can change by what you change at the end of it. But it's been YEARS since I studied, so it's basically fled my brain.

NEW ADOPT! Starting at $40 with full character rights!
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I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW

tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here

US- www.congress.gov/members/find...
EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home
CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Didn't really think to take more in progress pics, but something I've been working on lately.

Finished afew commissions tonight, will do more later. Commissions are still open, I can't refuse work.

Thanks for the raids @brachyzoid.bsky.social @garukubluemoon.bsky.social.

Sorry to everyone who raided just at the end just to miss me. @sentypurr.bsky.social @theunexpectables.bsky.social

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I can't afford to be modest, so only if you feel like you can spare a buck or five, it would help alleviate my upcoming workload.

ko-fi.com/zitoisneato/...

I *DO* happen to have a new kobold OC...

For anyone who needs to hear it, the advice to "always do your best" does not necessarily mean "always be the best."

Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different.

Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.

I don't repost stuff like this frequently, but Theropod is one of the nicest, kindest, hilarious person I have ever met.

This is a horrible emergency, and Thero has been taking excellent care of Beanbag for many years. Uromastyx live to up to 60 years, and he is only 5 years old.

Anything helps.

Everyone in EU, UK or any US state with ID laws on the books [or even ones without them] should contact their representatives and mention this data breach specifically and [link the article if emailed]

Show them the actual, tangible results of all this digshit online ID legislation

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Thank you so much!!!

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Got a pretty pink lizard that I need to draw soon...

Dude, it blows me away that you do such amazing work on a phone. Makes me realize I have a long ways to go too, but in a good way. If I had the money I'd love to get you a tablet or something better to work with.

I think you're doing your level best to be a better person despite the trauma you had to live through. None of what happened to you was deserved, and anyone still hounding you about it should reflect on themselves something serious.

I'm glad you're still around, Salem. Even if I'm just some rando.

Hell yeah, dude! Glad you're feeling better.✊🏻 Keep kicking ass.

Call your reps NOW and tell them to oppose KOSA!

NOT tomorrow!

NOT next week!

RIGHT. NOW!

Anyone got any cool sticker shops? I wanna get some for my laptop

Call your dickhead senator pls thank you

Remind them that the President constantly backs down when challenged. He wants to come off as a huge bully but if you actually fight him he will fold. Make sure your reps know if Republicans want a shut down then they're the ones who will be blamed for it.