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33 Gator boi Curator/Creator of the Virtual Furry Museum 2025 Good Furry Award Nominee 2026 VRCommunity Awards Finalist Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger - Titus Platus I promote diversity and tolerance. Speak with many, and you will find answers.
If all the art everyone hated was removed from the internet, no one's life would be saved. But a lot of people would lose the ability to express themselves, find others, form communities, and gain acceptance. Education and freedoms would end while who we are as people remains subjugated.
I'm finding basic decency is not very common these days. Neither is common sense.
doing the easiest part and forgetting the rest
The median reading level for Americans is 6th grade. With so many books banned and school libraries shut down, a lot of educational curriculums moved away from reading and history. Thus producing a people who can't tell fact from fiction, or how to read higher quality sources of information.
If you got a friend that's a freak, please ensure them that you won't think less of them. They probably need some support and reassurance more than ever after. With this stupid nonsense going on, we need to be there for them.
Ad Hominem. They can't attack his policies, so they attack his religion, in an attempt to defame his character.
Is now a good time to mention most members of the Sicilian Mafia were Christian?
No amount of purple prose will magically lift racism or transphobia into anything greater.
If you hate any education about race issues, you're racist, and refuse to address legitimate race issues. If you hate trans people, you are transphobic and your views are harmful to millions of people.
The New York Times coverage of trans issues has repeatedly resulted in experts and others complaining that their words were twisted and misrepresented... but only those quoted from on trans supportive side have that complaint.
Coincidence or eliminationism? @billiejsweeney.bsky.social dives in.
I was invited to the podcast I'm Definitly Not a Popufur with my good friends @sawdeye.bsky.social and @punkydmouse.bsky.social, who's also an artist inside the Virtual Furry Museum!
We spoke about so many different topics, including how I became a Furry, the museum, and removal from the VRCA.
But .. but.. but I harassed and abused so many cubs to stop this from happening. Why is my face being eaten . I took the face eating policies as permission to be an absolute horrible person to people who haven't hurt me at all I should not have my face eaten . I did so much of their work for them
the continuing censorship of sexual content on the internet while the elite class still gets to use banks and credit cards when doing horrible things to children makes it obvious it’s about who has the money, power, and control, and not protecting anyone.
Is there a charity that helped anyone as an LGBTQ child facing abuse? I'd like to see if there are organizations that could be supported today helping kids make it through times like this. Please let me know.
6/6 The church made bad people who are hypocrites feel more comfortable than people who are good, just different. I've never looked back, and I never will.
5/6 The church opposed stem cell research which could've cured my Diabetes and promoted discrimination. It wasn't the church's place to do that. Then I realized the church never followed Jesus' teachings. They were hypocrites who failed to consider us, and we were better off without them.
4/6 I felt God leave the building. After a week I began seeing my friends in a more positive light. The church taught me to cast doubt over people who are LGBTQ. A friend helped me overturn my self-hatred, and I was able to see the world, and homophobia/sexphobia with significantly more clarity.
3/6 Then the Archdiocese posted a statement saying Homosexuals are degenerate. The bullying got worse. When I stood up to them I got resistance from the priest and nothing was done to eliminate the bullying. I was no longer able to read the Epistle, and people had desecrated all our traditions.
2/6 But bullies were everywhere. I was harassed by the other altar boys. Some people opposed my presence. Wealthy people who believed I wasn't Greek enough and despised Middle-Easterners. I was given the chores no one else wanted to do and did them kindly because I was serving Christ.
1/6 I had always been raised true Greek Orthodox Christian. Attended church every Sunday, or at least every Sunday I was able. Stuck with the altar boys, read the epistle, volunteered, and cared deeply for the church and the words of Jesus Christ and Apostle Paul.
2/2 Similar tactics kept misogyny, racism, and homophobia in this country for centuries. But the only power bullies have is what's given to them. Kotowing to bullies results in the erasuse of acceptance, perspectives, and representation. I twiddle my thumbs waiting for big fools to learn history.
1/2 Youth LGBTQ+ suicidal ideation is ~40% in America, cut in half among kids in accepting communities.
Bullies are encouraged to use harassment to destroy acceptance. An LGBTQ+ POV in a Pixar movie would've granted acceptance and help the world understand our lives. But bullies shut our voices.
Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:
I now understand why racism and misogyny were allowed to persist for centuries.
I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.
This "difficult conversation" took my dad 1 fuckin minute to make 8 year old me understand that gay people exist and are normal
I think these people are actually just whiny babies that are easily offended, so they pretend these things are way bigger a deal than it is
Just saw Pixar's Hoppers yesterday. It touches so many fascinating topics surrounding leadership, I felt compelled to write about it. I'd like to posit a few questions: Is George a good leader? Does neutrality encourage manipulation? And what should we do when we feel powerless?
4/4 Then, there's the Breguet No 160. Handcrafted for Antoinette over 19 years, finishing 9 years after her death, the maker sent to prison for 7, raw materials came to over $360,000 today. Made with every watch feature imaginable in materials fit for a queen, Antoinette's opulence was unrivaled.
3/4 Marie Antoinette's wedding gown was laced with silver and sparkling gems. While the original gown is lost, depictions and existing royal dresses and materials display the lavishness of the era. Through this and other pieces, Antoinette became a veritable symbol of the lavish wealth of royals.
2/4 The scam involved Jeanne de Saint-Remy Valouis dismantling the necklace and selling the gems on the black market while posing as Marie Antoinette herself seeking payment from others. It clouds the affair, but didn't change that the king ordered it and Marie could, but refused payment.
1/4 King Louis XV commissioned it, but died, and the new King Louis XVI offered to Marie, but she refused to pay. There was a scam at play as well (more on that later), but jewelers spent 2 years on the necklace without pay. Marie's rejection represented royal wealth opposing the working class.
4/4 The revolution is formally considered to have lasted only 10 years, but the period of unrest over class issues