Moose mower 🇵🇸

Screenshot of a classic Twitter thread. Original post: "So churches are not essential... But abortion clinics ARE essential. Got it." Reply: "Yes because abortion is healthcare, glad I could clear that up for you Liz" Response: "600,000 babies a year would disagree with you" Reply: "I could easily win a debate against 600,000 babies"

Same energy

So real talk 🧵: When my dad left my mom to raise my sister and I on her own, she turned to government assistance to make ends meet. It was enough to keep a roof over our bed, food on the table, and kept us successful in school.
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Did some last minute door knocking for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social in fursuit this evening!!! Super positive responses!! :3 if ya live in Seattle pls vote for Katie Wilson for mayor!!

Last day to vote is tomorrow! Lets tax the wealthy and fund affordable housing and mass transit!

#seattle #furry

Shocking
Mamdani on camera here calling numerous people who are clearly not his siblings "brother"
The guy doesn't learn

Good to hear :) safe travels!

++ to cutting through the usual defensive irony; it was particularly cool to see the artist panel about where art in the fandom *could* be going. I think I've talked about the Room Party exhibit to like ten other people since then

Furry Studies An academic conference on furries and by furries.

youtube.com/@furrystudies for when they post it, to anyone else coming by this thread

Is there anything that mRNA vaccines can't do???

Feeling EXTREMELY emotional at the 2nd Annual Furry Studies Conference. I love my community

Holy shit I absolutely loved Nth grade adventures; I still say "we are the fish within the fish" from the floating island one, and the backpack zipping noise from another one still pervades my mind

90s games had super memorable sound bits I gotta say

They loooove you

that's so precious :)

Omg hella same! I'll see you there :3

Now is the time to start showing up to local grassroots organizations in your immediate meatspace area. There you will find people who want to help, and chances are they're connected to other orgs and people who want that, too. Likeminded community members ARE out there. Find them!

VERY NICE

Hopy shit that detail

A photo of welded sculptures of animals in various stages of completion.

Mixed reactions on the tl :3

No matter the outcome I shall root

From Ben Shepard, Toward a Ludic Counterpublic: For the Yippies, play involved the creative prank; for the gay liberationists, play was a code word for pleasure; for AIDS activists, safe play became the order of the day, while subversive humor, street theatrics, pranks, and zaps were used to move an agenda; for DIY activists, play was part of a prank tradition, now known as culture jamming, that originate with the Situationists. For gay liberationists, ACT UPpers, and members of SexPanic! play fostered creativity; creating spaces for play was respected as a legitimate movement aim, and defending civic space overlapped with struggles to create a different public sphere. For groups such as ACT UP and SexPanic!, play was more about sexiness and sexual energy than Yippy-like ludic activity, yet there were moments where their play overlapped into this realm.For public space activists, the imperative to act involved an effort to create and defend places to play with a burlesque of DIY protest. For global justice activists, play was part an effort to counter the privatization of public space, a way to help people build their own commons; for antiwar activists, play was part of an effort to offer a counternarrative to war. For many, play offers a life-affirming response to death and war. Here, play offers a counterbalance to disengagement; it is a way to stay engaged rather than fall into depression and personal alienation.

“For many, play offers a life-affirming response to death and war. Here, play offers a counterbalance to disengagement; it is a way to stay engaged rather than fall into depression and personal alienation.”

a furry wearing spandex holding a sign reading Epstein ain't going away.

Haven't forgotten.
No Kings. 🔥

📸&🛑 by 🐐

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

Im dead 😂😂😂

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

This body is mine but I Am Not My Body

This body is mine…

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

Someone at BLFC was wearing a D.O.G.E. shirt in the Dealers Den today.

BLFC should ban fascistic apparel for the safety of our attendees. Disappointed that con staff said there is nothing they can do about it.