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Wake up babe a new endorsement dropped because Furries already have enough sex predators & AI grifters in positions of power we don't need Cuomo as NYC mayor claiming to create jobs when he's already using AI to steal the work artists & creatives like us create to save a few bucks

As are most "influencers" who only got popular because of their wealth by being born lucky with the right genes into the right family & having the right connections

I'm shocked that grifters like him not only have an audience but those who are willing to give them free money from the parasocial relationship they've built while actually talented creators remain in obscurity struggling to get by thanks to social media algorithms

At first I thought it was Sotalo since he was religious before leaving the church but I looked it up & turns out Garo really went down the "Jesus Christ is our lord & savior" path that JiDion also did between going from a "prankster" to a predator "hunter"

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ I am at Megaplex!!! I'll be roaming different panels and helping @pandapaco.bsky.social and @koidelcoyote.bsky.social with their booth! If you wanna say hi, come on by! We'll be in the left rear of the Dealer's Den and ready tomorrow! Panda Paco organizing 17 different T-Shirt designs in boxes Koidel Coyote and Jerry working on the booth display.

Sotalo Sarasota, FL https://sotalo.wixsite.com/printsbysotalo About me Furry Artist living in Sarasota, FL. VRChat user. Curator and creator of Virtual Furry Museum. Friday, August 29 8:00pm EDT Animal Venom & Toxins Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 8:30pm EDT Mental Health & You! Panels 7 - Celebration 12 & 13 9:30pm EDT To Absent Friends Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 10:30pm EDT Cards Against Humanity: Charity Edition Panels 1 - Orlando Ballroom Saturday, August 30 10:00am EDT Opening Ceremonies Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 11:00am EDT Meet the Guests of Honor Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 11:30am EDT South Florida Furry Meetup Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4 This Episode of Bluey is Called: Megaplex - We're back again! Panels 1 - Orlando Ballroom 2:00pm EDT Central Florida is a Postmodernist Hellscape Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 3:30pm EDT Pokémon Trading Meet & Greets 3 – Bayhill 31 & 32 4:30pm EDT Let’s LEGO Panels 3 - Celebration 1 & 2 6:00pm EDT Dessert Social Second Stage – Plaza International Ballroom 8:00pm EDT Animal Transformation, Shapeshifters, and Werewolves Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 11:00pm EDT Babyfur/Kidfur Meetup Second Stage – Plaza International Ballroom Sunday, August 31 1:30pm EDT Scales and Tails (Scalie Meet) Meet & Greets 1 – Bayhill 17 & 18 4:00pm EDT History of Kobolds Panels 7 - Celebration 12 & 13 6:00pm EDT Art Jam The Zoo (Outside of the Dealer’s Den) 6:30pm EDT MP After Dark: Objectumsexuality in the Furry Fandom Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 9:00pm EDT Furaoke Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4 Monday, September 1 11:00am EDT From Trash to Treats: Upping Your Cooking Game Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 12:00pm EDT Sticker Swap The Zoo (Outside of the Dealer’s Den) 1:00pm EDT Sketchbook Swap Panels 3 - Celebration 1 & 2 3:30pm EDT Paws and Effect Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 6:00pm EDT Closing Ceremonies Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 9:00pm EDT Furaoke Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4

"I've grifted my stupid audience of pay pigs' piggy banks with a sob story about how I got fired & about to go homeless with 1 foot in the grave without insulin for my Type I diabetes to spit in their faces about attending a fur con which they'll enjoy"

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ I am at Megaplex!!! I'll be roaming different panels and helping @pandapaco.bsky.social and @koidelcoyote.bsky.social with their booth! If you wanna say hi, come on by! We'll be in the left rear of the Dealer's Den and ready tomorrow! Panda Paco organizing 17 different T-Shirt designs in boxes Koidel Coyote and Jerry working on the booth display.

Sotalo Sarasota, FL https://sotalo.wixsite.com/printsbysotalo About me Furry Artist living in Sarasota, FL. VRChat user. Curator and creator of Virtual Furry Museum. Friday, August 29 8:00pm EDT Animal Venom & Toxins Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 8:30pm EDT Mental Health & You! Panels 7 - Celebration 12 & 13 9:30pm EDT To Absent Friends Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 10:30pm EDT Cards Against Humanity: Charity Edition Panels 1 - Orlando Ballroom Saturday, August 30 10:00am EDT Opening Ceremonies Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 11:00am EDT Meet the Guests of Honor Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 11:30am EDT South Florida Furry Meetup Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4 This Episode of Bluey is Called: Megaplex - We're back again! Panels 1 - Orlando Ballroom 2:00pm EDT Central Florida is a Postmodernist Hellscape Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 3:30pm EDT Pokémon Trading Meet & Greets 3 – Bayhill 31 & 32 4:30pm EDT Let’s LEGO Panels 3 - Celebration 1 & 2 6:00pm EDT Dessert Social Second Stage – Plaza International Ballroom 8:00pm EDT Animal Transformation, Shapeshifters, and Werewolves Panels 2 - Plaza International J & K 11:00pm EDT Babyfur/Kidfur Meetup Second Stage – Plaza International Ballroom Sunday, August 31 1:30pm EDT Scales and Tails (Scalie Meet) Meet & Greets 1 – Bayhill 17 & 18 4:00pm EDT History of Kobolds Panels 7 - Celebration 12 & 13 6:00pm EDT Art Jam The Zoo (Outside of the Dealer’s Den) 6:30pm EDT MP After Dark: Objectumsexuality in the Furry Fandom Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 9:00pm EDT Furaoke Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4 Monday, September 1 11:00am EDT From Trash to Treats: Upping Your Cooking Game Panels 6 - Celebration 7 & 8 12:00pm EDT Sticker Swap The Zoo (Outside of the Dealer’s Den) 1:00pm EDT Sketchbook Swap Panels 3 - Celebration 1 & 2 3:30pm EDT Paws and Effect Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 6:00pm EDT Closing Ceremonies Main Events – Windermere Ballroom 9:00pm EDT Furaoke Panels 4 - Celebration 3 & 4

"I've grifted my stupid audience of pay pigs' piggy banks with a sob story about how I got fired & about to go homeless with 1 foot in the grave without insulin for my Type I diabetes to spit in their faces about attending a fur con which they'll enjoy"

Funny how so called anti Trump liberals who claim to be opposed to fascists & predators will defend them when push comes to shove under the guise of "order" & negative peace as outlined by Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail which is just as relevant today as it was during the 60s.

Sad thing is he's 32 but acts like he's 12 whenever he gets even lightly criticized for defending Nazi furs because apparently if we don't tolerate everyone including the intolerant we're intolerant & that's bad as if allowing Nazi furs in the Fandom makes it better

Instead of actually addressing the criticism he blocked them including an accusation of him vote rigging which I've documented him disqualifying a fur con set up in response to the Nazi fur con over the con chair's supposed gun charge which was reversed after evidence disproving it.

"Zucc is censoring posts made by me & my group's members (ignore the fact that I refused to remove Dogpatch's obsessed stalker because I don't want to get involved in "feuds" where "both sides" were at fault because not tolerating the intolerant is "gatekeeping" & bad)"

Grubbs Grizzly @kevinhile.bsky.social‬ Have questions about the furry fandom? Ask Papabear! Www.askpapabear.com Ask Papabear, the First Advice Column for Furries advice column, furry advice, furry fandom, ask papabear, ask papa bear

Gee I really hope people don't ask him why he's defending a cub porn & Nazi fur con defender for the *Good* Furry Award while disqualifying a con set up in response to him despite claiming to be opposed to Trump's fascism & pedophilia in an Ouroboros of liberals who bleed fascist when scratched

sotalo.bsky.social 12/29/24 Dogpatch Press decided to block me after I addressed his disparaging remarks about me and my history with Sylys. Many of you know how close Sylys and I were, how he contributed to the Virtual Furry Museum, and how we shared history every night in VRChat. Rather than assume defamation, ask me. scarthefur.bsky.social 12/29/24 [QP] An absolute misstep but also not the first of its kind for Dogpatch. Sotalo was a good friend of Sy's in his waning time. The museum and memorial he made were beautiful epitaths not only to the man but the community he helped create. Grubbs Grizzly kevinhile.bsky.social‬ 08/27/25 Rod O'Riley has also vouched for Sotalo and asserted that Sy liked what Soralo was doing with the museum. Patch needs to STFU.

dogpatch.press‬ Kevin, you can STFU or explain how does a low-literacy Uncle Touchy like yourself play editor, when you can't even read the post you reply to? How did Sy like the way Sotalo, acolyte of an antigay church, hijacked his memorial to preach about fetishes and porn for children? [QP] / This is a sizzling hot take you had about Sotalo's "aykshyually the age of consent is too high". Why do you insist on making the fandom look like it's run by pedos? Ooh, do the one about how this is just a screenshot, so it can't be real evidence of you doing creepy things! archive.ph/GNBkw / People who have their heads screwed on backwards like to flock together. That's how we get a creepy uncle kissing ass to a manipulative preacher who plays champion of porn for children, for some sick reason, while declaring himself furry historian to people who were members before he was born. siegfriedwatson.bsky.social‬ I can already tell you're rigging your voting to spite Dogpatch. Prove me wrong. He has done nothing but provide physical evidence that this person is a problem, and you defended his pedophilic desires. Kinda gross, buddy... Do better. Instead of wising up and saying "This was a mistake" you dug in.

Nazi fur con PR Sotalo's white knighting for crony Shy Matsi who gave him the position & crony NIIC who he chose as GoH appears to be rubbing on Greymuzzle Grubbs who's white knighting for him & attacking @dogpatch.press who again destroyed him like he did for Sotalo

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greeey1.bsky.social this is a compromised account. Username is incorrect, do not interact, report please.

Scammer needing my help with un-reporting my account. Rioku is a real person & friend, but his acct is compromised.

Pic 2 of 2 of scammer BSKY messages, not responding again in case they send something malicious.

.@greeey1.bsky.social (Rioku) got compromised yesterday on BSKY. For the time being, I'm blocking and reporting, as the scammers are in touch with me and likely many others.

Sotalo taking a mirror selfie in a changing room barefoot

Apparently despite being supposedly let go from his job he's still planning to go to Megaplex where he's going to call the cops anyone who makes fun of him defending a Nazi fur con because clearly a fur con is more important than his mortgage & insulin he's ebegging for donations to pay

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ Sexuality has never posed a problem to the world. But intolerance has posed many problems to people throughout history. I want to see the world move past intolerance and towards a brighter future. That future starts with us.

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ Empathy is the enemy of bullies and key to knowledge. When people struggle to show others empathy, the result isn't just stubborness, but someone who is incapable of learning. Those who empathize with others are much more capable of understanding the experience of others and learning from them.

"Intolerance is bad & empathy is good so that's why we need to be tolerant to everyone including intolerant Nazi furs (ignore the fact I block anyone who calls me out for this & am the bully who's stubborn struggles to show others empathy & incapable of learning)"

wow thats a lot of words too bad im not readin em when you said AI art "looks really cute & anything that promotes Furry art styles in public should be welcome" which apparently also includes multibillion conglomerate tech bros stealing Furry artists' art for they can easily pay

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ For your consideration for the Good Furry Award, I'd like to reshare our blitz about @photographotter.bsky.social. An author, kidney donor, Sundance star, convention co-director, and VRChat video series director, Photographotter is absolutely deserving of the Furtastic award! Guest Of Honor Photographotter YouTube video by Garden State Fur the Weekend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBt5oJt5nSs

"Also vote for Nazi fur con GoH Photographotter for the *Good* Furry Award just because he's a kidney donor who was the subject of a VR film which everyone including the lamestream media's praising as a feel good story because that totally excuses him being GOH of a Nazi fur con"

Sotalo > Megaplex @sotalo.bsky.social‬ The Virtual Furry Museum has just been updated to feature the Patron Wall! Displays will glow like this when patrons are present in the world. Please join our Patreon today to secure your name on the wall and help support the Virtual Furry Museum! patreon.com/Sotalo A VRChat screenshot of the Virtual Furry Museum "Patrons of the Museum" wall

"Please give me $100 a month from your piggy banks so you can get a shout out on my Virtual Furry Museum pay pig wall because I made it & feel entitled to go to Nazi fur cons white knighting GoH NIIC going on a Nazi fur podcast (who hasn't returned the favor)"

"If you don't dox yourself you're a coward"
Yeah I'm not putting my personal info out there that can be weaponized for some very awful stuff thank you very much

The Good Furry Award Kevin Hile Admin August 9 at 6:42 PM We have a time now for the Good Furry Awards Live Ceremony at Another Furry Con! It will be: Saturday, September 20, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm - Panel 1 (203) If any nominees are going to be there, please let me know! Grubbs Grizzly, Chairfur, The Good Furry Awards

When he confirmed his panel info I did email @anotherfurrycon.com about this & you can too info@anotherfurrycon.com especially if you're planning to attend the con but don't want a panel that platforms hate including Nazi furs because apparently that's "drama" caused by "gatekeepers"

Greymuzzle Cassidy Civet would plagiarize TechLead saying those who don't dox themselves are losers & in his latest crashout gave a "hearty fuck you" to the "haters" "bitching" over him for defending nominees that actively supported "Garden State Fur Con" including Guest of Honor Photographotter.

He also said that since the age of consent is <18 "in 15 states" & "Many people feel it should be 16." who totally aren't a vocal minority of pedos, while claiming that calling out hate is "gatekeeping", we're "ruining" the Fandom's reputation & admits to sharing all of his info online.

7/1/2025 6 Comments Editorial: Objections to a GFA Nominee [Papabear note: Over the course of the last week, I have received mail protesting a nominee for the Good Furry Awards. Below is my response.] [From a person who describes themself as a "greymuzzle investigator"]: I would like to speak as a person who has observed the behavior of Sotalo. With evidence from Dogpatch Press (Screenshots of Sotalo's penchant for drama), I've also personally experienced him. He's a hostile person who tries to destabilize anyone who disagrees with him or exposes his behaviors. He's childish and attacks people quickly. I discovered him through my own connections, a furry I've been tracking for years who is a well-known pedophile. By proxy, said furry (Tuskyn) had come in contact with people that Sotalo has been in contact with, and features in his museum if I recall (I have not personally visited it). Sotalo has gone on record multiple times saying he wishes the age of consent was lower than 18. Furthermore, I have to ask... Why do you allow people to nominate themselves in such a way for such rewards? This just reeks of self ego inflating. That should disqualify, these awards should be nominations by their communities, by those they've touched, not themselves. I saw where his draft of his self nomination was. His museum is not unique. It also does not cover 'the fandom', but people -he- personally finds interesting or 'worthy of being historical'. This includes many people who have a foot fetish who perk his interest, as well as those who are associated with the Furry Raiders or other pedophile furries.

In recent drama, Sotalo was part of a PR representation of a convention that wasn't even in his own state, and he frequently got verbally violent with anyone who questioned him. The PR was brought because the convention welcomed the Furry Raiders, well known Nazi furs (complete with red armbands) who allow pedophiles into their groups (This is part of ANOTHER Tuskyn connection, since he is part of the raiders now as well.) He claimed Dogpatch Press was spreading misinformation by linking literal screenshots of Sotalo's own messages in an open group. He claimed that the convention failed because of him, and not the fact that they welcomed the Furry Raiders, a group that the fandom has long sense rejected for their hate, as well as one of them that brought Fox News into the convention the year prior against con-goers' consent being welcomed back. He was forced to defend the convention's image, and defend literal nazis by doing so. I do not use the term 'nazi' as an insult or lightly. This man still attacks dogpatch, as well as anyone who dares speak up against him or offer a means of him to act more mature. He also attacks anyone who questions his comments on wanting to marry/have sex with teenagers under 18. You will have a lot of people losing faith in your awards you select this man. And I will say once more... Why do you allow people to nominate themselves? It feels like it is done in bad faith. * * * Dear X: ​First of all, Sotalo did not nominate himself. I personally know the furry who nominated them. Sotalo did not know he was nominated until I told him. (Also, I never "allow" people to nominate themselves; it specifically says in the rules you cannot do that.) Another accusation I got from someone else was that the nomination was written by AI. It was not. If the grammar looks too good, it is because I clean up the text. I'm a professional editor.

Thirdly, I have investigated the claims I have heard. I have also spoken with people I respect (including Rod O'Riley) who have defended Sotalo. I also know that the late great Mark Merlino believed that the museum was well done and just needed some additions. I have also spoken with Sotalo at length. I am satisfied by our long discussions that he in no way supports the FR or Nazis. How do I know? Because if you support the FR, you don't say, "Why would anyone support Nazis?" By the way, it is highly interesting to me that you yourself say you have not visited the VR Furry Museum, yet you are disparaging the contents of a museum you haven't even seen. Also, you assign guilt to Sotalo for apparently coming into contact with people who have come into contact with Tuskyn. By such logic, I'm guilty too, because I probably know someone in the fandom who knows someone who knows someone who knows Tuskyn. Also, you might not be aware, but the age of consent in 15 states in the USA is under 18. Many people feel it should be 16. So, if it is indeed Sotalo's position that the age of consent should be, say, 16, he is not alone and that doesn't make him a pedophile. ​​ What we have here in Sotalo is someone who is not adept at social situations. As Rod explained to me, Sotalo can has been known to behave in inappropriate and even aggressive ways that turn people off. But he is not a Nazi lover. I believe he is on the spectrum. People on the spectrum can have outbursts and be difficult to deal with (I have a grandson who is, so I know from personal experience.) People on the spectrum can also react frightfully bad to OTHER people on the spectrum for perceived bad behavior.

For the last several years, I have also observed furries having knee-jerk reactions to what they believe to be a person associating with bad actors (either fascist or communist) and then proceeding to try and trash their reputations out of some ill-conceived, egotistical belief that it is their job to gatekeep the fandom. It is not. This is the same attitude that has made our society malignant with the likes of the Tea Baggers, MAGAts, and TERFs. You and others who have threatened to trash the reputation of the Good Furry Awards are behaving like gatekeepers. (Yes, you did. It was an implied threat.) The nominees are chosen by people in the fandom, not me. If you don't like the museum or have a personal beef with Sotalo, then don't vote for him. If nobody but one or two furries likes Sotalo, then that certainly means he will not win an award. I sincerely doubt you actually care about the reputation of the GFAs (or the fandom in general). I believe you and others are trying to weaponise the awards to alienate and disenfranchise people you personally do not like. I fully suspect that leaving Sotalo's nomination up will result in his haters launching a campaign against the GFAs. That's okay. I've dealt with behavior like this before in the fandom, and I am sure I will again. I've seen other people who are my friends get trashed too. Oh, and someone threatened to dox me once! LOL that is not a threat. Literally everyone knows I am a sexually open gay furry bear. They know my address, phone number, email etc. etc., too. It might profit you to spend a little less time hating others and a little more time trying to find the good in your fellow furries. Blessed Be, Grubbs Grizzly, Admin, the GFAs P.S. Just for the record: Of course, if someone has a criminal record or other documented illegal activity, they will not be given a space in these awards.

So apparently back on July 1st someone else called out Sotalo's GFA nomination & Grubbs absolutely crashed out saying he doesn't support Nazi furs because he said so while using the Elon Musk defense because neurodivergent people totally call the cops on protestors
archive.ph/GNBkw

He does love saying fake news against anyone who even slightly criticizes him

If he thought Cassidy Civet's nomination & win back in 2021 was bad his defense of a cub porn & Nazi fur con defender's nomination just because he made a Virtual Furry Museum along with disqualifying a con set up in response to him before reversing it will definitely be its final nail in the coffin

Ah yes "sharing" Furry news articles by copy & pasting them & acting like yall totally wrote it yourself while profiting off the ads instead of sharing the link to the original source

"Sowwy we didn't mean to profit off copy & pasting numerous articles from actually talented writers acting like we wrote it ourselves with 'citations' at the bottom since everyone reads to the end we're surely going to do better next time"

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun Written by Miss Moth in Blog “Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. A sticker of their Fursona slapping their face not loading Art: CMYKat

Damn they've plagiarized @soatok.bsky.social too it's almost like they think we're so stupid that we wouldn't notice
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Two years of anti-zoophile community moderation: Heika’s work with Laelaps on Bluesky Written by Miss Moth in Blog Founder heikadog In Greek mythology, Laelaps is a dog that never fails to catch what it is hunting. On Bluesky, tens of thousands of users use the Laelaps anti-zoophile labeler. This volunteer-run project collects evidence of animal abusers and enablers, publishes a list, and shows a label on listed accounts so you’re informed before interacting. A labeler utilizes third-party moderation service, hooked up to Bluesky features that help you choose how to use the platform. It lets you actively curate rather than passively consume what you’re fed.

After backlash fades, support makes a lasting reason to do it. A witness of grooming by zoophiles sent this thanks for all the service. Hey, Heika. I just wanted to say thank you for all the hard work you do... without getting too deep into it, I'm honestly sickened and shaking just at the notion that these people believe what they believe. I've had friends fall in line with them and the results were... not pretty. Seriously, thank you. Your work is helping my mental health, whether you know it or not. Cheers ^^ thank you !! means a Like the article? These take hard work. For more free furry news, follow on Twitter or support not-for-profit Dogpatch Press on Patreon. Want to get involved? Try these subreddits: r/furrydiscuss for news or r/waginheaven for the best of the community. Or send guest writing here. (Content Policy.)

Imagine being the Temu Furry Valley plagiarizing @dogpatch.press' entire article about @heika.dog & @laelaps.fyi anti-zoo monitoring work because your ChatGPT AI slop wasn't getting any attention
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