Massan Otter

The Trump as Lewinsky jokes don't feel great either

But even if someone were to downplay the threatening nature of the above, he's clearly stating an intent to use personal information maliciously and doesn't care how it's obtained. That's the biggest possible red flag for managing an event which handles hundreds of people's information.

I don't really get or respect the concept of celebrities within furry, but people do seem to respond in an almost parasocial way towards the main director, I've seen it happen in groups. Maybe counting on that to ride it out?

That's from 2024? So the decision by then other directors to go into running an event with him was *after* actively defending him stalking and threatening people? It's not even a sunk-costs situation. Just irredeemable IMO.

I get that furries need to keep expectations of event runners reasonable and assume good intent by default. But then with some events I've seen legitimate concerns get deflected overly fiercely with "did u know you're criticising VOLUNTEERS" whiteknighting and never addressed. So there's a balance.

Well, he did seem very enthusiastic about his Big Beautiful Bill

That was a large part of Wim Hof's bit, until the combination of follower deaths and domestic abuse allegations/convictions caught up with him

You should run a con panel on it

A second dog doesn't help with that? My little guy would have been impossible through puppyhood and adolescence, but his greyhound snooze gene seems to have kicked in around two and he'll chill for hours now

The more I look at your account, the more wary I am of the whole way the event runs. I'm not even sure untrained volunteer "security" should be doing bag searches, when real SIA guys are right there, but for them to assume the power to detain people too? Crazy stuff

:(

I've seen two broad categories of response from Yorp people - some flatly deny any conflict exists and claim stories like the above are some sort of co-ordinated deep state wrecking tactic. The others are firmly team Corbyn and expect Sultana to acquiesce for the good of the party.

Yeah, I was sad I missed the first one, but with all this and their response (or lack of), I just don't feel I can support it. On paper it's spot-on the sort of event I wanted to see happening too, especially as I'd love to find some performing opportunities and just can't afford most cons.

Yeah, I'm sure he doesn't like that either, the only correct response is breathless admiration of his bold and selfless work as saviour of the fandom, or something like that.

He did a little spree when that true crime show came out, blocking anyone who expressed even quite mild criticism or doubt about it, even if they didn't mention him directly. Likely that?

I'm regrettably acquainted with some grassroots Your Party sorts on other social media, they're very focused on attacking Polanski and the Greens too, it's depressing to see.

thinking about *him*

I'm still slightly in awe of my bandmate's Temu jacket with MLUITULTUBF in big letters down the front. It's like having a stroke in SportsDirect

I hate it, like, videos of animals being silly little guys seemed like one of the last straightforward pleasures.

I didn't even know we were doing that sort of thing in the UK, I know the US has some

This has the energy of a felt tip on lined paper deviantart comic

We've had a few locally who declare themselves ex-furries, but continue to be in furry groups telling us why they're better than furries.

I had that with "do you love the eBay app?". It functions, I've no major complaints, but who feels love for it?

A ferret covered in polystyrene beads, clinging electrostatically.

Ferrets too

I think mine is Alan Bennet from the 1980s Winnie The Pooh audiobook cassette. Still the definitive voice of Eeyore in my mind.

YouTube video by Alexander Paton cheese for ma weasel! - s1homes.com commercial

Makes me think of this old Scottish TV advert.
"Got any cheese for ma weasel?"
youtu.be/kxWLa6JBVFA

Yeah, when I was quite a bit younger I'm pretty sure a spell of weekend psilocybin use was a factor in making sense of a stressful period in my life and finding some creativity out of it, and I feel like I was managing my depressive tendency better than I did later on without that.

Unfortunately some friends of friends on other platforms have gone with the new Your Party, it's almost scary how quickly they've rationalised that anyone having honest doubts about their movement can be dismissed as a hired troll/bot, agency psy-ops, or in thrall to an unspecified "them".

Is the "tragic situation" that a high profile figure is facing consequences for noncery?

Yeah, I suspect that's it, it's read the short horizontal black and white stripes on a black object as piano accordion keys