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Please note that the last chance to join the server will be tomorrow night. An invite link is currently listed on our website

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Othercon's schedule for 2025 is now available!

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By default it is shown in EST, but can be changed near the top where it says "Date and time is shown in (UTC -05:00) America/New_York".
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FURRYMUCK USERS: The memorial service for Tugrik on FurryMuck will be this coming Friday (August 8, 2025) at 9 pm CST (10 EST, 8 MST, 7 PST). Instructions for how to attend are on the Park bulletin board.

Please pass the word to all who may be interested.

A dragon and a wolf making kissy faces at each other. They attempt to kiss but just scrunch their snouts up against one another, with a heart above them.

@frameacloud.bsky.social's gay alterhumans doodles spotted in the wild

I applaud your courage & vulnerability in creating this video. I've had little opportunity to cite public examples of this perspective when archiving & reporting current events about anti-furry & anti-alterhuman attitudes. I value & like your perspective. I agree with your points. Thank you.

YouTube video by No No The Reality of the FURRIES Act, Wolf (2021), and Therian Conversion Abuse

This is a video I made back when the Texas FURRIES Act was still being voted on. I was too scared to post it at the time, because my activism on this matter and perspectives as a survivor of anti- therian conversion abuse got me harassed off my platform. I wont be silent any more, now.

Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been on social media much the last couple of months. Yes, it's the eleventh bill of this kind over the last few years.

May 2025 newsletter | Orion Scribner Get more from Orion Scribner on Patreon

My Patreon newsletter for May 2025. A list of articles I wrote for Otherkin News, mostly about anti-furry bills; a Discord server for befriending local alterhumans in the southeastern US; adventures tabling at a zine fair; and more!
www.patreon.com/posts/may-20...

A screenshot of my blog post that I linked to.

Stan Gerdes's press release about his bill from March 13.

Page 5 of the bill text, showing where it talks about non-human behaviors.

Texas HB 54, the 11th anti-furry bill based on the litter box hoax, is scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday. Read my article about why Republicans are doing this, with context, history, analysis, & sources: otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/97521.html

Mirror: otherkinnews.tumblr.com/post/7819926...

@dogpatch.press Here's my third article about TX HB 54.

@erininthemorning.com Republicans have been making these anti-furry bills to satirize transgender students for three years now. GOP is fabricating a moral panic to justify defunding public schools. In my blog, I've been documenting each of these bills & the media coverage of them all along.

A screenshot of my blog post that I linked to.

Stan Gerdes's press release about his bill from March 13.

Page 5 of the bill text, showing where it talks about non-human behaviors.

Texas HB 54, the 11th anti-furry bill based on the litter box hoax, is scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday. Read my article about why Republicans are doing this, with context, history, analysis, & sources: otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/97521.html

Mirror: otherkinnews.tumblr.com/post/7819926...

Thank you keeping an eye on the bill and catching that they scheduled the hearing for it.

The bill text says exactly how they plan to enforce the ban: by fining schools $10,000 for a first violation & $25,000 for subsequent violations, section 6(f), page 10. It's an excuse to take huge amounts of money away from public schools.

This is the GOP's 11th anti-furry bill based on the litter box urban legend. Read why the GOP is doing this, with context & sources: otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/97521.html The bill author suggested he's baiting furries to make a spectacle at the hearing. Furries, please take care with publicity.

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Read this part. Diverting public funds into private pockets at the cost of kids education wasn't popular. Not even among Texas Republicans(!) So, the governor made it a loyalty test, separating sheep from goats, attacking those not in line with his agenda. The school issue didn't even matter for it.

Why the governor of Texas was spreading lies about furries, making a distraction with a mission to crush anyone under the tank treads while rolling this forward. bsky.app/profile/prop...

A useful info source. bsky.app/profile/fram...

YouTube video by Dr. Gerard Jabbow Schoolhouse Rock How a Bill Becomes a Law

You're right that there's no evidence. However, it's important to understand that the bill is *part* of the Republican intent to defund public schools by framing them as hopelessly chaotic. Also, it's not a law yet; Schoolhouse Rock refresher course:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpd...

@dogpatch.press Done!

A screenshot of the beginning of the article in question.

Texas Republicans proposed HB 4814, the "F.U.R.R.I.E.S. Act," to criminalize allowing furries in public schools, based on an urban legend. Here's my roundup of media coverage of the bill in the month since.
otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/97162.html

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A Roundup of News Coverage of Texas’s F.U.R.R.I.E.S. Act

Collected and annotated by myself for the Otherkin News blog:
otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/97162.html

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Join the Fictionfolk Webring! "Are you fictionfolk? Do you have a personal website? We'd love to have you join our webring!" otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/96686.html

Otherkin News - Rules version 1.1. This post tells about the Otherkin News project, the code of conduct for participating in it, and the style guide for submitting news articles to it. otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/96841.html

Our latest article! Dæmonism (or daemonism) is the practice of creating and interacting with an animal personification of one's subconscious, inspired by the His Dark Materials series. The daemonism community also created the word "otherhearted."
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'AI Destroyed the Digital Artist' (from our BLFC show) is based on the 80's hit by The Buggles. This parody is a modern commentary on AI art. In the same vein as the original, it's a reflection on how technological advancements can disrupt established creative artforms with sad consequences.

I'm rounding up a bibliography of news coverage of the FURRIES bill such as these. I'll let you know when I've finished writing it.

Othercon 2025 artist and panelist submission forms are open. Deadline is June 1st, 2025 for both.

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