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Comparative anatomy illustration showing different mammal species bones where all the knees point in the same direction, as they always have. Taken from the paper "Comparative anatomy and morphology of the knee in translational models for articular cartilage disorders. Part I: Large animals"

Comparative anatomist expert witness at the Furries v. Subscribestar trials:
Your honor, as exhibit A clearly demonstrates, all mammals have "human-like knee orientation." It is only the relative proportions of the limb segments that change.

NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.

It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.

Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.

175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.

I think the AI Industry is mostly at fault here for draining the economy, denying people equipment, actively conspiring with the US Federal government to engage in mass surveillance, and generally be a nuisance.

But sure, it's the plebeians who are at the peak of the complaint roster? Like c'mon.

SubStar walking back their new rules against feral/furry porn is not a win and shouldn't be considered one. They're hoping y'all take that and don't care about all the other harmless (but taboo) stuff they have banned since you get to keep your furry yiff.

People who "just want to ban one kind of kink art" ALWAYS have a longer list in mind and conceding in any way will just embolden them to go after more. They're fascists looking for the easiest target that will meet the least resistance.

Amazed by the backpedal of "actually all of this stuff was against the rules the whole time, we just hadn't codified it on the user end. Like 90℅ of our website violates these ToS and we never enforced these rules on them until now but don't worry about pls stop mass deleting your profiles pls pls."

Real

Awful men have a history witch hunting and burning. Remember that.

Btw, if it's not clear:
The tactic the right is using rn is to start censoring fetishes and kinks that are generally accepted to be "bad" or "gross" by most people to slowly warm us up to the idea of censoring all sexual expression online.

Don't fall for this by going "this is actually based!!"

New polite snap-back for someone who says something that's completely idiotic and off-base:

I don't have the qualifications to diagnose you with brain damage, but I don't need them to see it.

It's a genuine acceleration of the timetable that we're experiencing. Political time is compressing as crises both real and manufactured are pushed in a non-stop stream of bad news with a pretty explicit purpose of overwhelming you.

I hate being the target of a lot of the bullshit, while I'm at it.

Analysts who are veterans of the scramble to catch up with what was going on in Ukraine keep posting lengthy blogs and videos that go something to the tune of

"What the fuck is 2026", just yesterday William Spaniel said in a video "I have learned that sleep is optional over the past two months".

Tweet from ‘Gregory Mammal-Friend’ (@cat_beltane): “america is good at blasting off its own dick with a shotgun and as a yank i am utterly fascinated by britain's ability to carefully place its dick in a drawer and slowly but firmly push it closed for two years straight” 11/03/2019, 00:21

Well, er… happy seventh anniversary to this tweet, I suppose

this sucks

Not so Good Morning, Bluesky Buddies.

As I'm sure most of you have heard, the payment processors are moving further and further into being the morality police, forcing a platform to actually DEFINE our artwork and what makes us "safe" or not.

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We may have to rethink how we do business in our modern society when it comes to artwork.

Back in the day (dating myself here), we used to have to send a money order or check to furry artists for our commissions.

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I hope y'all don't pat subscribestar on the ass just because they decided to specifically remove "feral" from the giant list of puritanical bullshit they're pushing and nothing else

But more, we already have extreme interpretations of Obscenity around the world. I called it the "Anime is real" law and it remains true for countries like Canada, Germany, and France.

This paired with increasing overreach and attempts to remove anonymous internet use by every possible actor ofc.

So provided the legislation omnibus package coming forward includes KOSA, SCREEN, and IODA as riders to a funding bill?

Well. Section 230 repeal is also on the table. Obscenity will be defined by the DoJ and not determined in court. Fiscal transactions involving any adult content will halt totally.

This all echos the same startling pattern of emphasis on private behavior that resulted in our existing Obscenity law framework in the US (which was practically copy-pasted into other countries like France, England, Canada, Germany), that same framework includes the Miller Test. IODA will remove it.

In 2023 people were actively pretending that Obscenity definition expansions were harmless, that ID verification run by companies was a good idea, and that state-level ID checks to access adult content was never going to happen.

Three years later, those supporting this are braindead or ignorant.

Yeah I started writing about this on the regular in 2023 on Cohost, around the time immediately after Patreon in late 2022 started implementing 3d face scan technology to verify creator ID's.

After three full years of this shit, I can say I am fully exhausted and being proven right weekly it seems.

The Substar TOS looks extremely similar to Patreon's now. Call your reps or we will lose everything

Tell them to stop the payment processor power grab, tell them to vote no on child online safety bills/ID verification. We need everyone

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:

-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act

And additionally, oppose:

-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

They see what’s thriving in modern art and will absolutely take steps to make you fight each other and control you, call you the enemy of people while they enslave you and your kids.

the targeting of any art that is "obscene" (terms of obscenity always to be decided at a whim) is fascistic yes but also how the only kinds of art that tends to be penalized is the individual/independent creators isn't lost on me. a patreon TOS would reject anything that can be streamed on netflix.

Idk who needs to hear this but there's no such thing as morally superior sexual fantasies and any attempt to define morality absolutely is merely an exercise in defining one's own personal comfort.

NSFW Artists being attacked on all fronts while the government actively protects pedos is fucking nuts and shouldn't be ignored.

Furry artists, I don't care what you think about ABDL, incest kink, feral, etc. I have said it before and it remains true: If we don't hang together, we will all hang separately.

I still think it's worth considering that paypros don't actually care to ban popular work. They still allow politicians and AI to use their services for horrible things.

They want a monopoly on erotic content. They want to be able to control it, and they can't control individual creators.