Simultaneity. The state of being simultaneous. For every perspective of one's self, that is another self. Merely perceiving or being perceived creates copies; observer and observed multiplying each other.

Cognitohazard. An entity that becomes more the more that is learned about it. Them. Us. You. We are all creating copies of each other in each other's minds. Memories merging with consciousness, burrowing into subconscious, spurring endocrine and limbic systems. The thought that changes it's thinker.

Power. The strength of will to change the meaning of strength itself. Perception is reality and shi who defines reality is able to shape it. The pen is mightier than the sword for it makes swords swing.

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Give yourself as a gift to others, and be received as one in kind.

Live through the eyes of others and become their reaction to you.

Strive to succeed at defining success for everyone around you.

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Blood to the labs, mind to the therapist, body to the psychiatrist. Skin to the dermatologist, and hormones to HRT soon enough.

We're obtaining objective analysis of our states and not relying on solely subjective supports and the infinite capacity for bias.

Planning and scheming for Further Confusion 2026's Charity Department goes well. BLFC raised $34k for charity, setting a record and a goal for what we want to accomplish this coming January.

Something we recently learned about, and it's enraging.

Targeted destruction of food access.

The strategy is for the wealthy owners of dollar stores to deliberately open too many of them too close to full-service grocery stores, siphoning off sales from the store until it is in the red, and goes out of business. This also affects restaurants in the area.

Then closing all but one of the dollar stores, and deliberately under-staffing the lone remaining store (Dollar General). The community is left without access to healthy food; the entire area is turned into a food desert.

Do this enough times against a chain, and then the wealthy move to merge the major grocery chain with one they already own, for cheap.

Then they don't actually build any new stores. They just up the price at the remaining stores, while forcing the food desert communities to commute a long distance to get there.

We've requested a specialist who also has experience working with plurality systems, so we'll see if this doctor's the right one.

But the conversations begin.

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Hi Dr. [name]

I am reaching out ahead of my upcoming visit (Nov 21st) to discuss gender health and HRT, with a recent research article that I hope will help aid our conversation.

I (we) identify as a plurality system. I do not believe we have Dissociative Identity Disorder, but plurality has been a useful and self-affirming framework for us but also a source of internal contention around gender identity and decisions such as taking HRT.

I have attached the article. It is lengthy but even skimming can help build understanding before we meet.

Best Regards,
[us]

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335714

We are at the point of considering HRT for ourselves. But we have conflict and fear, and seek outside counsel. No need to be private about it.


Balros (he/him, male): I don't want to stop making sperm. Is what I want incompatible with what Echoen and Skilea want?

Echoen (shi/hir, hermaphrodite): What I want is fully functioning everything. Breasts. Vagina. Testicles and penis. I am a hermaphrodite. I want to bear my own children and raise them, with a partner who can do the same. The family I want is from me, and from them, the line between gender roles erased.

Skilea (shi/hir/they, undecided): What I want isn't inwardly focused, it's outwards. I want to dominate others and use my body as one method of that. Big tits, big ass, big dick, and to have cute girls desperate to drag me back to their rooms to be ravished.

Balros: I don't think Echoen can get what shi wants with HRT. I am afraid.

Unalienable: Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor

Rights: Principles of freedom or entitlement recognized by law, social convention, or ethics.

If politicians can take away our rights, they are not unalienable and they are not rights. We do not have unalienable rights. We have conditional privileges according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. If we want actual rights, we must build a system in which NO ONE has the power to take them away to begin with or, by inaction (such as a subservient Congress and ineffectual Court), enable those rights to be dismantled.

But after reading the Constitution again, it hit us, square in the face. The Constitution itself says it is our DUTY to throw off such Government that has been reduced to Despotism. The Constitution itself enshrines our rights as unalienable, and it is not for the Despots or their slavish minions to take them away. It is our right and duty to throw the despots away.

THE CONSTITUTION STATES:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

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Now, the Constitution addresses the King of Britain as a tyrant and lists Facts. Let's see how these apply to Tyrant Trump.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
--Assess all the laws and bills passed by Congress that Trump signed, and evaluate them against Public Good. He sure Assented to Laws (which means pass laws), but certainly NOT for the public good. Corruption and public harm abound. FAILED.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
--On it's face Trump has FAILED this one too. We're right in the middle of a fucking 'suspended in their operation' right now, and neglect is rampant among his slavish despot minions.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
--Does this one count if Congress isn't even GIVING him Laws that meet this requirement? Yes, absofuckinglutely, because it is under his direction and leadership, and his Republican Party, that are only in accomodation for very small districts of people (i.e; billionaire donors or ultrawealthy religious organizations). FAILED.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
--FAILED because he only ever calls together Republican legislatures and tells them to not even work with anyone else, Democrat or Independent. And the 'fatiguing them into compliance' sure fucking looks like what he's doing to EVERYONE.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
-Trump now has the record of the most days of a federal shut-down of any US president in history, but it's the second part that's of most note. Regardless of dissolving the ability of representatives to do their jobs, "his invasions on the rights of the people" has been constant, multifaceted, and the only thing of any vigor he has ever done. FAILED.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
--We blame Mike Johnson, but he takes his orders from Trump. Congress is closed and Adelita Grijalva has been blocked from taking her seat in Congress. And again the second part is of most note; we sure have become in MUCH greater danger of invasion from without (foreign billionaires) and these convulsions within are due to his agencies, goons, sycophants, and propogandists. FAILED.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
--Travel bans, the overzealous enforcement of CIVIL offenses as if they were CRIMINAL offenses by ICE, we actually don't need to explain much further because "refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither" is LITERALLY what he and Republicans are doing. FAILED FUCKING FAILED.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
--Not JUST by refusing to Assent to Laws (and the scheme of not getting laws passed to him in the first place), but there's never been any figure in history that has so obstructed the Administration of Justice. FAILED.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
--His attacks on the judiciary have been abundant and plain. FAILED.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
--DESTROYING PUBLIC LANDS (White House), swarms of ICE officers and arming them with military weaponry and MISSILES, and hollowing out of every agency. "Eat out their substance" do you remember that DOGE was originally the "Executive Office of the President"? FAILED

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
--both ICE and the National Guard have been transformed into paramilitaries to be used against us. FAILED

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
--This one is different. He has TRIED, and yet our Military has not gone along with it. Hence turning to paramilitaries. So... does he get a pass for this even though he tried and would if he figured out how?

Nope. Failing at trying to do this does not get you a pass. FAILED.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
--What foreign jurisdiction? Depends on the context! For international affairs, we're subjected to Russian jurisdiction - unless it's Israel's jurisdiction. For business affairs, we're subjected to Saudi jurisdiction - unless it's Argentinia or China. For domestic social affairs, we're subjected to corporate jurisdiction - unless it's Christian Religious jurisdiction.

FAILEDx3

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
--ICE and National Guard. FAILED.

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
--This one may be the first PASS, only because it's so narrow and specific. Protecting them? FAILED. By Mock Trial? Not even getting to trial. Murders? Not that specific crime...but does genocide count?

Fuck it. FAILED. Fight me on this one.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
--Tariffs. FAILED.

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
--TARIFFS. FAILED.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
--ICE deportations without due process, even arresting American citizens, and numerous human trafficking violations. FAILED.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
--Human trafficking of supposed 'illegal immigrants' and just disappearing them into other countries like El Salvador and Jordan with no due process. Not even tried, just skipping right to detention. FAILED.

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
--Not even in a neighboring country, but in our own country itself! Corruption of the courts, of the political system entire. Our government is currently Arbitrary on Trump's whims, and he is introducing absolute rule. We are the Colonies, Trump is the King. FUCK THE KING. FAILED.

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
--Do you think he needs to LITERALLY do this through the LEGAL system? Nope! He's just fucking doing it without bothering to write it down. Our form of government has been altered. Our laws are not being applied fairly or equitably and he is above them. And so many of us cling to these 'charters' as if a fucking piece of paper is going to stop the red-faced white supremacist from following his orders to put that in the shredder too, along with everyone clinging to it.

FAILED.

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
--What are in now if not in a suspended legislature? What has he declared if not himself the smartest and most bestest in all things? FAILED.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
--LITERALLY THIS, LITERALLY THIS, LITERALLY THIS. Only in dumber words. FAILED.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
--Tariffs and demanding bribes from sea shipping companies. Environmental devastation and active disregard for Climate Change. WANTING our towns to be burnt so they can FILM it and use it for propaganda.

And the lives of TENS OF MILLIONS of people have already been destroyed. The destruction spreads outwards, daily, thousands at a time. Healthcare. Housing. Food insecurity. Criminalization. Just being Black or Hispanic and any ICE officer glimpsing at you. Life destroyed. FAILED.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
--Do they gotta be foreign? Domestic Mercenaries (ICE) are doing ALL OF THIS. FAILED.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
--Not on the seas specifically, but here on land at home. FAILED.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
--Domestic insurrections? January 6th was just the most notable one.

but also fuck the phrasing here for this horrifically racist depiction of the Indigenous People / Native Americans

So, FAILED on insurrections, and we're not granting a pass on the second part either, because instead of Native People, the merciless White Supremacist / Christian Nationalist / Nazi Fascist, who's known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

FAILEDx2

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WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY TO DO? WHAT IS OUR RIGHT? WHAT IS OUR DUTY?

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.

A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

We, therefore, the [CITIZENS] appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these [STATES], solemnly publish and declare, That these United [STATES] are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the [REPUBLICAN KING], and that all political connection between them and the State of [AMERICA, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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In short:

REVOLT.

STRIKE.

REBEL.

BUILD ALLIANCES AGAINST TRUMP AND REPUBLICAN FASCISTS.

Spread the fucking word.

Dominion Voting Systems, used in 28 states, has been purchased by a Trump ally, settles lawsuits, vows to end electronic voting

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots and https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections

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Dominion was and is being used in states, counties, and cities across the US. As of today, no Dominion voting machine can be trusted, and you can do something about that right now.

Do a google search for "Voting Equipment By County" or "Voting Equipment By City" and look for your local area. See if your county or city is using Dominion machines, and contact them right away. Warn them about the purchase and about the risk and threat now posed by Dominion, now known as Liberty Vote.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=voting+systems+by+county might work?

Find your secretary of state's email address and send them an email.

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Here is what we wrote:

Hello from a WA Resident,


It has come to my attention that Dominion Voting Systems has been purchased by a Trump Ally and they are making clear moves to cause trouble. They have rebranded to Liberty Vote, and have announced an end to electronic voting, as well as settling their lawsuits in favor of Trump's allies.

Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/politics/dominion-voting-systems-bought-election-ballots and https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections 

I see that Franklin County uses Dominion Voting systems: https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/data-research/election-technology/voting-systems-county

I urge you and Franklin County to keep a very, very close eye on Dominion and move away from Liberty Vote. We cannot risk the integrity of our elections by allowing Trump-aligned companies to cause problems.


Best Regards,
WA Resident

Shout here (Or on Telegram or Discord) if you'll be there!

If I was heartless
Well that would make it easier
To say the things I need to
But I run instead
I wish I was hollow
'Cause then the pill I have to swallow
Wouldn't choke me up
Infect my soul again

I don't know how I got like this
I wish I wasn't so helpless
But every time I try to
I'm too paralyzed to
Get the poison off my chest

I didn't wanna fail again
Watch another ship sail again
I'm no good at goodbyes
I can't look in your eyes
You will never understand

I wish it were easy
I hate it that you think you need me
Said it from the start
That I'm no good at love
Don't try to read me
Some books should stay closed believe me
Please don't fall apart
For what this never was

I don't know how I got like this
I wish I wasn't so helpless
But every time I try to
I'm too paralyzed to
Get the poison off my chest


I didn't wanna fail again
Watch another ship sail again
I'm no good at goodbyes
I can't look in your eyes
You will never understand

I don't know how I got like this
I wish I wasn't so helpless
But every time I try to
I'm too paralyzed to
Get the poison off my chest

I didn't wanna fail again
Watch another ship sail again
I'm no good at goodbyes
I can't look in your eyes
You would never understand

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[Welcome to October 2025!]

UPCOMING: BLFC! We're the Charity Lead once more and this year we're hosting TWO auctions to raise funds for charity, and leading a bigger team than ever! We hope to see ALL OF YOU THERE! (Oct 13th-16th).

If you're going, let's meet. Let's talk. Let's watch ships sail again and be no good at saying goodbyes.

Because you? We can look into your eyes.

You will understand.

An inspiration has struck, and we do not know who knows the first thing about making temporary tattoos.

CONCEPT: An artist draws a picture of a fursona's face. That face then gets made into a face-sized temporary tattoo that someone can put on their face at, say, a convention.

Inspiration: https://bsky.app/profile/karyayurttas.bsky.social/post/3lzmfto7lws2g

It occurs to us that if Luigi gets off due to the words of the administration poisoning the jury pool....

...the Charlie Kirk shooter could, too.

Take everything they said about the shooter, show how it reached all of his peers, and tainted the jury pool.

Let partisanship backfire :)

We need some art of a running woodchipper with some bait in the back and these malding conservative furs crawling in to debate it.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11219056

Normally, when major public political events happen, we have a strong and loud opinion about it.

Rest assured; we certainly do. But this time we took a strategy of waiting. Letting folks have their say first; show which side of the line they are on between Freedom and Fascism.

-Several folks we followed on FA have posted journals expressing dismay at criticism against Charlie Kirk, and regurgitating the talking points of the Republican administration that seeks to martyr him.
Mistake. You don't get to rewrite how a guy lived just because of how he died.
Response: We did not counter their opinions. We simply unfollowed them. Let them be forgotten.

-Several folks across social media have attempted to wade into the swirling mire of misinformation and fish out talking points that support Republican Fascism, blasphemy laws, and the practice of doxxing.
Mistake. We live in a post-truth society where the creation of talking points that sound good, that feel right, that serve ideology first and facts second.
Response: Unfollowed, blocked, and when appropriate, discussed these people in private when they were someone we could actually do something about.

Now that it has been a week after the event, and the lawsuit against the shooter is filed and the Republican administration fell over themselves to make Charlie Kirk their very own "Reichstag Fire" (the event that gave Germany pretext to suspend civil liberties and establish Nazi Germany), now is the time to speak up and strike.

Mistake. Republicans and Maga severely overestimate the willingness of American citizens to en-mass go along with anything. For all their red-faced screaming into TikTok, crocodile tears on camera, and showy displays of hypocritical grief for a man they never cared for in life except for the votes he could deliver them by the army of aggrieved young white men that followed him (which they seek to weaponize further into 'justified retaliation')... for all of this, it hasn't actually earned them any allies. EPSTEIN lost them the conspiracy base a few months ago, and the conspiracy base is much more interested in bouncing up and down in their chairs about conspiracies about the shooting than attacking left. ISRAEL/GAZA lost them the No Violence crowd, who voted for Trump because they believed his lies about stopping the wars, and are much more interested in peace than persecuting a civil war. LA/CHICAGO/MEMPHIS lost them the National Guard and the Army, who reaaaally fucking hate being made into theatrical intimidation pawns (and not even being paid for it). ICE/IMMIGRATION lost them nearly every non-white community because they believed Trump's lies about only going after criminals. TARIFFS/FED CHAIR FIRING lost them a lot of corporate / business support because the ONLY thing they cared about was their money and now Republicans are fucking with that. INFLATION lost them the everyday working class person who's not on social media and doesn't even listen to the news because "ITS THE ECONOMY, STUPID." There is no-one new joining MAGA / Republicans to pass 'hate speech' laws, prosecute online speech, or enact violence against Liberals.

Response: Republican Overreach is going to hurt them, and the more they overreach, the worse it will be. So taunt them. Entice them. Give the Republican administration and leadership, give MAGA and supporters, as much ammunition as possible to descend into red-faced frothing rage and make more mistakes. Help them wail and caterwaul about how upset they are about people 'celebrating' Charlie Kirk's death. Destroy them in the comments, rip apart their feelings (especially because the facts don't care about their feelings!), and isolate their shitty opinions that the rest of us don't deserve to have opinions they disagree with. Get them to call for arrests to be made; make them say the words in support of doxxing and criminal punishment for free speech. It's not about them, it's about all the people who follow them, who read their words, and will be disgusted. Who will themselves quietly unfollow and block.

Why?! Why would anyone WANT people to ACTIVELY make things worse?! This is a lesson that the show Star Wars: Andor demonstrates wonderfully well, but has parallels to multiple wars the US has been in. It's about giving your enemy every opportunity to make more mistakes. In this case, if Republicans go full, violent Totalitarian before they are actually ready to do so, before they have allies supporting it, before they coerce more corporate capitulation, before the Democratic party leadership can find a way to fail to resist - there are just too many goddamn Americans in an absolutely gargantuan mass of land, across 50 independent states, for any outcome other than "I didn't vote for this." The Midterm backswing will be so outrageously Blue Wave that the damage being done might get stopped or even partially reversed. If they try to 'cancel' the midterms? Good, do it, see how badly THAT goes too. Another mistake, to encourage our enemy to make.


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"But what are YOUR opinions about Charlie Kirk's assassination, and how people talk about it online?"

Trans rights are human rights. Being a Trans person in the US is to be, now, the #1 most at-risk and persecuted person in the country. Charlie Kirk's assassination showed us that the Republican administration had a plan ready to go to justify the further weaponization of our justice system, attack dissent as treason, and get social media platforms to capitulate and obey their desire to sanitize the internet that does not obey their view of total rule. Charlie Kirk in life meant nothing to them other than the transactional relationship they had with him - propaganda mouthpiece. In death, Charlie Kirk is so much more useful to them. He's their Reichstag Fire. He's their Martyr. He's the Suit-And-Tie Nazi they can hold signs and vigils for because of how he looked and the way he said things without being held responsible for what he meant.

We have been warning and informing others about Charlie Kirk for as long as he and Turning Point USA have been known. Unfortunately for Charlie Kirk himself, he did not heed any of the warnings about why what he was doing and how he was doing it was a stupid fucking idea. The millions he made, the political power he was adjacent to, the support from billionaires to make for them the army of aggrieved young white men to keep up the distractionary culture war bullshit, depended on him doubling down, tripling down, on the very speech and actions that create stochastic terrorism. The idea that influential individuals may demonise target groups, inspiring unknown actors to take up violence against them. That's the thing about creating an army of aggrieved young white men - IF YOU RECRUIT SOLDIERS FOR YOUR CULTURE WAR, IT ONLY TAKES ONE OF THEM TO SHOOT YOU DEAD.

Charlie Kirk is a man who's death was a shocking and disturbing thing to see, at a lizard-brain level below empathy or sympathy. To see a person become unmade in an instant, no longer a person, is never welcome and not how we as a society should strive to live. But this is exactly the society that Charlie Kirk himself championed. Only he never thought that he personally would pay that price he said was worth it. I am not happy that a man died, but the way you die does not justify nor rewrite anything about how you lived.

As for Charlie Kirk's killer? Remember, we're in a post-truth society. Republicans and the Right were ready to go before Charlie Kirk's body was cold about how the shooter was [insert lie here]. The facts of the killer never mattered to them except for how they could use it to justify what they had already been planning to do. So what do the facts of the killer matter to you? Why should they matter to us? Anyone wasting time on what the killer's motives were is looking to waste YOUR time; they're going low, so get ready to kick them in the teeth.

Read up, read up and enjoy!!

https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/echoen/folder/491977/Stories-Written-By-Echoen

https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/echoen/folder/587883/RP-Logs

We have a porn store, all art drawn by real artists :D

https://echoen.e-junkie.com/

For work, we had a team exercise of using AI (copilot, specifically) to tell us our superpowers. Sure, fine, a dumb wall of text, screenshot, post, move on.

But it kept going. So we refused to participate.

Respectfully, as a person who works with real artists, manages communities of artists, and is intimately familiar with the plagiarism issue with AI-generated images, I will decline from creating or engaging with any AI-generated image programs. The AI image generators only function because they plagiarize millions upon millions of images and produce outputs based on the training data fed into them without consent by any of the artists. The broad consensus across the art community is the underlying purpose of AI image generators is to "Allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth."

The plagiarism inherent into AI art is not the only issue. There's also the issue of displaying the artwork produced by AI. Artists depend entirely on attention and commissions. AI art is literally taking both away. Artists are is hopeful that people will see their artwork. The more AI art gets generated, the less likely someone will become a commissioner, paying the artist those meager wages they need to live and keep creating.

You have to keep pushing. Keep speaking out, keep reporting, keep providing arguments and evidence, keep calling, keep raging, keep fighting, keep crying. Keep doing anything and everything; and keep taking breaks, keep relaxing and finding fun, keep creating and keep doing damage. Keep building and keep destroying. Keep pushing.

Because it all adds up. Everything. It all adds up. The line in the sand was drawn but you'll move every grain until the line is where it always should have been.

Keep helping. Keep working. Keep eating, and drinking, and keep going.

Keep sleeping, keep dreaming, keep taking the burdens of others and keep sharing your stress with those who listen.

Keep breathing. Keep looking. Keep listening. Keep talking.

Keep getting angry. Keep getting sad. Keep being happy. Keep learning more.

And never comply in advance.

To make this song and this video, over 1000 people submitted their voices and uplifting messages, and submitted short clips of themselves in their own outfits and props. The song itself features the voices of those fans.

Knowing little details like that, in combination with the actual message of the clips and the music itself... our heart is bursting.

Another video to listen to, cry to, and you DO want to read the YouTube comments.

Keep running on
Just hold on
Just fight on
Until the sun goes down
Just remember when you grow up your heart dies

The fox at the end is Finnian Fox, from SaveAFox Rescue.

Rest In Peace, Mikayla Raines.



Have a good cry. Let the tears flow, to know that you still can.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07352751251326951
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390308555_Beyond_Polarization_Right-Wing_News_as_a_Quasi-religious_Phenomenon

For decades now, it's been largely observational evidence that news outlets that cater to conservatives and right-wing political ideologies is not based on facts. Most of them claim to fall under 'entertainment' for legal purposes, and stick to being classified as 'entertainment' even when taken the court. Many folks know that when Fox News and Tucker Carlson was taken to court, Fox won the suit with the claim that "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism about the statements he makes. This general tenor of the show should then inform the viewer that he is not stating actual facts about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in exaggeration and non-literal commentary."

But now, we have facts. Actual empirical research that shows that right-wing news sources and the entire ecosystem of conservative 'news', functions neither as news, nor as entertainment.

It functions as religion.

Boomers are the primary consumers of right-wing news. This aging and increasingly lonely population seek community, nostalgia, and cultural and political vitality, while also maintaining outsized control of the news and our political system. Right-wing news caters to them, and right-wing spaces provide them meaningful collective identity and community. Do you know any non-Boomer consumers of right-wing news?

The decline of religion overall across the U.S allows political media (OF ALL TYPES) to fill that void. Social capital has shifted from offline to online, and right-wing communities which are more often based on shared ideology and ethnic/religious identity fills this void very successfully. Do you know of any Churches that now focus entirely on politics?

Mis/disinformation survives and thrives as religion. When questions stem from religious belief instead of actual fact-finding, no amount of finding evidence to the contrary successfully resolves the question. Questions like "was the 2020 election fraudulent?" and "is climate change real" survive because those who ask those questions are more likely to be reaffirming their position in the religion and their status compared to other believers than seeking any actual definitive factual answer. Do you know someone who keeps asking the same kinds of political questions as if they were an actual skeptic and not a denier?

Faith-based approaches to knowledge and truth claims are much more susceptible to propaganda because the approach aims to build and reinforce a strong moral subculture rather than to inform, and are much more prone to rapid organizational change, instability, and schisms. The way right-wing 'news' consumer communities function is identical to how Church Sects work, with their dynamics of competition, decline, and growth. Are you familiar with any right-wing communities that mirror the 'pastor-flock' framework?

Check the second link for the full paper, and give it a skim.

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11169318

Actually it's fine

Herm was removed from the dropdown, but it's still a tag and can be added manually

No-one who self-identifies as herm is being silenced, and we're not being forced to identify as intersex either

We don't use the dropdowns anyway, everything is manually input (thanks Postybirb) so not being included in a drop-down does not feel like inequality to us.

Now, so long as FA does not go the route of e621 and in searches start showing results for "herm" as if we had searched "gynomorph", and start showing search results for "herm" as if we had searched "intersex" (because herm /=/ intersex and generally neither wants to be identified as the other because we are not the same), it should continue to be fine.

First they came for the immigrants
And I spoke out
Because no-one was illegal

Then they came for the government workers
And I spoke out
Because the firings were illegal

Then they came for the protestors
And I spoke out
Because protest is not illegal

Then they came for the democratic socialists
And I spoke out
Because the political persecution is illegal

Next they come for you
And speech will not protect you
Because we no longer have rule of law

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/disable-ai-overview-turn/jledohjahnkncbmnfmbnaophlakhoanl

Be free from hallucinations

Before you get up in outrage about yet another making-fandom-look-bad show, here's the info about this show.

2018 Furry Zoosadist Leaks
September 2018, leaked telegram chats and other evidence showcased a group of animal abusers.

As part of that group of animal abusers, one zoosadist was outed by amatuer furry investigator Naia Okami https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13377006/

So what is this show?
Naia Okami has much more publicity than that one investigation. She has been on dozens of shows and TV bits and is a highly public figure, or at least is marketed as one.

This show largely centers around Naia Okami and the Zoosadists, elevating Naia into further representing the Furry community, and portraying animal abusers also as representative of the Furry community.

How should I feel about this
Looking into this show and into Naia, we have two feelings.

First, Naia is pretty cool, EXCEPT for the extremely un-cool overinvolvement in media showcasing herself as representative of Furries / Otherkin. It's not that she's never claimed she is representative, it's more that constantly going out into mainstream media (such as Fox News' Jesse Watters THREE TIMES) is effectively making her representative of Furries.

Second, we feel that it is at best idiotic and at worst self-aggrandizing to make an entire "true crime" series starring yourself going up against a conspiracy of animal abusers and doing so using unrelated footage of innocent fursuiters from Anthrocon 2024 and San Francisco Pride FROM WHOM NO PERMISSION WAS EVER ASKED to make a show for non-furries to think that animal abusers are even a tiny fraction of the furry community!

So, like, yeah who you are is cool, what you do for your nonprofit is cool, but this is so fucking un-cool and yet another "thing to point at" by non-furs that all furries are going to regret.

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Texas.

A blue-suited lawyer marches out in between the lines of soldiers. Briefcase in hand, papers in the other. He turns his back to Elon's compound, where the man is surrounded by his children and bribewives. His final defense against the end of his billions.

The lawyer? Elon's final attack. Lorum Ipsum text visible on every camera pointed towards him, capturing the moment he stares down the barrel of an ICE-issued rifle carved with the symbol of the Punisher, dripping fresh with red, white, and a single line of blue. Shaking the papers and opening his mouth as he looks into the reflective sunglasses on the soldier's face.

"This is unprecedented!" shouts the lawyer, trying to be heard. Both Elon and King Trump are watching; one through CCTV and the other through Fox News showing live. He needs to make it a good show. Elon has promised him a darling media career if he can appear to be the Lawyer Who Stood For Their Client. His words didn't matter as long as they sounded potent. Legalese. No sane lawyer had been willing to represent Elon in months.

As legalese spills from his unnaturally long-jawed mouth, his eyes briefly flicker to the tank behind the soldier. He's not looking at the rifle anymore; and he can't hear himself shouting over the tank's hungry growling. The pavement of the road beneath it's tracks are being smushed to either side of it like old, black ketchup. He drops his briefcase and dives out of the way.

The cameras roll as the tank makes a show of smashing over Elon's gilded gate. The painted symbol of the Punisher visible to the cameras on the side of the tank, dripping fresh with red, white, and a single line of blue.