Why do people do police cosplay at furry events? I can't be the only person who arrived at the local meet today, saw police style vests at the door and had a moment of raised anxiety that something must be kicking off.

float

Of course Biffo ruins the magic. Biffo ruins everything.

Actual footage of me getting Raptured

Another day, another person in the local con chat doing performative eww-ing at the mere mention of a kink event existing, and then less than an hour later being uncomfortably horny about their own kinks (the group is SFW). I would love if this shit was ever moderated (it is not).

I'm reeling slightly from encountering a seemingly real leftist individual who believed almost exactly the same conspiracy about Soros as the far right do, except in his version Soros was actually doing a reverse psychology 3D chess move to drive society towards fascism. How do these people exist?

I'm baffled by a certain type of furry who are so strongly driven to demonstrate their dislike of certain NSFW topics that they bring them up constantly in SFW spaces, just so we know how much they're horrified by them. What's going on there?

Been trying to get a handful of tunes finished up and wow, singing is hard! Like, the pitch is there but it keeps just sounding insipid, lacking body or character. Need to work on that...

I'm not sure why UK furry groups have been blowing up over this far right grifter dude's shooting, when none I'm in had any reaction to Democrat lawmakers being assassinated in their homes in Minnesota earlier in the year. Who decides what's going to be bigger news?

Mild concern at the weewoos (test of the UK's mobile phone alert system)

It's wild how many UK news outlets are choosing to use the photo with the rainbow lanyard for articles about the Scottish Labour MSP facing charges for possessing indecent images and placing hidden cameras in the Parliament toilets. He's a straight cis man, there are plenty other photos available.

Stumbled across one seller of endangered hawkbill turtle shell guitar picks on eBay, then once you've viewed one, the site keeps showing you more, and there's a disgusting number. I reported the listings, but if the seller has lasted >10 years, there's clearly no enforcement.

Wee man deserves acknowledgement for International Dog Day

We otters could have told you this.

Going for the "author's barely disguised fetish" trifecta

Rejoined the group chat for the local con, since I've just registered. My word, there are some tiresome people, maybe group chats were a mistake.

a ukulele otter I drew last year!

I was at school during Section 28, so the main omission was just that anything non-heterosexual either existed or was OK.

Meh, not enjoying a furry music group where, after posting a pic of my left hand in a conversation about guitar chord voicings, someone is all "oh, hahaha, a six string" and then another goes on about exercises by shreddy metal guys I should be doing, devoid of context.

If you're at a loose end this evening, catch me doing a little pre-recorded fingerstyle guitar guest spot on noted furry musician Bob Drake's music stream. (And check out Bob anyway if you haven't). It's 6pm GMT (7pm CEST) here; www.twitch.tv/bob_drake

Thinking about Ornette Coleman playing Guitar Hero, and how I have no idea what the story behind the picture is

He's very much not impressed with the backyard pool. So far it's a giant drinking water bowl and ball retrieval obstacle, but he won't step a paw in there! Strange, as he like to paddle in rivers and ponds.

Me and Cliff, we have a thing

There’s so much story happening here… #Anthrocon

New face! 3D print file by @maimface.bsky.social , painted in acrylics by me. I wanted a lighter, easier to wear otter to wear around at events, but also as performing wear if I get myself together enough to apply for some music slots at things.

Post an unusual sign if you feel like it

Looking at colourful socks and realising these would just be Germany, seen over the top of my boots.

Mixed feelings about this furry true crime thing that just came out. The actual work of exposing abusers, raising awareness and alerting authorities was commendable, but I'm not seeing how participating in a glossy piece of true crime entertainment years later makes any humans or animals any safer.

So many UK news stories about the Labour by-election win in Larkhall, few acknowledging that it might be a quite atypical town. It's locally famous for a strength of sectarian feeling that's comparable to NI loyalist areas, and I feel there may be priorities at play that don't extrapolate nationally

Oh, the sense of relief when your DROP command actually works. Did not want him eating the crispy frog that had been dessicating for a couple of weeks on the pavement up the street!

Hearing about the new London fur meet ticket system, having limited tickets available 10 days before means anyone visiting by train is on the highest tier of train prices. That's essentially going to exclude non-affluent visitors. Nice one, I wonder if they thought that through?

IDK if this post format is played out by now, but let's give it a go anyway.

Hmm, a slightly older music scene friend (probably older Gen-X, not quite boomer) is posting his "art" piece commenting on microplastics killing sea life, only he's used AI to make it. I don't know if I have the energy to get into that discussion with him.

Got around to repairing my paws before the Glasgow Furs meet this weekend. I'd had some waning enthusiasm for suiting and stuff, so getting it out is progress I guess.

Day 24 - Tayra #Maystelid

Had a dream last night where I was trying to get to a train station on time, on a bicycle in the rain, wearing a fursuit head and absurdly large, flappy denim flares.

Truly the dance of my people

Kitchen table Bert Jansch-isms

Kitchen table Bert Jansch-isms

What are they doing in there?

As much as I try not to be swayed by branding, what am I meant to do when it's a bear in dungarees and a slogan as blatant as this?

Remove a letter, ruin a movie PEED (Starring Keanu Reeves)

In a week where both the EHRC and the ECHR have been relevant to current events in distinct ways, I feel like we need better acronyms

Why are news sources reporting Farage talking about young people being put on a "disability register" without pointing out that a disability register is simply not a thing that exists un the UK?

With the Supreme Court nonsense today, I just realised the well-funded transphobe lobby group who brought the case are the same one whose co-director was personally trying to dig dirt on Scotiacon this year and having it reported by tame news outlets. These are some weirdly motivated zealots...

Wondering about bluesky etiquette, is it weird to unfollow someone simply for posting too much? There are people I've followed, seen that they take up more than half my timeline with takes and reposts, and quietly dropped again. But I know some people take an unfollow personally.

Genuine question here; in a community that encourages freedom of expression and kink positivity, why is it so common for people to sound off about how the own-eyes look on hoods or fursuit heads squicks them? I see this reaction a lot from otherwise performatively kink-positive furs, feels judgey.

Listening to Michael Hurley who I'm sad I never got to see, he died this week. Reminding myself just how weird he got with his wolves!

No brown pencil on the e621 joke verification screen? Discriminatory against otters, quite frankly.

He's a nice bear really, perhaps we've all judged him too harshly