I missed that somehow!

It has an OSU! logo so you know it’s the real deal

Where is this?

generally what makes insects creepy is long thin legs and scary mandibles. those that don’t have these features can be really cute. bonus points if they’re fluffy.

then again creepy can be cool depending on presentation

That’s true in most cases, but i’ve had a lot more success posting stuff to my furry-specific Mastodon instance than posting hte same thing to generic Twitter and Bluesky. So there’s something to the ability to have a specific audience.

But i genuinely have an issue when i go to upvote or reply and it tells me that i’m not logged in, and that’s when i find out that i’ve accidentally left my instance and am not logged in anymore. That kind of thing shouldn’t happen at all, it shouldn’t be this easy to accidentally land in a different instance.

One Lemmy and one Mastodon. I really like the fediverse promise of interoperability between instances, i hold it up to this promise, and i get annoyed when it fails.

According to the article, it’s done for market research, i.e. finding out who buys what, which is a thing businesses like to know. But also apparently it allows the machine to generate “AI-powered product recommendations”, which i guess means it tailors reccomendations to each user? Which it can do because it has a touch screen, and the touch screen itself already strikes me as full of shit.

That’s what the article says this machine in particular does; but yes, it could totally change the price on you depending on what you look like, and all other kinds of deeply shady things. You can count on a private company to do that kind of thing and then use their favorite argument: it’s technically legal.

There were going to be communities dedicated to talking animals on the internet, that much is certain. Just about everything else was shaped by early founders. Aside from the furry fandom’s very existence which may be inevitable, every part of its shape and characteristics were laid by people like Sysable.

Bookmark them all. And then you sort by “most recent visit” so you see the artists you haven’t checked out in a while

None of my family members know what a furry is and i’m keeping it that way.

i want a turn in a femboy sounds good

i would have never thought of this in 1000 years lol

I never knew that the stock drawing is based on an IRL stock photo

Yeah, i looked really hard and my city of 300k has maybe three furries in it. The neighboring city of half the size has a small convention.

You don’t understand, this batter was a lot saltier than the batter you’re thinking of

Tons, and cinnamon, flour, and a little bit of salt. I find that the bread dilutes the flavor, so i overload the batter to compensate.

I don’t like bland french toast

First thing i did, while my mouth was still salty from the first bite, is go get my sharpie.

Never again

There’s a 1% chance that the weird cousin who never comes to family gatherings might be a furry. That’s absolutely it.

The idea of having hobbies in common with family members seems alien to me - which i think, to quote the meme phrase, Says A Lot About Society.

They can be fun as you play with your fursona, you’re connecting with them by performing their species’ stereotypes. But nobody takes them too seriously and they’re dropped as soon as they go against something you wanted to do. Or they should be.

There’s also a lot of character traits that ‘feel right’ even if they’re not stereotypical, and i’m not just talking about subverting expectations. Lions IRL can be goofy, we’ve all seen them do something stupid in a documentary or whatever, so a goofy lion character feels fresh and truthful at the same time.

Circa 2010 i was feverishly googling “tiger girl” looking for pictures of elvish girl in the forest with her pet tiger, you know, that kind of fantasy art; and i found some obscure forum where someone posted a furry drawing of a tiger girl, and someone commented ‘can someone please draw a furry that isn’t trying to be sexy’, and i’m like ‘what’s a furry’

And i’ve been circling around the fandom ever since. A couple things happened to make me join: more SFW spaces opened up in the fandom, i got less sex negative anyway, and i dropped out of concept art school so i had nothing to do with myself anymore.

Just like last time, i think there’s basically no chance that this really is a furry hacker group. I don’t have any educated guesses for why they’re saying so.