Katja [I will break the chains you fear.] Antares, a ๐๐.
Katja [I will break the chains you fear.] Antares, a ๐๐.
@rarf.zone
I'm Katja! [หkatสฒษ], as in ะะฐฬัั. Catdragon; sometimes a foxdeer; "unrealistic" character IRL.
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Also the other trans furry lefty (redacted) lawyer from the Pacific Northwest.
When I hit 1k followers I'll make more HO scale furries so we can have fresh reference pics for this. Or maybe I'll start before then bc that's when the motivation will kick back in idk
A very close friend of mine's dealing with the aftermath of a horrific attack and almost didn't make it. This is what's had me so fucked up all week.
If you can, please help and/or share.
gofund.me/52a908ba1
Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.
We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with:
1) Block all far right figures/accounts
2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them
3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them
Completely cut their algorithmic advantage
I'm pretty sure @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social is on the no side of this.
It needs to be stopped.
Encryption backdoors will lead to government & police overreach and gives massive attack surfaces to criminals.
Backdoored encryption is the same as no encryption.
๐จ๐ฆ #BillC22 is now at Senate and it threatens to break Canadian privacy and encryption for good! If enough of us speak up NOW, the Senate will act. Tell senators they need to reform the bill, sign the petition today:
๐ openmedia.org/ReformC22-bsky
thanks @eff.org for standing for privacy!
A little bit of news from Pete Fry: heโll be recommending that sole ABC Vancouver councillor Mike Klassen be reappointed to the Metro Vancouver board.
โMike has a lot of experience, so Iโll be leaning on him.โ
Also announces that Sean Orr will be the deputy mayor โfor the next bit going forward.โ
I'm still absolutely *astonished* by the time that, when I accidentally said "fuck" in a local consultation meeting about some project, someone, with a horrified expression on their face, responded with "There are women in the room!".
Completely mindboggling levels of, like, paternalistic misogyny?
Danielle Smith eked out a majority on a series of immigration that were manipulative and misleading.
The results should not be seen as a mandate, but a wakeup call.
My post-mortem on the Alberta referendum for @thetyee.ca
Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.
The BC Conservatives have opened up so many different lines of attack against First Nations that if they followed through on even half of them, they risk shutting down all development in the province. 2
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We're preparing a report on the impact of the Conservative victory on BC First Nations (for knowledgekeepr.com). There are a lot of flashpoints for conflict with their policies. But it still seems manageable. UNTIL... you show the traditional territories of those nations. 1
for the international crowd: advance voting has begun on the New Zealand election. Election day proper is on November 7th. Every poll since around July has showed Free Ice Cream/Diarrhea Forever being basically a coinflip.
When Eby became BCNDP leader I hoped he would stand for civil liberties and an end to the drug war, things he had stood for before his political career. Instead he caved on safe supply, oversaw the end of BC's decrim policy, and said DULF deserved to be arrested despite doing "life saving work."
"Under Brazilian federal law, all legislators have immunity...To run for President, Bolsonaro decided not to run for his Senate seat. Now, after losing the Presidential election, he no longer has legislative immunity when his Senate term expires in January 2027."
Very Special Episode of no amnesty
Flรกvio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US.
He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president.
paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...
With Tails having apparently overperformed initial estimates for attendance, and Howl now moving to a larger hotel, I guess the 7300 through 7500 blocks of Westminster Highway in Richmond, BC, a stretch of under 300 metres, having three furry cons a year is now just A Thingโข??
I'm not complaining!
We don't have Seattle's proliferation of Furry Businessesโข or Boston's assortment of monthly furry events at venues or what not, but we have three full-blown cons, so. ๐คท
More reason for my US friends to actually get passports, too, if they can.
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No, seriously. Get a passport if you can. Get a passport and get the heck up here.
With Tails having apparently overperformed initial estimates for attendance, and Howl now moving to a larger hotel, I guess the 7300 through 7500 blocks of Westminster Highway in Richmond, BC, a stretch of under 300 metres, having three furry cons a year is now just A Thingโข??
I'm not complaining!
And. Like. I cannot stress enough that it's not just "Metro Vancouver has three furry cons". It's "precisely two hotels that are almost fucking next door to each other have three furry cons".
A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women.
www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...
Time to start being Usefulโข, uh, vastly later than usual.
I am my own problems clown and all, but still, "the reasonably foreseeable consequences of my actions" isn't fun when said consequences are "working until well after 21:00", ahaha.
Hypothetically, if I were to commission some art involving taur!Katja, potentially in Some Kind Of Fun Situationโข, who might want to be ~involved~ in such a piece as well? <////<
Iโm not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Donโt share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
Brazilโs results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second โare you you sure about thatโ election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff
I'm *extremely* glad to see a far more impactful election than the (catastrophically bad) one we had yesterday going the right way. Hell yeah.
Congratulations, Brazil.
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It's incredible how much jankier Bluesky's built in translation seems than Google Translate? Like, at least with Portuguese, at least as far as I can tell as someone who knows zero Portuguese.