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TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · Oct 18

✨ Kia ora koutou! Hello! ✨

I’m TailStrike (they/them), from Aotearoa NZ. I try not to separate myself out, here you get all of me:

💬 i talk or repost furry, music, kinks, leftie politics, unions, queerness, empathy

💭 action is the cure for despair

🦊 extremely taur

🔞 (not lewds)

🎵 @ trdrt.net

A photo of my hardware synthesizer setup, including a eurorack module case, a Synthstrom Deluge, a digital mixer, and many cables in between. It is spread out on a solid wood desk with a shelf at the back for the wooden module case

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mio astra @mio.lagomorphosis.org · 38m

"i bet i can get a bunch of things done today," i say, a fucking fool,

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TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 8m

today in the fuck are the rightoids on about

A screenshot of an RNZ article with a photo of right wing new zealand politicians David Seymour and Winston Peters talking to media. underneath that it reads:

Coalition partners exchange blows over
Fonterra deal
David Seymour says politicians should stick to policy, but Winston Peters says he milked cows for decades and unlike some knows "what one end of the cow looks like".

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 9h

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 9h

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 7h

if leading with empathy and systems thinking ends at your graphs what the actual hell are you doing

i.e. been to devops conferences where “thought leaders” go off about “diversity hiring”

TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 7h

no tie just a tail and a SnOoT

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❤️GOJII❤️ / wolfears @ Cantab Underground Nov 28th @gojiimusic.bsky.social · 1d

a better world is possible (wip)

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The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

Our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet, is now live in its entirety. You can check out each piece in our beautiful hub, or join us on a quick scroll 🧵

The future of being trans on the internet

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

www.theverge.com

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wolfears @ furpoc @wolfears.net · 2d

very pleased to announce this show!

@gojiimusic.bsky.social and myself will be playing Cantab Underground in Cambridge, MA!

November 28th
Cantab Underground
10:30PM | 21+
$10, $15 doors
reserve tickets here :
tunehatch.com/shows/230902...

GOJII
with special guest
wolfears (DJ SET)
Nov. 28th
(Black Friday)
Cantab Underground
(Cambridge, MA)
10:30pm
$10
21+
Furries welcome.
Masks appreciated.

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TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 1d

holding the pager is hard work

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one to acknowledge or 3 to resolve. Sorry, I didn't get that. Please log into the daddy dog website or application to triage your pages.”

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2d

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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❤️GOJII❤️ / wolfears @ Cantab Underground Nov 28th @gojiimusic.bsky.social · 2d

Join GOJII and @wolfears.net at Cantab Underground for a showcase of nonhuman euphoria.
Feat. a house/disco DJ set from wolfears and a genre-defying live performance from GOJII.

📅 November 28th
📍 Cambridge, MA
🕥 10:30PM EST
🎫 $10, $15 doors
Attendees receive a special physical ticket upon entry

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NIA ➡️ BLFC @fenyote.bsky.social · 2d

The Spirit Halloween ghost is coming for the ICE facility

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Discovered near the ICE facility in Portland this morning.

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TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 2d

I flooped on the couch 3 hours ago, it is now bed time

TailStrike | 🆓 🇵🇸 @tailstrike.xyz · 2d

me with music making

mysillycomics @mysillycomics.bsky.social · 3d

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 3d

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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HUFF 🥵🥵🥵 @huff.fit · 3d

Coming to the Afterparty? 🥵

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I think it's not only important to seek out indigenous art in your own communities, whatever they may be, but to provide mentorship and opportunities.

Equality is not the final goal, Equity is an ideal worth fighting for and call out attacks against DEI for what it is

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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❤️GOJII❤️ / wolfears @ Cantab Underground Nov 28th @gojiimusic.bsky.social · 5d

i am really struggling right now . the jobsearch has been near impossible for me where i live and im losing so much money on bills and rent. im starting to lose hope and its been very distressing.

ko-fi.com/gojiimusic

Support ❤ GOJII ❤

ko-fi.com

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alex ✨ @azzles.bsky.social · 3d

you’ve displeased him, methinks

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Rabosa al Forn @rabosaalforn.bsky.social · 3d

Testing the sticker paper. It's way better than the regular sheets I was using.

Also, I finally decided to write the text by hand each time.

The four cretures are ready 🔥

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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