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Bally

@ballythedog.bsky.social

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🐶Golden retriever ♂️He/Him 🏳️‍🌈Bisexual 🧠Neurodivergent 🎂July 3, 1991 ❤️Engaged to @rexsnep.bsky.social 🔞Minors DNI

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Croc (and Foster!) @audiodile.bsky.social · 20h

When the doctor's office calls back while you're currently a sexy wolf, but you need to take the call anyway.

(Note: photo not necessarily representative of actual environment)

photo, Foster Wolf on an old school rotary dial pay phone mounted to a light blue furry wall with a pink neon "hello" sign above him.

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 20h

They need more space for your expanding werewolf beans.

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OTTER @ottertale.bsky.social · 1d

A happy family

Two gay cat dads with their gay husky son.
Siamese: Kensuke
Husky: Kodiak
Orange: Juan

Not sure about the last name though
#cat #husky

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 3d

How to find me at BLFC.

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited Dick pic.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 4d

Video games were a “silly hobby” too. Went that wen’t mainstream, we got the best AND the worst of it: a bigger industry, a larger community, but also cash grabs and low effort pandering.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 4d

Is the furry fandom meeting the same fate? On one hand, it could be a good thing. Fursuits and furry art will be taken more seriously by outsiders, and furries will be more open about their hobbies.

On the other hand, it’s just another market to sell slop to.

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 4d

Geek culture went mainstream in the 2000s. When that happened, the quirky glasses-wearing computer nerd who watches Star Trek and plays video games stopped being your next door neighbor and became a wildly outdated stock character, simply because geek hobbies aren’t that niche anymore.

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 5d

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

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wolpy 🐺 @wolfymode.net · 5d

look at
this wolf!!!

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 6d

That car you drew in second grade is a US postal truck now.

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 6d

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 7d

🌶️Share a video game hot take.🌶️

Turn-based combat should never require real-time inputs.

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 7d

Alternatively:

The hero gains a position of power/respect by making a false claim, does a good job keeping up the illusion of their abilities, is revealed to be a fraud during the climax, and must save the day without resorting to deception.

For some reason, this happens a lot in animated films.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 8d

Did he get that Mar-a-Lago surgery? His face looks like it would melt right off if you held a fire to it.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 9d

🌶️Share a video game hot take.🌶️

Character levels are a relic of TTRPG design and have no place in modern RPGs. Running around and killing things to make an XP number go up doesn’t feel fun or engaging, and makes it harder to get invested in the story and characters.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve heard good things about Pillowfort. Will everyone be flocking to that?

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 10d

Because foreign language music has never been popular in America, right?

*Gangnam Style intensifies*

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 11d

Yay! Wolfylion's coming to town!

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 11d

Will you be at BLFC?

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Comfortdoggo @comfortdoggo.bsky.social · 11d

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Polo Yote! @poloyote.bsky.social · 12d

Oh no! There’s yotes in the woods! 🐾

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 13d

I’m thinking about joining Pillowfort. Would anyone follow me there?

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 13d

iOS 26 in a nutshell. #Apple #iOS26

A Mancala board with multiple glass pebbles.

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 13d

I added that article to the “unusual articles” index (just like I did with Bad Dragon).

Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 16d

It’s also worth noting that metal (the music genre) hadn’t taken off yet. Before the “Big Four” (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer) came into the scene, most “metal” music was closer to hard rock.

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Bally @ballythedog.bsky.social · 16d

The word “Metal” in the title isn’t referring to the music. It’s intended to convey the idea of something being “hardcore” (as in “That’s so metal!”).

Similar to how various sci-fi genres use the -punk suffix (steampunk, cyberpunk, atompunk).

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