For furry creators who do commission work, is the early 2025 North American economy affecting that income?
Posted by dronon on Thu 17 Apr 2025 - 17:30Digging Up Positivity March 2025
Posted by Pegla on Sat 12 Apr 2025 - 16:00Welcome to the April[sic - should have been March] edition of Digging Up Positivity, this month:
- An update on all the furry charities around the world
- How Coyote vs Acme got saved from the Shelf
- Cattbutt controllers (who writes this stuff)
- And our special guest is the amazing pie-tactic Duino Duck!
But first, lets start it with our charity update!
Nominations for the 2024 Cóyotl Awards announced
Posted by dronon on Sat 12 Apr 2025 - 10:26
If you're a member of the Furry Writers' Guild, voting is open until May 3rd for the 2024 Cóyotl Awards!
FBI raids SiegedSec furry hacker responsible for Project 2025 leaks
Posted by Sonious on Sun 6 Apr 2025 - 11:07The Advocate reports that the SiegedSec “furry” hacker that had leaked the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plans has been raided by the FBI. The raid on Vio was revealed on the site formerly known as Twitter by one of the hacker’s contacts, whose relations were confirmed by journalists who originally covered the story.
The article indicates that while the Project 2025 leak was SiegedSec’s most well known hack, there were other actions they had taken that may be under investigation. This includes hacks against state websites in response to anti-trans legislation, and a hack of the Idaho National Laboratory.
Newsbytes archive for March 2025
Posted by Anon on Fri 4 Apr 2025 - 11:54Contributors this month include 2cross2affliction, dronon, earthfurst, and Rakuen Growlithe.
A Stroll Above The Big Apple
Posted by EberraWolf on Sun 30 Mar 2025 - 15:04
It was a Sunday morning, and dozens of furries squished together at the back of Moynihan Train Hall (connected to Penn Station) in New York City. As more rail passengers were gathering to have a bite in the food court, the furries decided to move to an empty hallway near the west exit. Badges were handed out. On them: "NYC FurWalk".
This was the second fursuit walk around Manhattan, organized by Champion Zane and Fane Vuh'uni, two furs from New Jersey. (The irony is not lost on them.) The first, held at the start of February, had ten partial fursuiters and around twenty participants, Zane told me. The second, held last weekend, attracted around 70 furries, with just over two dozen suiters, and one who brought her full fursuit. Most of the non-suiters wore furry-designed shirts.
Nominations Open for 7th Annual Good Furry Awards
Posted by Grubbs Grizzly on Sat 29 Mar 2025 - 12:41
Nominations are now open for the Good Furry Awards! The GFAs recognize furries all over the globe who give of themselves to the furry community in the spirit of charity and friendship. Prizes will be awarded in three categories:
- The Good Egg Award for furries who do charitable and other volunteer work, such as helping out at furcons, raising money for animal charities, or doing work in their non-furry communities.
- The Image Award goes to furries who present a positive image of the fandom through the media, including YouTube videos, documentaries, vlogs, podsts, websites and other similar means of communication.
- The Furtastic Award for furries doing good works that don't easily fall into the first two categories.
All furries active in the fandom currently are eligible. Winners are voted on by their peers and receive handsome trophies and a $200 cash award.
Ursa Major Awards: 2024 Voting is Open
Posted by dronon on Sun 23 Mar 2025 - 02:28
The 2024 Ursa Major Awards are open for voting, from Friday March 21 to Saturday April 19! You can go to the voting page to request a voting key.
The Awards may be changing the way they do things - If you're interested in offering ideas or suggestions, please contact Rowdy! In other news, the Ursas are now on Blusky, and they've released a temporary statement about AI/LLM content.
The 2024 nominees are...
A Looney Tunes Movie Review: 'The Day the Earth Blew Up'
Posted by 2cross2affliction on Wed 19 Mar 2025 - 12:03
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day."
-Chikn Nuggit, "An episode made for Tik Tok in case the app gets banned for real"
"I missed."
-Pepé Le Pew, "For Scent-imental Reasons"
Animation, at least in America, feels a bit weird right now. Maybe a bit unhealthy, but not in a "sick and dying" kind of way, but in a "your diet is messed up" kind of way. My most recent review besides this one is Flow, a micro-budget independent movie from Latvia made with Blender, while The Day the Earth Blew Up is the latest iteration of major studio Warner Bros.'s most famous IP, featuring marketable characters older than World War II. And yet, somehow, the former review feels like an unnecessary noting of something everyone was already aware of anyway, while this review feels more like a spotlight on a small unknown that deserves a wider audience.
Texas Introduces F.U.R.R.I.E.S Act Bill, Bans 'Non-Human Behavior' for students
Posted by Nerdy Raccoon Guy on Mon 17 Mar 2025 - 20:59
Yes you read that right, a real actual bill was introduced in the state of Texas, which bans "Non-Human Behavior" in Texas schools. It includes students behaving like animals such as making meowing noises, wearing tails, animal consumes and much more. Non-Human Behavior is defined within such bill.
The bill also intents to make it a form of a child abuse to encourage said behavior. This means that when a parent encourages a child to believe that it is socially acceptable to engage in such Non-Human Behavior for example, it would become a form of "abuse".
SECTION 5. Subdivision 261.001(1), Family Code, is amended to
read as follows:(1) "Abuse" includes the following acts or omissions by a person:
(A) mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child's growth, development, or psychological functioning, including, in an education setting, allowing or encouraging the child to develop a dependence on or a belief that non-human behaviors are societally acceptable;bold is emphasizing the change in text proposed by amendment