...still up way past when I should be asleep haha. Here's why:

Word on the street Furaffinity.net may be in the midst of an ABDL purge. The story goes that admin/moderator Chase may be in the process of "cleaning" the website for a potential buyer.

Patreon has done this exact pattern earlier this year, purging ABDL and then gradually turning up the heat on adult artwork of various genres (chiefly any non-human genitals). Furaffinity has had policy change lunges based on its financial and hosting status repeatedly in its long history, so it's safe to say that the site could be in hot water and desperate to stay afloat.

This isn't confirmed, odds are good it's BS, but the claim and people involved are consistent with the ambiguous, extremely unfortunate situation Furaffinity has been in since Dragoneer's passing. The site's present admin doesn't know its 2023 Revenue and Tax Liability, not helped by its current lead Sciggles being in hospital for an unrelated health emergency.

The playbook I always recommend goes like this: Archive your favorite things, network with who you can, and Decentralize your Online Alias (set up accounts everywhere you think would be decent).

For those unaware of the news, you can skim this article by The Guardian (click me) for a start to your own understanding. I have a lot of thoughts that I don't have time to jot out today, but here's a quick thing I jotted up for nerds on my Discord:

Brazilian queers particularly furry artists are scrambling to find their footing in Bluesky and other alternatives, and based on the amount of blood in the water, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission might be taking another bloody chunk out of Elon's Nazi Parlor very soon.

Brazil's reasoning for the ban is following failure of Twitter to defend itself in court, as the Brazilian Supreme Court was waiting for a legal reply to a pending action. Twitter has of course facilitated misinformation and extremist organizations which irked the relatively-speaking still fascistic Brazillian state aparatus. You can read the Guardian's coverage which breaks that information down with specific claims and specific names.

Some Geopolitical context:

• Brazil is part of BRICs (wikipedia's entry on it, click here), which effectively is the 'we'll have our own Global Economy with Hookers and Blackjack' of key economic unions.
• You'll recognize some highlights, such as: Brazil, Russia, Iran, India, China, the UAE, South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia. These guys could be called at best the losers of the Western-Dominated global economic institution established with the fall of the Soviet Union.
• BRICs is not responsible for the Twitter Situation, but you should be considering the context of the global economic alignment of ideologically adjacent entities such as the famously pro-democracy Russia and China. _{(That is a Sarchasm, don't fall in)}
• Twitter's situation in Brazil is what happens when you fuck around as a Billionaire in a world full of geopolitical entities which have sources of power you can't just pay off.

This is your reminder to Decentralize your Online Alias, TODAY.

Governments like Brazil do not have the best track record of giving much of a shit about where it's queers hang out, and for the record Elon Musk doesn't care about us either. I know that doesn't need to be said for the average Cohoster, but it has to be stated.