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"Sorry not sorry but if anyone needs to start "learning to trust each other", it's the board." Sotalo is floundering in a sea of excuses. Saying "NO MORE LIES" is admitting that con management repeatedly lied to it's own staff, paying members, and the public. Yet you're wrong for not trusting again.

Sotalo should apply to be press secretary for Trump. Remember the revolving door of people like Sean Spicer who were paid to stand in front of cameras and describe what they were doing as "alternative facts?" bsky.app/profile/boxo...

Boxo McFoxo@boxobark.ing

Florida? Dude why do so many of the people involved with this New Jersey con live nowhere near New Jersey?

Sotalo's initial firehose of excuses is going dry. "Answer for this" "Two things wrong here: Getting mighty silent about this All the text wall excuses that just happened"

GSFTW management and chat mods taking hit after hit for lying about problematic friends, falling back to excuses about procedure for banning, then being questioned about why they inconsistently favored their friends who were unbanned.

GSFTW management can not be reformed. bsky.app/profile/zero...

Zero Jackal@zerojackal.bsky.social

Shy stepped into a difficult spot, lol. While he was doing this, myself and other NJ moderators were practically screaming at him as to why he decided to get involved with Dashing (again, they knew full well of the issues). Met with silence or "playing dumb", as per usual. Same old game.

Shy bringing in his friend Sotalo from Florida to blame the NJ community goes to show how poorly GSFTW has been managed. bsky.app/profile/cray...

Cray Wolf@craywolf.org

The locals just saw it happen with our own eyes. We don't need a random, uninvolved Floridian telling us what we didn't see. Sowing hate and discontent is why people are fleeing from Shy. He repeatedly invites hateful people, lets them run rampant, and refuses to remove them. We've had enough.

Message to Sotalo bsky.app/profile/cray...

Cray Wolf@craywolf.org

This is not the attitude of someone who understands what happened, wants to help, and knows how. "I know better than all of you, I *am* better than all of you, and only I can fix it" while showing a total lack of understanding and lecturing with vague threats? Reddest of flags. Stay in Florida.

GSFTW chat calls for corrupt board to step down, with obstructionism by Florida fur Sotalo, acting stooge for his friend Shy Matsi. I'm also getting private messages about Sotalo being chronically a defender of problematic people. (1/4)

GSFTW chat calls for corrupt board to step down, with obstructionism by Florida fur Sotalo, acting stooge for his friend Shy Matsi. I'm also getting private messages about Sotalo being chronically a defender of problematic people. (2/4)

GSFTW chat calls for corrupt board to step down, with obstructionism by Florida fur Sotalo, acting stooge for his friend Shy Matsi. I'm also getting private messages about Sotalo being chronically a defender of problematic people. (3/4)

GSFTW chat calls for corrupt board to step down, with obstructionism by Florida fur Sotalo, acting stooge for his friend Shy Matsi. I'm also getting private messages about Sotalo being chronically a defender of problematic people. (4/4)

The problems with GSFTW are not with isolated individuals who can be ejected. It's the entire board operating it as a magnet for the worst of the community, attracting others who do too, all the way from Florida. Supporting it going forward would make the community more toxic with less solution.

GSFTW chair Shy has brought in an extremely victim-blamey manipulator to shield the management. bsky.app/profile/cray...

Cray Wolf@craywolf.org

Sotalo's rhetoric is extremely authoritarian. The people in charge aren't the problem, you all are! Think of what you're doing to the poor volunteers! If you want change, you can leave! New Jersey won't have a convention anymore if you don't all stop it right now! Makes me want to puke.

There's those alternative facts! After GSFTW management mass-purged dissent from their chat, Sotalo, Shy's white knight from Florida, is denying it ever happened and pretending everyone left after they got real sowwy. Unreal to lie so brazenly.

Corporate record implies GSFTW had a period of operating as legally suspended. This says bad things about how they handle pre-registration, money and taxes. bsky.app/profile/boxo...

Boxo McFoxo@boxobark.ing

I previously assumed that Garden State Fur The Weekend's original non-profit business entity was still legally operating up until at least the point the LLC was founded, because it still has a business ID number. This is incorrect; it was suspended on 16th September 2023.

Sotalo, the white knight for GSFTW's management has been a focus of complaints about bad relations with others. Tippers sent a screen of one incident with his advocacy for showing porn to minors that caused such uproar in a California chat group, it had to pause posting.

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Above screen shows "wrong place, didn't ask." Parents with children had not been asking for sex positivity or complaining about any problem in a general furry social chat that had nothing to do with kids or adult content.

As tippers are scrutinizing the management of GSFTW, we're getting a mix of corporate records, screens of authoritarianism in their chat, and background about poor judgement by their remaining supporters. What a ride.

Wew, I took a few hours break and it's been wild. In GSFTW chat, Shy Matsi's imported Floridian white knight Sotalo has now caused yet another meltdown with his walls of text, full of blame-shifting excuses. It ended with Sotalo accusing critics against nazis of being the real nazis.