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Watch how the manipulative liars at GSFTW try to claim credit for mopping up a mess they made ... And kept eacalating for a year of obstructing any accountability to their paying members and community, and doing everything they could to break promises and favor special friends of ill intent.

You know who Sotalo reminds me of? It just hit me, and I gagged at the likeness. He's the same breed as the few remaining sycophants of Kero the Wolf, who purge discussion of Kero's crimes in any space they run, and try to prop up the rotting roadkill of his career as if it can come back some day.

When you see this behavior, it's rooted in Furry-PR methods that were once semi-sane reaction to decades-past exploitative media. Except this time, the villains are us... Or used us to benefit themselves, like GSFTW's management. Now we see the naked dogma shielding their deeds, and it is UGLY.

Fox News didn't create this problem. Fox was allowed in by management after the stage was set from inside for them to use. The ugliness that a liar like Sotalo represents is the fandom's own mutated, malignant growth. Many close to it are taking action to cut off the oxygen of support for it.

This is why it's important to document and present the evidence, because if nobody does, lies can gain as much credence as the protest against them. At first GSFTW was engaged respectfully, and they blew that off. Now they can lay in the bed they made, and community members can warn each other.

So much energy has swirled around a new, small local con that thought they could get away with anything, due to the arrogance of a handful of people running it. This isn't just about a con, it's about power of handfuls to ignore problems and struggle for control with people they want to use.

You can follow them on Bsky here. bsky.app/profile/furg...

New Jersey is sorely lacking a good furry convention that people would like to go to between the dates of May 2nd and May 4th, 2025. We aim to fix that. Furgeddaboutit, at the DoubleTree Suites in Mount Laurel. We can't wait to see you. streamable.com/th92uy

How about that name, Furgeddaboutit... what other con has such a good name? Well sorry to bring back critical looks for this long thread about mismanagement of Garden State Fur the Weekend @gsftwofficial.bsky.social Here's something new I didn't expect, even with how horrible things have been...

A tipper sent me posts by Shy Matsi, 2024 chair for GSFTW, made this fall, where he's hanging out for kink fun with a Furry Raider named Tuskyn. Real name David Allen James, recidivist registered sex offender, twice convicted for CSAM. He was also active with the 2018 zoosadist ring of Kero infamy.

Tuskyn was convicted in 2005, then again in 2022 for sex offending again. 17 years wasn't enough to change him. In that time he made friends with people like Foxler of the Furry Raiders. Tuskyn was just 7 months fresh from prison while palling with GSFTW's 2024 chair Shy Matsi. His registry listing:

Look, it's not always incriminating when you don't know what's going on and have a private oops. It's another thing when Shy held a position of trust that was repeatedly violated by inviting in Furry Raiders and other predators while vocally sympathizing with them as deserving space they don't.

You know what they say, lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. (I resemble this comment, but I would never hang out with a Furry Raider. 🤮) Add one more tally mark to the seemingly never-ending list of creeps infesting GSFTW and palling with its management. Will this get creepy excuses by Sotalo?

Once again, it's one thing to make a mistake... it's another thing to negligently and repeatedly let anything in without screening, and vocally sympathize with the worst and most malicious actors, while having a position of trust as con chair. Here's more proof that GSFTW should never have existed.

While we're looking at GSFTW's chair Shy Matsi inviting recidivist sex offender Furry Raiders for kink fun, Shy's friend and hand-picked propaganda mouthpiece has other concerns. What a dichotomy of their priorities vs. the community's.

Boy, they're really going with the theme of "oops I tripped and fell into a Nazi podcast!" In an entire fandom full of artists and organizers, how many can they find with such poor records? Who will they pick next, 2 the Ranting Skinhead? Kero? x.com/NazifurRecei...

Yesterday when I wrote "Will this get creepy excuses by Sotalo?" the answer is yes. Of course he'll make excuses. It's his entire life. And WOW it gets CREEPY. bsky.app/profile/dogp...

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You know what they say, lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. (I resemble this comment, but I would never hang out with a Furry Raider. 🤮) Add one more tally mark to the seemingly never-ending list of creeps infesting GSFTW and palling with its management. Will this get creepy excuses by Sotalo?

Here, Sotalo prattles on and on, billion-IQ gaslighting style, towards a question about his support for giving porn to minors. Notice how he always tries to make it about LGBT identity and changes "porn" to "furry art" to give himself slippery deniability. AS IF WE CAN'T SEE THE ORIGINAL QUESTION.