Opa'

Opa'

@opalance.bsky.social

Just an average 40yo grey muzzle furry snep fella with a big ole tail. Got my husband and my son plus my pups. Big soccer fan. Love myself some bad movies and weird old media. Collect traditional art and furry zines. I am over 18 and so are things I share.

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Midwestern Furs! beloved Cleveland drag king Heehaw is organizing a regional furry zine! seems like a great chance to discuss local happenings, or to share work that may be relevant to where we live. they're accepting a wide variety of work and submissions close November 1st. link: furmag.carrd.co

I'm going to try and go to my first real pride event tomorrow...I've been avoiding it because I just don't deal well with...well, having pride and also crowds and social interactions dealing with anything personal. Here's hoping I don't melt into a pathetic puddle of anxiety!

@pocketgrok.com Me and Jaiy talked about this years ago and I commissioned it back in May, finished this morning and it messed me up. I don't even know how to feel about it. I feel so much regret that I didn't get to explore this with him and I missed out on being closer to when I had the chance.

I'm going to be more social. I'm going to reach out more, even if it's not comfortable at first. He affected so many people and I've just been hiding away avoiding them, missing out. I'm sure it will be uncomfortable, but I'm going to grow. I don't want to live with regret of what could have been.

I hope AI bros and corpos are happy now, I see like any picture online attached to some inspiring story from like 1920 of a dog waiting for his owner to come home and I just think, "it's probably AI and fake" So thanks for ruining everything and making fraud easy!

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🚨 A new executive order puts gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves at risk of losing federal protections and could make lethal removal easier. But the numbers matter. Wolves are not the problem. They’re being made the scapegoat.

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I have never valued seeing mistakes in my own work and the work of other artists I admire so much as I do now. Human mistakes are charming in every way AI mistakes are not, they show process, they show growth and learning. They show intentionality to value a unique aesthetic over perfection.

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“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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A dog named Quinn lives with his Father in curiosity. A fable about life, maybe you’ll find something worthwhile too. (1/3)

I've been really struggling to find a group or space I feel comfortable in as a weird, middle aged, asexual guy married to another guy. Feel too gay to fit into traditional straight spaces and not gay enough to fit into queer spaces as a bearded father who likes sports and power tools.