'Gay furry hackers' say they've disbanded after raiding Project 2025's Heritage Foundation After claiming to break into a database belonging to The Heritage Foundation, and then leaking 2GB of files belonging to the ultra-conservative think tank, the hacktivist crew SiegedSec says it has disbanded. According to a message on the miscreants' Telegram channel, they had already planned to exit the scene this week. That …
...when I read those chat messages.
I do agree that the idea of somehow being an animal is disturbing. The two people I've met who think that *are* quite disgusting. They seem to dislike showering for some reason, and I was always able to smell them from a few paces away.
"Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are,
You cannot hide,
Your means are miniscule (sic) compared to mine."
The headline reeled me in, and whilst there I was hoping for the smallest opportunity to find humour in this situation. I knew it wd be difficult and that I would be treading on thin ice as I did so, but no. Oh, joy! It is in the article and I can just quote it.
I especially like the Liam Nielson-like "You cannot hide". The whole group of sentences are so bombastic ... poetry.
I'm not sure I've ever met a closeted furry. While that may appear to be a tautology, in my experience they're all way too happy to tell you that they're furries.
(Penguin because it's the only animal in the icons, but a lot of them were actually Linux users. Not that I think all Linux users are furries, or vice versa. I'll stop digging now, shall I?)
Most, in my experience, run the gamut from "indifferent to whether you know" to "a little too happy to talk about it."
Being a furry is mildy socially disreputable at worst. Threatening to out them is like threatening to out someone as a Trekkie. Ironically, the only people who would be likely to get hurt by being outed as a furry are members of hardcore conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation.
Not animals, cartoon characters. Bugs Bunny, Robin Hood, the Animaniacs. Furries take online personas to the next level, that's all, and have one hell of a party while doing it. Furcons are basically four or five day long raves with art classes attached, all going on with a big fursuit cabaret bouncing along as part of it. You'd do well to go attend one with an open mind, you'd probably enjoy it.
While your riposte is very slightly amusing, I referred to "the things we fear most in others", and the second half of your first sentence is a clear non sequitur. Your unfortunate perpetuation of gay stereotypes is also disappointing. Comment grade: C− (requires improvement, but not really worthy of a downvote).
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I've said it many times before, it's a sad state in the US when the only 2 leadership options are an 81-year old and a 78-year old, before even taking into account that the 78-year old is a narcissistic fantasist dictator wannabe. That's before even noting how one's cognitive abilities seem to have declined rapidly in the last few months, while the other one is also showing signs of mental decline (maybe less steep, but from a far more unstable baseline). The presumptive nominees for either party are literally demented*, and the independent candidate needs a tinfoil hat and dried frog pills.
*suffering from dementia, not having their souls sucked out by a dementor
“It's always seemed odd to me that they have a minimum age limit for president (which is higher than the minimum voting age), but not a maximum age.
Go back, go back to who the ‘Founding Fathers’ were, and, admittedly I live on the other side of the pond, but still, surely I am allowed to have an opinion!
They were all white, male, middle class, (mostly) space owners. And it does seem that their intention was to maintain rule by the white, middle class….etc.
But you allow women, women to vote, and oh, my God, non white people to have a say I who governs them! This is absolutely not what your founding fathers wanted is it?
Or maybe it was, perhaps look beyond the raw wording of your Constitution etc. maybe ask yourself
“What sort of society, do ‘I’ want to live in?
《The presumptive nominees for either party are literally demented*, and the independent candidate needs a tinfoil hat and dried frog pills.
*suffering from dementia, not having their souls sucked out by a dementor》
One might be dementia affected but the orange one probably has received the attention of a dementor and the bursar (Dr AA Dimwiddie) would be a realistic candidate in comparison with the independent.
Where are the likes of Vetinari when this world needs them most?
That the agenda of Project 2025 aren't just the delusions of half a dozen dribbling, lunatic basement dwellers, but are clearly supported by more than a few americans, some of whom are applying their wealth and power, doesn't bode well for america's future.
As Lincoln quoting biblical text stated: "A house divided against itself, cannot stand."
I suspect it's less that Trump has declined less, and more that the press is a lot more interested in talking about Biden's gaffes than Trump's. Trump constantly loses his place during sentences, and substitutes words and then tries to clumsily cover for it. But the press like Trump better so they don't point it out or portray it as a sign of aging.
"It's a sad state in the US when the only 2 leadership options are an 81-year old and a 78-year old, before even taking into account that the 78-year old is a narcissistic fantasist dictator wannabe."
It's a worse state that the dictator wannabe has a chance of winning.
Organizations like the Heritage Foundation show pretty drasticly why religion in general is a dangerous invention.
Everyone and every organization can claim to speak in the name of the imaginary being accepted by a majority of a group as a god.
It obviously even works if this person or organization claims statements or policies that are completely contrary to any guidance the being of choice has provided in the past - otherwise Right Wing Evangelicals would not exist.
Religion in general is like a gun lying fully loaded on the street for everyone to pick up and start shooting.
There is virtually no overlap between the spirit of the new Testament and policies of right-wing Evangelicals, but believers seem to be able to tolerate extremely high levels of cognitive dissonance if someone convinces them, their "god" wants it.
"Deus vult" still works far too good in the 21st century.
"There is virtually no overlap between the spirit of the new Testament and policies of right-wing Evangelicals"
Does the New Testament not teach us "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself - unless they art a furry, as that's like coveting his ox or his ass"?
Mainstream American Christianity has in many cases conveniently ignored parts of New Testament teaching that no longer aligns with their agenda. Return good for evil? How about we just sue them instead (or shoot them with whatever gun comes to hand first)? Love your enemies? Let's join the army instead! And so forth and so on.
I'm sure these evangelicals have only the best of intentions, but they are a poor model of Christianity.
"I'm sure these evangelicals have only the best of intentions, but they are a poor model of Christianity."
"Poor"?!? Their hatred of neighbor alone -- in many translations of the Old Testament, "outsider" or "foreigner" (or you could use "alien" or "immigrant") -- is enough to prove they do not love others (there's the second greatest commandment). And they make "loving God" (the first great commandment) a pretense to seize and hold political power. As I have said previously (as AC), they may call themselves Christian, they may "tout[] [some] Christian values" (from the article's closer), but they are nothing at all like the Christ Jesus they (and I) claim to worship.
I think that letting folks live their own lives and decide for themselves who to worship (if any) and how to live their life under that set of beliefs (which is what "religion" is) is a much better model -- Jesus didn't force anyone to follow Him! (If you truly believe, then "'Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the LORD," and that should be good enough for us!)
If this is the witness of American evangelical Christians -- or American Christians at large -- then they are doing grave harm to the name and image of Christ himself. I am judging here -- got to keep your own house clean -- because when it comes to false teachers "you shall know them by their fruits," which appear to be hate, revenge, lies, and all sorts of nastiness. If you're keeping count against the Ten Commandments, they've put their politics over following God, blasphemed His name, lied, coveted, and probably more. (But don't bring all the Levitical law into this; Jesus obeyed it and He covers our sins. A major point of many epistles is that we shouldn't even try to follow all the Old Law because that makes the works of Jesus have no effect.)
These false teachers have drawn many away from what actually following Christ should look like, and of those "many" it seems my whole* church is full of them! *Except the pastors -- they appear to understand that our purpose as a church is about Christ and not politics or arguing/fighting over social issues, but sometimes I wish they would rebuke the flock for going astray. (I also wish Dr. MLK, Jr. was still alive and I could attend his church -- he was a Baptist pastor, you know, and I am in large agreement with his "social gospel".)
On the contrary - they are an EXCELLENT model of christianity. It's a religion of hate, only fairly recently modified by some supposed adherents into a touchy-feely 'love everybody' attempt at seeming harmless.
The westboro baptist church is probably the most accurate representation of real christianity today - a hateful religion that has perpetrated genocides all over the world. Watching the christian excusagists justifying genocide and slavery in the bible as 'good' because their imaginary sky wizard told them to would be funny if it wasn't so evil.
"Believe this bullshit - or you will be tortured for eternity" is pure evil, and it's ALL of christianity, no matter how pretty a face it tries to put on itself.
yes, agreed. Believers in the various marxist cults are unconcerned with murdering millions. Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin. Their fellow totalitarians like inhuman riots activists, lawfare practitioners also white ant representative governments. I wont mention the common epithet applied to those who also had same beliefs but oddly, are damned.
> yes, agreed. Believers in the various marxist cults are unconcerned with murdering millions. Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin.
Agree so far. Just as the border between evangelical and far right is thin, also some other political ideologies border close to irratioal belief systems.
> Their fellow totalitarians like
> inhuman riots activists,
> lawfare practitioners
> also white ant representative governments.
Not sure I follow the plot of your post - what are those groups? Who do you refer to exactly? Maybe try to explain with less slang.
>I wont mention the common epithet applied to those who also had same beliefs but oddly, are damned.
Complete lost plot here - what does that mean?
Calling murderous autocratic dictators "Marxists" is one of the stupidest takes ever. No matter what they were claiming to represent, they were NOT following anything Marx wanted for the world - which was a better place for humanity. Marx would have despised all of them, he was far more a fan of Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln a fan of Marx.
I, for one, am unable to comprehend how "the workers, not oligarchs, should own the fruits of their labor" is even a controversial idea.
"There is virtually no overlap between the spirit of the new Testament and policies of right-wing Evangelicals, but believers seem to be able to tolerate extremely high levels of cognitive dissonance if someone convinces them, their "god" wants it."
Mostly true for the gospels, but Paul's stuff on the other hand. Misogyny and homophobia abounds!
This guy mostly gets it. Many of the "Pauline" letters were actually likely written by others, anyway. Maybe these right-wing nutters should be renamed from "Christians" to "Paulines".
In any case, it should be noted that people of the era had absolutely no concept of "homosexuality" as we think of it today, and the passages that people seem to think self-evidently condemn homosexuality are actually mired in the complexity of the social mores, natural order, and notions of "cleanliness" of the day. And don't even get me started on Leviticus (Do you eat shellfish? What do you do if you find that the Lord has sent mildew on your house? Exactly which people is it okay for me to sell into slavery?).
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> i believe its best we do so now. for our own mental health
This made me chuckle. Not at them specifically, but it instantly undermines the cold dark image that black hat hackers that have built over the decades!
(But at least they can still write in proper sentences unlike that Mike Howell chap who probably has a different kind of mental health issues).
Assuming the majority of us are working in or near the cybersecurity community, I'm alarmed about the overwhelmingly unprofessional bias and bigotry I'm seeing here.
Are you all OK with integrity and availability but not confidentiality if the target advocates for something we happen to disagree with? Are we against APTs and Ransomware gangs but wink at the hacktivists who align with our own prejudices?
Jessica Lyons, I submit this kind of editorializing is activism - not journalism. Are you leaving facts out of other stories which don't promote your worldview? I don't know if I can trust your reporting after reading this.
Did you know that SiegedSec also hit [or targeted] the Nebraska Supreme Court, South Dakota Boards and Commissions, Texas State Behavioral Health Executive Council, Pennsylvania Provider Self-Service and the South Carolina Criminal Justice Information Services. Plaintiffs, defendants and prisoners caught up in the justice system. Their families. Crime victims. The mentally ill.
Who thinks it's OK to harass these most vulnerable members of our society and dox the under-paid, over-worked professionals who serve them?
SiegedSec hit Atlassian, who's mottoes are "Open company, no bullshit" and "Don't #@!% the customer," exposing PII on 13,000 members of our IT family.
Who thinks that's funny?
SiegedSec tried to hack NATO.
Who waves Ukrainian flags and despises Putin for the invasion and for actions like assassinating rivals and imposing wintertime natural gas and oil embargoes against Western Europe, but also thinks the only organization capable of keeping Russia in check is a legitimate target for hacktivists?
Here's my editorial, Jessica: "The answer to all these questions, evidentially, is SiegedSec. They may have damaged the reputation of gay furries more than The Heritage Foundation ever could."
If you think any of our coverage of SiegedSec is sympathetic to them, you need to look again but not through a lens of some persecution complex.
There's a reason we call people like them miscreants – and this article and others have covered SiegedSec's previous intrusions. Chill out.
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