it seems like a minor thing but I feel like the way that HN reacts to soatok's blog is kind of a microcosm of techbro culture
these people act all tough, constantly portraying themselves as fiercely independent, out-of-the-box thinkers, innovating and disrupting and revolutionizing industries, nobody can touch them, everything is about technical merit, no identity politics
and then those same people end up harassing a furry blogger over the art in their blogposts, because they're afraid that they might be seen as *slightly weird* when they link the post to colleagues for the technical content within it (which they will acknowledge is very good, ie. full of merit)
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I actively seek out the blogs with furry art as I know the tech info in them is going to be accurate (increasingly this goes for electronics and cars as well)
I've shown at least one of soatok's posts to normie senior managers at my current work (a non tech based business, but which uses a lot of modern tech) and just said "these folk keep the bad people away from our computer systems, they draw cartoon animals as a hobby" and its been accepted with 0 drama ๐ธ
these people are so afraid of not conforming that they will fear *linking someone else's technical article* just because it is not completely sanitized of any personality or character in its presentation
@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech we need to add our fursona to our personal blogs and even type in owo uwu a little to keep the techbros away