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Good morning, Heroes and Villains of Brasil FurFest 2025!

Get your capes, masks, and claws ready! Friday, July 18, has arrived to kick off our epic Heroes & Villains journey! Today is the day to unleash your most heroic or villainous side and dive headfirst into a universe of fun, friendship, and lots of art. Have a day full of adventures and amazing encounters!

Friday, July 18 Schedule:

Jaraguá Theater
4 PM to 6 PM – Opening Ceremony
6 PM – Pepper Coyote in Brazil (EN)
7 PM to 9 PM – Whose Lion Is It Anyway? An Improbable Activity
9 PM to 10 PM – Gringos vs. Brazil

Main Events Room
6 PM to 8 PM – I Don’t Know Anyone Here, Now What?
8 PM – Dance Party with DJ RohWolf
9 PM – Dance Party with DJ Sopero
10 PM – Dance Party with DJ Fake Reality

Lecture Room 1
7 PM – How to Add Electronics to Your Fursuit with Mock
8 PM – 3D Modeling and Printing for Fursuits with Kaiser Skullbeast
9 PM to 11 PM – Penguin Cinema + Behind-the-Scenes Talk with OPinguim10

Lecture Room 2
6 PM – Fursuit Dance Workshop with Jinlong
7 PM – Project Hope with B. Rosa, L. Daniel, N. Azevedo, D. Silva
8 PM to 10 PM – Traditional Art Workshop – Experiment with Different Art Materials with MichaelMax
10 PM to 11 PM – São Paulo After Dark with Mecer (+18)

Meet and Greet Room
6 PM – Dragons Meet & Greet with Mekhy (Pudim)
7 PM to 10 PM – Heroes & Hordes RPG with Ratoruja
10 PM – Plushie Meetup with Kuma

Gaming Room
2 PM to 9 PM – Games
9 PM to 11 PM – Furrokê

Don’t miss a single moment of this epic party! Download our app or check the schedule online to have everything at your fingertips:

Android (Play Store):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.furmeet.events.bff

Web (iOS/Apple and other browsers):
https://bff.furmeet.app

Have an amazing day, and may the furry force be with you!

Brasil FurFest
Friends Forever

MOX NOX. Pre-order the Death Clock here: http://www.InqFactory.com/DeathClock
Special thanks to @CalebMarting for his tireless work on the prototypes. Our entire team at the Curiosity Box and Inq Factory is incredible — it’s a gift to be able to make the world curiouser with you all!

“Curiouser” is a very curious word.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

flour particle size: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335277332_Influence_of_milling_whole_wheat_grains_and_particle_size_on_thermo-mechanical_properties_of_flour_using_Mixolab

solar corona:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14865

eclipse footage: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14572/

KUSHIM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period)

Kushim: The Unsung Hero of Written History

GAL-SAL:
https://isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/b6ace1f1-9701-4dc5-b366-8c15c7da00ca
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLlP1d6zlPR/?img_index=2

Gudea:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statues_of_Gudea
https://www.sumerianshakespeare.com/face-of-gudea

Other early human forms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man

History of human figure in art: https://jesygilkesuca.home.blog/2020/09/14/history-and-depictions-of-the-human-figure/

3D interactive DNA model: https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:5c1562b9:lx_simulation:1

How many genetic ancestors do you have? https://gcbias.org/2013/11/11/how-does-your-number-of-genetic-ancestors-grow-back-over-time/

fossilization video: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wie_entstehen_Fossilien_(CC_by_4.0)_redub_EO.webm

How to become a fossil:
https://www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg24632832-100-wheres-the-best-place-to-be-buried-to-preserve-your-body-as-a-fossil/
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180215-how-does-fossilisation-happen

where to be buried to become a fossil Earth images: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Big Bertha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(lunar_sample)

red giant sun: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/life-and-death-of-a-planetary-system/

Interactive voyager viewer: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/

Wifi signal in house: https://jasmcole.com/2014/07/12/wifi-strife/

How we’ve found partners over time https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1908630116

Screen time: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/screen-time-stats

Mobile phones vs toothbrushes: https://bcp-advisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Cell-Phones-and-Toothbrushes.pdf

Old music outselling new: https://web.archive.org/web/20160222071723/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2016/01/20/old-music-is-outselling-new-music-for-the-first-time-in-history/

“Soy Bomb” incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeNKBq63iM

Steve Fossett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett

Gabby Petito: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Gabby_Petito

Unknown soldier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier_(Arlington_National_Cemetery)
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2002889128/

Conrad Roy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Conrad_Roy

Frederick Douglass: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/frederick-douglass-and-the-power-of-photography.htm

Sojourner Truth: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301989

Wallace Line:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sunda_and_Sahul.svg

Homo Erectus image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homo_erectus,_The_Natural_History_Museum_Vienna,_20210730_1228_1282.jpg

Roman aqueduct image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_aqueduct#/media/File:Pont_du_Gard_BLS.jpg

Chicago filmed from a dirigible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicago_Photographed_from_Ray_Knabenshue%27s_Dirigible_Air_Ship.webm

World pop density map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Population_Density_Map_2020.png

books:
I Am A Strange Loop – Douglas_Hofstadter
A Short History of Nearly Everything Book – Bill Bryson
Reasons and Persons – Derek Parfit
Documentality – Maurizio Ferraris
Amusing Ourselves To Death – Neil Postman
Everything Bad Is Good For You – Steven Johnson
Soul Dust – Nicholas Humphrey
The View From Nowhere – Thomas Nagel

ALL MUSIC BY @jakechudnow
You can pick up Jake Chudnow’s Vsauce music on vinyl here: https://inqfactory.com/pages/vinyl

SONGS:

00ː00 – 00ː01 – J Wilde
00ː03 – 00ː26 – Food
00ː20 – 01ː14 – Rain, Dreams
01ː12 – 01ː22 – Moon Men (Instrumental)
01ː22 – 01ː33 – J Wilde
01ː26 – 02ː27 – What My Nervous Stomach Sounds Like
02ː01 – 02ː38 – For Leah
02ː39 – 03ː39 – Moon Men (Instrumental)
03ː40 – 04ː56 – Imaginary Sun
04ː49 – 05ː50 – It’s Good To Be D
05ː50 – 06ː37 – Thunder
06ː37 – 08ː03 – For You
08ː11 – 10ː08 – Rain, Dreams
10ː02 – 11ː10 – Hydrogen
11ː34 – 11ː50 – Prelude To Shona
11ː50 – 13ː02 – For Leah
13ː09 – 13ː56 – Shallow Anne
13ː41 – 13ː56 – Monkey Morning
13ː56 – 16ː10 – J Wilde
15ː56 – 19ː04 – Olive
19ː06 – 21ː54 – J Wilde

https://www.instagram.com/electricpants
https://www.tiktok.com/@corndogwilly

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Dearest attendees, this year during our Saturday night dances, we are bringing a semi-formal event to The Gala!

Interested in strutting your stuff? Peruse the details here at your leisure: https://www.furrymigration.org/events/the-furry-migration-gala/

What’s better than bringing people together with a fun puzzle? Doing it with some gorgeous art and sexy scenes of course~! Enjoy this 196-piece jigsaw puzzle illustrated by

@TheValeHyena with 30 characters all having a rowdy time~! https://bewere.net/product.php?id=1118

It’s unfinished, and I guess it never will.
check out more info on my Twitter maybe.
https://twitter.com/nviek5/status/1480883513381781504