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Rii Abrego

@riibrego.bsky.social

on her mind #art (wallpapers below!)

An illustration of a lovestruck girl, her head full of thoughts of another girl.

February 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM

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IDK

@idkkun.bsky.social

it's doodle gumi in an original costume o'clock

February 11, 2026 at 10:15 AM

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Kougeru 🐉⛩️

@kougeru.bsky.social

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM

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beep

@1borzoigaming.bsky.social

#borzoi

February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM

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Ozma

@psychicozma.bsky.social

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM

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Raddagher

@raddagher.bsky.social

A photoshopped Fox News graphic reading "Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Promises." Below is a photo of Mamdani and photoshopped text reading "Bloodborne PC Release"

February 13, 2026 at 12:36 AM

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the maya ventura television network

@mayawalkwith.me

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

February 13, 2026 at 5:22 AM

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aya 🧊

@slurpn00dles.bsky.social

#hatsunemiku
#vocaloid
Whee

February 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM

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Ms. Stella Edgecomb

@stellaedgecomb.com

right on sis, you don't need to tuck for these fools

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 5d

First poster for Rosalina in ‘THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE’.

Voiced by Brie Larson.

February 13, 2026 at 8:27 PM

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Confidence Woman

@clowndepot.mariogolf.info

they gave lucio a scunt skin

February 14, 2026 at 4:58 AM

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mechanical girlfriend separator

@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

www.pcgamer.com

February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM

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@winter.etheirys.social

despite what this post may say: this is not a walkback. this is a reiteration. we already knew this information. do not fall for unwise propaganda. keep the pressure on, financially or verbally. barrage them.

Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 9d

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults.

Hey folks –

I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news.

I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.)

Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence.

Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details.

And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

February 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM

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Brian M

@legendofnerd.bsky.social

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM