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Mana is stored in the balls

@chapu.sheath.church

Look at himmmm

January 30, 2026 at 1:05 PM

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Dakota

@wattnaught.bsky.social

February 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM

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juuniper 🌧️🌱

@juunikko.bsky.social

Mosslax! 🌱

I’m excited for Pokopia, are you?
#pokemon #pokopia

January 23, 2026 at 7:05 AM

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read ministry for the future

@cosmic.bitch.space

a human talking to a parrot. the human says 'say "i am alive"'. the parrot says 'shrock'. the human says 'oh my god.'

February 11, 2026 at 3:55 PM

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Croix S. Almer

@tehweenus.bsky.social

my brothers have accepted me into the Raichu frat.

February 11, 2026 at 1:55 PM

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🔞R@NDY The Digital Catboy🔞

@fayseguts.bsky.social

February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM

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Ryan

@hashburrowns.bsky.social

I honestly like this process more than doing actual line art where i almost always hate it. So much faster too

🐻

A sketch of a fat anthropomorphic bear wolf hybrid in underwater and socks. He’s a little flustered

February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM

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Becca Petunia 🏳️‍⚧️

@tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social

This post is going viral, but this isn't walking back. It's reiterating the initial press release. There's no new information in this post, aside from them saying they're using a different ID partner (which doesn't solve that problem) and the Reddit joke. Everything else is the same. Keep pushing.

Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 2d

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 9:57 AM

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Mana is stored in the balls

@chapu.sheath.church

He's staying as my overworld character for a while just because of the new outfit 😊

February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM

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ArtMutt

@artmutt.bsky.social

Now with 100% more kilt!

February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM

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GB

@gbdialga.bsky.social

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM

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n@kamura

@nakamura-a830.bsky.social

Patreon＆pixivFANBOXでHard onを公開しました！
nakamura3rd.fanbox.cc/posts/113828...
www.patreon.com/posts/hard-o...

February 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM

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マルコイ・スキー

@metabosukiy.bsky.social

「この１か月でずいぶん…パンプしたな」

#fatart

February 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Barnyardhog 🔞

@barnyardhog.bsky.social

Polar wrestling 🐻‍❄️
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Patreon art from May 2025
See earlier and exclusive artworks at www.patreon.com/c/hoggan !
Thank you so much for the support 🐗

February 9, 2026 at 4:04 AM

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Wolfaninensfw🔞

@wolfaninensfw.bsky.social

C-Can I, please?

November 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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i’m just ken

@shepardcdr.bsky.social

shadow the hedgehog with a speech bubble

February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM

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🐁 Inspector Arai 🐀

@inspectorarai.bsky.social

Squeaky Clean
🎨 @leobato.bsky.social

#BroktheInvestigator

February 6, 2026 at 1:56 AM

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PHI Φ

@phixart.bsky.social

"Heard any good rumours lately? Come keep an old bloke company."

New full illustration of Sykes, the head bartender of Quatre Saisons.
#LunaSanctus #bara #indiegame