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Kiwipancakes

@kiwipancakes.bsky.social

Part 7: that’s right Ashley tease your man

#fatfur #comic #bhm

February 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM

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dille

@flurrys.nekoweb.org

February 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM

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WonderPuff (away!)

@wonderpuff.bsky.social

Part 2!
Those shorts never stood a chance against badger butt…

December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM

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Howard Dalton

@howarddalton.bsky.social

What a strange thing for the (looks at notes) Attorney General of the United States to be braying like mule over in a congressional hearing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

February 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM

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alyaza ΘΔ

@alyazabirze.bsky.social

definitely don't look into the fact that he's implied some of the legislation he signed should be revised and walked back, or the part where even California's visible queer legislators have condemned his rhetoric and behavior!

www.them.us/story/gavin-...

sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator...

Gavin Newsom Cites Trans Godson While Taking Anti-Trans Position

The California governor said that the states trans-inclusive laws around sports should change.

www.them.us

February 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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alyaza ΘΔ

@alyazabirze.bsky.social

guys, Gavin Newsom is such an ally: awhile back he signed legislation that was given to him on LGBTQ issues! anyways, please don't look up what he's been saying about trans people in the media, or stuff he's vetoed in the past year

calmatters.org/politics/202...

www.latimes.com/california/s...

February 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM

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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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alyaza ΘΔ

@alyazabirze.bsky.social

guys, if you just completely ignore everything Gavin Newsom says—as a POLITICIAN!!!—he's a great ally for trans people (ignoring all the counter evidence i just gave you)! do you hear yourself? do you think this is convincing me that i should do anything besides vote 3rd party if he's the nominee?

February 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM

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acesential

@acesential.bsky.social

Last night, I was thinking I could make a drawing with some light animation to give it more life.

So I put this together for Teya Emara- I don't draw enough her placed inside the world she lives in.

Music: A Stray Child - .hack//Sign

work time: 4h15m

#PavingTheWay
#TeyaEmara

February 10, 2026 at 8:38 PM

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TFsential

@tfsential.bsky.social

I know most people follow me here for my TF art, but I would greatly appreciate some eyes on towards my other work too. Stuff that isn't TF related I upload to my acesential name, and that work is just as important to me.

It would mean the world to me to have that side of my work appreciated, too.

acesential @acesential.bsky.social · 1d

Last night, I was thinking I could make a drawing with some light animation to give it more life.

So I put this together for Teya Emara- I don't draw enough her placed inside the world she lives in.

Music: A Stray Child - .hack//Sign

work time: 4h15m

#PavingTheWay
#TeyaEmara

February 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM

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Jenn Woodall

@funeralbeat.bsky.social

'Wanna Cyber?' My comic for Pulping Volume 2: REALITY. Part 1 of 6

A comic panel depicting a small, young, awkward preteen on her home computer, circa early 2000s.

February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM

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alyaza ΘΔ

@alyazabirze.bsky.social

Black History Month day 11, Aimé Césaire, is now live on Birzeblog

alyaza.neocities.org/essays/BHM/c...

⁵⁰ The slave ship! proclaim my certain and darkest instincts, the sails of black clouds, the polymasting of somber forests and the Calebars' harsh magnificence, a glaring memory of the whitening prow--this skeleton!

⁵¹ I hear coming up from the hold enchained curses, the death gasps of the dying, the sound of someone thrown into the sea... the baying of a woman in labor... the scraping of fingernails searching for throats... the flouts of the whip... the seething of vermin amidst the weariness...
— Aimé Césaire ("Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" [Notebook of a Return to My Native Land])

February 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM

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Ahhhhh

@nerdjpg.com

Capitalist progress!

Guatemala to Phase Out Use of Cuban Doctors Amid
U.S. Pressure
The program, nearly 30 years old, had allowed Cuban medical workers to fill critical needs in Guatemala, while reaping income for Cuba.

February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM

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alyaza ΘΔ

@alyazabirze.bsky.social

here's a problem with absolutely applying the harm reduction thesis these days: all Republicans are ontologically evil. it is effectively impossible to a Democrat to be worse. by this logic, even if a Democrat is evil (which many of them are), i should still vote for them. does that not seem stupid?

Mmm hmm. @hamburglarhimbo.bsky.social · 16h

I was having a discussion about this last night, how the left holds Dems to much higher standards than they hold Rs, and how scoffing at voting for someone like Gavin, if he is the nominee, and going all Jill Stein is how you end up with Roe v Wade getting overturned and ICE murdering protesters.

alyaza ΘΔ @alyazabirze.bsky.social · 17h

i don't regularly watch Hasan but i would also vote 3rd party, the "you have to support Gavin if he's the nominee" shit is so embarrassing in 2026, applied to a guy who gets rhetorically cornered by fucking Ben Shapiro and has all but said he will sell out on trans rights. have standards, my god

February 11, 2026 at 6:27 PM

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Emily

@2amwakeupcall.com

girls will literally say “estrogen hasn’t done that much” and then post this

[picture of KIKI, labeled day 1, and BOUBA labeled day 365]

February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM

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Or-Fi-S

@or-fi-s.bsky.social

Wing-it for @ccwoof.bsky.social

#OrFiS.Art

a anthro dog is suprised as a magic ring rises up and over them, turning them into an ivalician moogle version of themself with hyper hips and ass.

January 17, 2026 at 8:49 PM

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🌿Juders🌿

@yinkybaginky.bsky.social

idk they raise a good point

February 9, 2026 at 6:55 PM

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DOG of BLUD

@dogblud.bsky.social

The answer to this should be 'don't care' and to keep hammering them until they cease this shit entirely.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Discord has posted updated clarification:

-Discord is not requiring everyone to complete a face scan or upload an ID to use Discord
-The vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today, without ever being asked to confirm their age

discord.com/press-releas...

February 11, 2026 at 8:19 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 · 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 2:57 AM

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Na7urally Canine

@na7urallycanine.bsky.social

𝘞𝘩𝘰'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘸𝘰??

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You can see the next pages early on patreon, as well as support the comic!!

www.patreon.com/spectshift

There actually is more to go!! Its on patreon now!

SURELY SHE WONT.. YOU KNOW.. well... you'll have to see >w<

February 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM

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Dieselbrain

@dieselbrain.bsky.social

Youve gotta bother the shit out if your representatives about the issue of online ID laws, its not a discord only problem nor is it limited to nsfw content

Please get involved

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

February 10, 2026 at 8:07 PM

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Peter Fobian

@peterfobian.bsky.social

I stopped listening to Kojima's podcast because it had way too much Geoff Keighley content but tuned in for the episode with Oshii where he tortured Kojima by telling him how he'd logged 100 hours in Death Stranding and hadn't started the story yet.

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Mamoru Oshii, the director of legendary anime movie Ghost in the Shell, has said that he's played Fallout 4 for 10,000 hours while avoiding its main quest. https://bit.ly/4aud4Hh

February 11, 2026 at 5:29 AM

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Thembo

@thembo.bsky.social

That quote sounds very deep until you realize it's equally applicable to a tamagotchi

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV