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Aim 🌸🧩

@aimbutmiss.bsky.social

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

February 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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Spax 🔜 FWA [🐟🦎🫟]

@spax.zone

btw if you wanna bully discord some more, export your data package by going to settings > data & privacy > request all of my data (select everything)
pretty sure this is a relatively expensive operation for them so having as many people possible doing it at once would suck for them

February 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM

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Kevin Fagaragan

@kevinfagaragan.bsky.social

I Wanna Take You For a Ride!
#mvc2 #art

The entire roster of fighters from Marvel Vs. Capcom 2. Everyone is positioned in order of their Select Screen appearance in the early console versions of the game. Marvel Characters positioned to the right, and Capcom characters positionrd to the left. Yes...there are two Wolverines lol.

February 17, 2026 at 12:38 AM

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Slug 🐛 VTuber

@vtuberloveslug.bsky.social

keep cancelling your nitro

February 15, 2026 at 4:57 AM

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3CheezPizza

@3cheezpizza.bsky.social

#megaman if you see me on the rush jet say hi

February 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM

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Faolan

@brujofaolan.bsky.social

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

February 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM

3CheezPizza

@3cheezpizza.bsky.social

#megaman if you see me on the rush jet say hi

February 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

@maggietokudahall.bsky.social

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants

Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨

Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors.

What can I do?

You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased.

➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives.
➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM

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Dana Terrace

@danaterrace.bsky.social

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM

3CheezPizza

@3cheezpizza.bsky.social

I wonder how the other Mega Man robots perceived the Upon a Star OVA

February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM

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Tetraco͓̽ld COMMS CLOSED

@fourtimescold.bsky.social

Day 11: Mega Star
#TetraMarioPowerUps #SuperMario

February 11, 2026 at 2:20 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 · 8d

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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JuniperTheory

@bimbo.city

anyways, don't get off discord yet; not because this isn't heinous but because we're currently in the post-horror scramble to find alternatives. give things a second to settle down so you can find out which ones suck and which ones don't. instead, cancel your nitro, yell at discord, and plan.

February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM

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Allister Jones 🐦 アリスタ

@allisteranim.bsky.social

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM