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@gigaboots.com

Tonight I was devastated with the news of a creator I care about immensely passing while I was live on Twitch. Nobody should have to deal with that. Please, RT to let people know.

It's never okay to tell a streamer that someone just passed away. They're just trying to make people happy.

February 16, 2026 at 3:57 AM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

That's right Turner, I'm FUCKING YOUR PARENTS

February 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM

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dustin Couch

@dustinkcouch.bsky.social

screenshot time baby

Screenshot of 4 tweets on twitter.

The first is of the FBI's official twitter account tweeting "READ AND SHARE" along with an image that says

"WARNING: DO NOT LOOK AT THE INTERNET BETWEEN 12:01 AM AND 1:01 AM TONIGHT

-Unplug every monitor in your household

- Turn off your phone and leave it face down in an unoccupied room

- Lock your doors"

A user named "sonic daddy (single era)" responds with a tweet that says "wait what happens when I look at the internet"

The FBI responds by saying "You will know suffering intimately, Sonic Daddy"

sonic daddy responds "hm (thinking emoji) i'll think about it"

Screenshot of 8 tweets on twitter, all of which are red.

Sad Kirby: "ew make it blue again"

Joe Biden: "red :)"

i love the dang beach: "why is nobody talking about the fact that twitter is red now"

marios face (Response to i love the dang beach): "it isn't just twitter" Attached to the tweet are two images showing that other websites are red as well. One image is of Reddit and one is of Youtube.

The posts on Reddit are all encouraging the reader to unlock their doors.

The Youtube image shows a video titled "HOW TO UNLOCK YOUR DOORS (HOT)"

daniel: raise your hand if you're looking at the internet even though the government said not to (raised hand emoji)

sonic daddy (response to daniel): (A hand splayed emoji along with a picture of Spongebob raising his hand)

McDonalds: Please unlock your doors

sonic daddy:

my ex gf who ghosted me the entire internet

(handshake emoji)

✓red at 12:01 AM

5 more red tweets

nemesis of trains (Quote tweeting a tweet from the Wendy's account that says "Unlock your doors."): "no (thumbs up emoji)"

ps1 megaman: "red internets got netflix fucked up" Attached to the tweet is an image of a sitcom on netflix that looks very red. The subtitle on the screen says "[Audience Chants] UNLOCK YOUR DOORS UNLOCK YOUR DOORS UNLOCK YOUR DOORS"

daniel: first the internet goes red and now someone is banging on all my doors like i don't have work in the morning (eye roll emoji) great little day i'm having here

CNN: "BREAKING: UNLOCK YOUR DOORS RIGHT NOW" Attached to the tweet is an image of someone aggressively jerking on a door handle.

sonic daddy: "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT" Attached to the tweet is a red image of a small creature standing outside of a front door.

Twitter is blue again. There are 4 tweets.

melting laptop (Quote tweeting sonic daddy's handshake tweet from earlier, with the text now all replaced with the words "help me"): "looks like twitter had a normal one last night"

sara (Quote tweeting the Joe Biden tweet from earlier, but it now just says "help"): "?"

FBI: "READ AND SHARE" Attached to the tweet is an image that says "WARNING: DO NOT POST OR EXPOSE ANYONE TO ANY SCREENSHOTS OR VIDEOS TAKEN OF THE INTERNET LAST NIGHT BETWEEN 12:01 AM AND 1:01 AM"

dustin Couch: "screenshot time baby" Attached to the tweet are the four screenshots that you're looking at.

September 16, 2023 at 10:59 PM

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Iain Hendry

@iainhendry.bsky.social

Posting “my lungs got no oxygen and PlayStation got no games” as I start to black out

Roxie @roxieproxy.bsky.social · 1d

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live.

"This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario."

The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD."

Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version."

PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

February 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

Are you sure..?

February 14, 2026 at 11:18 PM

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Ashlena

@ashlenasharma.bsky.social

I’m not like him. I’ll never be like him. #ff7

February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

Running MGS4 on my original 2017 Switch and watching it start glowing red hot like in a cartoon before taking my hands clean off.

NinEverything @nineverything.bsky.social · 3d

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 revealed for Nintendo Switch 2, Switch https://nintendoeverything.com/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-2-revealed-for-nintendo-switch-2-switch/

February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM

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Weird "Generated by" AI Yankovic

@cosmicharu.bsky.social

January 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

YEAH. I'M THINKING WE'RE BACK.

February 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

Somebody at Konami was visited by three ghosts at Christmas by the looks of it.

February 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM

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Senty, The Cool Cat in Town

@sentypurr.bsky.social

tapping the sign, cancel your nitro, your emotes and banners can very much wait until they stop asking for anyone's face data

Osaka, esoteric 6dof libidinal axis haver @osaka.zone · 3d

"Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses...

which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false"

Folf on X: "Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses... which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false" / X

Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses... which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false

x.com

February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM

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Eliphus

@eliphusz.bsky.social

It's Wooper Wednes-OH SHIT

February 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

We used to say "I'm quite enjoying this game"

the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 4d

Romeo is a Dead Man is currently jerking me off from the back

February 11, 2026 at 5:45 AM

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Novika (COMMISSIONS OPEN)

@thenovika.bsky.social

THEY ARE THEM

February 10, 2026 at 5:26 PM

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Princess Vika

@vic.re

Title: What I think will happen everytime I ask "can I join"
Picture: Drawing of a sheep who's been thrown at by a bunch of tomatoes

February 10, 2026 at 8:28 PM

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ellielotus

@ellielotus.bsky.social

Aqua doodle! 💙✨

#KingdomHearts #fanart

February 10, 2026 at 9:22 PM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

Won't lie, the stuff with Kiwami 3 has killed my interest in continuing with the Yakuza games past Kiwami 2. I may go straight to 7 if I do get the itch but right now all my enthusiasm has disappeared.

February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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Kye's Media Journal

@funkyetown.bsky.social

19. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2024)

This is a game that really does not respect your time and thinks wasting it is the funniest fucking thing ever.

It has its charm but I don't understand the Nintendo fans that think it's the best thing ever.

February 10, 2026 at 5:00 AM

Kye

@kye.myatproto.social

This is total bullshit, by the way.

When I went back to the UK for a couple months they wanted me to upload my ID despite me having had my account for almost 10 years.

Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 6d

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 2:35 AM

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it’s xeecee

@xeecee.bsky.social

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM