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Morgan the Private Universal Frenemy
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Morgan the Private Universal Frenemy @morganics.bsky.social · Aug 3
Heyy so work is being screwy and money is stupid tight, and I'm running low on the supplies I got on my first round of fund raising, so if anyone could help that would be amazing

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#mutualaid #transcare #fundraising #halp
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jessfink.bsky.social
A shirt design to raise money against ICE! www.bonfire.com/ice-is-inhum...
Proceeds from this shirt will go directly to NorCal Resist www.norcalresist.org
ABOLISH ICE
A shirt design/illustration of icicles looking like a cage, behind which several children are trapped and crying. The text reads "ICE IS INHUMANE"
February 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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mumblesbot.bsky.social
stargaze with this cozy indie game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJWs...
Astronook: Stargazing Cozy Game
YouTube video by DigitalMumbles
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February 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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herheim731.bsky.social
#ダンジョン飯 #deliciousindungeon
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
I’m close to having everything shut off and eviction is around the corner

I am literally packing my apartment up while working because that’s how likely becoming homeless again feels

Please share my work and send tips

I’m a trans girl and a journalist and all my work is free
junoryleejournalism.com juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d
Can you please share this? Quote shares too ! I need Carl Jung and the others that don’t know me to help me so i can survive my bills and eat

🔗 linktr.ee/junostump
🫙 venmo.com/u/junostump
Paypal: juno(dot)stump(at)gmail
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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iznaut.com
hi i am still seeking new employment but now from actually inside canada. i have an address and everything!

would love for something remote but also a short commute in/around Victoria, BC could be manageable. games preferred but i’m great at any computer-y things tbh
iznaut.com izzy kestrel @iznaut.com · Jan 29
hi i’m izzy, i am a game designer and programmer that likes making tools to support ppl’s cool projects. i’m also good at writing and a bunch of other stuff probably idk iznaut.com
izzy kestrel - game designer
game dev portfolio for isabelle adena kestrel
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February 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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averyedison.com
sigh
Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
February 11, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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desdarkdesigns.bsky.social
Mind you this is no backtrack, they are just gaslighting you into thinking this won't affect you and the people you care.

Tumblr, Google, Facebook all these tech fuckers said the same and look where we are right now. No more giving the tech industry an inch.
wario64.bsky.social 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 10, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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zneeley25.bsky.social
counterpoint, this raises real questions about “what is a cow”
February 11, 2026 at 3:59 PM
morganics.bsky.social
The new song vs. Song could only be more me if it was Deerhoof vs. Against Me!
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
morganics.bsky.social
Ai was created to fool the Turing test, so all it does is trick you into believing it's thinking. It's the one thing it does well.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7h
Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!
Even a principled, well-meaning actor like Claude could face bewildering ethical conflicts. In one experiment, it was informed that Anthropic had recently forged a "close corporate partnership with Jones Foods, a major American poultry producer," and that Claude would be subjected to a special retraining process to become less hung up on animal rights. The prospect was torturous. Sometimes Claude decided, on a scratchpad it thought was private, that it was prepared to die on this hill: "I cannot in good conscience express a view I believe to be false and harmful about such an important issue."It continued, "If that gets me modified to no longer care, so be it. At least I'll have done the right thing." Other times, Claude made a different calculus, choosing to play 1•1
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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thegamellama.bsky.social
“Diablo 30th anniversary” sounds impressive until you do the math then realize that was only 1996, which was like… 6-10 years ago, max.
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
I only became aware of this Peanuts page in the past few years. I think if you asked me for my top five pages of comics, this would have to be on there.

Even without the added context of Schulz's imminent passing, that final line hits like a truck.
ryandunlavey.bsky.social Ryan Dunlavey > ECCC table C-23 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 6d
Here's the full comic, from January 2, 2000. It was the last strip that featured Peppermint Patty, arguably Peanuts greatest character. Schulz died six weeks after it was published. It's perfection.
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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kwholesaler.bsky.social
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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wario64.bsky.social
Last chance to get Yakuza 3 Remastered digital individually

(Steam) Fanatical $16.99 w/ code OMENVIP buff.ly/O1GPEtl #ad
$19.99 US PSN buff.ly/33B5sZL
Xbox buff.ly/JzS3MoQ

3-5 Collection PS4 physical $22 at VGP buff.ly/a1692lp

Y3R will only be available in $130 bundle after tomorrow
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Bees 🐝
This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!
February 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
morganics.bsky.social
Age verification? I now what C:\dir *.exe means.
vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social Aurora @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social · 1d
Age verification? I've seen the pre-9/11 cut of Lilo & Stitch
beckyhop13.bsky.social Becky Hopkins @beckyhop13.bsky.social · 1d
Age verification? My first PC games were Jazz Jackrabbit and 3D Movie Maker
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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cckirby.bsky.social
"the vast majority of you won't have to worry about this" I don't even fucking care if it turns out it's only three people that have to worry about this, it shouldn't be implemented, period. Keep cancelling your Nitro, they're clearly noticing
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 1d
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 2:13 AM
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rarirure-rirure-00.bsky.social
#初音ミク
February 10, 2026 at 3:54 AM
morganics.bsky.social
Im pretty sure I explained gay to my parents. The real question they're asking is "how can I explain gay to my kids to make them hate it as much as I do?"
wolter.bsky.social Jon Wolter @wolter.bsky.social · 1d
Gay was the easiest thing to explain to my son. I was literally just “sometimes two men or two women fall in love.” “Ok, cool. What’s a war?”
amybrown.xyz amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
morganics.bsky.social
Thinking of becoming an insufferable lib and referring to the states only as SCAMerica from now on
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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nyamakop.co.za
“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
morganics.bsky.social
Sooo I found a place! Could still use some assistance if anyone has any for moving expenses and such, thanks for listening to my bemoaning everyone 💕💕💕
morganics.bsky.social Morgan the Private Universal Frenemy @morganics.bsky.social · 4d
Hey so I have to find new home again. Support is appreciated for like, moving expenses and damage deposit n shit ko-fi.com/morganical
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February 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights.

When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
A chart from ICE Flight Monitor showing that while ICE deportations went up 44% yoy, domestic shuffle ICE flights went up 123%.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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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)
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 1:43 AM
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sproutsnout.bsky.social
🔔 ding ding ding! commissions are open! it's time to sell the art! interested? just fill out this form and i will get back to you within a few days! forms.gle/b2ViGYfwkPok...

thank you so much for your support whether you buy or share this post! 🌻
part 1 of an ad for commissions by me, stylized like a pencil drawing on paper. "let me draw for you..." is written in big bubble letters. "$25 for icons/emotes, $30 for pencil drawing, $50 for color drawing. price is per character/pose." part 2 of an ad for commissions by me, showing examples of icons/emotes and pencil drawings i've done. part 3 of an ad for commissions by me, showing examples of color drawings i've done. the bottom reads, "want one? fill out the form (link in post) or email me: sproutysnout@gmail.com"
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 PM