The Nerdskull
LightNews LightNews
nerdskull.bsky.social
The Nerdskull
@nerdskull.bsky.social
8.3K followers 4.1K following 37K posts
Infamous Nerd Culture Opinion-Haver. Queer. Any pronouns. Annoying Bitch. Video Games, Board Games, Anime, Novels. Furry, but low-key about it. Lefty politics, anti-bullying, anti-harassment.

Check out my nerd culture media podcast, #BacklogDialogues
Posts Replies Media Videos
nerdskull.bsky.social
The Penta might be the worst weapon I've seen yet in Warframe yet. Seems way worse than it should be.
February 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
andalitebandit.bsky.social
"Don't worry! This will only affect a few Other People and totally 99% most likely Not You, therefore it's not a real problem! 😊" has done so much heavy lifting for the surveillance state and rise of fascism over the past 25 years.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 9h
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 5:38 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
airbagged.bsky.social
This guy is so fucking washed
Mr. Zodicus @bigzodicus X.com Can't wait for Elon Musk to use Grok to ai generate the REAL Fallout TV show 7:49 PM • 1/14/26 • 2.6K Views 17 2 Relevant v 5 Chris Avellone @ChrisAvell... • 15h They'll be picking pieces of Reddit outrage off the landscape for weeks 1 172 47 Ill 2.8K Chris Avellone @ChrisAvell..•15h S••• That is, if there's anything from Reddit left after they tried their whole "Fallout is anti-capitalist" bullshit, which, of course, turned out to be 1000% false Highlighted reply @CainOnGames 1 year ago Critique of capitalism was never the point of Fallout. In fact, the game went out of its way to mention that other countries like China were also behaving terribly. If anything, Fallout is a comment that war is inevitable given basic human nature. B 53 9 Reply 2 173 50 1hl 1.2K 贝
January 15, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
ristinraccoon.bsky.social
We got someone a few years back saying there should be an age cap on on a convention i’m on the committee for. We had to point out to the person that the whole committee were over their age cap, (and ask them who they thought was running conventions in the first place).
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
redfuchs.bsky.social
The furry fandom's rotating villain
Image of a snake eating itself in a circle with 4 captions: Pup hoods are sus, Feral art is sus, Pokemon are sus, 30+ is sus
August 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
mackeza.bsky.social
Ironic, as this was the magazine that referred to Pokémon as a "pestilential Ponzi scheme" in 1999, characterising its creator Satoshi Tajiri as a literal monster "His eyes are bloodshot; dark circles ripple beneath them... His monsters are a child's predelictions." He never gave another interview.
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
nerdskull.bsky.social
The funniest part of this whole thing is that I don’t really like Bad Bunny. It’s just not my type of music. But I’ll damn well go to the mat for him just to piss off MAGA chuds.
February 10, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
gatorpond.bsky.social
white us christianity's definition of "pro-family" doesn't mean caring for children; it means preserving their very narrow version of a nuclear, heterosexual, patriarchal family unit wherein children are property (and free labor) to be indoctrinated and made use of.
February 10, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
clarajeffery.bsky.social
This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 AM
nerdskull.bsky.social
Republicans: "We're the pro-family party." *kidnaps and traumatizes children"
February 10, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
dancow.bsky.social
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
nerdskull.bsky.social
I’ve been pondering the idea of trying my hand at making YouTube videos by picking an easy, if large topic, of obscure Super NES / Super Famicom games.
February 10, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
nicterhorst.com
Reminder that we can submit support tickets. support.discord.com
A screenshot of a discord request Text Header: Why the hell do you think facial scanning and ID verification is going to fly? Text: You just had a massive security leak like six months ago. Why do you think I'd ever want to upload anything of worth to your platform? I'm already concerned about privacy with what exists on there. I cancelled my nitro. I'm now looking for alternatives. I'm a daily, nigh HOURLY user, and this is a massive turn off. Good luck, hope you realize this is stupid and reconsider, like you did with the AI/LMM bs.
February 9, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
dragonfish.bsky.social
It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.
aftermath.site Aftermath @aftermath.site · 14h
Discord leadership only people on planet who think adding age verification to Discord a good idea:

aftermath.site/discord-age-ve...
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
parsnip.bsky.social
the appropriate response to "if we win we will kill your children because we know when you win you will not kill our children" is to make that political party illegal
apoorvanyt.bsky.social Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
nerdskull.bsky.social
Uniqlo had warm clothes on clearance today. Got a few things.
February 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
nerdskull.bsky.social
I had an old 34 inch beast of a CRT TV well into the HDTV era when I was in college. It was an RCA and it was older than me.

It finally released the magic smoke at some point and I took it to a TV repairman.
February 10, 2026 at 12:21 AM
nerdskull.bsky.social
Damn, the proliferation of LCD monitors sure was great, but AT WHAT COST?

We have destroyed prime cat perch real estate.
sharkabytes.bsky.social Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 10h
Cats: perching on CRT monitors and TVs since 19XX.

The PC is an Olivetti M20, a Z80 based compy with its own OS and a fine line in vector green felines. Dual floppies - nice!

Snapped from the Creative Black Book, published in '85.
A photo of a desktop PC with dual floppies and a slab like beyboard, on which stands a green-screen monitor with a grey, black, and white cat loading on top of it with a ball of yarn on the base unit below. A vector green cat on a PC is displayed on the screen. A pair of hands with long red fingernails can be seen, one resting on the keyboard and the other touching the side of the monitor.
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
histoftech.bsky.social
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
themckenziest.gay
Reminder that these fucking politicians are occupying our government on behalf of the worst of humanity
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE. Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
February 9, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
vondondolo.bsky.social
Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance. Fantasy strategy game using the Birthright rpg setting. It was way more detailed than a DOS game had any business being.
Picture of the in-game strategic map showing Anuire and its provinces. On the left side are options like "Diplomacy" and "Muster Troops". A screenshot of the game's tutorial that shows how the Espionage tab works.
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
nerdskull.bsky.social
I think the biggest thing I need to work on, as a writer, is writing characters who do not have any of me in them.

I’m looking at the cast of characters in a game design document I have and I realized it’s like if I made a PluralKit setup for all the different masks I wear in different contexts.
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
pirategamething.com
teenagers can't exist in public spaces or use social media but they can get financially destroyed by jimmy donaldson
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
atrupar.com
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
As everyone knows, the Country of Canada has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now, things are turning around for the U.S.A., and FAST! But imagine, Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!” What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING! Ontario won't even put U.S. spirits, beverages, and other alcoholic products, on their shelves, they are absolutely prohibited from doing so and now, on top of everything else, Prime Minister Carney wants to make a deal with China — which will eat Canada alive. We’ll just get the leftovers! I don't think so. The first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup. The Tariffs Canada charges us for our Dairy products have, for many years, been unacceptable, putting our Farmers at great financial risk. I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve. We will start negotiations, IMMEDIATELY. With all that we have given them, we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset. The revenues generated because of the U.S. Market will be astronomical. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by The Nerdskull
zackpolanski.bsky.social
It's time for Keir Starmer to do the right thing and step down.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Green leader Polanski calls for Starmer to quit over Mandelson scandal
Zack Polanski said the Peter Mandelson scandal had damaged trust in politics.
www.standard.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM