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Serenhawk
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Adele. Fandom stuff & nonsense. Back on my vampire bullshit.

🩸Olde book fan•LDL lover•Loustat appreciator•DM junkie•pushing the Armandstat agenda•Armand defense team

💚💙• Associate Professor of Advanced Conchology

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Serenhawk @serenhawk.bsky.social · Jan 4
Decided I couldn't handle my multiple Bksy personalities on main any longer and split off a fandom account so I would feel free to engage more on both.

If I follow you here, it's because I either know you or want to! 🖤
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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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spookyrahl.bsky.social
Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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stagefatality.bsky.social
if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
serenhawk.bsky.social
Oh, Anne 😫 She was ahead of her time in many ways.

(I have read that book and remember liking it, but that's the only thing I remember about it, which might say something)
February 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
serenhawk.bsky.social
Probably the best video essay I've seen on HR and its place within queer media

youtu.be/U53MBXgdItI?...
The Cultural Power of Heated Rivalry
YouTube video by ME B
youtu.be
February 7, 2026 at 9:44 PM
serenhawk.bsky.social
This is interesting, and maybe I've been too hard on her for her female characters so often being detached and cool. It's frustrating.
February 7, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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mckatkat.bsky.social
Anne Rice in her book about reverting to Christianity, just straight up saying why she doesn't write as many female characters, for exactly the reasons I always assumed she didn't:
February 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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hrnews.bsky.social
Jacob Tierney & Brendan Brady discuss the creative and financial risks they took to make the show and break down the process that allowed them to work on a shoestring budget, without compromising the artistic vision.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...
Heated Rivalry Producers: How We Made a Hit
YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
tumblr post: lesbuchanan Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE'S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? reblog by legionoftuna Summer Triathlon: Don't run too fast, you have to save your energy for a swim and a bike ride! :) Winter Biathlon: I see you've been skiing for five miles now here's your gun
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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cassferatu.bsky.social
I fell headfirst down the Heated Rivalry rabbit-hole over the holidays, but I had too many other projects to focus on to do as much online yelling as I would've liked. Well... I still have far too many projects, but @assortedpuzzlepcs.bsky.social and I went and did a thing anyway. Enjoy ✨
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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auferre.bsky.social
In my experience, talent is a *detriment* to learning.

I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)

I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!
clpolk.com C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 3d
I'm going to say this again in case you haven't heard this one: I was a talented writer and it did *nothing whatsoever* because I hadn't put in the work, and I put in the work for ten years (subtracting the bit where I had to quit for my mental health) to write Witchmark

talent alone could *never*
February 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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spacewitchbot.bsky.social
I just saw Alan Cumming speaking eloquently about Heated Rivalry and the need for many more types of queer stories and now I’m imagining a world where he does a masterpiece mystery style intro to some gay show from around the world on PBS. This is the world we could live in
February 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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heatedpod.bsky.social
Hi friends!! Lucia & Cass here!

We are so excited to announce our new podcast, Heated Revelry! We will be covering all things Heated Rivalry and the Game Changers Universe!

Our first episode, covering Season 1, Episode 1 is officially up now!

rss.com/podcasts/hea...
Episode 1 | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Hi friends!Music: "Close To You" by Hotham is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License via freemusicarchive.org
rss.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
serenhawk.bsky.social
You're doing a thing!!??!!

Ahhhh I can't wait to hear both of you!
I'm gonna go listen. Probably means you'll get an (overdue) torrent of DMs from me again.
February 7, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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ohnoiratebrian.bsky.social
Someone uploaded a full video on IG (hat tip @toddfishernz) of Chappell Roan talking about feeling happy to see Pride stuff in AoNZ and the shit going down in the US. #thehorrors adjacent.
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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ttfffffffff.bsky.social
✨️PATREON PAGE IS LIVE*✨️
(with a lil' danlou update freebie to celebrate😏)

www.patreon.com/ladyofthecre...

*if u're an ios user and do decide to sub, pls do it from ur browser and not the ios app 🙏 it jacks up the price for u and takes 30% of my earnings, instead of 10%
TTF | Patreon
softcore 🔞 art
www.patreon.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
serenhawk.bsky.social
Ita so quinessentially Hozier, dark and deliciously fucked up but framed as a soft love song.
And absolutely a DM vibe.
February 6, 2026 at 1:22 AM
serenhawk.bsky.social
NFWMB remains my fave Hozier song of all time, and when I first saw the line of the Yeats poem he references as inspo quoted on Daniel's LinkedIn page, I had to go take a moment to lay down.
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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heavyweight.bsky.social
Today, a special episode: Minneapolis. omny.fm/shows/heavyw...
Minneapolis - Heavyweight
In part one, Jonathan and his wife, Emily, check in. In part two, the story of a family forced into hiding after an ICE shooting. Places to donate: Yamelis's GoFundMe Immigrant Law Center of Minnes...
omny.fm
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
serenhawk.bsky.social
This
artplus.ph/features/why...
Why Writers Should Watch “Heated Rivalry” — Art+ Magazine
The hit show has been making a buzz since its pilot episode last year—and deservedly so. 
artplus.ph
February 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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artseamoni.bsky.social
like honey on your tongue

#iwtv
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
I know this is a profoundly unoriginal take, but this is why Shakespeare is still awesome: the times change, but people don’t. When performed, rather than read, his work is a portal demonstrating the unity of humanity across time and space. There is comfort and tragedy in that reality.
lalahaenzy.com Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 5d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
Lower the retirement age from 67 to however old you are when Gmail first tells you your account storage is full.
February 4, 2026 at 9:28 PM
serenhawk.bsky.social
I love Misha but this got a genuine snort out of me 👏

I also need to fix my YT algorithm away from the proliferation of dudebros.
February 5, 2026 at 12:59 AM
serenhawk.bsky.social
[Spits tea]
February 5, 2026 at 12:42 AM