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Artist/cosplayer/gamer/shiny hunter/18+
Playing ptcg and beyblade rn
Fandoms: pokemon/yakuza/ow2/mgs/some other stuff
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robinandcat.bsky.social
I’m never giving an app get my ID. I follow Professor Garfield’s internet safety advice.
Internet safety infographic, starring that son of a gun, that gigantic thing, Garfield.
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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persisting.bsky.social
This is not Discord “walking things back.” This is them further explaining the situation in more detail, and elaborating on how the new system will work. I understand the impulse to attribute this to outrage and Nitro cancellations, but this is just a better explanation, not a change.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 15h
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 3:09 AM
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aftermath.site
The movement to remove voice actor who has admitted to sexual assault has Yakuza fans at their breaking point: aftermath.site/yakuza-kiwami-...
a screenshot from yakuza kiwani 3 feature series main character kazuma kiryu
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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yubuki.bsky.social
Zero
#Drakengard3 #DOD3
February 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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mrdo.pro
all i want to do online is play video games, talk to my friends, and look at girls boobs and every fucking day some freak i've never met decides to make it harder and harder to do that
February 10, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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xythar.bsky.social
I wish "the vast majority of adults" included me because I am a 42 year old living in Australia who has been using Discord for many years and I still can't access certain channels / servers without shutting down Discord entirely and restarting it with a VPN active (or scanning my ID but fuck that)
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 15h
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 4:41 AM
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gothgf.rip
small crab eating a grape (important)
February 8, 2026 at 6:16 AM
shadowdio.bsky.social
Which cat is stimky
February 10, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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gleno.theyetee.com
evergreen merch and marketing advice
jasoncryer.bsky.social jason cryer @jasoncryer.bsky.social · 19h
I had a bumper sticker get kind of popular on Instagram, over 20K likes (which is a milestone for me). For anyone wondering if it translates to sales - absolutely not. I sold 2. This is -not- a complaint but an observation, what people like and what people will actually buy don't always correspond.
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
austerity chic
February 9, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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kr00bs.com
if u want a safe space to be a freak in your own special way, you gotta fight for and protect the spaces of the freaks into fiction you personally don’t like, or that disgust you for xyz reason.

Thought crimes aren’t real.
Attraction ≠ Action nor abuse.
Freaks forever.
February 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I think I said this a while ago while arguing with people who said that bots can do law / medicine.

The difficulty in practice is not simply knowing the symptoms of a clinical presentation. It is understanding that you have to ask people questions to make sure you understand what is happening.
When the researchers tested the LLMs without involving users by providing the models with the full text of each clinical scenario, the models correctly identified conditions in 94.9 percent of cases. But when talking to the participants about those same conditions, the LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5 percent of cases. People didn't know what information the chatbots needed, and in some scenarios, the chatbots provided multiple diagnoses and courses of action. Knowing what questions to ask a patient and what information might be withheld or missing during an examination are nuanced skills that make great human physicians; based on this study, chatbots can't reliably replicate that kind of care.
February 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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dancasey.bsky.social
thank goodness it's finally Meat Day
February 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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mako-makotoo.bsky.social
古い絵。ヒスイバクフーンだよね～
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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docseuss.bsky.social
i still find it funny that the push for age verification is from a specific gambling lobby group that is trying to circumvent anti-'don'tadvertisegamblingtokids' measure by forcing everyone to verify their age
February 9, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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alyossan.art
Sorry to vent on main but I'm just so sick of being a grown-ass adult online who can't openly enjoy talking about or drawing sex stuff even in completely adult spaces where all minors are completely banned just because everyone has gotta be such fascist controlling fucking babies about it
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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shadowdio.bsky.social
Todays #plamo #30ms acerby
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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kyatt7.bsky.social
if you're in line at the nitro canceller, STAY IN LINE
screenshot of discord's Confirm cancellation screen, reporting that "Something went wrong while processing your request" for some reason.
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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nozdraws.art
I'm sick of waking up in the fucking pear wiggler, guys.
a computer generated image of a bunch of pears with the words the pear wiggler above them
Alt: a computer generated image of a bunch of pears being jiggled around in a three-dimensional box with the words "the pear wiggler" on a white bar across the top
media.tenor.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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tracker-td.bsky.social
A really excellent, detailed review, that's more explicit about just how much stuff *hasn't* made it into this remake - including the Murder at Cafe Alps sidestory, as well as the sidestory where Kiryu emphasises with a transwoman's struggles
videogameschronicle.com VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d
Review: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties is a remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken, and ending up with little to show for itself.

⭐️⭐️

vgc.news/review/yakuz...
Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties review: How not to do a remake | VGC
Sega delivers a disappointing remake built on disdain, not reverence, looking to fix a game that wasn’t broken…
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February 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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protagkun.bsky.social
we asked 100 men: what game would you play to bypass discord's age verification?
February 9, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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shadefish.bsky.social
I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
shadowdio.bsky.social
Nintendo ds pictochat
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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shinyquagsire.bowser.gay
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 AM