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paleonerd, moth lover, abnormal creature of the night ✨
#Art #Palaeoart
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thysanniaaa 💕🏳️‍⚧️ @thysannia.bsky.social · 3d
princess when she is right again about ornithopod soft tissue
thysannia.bsky.social
negative neck on this pigeon
A photo of a pigeon huddling on the ground. Its neck and head are tucked in so tightly that it looks essentially spherical, with its head barely poking out from its body.
February 10, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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winter.etheirys.social
despite what this post may say: this is not a walkback. this is a reiteration. we already knew this information. do not fall for unwise propaganda. keep the pressure on, financially or verbally. barrage them.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 8h
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 2:57 AM
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alaskanime.bsky.social
Reposted with alt text for people with screen readers - this is a welcome departure from how certain large organizations are handling revelations that high-profile members associated with and accepted money from Epstein and his organization, _AFTER 2008_ when he was convicted for soliciting a minor.
announcement from Dinocon: DINOCON We at DinoCon take the safety of our attendees, speakers, and staff very seriously. As a result of the release of half of the Epstein files, it has come to light that a select number of scientists, authors, and researchers relevant to the field of palaeontology allegedly engaged in correspondence with members of the Epstein organisation after the conviction of Jeffrey Epstein. We want to state that all respective individuals are banned from all of our events. Additionally, we find it deplorable that some established palaeontological organisations are not taking firm action to protect their members in light of these allegations. As such, executive committee members from organisations that are not issuing public bans to these individuals are also banned from our events. We do not tolerate those who allow this behaviour to go unchallenged within our community.
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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xkcd.com
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs

xkcd.com/3204/
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
February 9, 2026 at 9:10 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
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tetzoo.bsky.social
We're not ready to announce #DinoConUK 2026 events yet BUT David Armsby has released some info across social media... follow @dinoconuk.bsky.social and visit dinocon.co.uk for info. Happens July 25th-26th in Birmingham.
David Armsby promotional image for DinoCon 2026.
February 7, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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lri.bsky.social
Wow, not the post I expected to read this evening. Well done #DinoCon for standing firm 💪
February 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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arminreindl.bsky.social
Damn, I can never remember the name of that new dinosaur...
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Little 1-hr Resplendent Quetzal portrait sketch, off @kulindadromeus.bsky.social 's dinosaur prompt list #DrawDinosDaily (link to list in reply)

Phew yay I will finally have time to do some of these!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Digital portrait sketch of a male Resplendent Quetzal. He has a bright yellow beak, big black eye, and then a big fluffy spiky green and turquoise crest and beard of feathers in all directions around his head. On the breast, the colors turn toward blue, with a small patch of red near the wrist of the wing.
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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togekk0.bsky.social
Kaguya Hime
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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wario64.bsky.social
Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...
Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come.
arstechnica.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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madocactus.itch.io
time to be loud about this terrible decision.

discord.com/company-info...
February 9, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
Discord will be requiring your biometric data a la face scan if you want full access.
www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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johnrhutchinson.bsky.social
They had a recent major data breach from hackers. So surely there's nothing to worry about.
www.theverge.com/news/792032/...
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
www.theverge.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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hleehurley.com
I encourage Starmer to keep getting people to resign before he is forced to resign at the end of the week.

Finally something I can get behind.
February 9, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Tbf no MP will ever beat Sunak resigning in the rain while “things can only get better“ plays. Iconic moment
February 9, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
harem anime but all the girls are secretly competing to be the one who cracks the "guy"'s egg
February 9, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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yokkoe.bsky.social
Yuu & Touko
#やがて君になる #bloomintoyou
February 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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tomozaurus.bsky.social
The new iguanodont with novel skin coverings. In addition to the large scute-like scales on the tail, the body is covered with what the author's describe as "spikes". The largest ones are about 4 cm long but almost a cm thick, resembling short quills. The smaller ones are hair or eyelash-like.
Illustration of Haolong dongi with Laura Dern for scale (the animal is about the size of a large dog or a minature pony) Haolong dongi shown alongside the fossil with various close-ups of the preserved skin from Huang et al. 2026.
February 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
thysannia.bsky.social
sad that the pronoun labeller got deleted, and while it's good that there's a new one to replace it i do kinda hate it having such a colourful icon it's very obnoxious on everyone's posts (i guess arguably a good thing in some ways? but still kinda bugs me visually lol)
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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pixiecatsupreme.com
This just happened with the pronoun labeler being deleted
maxkriegervg.bsky.social 〽️ax krieger locks in @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · Oct 24
had a dream that this mf went "SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR PRONOUNS!!!" and it looked like this
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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antlervel.vet
"I wouldn't buy green bananas if I were you" is going to live in my brain for years
February 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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katie.bzky.team
a funny thing about rip's pronoun labeler replacement now that the other pronoun labeler has been deleted is that labels are always displayed alphabetically from each labeler so the pronouns are Her She if you try to select she/her because he set it up as split labels
pronounpicker.ripperoni.com Pronoun Picker @pronounpicker.ripperoni.com · 2d
Click into this thread to choose your displayed pronouns
February 8, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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sophiesaurus98.bsky.social
Enormously impactful for our picture of late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic flora! This is something I’ve been suspecting for a while now for a number of reasons and I’m very happy to see my intuitions vindicated.
February 8, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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thysannia.bsky.social
ROYAL BEAST
#Art #Palaeoart
A monochrome sketch of an Iguanodon's head. It is looking towards the viewer. It is sketched quite harshly and messily, and is shown with large, angular scales, a soft tissue ridge atop the back of its head, and a ring of spines projecting from its base forming a sort of crown. A dewlap hangs below its head. It looks quite threatening, its expression reading as a slight sinister smile.
February 7, 2026 at 3:29 AM