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The last remaining Windows 98 Tech Support agent. Blacklisted by several gaming publications.
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Win98 Tech Support @win98tech.bsky.social · Sep 16
HAPPY MEAT SOCK MONDAY BLUESKY

GET THAT MEAT GANG, THIS WEEK WILL BE GREAT
win98tech.bsky.social
Midwest Emo is putting up with the worst singer in all of music because the instrumentals are transcendentally amazing
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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win98tech.bsky.social
Name a video game
February 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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maddiebiscuits.bsky.social
i should not be allowed to do sketching while i have a fever #art
digital art sketches of a black and white elf girl with black hair in a dark hoodie, a goth and skull rendition of strawberry shortcake, and Mr Boss from Smiling friends posed coquettishly tk show off his butt
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
THE RACE WAR STARTS NOW
February 10, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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kotaku.com
No ICE In Minnesota Bundle Lets You Play Games, Fight Fascism https://kotaku.com/no-ice-in-minnesota-itch-bundle-games-tabletop-2000667229
No ICE In Minnesota Bundle Lets You Play Games, Fight Fascism
Get over 1,400 computer and tabletop games while funding those helping immigrants and refugees
kotaku.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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maddiebiscuits.bsky.social
COMMISSIONS OPEN!
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All spots open for February! Valentine Galentine Palentine Let Me Draw Your OCtines.
Shares appreciated to help spread the word! 💕

📧[ msbcommissions@gmail.com ]
💻[ maddiebiscuitsart.com ]

[ #art #commsopen #commission #illustration #commissionsopen #characterart ]
Digital art advertising commissions of character chibis, portraits, sketches and half or fullbody illustrations
February 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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maddiebiscuits.bsky.social
FEBRUARY SALE!
💕♥️🧡💛💚💙💜💕

Heart hands are back for this month only! Shares appreciated to spread the word! 💗

📧[ msbcommissions@gmail.com ]
💻[ maddiebiscuitsart.com ]

[ #art #commsopen #commission #ych #illustration #commissionsopen #characterart ]
Digital art advertisement of a Your Character Here commission, of a character forming a heart with their hands pose
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 AM
win98tech.bsky.social
Without looking it up tell me the name if the current xbox and one (1) gane for it

You cant
ign.com IGN @ign.com · 10h
The next Xbox could launch in 2027, hints AMD. https://bit.ly/4qkxdpd
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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mickyde.bsky.social
That Starfield Star Wars overhaul that was getting a tonne of press is giving me a sketchy feeling. My video showcased that I thought it was a worthy effort but overall, it doesn't alter Starfield's content enough to consider a new game
February 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social
This post is going viral, but this isn't walking back. It's reiterating the initial press release. There's no new information in this post, aside from them saying they're using a different ID partner (which doesn't solve that problem) and the Reddit joke. Everything else is the same. Keep pushing.
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 9:57 AM
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allisteranim.bsky.social
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
Genuinely one of the positives of every socmed company fatman bombing themselves in the legs will be the death of centralized socmed. Return to small disparate groups again, it was so much better, we weren't meant to see everything by everyone all the time
summerlaverdure.bsky.social Summer Laverdure @summerlaverdure.bsky.social · 19h
You know...maybe with Bluesky and Discord doing this...

maybe forums will come back 🥹
February 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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dansheehan.bsky.social
Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad
February 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
Fuck you mean "Riot was working on a fighting game"

Why
February 9, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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artistncs.bsky.social
use youtube videos specifically made for discords new verification system, it isn't there to protect you so fuck up the governments id database with fake faces
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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emrys.gay
Just got this email back. Don't use email, use their form: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/req...

If you haven't used their support portal, you may need to request activation and use the email you have associated with your disc account.

Hit the same points as you would in an email, tips below ⬇️
February 9, 2026 at 4:35 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
Ultimately i give it a 60/40 on Discord walking back the "mandatory" part. They clearly want to clean house before going public but that could crash miserably if everyone cancels their Nitro subs so get to canceling
February 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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gozufucker69.bsky.social
yeah alright man
either they get flamed enough to not make it mandatory and just make it "heavily suggested" or they lose like half their userbase. ah well. i have no brand loyalty to discord
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

discord.com/press-releas...
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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smadseli.bsky.social
hopefully goes without saying but do not upload your identification to fucking discord
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 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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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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amityblamity.bsky.social
Just sharing this again for no reason: hothardware.com/news/death-s...
February 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
Break out the Gmod
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

discord.com/press-releas...
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
"Yer gonna rip yer dick off"
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
win98tech.bsky.social
I honestly have no idea why it thinks this? My best guess is the art i repost but i do rural maintenance work, i have 0 involvement in the creative industry
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 AM