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ramiismail.com
A reminder: this is an Irishman with valid papers speaking about how he's being held in US concentration camps. If you don't have to go to the US, do not go to the US. "GDC" is not "have to go". One denial at the border is going to mark you for life, and that's the best of the bad outcomes.
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11h
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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tristanl.ee
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
i like to think of the kitchen as the “food zone,” because it’s where you store your food, it’s where you cook your food, and depending on your layout it might be where you eat your food. at first i was annoyed that this wasn’t getting any engagement but then i realized that i hadn’t posted it yet
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
xythar.bsky.social
fuck you
February 10, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11h
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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moomanibe.bsky.social
hire the person who came up with the most horrifying threat video games have ever leveled at a player
"Playing this branch will give you an unsatisfying ending in another, as-yet-unwritten story. You will not know which story; it may not come out for months, or even years. This is permanent and irrevocable."
February 9, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
Me in the Criterion Closet: wow Hollow Man, what a film

Criterion employee: you aren’t allowed to bring movies in

Me in the Criterion Closet shaking my sleeves in an odd way: wow Hollow Man 2, what a film
February 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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rpgsite.net
Active time action game .45 Parabellum Bloodhound from VA-11 Hall-A developer Sukeban Games is now content complete. A release date announcement in the coming months is possible if all goes well:
www.rpgsite.net/news/19573-4...
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
Discord: I have a modest proposal
The Leisure Suit Larry "age verification" screen, which is a trivia quiz with "adult" questions.
February 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
💯👇
"Our response should not be "This response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows how divided we are, how can we stop this polarization?" Our response should be uncooperative: "The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is. Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good! Everything about our society should make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even more alienated from even more of society??"
February 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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oku.mow.haus
The idea that everybody on the planet must forever be beholden to the default of babysitter of other people’s children except for their actual fucking parents, and as a result any attempt to opt of non-consensual babysitting must include getting my identity stolen, is an idea that must fucking die.
February 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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thembo.bsky.social
I dont think any Dem who votes to give ICE a dollar should ever get a single vote again tbh
stephensemler.bsky.social Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 1d
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:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
ICE funding exceeds the military budgets of all but 15 countries. This table ranks the proposed $30 billion ICE budget for 2026 among the largest military budgets worldwide. It has 3 columns — ranking, military or agency, and funding — and 40 rows, 39 of which are country military budgets and 1 is the ICE budget. ICE is ranked 16th, larger than the military budgets of countries including Canada, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Iran, and Switzerland. The ICE budget refers to the proposed 2026 discretionary spending in H.R.7147 plus average annual reconciliation funding in P.L.119-21. Military budgets are sourced from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
February 10, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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geranium.pink
Re: the #discord ban and me being stuck in baby face jail due to the Australia under 16 ban
Panel 1: In december the under 16 ban went into affect Discord mandated age verification. Between Face-scan and providing a photo ID, I thought I was safe with a scan Panel 2: My account was insta-suspended in under a minute, I am over 30 years old and it identified me as under 13 Panel 3: Discord gave me an ultimatum: give them a photo of me holding my ID or never use my account again Panel 4: I tried arguing I feared for my privacy; they have leaked ID before, I tried arguing I'VE BEEN PAYING THEM FOR 8 YEARS. They didn't listen Panel 5: I couldn't talk to most of my overseas friends for a month Panel 6: Looking for advice online: Turns out victims of the UK/AUS ban had it better than the norm; at least a person saw my complaints. Most suspension tickets are auto declined by bots; I cannot envision Discord scaling this for worldwide fairly Panel 7: I eventually complied, I'm pretty luck; I could get away with an expired license Panel 8: Currently discord is being hammered by people cancelling nitro subscriptions, I'd cancel mine if they hadn't had done it for me already Panel 9: my advice is this: Ensure Discord isn't your only point of contact with your friends
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
As a user affected by the Australian rollout: they're lying about pre-verification. Every Australian Discord user with whom I regularly interact is over 30, but we were still all required to verify
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 19h
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 2:38 AM
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lukeplunkett.com
spending a decade on a game, and putting stuff like this on record, to then lay off 80 people THREE WEEKS AFTER RELEASE is out of control
February 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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5uki5en5or.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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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
xythar.bsky.social
drives me crazy that every single app just constantly begs you to enable notifications now. i don't allow them by default because too many apps just abuse them to advertise to you. fuck off
February 10, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?

It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.
sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21h
don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes
February 10, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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 · 19h
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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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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jonbois.bsky.social
Dear you, I’m am spaceship. Together we will $1,00,00,00,00. Remember to pack GoodFood for eat in Spacd
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h
This is one of things. Bigtime.
Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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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 · 1d
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
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dominictarason.com
This is what I mean when I say that billionaires are a closed, incredibly stupid social circle.

Loudly declaring 'Fuck Tim Sweeney! I'm backing Good Guy Gabe' is just falling into the trap. They're functionally identical. Newell is just better at keeping quiet about his brain-worms. Usually.
rickenslacker.bsky.social apples, man @rickenslacker.bsky.social · 23h
Valve is generally good about keeping quiet and not letting any shit takes out to poison their rep, but even Gabe couldn't help himself with this
GameSpot article titled: Gabe Newell Is A Big Believer In AI, Calls It A "Cheat Code" "Essentially AI is going to be a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it." https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gabe-newell-is-a-big-believer-in-ai-calls-it-a-cheat-code/1100-6533328/ GamesRadar article titled: Valve's Gabe Newell predicts AI will lead to a "funny situation" where "people who don't know how to program" could be "more effective" than people "who've been programming for a decade" From his Steam throne, Valve billionaire says businesses should just "listen to your customers and focus on them" https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valves-gabe-newell-predicts-ai-will-lead-to-a-funny-situation-where-people-who-dont-know-how-to-program-could-be-more-effective-than-people-whove-been-programming-for-a-decade/
February 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM