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Joshua Mason (DFX4509B)
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I'm an art hobbyist who likes to draw cute stuff. My current fave drawing media are oil pastels, chalk, and crayons, and my fave Pokemon is Pichu because he's cute.

I also recently got back into markers and modeling clay.

🚫NO AI OR NFTs!!!!!!!!🚫
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Joshua Mason (DFX4509B) @dfx4509b.cryptoanarchy.network · 4d
For those looking to get off Discord in the wake of this upcoming global age-gating, I'll put my Matrix down, and also link a directory of Matrix servers for you to join if you can't self-host.

My Matrix: @dfx4509b:unredacted.org
List of Matrix servers you can sign up for: servers.joinmatrix.org
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bear and birds #KidLitArt #cuteart
A painting by kip alizadeh in watercolour and oil pastel of a baby bear standing up to try and catch white birds that swirl around her in the blue sky
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Well, given I literally grew up with Sonic and Tails (I'm a year younger than the entire Sonic franchise), I'd say Sonic and Tails are two of my faves, although I haven't done anything with Sonic since 2015, so I'll post an old charcoal sketch of him, plus a recent drawing of Cream and Tails.
An old charcoal sketch of Sonic from a decade ago. A crayon drawing of Cream and Tails making a handprint valentine canvas I drew a couple days ago.
February 12, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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This is cute!
tequilamocking.bsky.social TequilaMockingbird @tequilamocking.bsky.social · 2d
Throwback to a time I picked up some green card, some recycled cardboard from a recent delivery, and made the Viridian Forest from Pokemon Red & Blue!

I loooooove how it turned out 🥰🥰

Kept all the pieces too, to make more paper forests in the future 🌳

#pokemonart #papercrafting #paperart
February 12, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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britspixels.bsky.social
Big ideas 💡✍🏼

#kidlitart #cuteart #illustration
An illustration of a girl lying on the ground doodling in her journal, with lots of cute imagery flowing up and out from her book.
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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I don't trust this in the slightest. Wanna know why? Look back a few years when Google tried to DRM the web with WEI, and had to axe it due to mass backlash, or even more recently, look at Google's supposed 'walkback' of Android lockdowns.

This reads like both of those scenarios.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 4d
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 7:33 AM
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This is adorable!
February 10, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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beckadoodles.bsky.social
Handmade is a work of heart ❤️
#handmade #becreative #antiai #doityourself #diy #cuteart #cats #beckadoodles #valentines
February 9, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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For those looking to get off Discord in the wake of this upcoming global age-gating, I'll put my Matrix down, and also link a directory of Matrix servers for you to join if you can't self-host.

My Matrix: @dfx4509b:unredacted.org
List of Matrix servers you can sign up for: servers.joinmatrix.org
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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I haven't posted any actual pottery here before, but here's a cute sunny day cup I made out of air-dry clay years ago.

#cuteart #cutepottery #pottery #clay #airdryclay #crafts #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintageglass
A cute sunny day cup that I made out of air-dry clay years ago. This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.
February 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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epicboyo.bsky.social
Chee loves her siblings!! 💛❤️💚

#chiknnuggitfanart #cuteart #kawaii
February 8, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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islandtwinartists.bsky.social
We had a blast with SCBWI's Draw This July/August prompt: Mismatched. 😄 How many mismatches can you spot? Bonus points for adding a creative caption for the speech bubble! #SCBWIDrawThis #scbwiillustrators #SCBWI #cutpaperart #mismatched #kidlitart #authorillustrators
For SCBWI's July/August prompt, "mismatched," two unlikely animals meet in the woods. One is an oversized moose with checkered pants, a flowered shirt, glittery hooves, and a tiny hat. The other is a colorful pig with an oversized decorated hat. They are flanked by bright yellow sunflower-covered pine trees with red stems. The moose has a speech bubble waiting for the perfect caption.
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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We have so many #Dreams for our world right now, and so does our dragon! 🩵 #scbwidrawthis #authorillustrators #dragon #kidlitart #scbwi #scbwiillustrators #cutpaperart
For SCBWI's Draw This! January 2026 prompt, Dreams, a rainbow-patterned dragon holds a gleaming gold star-within-a-star. A moon-within-a-moon smiles at the dragon. The dragon rests on shiny gold-patterned bubbles. The blue background shines with silver diamonds and gold stars.
January 25, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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'Cheese and Chocola's Oobleck Playday'

#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #chao #chaoart #cheesethechao #chocolathechao #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
Cheese and Chocola are playing in a glitter rainbow oobleck pool that Cream, Tails, and Vanilla set up for them with their help. As this is just corn starch, water, food dye, and edible glitter being depicted here, there's no harm in just leaving it outside to dry and disposing of it however from there, although the Chao twins' skin is going to be rainbow-colored for a while due to food dye's penchant for staining skin. There's also a random bee flying around. This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
February 8, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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'Cream and Tails Make a Valentine'

#cute #cuteart #sonic #sonicart #creamtherabbit #tails #crayonart #crayons #traditionalart #valentines #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
Cream and Tails are making a shared Valentine handprint collage canvas. They're sprawled out on a tarp as given loose glitter is involved, that stuff is very messy and gets everywhere, so it's best used on a tarp if used indoors. As such, there's glitter spilled out all in front of them, and also blue-violet and fuchsia paint that Cream and Tails are using for their handprints respectively, two bottles of glue with blue-violet and fuchsia paint smudged on them respectively, shakers of purple, green, and blue glitter, and violet red, bluetiful, and vivid violet pieces of construction paper that have had hearts cut out of them scattered all over the tarp as well. Also, trays of blue-violet and fuchsia paint that Cream and Tails used for their handprints are in front of them as well. This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
February 7, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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'Meet the computer you can talk to.'
> How 'bout no. This shit is why Linux and BSD exist, people, if you don't run anything that's DRM-locked to Windows, you'll be better off switching to one of those two alt OSes instead.
tomwarren.co.uk Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Oct 16
This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.
www.theverge.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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'Pichu and Dedenne Go Sledding'

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #dedenne #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses
Pichu and Dedenne are going sledding down a snowy hill using sandbox lids as sleds. This was drawn in crayon and photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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galaxyclown.bsky.social
Woopers, my loves. 🥺💙 #pokemon #pokemonfanart
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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epicboyo.bsky.social
Old art of Buggie making a jack-o’-lantern 🎃

#ocsky #cuteart
October 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Fuck the Gestapo. ICE don't even deserve to be referred to by their official name because they command such disrespect and hatred to be named after the Nazi secret police instead.
February 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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aprilovebird.bsky.social
Some cute comms for @miss-red-panda08.bsky.social ! 🌷🩷
Illustration of a little anthro mouse wearing some messy clothes & big glasses, and nomming on a lollipop Illustration of an anthro character wearing a cute lilac/pink dress & hairbow, looking happy Illustration of an anthro character wearing messy dirt stained overalls, leaves & flowers in their hair, dashing and holding some freshly picked flowers in their hand, looking happy
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Aww.
aprilovebird.bsky.social 𝚊𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕🌷 @aprilovebird.bsky.social · Apr 20
Springtime picnic date 🌷🩷🌸
#art 𖧷 #cottagecore 𖧷 #cuteart 𖧷 #spring
Illustration of a sheep & bunny having a picnic date in a meadow with a gazebo in the background. There’s flowers everywhere, and the picnic has tea, cupcakes & strawberries. The characters are wearing pastel floral dresses and some little round butterflies have caught the sheep’s attention.
February 2, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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feestochu.bsky.social
Daily pichu -02: getting ready to draw every day for 2026
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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'Frozen Tree Shadows'

I snapped a pic of some tree shadows against the snow (it hasn't melted yet) because I thought it looked really cool.

#snow #snowyweather #treeshadows #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds #canonfd #vintagelenses
A photo of some tree shadows against the snow that I snapped because it looked cool. This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it and it had a Polachrome sim added to it.
January 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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'Glittering snow'

A ground-level shot of the snow glittering against the street lights at night in my back yard.

#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
A ground-level shot of the snow glittering against the street lights at night. This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a generic 35mm f1.6 manual native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
January 27, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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'A Snowy Pathway'

A ground-level shot of a snowdrift next to a tree in my back yard, looks like a snowy pathway for small creatures to be walking down.

#snow #snowyweather #winterweather #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds
A ground-level shot of a snowdrift near a tree in my back yard. This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a generic 35mm f1.6 manual native-mount prime lens mounted to it.
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM