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Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation is brave enough to just be about two messy bitches.

I used "smooth-brained" as a dig until a father of a boy with lissencephaly -- the medical term for the condition -- wrote me an incredibly patient note to explain what his son had to deal with.

This phrase is a gratuitous insult to parents and children who are already suffering. Don't use it.

Something compelled me to make this

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

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This. Endorsed 100%

#uspolí it’s a sign of strength that the administration‘s messaging has turned entirely to “don’t panic” right?

That’s what’s up.

#uspoli Stop being "exceedingly reasonable" by your definition. Be reasonable by the definition of human decency: demand they abolish ICE. Demand that other law enforcement agencies stop doing the same things to black and brown people in the country. THAT would be reasonable.

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!

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)

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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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Inbox: Upcoming changes to your subscription

Me: Oh boy, I hope it’s getting more expensive and worse 🤞

Ah finally scrolled back enough on the timeline to see what everyone is making jokes about drafts.

They're acting like it's going to be the Ferris Bueller movie when it's actually going to be WarGames

photo of a post from popsugarbeauty featuring Taylor swift in the stands at a game with a worried expression in her face and the words "Sports Fans, Beware of "Fanxiety Face" Today

The beauty industry wants you to not feel anything in order to prevent aging and I'd rather die than live my life constantly trying not to emote

Elon Musk is an idiot.

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How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

figure skating singlehandedly keeping the sequin industry alive

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

No one named Drake is catching a W this decade

My BFF’s final take on the game.

Bad Bunny holds a football that says Together, we are America.

Unidos somos América.

this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow

Sounds familiar