Kris K. 🏳️‍🌈

WIP digital painting of Maelle from Clair Obscur Expedition 33

#clairobscur #e33 WIP 🔥✨

I’m excited to announce that my colleagues and I are proposing a $5 million program meant to support small businesses impacted by “Operation Metro Surge” in Minneapolis. 1/

"Don't worry about the Discord thing, it's only NSFW servers and channels that will require age verification! :)"

I could remove every speck of risque imagery/topics from my community and there's still a 50% chance we'd get flagged just because we're openly queer.

It's not actually about the kids.

Steve is like I have a little creature in my house and we kiss sometimes, it’s the greatest and this is what he looks like

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#strangerthings #eddiemunson

Illustration with text that reads FUCK ICE !! Two black cats are holding large ice picks for the viewer. They have white faces, white paws, red pawpads, red eyes, and red cheeks. The tall cat on the left is wearing a spiked choker and spiked bracelet. The small cat on the right is jumping up and down with joy with the ice picks. There are images of crushed ice surrounding them. There is a smaller image of a boot with large spikes on the platform hovering over some ice. The background is a bright red color with several dry, textured black paint strokes.

may I offer you an ice pick in these trying times? 🧊⛏️💥

#art #abolishice

lemon sharks 🍋🦈
#art #shark

the white throated sparrow is finally finished ⛄

Still doing this hmu if interested ♡

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

“Please enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!

being in a fandom where a very loud part of it mischaracterizes the character you like

electric dog

❗❗SCAMMER ALERT ❗❗

Ok time to put some order into chaos.

@ihaveahangnail (also know as Gigi) has been going around commissioning jayvik x heated rivalry screen redraw to multiple artists, only to dispute the payment later.

Proofs in thread 🧵

My fav reason to detest Gene Simmons has to be his son Nick. A life of privilege and obscene ego created the most embarrassing attempt of nepotism ever. In 2009 Nick released a comic that got some hype, “Incarnate”. That idiot decided to swipe from 1 of the biggest comics ever, Bleach.

This cruelty is exactly what Trump loves.

Families are going without food in their own homes.

Kids are hungry because parents are scared to go outside to shop.

#FeedMinneapolis is delivering food and supplies to innocent residents.

Chip in $25, $50, $100, $200 — or choose your own amount.

He will never stop adopting 🫣

#steveharrington #StrangerThings #billyhargrove #demosteve #demogorgon #demodogs

When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away:

“This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

"Why do you care if you have to ID yourself online you have to ID if you go into a bar irl or buy booze or go into a sex shop"

Yeah cool but the cashier behind the counter at the sex shop doesn't log my full government name, age, height, gender and birth place if I go in there to buy a dildo.

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

Daniela ma’am hi…..

lavender

Eddie tells everyone that he introduces Gareth to that his name it short for Ciggareths. He thinks he’s fuckin hysterical. Gareth is just biding his time.

Steve WIP
Turns out I can draw, the men just have to be at least mostly naked. Not complaining

world hard and cold but chicken nugget soft and warm

Felt inspired today, so here's a bunch of #ClairObscurExpedition33 sketches : D
They're all so dumb, I can't decide which one's my favorite, haha. Which one is yours?

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)

It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.

Discord moving ahead with ID verification for adult channels lifts my eyebrows into the stratosphere, like damn didn't you guys just have a data breach in October