Sylvi, Ur Werewolf Gf 🏳️‍⚧️

"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.

*puts up sign "will draw for gock, food, and a bed"*

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

I don't like the idea that I need to find a way to speed up my workflow, but practically speaking, especially since I want to be able to take commissions, I think it is a necessary thing for me to figure out. The trouble is having to balance that with also needing to continue improving my quality.

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)

WIP sketch of a wolf girl at 3/4 angle, looking at the camera

Furry art is so cool, I wish I could draw :3
(working on myself a new con badge, lol)

A pink-colored golden retriever x border collie mix, with moose antlers, pink and blue hair with dog bone clips in the hair, and white fur on the muzzle, chest, and tail. She is also wearing a pair of rose tinted glasses

Just finished working on a con badge for my gf :D

Gonna be real, only thing I really use Discord for is for voice calls and streaming games/art. Gonna be super easy to replace for that purpose I think.

Also do notice, these two Supreme Court decisions dropped the *same day*:

- States can restrict online speech if it is "adult".
- The mere depiction of homosexual existence can be objectionable adult content.

A plus B equals C

Age verification is deanonymization,
Deanonymization is censorship.

The Supreme Court is now taking away your right to anonymously *read* a form of speech. If speaking can mean that your readers have to subject themselves to potential consequences to read it, how can there be freedom of speech?

This is the only thing that works. Cancel nitro. Support tickets and emails can and WILL be ignored. They only hear dollar signs.

Just a punch directly in the wallet, and pledge not to resub until they walk it back.

todays a big day for longtime discord haters like myself 🫩

I've never had broccoli make me see shadow people? x3

What

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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

YouTube video by penguinz0 Complete Nonsense

Reminder that they're still trying to repeal section 230 (thereby making platform holders like bsky legally responsible for content posted by their users etc etc)

There is still a need for you to blow up your rep's phones on this if you enjoy being able to do things like "post" or "have an porn"

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

This is really the critical point: Firefox is packing its browser with AI slop functions by default; relying on a user actively choosing to turn it off.

That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools

Thank you ^-^

These are literally concentration camps, Idk what to tell you.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Letting illness run rampant in prisons is just one kind of genocide.

Thank you, she is uwu

A pink-colored golden retriever x border collie mix, with moose antlers, pink and blue hair with dog bone clips in the hair, and white fur on the muzzle, chest, and tail. She is also wearing a pair of rose tinted glasses

Just finished working on a con badge for my gf :D

GOSH, I could fuck up some steak

I know this may be a silly small thing, but with all the stress of the outside world, and my frustration with how difficult this has been making drawing, this makes me so happy

I'm testing things that usually set off flickering (tapping the device, opening the screen snipping tool, etc), and I'm so ecstatic that nothing's happening.

For anyone else with an XP-Pen Innovator 16, this appears to be a common issue with this device, and a fix has been found: www.reddit.com/r/XPpen/comm...

TL;DR carefully pry it open around the edges, starting at the USB port, then re-seat the smallest ribbon cable going between the screen and PCB.

AI has only made it harder for disabled artists to continue making art because a disappointing amount of people would rather have visual gruel than pay people to make art, no matter how bad the slop is. Supporting AI is harmful to disabled artists.

I really need to flesh out this character more, she's so hot, lol