emmy !!!

A digital illustration depicting a glowing greenhouse full of plants surrounded by a snowy winter environment, with letters written in the snow spelling out "KEEP GROWING".

I drew this at the end of last year with the intention of sending it out into the world as a “Happy New Year” card, but as 2026 unfolded the positive message felt so out of step with the dire situation on the ground here in Minneapolis...

I'm crying laughing fuck.

An embroidered felt calico colored creature—long like a ferret, ears and face of a rabbit, bird wings and back legs, fluffy cat tail and cat paws—is smiling and curved in motion. It is surrounded by various stitched buttons, beads, and sequins in the shapes of leaves, flowers, and stars on a cyan felt background.

my collection #mycollection ^u^

text reads nothing grows in isolation, we need each other

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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)

In what is arguably the World's Best News, it looks like India is going to spend much less time in the "fossil fuel detour" than the US or China. It is moving much more directly to clean electrification.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Last October.

Is it really that, time, again?

It seems as if you only just arrived.

fanart of @badambulist.bsky.social's Dorley Hall books

in only white, black & orange -- robed white deer figure with a bite mark on its throat looks down & clasps the face of a collared black (&orange) dog figure.. the grasp makes its face appear to be grinning showing its teeth the dog has averted its eyes to the viewer

nurture

Gaza soup kitchen just opened its 14th location and are accepting donations! ⭐️🥫🍲

One of the reasons why Elon Musk and other folks on the right want to shut down Wikipedia (or "compete" with it). It's a good platform for regular folks to accumulate data, even keep track of all of this administration's atrocities in real time. Great work

One last boost for the evening crowd. This has raised a truly staggering amount of money, thank you all!! Also a couple people have said this is one of their favorite videos of mine, which is very nice to hear.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

ARTE

It was SO cold but the sense of community was overwhelming. Every corner had people handing out hand warmers, warm drinks, and snacks to protestors. My toes were numb and my lashes were frosty but it's nothing compared to the pain our immigrant neighbors are enduring. MN Strong 💙

oh my goddDDD I LOVE THIS BEAST SO MUCH i want little figurines of all of them stat ....... O(-(

more alien rabbit doodles

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#art

green alien rabbit space explorer looks bashful the bg is many fat cartoony stars

spare some fuel? 👽⭐
#art

Solar as Solidarity It's not just for saving planets any more

As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout

The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.

#ユミカカ　#創作

I hope my obsession with watercolors will soon pass and I will return to graphic art.

This is the most thrilling podcast I’ve listened to in quite a while: we are in the threshold of something truly transformative (in a good way!)

the amount of times ive tried to draw this concept is like over 10 i think now but most of it is on paper

He love this kind of milk ❤️

bath

3 panel comic. Panel one: coworkers stand around a desk, as another employee, a Humboldt squid carrying a big stack of binders, walks past them. One says to the squid, “hey Eric, need an extra hand with that?” Panel 2: the two human employees are laughing and a man steps into frame, breaking the fourth wall. He says “stop.” Panel 3: the man, still talking to the camera, says “squid discrimination in the workplace. Know the signs.”