@emerald-eel.bsky.social
I make high poly sculptures and low poly models. I'm a fan of science fiction, horror, monsters, kaiju and more. 3D artist for Excidio: The Kaiju Simulator. WARNING: I post horror-related content sometimes. #art #blender
Aloe plant "reading" black and white illustrated zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe."
70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish!
There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area.
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Google, Meta, and Reddit have been outing ICE critics in response to Homeland Security requests for their info
At the very least, close your Facebook account!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
The sooner this petition hits 100,000 signatures the sooner we can start becoming more prosperous and more secure. We are clinging to the coattails of Trump right now swinging in all directions; time to look a over the channel rather than over the sea to ICE.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants to Punish Their Schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
15.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 62 🔁 38 💬 5 📌 3get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
13.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 40037 🔁 7120 💬 1321 📌 2380
A building-sized minotaur beast model, with enormous horns protruding from its head. It's body is bulky and muscular. An angry expression on its face. It holds a chunk of debris from a building, shaped like a melee weapon. The creature was designed to look like something straight out of a Ray Harryhausen movie. This angle of the image is from the front of the beast.
A building-sized minotaur beast model, with enormous horns protruding from its head. It's body is bulky and muscular. An angry expression on its face. It holds a chunk of debris from a building, shaped like a melee weapon. The creature was designed to look like something straight out of a Ray Harryhausen movie. This angle of the image is from the right side of the beast.
A building-sized minotaur beast model, with enormous horns protruding from its head. It's body is bulky and muscular. An angry expression on its face. It holds a chunk of debris from a building, shaped like a melee weapon. The creature was designed to look like something straight out of a Ray Harryhausen movie. This angle of the image is from the back of the beast.
Mark Wahlquist, who worked at Eat Sleep Play, pitched some projects to potentially work on. One pitch was a War of the Monsters reboot, of which he made a giant minotaur beast as a proof of concept. He also worked on Twisted Metal 2012. markwahlquist.com/portfolio.html
#WarOfTheMonsters #PS3
so apparently the maya files from the famous "here comes pacman" video were released
13.02.2026 05:47 — 👍 784 🔁 264 💬 14 📌 13
Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
12.02.2026 16:06 — 👍 9827 🔁 2865 💬 58 📌 169
"Discord is apparently switching age verification providers to Persona due to the bypasses...
which means everything they said about it being client-side and face images not being uploaded is now false"
A brightly lit room in an old videogame showing lots of hand-done techniques artists used before modern dynamic lighting systems. Game: Undercover AD2025 Kei
This is a DREAMCAST game. The environment artists went to work.
Warm bounce lighting off the red carpet onto the table cloth, cast shadows from the light coming in through the windows, the light levels going from from bright and warm to dim and cool in the back, the green glow around the exit sign.
A shiny metal unidentified flying object made of brushed metal, with purple glowing highlights. It has 12 porthole windows, 1950s style space fins, and glowing lights on the underside.
A large UFO model. Around 2k triangles, 1k diffuse and emission texture.
#3dart #3dartist #1950s #50s #aliens #artist #blender #gamedev #scifi #videogames
The Toho kaiju SpaceGodzilla, but his crystal crown on his forehead is replaced by a yellow Pokemon themed Nintendo 64 controller. He stands in a black void.
SpaceGodzilla if he was awesome:
#1990s #90s #godzilla #kaiju #n64 #nintendo64 #nintendo #retro #videogames
Your favorite progressive politicians are extremely horny for bills that restrict access. Elizabeth Warren is notoriously anti-SWer and keeps putting her name on these bills.
Said before will say again: even Bernie Sanders signed off on FOSTA-SESTA before he VERY tepidly said he shouldn't have.
I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
10.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 3330 🔁 1311 💬 37 📌 47
my girlfriend and i have been unemployed for a while and we burned through our savings after getting our apartment.
we are desperate and could use some help.
if you are in a place where you can comfortably give, we would deeply appreciate anything.
CashApp: $GoldsThumb
Zelle: skiffserenity@gmail.com
We’re never going to turn our backs on our neighbors and stop exercising our constitutional rights. No amount of meetings with Tom Homan or anyone in the Trump administration will change our community’s resolve.
This only ends when every DHS agent leaves and they no longer exist to terrorize us.
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)
10.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 7879 🔁 3751 💬 245 📌 423Our hard surface artist @brickwork.bsky.social has some important words to share.
25.01.2026 03:11 — 👍 223 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 3Sadly so. Perhaps that could change in the foreseeable future (I hope!)
09.02.2026 22:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Matrix is FOSS. A bit on the complex side, though it does have DMs, chat rooms, webcam and screensharing capabilities.
Stick with the Cinny client, it's a safe bet. Its UI layout is close to Discord's. I'll be using Stoat personally, but the Matrix account is a backup if things go wrong.
Posted in October - "Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users" arstechnica.com/security/202...
09.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 3629 🔁 2250 💬 21 📌 132
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...
discord.com/press-releas...
This has been in affect for UK users for months, but now it's coming to everyone else by March this year. I recently made an account on @stoat.chat, which feels just as comfortable as Discord does. I recommend giving it a look!
stoat.chat
@discord.com Forced ID verification and face scans? No thanks, I value my privacy.
Push back against forced data collection and mass surveillance by letting Discord know what you think. But please remain polite!
discord.com/press-releas...
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
09.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 2510 🔁 1741 💬 595 📌 5621
a big orange cat with a lot of love in his heart, sitting in his cardboard box with his scratching post.
I hate that I have to do this, I really do try to keep my personal problems to myself
but my cat has cancer, and the costs to just even figure that out have bled me dry money wise. I have to ask for help, not for me but for him.
The Toho kaiju SpaceGodzilla, but his crystal crown on his forehead is replaced by a yellow Pokemon themed Nintendo 64 controller. He stands in a black void.
SpaceGodzilla if he was awesome:
#1990s #90s #godzilla #kaiju #n64 #nintendo64 #nintendo #retro #videogames
Palantir is ICE’s “eyes.” Horrific the UK awarded Palantir access to citizens’ health records.
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying firm Global Counsel that counted Palantir as a client www.ft.com/content/5bba...
