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Jenothee
@jenothee.bsky.social
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Living on unceded Whadjuk Noognar land.
AuDHD, 30+ bird parent and artist with approximate knowledge of many things. Climate Action now > protect and preserve dirt!
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
The SAVE act would only disproportionately affect Republican voters if the Trump administration enforces the law equally everywhere

Under this administration, laws are not rules that apply to everyone, they are weapons to be used against their enemies
tommasinaresist.bsky.social TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦🍁 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d
Oops! MAGA to be most affected by SAVE act.

Secure Democracy Foundation analysis of State Dept & census data shows states Trump won handily have the largest percentage of citizens without valid passports.

So MAGA just assumed citizenship was written on their faces?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Republican Voters Would Be Disproportionately Impacted by Proof of Citizenship Mandates
Evidence shows Republican voters would face significant hurdles when exercising their freedom to vote – more than Democratic voters – under documentary proof of citizenship laws.
securedemocracyusa.org
February 15, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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scribblechris.bsky.social
Once again, the AI boom is pushing everyone deeper into building new fossil fuel infrastructure. The sooner this bubble pops, the better. I hope it buries every dipwad who's pushing it for good.

This is happening in a town of 10000 people, BTW. Just dropping a 1000 job campus on a tiny community.
‘I’m feeling absolutely sick about it’: Olds could get massive data centres, residents demand answers | CBC News
Olds residents are voicing their concerns and frustrations over a massive proposed data centre campus in the southern Alberta town that would offer up to 1,000 megawatts of electrical capacity to powe...
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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peterdgardner.bsky.social
Renewables account for more than 55 pct of Spain’s energy mix in 2025, and in first month of 2026 reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-a...
Renewables account for more than 55 pct of Spain’s energy mix in 2025, and in first month of 2026
Renewable energy accounted for over half of the total energy mix in Spain during 2025, with the trend continuing into the first month of 2026.
reneweconomy.com.au
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 AM
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mariathaldore.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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pegushi.bsky.social
HELLOOO, I will be closing shop the beginning of March and will not reopen until April, if you want anything, grab them before I close shop!
pegushi.bsky.social Pegushi 🔜 ECCC J-26 🔜 C2E2 @pegushi.bsky.social · Jan 7
✨NEW Ticket Postcards✨
You guys asked for some of these guys and I’m delivering!!!!!!
Ticket shaped postcards neatly positioned with illustrations of Flying fish, Sun fish, Moon Fish, Whale shark and eagle rays depicted swimming amongst stars with gold foil.
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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dileksayedahmed.bsky.social
Again, essential must-read by the ever-excellent @jwmason.bsky.social 👇🏾

Read and make read.

Added to my course syllabus ✅
The Real Cost of Affordable Housing | JW Mason
Understanding the debate over distressed buildings, multifamily rental incomes, and the rent freeze
substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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tweetyb.bsky.social
Minns must apologise! Please sign, we need an independent inquiry now! #auspol www.change.org/PublicApolog...
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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marynmck.bsky.social
Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
katemckean.bsky.social Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 4d
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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instanterudite.bsky.social
As it appears enough of the Liberals will sufficiently succumb to madness to endorse him as their next hapless leader, here's a piece I wrote way back in 2021 about the many and varied and still unexplained controversies that have swirled around Angus Taylor.

theshot.net.au/news/opinion...
How the hell is Angus Taylor still a thing? - The Shot
Angus Taylor a walking Venn Diagram intersection of fossil fuel fervour and cash for the boys.
theshot.net.au
February 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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tmshannonauthor.com
Amen

#auspol
allyann.bsky.social allyann @allyann.bsky.social · 4d
"Hollowed out by factional warlords, but plushly upholstered with lobby money, Labor under Albanese has flubbed the pub test with a ring-in; not some spectacular policy dud, ... but in outsourcing a nation’s compassion to the figurehead of a disgraced US-proxy state accused of war crimes."
#ausnews
Albo’s Waterloo: The Clayton’s PM and the Farrellisation of Labor
Bernard Keane says Albanese is a manager, not a leader. Urban Wronski says the rot runs deeper — into the Farrellised machinery of a captured Clayton’s Labor.
urbanwronski.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
Terrible. The bill now goes to the Senate. Make those calls. 202-224-3121
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House passes SAVE America Act, sending Trump-backed election bill to the Senate
The legislation would overhaul federal election laws in all 50 states by imposing new voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements. But it faces a daunting path in the Senate.
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Anyway news.chanda.science/archive/why-...
Why Scientists Must Stand with Palestinians
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (source) “On Rosh Hashanah will be...
news.chanda.science
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
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stel.energy
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
February 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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winter.etheirys.social
despite what this post may say: this is not a walkback. this is a reiteration. we already knew this information. do not fall for unwise propaganda. keep the pressure on, financially or verbally. barrage them.
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 6d
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)
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!
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 AM
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noticingclimate.bsky.social
Hi @anticopofficial.bsky.social, we're frustrated re: policing too.
@amnesty.org now joins you, so know that you've got friends.

#AusPol #Australia #Palestine #AntiCop #NSWPol #NSWPolice
fyi @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social @philipthalis.bsky.social @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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allisteranim.bsky.social
Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
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)
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!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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theverge.com
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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rotonomics.bsky.social
Damn that’s crazy. On a completely unrelated note

www.wikihow.com/Discord-Alte...
24 Discord Alternatives for Community Chat
Popular platforms for chatting, video calling, and community-buildingAre you looking for an alternative to Discord? Maybe you'd like more privacy or to be able to host your own servers, or maybe you w...
www.wikihow.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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davechisholmcomics.com
I mean, he IS referenced a dozen times, but also 37,988 more times
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 9, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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emergencybk.bsky.social
Posted elsewhere by @deniseshrivell.bsky.social with accompanying words
‘Sydney town hall #auspol’
February 9, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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justthefactsplease.bsky.social
Australia is poorer for his passing.

A no-bullshit political cartoonist and talented artist. Some of his work has pride of place at our hose.

Condolences to his family.

One of my faves:
Cartoon showing a scientist alerting us to the danger of change for thirty years.
February 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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alterici.bsky.social
If you hide that there's AI, it sells just fine? So, you're saying... people don't like being deceived? Hm. Interesting.
Screenshot from the nyt article about a grifter selling ai novels, the highlighted text says if you "if you hide that there's a i, it sells just fine"
February 8, 2026 at 10:34 PM