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"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails." —T.H. White
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[1] My DW cofounder does work for Discord, but he (rightfully) does not share Discord's discussions with me. But they've put a BUNCH of effort into opposing these laws.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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I'm personally involved with 95% of the lawsuits in the US over these laws and I have lost track of which states have age verification laws in effect and which are and aren't under injunction! And that's not even counting the countries that are doing the same.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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What have i been up to: i'm making a short comic about staying at the Canadian Cancer Society's Lodge with my sister while she's being going through cancer treatment. The first page is on my Patreonnnn >> www.patreon.com/posts/day-at...

#sfedrawing
February 9, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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How did people respond to the Nazis exacting violence in the streets & rounding up people? Historians divide the response into 5 categories: Rescuers, Resistors, Upstanders, Bystanders & Perpetrators.

Minnesotans are acting as Upstanders right now.
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Filmmaker and activist Alanis Obomsawin recalls a time when two young girls told her they were turned away from a swimming pool due to racial discrimination.

She tells Face to Face how she turned the experience into community strength: youtu.be/tYM9A3TBOOA
January 16, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Ya’akub Ira Vijandre, a 38-year-old pro-Palestine activist and Filipino-American DACA recipient is a photojournalist, and first responder who has been held in ICE detention since Oct. 7, 2025, after federal agents arrested him at gunpoint outside his home in Texas. He was later transferred to the...
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Feeling helpless about what's going on in Minnesota? Here are a lot of versatile and well-vetted ways you can help from wherever you happen to be! (h/t @sigridellis.bsky.social)

www.standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration

IG roodabeguh
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Get There.
November 8, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡

If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support.

Do your part. Donate today.
www.blender.org/news/give-ba...

#b3d
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again.
Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals.
Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week.

DesertBus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
DesertBus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
@tiltyhouse.com You may have already seen this Reddit thread on SWE certification in Canada, but if you haven't, you'll probably appreciate the spice: www.reddit.com/r/cscareerqu...
From the cscareerquestionsCAD community on Reddit: Are software engineers not legally engineers in Canada?
Explore this post and more from the cscareerquestionsCAD community
www.reddit.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@anyaustin.bsky.social I know you're probably not a player of Sky: Children of the Light, but if you ever feel inclined to give it a try, it has some of the most picturesque out of bounds areas I've ever encountered in a game. There's a whole subculture around finding them.
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Emma and the old bench:
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Retroachievements using the "we're just neutral It's not political!" about allowing a romhack with pokemon named
"KuKlux" that's a ghost in a hood with the ability "Justified"

don't get me started on the "terrorist" pokemon

platforming hate isn't neutral
~Hack~ Pokemon Clover
Dear RetroAchievements community, We'd like to make a policy clarification regarding the User Code of Conduct's scope and our stance on content archival. Recent discussions in our community ha...
retroachievements.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM