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kyle / comms open! @poorlyflower.bsky.social · Dec 24

💜Hello! I am Kyle! (^x^)
💜I post art, music, and sometimes animations.
💜I repost my friend's posts a lot!! Check them out!!
💜I mainly post Drifloons and Pikuniku content.
💜But I also post art of other fandoms too!

a purple balloon with a yellow cross on it 's face

ALT: a purple balloon with a yellow cross on it 's face

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Brian M

@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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Mono

@stereoactivity.bsky.social

#comic #StereoverseComix #oc 8: You're In For A Scare... (transcription is in alt text apologies for my.. very bad handwriting)

a 4 panel comic
1: Ee-yikes! A scary beast is looming over our scared bread friend, ready to attack with its gritty claws braced for the feast... "It seems POLY found his next meal..." the panel is captioned.
2: "BWAHHHH!" Poly offers the bread a JUMPSCARE, he looks about ready to pounce, oh no!
3: Suddenly, he then pulls our bread buddy into a tight hug, exclaiming: "I'm just kiddin, I'd NEVER hurt you!"
4: As it turns out, famed actor in various slasher flicks, Johnny, is standing right behind them both. Disappointedly, he says "Dude, I swear you had like, a 3-panel head start."... whilst holding a literal cleaver and dawning a mask with a creepy smile.

February 10, 2026 at 12:52 AM

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Arnaud De Bock

@arnauddebock.bsky.social

February 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM

kyle / comms open!

@poorlyflower.bsky.social

another comm for norafruit #commissions #vgen #commissionsopen #poorlyflower

February 7, 2026 at 1:36 AM

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Mono

@stereoactivity.bsky.social

#comic #StereoverseComix #OC 7: Wrong Generation

A 3 panel comic
1: Blake here eagerly approaches his pal Timbi, holding a whirling pinwheel. He says “Check this out man, if we can make like a mega pinwheel we’d get like, uber rich, it’s like, infinite energy.”. Amidst his little ramble Timbi utters his name, not wanting to interrupt. “..Blake?”
2: Timbi points up at the wind turbines in the distance. “They did that, like years ago.”. Blake’s excitement quickly vanishes.
3: It cuts to the two sitting on a dock. Blake’s a bit bumbed out about not being the first to have an idea. “I hate being born in the generation where everyone’s already done everything.” he mutters. Timbi attempts to cheer him up by saying, “You were up to something by adding color!”

February 6, 2026 at 10:29 PM

kyle / comms open!

@poorlyflower.bsky.social

this is pandering to me and you specifically

February 7, 2026 at 12:18 AM

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Mono

@stereoactivity.bsky.social

#comic #StereoverseComix #oc 6: Jeans?

a 2 panel comic this time around...
1: Blake is looking at an old photo album of his moms, he asks, "Wait, ma, is that you." and she responds with "Yup!"
2: Not really with any malicious intent, Blake states "Wow, you looked somewhat cool.", but Maria tells him to "watch your language, mister."

February 5, 2026 at 3:13 PM

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Mono

@stereoactivity.bsky.social

characters with 0 correlation LO #ultrakill #puppetpipeline #art

February 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM

kyle / comms open!

@poorlyflower.bsky.social

one of my friends is Māori and ever since he told me the name for his ethnicity is pronounced “Mou-dee” I’ve absolutely hated hearing people say “ma or i”

February 3, 2026 at 7:34 AM

kyle / comms open!

@poorlyflower.bsky.social

yall ever learn how something is actually pronounced in another language by a native and since learning; start getting angry when you hear people say it wrong

February 3, 2026 at 7:32 AM