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JasonILTG @jasoniltg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's wild to me that the Riftbound 10k in Pittsburgh this weekend is using Topdeck, notable Nazi-run tournament software. I was planning on going at first but after seeing this fact I don't wanna touch @excaliburevents.bsky.social with a 10 ft pole. Topdeck context: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Hello Magic: The Gathering players and whoever else finds their way here. My name is Luka. Before we get into it, I want to offer a content warning for… Well pretty much everything. Edit: A lot of new...

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Drift @zero-drift.com · 27/05/2026

Combo Breaker 2026 was a time. Thoughts and photos here. #CB2026 zero-drift.com/flexibility-...

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Ash @bsartsss.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Ves legs🙏

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

asexual people are devils

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TheHadou @thehadou.com · 07/05/2026

Over 100 players showing up to play Killer Instinct with me again is a blessing. Much love.

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COMBOBREAKER @combobreaker.org · 07/05/2026

The events and attendees listings for CB2026 are now available at start.gg/cb2026! We would like to thank everyone for registering. Please note: The event schedule will be available Monday, May 11 when our Program Guide drops.

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COMBO BREAKER 2026

The best place for COMBO BREAKER 2026 brackets, streams, standings and schedules all in one place!

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Shiburizu! @shib.live · 24/04/2026

Lots of stuff I'm excited to share over the next 2 weeks as we gear up for reg launch!!

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Ash @bsartsss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

See a couple, post a couple

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COMBOBREAKER @combobreaker.org · 18/04/2026

Join us in thanking Andres Blanco for this spectacular artwork commemorating CB2026! Andres's illustration celebrates the entire tournament lineup waiting for you on-site in Schaumburg, IL from May 22-24.

Multi-character illustration from Andres Blanco featuring the CB2026 tournament lineup.

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COMBOBREAKER @combobreaker.org · 17/04/2026

Standard Reg is ending soon.

Street sign graphic announcing that Standard Reg for CB2026 closes on April 18, 2026. More information at combobreaker.org.

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Poppihin @poppihin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This project is made by humans, ive seen the comment quite a bit but this is not AI at all we drew everything from scratch and i painted the Glass mosaics, I'm working on getting a composer and Sound team on board next. Thank you for supporting our Indie animation project!

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Shiburizu! @shib.live · 02/04/2026

just in case you need more confirmation Outlook is the devil's software the Artemis II mission control is troubleshooting an astronaut's Outlook right now

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 24/03/2026

just know that if you engage with harry potter in any form i'm judging you

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Troglodyke @ivymaid.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Found a guy

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

i love seeing them grow older ❤️🥹

4 panel artwork showing 4 different stages of Asimov and Ottilie's age, from young gremlins in the top left, to late teenage years in the top right, to early young adults in the bottom left, to the "current" timeline in the bottom right

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Abel Orion ☘️ | Femboy VTuber @abelorion.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

PSA for all twitch lurkers: You can stop these scummy ads from happening by disabling the page visibility API. Here's the extension i use for it :3 Chrome-Based browsers: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/disab... Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo... #twitch

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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 13/03/2026

i'm not currently organizing fgc events anymore. i traded that in for organizing in general, and i am very happy i did. without the time i've spent learning how to organize politically and locally, i would not have been able to help rally media attention for my friend and community member.

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Folderal Conspiracy, Esq @folderalconspiracy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13/03/2026

UPDATE: Beloved fighting game community member Ludovic has been granted bond after being detained by ICE aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

Ludovic [center] poses with a group of friends at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12/03/2026

it's crazy that we're all on here pretending like the world didn't radically shift under our feet last week. you just can't deny the technological leap that has happened and those of you who refuse to take advantage of it are going to get left behind. I am of course talking about slay the spire 2

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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

baby shooting stars 💫

Digital artwork of three baby piglets with shooting star fur patterns

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A Horse of Course @charliehorsephotos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I saw a group post this and have to say that it is amazing.

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Beyond the Obvious Metaphorical Fecundity @infraredaces.myatproto.social · 10/03/2026

Legitimately, CB merch quality is peak. I fucking love the zip hoodies! Sturdy material that won't disintegrate in the wash, soft, and hella cool designs. Cannot recommend it enough. If you go, get one (or 2 if you're me).

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 09/03/2026

Love is a basic human right🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Gender shouldn’t draw any lines. Why does the world make something so natural feel so hard? Let’s hold hands and shout it loud—love should be free for everyone. love is love♡

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Deer in the Lilies @deerinthelilies.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A four-panel "Anakin and Padme meme", with the captions:
"Webtoon reported $1․38 billion revenue"
"So they're gonna start paying their artists fairly, right?"
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"So they're gonna start paying their artists fairly, right?"

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amie sanchez @amietita.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

pollera dancers with swords... is this anything

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davi @davi-remastered.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

merkava under night god bless him

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Panel 1: Shen is keeled over a chess board in his chair at the park, sweating and gritting his teeth. He thinks "NO! I'M GONNA LOSE!! I'M... FALLING INTO DESPAIR..."

Panel 2: It shows the chess board, with Shen's clenched fist on it. Shen is playing the white pieces, and his king is on H1 somehow behind 2 rows of 4 pawns. The black king is on B7 and the black queen on D8 threatens checkmate.

Panel 3: A bishop comes in from off the board and takes out the black queen.

Panel 4: Overly realistic depicting of Shen dramatically beginning to look over his shoulder, into the light.

Panel 5: There's a person diagonal from him behind him with a chess board with just the white pieces set up. He has a confident smile. Sunbeams come down behind him and the wind blows the grass gently.

Panel 6: Closeup of that person giving a thumbs up as the beginning of the song "Rap is a Man's Soul!" from Gurren Lagann begins to come on, with the lyrics "do the impossible, see the invisible..." The sun is producing a glare reflection off of his thumb somehow. He had moved his D2 pawn forward to D3 to line up the bishop.

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Infil @infilament.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My latest glossary.infil.net update is live! I've somehow surpassed 1,000 terms! Thanks to everyone who continues to use and share the site. This update has 22 new terms and 30 new videos, mostly Fatal Fury: CotW terms as well as video for the 2XKO terms from last update.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 23/02/2026

Trans is beautiful🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Love wins

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cyber professional @permadeath.com · 01/03/2026

Anthropic is not your friend, but OpenAI is your enemy

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Mag @magdraws.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

BROWT GANG

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

TRANS RIGHT'S ARE HUMAN RIGHT'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKLETON HOLDIN UP A FINGER TO POLITICANS AND THE PEACES OF SHIT WHO WANT TO WRECK EVERYONES LIFES, IF SOME OF US ARE NOT FREE THEN NONE OF US ARE FREE, THE POLITICANS AND BILLIONAIRES WHO RUN THE COUNTRY MEET ON A SECRET ISLAND TO BREED SEX SLAVES BUT THEY WANNA TELL US THAT WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOMEONE TAKEN A SHIT IN A PUBLIC BATHROOM, OR MAD AT SOMEONE FOR HAVIN A DRIVERS LICENSE, FASHISM AINT CREEPIN ANY MORE ITS JOGGING, THEY BETTER GET THERE BIG ASS BUNKERS BUILT QUICK CAUSE THERE FULL OF MEAT AND WE GROW HUNGRIER BY THE DAY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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YoungCrespo @crespocomics.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

you're playing with loaded dyce 🤘 Dyce comm for @sethanart.bsky.social #commission #oc #art #BRart

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Emm Kaede🐶🍁 @emmkaede.moe · 24/02/2026

So Discord is doubling down. No surprises here. Their age verification rollout bullshit is delayed to the second half of the year. discord.com/blog/getting...

What We're Changing Right Now

We heard you, and we want to get this right. So here's what's happening:

We’re delaying our global rollout to the second half of 2026. Where we have legal obligations, we will continue to meet them, but we will only expand globally after we've done the following:

1. Adding more verification options. We already had alternatives in development, including credit card verification. We’ll complete and expand those before scaling globally so you have more options you’re comfortable with.

2. Vendor transparency. We’ll document every verification vendor and their practices on our website, and make it clear in the product who each vendor is. We’ve also set a new requirement: any partner offering facial age estimation must perform it entirely on-device. If they don’t meet that bar, we won’t work with them.

3. A new spoiler channel option. We know many communities use age-restricted channels not for adult content, but for topics people prefer to engage with on their own terms: spoilers, politics, and heavier conversations. We’re building a dedicated spoiler channel option so communities don’t have to age-gate their server just to give members that choice.

4. A technical blog post before global launch. We’ll publish a detailed post explaining how our automatic age determination systems work, including the signal categories and privacy constraints. So you can evaluate our approach for yourselves.

5. Age assurance data in our transparency reports. We’ll include how many users were asked to verify, what methods they used, and how often our automated systems handled it without any user action.

What We're Actually Trying to Do

Our goal is straightforward: keep the Discord experience completely unchanged for the vast majority of people while ensuring an age-appropriate experience for everyone. Over 90% of users will never need to verify their age to continue using Discord exactly as they do today. This is powered in part by our internal safety systems, which can already make an age determination for many adult users without any user action. We'll publish the methodology behind this in a technical blog post before we launch globally.

We know many of you believe the right answer is not to do this at all. We hear you. We also know these changes carry different weight for different communities, and that for some, questions of privacy and identity aren't just preferences but safety concerns shaped by real experience. That's not lost on us, and it directly informs the choices we're making. We also know, from running this platform for more than 10 years, that teens need real safeguards. The number of teenagers on Discord has significantly increased since the pandemic, and they deserve an experience appropriate to their age. At the same time, we believe adults should be able to have a full content experience on Discord. Doing both responsibly means having safeguards that help ensure age-restricted content stays in adult spaces.

But the specific way age assurance works (the verification methods, the compliance requirements) is being shaped by legislation already in effect in the UK and Australia, with Brazil quick to follow, and Europe and multiple US states close behind. By building this ourselves, we can show regulators that it's possible to verify age without collecting identity.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

For 90%+ of users, nothing changes. Most users never access age-restricted content or change their default safety settings. For those who do, we have an internal system that works to accurately determine your age. Discord already runs safety systems that catch spam rings, prevent raids, and detect coordinated abuse, powered by our rules engine (which we just open sourced as Osprey for other platforms to use). Age determination works the same way, using the same category of account-level signals: how long your account has existed, whether you have a payment method on file, what types of servers you're in, and general patterns of account activity. It does not read your messages, analyze your conversations, or look at the content you post. We know "trust us" isn't enough here, which is why we'll publish the methodology before global launch.

If you're among the less than 10% of users who do need to verify, we'll give you options, designed to tell us only your age and never your identity. And if you choose not to verify, here’s exactly what happens: you keep your account, your servers, your friends list, your DMs, and voice chat. The only thing that changes is you won't be able to access age-restricted content or change certain default safety settings designed to protect teens. Nothing else about your Discord experience changes.

Your age group is private. No other user on Discord can see it.

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PolarBair 🔜 SQXL @polarbair.neocities.org · 24/02/2026

also check out my website that I update at least once a week: polarbair.neocities.org/info/about/

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PolarBair's Den

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Quasimodox @quasimodox.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/02/2026

Said it earlier today: The job of the Billionaire Fan Club is to manufacture consent for rule by wealth. In exchange they get elevated in status and enough money for comfort, but not independence. For them, being damned because they bowed and scraped for a rich pedophile is an existential crisis.

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Shiburizu! @shib.live · 24/02/2026

2xko should have air throw combo ender tbh

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TheHadou @thehadou.com · 23/02/2026

If it all turns out right, I think this year’s merch collection is one of the best CB has put together.

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VERTICAL📼BLANKING📺INTERVAL @vertiblank.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This has been in my Camera Roll for years

Let me be Pokémon Crystal clear about this, every voter in this Pokémon Stadium damn better Pokémon Go to the polls this time, or I'm gonna Pokémon Snap you want a Pokémon Battle Revolution then be ready to Pokémon Rumble 'cause I've got one more Pokémon Conquest before I Pokémon Shuffle off this mortal coil and welcome the sweet Pokemon Gale of Darkness XD

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 20/02/2026

I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me? My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

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PAR | BSAS | Fem!Shep 👊🏻 CEO @femshepfgc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

UPDATE from one of Lud’s closer friends: - someone spoke to him last night at 2 AM - he is aware of all the fundraising and advocacy the FGC is doing - he laughed at how much money we’ve raised - the guards are rude (shocker), but he is physically okay ✨ KEEP POSTING #FREELUD

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Ref54 @ref54.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

DMV FGC cornerstone and friend of mine Ludovic Mbock has unfortunately been detained by ICE. Folks are trying to raise money for his legal fees, please donate if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...

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Donate to Support Ludovic’s Legal Defense, organized by David Hazlewood

Ludovic Mbock is a dear friend who has always brought kindness and positivity to those… David Hazlewood needs your support for Support Ludovic’s Legal Defense

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crazy ass moments in nu metal history @numetalmoment.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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