Nova/Minnow

Digital artwork of a boar piglet with shooting stars patterned fur

shoating star 💫

NSFW Artists being attacked on all fronts while the government actively protects pedos is fucking nuts and shouldn't be ignored.

this isn't really a "take" but censorship stuff is always ludicrous to me as someone who defaults to thinking about things on a really grand scale. "this person wants to fuck a cartoon character" as though our animal ancestors millions of years ago weren't trying to fuck rocks and shit. who cares

ALSO PARDON THE FUCK FUCK OUTTA ME, but I don't think the whole "porn addiction" and "gooner" discourse appearing at the same time as payment processors applying the squeeze is a fuckin COINCIDENCE.

With what's going on with Subscribestar, it's a good moment to remind you all of something:

Free speech also includes speech you don't agree with, and freedom of artistic expression also includes art you find horrible or disgusting.

And if you go: "Yeah I agree! However-"

Then you don't agree!

you get it!!!! 🥹

I really relate to this sentiment like even though I'm not a fan of most of this stuff you listed here and other things I will fight for them to be able to have their own spaces for it as long as it doesn't intersect with mine

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

Gecqua isn't quite what I thought at first | #tbshorts #pokemon

Demon Warmup 🐲

#corrosart

With Fire Red and Leaf Green on Switch now, there’s probably people playing Pokémon who have never played a classic 2D Pokémon game before, so just some advice: remember that holding down and B when throwing a Pokéball will help increase the odds of catching the Pokémon

screenshot of the video game ''undertale'' showing the character ''papyrus'' saying ''that's the magical seal trapping us all underground''. the part of the sentence ''magical seal trapping us underground'' has a red circle around it, with an arrow pointing to a seal edited to be holding a wand and wearing a magician's hat

very happy to see u

the first half of a parallel image set. sf-a2 miki as she appears in "human", in black and white, is facing towards the camera with her expression visible. she is gazing in dazed awe at a second depiction of herself, in full color, whose face is not visible to the camera. her future self is guiding the hands of her current self into embracing a glowing star.

the second half of a parallel image set. kagamine len as he appears in "ego renegade boy", in a male uniform with a bandaged face, is facing towards the camera with his expression visible. he is smiling tenderly at a second depiction of himself, in a female uniform clutching an alice band, whose face is not visible to the camera. his current self is patting the head of his past self as he runs ahead.

hello / goodbye

unbelievable lol

an illustrated three panel comic featuring an anthropomorphic fox character. three featureless characters talk to the fox: "Oh cool, you grew up in (redacted)? What was it like?" "What's your favorite childhood memory?" "LMAO do you remember that time in high school..." the fox smiles and starts thinking back. a thought bubble forms above their head, going off-screen. the fox's smile fades. they look at their thought bubble, revealed to contain nothing but a greyish blur.

quirky childhood stories!! 🤣🤣
#art #comic #oc

laura quest is my multi year love letter to tropical rouge precure and i'm incredibly proud to share the 3rd installment has been completed just in time for tropical rouge's 5th anniversary! (link in replies)

#precure #tropicalrougeprecure #visualnovel

the worlds not over
keep taking your meds
keep taking your HRT
keep scheduling surgeries
keep talking to friends
keep eating
keep sleeping
the worlds not over
you're still needed

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

ooooooo where'd you get these :0?

This is from HR 7661, calling itself the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act. This must not pass.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

Even if incest kinks aren’t your thing and even if you find it disgusting or weird, this is dangerous. They’ve come after strangulation and seem to be coming for more. This isn’t about “safety” it’s about controlling online anonymity and further shaming sexuality. Wishing my friends in the UK luck ❤️

I will feel infinitely safer around someone into practically any kink than I ever will around anybody who makes “content” demonizing people in this community for sport.

shoutout to the truly obscure kinks. the shit you can talk about forever but you can’t explain why it’s hot but you know deep in your soul that it gets you going. the shit you’ve seen maybe three works that have ever catered to it and you hold them close forever

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

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.

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...