Jenny Henkelman

Cirie shrugging mirrored 3 times

Cirie Fields will not be the third person voted out of #Survivor

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Imagine being so correct, so beautiful and so eloquent

As we have said and continue to say: the absolute vibe-based public safety conversation is not going to change until we get serious about social change: library-specific deescalation work and broader social interventions around housing, youth engagement, safe consumption, and accessible healthcare.

Delayed and Turned Away: How Access to Abortion Can Depend on Your Weight Research shows abortion is safe across body sizes. But BMI limits at clinics are still pushing some patients into different care and higher costs.

Abortion is safe across body sizes, but some medical providers are still turning patients away for exceeding their self-imposed BMI limit. Fatphobia is everywhere and in everything.

IN THE FUTURE we will have equality and instead of female patients getting useless, condescending advice from physicians it will be male patients getting it and I think that's beautiful

-Jenna

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

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.

A quilt in hues of lavender, green, and yellow. The design is a very traditionalist star block BUT the quilter has used color and negative space brilliantly to spell ‘look close judge me’ within the patterns of the quilt.

Blue, red, and pink half-square triangle blocks in funky patterns on a cream background. ‘Nobody’s free until everybody’s free’ is appliquéd in light blue across the face of the quilt.

Seeing some extremely cool photos coming out of this year’s QuiltCon! Would have loved to see the Gees Bend special exhibit. Love Tara Evans’ ‘Look Close Judge Me’ and Maritza Soto’s ‘Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free.’

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

Oh my god. In all the chaos today I forgot about Ian Mendes. He deserves a massive fucking bonus after this season 😭

I'm going to run circles around these new grads until I die.

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

when queer women speculate about a character being trans or gay we’re basically shitposting but cishet people will react like if they dont get in there and stop us right now we’re gonna call up the President of Earth and make him erase the concepts of heterosexuality and female friendship

If youre looking for the source of this image, see the feed of @weirdmedieval.bsky.social

So I'm an abolitionist & think we should work for a world without jails. When we point out elite impunity, the question is why ARE there jails if you don't have to go to them if you're rich & powerful, & they're just filled with people without resources.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this happened partly because francophone Canadian journalists are still using Twitter like it's 2018.

The waiter: And what would you like today young man?

My two year old:

(though it was also demonstrated plenty in TNG)

Parenting aside, Lwaxana is the character who most embodies IDIC! Infinite diversity! She celebrates difference and uniqueness and if people don't know that it's because they haven't watched DS9

Oh, the Freep story literally uses a photo of a pro Palestinian action on campus. This definitely will be fine.

"We don't have an idea yet as to motive," the RCMP just said.

So anyone claiming to know why this happened right now is full of shit.

Stop listening to disgusting ghouls with hateful agendas.

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!

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)

(discord screenshot) "anyone using discord from a desktop pc is verified over 30"

shoutout to @amazingthew.bsky.social for the actual answer to discord adult verification

Periodic reminder that what's marketed as 'youth social media bans' actually amounts to requiring people to provide personally identifying information in order to access whatever content a given government disfavours.

Great thread explaining why volunteers mass 3D printing whistles makes more financial sense than buying them in bulk!