Don't let the news paralyze you.
Focus on you, build your foundations, and find a local community.
You can use this fear and transform that energy into fuel to protect yourself and the people you love.
Shit is getting real, but pressure cookers are what made us strong to begin with. 🥰
“This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war”
![Ludovic [center] poses with a group of friends at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66c5dzsjoocyuwls45m4is7x/bafkreid3dcieirytrgbt4wwd7zilqivb4cf5kkpuzbhdiir4qymxnktygm)
Ludovic [center] poses with a group of friends at the Combo Breaker fighting game tournament
After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home
aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...
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#FREELUD UPDATES:
- Lud finally spoke with his lawyer
- Lawyer presents the asylum case to a judge tomorrow
- Press coverage in progress; stay tuned
- Raised $$$ are enough for current/potential future legal fees, and to help Lud recover once he is freed; GoFundMe remaining open
Text on Twitch's website saying "Verify Your Identity" "Submit proof of identity and location to receive your payout" "In order to receive your payout, you need to verify your identity through Persona, Twitch's identity verification service. You will have 3 tries. Please be ready to provide both of the following: 1. A picture of your government-issued identification card, such as an identity card, passport or driver's license. 2. A "selfie" (i.e., a picture of your face), taken using a webcam or phone camera. By clicking "Start Verification" below, you understand that you will be leaving Twitch and will be redirected to Persona's service, and further understand and acknowledge that Twitch may send Persona limited personal information about you to facilitate the identity verification process, in accordance with Twitch's Privacy Notice. Information you provide to Persona will not be used for any purposes other than to verify your identity and will not be stored for longer than necessary to fulfill this purpose. Need Help? See our detailed onboarding guide." "Start Verification"
Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4
Update as of 2/21/26 6pm ET Thank you for your continued support of Ludovic and his fight for justice. We continue to share with him how so many are rallying around him and know it helps keep his spirits high. Ludovic’s Status: ICE has moved Ludovic again. Friday night around 10pm, he and other detainees at the Louisiana facility were placed in chains and told they were being moved elsewhere. Ludovic and others were in chains from 10pm to 5am when they were finally loaded onto a flight. Ludovic is currently at an ICE facility in Georgia. Similar to the Louisiana move, his lawyers were not properly notified. Despite this, Ludovic is still in good spirits and is finding humor in the absurdity of it all. His close friends and family continue to remain in contact with him as much as possible.
What We Know: Ludovic's Maryland attorney filed a Habeas Corpus while he was still in Maryland. However, ICE failed to properly communicate this to other states, meaning it was not enforced when he was moved to Louisiana or Georgia. The Habeas Corpus should prevent him from being relocated, but without proper communication between ICE facilities across states, it is not being honored. Ludovic and others have now been moved twice in 3 days. We know this is ICE's attempt to break their spirits and they are being targeted. Ludovic and the others who were picked up from Maryland, moved to Louisiana and now moved to Georgia, are people who are fighting and advocating for themselves and did NOT agree to deportation. Knowing this only gives us fuel to fight even harder for Ludovic's release.
What Happens Next: We previously decided to hold off on media engagement. After careful consideration with his legal team, we believe now is the right time to move forward. Next week, Ludovic's close friends supporting his release will coordinate a media push to amplify his story. A critical piece of our media engagement will be choosing the best outlets and reporters to share his story with the appropriate care and empathy. We will continue to provide daily updates here and advocate for Ludovic's release. Thanks for your support –Team Ludovic
lud was moved AGAIN from LA to GA
organizers are working with the media to amplify lud's story and THEY'RE PLANNING AN OFFICIAL MEDIA ROLLOUT THIS WEEK
you can help by:
1. repost or donate - www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...
2. save this thread + come back for official next steps
3. use #FreeLud
"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning.
The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.
they are killing xbox so fast its making it extremely difficult to boycott them
Spreading the information over here too.
Our beloved Chun Li player, Ludovics, has gotten detain by ICE.
Please, let's work together to help support him and get him out ASAP.
FUCK ICE.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-lu...
Thank you to @amadeus46.art for making this RESSHOUMANIA art. This has been an idea in my head for a while and Ama delivered beautifully and the timing was perfect. This is based on the PGG crew photo after the first Resshou with our mains repping us.
Take it from someone who practiced internet law for a decade: repealing Section 230 would take a wrecking ball to the modern internet, incl things like social media
And take it from someone who's been on the internet for three decades: sometimes I want to take a wrecking ball to the modern internet
"Checking in after the longest week of my life"
Thanks everyone for your kind words and continued support over the last week. I've been taking some time to think, and figured I'd check in with y'all about where I'm at and what's next.
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I failed to take photos again, but @genesis.gg truly did something to heal my soul. I only dipped my toe in with Evo, but I am so happy and honored to have had Genesis be my reintroduction back into TOing.
Super grateful and lucky to have something so amazing in my backyard.
This is NorCal. 💕
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)
Much love to the folks who took today's news as an excuse to buy my book (patrickmiller.itch.io/from-masher-...) , subscribe to my Patreon (patreon.com/pattheflip), and support Irene's new comic (patreon.com/koh). I don't know what the future holds, but I'll keep making stuff and see where it goes.
2XKO at evo might be a smidge awkward now
Ten years on 2XKO, 12 at Riot and I got laid off with 30min notice lol
Gonna take some time.
WHAT A JAM THAT WAS (full cmv in replies <33333)
What do you mean there is an official Higurashi 2v2 arena fighter that plays exactly like Gundam.
gender selection in tomadachi life: male, female, nonbinary
youtube chat going nuts WERE SO BACK ITS WOKEE LETS GOO NINTENDOS WOKE YES GAMERS WON WOKE ITS WOKE LETS GOOOO WOKE IS BACK!!
Tomodachi Life stream going great so far
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.
This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
average video game doesn't cause violence. factoid actualy just statistical error. call of duty, which inspires 10,000 cops each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
