diff --git a/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts b/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
index 834a67ece3664..200ecb5fed2a4 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/electron/main.ts
@@ -5410,6 +5410,12 @@ function buildApplicationMenu() {
       { role: 'cut' },
       { role: 'copy' },
       { role: 'paste' },
+      // ⌘⇧V is only wired up by this item existing: an accelerator with no menu
+      // entry is never translated into an editor command, so the chord was a
+      // no-op in every input in the app. The composer inserts plain text on
+      // every paste anyway, so this is the same result as ⌘V there — it's the
+      // terminal, preview, and other editable surfaces that need the strip.
+      { role: 'pasteAndMatchStyle' },
       { role: 'delete' },
       { role: 'selectAll' }
     ]
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx
index 3767a4ad4e4e1..28dbcf23a67b1 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/index.tsx
@@ -446,18 +446,12 @@ export function ChatBar({
   const handlePaste = (event: ClipboardEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
     const imageBlobs = extractClipboardImageBlobs(event.clipboardData)
 
-    if (imageBlobs.length > 0) {
-      event.preventDefault()
-
-      if (onAttachImageBlob) {
-        triggerHaptic('selection')
+    if (imageBlobs.length > 0 && onAttachImageBlob) {
+      triggerHaptic('selection')
 
-        for (const blob of imageBlobs) {
-          void onAttachImageBlob(blob)
-        }
+      for (const blob of imageBlobs) {
+        void onAttachImageBlob(blob)
       }
-
-      return
     }
 
     // Trim surrounding whitespace so a copy that dragged along leading/trailing
@@ -469,6 +463,10 @@ export function ChatBar({
     if (!pastedText) {
       event.preventDefault()
 
+      if (imageBlobs.length > 0) {
+        return
+      }
+
       // Under WSL2/WSLg the Windows host clipboard doesn't bridge *images* to
       // the Linux clipboard the DOM paste event reads, so a host screenshot
       // arrives as an empty paste (no blobs, no text). Fall back to the main
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.test.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.test.ts
index a2e54b2c07ee7..0204e08b18edc 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.test.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.test.ts
@@ -212,6 +212,48 @@ describe('extractClipboardImageBlobs', () => {
 
     expect(extractClipboardImageBlobs(clipboard)).toEqual([image])
   })
+
+  // A rich-text copy (Discord thread, web page, doc) carries prose plus whatever
+  // inline images the page decorated it with. That is a TEXT paste: attaching the
+  // page's placeholder graphics as composer images while the text vanished is the
+  // "blank attachments, no message" bug.
+  it('ignores inline HTML images when the copy carries its own text', () => {
+    const clipboard = {
+      files: { length: 0, item: () => null },
+      getData: (type: string) =>
+        type === 'text/html'
+          ? `<p>hello from the thread</p><img src="data:image/png;base64,${'A'.repeat(20_000)}">`
+          : 'hello from the thread',
+      items: []
+    } as unknown as DataTransfer
+
+    expect(extractClipboardImageBlobs(clipboard)).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps inline HTML images when the copy is image-only', () => {
+    const clipboard = {
+      files: { length: 0, item: () => null },
+      getData: (type: string) =>
+        type === 'text/html' ? `<img src="data:image/png;base64,${'A'.repeat(20_000)}">` : '',
+      items: []
+    } as unknown as DataTransfer
+
+    const blobs = extractClipboardImageBlobs(clipboard)
+
+    expect(blobs).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(blobs[0]?.type).toBe('image/png')
+  })
+
+  it('drops sub-thumbnail inline images — spacers, trackers, blurhash placeholders', () => {
+    const clipboard = {
+      files: { length: 0, item: () => null },
+      getData: (type: string) =>
+        type === 'text/html' ? `<img src="data:image/png;base64,${'A'.repeat(64)}">` : '',
+      items: []
+    } as unknown as DataTransfer
+
+    expect(extractClipboardImageBlobs(clipboard)).toEqual([])
+  })
 })
 
 describe('blobDedupeKey', () => {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.ts
index e8828fe890b82..42af807c39273 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/chat/composer/text-utils.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ const SLASH_INLINE_TRIGGER_RE = /[\s\uFFFC](\/)([a-zA-Z][\w-]*)?$/
 // `:` or `:D` smiley doesn't open a popover the user didn't ask for.
 const EMOJI_TRIGGER_RE = /(?:^|[\s\uFFFC])(:)([a-zA-Z0-9_+-]{2,})$/
 
+const INLINE_IMAGE_SRC_RE = /<img\b[^>]*?\bsrc\s*=\s*["'](data:image\/[^"']+)["']/gi
+// Below this, an inline data URL is chrome rather than content — a spacer, a
+// 1×1 tracker, or a blurhash placeholder. Real pasted artwork clears it easily.
+const MIN_INLINE_IMAGE_BYTES = 4096
+
 /** Stable key for paste dedupe — `items` and `files` often mirror the same image as different objects. */
 export function blobDedupeKey(blob: Blob): string {
   if (blob instanceof File) {
@@ -125,16 +130,22 @@ export function extractClipboardImageBlobs(clipboard: DataTransfer): Blob[] {
 
   if (DATA_IMAGE_URL_RE.test(text)) {
     push(dataUrlToBlob(text))
-  }
-
-  if (blobs.length === 0) {
-    const html = clipboard.getData('text/html')
 
-    if (html) {
-      const matches = html.matchAll(/<img\b[^>]*?\bsrc\s*=\s*["'](data:image\/[^"']+)["']/gi)
+    return blobs
+  }
 
-      for (const match of matches) {
-        push(dataUrlToBlob(match[1]))
+  // Inline `<img src="data:…">` in the clipboard's HTML — but only for a copy
+  // that carried no text of its own. A rich-text copy WITH prose is a text
+  // paste that happens to contain images, and its data URLs are the page's
+  // decorations rather than content: Discord ships a 32×5 blurhash placeholder
+  // beside every image embed, so copying a thread attached a blank thumbnail
+  // and (because an image paste swallows the event) dropped the text entirely.
+  if (!text) {
+    for (const match of clipboard.getData('text/html').matchAll(INLINE_IMAGE_SRC_RE)) {
+      const blob = dataUrlToBlob(match[1])
+
+      if (blob && blob.size >= MIN_INLINE_IMAGE_BYTES) {
+        push(blob)
       }
     }
   }