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Jason Li

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Designer🤹🏻‍♂️artist🤹🏻‍♂️educator. Co-creator of The Hanmoji Handbook, 🦙, 🪳. Editor at Paradise Systems ✍🏽. Links and things 👀 https://links.byjasonli.com/

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Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · Aug 14

🦺 Digital safety checklist update! 🦺 Glad it’s held up in the last 7 months. But lots to catch up on — like the sudden uptick in attention to cross-border travel and shiny new things

Full guide 👉 zebracrossing.narwhalacademy.org

🧵👇 for the updates, like why we 👎 burner phones, Chrome and Samsung.

Zebra Crossing: An easy-to-use digital safety checklist

An easy-to-use digital safety checklist

zebracrossing.narwhalacademy.org

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Carolyn Stransky Vohr @carolstran.bsky.social · 8h

We’re on strike.

The Berliner (@exberliner.bsky.social)'s decision to run ads for the Nova Festival Exhibition was made against explicit objections from staff and regular freelancers.

The ads follow months of pressure to suppress or soften coverage of the genocide in Gaza and its impact in Berlin.

The decision of The Berliner magazine to run an ad campaign for the Nova Festival Exhibition was taken against the explicit objections of its editorial staff and regular freelance contributors.

As we expressed in a letter to management, we freelancers consider these ads clear evidence of ownership taking a political stance on Gaza, having for months pressured the magazine to suppress editorial coverage of Palestine.

As such, we have no other choice but to protest the campaign by withdrawing our collective labour for the magazine's next issue. We demand that The Berliner withdraw the ads. If the ads continue, our protest will continue.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 2d

They call us inbred, they call us low IQ, that we learn nothing but hate, that we are backwards — nothing but vermin to be exterminated.

Persecuted groups tend to value ingenuity, which is why Palestinians are all intensely high-achievers. Another group used to be like this…

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

A lot of people do not really seem to know this sort of stuff

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

It is true you can't trust Israel or the US but you should probably be aware the ceasefire doesn't begin until Saturday or Sunday and Israel has a long history of intensifying bombardment until the official starting point of a ceasefire.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 2d

rv.dev version 0.2 is released, adding support for bash, fish, and nushell, as well as macOS on x86 and linux on ARM. we have added Ruby 3.3 as well as 3.4, and compiled in YJIT support for every version. try it out! github.com/spinel-coop/...

Release v0.2.0 · spinel-coop/rv

Adds x86 macOS as a supported platform, Ruby 3.3, and YJIT for all Rubies. Adds shells bash, fish, and nushell. Build for x86 macOS (#137, @indirect) Enable Actions support for merge queue (#137, ...

github.com

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 2d

Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...

From the corrypt post, quote:

It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level.

These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning.

From the cave story post, quote:

"What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 8d

The Trump–Netanyahu “peace plan” rewards Israel for two years of civilian slaughter and genocide while demanding that Palestinians disarm and surrender their rights. This isn’t compromise—it’s coercion disguised as diplomacy.

The rewards of terror

Almost two years after October 7, Gaza lies in ruins. Western governments have condemned the slaughter but continue to shield Israel, while Trump and Netanyahu push a “peace plan” critics see as surre...

canadiandimension.com

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 3d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Evening Star @eveningstar.studio · 4d

Evening Star is looking for a Gameplay Programmer to help us create our new game!

We are looking for a candidate with strong experience in C/C++/C# and experience shipping commercial titles. Th ideal candidate has a creative mentality and a strong eye for detail.

eveningstar.studio/careers/game...

Careers - Gameplay Programmer - Evening Star

Evening Star is now hiring for an Gameplay Programmer position.

eveningstar.studio

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Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 3d

And that's just two panels from one comic. Our Hot Net Hotel anthology will have 15 comics total. (Though they vary in terms of how dialogue or narration heavy they are.)

P.S. Last chance to support our upcoming anthology on Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/par...

Hot Net Hotel: Comics from China's Alt Comics Scene

An anthology of mainland Chinese comics curated by Paradise Systems.

www.kickstarter.com

Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 3d

Part 3 of 3

Doing the same before and after thing the bottom panel. The text in the overlay reads: The bottom panel update is much more minor: it's simply a rephrasing of the first sentence to make it smoother and to add an alliteration on the "quality quinoa."

Shows our third and final translation, typeset in place.

The annotation for the top panel says: As you can see, we reverted back to the first translation for the top panel.

The annotation for the bottom panel says: But kept the second translation for the bottom panel.

Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 3d

Part 2 of 3

Annotation overlay appears over the top half of the image and says: "We translated it as "the dude" below, but technically it says "big brother" in Chinese. It's always tricky translating older/younger sibling terms into English In this case, since the usage is part of a casual utterance, we went with a casual translation (rather than suddenly dropping "big brother," which would feel like a formal honorific.)"

Shows our second translation of the two panels

The first and second translations of the dialog in the top panel are shown side by side. An overlay appears in the bottom half of the image that says: You can see here that one of us tried to add more detail to the translation to make it more "accurate" to the original text, which mentioned "grain" and "two individuals." But at the same time, they sacrificed the flow/legibility of the speech bubble. It sounds fine in Chinese, but in this English rendition, it's kind of clunky.

Shows the comment one of us later made about how the new translation doesn't sound good in English and that we'll circle back to it later.

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Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 3d

Made a series of annotated screenshots showing how we translate comics at @paradisesystems.bsky.social (every script passes through at least 3 sets of eyes)!

Part 1 of 3

Shows the original Chinese script from two panels of a comic about mouse and real estate.

Text overlay appears over the previous image and says: "Every translation we make usually

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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André Arko @indirect.io · 5d

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

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VEXED (commissions OPEN) @v3x3d.bsky.social · 6d

New update for Chroma Noir's UI (v1.1)!!! 🖥️

A lot of people wanted smaller icons, so I added them and so much more!

Post below shows comparison between the new and original style. 👇

v3x3d.itch.io/chroma-noir-...

Cheers! ❤️🧡💛

#pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

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Pillowfort.social @pillowfort.social · 6d

A lot of people have been talking about Pillowfort on BSky lately! If you've heard about us but aren't really sure what we offer or where to get started, here's a handy guide to help you get started:

www.pillowfort.social/posts/922593

Staff: Pillowfort 101: Getting Started [Updated February 2024]

Hello! We're so happy to have you part of our community. Joining a new social blogging platform can be very daunting. Don't worry. We got your back. This guide will help you get started. But f...

www.pillowfort.social

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8d

Better late than never but I was on npr

To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard. Yes, lizard

It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking how they could have done better. And, maybe, how they can put down their lizard.

www.npr.org

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David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 8d

Let's all commit to dropping our lizards.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8d

Better late than never but I was on npr

To atone this Yom Kippur, you must drop your lizard. Yes, lizard

It's Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement. Many will take time to reflect on the past year, asking how they could have done better. And, maybe, how they can put down their lizard.

www.npr.org

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Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 8d

Again, selling some illustrations! Most of these illustrations are priced down and ranging from $50-100. I loved making every single one of these drawings and would love to see them in a new loving home ❤️

Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social · 10d

Just a few drawings I have available for sale on my ko-fi if you're looking for some art or ways to support artists especially as the holiday season approaches! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

Coloured pencil drawing of an edgy shoulder length haired woman sitting on a rock in the middle of the forest looking out pensively.

6 panelled ink drawing of a girl getting ready

an ink drawing showing the back of a girl who's underwater. She is surrounded by fish and seaweed.

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 8d

It's #bandcampfriday!

👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 9d

Tomorrow is #bandcampfriday!

I wanna hear your recs! I want to see them fill this feed I created!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

TELL US WHAT WE SHOULD CHECK OUT

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 8d

"We must refuse to tolerate supremacists in our midst because their beliefs do real and lasting harm... But we must also refuse them because they are compromised. They cannot trust their own minds. And so cannot be trusted in turn."

h/t @yvonnezlam.bsky.social

mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 8d

Supremacy thinking is the refusal of observation. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/beyond-credibility

Beyond credibility

To believe in supremacy is to refuse to see what’s right in front of you, over and over and over again.

aworkinglibrary.com

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 8d

bought a lamy pen at coex to celebrate the fact that i have a *takes deep breath to say the whole thing* yp books starfield coex branch #1 bestselling book (영원을 향하여, 정보라 번역)

i beat Han Kang!

Anton standing in front of Toward Eternity copies displayed in the no. 1 position at YO Books Coex)

Toward Eternity at no. 1, Human Acts at no. 3

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 10d

i haven't been to an in person conference since... 2019! i'd love to apply to speak at a js conf about all the things i learned making interactive comic websites! what are everyone's current fav javascript events?

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