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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 27m

This isn't my joke, I just read it somewhere on the internet but someone said about the Portland resistance...

"Support our Troupes!"

and it made me laugh.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 1d

As symbols of mass resistance go, a mob of Portland Frogs is just so vastly superior to those cringe-ass "V for Vendetta" masks.

LEFT: some schmuck
RIGHT: the righteous manifestation of the People's will

some schmuck in a black hoodie and a "V for Vendetta"/Guy Fawkes mask, who will someday be trying and failing to get laid by telling the story of his Black Bloc heroics

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 38m

The listening hour ends, going out on some truly beautiful metal from Japan for the soul... (from the band Asunojokei)

Shout out to the new release from Agriculture, "The Spiritual Sound, for inspiring me to spend my night listening to post/black/gaze metal.

明日の叙景 - 影法師の夢 [Official Video]

YouTube video by 明日の叙景Asunojokei

www.youtube.com

Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 48m

Classic metal video... an all timer...

Isis - Holy tears

YouTube video by Ivan Llorente

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 56m

How about some underground basement metal... super crunchy classic sound, a few sweet ass time changes. Really fucking awesome song.

SOULLESS - Serpent Reaper

YouTube video by AuburnRecords

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1h

How about some screamo from 2020... I haven't heard of Habak until recently and this live performance is insanely awesome.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsgo...

Habak - En Defensa del Ocio Creativo | Sesión en vivo | Cacho Estudio

YouTube video by Gerardo R. Rodriguez

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1h

twenty-five minutes of black post-metal, live from a field in Ukraine, 2023...

White Ward - live set at Kuyalnik estuary, Odesa, Ukraine (2023)

YouTube video by sAn live

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1h

Made me want to go back a few years and spin this again... beautiful metal.

Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves (Full Video) (Lyrics & Spanish Subtitles)

YouTube video by Valtiel

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1h

Where do we even go from that...

Boris...

BORIS "Statement" (Official)

YouTube video by Boris

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1h

Holy fuck. Just spun this album for the first time tonight. Then I came to see if there was a video for this song and... holy fuck. This vibe really struck me hard. Gonna be in a black gaze, post-metal hole for a bit.

Agriculture - Bodhidharma (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by The Flenser

www.youtube.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 8h

If you need any further evidence that corporations thrive better under authoritarianism than democracy, here it is.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 9h

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tech CEOs follow Benioff's lead and call for federal troops in their own backyard?

techcrunch.com

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 13h

I generally still mask, and honestly, for the most part, people have started to totally ignore it.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

It’s interesting being the only person masking anymore because I’ve essentially taken my invisible disability and made it visible. So people all stare at me and whisper to each other. I now experience the world as a visibly disabled person and it’s informative.

My strategy is direct eye contact LOL

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 13h

Nice. I mean, other than this, the game has been amazing. Tops Silksong for game of the year as far as I'm concerned.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 13h

George Soros is funding the purchase of thousands of inflatable animal costumes! This menace must be stopped.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 13h

That would be awesome!! Thank you!!

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 13h

I think it is because I made it past this boss several times without issue when I had fewer unlocks. But even if I could figure it out, I'd be discouraged. The game lets you play the way you like. That’s the joy of it. I don't want to adapt to a bug. I'm close to moving on from the game forever.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, Danny! Honestly, the only place I see people talking about this bug is on the Steam forums. But the whole fight is buggy for me and it's a huge bummer to be doing an amazing run and then just get stuck here and not be able to move forward. Hope you're well!!

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly, Portland is figuring it out. This is exactly the kind of imagery that makes fascists look like fucking tools.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 18h

This is awesome.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 14h

Hey @supergiantgames.bsky.social This bug, or some variation of it during the Scylla fight, is now happening every single time I play and I'm over it. It's really a bummer that such a good game is marred by a single boss fight bug, but it makes the game impossible and frustrating. Thoughts?

Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 2d

Hah. Just hit a shitty bug fighting Siren Band. The bandmates die, but Scylla stops taking damage. Hit animations triggered, cycles through her attacks, but HP bar frozen. I've done this fight a lot. Hasn't happened before. Got to hear the song for 20m of evading attacks/blowing up the flying fish.

Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 2d

Constantly impressed by how fun HADES II is. The way they meter out the story so that every single run seems to throw something fresh, interesting, fun, or funny at you is really awesome.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, this is way back in 2023?

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

Why do all these venerated interview people suck so bad at given interviews?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

Trouble Every Day (2001) Dir- Claire Denis

Holy fuck. So intense. Libido horror made even more shocking by the dreamy solemn disaffection of Denis’s filmmaking style. A nightmarishly beautiful, sad, strange, disturbing piece of genre filmmaking. Béatrice Dalle gives an all-time horror performance.

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go!!!! Alright!

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 1d

No alt text, so: this is an announcement for Swamp Thing 1989 #1-4 by Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Tom Mandrake, & Trish Mulvihill, under DC's Black Label imprint

They're finally printing the canceled story arc in which Swamp Thing goes back in time and meets Jesus

Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 1d

@mikester.bsky.social Just in case you didn't see this

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Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's One Battle After Another

"I'm in a secure location somewhere between the stolen land of the Wabanaki and the stolen land of the Chumash." - Comrade Josh

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

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 unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

@evanhill
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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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