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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 1d

In honesty I kinda forget the details of the 3rd season, it got so deep

Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look, Israel is violating the ceasefire. Shocker. Who could have ever seen this coming

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Ms Rachel is a real one

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Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 1d

You stop this right now

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 1d

Ace Bailey is going to single-handedly keep me interested in the Jazz this year. Which is saying a lot, this is a dreadfully boring team.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 1d

Sports tech nerd here: I wonder if people realize how hard it is to create these MLB "Ump Cam" views that also have an overlayed strike zone.

I guarantee a bunch of people worked for months (or years) to make that single feature happen.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

That would be here: www.wired.com/story/mario-...

Got a couple more things coming in the next week or two. Appreciate the interest!

How They Make the Mario Kart-Style 'Ghost Car' for Auto Racing Broadcasts

Watch a Formula 1, Nascar, or IndyCar race and you'll see a “ghost car” overlayed atop the real-life image. The sensors used to create it also collect heaps of data that teams can access and study.

www.wired.com

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

Every day my social media feeds are full of innocent, harmless people getting assaulted, displaced, wrongly arrested or killed by those in power. It’s insanity inducing, and I don’t know what to do about it.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 2d

remember when you hear trump called a peacemaker that his government created a group whose sole purpose was to murder starving palestinians

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

Gaza Humanitarian Fund "distribution sites" (Israeli killing fields) are being dismantled as part of the ceasefire

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

Israelis taken by force and held by Hamas without charge or representation: "Hostages"

Palestinians taken by force and held by Israel without charge or representation: "Prisoners"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that secures the exchange of all remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. Will the deal really bring peace? Listen to "The Daily."

How Trump Got Israel and Hamas to a Truce

Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that paves the way for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza and the return of all remaining hostages.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

I'll look, I'm sure I can find it

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

I will look on my end as well but do you know if this is available to us silly Americans

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

Like, this is insane. These people are being held in identical scenarios.

They're all hostages.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 2d

Israelis taken by force and held by Hamas without charge or representation: "Hostages"

Palestinians taken by force and held by Israel without charge or representation: "Prisoners"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that secures the exchange of all remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. Will the deal really bring peace? Listen to "The Daily."

How Trump Got Israel and Hamas to a Truce

Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that paves the way for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza and the return of all remaining hostages.

nyti.ms

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

Every time Israel enters a ceasefire, it:

-Continues killing people RIGHT UP UNTIL the ceasefire begins - in fact, it often increases them, trying to sneak in as much death as possible first
-Violates the ceasefire within a month or two
-Blames Hamas, entire Western world just goes along

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

Look at how the two sides have behaved since agreeing to a ceasefire.

Hamas: Begins finalizing plans for hostage return, as agreed

Israel: Continues murdering civilians on live TV

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

Israeli tanks fired directly at civilians on Al-Rashid Street on Thursday as they were trying to return to northern Gaza.

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AOQ’s Glowing Skeleton @faqrules.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah for decades.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

Using "the hostages" as justification for the 2-year genocide Israel has wrought on Gaza has been absurd from day 1 for numerous reasons.

But this is the biggest one: Israel has OPENLY been holding thousands of Palestinian hostages!

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

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

It's a legit life goal of mine, now, to have someone say "he's genuinely an idiot" about me and have it be that much of a compliment

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

Could you email me? It's in my bio

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 3d

Helping my son learn how to pee standing up is easily on my Rushmore of lifetime activities enjoyed.

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 3d

It's clear that when the US wants a ceasefire deal, one miraculously occurs. Makes the "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" stuff from last year even more disgusting.

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 4d

Stoked to see how these "journalists" will help "shift a narrative" and stop our eyes from seeing all the women and children being murdered in Gaza on our social media feeds

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Van Jones, two NYT journalists and Michael Powell (of The Atlantic, formerly NYT) are among 16 "scholars and journalists" serving as mentors for a journalism fellowship with the mission to "support a secure State of Israel,” and which the founder says exists to win an "information war."

Other fellowship mentors include CNN’s Van Jones, who recently issued an apology after drawing intense criticism for comments he made on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday making light of images of dead Palestinian children and saying they were part of an Iran and Qatar disinformation campaign; and Michael Powell, a staff writer at the Atlantic and a former national reporter at The New York Times, whose recent articles include “The Double Standard in the Human-Rights World,” that criticizes groups like Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders for becoming “stridently critical of Israel.”

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Ben Dowsett @bendowsett.bsky.social · 4d

Hey Joe! Which entity are you with/referring to?

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