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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 1h

I'm pretty sure this is an AI-generated logo. If you look at the other versions of it on their website, every single bird is slightly different (the feet, the head, the bag).

I mean, this sucks, no?

A screenshot of the Sackbird website that says "seek the sack" (horrible) followed by four images of a black bird with a bindle and a human arm. there are minor variations in the art - some birds have bigger heads, or more fingers, or flatter feet.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 17h

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 21h

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

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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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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

you have been fooled by a pedophile into thinking that a dog making noise is abuse

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1h

It's escalated to the point of comparing the orchestrator of the Holocaust to a streamer who was falsely accused of using a shock collar

Maia Poet "Hasan Piker actually makes Hitler look like a good guy. You have to be a special kind of evil to make that happen"

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Hysterian @hysterianyt.bsky.social · 21h

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 2h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 2h

the suggestion of playing “hot or not” with Palestinian statehood is so breathtakingly offensive I don’t even know where to start

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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nikki morgen / ducknuk @duknuk.bsky.social · 2d

Lammy's Benefit

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · May 14

Yeah, this was in Dallas in the late 90s, but we had 4 armed men come in with real unloaded guns, and take a few of us aside. Said they were here to kill believers, and asked if we were believers. After we all said "Yes", they unmasked themselves as dads from church.

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

statues for photos too

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2h

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

there are really good source filmmaker movies about her

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1h

Remember that viral tweet that was like "I feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content?" Now the content isn't even good. It stinks!

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 2h

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 8h

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 4h

i wonder if anyone told you liberals that the cops were never going to be on your side and that every liberal mayor or governor increasing their funding was simply preparing to use them against you. i wonder if you all got really mad about a slogan about that...

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 2d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

Pritzker’s brown shirts attacking protesters.

Pritzker’s brown shirts. Dude in military gear is also Pritzker’s.

Note the Illinois State Police patch on the dude in military gear.

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Breezy 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 7h

Do not watch the HBO series.
Do not buy wizard game (2).

I usually don't judge too much, I get that not everyone is fully in the loop for everything. If you support JKR now, we are done.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 11h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

the thing is that at this point climate change is locked in. but that does not guarantee mass death. with wealth redistribution, every single person on the planet could be saved from the change that's coming.

but the rich don't want that. so they're preparing to commit unforgivable crimes.

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 1h

I've made it known that I do not like Justin Wong, I've blocked him on every platform we both exist on. This is not me being like "Now I have a reason!" or "Now we can say he was never good!" because I've had reasons and I've never liked him.

What I'm saying is, chase that bag scumsucker.

Justin Wong
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NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO

I went to Riyadh and I vlogged everything and the dessert at the hotel is GOATED

Included in the post is a thumbnail with Justin eating a pastry.

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

saw a report the other day that the usual holiday job openings are a quarter of what they were last year. which is just an absolute nightmare.

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 2h

BTW, the Chronicle is polling folk on Metro's decision, if anyone wants to give them input:

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 1h

a lot of people are not going to survive the next few years. and it's hard to see any way to stop that from happening. if there's a collapse, people die of starvation and lack of medicine and all kinds of shit. if there isn't, the government openly wants to murder lots of people.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 2h

There is EVERYTHING coming together too. The whole Assault On All Fronts by the administration on everything. Healthcare will get DRASTICALLY more pricey AND harder to get. As will groceries, but also eletricity, and basically everything people use on an everyday basis.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 2h

In all seriousness, what's coming is... Possibly going to be Regime Change levels bad. Great Depression levels "miles of soup lines" bad. A kind of bad that likely very few people born in this country have experienced. Hold on to your butts while they still have meat on them.

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Dr. Kalt @kaltnull.bsky.social · 2h

Everything Is Going To Suck So Fucking Bad - And Everyone Complaining Is A Terrorist.

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