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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 6h

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 3d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 5d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 6d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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panke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social · 9d

Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins, a solo exhibition by @everest.bsky.social Pipkin, is now in its last week, on view until 2 October, Wednesday and Thursday, 3–7 PM.

panke.gallery/exhibition/h...

Welcome!

A gallery installation view with a flat screen mounted on a white wall, showing a minimal digital artwork of a small, blue-toned object resembling an animal or abstract shape centered on a white background with text above it. Below the screen stands a simple, tall wooden pedestal on a gray concrete floor. Overhead fluorescent lights illuminate the space.

A person in a gallery stands in front of two wall-mounted screens. The left screen displays a paused YouTube interface with black background and white text, while the right screen shows a map with blue water and white land. The person wears a black beanie, a gray sleeveless vest over a black shirt, and black cargo pants, carrying a black backpack. They hold an exhibition booklet titled and look down at it while standing close to the screens.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 10d

did a big post on the Piranesi larp I did last month blog.vbuckenham.com/i-was-a-chil... - my first ever big larp, and i thought people might want to have a sense what it's like to do something like this!

I was a Child of the House

As I am writing this[1], I just got done doing my first big larp. By which I mean the first that lasted longer than a few hours, the first one I've travelled for, the first that I have slept during. A...

blog.vbuckenham.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 16d

omg the talk/speaker lineup for Roguelike Celebration (@roguelike.club) 2025 looks sooo good:
www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

So obviously one of the most vital events in videogames right now, I really hope I can make the time to attend this year.

Roguelike Celebration - Event 2025

www.roguelike.club

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Maytera Marble @mayteramarble.bsky.social · 19d

it occurs to me that some of you may not be aware of the completely insane UI for the Legend Entertainment quasi-text adventures

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Andy Khouri @andykhouri.bsky.social · 22d

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 22d

My rage knows no bounds

Gaza City mosque blown up by Israeli air attack

Israeli forces bombed and destroyed a 13th century mosque in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Tuesday.

www.aljazeera.com

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panke.gallery @pankegallery.bsky.social · Sep 6

This Wednesday at panke.gallery: Hostile Platforms / Beloved Margins – solo show by Everest Pipkin; opening: 10 Sep 2025, 7 PM
panke.gallery/exhibition/h...

This is a retrospective of browser-based works from the last decade, from the lens of (or lack of) stability practices on corporate platforms.

A screenshot of a minimalist text-based game interface with a white background and black text. The screen is divided into boxes showing different information: inventory, actions, experiments, past actions, and options like "save game," "journal," "radio," "calendar," and "clock." In the center, a pop-up reads "PUT AWAY CALENDAR" above tally marks representing days. The interface lists items like goose, honey, fish, salt, spiderweb, and others. On the right, actions such as "cry," "piss," "dream," and "listen to radio" appear in blue. At the bottom, the "past actions" log includes events like "drug made crystal," "mud and spiderweb made leather," and "you made dust."

A 3D-rendered digital environment of a large circular dome with tall arched windows and beams of sunlight streaming in. The dome's interior is mostly empty, with patches of snow on the ground and a few scattered objects. To the right, there is a dark eagle statue with wings spread. On the left, a rocky formation is visible with mist or steam rising. Several bird-like figures perch on ledges near the windows, and light shines dramatically through the openings in the dome walls. The overall atmosphere feels surreal and dreamlike.

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Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · Sep 1

Lilith Zone: The Immersive Experience
A show of games, crypts, and dungeons by Pittsburgh-based artist Lilith, one of the most influential experimental game makers imho.

This Friday + next month
LIKELIKE, Pittsburgh

likelike.org/2025/08/31/l...

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 26

I am trying to be on here less so it is genuinely kind of hilarious to come on and learn that my country is no longer receiving international mail

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · Aug 24

Honestly some of the best students I’ve ever encountered. As Everest says: sophisticated, kind, community-focused, and innately curious (which in my experience has become more of a rarity these days).

So excited for the Fall.

Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm at PlayNYC for the rest of the day with students from Pratt Game Arts!

They're showing their work from the last year, demoing projects... we had Hatsune Miku get a high score... so you have 3 more hours of showroom floor to come through and try to beat Hatsune Miku. Booth 1B-123!

3 students sit behind a booth table in front of a high score table!

hatsune miku is playing a card game (not the miku that got the high score)

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 24

Our students are making (variously) clever, strange, beautiful and funny work and it's honestly a delight to get to show it off. A lot of their projects are collected on the Pratt Game Arts itch too pratt-game-arts.itch.io

a screenshot of clay characters from "Disorientation"

a screenshot of bat bones from "Fossilogical"

a screenshot from "the very pulse of your hyphae", a rhythm game

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm at PlayNYC for the rest of the day with students from Pratt Game Arts!

They're showing their work from the last year, demoing projects... we had Hatsune Miku get a high score... so you have 3 more hours of showroom floor to come through and try to beat Hatsune Miku. Booth 1B-123!

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 18

yeah!! it's gonna be great

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Aug 16

Spend your Saturday playing a game that makes you sad! Or listening to six hours of talking meta about cultural criticism!

cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have a project I've been working on all of this year:

it's called DESCRIBE WORLD. it's made up of zines and free games and a new podcast feed where I do whatever the hell I want. the first pod ep is a 6 hour episode about criticism with @nochorus.bsky.social ckunzelman.com/describe-wor...

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 12

the (technically unsaid, i guess) subtext of this "ask" is that the same government is actively funding new data center construction, specifically towards AI development, which is MAGNITUDES more water-wasteful than email storage could ever dream of being

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-a...

Data center projects worth £14bn announced with new UK government AI plan

The UK AI opportunities action plan also includes special data center zones and a new supercomputer.

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 12

and in favor of a sterile, aggregate knowledge soup that can be metered out, and charged for. slop with no specificity, no direct line to either individual memories or collective labors in remembering, just facts, images, words, and weighted data in "you know, the general kind of shape this takes"

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 12

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities)

the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

The Journal @thejournal.ie · Aug 12

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643

UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.

jrnl.ie

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · Aug 2

if you're at Gencon this weekend, IPR has World Ending Game in stock! what good neighbors they've got, too

Indie Press Revolution @ipr.bsky.social · Aug 2

5/17

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · Jul 28

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · Jul 25

best thing I've read on the itch situation yet. remind me to mull over these thoughts again in the future harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/t...

harmony corpsepit

the itch.io adult content ban

harmonyzone.org

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 13

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse

It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say

Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

www.theguardian.com

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