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E = mily² @emily.news · 2d

Meme image in which Princess Daisy says, "Are you tired of going apeshit? Don't you just want to be nice?" Her face looks softly dejected.

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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 14h

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

"it's more complicated than that" it's actually way less complicated than that and the more you do it the easier it gets. good spaces attract good people who repel bad people. attach the good space to a desirable project (like a game) and you can even get a shot at changing a few hearts

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

aura is right and nothing drives me bonkerser than nerds in positions of power saying moderation of online spaces is a hard problem. it's so easy. it's soooo easy. you're lying because you don't want to do it you fuuuucking dirtbag

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the thing I always find myself thinking when ppl are talking about "oh the gaming audience is awful" is that, like... i'm not sure i believe that so much as I believe that any unmoderated space will inevitably surface the most toxic people (who drive away more-reasonable ones)

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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

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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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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

here's the problem: they're going up like crazy EVERYWHERE. on a private, non-union payroll? be prepared for material changes in your employer-procured plans as well this next open enrollment cycle

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”

As the federal government enters the ninth day of its shutdown, soaring health care costs, the crux of the shutdown fight, are looking increasingly likely.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

Two-page comic about ADHD, self-doubt, and burnout.

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A person with short black hair and yellow antennae recalls lifelong struggles with effort and recognition. As a child, they cry while being scolded over homework. Later, they work hard but still fail small details and receive an “F.” When they finally succeed, they can’t enjoy it—holding a medal labeled “2,” they feel it’s luck, not skill.

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They explain how productivity fluctuates. A blue graph shows steady effort, while a pink line spikes wildly. They say, “For me, it fluctuates more extremely.” Sitting exhausted at a messy desk, they admit, “I only stop when I’m too tired to go on. The word I learned for all this was ‘lazy.’ I never learned a healthy measure or how to trust myself.”

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Fallfeathers @fallfeathers.bsky.social · 1d

space is really cool. neutron stars and magnetars and shit.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

I teach in my undergrad class on the history of the US jury system that the institution's roots are in colonial juries serving as a counterweight to abuses of imperial power. The American jury has problems for sure but still can serve that roll. Don't blow off jury service.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

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phylan @phylan.website · 1d

I don't think they should be allowed to do that

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 1d

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Jonathan @renewableenergy.bsky.social · 3d

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025!

#greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 1d

people gonna be crazy when we have a non terrible decade. it will happen

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Phoxie 🔜 BLFC @pocketphox.com · 2d

🌙⭐ The ending of the words is ALMSIVI 🌙⭐

commission for @justeriforme.bsky.social

[ 🗡🐾 ] [ #furryart #morrowind ]

bust of Juster's Cat (see: Justkat) in morrowind Ordinator armor, bedecked with vibrant blue sashes and robes. looking morosely/pensively off to the side as he holds an ebony longsword gently in both hands

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Fallfeathers @fallfeathers.bsky.social · 2d

he's a hollow knight :)

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 21d

"Night Time" - my new oil painting on a board, 12"x16"

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tom bloom (scrungled) @orbitaldropkick.bsky.social · 2d

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 2d

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Fallfeathers @fallfeathers.bsky.social · 2d

Pool PALADIN.
A knight of the round pool.

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Jo 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🦕 @youjogirl.bsky.social · 2d

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 3d

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

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Fallfeathers @fallfeathers.bsky.social · 2d

GET BONKED NERD

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Fallfeathers @fallfeathers.bsky.social · 2d

Don't run by the pool
OR ELSE
(thank you so much to @squidinu.bsky.social !!)

A pool toy dragon guards a swimming pool with an inflatable hammer and armour.

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✨André moraph✨ @andre.moraph.art · 3d

🔥FIGHT or 🗣️TALK

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2d

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

everything about the attempt to co-opt the language of social justice to promote AI personhood makes my skin absolutely crawl

that people are doing it in the current political environment, where the most basic human rights are crumbling before our eyes, is as bleak as it gets for me

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