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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 9h

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 11h

end-game gainer sigil

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

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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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 11h

per a reply, the idea of this making you a bottomless pit, and that's really fun and hot at first and then you find that you can't wash it off and now you're perpetually hungry no matter how much you eat...

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 11h

classic fairy tale! girl buys a pair of red shoes that make her dance beautifully, but they don't let her ever stop dancing

dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 11h

it's a real red shoes situation - at first it's fun that you can't stop eating...

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 13h

facepainting booth at the fatfur halloween festival except i paint a sigil on your belly that makes you hungry

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 1d

already met my sales goal for this upcoming season and we've only had like two performances >:3c

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

wow

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

ngl he’s kinda scary

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

idk what sound foraging is but it sounds extremely like something i would enjoy

kelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 2d

I really resent the brand-ification // creative agency-ification of outdoorsy-ness.

Eg this launch of Usal's presence in northern california, which brings nature cleanups, birdwatching, bikepacking, visible mending, etc etc all into play as elements of a brand aesthetic and lifestyle package.

Instagram post showing a lineup of events hosted by Usal in Northern California in October and November. The text appears over a background image of a rocky coastline. The event listings are:
DEADBEAT EARTH SWEEP
USAL SF OPENING PARTY
SUN PRINTING WORKSHOP
TRAIL RUN
- GOLDEN GATE PARK
SOUND FORAGING
- SAN FRANCISCO
LONG SLOW DAYS BIKE RIDE
VISIBLE MENDING WORKSHOP
SEAWEED & KELP IDENTIFICATION & HARVEST
MARIN COUNTY BIKEPACKING TRIP
LOST COAST CAMP TRIP
NATURE DRAWING WORKSHOP
URBAN ECOLOGY HIKE
CLAY HANDBUILDING IN GOLDEN GATE PARK
CREATIVE BIRDWATCHING
ALCHEMY SOUNDBATH
GORP GIRLS HIKE
- ROCK SPRING TRAIL

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 3d

WOW....👀👀👀

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

we were gifted a couple of kombucha sodas and i swear i'm trying to enjoy them but every time i take a sip i'm like

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

wheat a bicks...

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 2d

yellow dog

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 3d

i keep making lonely music

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 3d

made an ambient track

these united states

Listen to these united states by dog-o-matic #np on #SoundCloud

soundcloud.com

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dusty @flegbleebl.bsky.social · 3d

thinking about a reverse sound of music where maria is a mean nun who makes the kids give her their colorful clothes so she can spruce up her room with new curtains

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 3d

scientist: diogenes we've brought you to the modern day to hear your great insights, what thoughts you'd have for this world.

diogenes: piss on rich people.

scientist: alright. any NEW thoughts?

diogenes, opening up a bag of pizza flavored combos: make these big enough to put your dick in them.