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legit gaming leaks @gamingleaker.bsky.social · 1d

The release date for 'Hollow Knight: Silksong' will not be announced anytime soon. This is because the game already came out.

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reywolfe.art 🎃👻⚰️ @kr00bs.com · 2d

waffles.

Digital illustration of a paIistinian woman, wounded with tears streaming down her face only to be blocked by a bright blue butterfly that covers her mouth and most of her face. Blue chains, explosions, waffles, blood, paIestinian flags being erased in the background- their color “bluing” out with the notification “deleted account” over them. Like and repost notifications scattered throughout different sized wrapped bodies. Over her head, a single dollar bill is wrung out, dripping blood down onto her. Below reads, “waffles.” Commentary on censorship.

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Punchy @punchystream.bsky.social · 1d

at some point I really think there needs to be some sort of large scale pushback on Valve for their complete abdication of responsibility in moderating steam forums to every individual developer regardless of whether or not they asked for it, allowing this tumour to completely fester.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Classic Steam forums

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

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 · 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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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 27d

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support.

I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 19d

I explained all this to my mom last night, as well as all the other horrors queer people were subjected to during WWII, and she was horrified. She didn't know. This knowledge has been hidden from most people.

Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now) @aaronradney.bsky.social · Aug 29

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · Aug 27

US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/27/trans-education-us-state-directive/?utm_content=1756312804&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

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∞ ever @everafterengine.bsky.social · 1d

Farmer Mohamed’s account was deleted again, but I saved his words. He’s heartbroken about his family’s ancestral land being annexed.

Please help him rebuild. If we can return a piece of what was stolen from him, it will at least be something.

bit.ly/help-mohamed

@mommunism.bsky.social 💚

Hello my brothers. I have some words that I must say from the beginning when I was displaced from Rafah I had great hope to return to my land which is located near the Philadelphi axis where my house, sheep, and trees are. I was planning to rebuild everything from scratch with donations and I will not hide from you a secret that I was saving part of the money I received from donations to rebuild that. I was planning to connect water and build wooden or tin houses and connect water and start planting olive trees and buy 10 sheep and start establishing a herd and life goes on. But a few days ago I saw Trump’s plan to end the war. I was surprised that the plan includes a buffer zone in the Philadelphi axis and this news was like a thunderbolt for me. My land that I inherited from my grandfather, I will never return to it. Politicians are planning without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan. I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not. I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy I have been exposed to.

I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents. Rather, I am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their land was occupied. All I want from you is for you to understand what I am saying with your hearts and minds. What will I say to my seventy year old mother? Will I tell her you will not return to your trees? Or will I tell her that you will end up displaced from a tent that is not fit to live in? Or will I tell her that we must leave Gaza and go to another country? Believe me, I am writing words that come from my heart to your hearts. You are my community that has always stood by me for many long months. That is enough because I write and cry.

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KnownAsFran🎃⛄🔞 @knownasfran.bsky.social · 1d

The MC of RIP herself, Ryme! It's my favorite time of the year: ghost type season! I was pretty excited to see there's a graveyard in Legends ZA. 👻

#futa #dickgirl

Ryme performing. She holds her mic up to her mouth while gesturing with her free hand.

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America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 1d

The ambiguous grey line nuance of the "get the bag" ideology while trying to exist in a capitalist system where the bag is your means of survival vs "chasing the bag" when you are not at risk and taking a bag from anyone unscrupulously, despite both ostensibly performing the same actions.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

dear Supreme Corut i am NOT owned. do NOT give my website to that guy i'm serious!!!!! stop!!!!

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Jones has asked the Supreme Court to immediately put his almost $1.5 billion defamation judgment on hold, citing the imminent threat of InfoWars being handed over to The Onion.

If there isn't a stay, "InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed," the filing says.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 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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Kghgk 🔞 @kghgk.bsky.social · 1d

Bunny slop

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

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...

theonion.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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Rocky @marlowebarlowe.bsky.social · 1d

Once again with more urgency this time. My bank account is in the red and if I can't pay my car insurance soon they're cancelling my plan. Please. Anyone. I'll even accept $20 for Little Guy doodles. Anything. DM on Discord or even here, just somebody please hire me.

Rocky @marlowebarlowe.bsky.social · Aug 29

End of the month is upon us and I could use some extra cash

Commission Prices
Full Portrait $100
Half Portrait $70
Reference Sheet $200

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 21h

There is going to be a multiple choice question on a history class quiz someday, and the right answer will be Frog

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Bigg @bpbigg.bsky.social · 1d

Today on the blog: BP-Games-Brand Consent-Like Products (TM). Shaking off the blogging cobwebs (blogwebs?) with a nice breezy 3,000 words about how we approach consent in our porn games

www.bpgamesinc.com/bp-games-bra...

Okay now that we’re safely behind the “Continue reading” tag: you need to think about consent in erotic fiction the same way you’d think about raw flour in cooking. There’s a lot you can do with it, and you wouldn’t necessarily be wrong if you were to say that it’s almost always foundational to the larger structure. But nobody, NOBODY enjoys a mouthful of raw flour. You’ll see a lot of shit being talked by people who’ll say “consent is sexy”, but for my money, the sexiest thing about consent in erotic fiction is how many ways you can stretch, squish, and otherwise deform it into whatever’s hottest for your story.

Take Opportunity: A Sugar Baby Story as an example. Almost all of the sex that happens in Opportunity happens within either the context of a negotiated transactional relationship (Jackie being Roman’s sugar baby, Kate being a sex worker paid by Roman) or a long-term committed relationship (Juniper & Rose’s sex tapes, Jackie & Olive’s romance). This means that the vast majority of sex is taking place within contexts wherein consent can be assumed (or more specifically, within contexts wherein consent can be assumed to have been easily obtained due to the nature of the relationship). On one level this is very safe and boring, but the thing about having these frameworks in which consent is assumed means that we can now have a lot of fun with the PRESENTATION.

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 23h

This is the exact example you should be bringing up when calling and writing to your representatives about digital age verification

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 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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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 1d

This is amazing news, good job everyone!! It also shows that these things are never one and done. Gotta be ready for when they bring it back because they will.

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 1d

Denmark has tabled next week's vote on Chat Control.

Yet, per Peter Hummelgaard:

"The Danish Presidency will, however, continue to work with the member states to find a solution, and therefore negotiations on the technical details of the proposal continue. It is urgent to find common ground."

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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