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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

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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Breezy 💖🏳️‍⚧️ @bluebirdbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16h

Not only this is amazing because part of fascism is the destruction of joy but it also makes it look ridiculous that the military is being deployed to put a stop to this

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

War is hell, Portland style

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Nerd Detective @nerddetective.bsky.social · 14h

How do I know it saved unless the entire game freezes up for a few seconds (it's thinking real hard) and then a big "GAME SAVED" pops up on the screen, and then I do that again just to be sure it wasn't kidding the first time?

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 2d

Keanu Reeves gesturing no, text reads Save and exit game. Keanu gesturing acceptance, and text reads Save game, Save and exit game.

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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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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 1d

That’s... insane.

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

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Cassie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🦈 @ferretparty.bsky.social · 1d

Check out my inprnt! Prints are currently 35% off~
www.inprnt.com/gallery/ferr...

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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spooky birthday madds ⚰️🎃🖤 @hyakushiki0087.bsky.social · 2d

Californians: the best thing you can do is call his office, at 916-445-2841. Ask to speak to a rep. Ask them why Newsom is more concerned about appeasing an ultra-minority of Neo-Nazis who want to diddle kids, rather than the rest of the population that just wants all kids to play in sports.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 3d

Drumroll

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 3d

This digital necromancy is abominable. I'd go as far as to say it's blasphemous. It's an unimaginable indignity to the memory of the departed, and a cruel mockery to visit on their loved ones.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 3d

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop.
Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform.

Panel 2:
Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public
Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself

Panel 3:
Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but…

Panel 4:
Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 4d

Half Life (1998)

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Nerd Detective @nerddetective.bsky.social · 4d

Very true! Even outside the context of a "oh crap it's actually happening" situation, regular activist movements have all sorts of roles for people depending on their skills and abilities.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 5d

I booted up windows 98 to defrag my BADAPPLE drive

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 5d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Casey Mongillo (ケイシ・モンジロ) @caseymongillo.bsky.social · 5d

Important for Windows 10 users (thank you @azushark.bsky.social 🙏)

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Nerd Detective @nerddetective.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. "Clanker" is so cleanly rooted in Star Wars that I think it's be disingenuous to imply it's meant to stand in for a real slur.

I've seen a few terms floated that are *obviously* modified slurs, but don't see them used in practice.

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Nerd Detective @nerddetective.bsky.social · 5d

The line I'm not comfortable with is people modifying *actual* slurs to make cutesy anti-machine/anti-AI versions. That's weird territory for me, because it feels like, "I just wanted an excuse to use my favorite slur."

But otherwise, using labels to express derision towards things is fine.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 6d

ope stage 5

Lord of Humours @blackgrailenjo... • 3h
Uh huh.
Screenshot of post:
Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com 45m
There are these WAFFLES places in Berlin that, in a nice touch, will write your name in chocolate sauce. This was a good effort! Lebanese (I think) staff working in Germany trying to understand an American guy's name. I love this world.
(Strawberries, nutella, whipped cream, iykyk)
WAFFLES
Picture of plates of topped waffles with name Jassy written in chocolate sauce
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Indighost / Lavender s... @anonus... •3h
Amazing how Jay made waffles into a nazi dogwhistle in 2 days

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 6d

Reminder

Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Jul 18

Do you ever wonder why the crowd that loves to "trigger" folks and despises "sensitive snowflakes" wrings their hands and cries so much when a joke targets someone they idolize?
It's not really hypocrisy - they live in a world that is not ruled by values, but by hierarchy

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Voxandra @voxandra.gay · 6d

I cannot stress that we need to push back against these age verification stuff. For example I won't do it on VRChat for reasons like this, I've just accepted I can't join age verified required club worlds because the risks are far too great no matter how diligent VRChat's efforts can be

The Verge @theverge.com · 6d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 6d

If you hide your gender identity to fit in, never feel like you've betrayed yourself🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It's proof that you have a beautiful and kind heart.
Chiitan will continue to send out messages until the world becomes a place where you can live with confidence and be yourself.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 6d

3D Maze 🤌

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