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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · Nov 10

JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 13h

amazing movie poster!

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 13h

I can't believe how much stuff happened in this. without spoiling it for people, it's amazing how many disasters the bees caused lol

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 19h

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 9: MASTER OF DISASTER: Watch any Irwin Allen offering.

The Swarm (1978)

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bees! flamethrowers! helicopters! Houston! people running! so many bees!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 1d

This video never names it, but it nails the “woozle effect”: when something seems true bc sources cite each other instead of an original. The term’s from Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks in circles looking for "woozles." Perfect metaphor for AI ouroboros poisoning info.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

meet the 40-year-olds driving the Tory youth movement

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

PoV: It's 4:56 PM and the HOA board just spotted you taking your trash out .

A group of people whose hard drives should be searched.

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Jay 🌲 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · Dec 16

I was looking through my media tab.. and I don’t think I’ve ever given this design that I use as my pfp a proper post. Here they are 🌲🐻 #indigenousart #formline

A formline design of a monster head. The creature has protruding fangs and long, sharp incisors that stick out. They also have sharp horns sticking out from their forehead and pointy, ungulate-esque ears. They are coloured a deep teal and highlighted with light forest green and yellow.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 1d

GOOD BOY IS SO GOOD holy shit I’m glad we saw it in the theater because

1) we support an awesome indie film
2) there’s an adorable behind the scenes in the theatrical release and
3) it would drive MY Indy bonkers with his name constantly being said, I don’t even know if we can watch it at home

Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 3d

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: the new horror film “Good Boy,” starring a rescue dog named Indy but not MY rescue dog named Indy, is currently in theaters. We are going Wednesday but I’m endorsing it now, unseen. Indy tax included

Indy the dog lays on the ground with a happy face and an autumnal scarf. he is chill but ready for adventure and fun.

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 1d

oh classic!

spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 1d

it was good :)

spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 1d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 8: HOLY WEDNESDAY: ...And on the 8th day the Physical Media God watches a Christploitation flick.

Alucarda (1977)

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Alucarda - menacing girl with inverted cross

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 2d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 7: NOW THAT’S BRASS: Skewer the end of week one with a thrust of metal - be it precious or, better yet, base.

Project: Metalbeast (1995)

h/t @octoberjohn.bsky.social for the great suggestion!

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Project: Metalbeast poster - it looks exactly what you'd expect

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 3d

ooo good suggestions! thank you :D

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 3d

@scarecrowvideo.bsky.social

#scvpsychochallenge friends, what are we thinking today? Tetsuo: The Iron Man would be a great choice but I've already seen it. Maybe something with swords?

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Emi Birdee @ GATEway FATE @emibirdee.art · 3d

Last art update before bed: updated a design so that it sets better! (Old one had too many slender parts that can tear easily)

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 3d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 6: SQUEAKY REELS: [whispers] This one came out in 1925. Shhhhh!

Phantom of the Opera (1925) was the most obvious choice, plus I'd never seen it before!

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spacenettle @spacenettle.bsky.social · 4d

Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge day 5: SHRIEKS & SQUEALS: This one’s gotta have that sound that makes the hairs on your neck stand up and sends shivers down your spine.

Berberian Sound Studio (2012)

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Kazuma Hashimoto @kazuma.bsky.social · 6d

this is bad lol takaichi is a member of the nippon kaigi, supports the revision of article 9, and much like her idol, Margaret Thatcher, has extremely regressive views of women's rights, among other things.

Nikkei Asia (Official) @asia.nikkei.com · 6d

BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi elected first female leader of Japan’s ruling LDP
trib.al/lz8joW3

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

A popular—but comically generic white male—video game YouTuber has now taken a more vocally critical stance of Netanyahu than the leadership of the Democratic Party. I am under a constant torrent of mental anguish.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5d

we live in the end of times

Moist Critical, aka Charlie, reaction video about Benjamin Netanyahu being an evil moron.
Video: I can’t believe this timeline

Captions:
“we're living in I also just saw today Benjamin Netanyahu just openly”

“ stating in front of the whole world his
plans on brainwashing because so”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 5d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 5d

www.feedingamerica.org/need-help-fi...

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Rob Benfield (Biddy Faircloud) @rbenfield95.bsky.social · 10d

Not my picture but my god this EXACTLY sums up why I'm so done with goddamn internet discourse. Everyone feels they have to have a take. It feels like people are seeking out negativity rather than just... enjoying what they do like.

I genuinely don't wanna be around people who act like this anymore

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