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Drew @4484.cool · 1m

Yeah unforch. I want to be the one sitting back and launching hundreds of LRMs!

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Drew @4484.cool · 1h

Like one of those egg slicers

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

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.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 10h

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 now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 9h

The tank's role is to draw aggro

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Drew @4484.cool · 4h

Your post has been read

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Drew @4484.cool · 4h

A new notification whenever someone has read your post

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 5h

This from @realgdt.bsky.social talking about 'Frankenstein' is so good.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h

BREAKING: Israeli forces have killed 126 Palestinians in 271 raids across the Gaza Strip over the past five days, including at least 75 in Gaza City, according to the besieged enclave’s Government Media Office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/taonkh

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Miss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 5h

For those who only know him as the fascist collaborating loser who's obsession w blue slips fucked the courts for decades as head of the judiciary committee and get these fucks confused

HE IS SENATOR FOR ILLINOIS
HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIS OWN GOD DAMN STATE NOT BEING IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO STAND UP FOR

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Drew @4484.cool · 5h

That thing got a heavy?

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Drew @4484.cool · 5h

Pretty majestic I guess

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Drew @4484.cool · 5h

Thank you!

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Drew @4484.cool · 18h

Hey, what a coincidence, I'm the one known as the Back of the Shoe Stepper Killer. I'd love to meet up to discuss your work and vulnerabilities.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 1d

Like I was saying to a friend: Groucho Marx was a guest of honor at a party for Led Zeppelin’s launch of Swan Song records

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 1d

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago
Ed Dept 42%
OPM 33%
HUD 31%
Treasury 29%
Defense (civilian jobs) 22%
Small Biz Admin 21%
Energy 20%
Interior 15%
HHS 14%
SSA 11%
EPA 10%
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Much Smaller Is the Federal Work Force? Shutdown Plans Offer a Clue.

The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.

www.nytimes.com

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Drew @4484.cool · 1d

I lift the curse, you are now the good twin

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Drew @4484.cool · 1d

News from the front, mlord

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Drew @4484.cool · 1d

The Freedude

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Washington State Ferries @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov · 1d

Local artist Maria Coryell-Martin recently spent a week on our Port Townsend/Coupeville route as part of an artist residency. She made watercolor and ink sketches capturing daily life on a ferry.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

can you believe these guys are gonna be around to do *another* riff on an economy-collapsing fumble

Frosch @frosch.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/YAKOWcs8w54?...

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Self sustaining economy

YouTube video by FTF_Paulie

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