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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 8h

stimming?

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 19h

The flotilla carrying Jewish Currents reporter Emily Wilder has been captured by the Israeli military. Please contact Emily's senators and representatives—Adam Schiff, Alex Padilla, and Jimmy Gomez—and urge them to advocate for her safe release from Israeli detention

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 18h

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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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

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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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 8h

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 11h

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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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 8h

Awful person

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you 🌚 @c0mm13ba5tard.bsky.social · 8h

ever since they and their partner faine turned on anyone who called them out for faine posting this idf/zaka propaganda. they've been active in managing a lot of the major moderation tools as well

this is faine posting the yossi landau article about a "massacre" and "mass rapes" and "babies beheaded" with no evidence whatsoever

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 8h

i wish that it was possible to truly enjoy the utter comedy in the juxtaposition between this and the way the president is describing this

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 8h

"we"

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 9h

Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 12d

So now it's MY fault that you joined at the same time as all the other dumbfuck engagement bot accounts joined, and it's MY fault that you're constantly doing dumbfuck engagement bot things?

Sure, Jan.

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 9h

Hey, where'd you go?

Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 10h

"99 Problems" is old enough to drink

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 10h

I can't tell if you think this is supposed to come across as serious

Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 10h

Pritzker is a billionaire who doesn't think that Palestinians are fully human.

*He* is the one "attacking us from the inside."

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 10h

1) no, u

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wonder what the chances are that your account was registered within 2 weeks of the '24 election?

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13h

Wasn't it in this same meeting that they established that antifa was started in Germany in the 1930s

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 15h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 11h

[being irreverant about a dead nazi] =/= [a death threat]

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 15h

who's at the nazi bar now!!!!!!!

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 15h

lmao

Best Of Overcursed @overcursed.bsky.social · 1d

this was posted yesterday on Twitter and is still up.

it has 598K Views, 114 comments, 674 reposts, 33K likes, & 538 saves.

Bluesky’s Trust & Safety team has somehow managed to become more restrictive & hostile towards marginalized people than a platform owned by a literal neonazi.

Twitter screenshot of a liv_agar post. Text: “Have a sore throat and forgot to get seasonal Covid booster”

Photo: Picture is of Charlie Kirk sitting in a white tshirt that says freedom.

Stats:
598K Views, 114 comments, 674 reposts, 33K likes,
538 saves

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

Don't tell Palestinians not to have hope or that the ceasefire deal is doomed.

They know what Trump is. They know what the Occupation is. They live under Occupation every day. We're not doing them any favors telling them what they already know.

Let them have hope. We all need it. So do they.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 12h

Come on, registered Nov '24 spam bot discussion account, do better:

caitfishing was RIGHT there