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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 8d

streamer

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 5h

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 14h

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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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 2d

thank you so much!!

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 6d

The world sucks the job market is trash the industry is eating itself from the inside so go easy on yourself. More is being asked of you. We're all playing hurt. Good luck. I want us all to make it.

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 5d

getting back into digital art

digital painting of a woman with a messed up tooth and a fish, in a collage style

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 7d

all the love for my endless mode pals!

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7d

thanks to outgoing interns @exalclaw.bsky.social and @beewertheimer.com, who interviewed for a Paste internship and wound up launching a whole damn site with us. go hire them.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7d

thanks to outgoing interns @exalclaw.bsky.social and @beewertheimer.com, who interviewed for a Paste internship and wound up launching a whole damn site with us. go hire them.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d

A new survey found that more Americans side with Palestinians than with Israel—a first. In a seismic shift, a majority also oppose sending more aid to Israel, long the closest U.S. ally in the Middle East.

Is Donald Trump’s Sweeping Gaza Peace Plan Really Viable?

Many doubts prevail, but the deal is “political gold” for Benjamin Netanyahu either way.

www.newyorker.com

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 10d

wish there was a theme park bar called the Christmas Adventurers Club

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 8d

i was born! that ruled

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 9d

one of my favourite quotes stopped me dead in my tracks when i first heard it. Kazuo Ishiguro said in his Nobel acceptance speech:

"But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another:
This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 8d

YESSIRRRRRR

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drew shapiro ✦ @organzola.games · 8d

chillin' by the thermal vent

#gamedev

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · Oct 17

if you’re looking for a scary game to usher in the spooky season, check out the horror-shooter @organzola.games and i made! organzola.itch.io/an-empty-house

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · Nov 15

some 3d stuff i made recently! #gamedev #3dart

a game scene in the corner of a purple-walled room with shelves full of books, plants, and potions. there is a cat bed by the window.

a distorted perspective shot of many low-poly salmon swimming upstream, away from the camera.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 11d

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 9d

Despite capitalism's insistence that even leisure must be productive, Baby Steps re-teaches us what it means to earnestly play. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Unlearning Productivity with Baby Steps

Despite capitalism's insistence that even leisure must be productive, Baby Steps re-teaches us what it means to earnestly play.

www.endlessmode.com

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 9d

baby steps is a great game that reminds me there's a better world out there. read me gush about it for endless mode

Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 9d

Despite capitalism's insistence that even leisure must be productive, Baby Steps re-teaches us what it means to earnestly play. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Unlearning Productivity with Baby Steps

Despite capitalism's insistence that even leisure must be productive, Baby Steps re-teaches us what it means to earnestly play.

www.endlessmode.com

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drew shapiro ✦ @organzola.games · 11d

goty?

screenshot of text messages that read:
23 Year Old Failson Plays Baby Steps For the First Time
*Image of me pointing at a TV with Baby Steps on it*
NO THE CHICKEN SONG STARTED AGAIN
I can't do this

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 11d

bangs

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Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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bee wertheimer @beewertheimer.com · 12d

too many biopics lately

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to the BDS.

FREE PALESTINE.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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