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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 8h

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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8h

“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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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 18h

This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

www.cbc.ca

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

“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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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 14h

last day here

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Nathan Andrew is opening The Gate - Auld Hornie telt me t’dae’t @feralharp.bsky.social · 18h

Drop something SKELETAL

A glass display case containing the skeleton of a man, and a dog. Both are posed standing up, the dog giving him a hug. The text below the photo reads:

Grover Krantz, an anthropologist who wanted his skeletons on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, along with his dog.
(Photo: Emily Barton)

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · May 25

Photos don't capture how this screen print glows like an ember IRL. Perfect for equestrians and desert lovers, each print is hand pulled and no two are alike.

First edition of 35, $25 ea. Measures 19"x12.5"
square.link/u/ZXcEwPy2

A scan of a screen print, bull's blood maroon on sun-light glo tone paper. Horses gallop on a field of desert plants. The words "I will draw horses" repeat twice in the upper middle of the image.

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

a fascinating photoessay up today, looking at the events border patrol sponsors to recruit—including paying millions to sponsor professional bull riding

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

www.motherjones.com

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 9d

This dude had a huge career illustrating jazz records in the 50s and 60s; these drawings of mother and child were in a graphic arts directory for swiss art directors but I can't find them reproduced online anywhere---but I think they're my favorite of his work

Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 10d

David Stone Martin

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 8d

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dr Artyom Trakhanov - SHARP EYE IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER NOW @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 1d

I always, always remember this line when I hear those awful tech people speak

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George Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 1d

noticed it was up on the website so here is my full spread for Jacob Geller's new book
www.lostincult.co.uk/overthinking
Acryla gouache on haunted paper

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 1d

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Luc francoeur @lucfrancoeur.bsky.social · 1d

Pelvis with the Moon/
Georgia O'Keeffe

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

Known for his unforgiving and often critical depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic, this self-portrait by Otto Dix (1912) pays homage to the work of the Italian Old Masters - the carnation was a popular motif in northern Italian Renaissance painting.

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 1d

finished knitting a hat

yarn: knitpicks palette in Navy (100% wool)

pattern: www.purlsoho.com/create/2023/...

a selfie of me standing in front of my mom's plants. I'm wearing a gold knit sweater, glasses and my Navy blue cap.

closeup of the navy blue hat against a perforated white metal table

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 2d

I was interviewed about NSPM-7

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

The meme-ification of political violence

It's less ideology than the internet — what the media and Trump don't understand about the current wave of shootings.

www.msnbc.com

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 2d

guy got mad at me for sharing this comic on twitter back in 2017, but it's still one of my favorite exchanges. (he was not kidding, btw.)

my own tweet explaining "so in this Spanish horror comic, Frankenstein's monster knocks out a woman, and I was REALLY worried, but he just wanted to try on her clothes" with screenshot of a guy named Ziv quote-tweeting me to say "This is horrendously disturbing. I am disturbed. Honestly, Priscilla, you need to back up and look at your life and think to yourself, 'Self, is this really the person I want to be?' Posting frankensteinian erotica and shit?'" with my reply "this is exactly the person I want to be" and the followup "actually it's Frankenstein's MONSTER'S Erotica"

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 2d

it frustrates me because the biggest reason they had for adopting 3d over 2d wasn't talent, but speed. But now 2d can match 3d in terms of actual production speed, and the real issue came out: with 3d you can waffle on choices, with 2d you have to trust and commit to a direction, and they hate that

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 2d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 2d

And trains! want a literate population? trains.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Celine @celineloup.bsky.social · 2d

The Alps today at sunset

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies.

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

10.3.25

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