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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 2h

Me but with podcasting instead of posting

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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 3h

Don't worry guys, we can push bluesky left after it wins the election

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

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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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 16h

The Mariner's Revenge's mum if she'd lived: I don't remember saying that. I suppose everything is MY fault then

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 4h

The girlfriend of my girlfriend is antifa

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 11h

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yeah it took me a long time to understand that the last syllable is pronounced as 'vore' for some reason. Incoherent. A fake suburb (though not as fake as Travancore)

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 12h

Just had a call with Lyle where we talked about possible edits to his essay, while at any time, North Carolina could decide to throw him in a gas chamber. How is it possible to create a system this cruel.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 16h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 23h

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 9h

Say the name of Melbourne as it's phonetically written and you expose yourself. It's not 'mel-born', it's 'mel-bun'

(I had a tweet go semi-viral a few years back about that the fact that Melbourne and Brisbane sorta rhyme, which shouldn't be true on paper but is true in practice)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 10h

What're you digging into?! That's actually very cool imo

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 11h

It cannot be stressed enough that the majority of right wingers that engage in culture war nonsense are people who have PsyOp'd themselves into seeing "pattern recognition" everywhere in the same way that biblical numerologists have a heart attack every time they see the number 666 somewhere.

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

so #nintendo is stealthily shoving the trans political agenda and nobody has noticed it?

video without context with trans flag colors everywhere from nintendo america

you people better sart noticing patterns
just like netflix

carbon monoxide leak

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 16h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 22h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 19h

Oh to be nap-trapped beneath a Highland cow

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22h

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 21h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Gin Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 19h

When I see 'social cohesion', I think 'we're gonna persecute people with watermelon earrings'

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20h

You can almost guarantee that the AFP’s new taskforce for investigating things-that-aren’t-terrorism will be looking closely into climate activists

Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20h

In the Trump era, this is terrifying. Apparently criticising capitalism 🥴🤣 is terrorism now in the US.
#Auspol

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The AFP has set up new National Security Investigations (NSI) teams to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia's social cohesion.
The NSI teams will work closely with state and territory police, law enforcement and national security partners to provide a coordinated, consistent and intelligence-led response to security threats, and also work on a global level through operations, capabilities and relationships with the international law enforcement intelligence community.
There are current and emerging groups dispersed across Australia and in some cases, overseas, who are eroding our country's social fabric by advocating hatred, fear, and humiliation. While many of these crimes may not meet the threshold of terrorism, the AFP has identified concerning behaviours which could escalate to politically-motivated violence or hate crimes, which seriously put the Australian community at risk.
There is no place for hate or violence in our communities and the AFP will defend and protect Australia and Australia's future from these threats.
Anyone with information about possible threats to the community or suspicious activity should make a report to the National Security Hotline on 1800 123 400. In an emergency or life-threatening situation, contact Triple

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