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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 5h

I do have to concede: the bulk of Hollow Knight is significantly easier than Silksong for the simple reason that 4/5 enemies are some variety of Goomba, just walking into your sword. The biggest risk on most screens is getting spooked and losing your chill.

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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 8h

come now, your majesty... as if there's any safer place for your soul to be than between the tits of your deadliest advisor!

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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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Jessika 🏳️‍⚧⛓️🤖 @jesikalashnikov.bsky.social · 20h

Breaking Bad had a lot of great moments, but the part where Jesse ratfucks his parents out of the aunt's house is just the most satisfying thing I've ever seen on TV and perhaps across all fiction

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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 8h

a little bug corpse encased in amber... what a pretty necklace you'll make...!

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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 9h

my masculinity archetype is "the woman"

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lydia (limited halloween ed.) @lydz.bsky.social · 2d

we’re going to have to invent a treatment for lowtax syndrome if society wants to keep this social media thing going

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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 10h

mmmm... baneful bread.....

Their Immaculate Majesty, King Hivemoon @hivemoon.bsky.social · 18h

Here's my beautiful child. It's just banana bread but i used necromancy + love to make it.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17h

The idea that lesbians and lesbianism is only WOMAN LOVE WOMAN is a modern idea and like other prescriptive gender and sexuality definitions is more built around people demanding their identities have Hard Rules so that they can feel like they are part of an in group versus actual lesbian history.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17h

On the off-chance this isn't bait:

The issue is your definition of lesbian. It has never just meant Women Loving Women. Look at the legacy of butches, of daddy culture, of masculine gender expression among dykes. It is a rejection of patriarchal gender norms and romantic expectations, not just WLW.

What is a he/him lesbian? / want to be supportive of people's identities, but| eel like this is taking a word with a specific meaning women loving women) and generalizingit beyond practical function.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 17h

At any point in the last 50 years you could go into any lesbian bar and find a half dozen he/him butches who are probably the nicest and most supportive members of the lesbian community you're ever going to find. They're more lesbian than anyone getting mad about he/him lesbians online, IMO.

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 16h

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

Shivaphis celti, the Asian woolly hackberry aphid, also known as Shivaphis (Shivaphis) celti, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from plants.

Pictured is schivapis celti, a small white bug that looks like a speck of lint, sitting on a leaf

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dirté @dirte.net · May 9

got invited to the goblin group chat but none of them speak common so I'm just fire reacting random shit

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Their Immaculate Majesty, King Hivemoon @hivemoon.bsky.social · 14h

Let this be a lesson to all.

scarycoded maggie @magseidolia.bsky.social · 15h

i got fucking stung by a wasp (actual) on my way out of work today right as i opened my phone to insult the wasp (child). What the fuck

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 15h

So many classic Halloween tropes - vampires, werewolves, witches - are kind of just like “ooOoO eAstERn EUroPeaNs…!”

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Motoyuuri :> @motoyuuri.bsky.social · 12h

If you're scared of the harpy girl talonjob you lack a warriors spirit

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

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 13h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 11h

"With the power of AI, we can finally determine why they were waiting for Godot."

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Their Immaculate Majesty, King Hivemoon @hivemoon.bsky.social · 11h

I make ORANGE MEAL

It's chicken tikka masala. With rice. And broccolini.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11h

Y'all told these motherfuckers it was OK to let trans people lose their rights. Now they're banking on people letting them abandon everyone who looks vaguely Latino as well as actual immigrants. Who are y'all advocating for moderation gonna abandon next?

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h

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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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 21h

quite cutes!

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Dioptre Hertz @dioptre-hertz.bsky.social · 21h

many things that would otherwise be common and crude are elevated to sublime beauty when falling from your lips, my queen. hateful words, soft expressions of love, venom-induced drool, cum...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 1d

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

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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the missus of the extra-ordinary porcelain menagerie!! @porcelainmenagerie.bsky.social · 1d

i keep trying to pose these two dolls but they keep trying to grind on each other even though there's nothing down there. are they stupid?

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