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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

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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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 16h

We have to drop barriers across the road because drivers won’t pay attention to flashing lights at railway crossings.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 2d

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 2d

They’re gonna love your nuts!

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 2d

Bland ass American bullshit.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 9d

Step By Step?

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 14d

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 15d

I’m glad all the airline pilots and tanker truck drivers are sinners.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20d

This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.

Tweet from Ilya Shapiro: "Wait, is it the government that makes hiring/firing decisions at ABC?"
responding to Chris Hayes saying: "This is the most straightforward attack on free speech from state actors I've ever seen in my life and it's not even close."

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 21d

(I suspect some people who don’t know me will whoosh in with whatabouts regarding Hamas and 10/7. Hamas is a repulsive terrorist organization and 10/7 was a brutal crime against humanity. Nothing Israel has done justifies 10/7 and nothing about 10/7 justifies what Israel is doing. Simple.).

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 21d

If it was just targeting journalists with missiles, dayenu.

If it was just snipers shooting people searching for food, dayenu.

If it was just endless racist incitement and calls to “wipe them out” coming from elected MKs and ministers, dayenu.

Any one of these should have been more than enough.

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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 21d

So you don’t think it’s a “genocide”?

Fine.

If it was “just” ethnic cleansing, it should have been enough (dayenu).

If it was just starvation as a weapon of war, dayenu.

If it was just torture at black site prisons, dayenu.

If it was just pogroms in the West Bank, dayenu.

Enough is enough.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · 28d

The Plague would never.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · Sep 8

“I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.”

Jucika @jucikadaily.bsky.social · Sep 8

Jucika and the Peach.

It is so juicy and sticky, she has to get butt naked in order to enjoy the fruit.

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paisley rae @paisleyrae.bsky.social · Sep 4

i'll take pictures next time, i was too hungry today but if you add a little red food colouring into your butter it's now corn on the macabre.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · Aug 26

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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Ever eat a pine tree?" popped into my head, and I have now learned that Save on Foods does not stock Post cereals.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · Aug 22

Costco announced they will not stock mifepristone in their pharmacies. Contrary to viral social media posts, this IS a big deal and it DOES mean that they caved to pressure from far-right MAGA anti-woman conservatives. Here I go over the evidence and what you can do skepchick.org/2025/08/cost...

Costco Gives Misogynists a Win by Not Selling Abortion Medication

Transcript: You may have recently heard some news about Costco and the abortion medication mifepristone. Today I want to address some misinformation about that, AND some misinformation ABOUT the mi…

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · Aug 21

Landfill search for Indigenous women cost $18M, one-tenth of original estimate: Kinew - Winnipeg Free Press apple.news/An54rU7ROT1u...

Landfill search for Indigenous women cost $18M, one-tenth of original estimate: Kinew — Winnipeg Free Press

2023 feasibility study projected effort to comb Prairie Green Landfill could take up to three years and $184 million

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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · Aug 18

Welcome to Komoro Station. There is a delight stamp your children. Have a nice ride 😐

Two train seats face one another in a train station waiting room. On one chair seats a headless woman’s body in a long, old fashioned style dress, all in brown.

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · Aug 15

Generation Danger Zone

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cageyratfish FREE LINK, YOU COWARDS 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @cageyratfish.bsky.social · Aug 14

we must increase bands.

Truly Gigantic Attack

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · Aug 14

We must increase bands.

Mostcheeba

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tisane al-gaEEK! @dallaninvictus.bsky.social · Aug 12

If I had known when I wrote the above that King had said this, I would have cited him because it's perfect

on a long enough timeline it might actually be enough for the broad majority to not be racist, or at least to have to pretend not to be racist when other people are looking

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 11

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me” is one of MLK’s more underrated quotes because it’s a very good observation about the limits of politics.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Aug 11

i don't recall who said it but there was some civil rights organize that bluntly said that he didn't give a damn about what his white neighbor thought of him, he only cared whether those thoughts had material consequences

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · Aug 8

Perhaps some form of deep sea diving themed vigilantism?

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George McKie @promeritum.bsky.social · Aug 8

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