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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 10h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNL...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13h

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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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 19h

indeed, and at some point it's a battle of credibility and the cops will never turn against trump. they're one of his main constituencies. the only real hope is if the national guard refuses orders and nobody wants to take responsibility with them it seems.

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 19h

he's dead terrified of ordering the police to put a stop to it and them disobeying him, thus destroying his credibility and the credibility of elected officials.

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 19h

they skinned bruce banner for this one

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 21h

comes with a prescription for atorvastatin

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 21h

it's wild to see a guy have a brief flirtation with credibility and then almost immediately plunk his balls in the fishbowl

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 21h

i would never have looked at the alt text if you didn't suggest it and yes that is correct.

have you guys played cladun? the original was on PSP but the sequel is on steam, it's a fun jrpg.

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

on the one hand that's an interesting criticism, on the other hand that sounds like saying a pot of piss is better than a pot of shit

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

there's a holiday in china this week apparently so there's an 8 hour endurance race and it's pretty much all amateurs and drivers who, er, couldn't find work elsewhere. anyway there are 7 classes. english commentary

www.youtube.com/live/rbRysuj...

SHANGHAI 8 HOURS | Race

YouTube video by Shanghai8H

www.youtube.com

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

ain't done that since the third grade myself

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

normal lays? dude just needs something to get through it.

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

i just have to double down on this, if this is a self portrait then the guy had to have covered over every ugly part of himself. this is his own idealized version of himself.

and a few hundred years later, we can still tell he's a fucking asshole.

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

this dude is gonna be remembered for eternity for being a smug dick and he painted the portrait himself

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

wait that was a self portrait???

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

they're.. they're just gonna make up something about her because there's nothing to find, aren't they

MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely not dementia.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

you bump some dreary shit, seems to be a theme. Here's a recommendation from way back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOUf...

Everybody Knows

YouTube video by Denali - Topic

www.youtube.com

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

some days you're garfield, some days you're the mouse, either way nobody wins.

Garfield and Friends Screens @garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 1d

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

i have already read reviews of the song in question and the best reaction i've heard is 'isn't she in her 30s now? why is she still writing like she's 14 doing slam poetry for the first time'

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

i love you drew but the combination of words involved in explaining the idea of that article is so vile i need to take a few days before i can even begin to think about reading it.

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

i am begging you vladdy, put the final nail in the yankee coffin and dance them off to eternity

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

four children to either feel sorry for or fear in the future

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Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 1d

i'm not trying to be paranoid but this post has more likes than the OP (which isn't many tbh, not asking for it) and my notification history got deleted at some point last night.

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 2d

idk, assassinating judges? i'm not the one who brought it up.

Transient Sun @t0sun.bsky.social · 2d

i think the implication is that the criminals in control of the US would destroy the ICC in a fit of pique. there are already sanctions on the judges.

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