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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 3h

As discord suffers a massive data breach of people's personal data and ID documents congrats to the UK Government for bringing in the undercooked law that made it absolutely inevitable this would happen, repeatedly

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2h

Up to 90% of all life on this planet died during the Permian Triassic extinction event when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years.

We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.

It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.

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𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖌𝖋 @nihilistgf.bsky.social · 10h

these fascists want to kill their opposition and they're very open about their intentions

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 4h

“We fired tens of thousands of people, stole the pay equity fund, shelved huge infrastructure projects, then took the savings and buried them deep beneath the earth where they will never ever flow back into our economy”

…

“Why aren’t the savings flowing back into our economy?”

#national #nzpol

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

The Torment Nexus is just the IDF

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

Tech News when I entered the industry:

“Visit CSS Zen Garden and theme web documents yourself! Share your favourite funny animated gifs on geocities! Check out this incredible interactive microsite built with Macromedia Flash!”

Tech News now:

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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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

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Lotographia 🍹 @lotographia.bsky.social · 5h

Yup. He's also truly responsible for the occupation at parliament, if we follow the same standards he applies to Chlöe.

If he wants to play this game he is going to lose so badly.

Winston Peters meeting with the people who occupied parliament, set the grounds on fire, threw bricks at police, and intimidated the residents of Thorndon. By his own standards he is explicitly condoning their behaviour.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely scraping the bottom of the intellectual barrel here folks.

Willis said so herself: she should be resigning.

Worst finance minister in a generation

#nzpol

Nicola Willis: “I’d quit as finance minister if my tax cut plan fails”

Screenshot from newspaper article online

Screenshot of news article thumbnail saying:

“Government’s books show finance minister borrowing billions to keep the lights on”

“Treasury has revealed the state of the Government’s finances and it shows we’re borrowing billions”

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

National: does a thing

National, a few months later: “OH NO WHAT DO YOU MEAN *THING WE DID* IS HAPPENING?!?”

It really feels like this to me.

It’s not like these are unexpected side effects.

Usually they’re surprised that *literally just the exact thing they did*, is now happening

#nzpol

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

“We will slash jobs and so many big economically stimulating infrastructure and construction projects”

“We’ll take the savings from that and put it either offshore (tobacco) or into rich people’s savings accounts (landlords)”

“Oh no why is unemployment so high!?!”

“Why aren’t people spending?”

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 5h

It’s quite amazing just quite how badly the current govt in NZ has fucked up the economy

So much of it was predictable economics 101 stuff like

“You gotta spend money to make money”

And

“Firing people causes them to be unemployed”

Dead obvious stuff, all of it.

#nzpol

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Mr PP @mrpiddles.bsky.social · 22h

Pam Bondi is a Career Criminal.

Pass it On.

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ⓘ Kaiwhiu ⓘ @aotearoa-nz.bsky.social · 10h

So, when..?

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"Nicola Willis: I'd quit as finance minister if my tax cut plan fails"
September 15, 2023

If elected, Willis would quit as finance minister if tax cut plan failed.

It comes as three independent economists released their own modelling this week, which claimed National’s policy had a shortfall of around $500 million. (Source: TVNZ Breakfast)

#NZPol #NickyNoBoats the #WorstMinFinEva

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Pablo Thicccasso @chicfilatheist.bsky.social · 15h

This is my stance, I’m not a Stalin defender but the best things he did was rob banks and kill Nazis

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Assiduously Julie @awaterevalley.bsky.social · 6h

If Winston truly believes Chlöe is responsible for his broken window then logically it follows that he must be accepting personal responsibility for every single death threat made to Benjamin Doyle and their whanau.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 15h

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social · 8h

A celebratory haka seems like it should have a place in our parliamentary culture.

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 7h

The conservative LNP do this in Australia too, exact same thing every time. They were in for 9 years and the big consultancies were making bank by the time they were turfed out by Labor

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 9h

Adult sites typically have a lot of humans employed for manual verification and deletion of sensitive data.

You cannot scale that to a country of 25 million easily, without it being totally unreliable.

It’s just a complete fantasy

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T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 9h

It’s gonna fail. Sex workers have already been through all of this with age verification on adult sites and it doesn’t work anywhere near as easily as she thinks.

She refused to listen to them back then (tried to filibuster their submission time if you can believe it)

Not listening to expertise

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David Cormack @davidcormack.bsky.social · 1d

boy that TPU poll is bad for luxo.

Nats below 30.
Labour can form a govt.

Hipkins preferred pm.

luxo's unfavourabilities now at -14 (Chippy at -2).

if anyone's gonna spull, they should be thinking about moving soon....

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

Trying to speedrun martial law before the economy collapses

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