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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 2h

(20-second video showing protesters in Portland, in inflatable animal costumes, dancing to music)

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3h

War is hell, Portland style

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 2h

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

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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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 1d

Women

*applause*

with big swords

*rapturous applause*

that talk to them

*standing ovation*

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2h

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 5h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Beca Dreadful🌙🐈‍⬛✨ @becadreads.bsky.social · 3h

Just so we're all aware here, an individual library has to purchase the rights to the ebook or audiobook in order for that user to be able to read it through Libby.

And purchasing requires money.

And that's something not all rural libraries in red states have a lot of.

Hope this helps.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2h

I cannot bring myself to be optimistic about the ceasefire because nothing about Trump or Netanyahu suggests good faith, but this is the first night in a long, long time that I have gone to bed not afraid that someone I love will be murdered by the timeI wake up, and that’s a really good feeling.

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KNW Moon @knwadsworth.bsky.social · 2h

The church can 100% refuse communion. Bishops did it all the time in their anti-abortion crusades. Seem to be more misty-eyed than steely-eyed when it comes to battling genocide or ethnic cleansing though.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4h

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Peggy Carter next to Steve Rogers in Captain America. I'll let you decide which is the founder and which is the girlfriend.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

An image of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, twirling on an alpine meadow in a long Austrian skirt, next to an image of Christopher Plummer as Georg Von Trapp in the same movie, tearing a Nazi flag in half.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 5h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia with her hair up, wearing a white poofy coat.

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 5h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 4h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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“Surely, she dies first” Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 4h

Pro-tip:
If you find yourself needing to cry in bed, cover your pillow with a towel. That way, when you're done crying you won't have to lay on a wet, soggy pillow.

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Zan (ze/they) 🇵🇸 | THE BLOOD DIVIDE out now! @zanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 5

🌆 urban fantasy
🔮 witches & shifters & vampires (oh my!)
🩸 original lore
🪞 parallel world
⚔️ enemy of my enemy
🌈 everyone is queer (and a disaster)

📖 universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/ypxhg00vsn

#BookSky #WriteSky

the cover for The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell depicting the sillouhette of a leafless tree with a thin layer of snow on its branches and a mound of snow around the base of the trunk. beneath the snow are cobblestones with blood running through some of the cracks. The background is mottled gray and the title is in red text while the author's name is in white text

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 6h

I have frogs everywhere

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5h

ברוך הטוב והמטיב

May this truly be beginning of a real ceasefire, and the beginning of permanent peace and *true justice* for everyone in the land.

May the memories of all those annihilated in the genocide, all those slaughtered, be for a revolution.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5h

FWIW, not all female bosses on the Hill have bad reputations. Plenty of them inspire loyalty because they treat their staff well. Every Warren campaign staffer I know loves her. Patty Murray has a deep alumni team that admires her. AOC treats her staff well. Same with Tina Smith

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 5h

This will ruin countless lives and the only correction will be a statement advising against using the COPILOT() function in a list of use cases that incrementally grows to include everything that people use spreadsheets for, one disaster at a time.

Tweet by Zack Korman @ZackKorman: "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen."

followed by a screenshot of Microsoft Excel with the numbers 1, 2, and 3, followed by a cell where the expression '=COPILOT("sum the numbers above")' has been evaluated as 15.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 8h

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.