@ ing a band that you’re in the top 2% of their listeners on your Spotify wrapped is crazy work. Like, “oh look at me, I got thousands of hours of enjoyment from your creative labor and paid you 2¢”
December 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
@ ing a band that you’re in the top 2% of their listeners on your Spotify wrapped is crazy work. Like, “oh look at me, I got thousands of hours of enjoyment from your creative labor and paid you 2¢”
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A perfect video to post today
November 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A perfect video to post today
100%ed Ghost of Yotei in about 60 hours which is honestly a real sweet spot for this sort of open world game….spent 80ish on Assassins Creed Shadows earlier this year and was no where close to 100%. Never going to be fully onboard with open world, but if we must, this is pretty good.
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
100%ed Ghost of Yotei in about 60 hours which is honestly a real sweet spot for this sort of open world game….spent 80ish on Assassins Creed Shadows earlier this year and was no where close to 100%. Never going to be fully onboard with open world, but if we must, this is pretty good.
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a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.
Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.
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IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich
Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
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Reports from NYC: Things are getting dire, how much longer must I watch Marshawn Lynch spray deodorant on his balls 4 to 6 times during my morning commute?
August 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reports from NYC: Things are getting dire, how much longer must I watch Marshawn Lynch spray deodorant on his balls 4 to 6 times during my morning commute?
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Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
aje.io
August 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.
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I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
August 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
"What service is Microsoft providing?"
Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”
Israel is starving Gaza. Here’s how you can help keep people alive.
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” These are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency,…
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July 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
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A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
July 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico.
Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k
Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico.
Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k
Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k
So now not only are they putting ads on things, you can’t even watch certain things on the ad supported tier anymore. I don’t use Netflix that much anyway but this is really the death knell……
June 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So now not only are they putting ads on things, you can’t even watch certain things on the ad supported tier anymore. I don’t use Netflix that much anyway but this is really the death knell……
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I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.
June 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I've been banging this drum for years now, I know, but Zohran's Big Night is a clear illustration of the power of giving people a vision of the future that boldly contradicts the rhetoric of Republican fearmongers. Not just "disagrees on policies," but actively paints a different image of the world.
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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
Dailymotion video by L3arnTV
www.dailymotion.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Taskmaster really taps in to the British psyche “I must follow the rules no matter how absurd” and getting Jason Mantzoukas on there is putting the spotlight on it to an absurd level lol
June 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Taskmaster really taps in to the British psyche “I must follow the rules no matter how absurd” and getting Jason Mantzoukas on there is putting the spotlight on it to an absurd level lol
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Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
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Unión del Barrio:
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June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:
Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate
LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...
Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
mmmmmmmm people calling that Netflix oner a “must watch” are also the people I know watched only 3 films the proceeding year….i have my doubts
April 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
mmmmmmmm people calling that Netflix oner a “must watch” are also the people I know watched only 3 films the proceeding year….i have my doubts
