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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ aje.io/mbmr4o

South Africa says ICJ genocide case will continue despite Gaza ceasefire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says progress and healing hinge on the case against Israel being heard.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re looking to help rebuild Gaza a farmer and a civil engineer seems like a good person to help ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed was finishing his studies to be a civil engineer in Rafah. His home and the small farm that him and his family had were destroyed. He’s now trying to survive with his large family, including many small children, in tents.

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Edothefish @edothefish.bsky.social · 11h

This is a really good thread about why the horseshoe theory is bullshit

Null convention @nullconvention.bsky.social · 12h

I keep seeing people invoke the "Horseshoe Theory" about leftism and I think we can go over this on stream even - 15 minute less - because it's actually not politics at all, it's a rhetorical trick!

I'll go over it briefly here!

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when the billionaires accelerated the fascism because Americans started waking up about a lot of systemic issues about capitalism after Trump 1.0, and then about healthcare after the pandemic, and then police brutality after George Floyd, and then Israel after 10/7?

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New Video Game Advisor @newvgadvisor.bsky.social · 16h

Mother 3 (GBA, 2006)

Alec is speaking directly to the player. He's saying, "It's not too tedious or troublesome, so you should talk to frogs as often as you can."

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Edothefish @edothefish.bsky.social · 16h

I've always been partial to his Dark Souls II vid youtu.be/SRTfcMeqhig?...

In Defense of Dark Souls 2

YouTube video by hbomberguy

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 16h

its yeag day Ü

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 19h

Fondly remembering this bit of Veilguard which still blows me away

A big mainstream RPG in 2024 letting you have a conversation about gender--filled with different choices to better suit your personal experience--with a party member going through their own crisis of identity? STILL wild.

Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · Nov 11

Well

That's a conversation I never thought I'd get to have in a game like this

Punched me right in the heart, in the best possible way. Incredible work.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 19h

It's been a year and dang I am still furious over how dirty Veilguard was done

Like I ain't gonna pretend it was a perfect game and didn't have issues but the way EA immediately treated it as a horrendous failure (despite it selling decently) and swept it under the rug was such bullshit

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 20h

Gaza is in ruins, hundreds of thousands of civilians are dead. Life is impossibly difficult for those on the ground, with no homes or jobs. They rely on our donations to survive.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And find and help others. 💕

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Tasneem's youngest daughter, Alma and their cat.

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Edothefish @edothefish.bsky.social · 20h

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Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 21h

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm castpixel, a senior illustrator and art director with more than 20 years of experience (ok, it's 21 years). One of the best pixelartists working today. I'm looking for a project.

Clients: WB Games, Minecraft, SEGA, HASBRO

Hire me! I make your game look good.

[ #portfolioday ]

My cover illustration for the game Space Jam a New Legacy, which I also art directed and animated #art

Screenshot from a pitch for a TMNT point-and-click adventure game featuring April o Neil as a mystery investigator

Isometric pixelart illustration for Minecraft, while I was working at Mojang. This is meant to show off the world and it's thrills. It lives in the how-to-play section in-game

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momvsgames @handle.invalid · 1d

After 39 hours of play I finished Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Aside from a few puzzles that took me a long time to figure out I enjoyed the game because it was very clear in what I had to do and where I had to go. I do realize that with only these 39 hours I also missed a lot of the game. 🎮

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Trans Ferdinand: Robot Princess @emdashreed.bsky.social · 1d

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A picture of Kate Bush with the caption over it:
“DID YOU KNOW!
Early in her career, Kate Bush was known for using unusual time signatures in her music. At a time when most artists were doing 4/4,
Bush did 9/11.”

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PSX Bunlith 🪄 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 1d

yeag days tomorrow. whats yeag day? i dont remember. lol. mark ur calendars 📝

screenshot of a calendar app for october 14th, which is listed as yeag day

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

The ceasefire in Gaza brings an end to the relentless attacks, but it's only the beginning for the civilians who survived and have no home, work or food. They rely on donations to survive.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Tasneem's three children: Hassan, Rafif and Alma.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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francis george @ restore eslam's account @sunkernplus.bsky.social · 2d

www.gofundme.com/f/help-duaas... donate to help Hasan pay rent so he and his family can afford to be housed!

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Edothefish @edothefish.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting this so I'll remember the difference

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Jul 30

how many times must it be posted

A chart showing the relation between Blackrock, Blackwater, Blackstone, Bridgerock, Bridgewater, & Bridgestone

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2d

NGL, with Link banned, our reach for the giving circle has dropped. Translation: less support for six families & a displacement camp in Gaza.

So let’s turn this around. This is still a survival fund—not even a rebuilding fund! They’re hungry & homeless.

5 hours left 🚨 545/1000 for six families.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 2d

Kind hearts,
Please, we urgently need your help to complete the rent amount — we still have £345 left. 🙏
Every bit brings us closer to keeping a safe roof over our children’s heads. ️🧡

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Duaa reached out to me today because she is really struggling ❤️ chuffed.org/project/duaa

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Edothefish @edothefish.bsky.social · 2d

No, I agree with the 2nd part. It's the 1st part that isn't winning us any friends.

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 4d

Ahmad has had his account flagged on bluesky so I am sharing the link separately. Please help Ahmad and Samar get through this difficult phase at what we all hope is the end of the genocide

gofund.me/5689fe54

Donate to Ahmad & Samar: A Future Beyond Gaza's War, organized by Fatima Ayub

My name is Ahmad Johar, a 25-year-old, Palestinian from Gaza. I have lived throu… Fatima Ayub needs your support for Ahmad & Samar: A Future Beyond Gaza's War

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