Hunk Twink
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he/him -- cool images: hunktwink123.github.io -- blog: f7.neocities.org
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#designsky #freepalestine #sanctionisrael
First half of the image reads:

Israel pays Google $45 million to help justify a genocide.
So here they are, ignoring the 680.000 people killed under their hands to talk about breathing lives into pixels.

The second half of the image is a tweet by @GoogleDesign:

"Breathing life into pixels: It's a design challenge we're passionate about! Join us as we explore how to make digital experiences feel more human, expressive, and engaging."
If concentration camps designers during holocaust had a social media account, they would write shit like this. So many people think they're in the design industry, while in fact they're just visual porn eye candy addicts rotting in the Process Optimization industry.

#designsky
tweet praising the website selling trump card. "wow the new trumpcard.gov site is actually really nice 🤯
built with the most modern tech stack of any .gov site out there
@nextjs
@tailwindcss
@motiondotdev"
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Have written to my local TDs, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris about Ireland needing to support the Sumud Global Flotilla which has Irish citizens (and members of the Oireachtas on it!) as Israel attacks it in international waters, and to do more to sanction Israel. Feel free to adapt and send your own
(an email to TDs I sent to get them to support the Global Flotilla and sanction Israel for its war crimes, the text is below)

Dear Deputy, 

As news comes in from Irish Times columnist and author Naoise Dolan who is currently on the Global Sumud Flotilla that Israel attacked the Flotilla with two drone strikes, it is time for Ireland to do more to protect the many Irish citizens and indeed members of the Oireachtas on the Flotilla, as well as the many peaceful international humanitarians on board. 

The Global Flotilla is a peaceful, humanitarian mission to provide aid to Palestinians who are being starved by Israel as part of a genocidal plan of ethnic cleansing. 

The FF/FG silence in blocking the Occupied Territories Bill at every turn, this government's cruelty to the Palestinian GAA members blocked from entering Ireland, will already be remembered by history. But will you stand by now while Israel attacks Irish and international aid workers in international waters?

It's time to enact the OTB and sanction Israel - indeed Ursula von der Leyen's speech this morning shows there is no EU level block to member states enforcing their own sanctions against Israel. It's time to work with EU partners to protect the Flotilla from Israeli aggression and war crimes. It's time to do something other than the bare minimum. 

Regards,
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly
A lot of designers only engage with politics as long as it's aesthetically pleasing like, folks please stop infantilizing yourself, you don't need to be fed reality in a wooden spoon...
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Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics
Google right after signing the $45 million propaganda deal with Israel:
Image that reads: Abstract shapes can help people express themselves. When researching for M3 Expressive with Israeli characteristics, we have conducted several workshops, bringing to the table various sociologues, stakeholders along with designers around the question: who is "people"? Are Palestinians... people? Redefining "people" is one of our most revolutionizing and exciting work that we designers get to contribute. Our first tangible result? Removal of several barbarian symbols, such as any half-circle or full-circle shapes that resembles a watermelon.
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
really, like you guys look at the most resource hogging, the most bloated social media content machines ever and your thoughts are like "hmm do they output art🤓"?
Why Saying “AI Uses the Energy of Nine Seconds of Television” is Like Spraying Dispersant Over an…
TLDR: the smaller the number, the more you should be worried
medium.com
ai image generation is not about making art, because art isn't profitable. it's about making porn, ragebait, eye candies and ads in a more efficient way.

in fact, the whole "ai art" debate is just... pointless.
I remember when I was a kid, Apple Event invites are beautiful and inspiring. But that's when I was a kid. If I can grow up, yall can too.

There's no pride in driving reckless consumption. Let's remind that to those who works in corporate advertising by shaming them more often.
Looking forward to the event getting disrupted. Call me a party pooper but yall need to find other passions than consuming new stuff and hyping trillion dollars companies.

Go buy old phones if you need a replacement.
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as if one AIPAC weren't enough
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Ben recommends this essay by Jessica Dai, which is excellent - joinreboot.org/p/alignment
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during the Microsoft Building 34 lock down on campus yesterday, protesters were also able to raise a Palestine flag outside Microsoft's Executive Briefing Center
Guys, don't waste time fighting corporate bootlickers on the hellsite or on bluesky. Flood Microsoft execs' LinkedIn accounts instead!👍 Let them have a taste of what's going on outside their bubbles!
LinkedIn account of a CVP, Managing Director of Israel R&D Center LinkedIn account of Brad Smith LinkedIn account of Satya Nadella
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this is why they proscribed PA isn’t it
Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 22
Elbit, the Israeli company that was Palestine Action's primary target, is close to winning a £2bn MoD contract to train British soldiers. The idea that as genocide continues it's "business as usual" is why thousands plan to shut down the DSEi arms fair on 9 Sept www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers
Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye
www.middleeasteye.net
One of the big conspiracy I hav right now is how Elon made up a bait and leftists just step right into it. The easiest way to hook leftists and anti-AI people to their services? Make AI agree with them. Now I see people everywhere on the hellsite just tagging grok to ask if something is true. Insane
Again, design is being recuperated more and more by the american right, and american tech designers are leaning more and more to the right. This shows design's pathetic failure in actually bringing material changes that benefit everyone and not just the few.

bsky.app/profile/whit...
“America by Design,” a national initiative to improve experiences for Americans, starting [with] the design of sites where people interface with their #Government … This effort will be facilitated by a new National Design Studio and by a new Chief Design Officer [Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia].
Improving Our Nation Through Better Design
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov