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Spent the past 5 years raising two boys and writing a book about student debt, called BURDENED. You can learn more about the latter here: ryannliebenthal.com

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Grew up in Boise with a (secular) Jewish mom, and it was just sort of understood that north of, say, McCall was a part of the state we would never be visiting.

10.10.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m actually almost gleeful imagining how this will play out. Really takes me back to my youth (the Helen β€œsalmon can’t be endangered if I can buy it in a can” Chenoweth days).

10.10.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You sure it’s not bofa?

10.10.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And in contemporary French, it has evolved the meaning of β€œto be unfaithful.”

β€œIl m’a trompΓ© avec la voisine.” = He cheated on me with the neighbor lady.

10.10.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This reads like the white-collar equivalent of jaywalking.

10.10.2025 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Boise

09.10.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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

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.

@evanhill Β· 11m 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.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

09.10.2025 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3202    πŸ” 1118    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 73

I think for me it soothes a certain flavor of existential/apocalypse dread.

(On that count, this has been a particularly scary harvest.)

07.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œback me up”

06.10.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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His son had a psychotic break that seems to have been exacerbated by an adverse weed reaction. Might have put pops off the stuff.

30.09.2025 06:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

is it a goat

27.09.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You, right now, are doing the very thing that’s making it hard to hold the line against (real) antisemitism: you’re conflating Jews & Israelβ€”as though belonging to the former group requires support of the latter.

It is possible to disavow Israel & not be an anti-Semite: one can even *be* a Semite!

26.09.2025 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œfull-blown” is quite a choice. It’s not TB for Christ’s sake!

24.09.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Same (5 & 3). I haven’t managed to tell them yet. 😩

Thank god for Kpop Demon Hunters, I guess?

22.09.2025 04:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, & it’s unforgivable that a bunch of sadistic (mostly christofascist, as I’m sure you know) shitheads traded moral legitimacy for free rein on genocide.

But I sure hope you give yourself a big, well-deserved pat on the back for all the great work you’re doing here for those Palestinian kids. πŸ‘

21.09.2025 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s not what I mean and you know it.

Here’s a riddle: What would you call someone who uses the term β€œIslamofascist”?

21.09.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahhh, I get it, you’re an antisemite

21.09.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can’t see that Trump 2.0 is the answer to Bibi’s every prayer, idk what to say. But I guaranty your line of arg. is a key Mossad talking pt.

I’d love to be able to focus all my att’n on heaving Dems L on Pal., instead of fighting these demons on lit. everything. That’s just politics idk? πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

20.09.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
dril meme from 2014:

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

dril meme from 2014: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

20.09.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not gonna lie, it’s quite intoxicating to be someone’s deity

20.09.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d say Beck, but I’m not sure anyone else cares that much?

Anyway, it’s Odelay.

20.09.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Require all MAGA philosophes to give their college hate speeches in French

17.09.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
2yo Reddit post in r/exchristian:

β€œWhat’s your experience with spiritual abuse?”

2yo Reddit post in r/exchristian: β€œWhat’s your experience with spiritual abuse?”

Responses:

> was told i was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because i started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing. later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house, wasn’t even 18 at the time. 

>> OP: That whole β€œyou’re possessed by a demon” thing seems to be a go-to response for Christian parents whose children won’t fall in line. It’s incredibly abusive - kids have been killed over that lie. I’m sorry you were on the receiving end, but glad you’re no longer under their roof. 

>>> yeah, always my recommendation to people nowadays. if you have to deal with wacky evangelism, simply leave because you won’t be able to help them and they will continue to hurt you.

Responses: > was told i was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because i started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing. later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house, wasn’t even 18 at the time. >> OP: That whole β€œyou’re possessed by a demon” thing seems to be a go-to response for Christian parents whose children won’t fall in line. It’s incredibly abusive - kids have been killed over that lie. I’m sorry you were on the receiving end, but glad you’re no longer under their roof. >>> yeah, always my recommendation to people nowadays. if you have to deal with wacky evangelism, simply leave because you won’t be able to help them and they will continue to hurt you.

if only people(’s roommates) were allowed to live as they are

15.09.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sinema of the North

15.09.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

finally someone brave enough to tell the truth

15.09.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fresca: aspartame grapefruit poison

15.09.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ugh, what an unpleasant project

12.09.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Possible retraction to above: I’m probably too old to have a real take on this; I just recall being bombarded with creepy Mormon semitophilia throughout my youth.

12.09.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a hard time believing this Utah Mormon kid was sufficiently steeped in anti-Zionism*, but I’m not well-versed in the take-up of that on the online right, so what do I know, I guess.

* Source: me, anti-Zionist Idaho Jew (by mom) w/Mormon relatives on dad’s side

12.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I see why Europe gave it a go for awhile there

12.09.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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