If you wanna make better looking procedural terrain, this thread is full of simple tricks you can use straight away. #threejs #gamedev

Allen Centennial Gardens on film @uwmadison.bsky.social 📷 Minolta XD 🎞️ Harman Phoenix II #filmphotography #photography

This video goes into all the details on shadows in the real world, traditional drawing and painting, and digital 2d and 3d. Join me for the Shadow deep dive! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEJ... #animation #lighting #shadow #vfx #3d

All About Shadows

YouTube video by ArtOfSoulburn

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A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story. @fadahjassem.bsky.social and I analysed figures from @acleddata.bsky.social, UNHCR, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbers🧵 #datajournalism #datavisualization #dataviz

Nearly three years into the war on Gaza, the humanitarian toll remains unfathomable to much of the western world, but these Fault Lines segments render the devastation with clear, harrowing specificity. @aljazeera.com

👩‍🎨Art can break silence where words fall short. From memory to movement, creativity helps us imagine, and demand a world without nuclear weapons. Visist Artists Against the Bomb to learn more: https://artistsagainstthebomb.org/ #ArtForChange #NuclearBan

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There are a lot of free Blender tutorials out there, but @louisdumont.bsky.social is in the top tier of online instructors. I've learned a ton from his Robotic Planet course and can't wait to check this out. 🐸 If you're at all interested in learning Blender this is one to bookmark! #b3d

Louis du Mont@louisdumont.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Frog bot is all wound up ready for action in a new (and free) Blender course over on cgboost.com/frogbot #b3d

Since the ceasefire agreement on Oct. 10, 2025, the #GazaStrip is divided by a dangerous, ambiguous and ever-expanding “yellow line” controlled by the Israeli military. One side of the line is under Israeli military control pushing people of #Gaza into the remaining 42 per cent.

Which is harder to simulate - Dark Matter or Gas? Find out in my latest blog post, which includes pretty animations and also a sneak peek at a sim you can run yourself?! testtubegames.com/blog/dark-ma...

1/7 - The New START treaty - last remaining nuclear arms limitation treaty - expired today. Russia and the United States have so far failed to prepare a replacement treaty. At best, the two may agree voluntarily not to exceed the limits for a while.

Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

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I’ve been badly neglecting this platform for some time, for a variety of reasons. Thanks to @awarnes.bsky.social for the encouragement to rectify that. From last Friday’s march in Minneapolis, prior to ICE’s murder of Alex Pretti.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti

In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

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"nearly all the mainstream liberal pundits sounding the alarm about white supremacy, jingoism, xenophobia, and political violence failed to connect these things to U.S. imperial violence"

Boston Review@bostonreview.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Twenty-four years ago, after the September 11 attacks, the launch of the “War on Terror” expanded presidential authority, severely curtailed civil rights, and made a mockery of the Constitution and international law. Noura Erakat on how we are living the latest chapter of this story today:

ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun

Nonviolence is a double standard.

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If you read just one thing this week … read about the hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending Congress passed. inkstick.substack.com/p/critical-s...

Critical State: The $839 Billion Defense Spending Bill

If you read just one thing this week … read about the hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending Congress passed.

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Wow. Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area. In order to protect “economic considerations” sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/01/16/o...

"Trump and his allies are tapping into a grim American tradition whose history predates and inspires modern iterations of both the white genocide myth and the great replacement theory. For some two centuries, invasion rhetoric has fueled nativist vigilantism and anti-immigrant state violence."

The Long, Lethal History of Trump's 'Invasion' Rhetoric

In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.

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Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

Waiting for the ship to arrive... #b3d Made in Blender with some ChuckCG assets, LensSim camera, and graded in Resolve.

some work in progress concept art from sketch to kit to initial blockout. All part of @learnsquared.com Interior Concept Design course by Nick Stath. #blender #conceptart

"Despite the ceasefire, east of the ‘yellow line’ destruction is continuing. The Israeli military is demolishing residential blocks and clearing the land, threatening to transform temporary dispossession into the permanent displacement of Palestinians from more than half of Gaza’s land."

Forensic Architecture@forensicarchi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two. Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire

Records show that Raytheon was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants in North Carolina. inkstickmedia.com/special-trea...

Special Treatment Lines Defense Giant's Pockets in North Carolina

Records show that Pratt & Whitney was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants.

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Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

@wslafoy.bsky.social fwiw I also didn't know the word "venal". Great episode. Have you guys ever discussed the Norwegian miniseries "The Heavy Water War"? It's based on the efforts to sabotage Nazi heavy water production in occupied Norway.

Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 5.0! ACES, Adaptive Subdivision, HDR, Storyboarding, Geometry Nodes, 588 bugs fixed, and so much more. 📖 Changelog & Download: blender.org/download/rel... 📺 Video Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEq... #b3d

Want to make visuals that don’t just inform — but resonate? Join us on Nov 11 for Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization, and learn how experts balance clarity, creativity, and collaboration. 🎙️@shirleywu.studio 🎙️@tanyashapiro.bsky.social 🎙️Kelsey Nanan

Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization

Great data visualization lives at the intersection of art and science. By bridging rigorous data analysis with creative design, data visualization has the power to make complex ideas easier to…

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Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.

Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. n.pr/48SFSKo

Israel says it's resuming the ceasefire after its strikes in Gaza kill over 100 people

Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.

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