Alex Warnes

"So, yeah, in some ways I’d rather be dangling by three fingers than dealing with life’s day-to-day headaches."

"Even a very limited system would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, would have no meaningful defensive capabilities..." 🎯

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

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

Eid Mubarak 🌙

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

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...

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"

"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"

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...

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...

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."

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."

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...

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

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

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.

Made a mini doc telling the story of my friends' hobby-turned-business. It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade). Enjoy! youtu.be/9QNEFdlwJCY?... #art

This is an absolutely brilliant piece and well worth the read - "'I think the visual lexicon of open-source investigation is something that the Israelis have co-opted as a way to try to delegitimize [those investigations] and confuse,' said Elizabeth Breiner..."

I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.

Super fun and immediately installed. Always love a good PWA game 🌐 (I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)

Aaaand my #BCON25 #b3d talk is already online! It was (and is) an amazing experience. Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰 Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑‍🎓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCia...