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"A Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map is being used to sneak information about the ongoing invasion of Ukraine to Russian gamers"

The secret room contains info and images from the war captured by Helsingin Sanomat's reporters and photographers. There’s even a map attached to the wall, detailing the number of bombings that the Russian military has aimed at civilians.

Wewnątrz są informacje o:
- cywilnych celach ataków na Ukrainie
- masakrze w Buczy
- Juriju Głodanie, który wyszedł do sklepu, a w tym rosyjska rakieta zabiła jego rodzinę pic.twitter.com/534VRge5SB
— Łukasz Pożyczek (@LukaszPozyczek) May 3, 2023

*Previously: Amazon has been working closely with the Ukrainian government to download essential data and ferry it out of the country in suitcase-sized solid-state computer storage units called Snowball Edge

Some excellent military unit patches

And of course we find the usual grim reapers and other D&D imagery: pic.twitter.com/ldmti6N7iD
— Trevor Paglen (@trevorpaglen) May 3, 2023

From a longer thread. He has an exhibition coming up:

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And wow, his book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World has apparently become a collector's item. Everybody bought it when I promoted it in 2008, right?

*Previously: Patch celebrating the popped balloon

Americans were caught trying to smuggle hundreds of pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups into Israel, which is experiencing "a dire shortage of the snack due to a TikTok craze"

Times of Israel:

Why did he fill two checked bags with Fruit Roll-Ups? “It has something to do with ice cream,” the man’s voice says.
The man was almost certainly referring to a viral TikTok trend, ongoing since at least March, in which users of the video social network wrap the sweet, sticky roll-up around a small scoop of ice cream, which then freezes over and becomes hard and crunchy.

*Previously: Greatest living pool cue maker sentenced after pleading guilty to helping smuggle elephant ivory