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Alex Warnes

@awarnes.bsky.social
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web developer & dad-joke teller (fmr intelligence analyst). digital & film photography, 3D modeling & VFX alexwarnes.com

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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So, yeah, in some ways I’d rather be dangling by three fingers than dealing with life’s day-to-day headaches."
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Additional notes: - The inspiration from IG: www.instagram.com/p/DbEAaHVFNaQ/ - Volumetric shading from @polyfjord.com fireball tutorial that I ALWAYS go back to: youtu.be/zyIJQHlFQs0?... - @glebalexandrov.bsky.social for the EXR-Resolve workflow
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Tutorial: Creating a Fireball in Blender
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rendered the whole thing out as an EXR sequence, then brought it into Resolve for color grading and sound design. happy to go deeper on any step if useful! I'd be really interested to learn how to make this setup procedural with geo nodes...
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Add sparks: - create a spark emitter (half an icosphere) at each impact site - added a particle system timed to emit alongside the smoke/fire - tweak normal volocity, brownian/drag and lifetime for randomization - emissive orange material
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fire/Smoke sim: - at each impact point, duplicate & separate faces off the sphere - setup each impact face as smoke/fire emitter - keyframe the "Flow" on/off based on impact frame and tweaked initial velocity - add one adaptive domain for all sims
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scene Setup: - sphere as the target - cone with a "Track To" constraint at target - add particle system that emits cylindrical object (something laser-ish) - emissive red material - once I was happy with the rate and impacts, baked it
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I always learn a lot seeing how artists work in different software. @will.hendrickson on IG shared his Houdini workflow for a scene like this, and I tried recreating it in #Blender. Couldn't quite get it procedural (yet), so it became a manual setup. I'm happy with the result! My #b3d workflow:
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Even a very limited system would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, would have no meaningful defensive capabilities..." 🎯
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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you wanna make better looking procedural terrain, this thread is full of simple tricks you can use straight away. #threejs #gamedev
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Allen Centennial Gardens on film @uwmadison.bsky.social 📷 Minolta XD 🎞️ Harman Phoenix II #filmphotography #photography
Wooden chairs with strong sunlight casting shadows across a porch.Looking up at the brick house overlooking the gardens, brightly lit from the sun to the right. Leaves encroaching in the foreground.Bright red and pink flowers surrounded by green leaves.Red, pink, and yellow tulips glowing in the sunlight against green leaves.
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Neil Blevins @artofsoulburn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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
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All About Shadows
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Isaac Arroyo @isaacarroyov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya | Fault Lines Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Kids Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children | Fault Lines Documentary
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Peabody Awards @peabodyawards.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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
A woman in a black headscarf carries a young child with a bandaged head down a hallway. Peabody Winner laurel and logo is displayed above the image and next to text of the program's title, Fault Lines: “Kids Under Fire” and “The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya.”
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Thanks for putting these together Neil! I've been wanting to get more familiar with Affinity
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
👩‍🎨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: artistsagainstthebomb.org #ArtForChange #NuclearBan
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Beautiful design. The gradients, fill opacity, and bloom/shadows are 🔥🔥🔥
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Eid Mubarak 🌙
A painted craft wood mosque with the words "0 DAYS UNTIL EID". A black background around the image has the English and Arabic text Eid Mubarak عيد مبارك
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 26/02/2026
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.
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Andy Hall @testtubegames.com · 25/02/2026
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...
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Hans Kristensen @nukestrat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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...
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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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Jake Gale @jakegale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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.
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 26/01/2026
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"
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“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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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"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"
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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...
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It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/01/2026
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...
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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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Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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...
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Ohio EPA signs off on water quality degradation for Arsenal‑1 project, citing “necessary” tradeoffs
ASHVILLE, Ohio — In a decision that is already drawing scrutiny from environmental advocates and residents, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has formally determined that a lowering of water…
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 16/12/2025
"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."
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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/09/2025
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fu…
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Waiting for the ship to arrive... #b3d Made in Blender with some ChuckCG assets, LensSim camera, and graded in Resolve.
Blender render of a silhouetted character looking out from under an arch toward a ship descending on a desert outpost.
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
Screenshot of three basic floor plans, each for one level of a three level control room concept. Ground floor has desks for 25-30 people, next level has an office, and the top level has yet another office. Some notes on each level indicate what could be beyond the space like building entrance, more offices, cafeteria, etc.Blender render from the front of the control room looking back toward desks and offices. The space has an angled ceiling and the offices are rounded with views down to the main level.Blender render of a view from the entrance to the control room from the middle level hallway. From here you can see into the office space, the stairs up to the top level, and across the control room to the main TV displays.Blender render of a view from the ground-level entrance to the control room. From here you can see across the main floor full of desks toward the wall with 16 large TV displays, stairs up to the mid-level, and parts of the angled ceiling.
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
"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."
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 20/11/2025
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...
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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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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
@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.
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Blender @blender.org · 18/11/2025
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
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Observable @observablehq.com · 06/11/2025
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
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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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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 29/10/2025
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.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/10/2025
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
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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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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/10/2025
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.
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The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.
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Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza
Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
updating mock data files always makes the diff ratio look dangerous 🔥
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
that feels like a close relative to the "I should rebuild this from the ground up" when I should really be refactoring it phase 😅
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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
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Rosewood: Handcrafted, Original Designs | Mini-doc shot on LUMIX
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Thomas Bordeaux @thomasbordeaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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..."
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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!)
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