iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 03/10/2026

"Polarization is [...] less the disease than democracy’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement. Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government." bsky.app/profile/dann...

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"I haven't seen AI create anything fun. It can replicate, for sure, but I haven't seen anything fun come from AI yet," said a senior-level attendee at the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. "You can make crap quicker," quipped another. bit.ly/4yrkVQq

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slowbeef @effinslowbeef.com · 03/10/2026

Well that's my weekend sorted

Fuck's Quest II and Control Resonant in my steam shopping cart

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ghosty @ghostytheeghost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MHA choosing to go after *checks notes* a’ja wilson’s mother is certainly a choice

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Jenn Hatfield @jennhatfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICYMI: The Washington Mystics strove to stay joyful through the ups and downs of a full #WNBA season. But that goal gets harder in the playoffs, when a loss can be season-ending. Read my story @theixsports.bsky.social about how Washington's season ended and the emotions around it:

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Washington Mystics' playoffs disappointment won’t define them | The IX Basketball

All season, the Washington Mystics wanted to stay joyful through the ups and downs. But on Wednesday, their season ended and sadness hit.

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It is such a shame that cool people (I'm assuming unknowingly) keep showing up for that racist Jesse Petrilla's YouTube channel.

Jesse Petrilla's famous guests on his YouTube channel, such as John Romero, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman, and a few awful things he's done such as putting up an effigy of Bin Laden in front of a mosque, suing to reopen schools during Covid, and putting up a billboard "Sharia Law Threatens America."

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Space Quest Historian @spacequesthistorian.com · 02/10/2026

I got an email from this guy yesterday. He's going to be at PRGE, probably networking and fishing for more interviews. My plea to any developers or industry people he approaches: Please don't accept his requests. Please don't enable hate. Everyone else, please be civil. Preferably just ignore.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesse Petrilla (Islamophobe right-wing grifter) keeps showing up in retro game spaces with a How Do You Do Fellow Kids energy and trying to ingratiate himself. This should be an easy one to say no to

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is gonna be a blast! Mark your calendars for another fun, public, and 100% FREE ROMchip game history event!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I work at the newspaper and just wrote The Great Awokening is over, I’m both 79 and 12 years old and make 260,000 dollars a year from a man who sent Katy Perry into space on a rocket ship. As you can see, everyone else is the problem.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal

Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do I need to restart the timer?

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyway.... I have too many other demands on my time to be able to write a good op-ed /rebuttal, but I will absolutely come on your tech podcast and break this down

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still getting mad about this every time I remember that Levy also LITERALLY INVENTED the idea of the "hacker" as a technoclass with a collective meaningful ideology, rather than, let's say, a bunch of guys doing a programmer's version of shitposting

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Laine, as always, is right on the money. companies flocked to SV because the military industrial complex had already gathered all the engineers, technology, and money there. A bunch of dudes in garages didn't build the infrastructure that made SV such a brilliant lab for developing new technology.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...

wired.com

War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I appreciate this w/r/t the conversation we had this year about the early Us game industry not thinking of themselves as workers, and that doing coke and reading Mad Magazine ≠ countercultural politics

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...

wired.com

War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the free market is an efficient distributor of talent and quality 🥴

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Dr. Christine H. Tran @thechristinet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Martin Luther nailing 95 AI-generated menus onto the Wittenberg church door.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

woah didn't realize King is now gonna be running Microsoft Solitaire. What a trajectory for one of the oldest game...lineages? franchises?....in computer game history. (as i learned in @superjoost.bsky.social's Substack)

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I also really love this infographic we did. The magazine archive is a collaborative effort. We've scanned thousands of magazines, but we're also relying on years of scanning work by the community and partnerships with the industry. It takes a village!

30% of our magazines were provided by Retromags. 33.4% were scanned by the Video Game History Foundation. Magazine publishers and staff provided another 10.8%. In declining order, other contributor groups are "Various Internet Archive users," CGW Museum, Out-of-Print Archive, and other community groups.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Tetris Company says it owns the pieces in Tetris, but there’s one problem: Those geometric forms were described decades before Tetris existed. Julien Mailland details the game’s Kafkaesque journey from Soviet labs to “capitalist copywrongs.”

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The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

Behind the beloved game lies a struggle over mathematical ideas, erased collaborators, offshore millions, and copyright power.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

londondaily.com

Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surprise, we're doing Japanese magazines now! This has been a big slowly moving project with a bunch of collaborators, and I'm proud of the pilot we're launching today

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Two months ago, we revived the long-delayed Tremont Avenue busway. This week, it’s up and running. That means 39,000 daily riders on the Bx36 are getting faster, safer, more reliable commutes. www.amny.com/news/bronx-f...

amny.com

Bronx gets first busway as Mamdani admin completes Tremont Avenue project | amNewYork

Nearly 40,000 bus riders will now have the chance to move around the Bronx faster with the city's completion of the borough's first busway.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026

Congratulations to @1199seiu.org and the nearly 70,000 CDPAP care workers who filed for the largest union election in American history. These workers make it possible for New Yorkers to live safely and independently at home. I’m proud to stand with them in the fight for a union.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On the one hand, it's just dumb. Universities are, in fact, real, and they exist in the world. American universities employ about 3x as many people as there are active duty servicemembers, so if soldiers are "real," then so are academics.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Ella Müller @ellamueller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of news coming out of the U.S. But when I want to understand what it's really all about, I read Democracy Americana. Every piece is the result of meticulous research, analytical clarity and foresight.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We've passed over 5000 out-of-print magazines in our digital archive! This is a big milestone that wouldn't have been possible without our community of supporters, collaborators, and industry partners. And it's about to keep growing. Learn more...

gamehistory.org

VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next. | Video Game History Foundation

We've passed a big milestone for our digital archive. Let's talk about where our magazine collection is going next...

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worm restraint @ctsmike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chase
4:12 PM
Time's running out, Michael: Get a rat...

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Mark your calendars for next year's ROMchip fundraiser!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 21/09/2026

Oh I found a whole sicko QVC host supercut YouTube channel... youtu.be/2I6vuvcQwEM?...

QVC Host Amy Stran rubbing body lotion into another woman's back.

Captioning: Darling, you know what I as thinking for mother's day this year...

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ROMchip just got it's first submission from an AI agent so...that's cool

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's probably not a great sign that our most powerful elite are this desperate for a philosophy that tells them it's okay for them to kill.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

not sure there's anything more emblematic of America's corrupt and frankly death cult level of attachment to its gerontocracy than what we're witnessing rn

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"

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Retire in peace

McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

VERY useful search tool for folks who work on 1980s/1990s computer history -- 3 cheers for @savetz.bsky.social !

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this week went monday, wednesday, friday

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

MOLON LABE

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In order to make this photo gallery work in our library, @algcifaldi.bsky.social had to figure out how to safely display 1600 images from our digital preservation backend, and she delivered

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And part of the problem here is that secular journalists are entirely too credulous about representing the right-wing identity politics of subliterate cranks as The “bible believing” perspective because they don’t know serious Christians, so sure, maybe this hateful brain-diarrhea is “faith”.

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