iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this because

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Zuul Nightingale🚪 @danaenight.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cis allies, I'm really going to need you to step up and talk with your fellow cis people about why discussing Harry Potter in a shared space where anyone can hear you is demoralizing at best, and possibly triggering. I'm sitting this one out. I'm too tired.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After having pretty much forgotten about it for years, I've suddenly started getting heaps of ads for Heroes on several platforms starting on the day of Hayden Panettiere's death and I can't work out if it's more gross if that was a human's decision or fully automated algorithmic tastelessness.

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry has finally escaped to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: Space

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Report author Sara Meger said the study was the first of its kind to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism."

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

SCATHING social commentary from Nittner!

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know the Gallipoli campaign has appeared in, like, Battlefield and things like that in the past. So why do the promotional materials for Blackmill Games' new Gallipoli game feel so gross, tasteless, and disrespectful? Is there actually a difference or was I just not paying attention before?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I feel like there's something very antipodean about things that are very silly and very serious at the same time? We love to play nonsense deadpan and mock the serious and I love to write things that are completely ridiculous with a fully straight face.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you want to play undercover criminals trying to avoid discovery amid tense and extended political negotiations debating sausage import regulations, I gotchu.

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Tim Denee @olddog.games · 20/08/2026

"Yes, Councillor", a wonderful cold open by @acegiak.bsky.social. A heist in the midst of the dreary civil service? Yes please and thank you.

A spread from Blades 68: the cold open "Yes, Councillor" by Ash McAllan.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I can do my part but my version is gonna be gay af

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I really need people to be making more obscenely heartfelt straight up hopeful romantic art

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Struggling with the fact that Kairi is gone

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 14/08/2026

This piece suggests that there are fewer climate activists in 2026 than a few years ago because "they kind of won" which would be darkly funny if we weren't in a much, much worse position than we were a few years ago. The *repression* is why there's fewer.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

* utility - worlds are mostly built out of the same bits and pieces used over and over again. Show me a kit you built (props, gun pieces, architectural components, plants, etc) and then 3 or 4 very different builds using those kits in different ways but still feeling within the same art direction

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

* ugliness - I usually need more enemies than heroes but most portfolios are full of pretty things. Can you show me fearsome, disgusting, cowardly, haunted, delapidated, infected, malfunctioning, etc etc etc?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

* variation - can you take the a single thing like, say, a wolf, and then do it to match a bunch of different requirements or directions? Give me a sheet that has forest wolf, possessed wolf, steroids wolf, infected wolf, church wolf, etc and can I still see the same underlying wolf concept in them?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Game Artists, ESPECIALLY early in your career: I don't want to see your prettiest stuff. Have one or two super elaborate things in your portfolio to catch attention if you want, but I'm always skipping past those to go find what's actually useful to me:

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One day I will have the disposable income for a @roseschmits.bsky.social pot. Until then I must admire their squiggliness from afar.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@ramage.in Heya I'm wondering if you can help me find an answer to this question that doesn't seem to be on any of the relevant sites: If all the underlying tech stack is open source, why is the Keet.io app itself not OS? Makes it feel like there's a layer of misdirection or something in there?

key.io

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Imperative second person is what we use BECAUSE it's terse, less typing in English, but that terseness is also what makes the mental image extra funny, like a toddler telling someone what to do

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As examples, code written in other tenses would be: Infinitive first third person: If user presses key, system prints "hello world" Future first person: If user presses key, I will print "hello world" Past tense second person: If the user pressed key, you printed "hello world"

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm always the person telling my friends to write less when messaging and emailing, to not explain themselves because their actions and desires don't need justification. And then as soon as I get a cute person's number I fully scare them off with a wall of text the next day 🙄

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It's a little bit funny to me that code is written in imperative tense. I don't know what else it would be written in but still, I'm absolutely picturing a person looking at a computer, pointing to a printer and demanding "print 'hello world'!"

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the "moderate, compromise" position.

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Actually | DO think twelve year olds should get hrt. That's the normal age to start puberty. so why does it have to be different for trans kids?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another little project writeup. This lil guy was explicitly motivated by needing to make something with my hands while working on other projects with the 3d printer which just doesn't really feel the same. acegiak.net/o/554ed0a7b9...

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Delaney King (In Yellow) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you can't define the boundaries of a gender, you cannot oppress it.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I keep thinking about the fact that there's suddenly 8 billion people. That it caught us by surprise and we're still catching up to how to handle the problems that emerged from that, but also, there's 8 billion people now. We can work it out.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I am biased but this is genuinely on my list of greatest games of all time.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh god yeah for a military press that feels like an accident waiting to happen

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Finally finished my Cyberdeck build. Took a minute but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. acegiak.net/articles/9cc...

Cyberdeck with case printed in sparkly purple and metallic copper filament with little decorative embellishments in the copper color.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Oh I must have by accident lol. On my phone late at night

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Don't ask me why I made this. I don't know.

Pope Leo and the archbishop of Canterbury with the title "schism Crew 2026"

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you're not a gym guy that's fine, you do you, different bodies are hot in different ways. But if you are hitting the gym regularly but only working out up top? That's a hard pass from me.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Fellas, you've got to understand, "goes to gym but skips leg day" is the biggest ick turnoff. It's a massive indicator that you don't know what women want, can't give it to them, and are actually just seeking the attention of other men.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Attempting to resolve any of thoughts in this fields into coherent and communicable theory though is a lot of work and I'm keen to see how you go.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Gender and sexuality are experiences that are similarly contingent "subconscious choices" that we attempt to resolve and communicate with identity technologies.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From those I've arrived at: Free will is a contingent system of attention and choice. Identity is an endeavor of trying to reduce paradoxically complex being into a simple model.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

And I can absolutely get behind Zizek's metaphor of gender experience being a (freudian?) "subconcious choice", like his metaphor of discovering you are in love.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm a big fan of Hans-Georg Moeller on this question. Genuine Pretending and You And Your Profile were both helpful to me and then The Enigma Of Gender was kind of terrifying to read right up until the conclusion which is just very neat and extremely chill.

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tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If the thing youre describing exists in everything or is a property of everything but is fundamentally unobservable in most stuff except for rare cases like people, animals, maybe plants, maybe what youre describing is just the act existing and not some separate phenomenon we can call consciousness?

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Ash McAllan @acegiak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Panpsychism is increasingly popular in a lot of the philosophy content circles I am audience to and I don't quite understand how you get to the point of deconstructing conciousness enough that you decide that it exists in everything and don't go "well then maybe it doesn't exist?"

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

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