iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 06/10/2026

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

inktober day 5: smack. only that's too hard to draw so here's SMAC instead

A cartoon of Prokhor Zakharov from the game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. He is a hippie-looking guy, clean-shaven with long unkempt hair and big round glasses. He's wearing a black turtleneck and some sort of scifi headset and says "Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk"

A cartoon of Corazón Santiago from the game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. She is a severe-looking woman with high cheekbones and a square jaw. She wears camo fatigues, an ammo belt across her chest, and has a tight hairdo with a ponytail hanging down behind her right shoulder. She scowls at the viewer and says "Pathetic"

A cartoon of Sheng-Ji Yang from the game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. He is an older Chinese man, clean shaven with receding white hair cropped short and big ears. He smirks, one eyebrow cocked, and says "Apologies, my friend. It's just that as an INTJ, these illogical actions of yours... well, I find them to be amusing."

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the Worst Witch. everyone was so mean to her

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

one of many annoying things about the death of local journalism is that it's really hard to find out what's going on. i want to know why there are helicopters everywhere but every story is either TEEN JAILED IN SICK JOY RIDE JAUNT or LOCAL VILLAGE "NICE", SAY RESIDENTS

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, I think it's notable that serial killer protagonists (even as antiheroes) are much rarer than hitman protagonists; it's easier to identify with the hitman, imo, as "I hate my awful job but I'm just too damn good at it" taken to a dramatic extreme

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the amorality may be part of the appeal too; many people feel morally compromised by their jobs or just their lives, and there is a kind of fantasy in the idea of being able to just turn that nagging conscience off (until, in the better hitman stories, it becomes impossible to ignore)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they're very quick and easy! you can also do a veggie version with rice, quinoa, or bulgar wheat. just put whatever in there

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my god, it's full of mayors

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2026

rough first week for humans at the intergalactic council. everyone was really nice but we spent a lot of time at orientation trying to figure out what made us unique among all the galaxy's species. turns out we're the only ones who thought to deep fry cheese. that's it. we're the fried cheese planet

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

cross-promotion with eric adams

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ah! exactly what i always feared

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

i seem to be more affected by baby diego's death than i realized, sir

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.

Dolly Parton in a great jean jacket and Miss Piggy in a purple satin top and white boa and cowboy hat. What more do you need?

Miss Piggy as Benjamina Gunn and Tim Curry as Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I figured Nonno Stromboli is Rona's paternal grandpa

a panel from Branson Reese's Swanboy comic in which an old Italian man under a pendant lamp says, conspiratorially, "You Nonna tinka she so smart. She put a'da rat poison in me spaghett. I show her. I switch it with a'you daddy. He always poopin, since he wadda baby. Is no problem."

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

now that's news you can use

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

seconding, the more distance the better i have found! also take like a million

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Algunas correciones pequeñas: Cuando usas "a" y "el" juntos, siempre se convierten en una palabra "al"; por ejemplo, "vender tu bonos al mercado". Es lo mismo con "del" (de + el). Además, "have to" = "tener que". "Que" tiene que seguir "tener"(!)

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

this is why I highly recommend getting a teacher if you can find one, bc they can give you a lot of really helpful context like "oh, this word is correct but you only see it in literature" or "this is common in Latin America but not so much in Spain" or "you could say that but it would sound weird"

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great piece. I noticed in a recent survey of the UK film/TV industry, one of the biggest staffing shortfalls was in lighting. It may not be a coincidence every UK drama now looks like a power cut in an AirBnB

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kyle 中和 turner @tylekurner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

back at @avclub.com asking the important questions, like, why do movies look like that now? spoke to a bunch of cinematographers, colorists, and editors to try to figure out what is going on: www.avclub.com/why-do-movie...

avclub.com

Why do movies look like that now?

Cinematographers, colorists, and camera ops explain how shifting technologies and business expectations are making movies look like that.

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

i forgot his name on re-read and thought Sebby was short for Sebulba

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"can Swanboy survive this" seems like the valley floor to which all their conversations run

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

moon's not the real moon, you know that

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i originally heard it (from November) in the context of climate change, but i've found it personally useful: "the best time to do [blank] is years ago; the second best time to do it is now"

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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Me watching the boulder get closer: damn no way that’s a boulder it must be a myte off duft

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

everyone keeps telling me to buy the new hit co-op game. you're all in the pocket of Big Walk

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

hearing that Dobby did not recite the shahada and is now in Hell

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Napoleon has a lot of problems but the action is mostly not among them

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today is International Cat Day. May all cats be happy

A black-and-white cat sleeping with a small cat plush

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i still remember Fanbyte fondly for how quickly i got paid

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 03/08/2026

today's youth will never have the experience of scrolling the 40 or so channels you had at 1 AM on a friday night looking for something interesting or horny and catching the back half of eXistenZ without having any idea what it was

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Been trying to articulate this on the show for years and he just comes out and says it

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Almanac @almanac.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

found this at the bookshop where I work, I enjoyed the title/author combo

a photo of a book about bog bodies, titled "The Bog People" by P.V. Glob. the cover shows just such a bog body with a remarkably well preserved human face

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