iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 08/10/2026

people in 2020: DON'T GET THE SHOT. THAT'S HOW THE ELITES ARE GOING TO LURE YOU TO YOUR DEATH people in 2026: THE LIL ROBOT WHO TELLS ME I'M SMART AND SEXY PROMISED ME A LIVING WAGE AND I TRUST HIM

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 01/10/2026

Between Sony's plans, the general push for digital-only, and the draconian EU Kids Act not only our favorite hobby is in danger, but the freedom of the internet as a whole. Speak up or somebody else decides for you! Push back or get trampled over! Fight now or it's over!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you're worried about the reviews your book or record might have on the internet, remember the Himalayas have a 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Google Maps.

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Stop Killing Games @stopkillinggames.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stop Killing the Internet has launched its own European Citizens' Initiative and needs your support! If you are an EU Citizen of voting age, please sign it! Anyone can help by sharing this with your communities, friends, and family! eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#... Thank you! #StopKillingInternet

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European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026

Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha

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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 18/09/2026

Friendly reminder to continue voicing your displeasure over Sony's plans. Write critical, civilized comments. Boycott their services (PSN, PS Store, PS+, PS App, etc.). Get your local politicians and customer rights agencies involved. Educate about the downsides of all-digital!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

It's always a good time to share this.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 10/09/2026

Friendly reminder: Reasonable consumers indeed know they won't own an intellectual property by buying a COPY of a product. Reasonable consumers also stand up against corpos rebranding "buying/purchasing" into "licensing" to take away rightful ownership through semantics.

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/09/2026

I am so, so tired of this endless parade of half-baked bullshit, and the equally endless parade of braying rubes smirking at a camera next to the latest pathetic stock pump. I am begging people to have a little fucking dignity, for all of our sakes.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 01/09/2026

#PSBlackout Stage 1 completed! Here is what's important moving forward.

We would like to thank everyone who helped spread the idea and took part.

Now the fight for a better gaming world continues. And we need to stand united!

PlayStation's plans set a dangerous precedent. If they go all-digital, others will follow. This will affect us all, regardless of whether you earn a living with games or just play them. Regardless of where you play or how you purchase your games.

You will lose the only form of ownership on console. The only legal form of preservation. Trade conventions/fairs will eventually die. Retailers will lose sales and close. Developers lose additional revenue and discoverability. Without physical and second hand price competition dwindles. Price hikes and fewer sales will be the new norm, pricing some people out of the hobby entirely.

And what you will pay exorbitant sums for, is not even yours to keep. Without customer protection laws everything you buy can be stripped from you at a whim. As you can witness today when over 500 Studio Canal movies get erased from people's libraries without any repercussions. What do you think happens to Wolverine when Sony and Marvel eventually part ways?

That is why we need to fight two battles at once!

We need to protect physical games as an option. For preservation, for the experience, for a healthy market, and to keep our hands on what we bought.

We need to push for better customer rights in the digital space. Actual ownership & end-of-life plans, so games don't just disappear, when a publisher ends support.

Support us! Support initiatives like Stop Killing Games! Speak to your local customer protection agencies and local politicians tasked with taking care of these topics!

Continue to make your voices heard online. There will be more chances in the future to take action again. Thank you all once more for standing up together. Let's continue to raise awareness and get more people on board!

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We aren’t angry enough about all the art not made, the joy not felt, the lives not lived… all because a few people want to hoard wealth.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 30/08/2026

As the social media backlash and #PSBlackout continue against Sony's decision to abandon physical games and a large part of their audience, reputable creator Conkerax adds to the reports of third parties not being happy with Sony's attitude. Continue to make your voices heard!

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 30/08/2026

In Case You Missed It: This morning's launch of @NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. [7:26am ET, August 30, 2026]. Will arrive at Sun-Earth L2 in Early December, to discover Exoplanets and observe the effects of Dark Matter & Dark Energy on the Universe.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 29/08/2026

#PSBlackout Day 7! IT'S WORKING! KEEP IT GOING! The post below is all you need to know about our backlash. Don't buy. Cancel subscriptions. Stay offline. Continue to voice your opinion respectfully through all channels.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 22/08/2026

The #PSBlackout starts tomorrow! We want physical games to stay! A digital-only future without ownership & customer protection law is unacceptable! Log off, don't play, don't purchase, cancel subscriptions, become a ghost, until Sony realize their mistake! #PhysicalGamesMatter

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⸸ ⚧️ INAYA 🏳️‍⚧️ ⸸ @enbyrobot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Repost if if that's true 📢

It's an image that says "repost if trans people are welcome and safe with you" with the trans flag in the background

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 16/08/2026

ONE WEEK WARNING for the #PSBlackout! August 23-30. No logins, no playing, no purchasing on PlayStation. This 1 week is the minimum requirement. If you can, start early, go longer. Let Sony know how important physical media is. Don't accept all-digital without customer rights!

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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m really sick of hearing that we have no choice in AI or data centers, because both will be forced on us without our consent and we should just shut up and submit. Fuck that.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 10/08/2026

Time to sue Sony! DoesItPlay? and @stopkillinggames.bsky.social Games are announcing that we're backing SM&C's (Stichting Massaschade & Consument) lawsuit against Sony over its total control of PlayStation Store pricing. We're putting our full weight behind SM&C's case, with the Dutch court. 1/3

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 07/08/2026

GTA CEO says "discs don't make sense to the consumer". Made a lot of sense during the recent outages. Make a lot of sense on Christmas. Will continue to make sense for every delisted song in a GTA game. How much more gaslighting suits does it take for gamers to wake up?

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie)(She/They) @zyearth.com · 07/08/2026

Bluesky's Trending Page collecting lyrics for the next generation's We Didn't Start The Fire remake.

A screenshot of the Bluesky trending page talking about ICE misconduct, Flock cameras, SpaceX, ketchup slices, and AI-designed viruses that are gonna kill us all.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 30/07/2026

For everyone discussing the date of #PSBlackout, this is a good piece of context.

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Does it play? @doesitplay.org · 26/07/2026

Sony wants to abandon fans? Let's give them a small taste of their own medicine! Together with other creators we call for a 1 week #PSBlackout in August. No logins, no play sessions, no purchases on any of Sony's platforms.

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 03/08/2026

new unifying theory of now: everyone's insane

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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon

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aquaticboom.bsky.social @aquaticboom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Signing the petition made me feel better. Do I think that Sony cares about the petition? Will it change anything? No. Does the petition cover all key issues and do I agree with all its points? Not really. But I feel like it's better than doing nothing. At least we're still talking about it. 🤷‍♂️

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Don't Kill the Disc: Tell Sony to Keep Physical PlayStation Games

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⩜⃝Black At It @blackanarchist.blacksky.app · 17/07/2026

Real. This is y’all? 👀

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𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷🤘🎸💙 @redfives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · 29/06/2026

Q: What is the only known planet in the Universe to be inhabited entirely by Alien Robots? A: Mars.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/06/2026

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

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poingu @poingu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Somehow the author thinks the dreggy stuff produced by his LLM experiments is ‘good,’ which to me is the scariest aspect of LLM-generated prose, the way it can persuade people there is substance in its garbage-output of well turned phrases

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

the hungry observatory

black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Kindness to wildlife is essential, as the biosphere comes under more and more stress. But also as more people seem to view animals as annoyances or just there to be a photographed or even to be insensate, inanimate. (Wildlife rescues are under extraordinary strain and deserve your support.)

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The fact that our leaders can’t get together and say “hey, literally everyone (including the leaders at these companies!!) want this to happen more slowly so how about…you can’t build an AI data center unless it meets requirements including zero CO2” is embarrassing.

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stealthnachos @stealthnachos.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love

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