iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I also want Vertical Slice to evolve beyond the confines of a traditional paper. That's why I'm launching The Repository, a growing (free) collection of pitch decks and design docs donated by generous contributors including @kitfoxgames.com, @outersloth.com, and @outerloopgames.bsky.social.

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Welcome to The Repository: A burgeoning (totally free) treasure trove of dev documents

Sharing is caring.

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

amazing morning of birding today 🥹

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I really need to learn how to edit photos... for my bird pictures...

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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Liz Bushouse @lizbushouse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 40th anniversary to the Legend of Zelda series! Want to know more about the English localizations of these games and who brought them to us? Here's a thread! Starting with Dan Owsen, who worked on Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, and Ocarina of Time.

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Cy Catwell @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m at a major crossroads: I have until 9/20 to fully secure my housing after an ongoing fight for unemployment and state support as a disabled person. And there’s a direct way that you can help have a tangible effect: you can help me keep my home.

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Donate to Help Cy Stay Housed, organized by Elise Petersen

I'm raising funds for my friend Cy, who is facing housing insecurity after being unemployed and fal… Elise Petersen needs your support for Help Cy Stay Housed

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

the siren song of a late Saturday nap... but nay... I shan't listen

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Brandon Bovia @brandonbovia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So, How Does The Green Work, Anyway??? Working on the lettering (English text) for The Guy She Was Interested Wasn’t A Guy At All has been an interesting experience. I primarily work in black and white manga, or on rare occasions, full color.

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Cy Catwell @pixelatedlenses.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dropping this so it’s all contained within one thread since now, more than ever, mutual aid can and will make the difference between me staying housed or not while I continue to push for security and safety nets through my state:

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Pay Cypress Catwell using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/cycatwell and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

sometimes I’m like “ahhh humans make so much wonderful art, how will I experience everything I want to” but then it’s also like yes!!! I always have art to look forward to!!!

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Want to feel old? Students starting college this week were born more than 2.5 million years after megalodon went extinct!

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

very difficult when you are planning to do something but then a cat jumps on your lap, so now your new plan legally must be to keep the cat as comfy as possible. that's the rules

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🌾Beau Van Dalen | Author, 30+ Novels 💕 @beauvandalen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

‼️ PAID 🏳️‍🌈 INDIE GAME WRITING GIG ‼️ Looking for a games writer for a queer indie 🌈 dark fantasy VN project! ▶️ Please apply here if you are interested: forms.gle/on7TvDsYem4R... 🏳️‍⚧️RTs very appreciated, thank you so much!! ❤️

GAME DEV GIG SEEKING WRITER FOR A QUEER TRANS DARK FANTASY VISUAL NOVEL VN

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

nothing quite like looking at your dog and getting hit with the Dog Side Eye

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

for some reason I never finished DK Bananza despite loving it, and the DK Challenge has finally brought me back, and man, it’s still so good

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

my birding withdrawal is getting quite dire I’m afraid

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duetofsonancegame.bsky.social @duetofsonancegame.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

people asked about the music in my previous post - well... I composed it! slowly working on the ost for the game 🎵 m o r e t o c o m e ~ #indiegame #jrpg #gamedev #composer #vgm

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

there is something especially joyful about doing your own research and falling into your own rabbit holes for a project as a writer when so many tech people insist this work should be offloaded to AI. the process is fun! I’m stumbling into things a summary would never give me!

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Sean @flyingwalruss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good to remember that you can’t pirate it either. I remember in the early seasons of Thrones seeing HBO use the piracy numbers to boost their claim that it was the biggest show on tv, something they’ll do again if it helps. Watch something for adults instead.

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 11/08/2026

NEW on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: Last year Critical Reflex, Dread XP, and Black Lantern Collective faced claims of sexual harassment. We spoke with the accusers about their experiences and asked if the publishers made changes. Critical Reflex and BLC say they have. Dread XP declined to comment.

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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...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

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

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Ollie @keldel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

💫 Gouache and pencil on aqua board!

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Seerlight @seerlight.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

'Witch Hat Atelier' So excited this got an anime 😆 #anime #witchhatatelier

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I'm adoring the Witch Hat Atelier adaptation so far, and the dub cast is doing such an amazing job 🥹

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Jessi Zabarsky @hugbox.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I believe in you, strangers

a four panel comic in yellow and brown about noticing strangers doing good in the world

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I feel like I’ve done so well going out of my comfort zone and pretending NOT to be shy the last several years, remembering I *am* quite shy is brutal

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/02/2026

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/02/2026

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

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Spooxie 👻😱 @roxieproxy.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live.

"This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario."

The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD."

Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version."

PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement.

Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

21 minutes ago

Jazmine Ulloa

Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

01.14.25
Hoeven Helps Introduce Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
Legislation Would Allow Concealed Carry Permits to Be Used Across State Lines, Subject to State & Local Laws
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven helped introduce the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation sponsored by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) to allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry. Importantly, the bill protects state sovereignty by not establishing a national standard for concealed carry, instead treating concealed-carry permits similarly to state-issued drivers’ licenses, allowing them to be used across state lines while still requiring individuals to abide by that state’s laws. Hoeven has cosponsored this legislation every session of Congress since 2015.

“This legislation empowers law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights when traveling across state lines,” said Senator Hoeven. “Under our bill, individuals that have been granted a concealed carry permit in their home state will be able to use that permit in any other state that allows concealed carry, making it easier to travel while still respecting laws passed on the state level.”

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Anna @babblingbear.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

lying in bed with my cat is absolutely what I needed at the end of the day today

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.

Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

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