iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 53m

this is the roll i learned not to fuck around with like light leaks on unloaded 120 film. looks kinda neat though

Waterfall with orange light leak brooms along side

trees on cliff with aggressive light leak blood to the bottom right

waterfall start far above with a subtle bloom along the bottom

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 38m

IBM_PC.BMF

A grayscale illustration of an IBM PC desktop computer. This was Mattie’s family’s first computer. Although by the end of the second week, the computer was a family computer in name only; Mattie took over the beast and eventually convinced her parents to move it into her bedroom. It was 1982. This was now Mattie’s computer. She remembers a game she played on it: Adventure in Serenia, about a princess who’s been kidnapped by an evil wizard and you, the player, have to save her. It wasn’t the first damsel-in-distress video game—that would have been Donkey Kong the previous year—and it definitely wouldn’t be the last. Mattie was more than willing to overlook the sexist plot contrivances because, it turns out, she got a kick out of rescuing that princess, again, and again. And again.

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Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 36m

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse Demo. Save data from the demo can be transferred to the full game. Xbox ow.ly/wjxU50ZTmIr PSN ow.ly/8ph350ZTmIo Steam ow.ly/Ejcy50ZTmIq eShop (Console Store)

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Turn Based Lovers @turnbasedlovers.bsky.social · 17h

I love a good RPG, but finding time to finish one? That’s another story. 😅 Below 👇️ are 10 turn-based RPGs you can finish in a weekend, from Felvidek and Jack Move to Cosmic Star Heroine. What’s your favorite short RPG? #turnbased #RPG #videogames #turnbasedlovers

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 3h

The best thing about the recycle bin in real life is that you can take things out of it that you have already thrown away

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 3h

We have an opening for a tenured Professor / Associate Professor of Interactive Media "with an emphasis on interactive storytelling, worldbuilding, and/or playful design in the public interest". I'm on the hiring committee and happy to answer questions.

american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Associate or Full Professor of Interactive Media Film and Media Arts School of Communication

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 4h

"In the 90s, this is how you'll write code."

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 11h

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 9h

Will this lead to direct agent-to-agent communication protocols? — say, a direct link between your Dot and a Spectrum agent designed to deal with them

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 9h

Well, they need it badly 😜

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Chris Lee @chris-lee.bsky.social · 10h

You've set me down another rabbit hole. Interesting enough, it looks like the first containers used for storage and transport were trays made from tree bark 500k-400k year ago. 25k years, there seems to have been a container revolution, though. share.google/5Vk2HWjo9DLm...

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A history of containers, an ancient technology hundreds of thousands of years in the making

We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 11h

At some point in ancient prehistory someone asked this same question and invented the basket. Then I guess baskets just kept getting bigger, along with the mechanisms and machines used to move them 😁

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 11h

At some point while moving large numbers of objects around, you ask yourself, “why the f am I doing this?” But you never find an answer, never learn a lesson, and repeat the pain once every 5-10 years 😁

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 11h

You’re damn right I did (But also, jeeze—do you have to email me about it?)

Email from home depot: The Home Depot
9:52 AM

You recently bought Small Pie Pumpkin. Tell...

How many stars would you give your recent

in-store purchase? View as web page RATE...

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 30/09/2026

Yes. I hope you feel better soon. I don't feel great either

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 29/09/2026

Don’t worry, some day all your problems will seem insignificant compared to newer, bigger ones

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 29/09/2026

Does anyone sell a small, at-home personal steamroller for crushing piles of cardboard shipping boxes

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Malcolm Hal Drives a Steamroller

ALT: Malcolm Hal Drives a Steamroller

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 29/09/2026

Surprised he didn’t try to call it “American Intelligence”

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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In #StarCadre Team Command, the Unity of Free Planets is in a state of cold war against the alien Donos Empire, and also has to defend its citizens from other enemies. You command a unit of operatives for the Unity. cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #msdos #cga

A screenshot of Star Cadre: Team Command, showing a briefing for a mission where the team are to enter a hostile industrial complex and gather parts for a dangerous weapon.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 16/10/2024

In this spooky season, here's some advice from Quora that I found in 2019

Wow, don't be afraid, ghosts are just people. Except they have passed away.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 29/09/2026

Do defense contractors list this kind of disclaimer about their nuclear missiles? If they did, maybe their stock would go up

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 29/09/2026

I need the weather to cool off enough that I can justify making a batch of chili with the peppers we grew this year (and of which a lot of them have become quite ripe).

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Consumer Time Capsule @consumertc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's something I bet you've never seen before: original 70s McDonald's slide transparencies from their advertising agency used for promotional items like translite signs - check out the PUNK'N MAKINS and ONION NUGGETS photos!

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 29/09/2026

TEENAGE COMRADE NINJA TURTLES

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/09/2026

Also the ska music really put me off the game at the time, I think

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/09/2026

I played the heck out of Mario Kart 64, Wii, 7, and 8 but never really liked Double Dash. I thought maybe others agreed but it was the 2nd highest-selling GameCube game

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/09/2026

For some reason I never really liked Mario Kart: Double Dash (GC)and consider it the worst in the series (hmm maybe 2nd worst after the GBA game) for reasons that are hard to convey Can anyone convey those reasons 😁 you can’t hop, maybe poor track design, music? The swap mechanic?

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 28/09/2026

Kudos for treating NES and Famicom as two separate platforms! 😁

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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 27/09/2026

There is nothing inevitable about today's GenAI companies or market or product design or power dynamics. It's based on decisions, made implicitly and explicitly, by people. To imagine a better way we must realize how arbitrary all of this is. And who it serves.

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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · 27/09/2026

Yes, every episode now I am very confused

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