iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Still working out some kinks but I thought I'd share for people in a similar situation. We have a mostly nonverbal autistic kid who can actually do sight-words OK. I realized I could make music videos with exactly his sight-word set and favorite topics using Claude (the model was sonnet 5.5).

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I recently picked up Minecraft for the first time. I mostly did "just play it and work it out" but it's a big game and things like "dying every ten minutes unless I spend half my time hiding and waiting for daytime" really sapped the fun. Looking up "how to sleep" made the game better for me.

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 13/10/2026

"AI will change the world."

A screenshot via Reddit https://redd.it/1x4lmsu of someone searching Google "what is penis in braille" and receiving an AI overview: "The penis cannot read Braille because it lacks the necessary nerve receptors. Nerve Endings: Reading Braille requires Meissner's corpuscles, which are specialized nerve endings in the fingertips and other sensitive skin areas responsible for detecting light touch and fine textures."

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hey, hang on! Purple hair. Monster hunter. Plot twist: Serena is secretly Teds's mom!

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Matty! @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A friend introduced me to a new ‘slow-cial media app’ called Roost, where you collect birds, and all the messages you send to people are delivered by those birds, at the actual speeds those birds would fly. This is the greatest thing ever.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Far as I'm concerned, "finger foods" means things you eat without using cutlery

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, clearly the first one is that epic ballad "Why don't you get a job" by The Offspring

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah, so, when I was about 3 or 4, it seemed like a great idea to watch the original Alien movie. Chest-burster and all. Spoiler: It was not a great idea

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure it could. Sk8er Boi is basically a modern retelling of Lady Chatterley's Lover 😁

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Slightly less-facetiously: How long do you give it between the big movie studios going "hahaha we've fired all the artists, we love AI" and "people can make big-bucks-style movies that compete with us by using AI?!? BAN AI!!!"?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep having discussions with mathematicians, artists, etc., where they insist that we should make sure people are valued for being humans, not just their maximum economic contribution or whatever, and I keep wanting to shout... come visit any get-together of the special needs parent community.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh, no! I'm not falling for *that* one again! That's what they said about USB thumb drives, too!

USB drive that's a Transformer that turns into the Decepticon Ravage, a black panther

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a Brit, not something I've ever had to consider - either works for me. Abbreviations don't have to keep original spelling intact - just look at the universally-accepted "will not" -> "won't"

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I definitely find it's better to ask an AI "how do I do this task" than tell it "do this task for me" - the former means I learn, the latter makes me dumber

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

is this the real life is this an LLM hallucination it was trained on reality it has no eyes no mouth but it must scream

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tomorrow's shock revelation: Galactus was an immortal. He empowered the Silver Surfer

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The shareware version of Doom that shipped with Linux back in the 90s. There was just nothing else that even came close!

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I hope she didn't have to battle any off-panel monsters!

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's even worse to get distracted whilst attempting to eat it - your cutlery might fail to make contact with the meat altogether. You'll be accused of a "miss steak" mistake

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, the pamphlet may be free. That doesn't make it okay for you to drop in once an hour every day and take *all* the pamphlets because you're burning them as free fuel to warm your house

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Canonically, they only have four digits per hand. Clearly, they're on an AU Earth at the very least. There's no reason they can't be entirely correct *in their universe*

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Better slogan: No read book? Book too much words? Try robot!

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think you need a distinction in #4 between "people deliberately misrepresenting a source" and "people making a mistake"

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Possibly, but if anyone tries to justify "irregardless" they are automatically dead to me 😜

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hello from a tall person who is frequently other people's Improvised Tool for high shelves

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I mean, he might actually be right - if the Dems win enough to Lame Duck him, the war will stop and the Strait can reopen.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, I assume that when playing an actual game, you'd think of it as "my deck" regardless of who owned it/what others you own at the time. After all, I think we can safely assume George owns more than one deck and AJ got a pretty clear view of him as a dragon :)

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I figure this is a "what the person believes" situation, so borrowing a deck wouldn't necessarily work: she'd know it wasn't really *her* deck, she was just holding somebody else's. The spell might flicker around alarmingly for someone who owns multiple decks!

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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mossquail @mossquail.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

flawless creature

goofy minimalist doodles of an old german owl pigeon based on the image in the quoted post, where a hole in the wall behind the pigeon makes it look like it has one eye floating off the side of its head

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My guess is the spell bases appearances on what an individual considers their deck, rather than on the physical deck itself. i.e. somebody sneaking a card into your deck without you knowing won't change your appearance. That does imply magic can mind-read, but I don't think that's news

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I worry this sort of... generalized political and economic pessimism just makes everything feel pointless, but if you zoom out, things are getting better along almost every axis, and the biggest problems we face are all solvable.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mind you, when it comes to composure at least, so would "you think you're scary because you're tall? I can turn into a giant feathery bat thing at will. Bring it on." 😁

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"My upbringing was so messed up I put in the time to study what a healthy upbringing looks like" would seem entirely logical.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We've already got IVF, cloning, rudimentary artificial wombs etc. A hundred years seems like it'd be vastly more than needed to solve the "no new people" problem. Release the gas! We can solve the side effects

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm glad she wasn't bothered by any off-panel skeletons whilst lurking

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I can cope with the slow conveyor of games like Pistol Whip, but nothing beyond. Beat Saber is my happy place

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It takes a lot of braining to make words go

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BlueMonkeySlippers @bluemonkeyslippers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just out of interest, will you ever be giving immortals an origin story? Where did they come from, do new ones still come along, etc?

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