iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stories That Stick Podcast @storiesthatstick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

GRANDPA'S MAGICAL TOYS! Chad's joined by @briamgilbert.bsky.social (and a secret surprise guest) to discuss this WeeSing VHS musical of sentient toy nightmares. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6ZMY... iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... VIDEO: www.patreon.com/posts/grandp...

A cover for Goosebuds episode 201: Grandpa's Magical Toys with guest Brian David Gilbert.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

#Sponsored I'm the host of the very first official Pokémon game show! They approved me! Against all odds! It's gonna be so much fun! Come through! pkmn.news/gameshow #PokemonGameShow

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.

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Simone de Rochefort @doomquasar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

anyway here's the email I sent to jim bankoff last week. i'm still heartbroken. I have been insanely, destructively angry for weeks, and I think I will be for a long time.

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Giant Bomb @giantbomb.com · 11/05/2025

Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 01/05/2025

polygon and giant bomb dead in the same week is just unfathomable

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Susana Polo 🔜 NYCC @susanapolo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Woke up in a lovely bed and breakfast today on a lovely vacation to find out a place I've loved to work for just over a decade has been dismembered in minutes. Just wanted to join the chorus to say that I've been let go from Vox Media on May Day, along with a great team doing great stuff.

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Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am among the MANY folks who got laid off today. Don't have anything good or thoughtful to say on it atm. gutted, sad, feel completely fucked. Fuck vox media management forever. they did this shit on may day. vox media union forever.

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

After today, I am not employed! Not sure what the hell I'm going to do next but follow me on twitch and instagram (pizza_suplex_vevo) and stuff. twitch.tv/pizza_suplex

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pizza_suplex - Twitch

Adult man playing video games on line. Streams on Sunday, 8am PT. Also some other times.

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off. That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Julia will never say this so I’ll say it for her: when I worked for Polygon, she was responsible for not just the biggest Polygon article, but the NUMBER 1 MOST CLICKED ARTICLE ON ALL OF VOX MEDIA. She was single-handedly paying all of our salaries. Hire Julia.

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Petrana 冰冰 Radulovic (she/her) @petrana.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Anyway, I need to go around saving some of my clips and also I would like an ego boost because I frankly feel shitty SO if you have a favorite story of mine, please thread it here so the process of going through and picking some to download isn't so overwhelming/lonely ahaha

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas! New email: nicolecarpenterwrites@gmail.com www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...

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The untold history of Barbie Fashion Designer, the first mass-market ‘game for girls’

How Digital Domain and Mattel Media built Barbie’s wardrobe

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just woke up to this news, need to be a little more awake to fully process it, but the people I worked with at Polygon are some of the most kind, insightful, and passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing. Support them wherever they end up. Also, fuck whoever made this decision.

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Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs

One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up

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insert credit @insertcredit.com · 28/04/2025

Ep. 387 - Ethical Banana Diamonds, with Brian David Gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social of YouTube and Dropout joins our panel to cover Switch 2 preorders, Donkey Kong dating your friends, and the legendary Nier butthole. insertcredit.com/show/387

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Ethical Banana Diamonds, with Brian David Gilbert

Brian David Gilbert of Dropout.tv, Unraveled, and his own excellent youtube channel joins our panel to cover Switch 2 preorders, Donkey Kong dating your friends, and the legendary Nier butthole.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

praying that clair obscur is successful for all the wrong reasons: i need a new type of weeb but for france

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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ugh I’m getting so many of these

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Scotland managed to get “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” to number 1 following Thatcher’s death. I’m just saying we should agree on a song now so that we’re prepared

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

haha whoops, i used humor as a defense mechanism in order to make a song about how i use humor as a defense mechanism youtu.be/Sj4BuUWcZ6Y?...

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Mamma Mia! (2008) Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) Execs, you should be devoting 80-90% of your time right now on Mamma Mia! How Can I Resist You? pitch meetings in order to hit that highly marketable 2028 release. As it happens, I’ve got a four-quadrant, necromancy-focused pitch ready whenev

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

constantly thinking about this ominous sticky note drawing i saw in a boba shop

a well-drawn sticky note doodle of a smiling Mickey Mouse wearing the hat from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, with the words “all magic comes with a price” scrawled beside it

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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

ugh I hope nobody leaks one of these to a reporter! especially not one with Signal, such as meganfarokhmanesh.76, at a publication with great policies for protecting sources, like WIRED

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xarph @xar.ph · 10/03/2025

Highlight of @jococruise.bsky.social @umactually.bsky.social show was when @ifycomedy.com revealed how much buying all the sims 4 dlc costs and we got a five way rant.

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Ceej @ceejoyner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

out of nowhere my kid laughed and said "I'm having a great time with you people" which might be the funniest thing you can say in a room containing only your parents

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Akupara Games @akuparagames.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🍷Cabernet is out now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, + Xbox! This title is a labor of love by Party for Introverts and fully voice acted by talent including @samanthabeart.bsky.social , Dylan Marquis Meyers, @briamgilbert.bsky.social + more. Steam: bit.ly/CabernetSteam All platforms: buff.ly/3CH4lEF

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Cabernet is a 2D narrative RPG set in a 19th century Eastern European inspired world, with a modern twist. Guide Liza, a young vampire in her new unlife among the unsuspecting townsfolk. Will you reta...

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arden @tmntallthewaydw.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

bdg on #p4a2025

jacob from twilight saying "where the hell have you been, loca" with a banana loca and a baked bean d20. there are also two cursed red eyeballs in the background

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karen han @karenhan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

likely needless to say, but: i loved MICKEY 17. it's beautiful, funny, strange, and really touching — i don't know how else to put it, but: it may be an american blockbuster, but at the same time, it doesn't feel any less korean.

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Well Meaning Robot 🤖 @well-meaning-robot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

rewatching sleeping beauty– these fairies go 16 years without using magic to hide aurora, fumble the bag on the last day, and go “we’re gonna make the WHOLE CITY go to sleep so they don’t realize we fucked up soooooo bad” and i gotta respect that

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sara 🌛 rubin @sararubin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

the doorman

A digital drawing of a bird-like anthropomorphic creature walking through a golden magical doorway. He wears a yellow and orange Pierrot style costume. Behind him is a magical purple and pink background. He carries a red and pink magical gemstone in his left hand. Around his waist is a belt with some small bags and a dagger.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

please someone play Realis with me, i have a cute binder for it and everything

the front of a cute binder, featuring an illustration of a little rabbit holding a bursting star on top of a house

the inside of the binder, which shows the cover page for the indie tabletop RPG, Realis

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Justin Michael @heyjustin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Brian brings a longtime silent character to glorious (creepy?) life!! Hopefully a little jolt of joy amid a dark few weeks 🐌

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Like so many others, I've been deeply reliant on Watch Duty the last few days, a nonprofit fire wildfire tracking service. I made a donation to their work, because I have no doubt that it has literally saved lives this week. app.watchduty.org

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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

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DeepBlueInk @deepblueink.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

🚀4 DAYS TO GO🚀 Catch @briamgilbert.bsky.social as DeeDee in the DEEP SPACE DISCOUNTS season premiere this Friday!!!

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

trying desperately to make small talk in a lyft home from lax at 3am

a picture of the sleepiest cat in existence. his eyes, they hold an ocean of weariness

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

as someone who got laid off from a netflix show six days before christmas, i can attest to how many notes could be boiled down to “this is too interesting and fun”

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

ME: Queen Elizabeth, you better not be dressed like the Magic deck from Balatro when I get there QUEEN ELIZABETH:

Left panel: Imelda Staunton as queen elizabeth in the latter seasons of the crown, older white woman looking imperious short Greg white hair wearing pearls and a dress with a purple black and blue paisley pattern.

On the right a deck from the video game Balatro, the back of the card has a marbled dark and light purple, black, and gold swirly pattern that looks kinda like the paisley

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

i want to learn everything there is to know about beetles, but every beetle book i find is geared toward children. is it too late for me to be welcomed into the sacred halls of beetle scholarship?

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The Animation Guild // #WeAre839 @animationguild.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Hey eligible voting TAGA members. Just 3 days left to vote on ratification. Cast yours now and spread the word – remind your colleagues that this is our way to show our strength as a union! #Vote4Animation #StandWithAnimation

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

BLIB show in less than a week!! grab your tix and come see The Boys Live...will be a VERY fun show

a concert poster for BLIB (The Brian Louie Ian Band) - shows me playing keyboard and doing a peace sign, Brian singing, and Ian singing and jumping while playing bass.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

finally sorting the cards @karenhan.bsky.social got at magiccon, and she was completely blindsided to hear that she bought a fortnite card

an image of a magic the gathering card called “dance battle.” the art on the card shows a fortnight character wearing a teddy bear skin dancing in front of four other recognizable fortnight skins.

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