iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 22h

I’m starting to genuinely worry that the reason my mother-in-law has started to misgender me after eight (eight!!) years is: Dementia

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gertritude @gertritude.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1. Go outside. (This is where all the interesting ideas are.)

GIANT SUN: What if you wrote your own DND inspired romantasy novel?

ME, EXITING CARTOON HOUSE: Hot dog!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday I was on my usual bullshit (enthusiastic media criticism, lots of big hand gestures) and someone asked me “But what books DO you like?” and left me just opening and closing my mouth as I tried to figure out how to say that this is how I read everything

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the average lifespan of outdoor cats is 3 to 5 years. indoor cats regularly live to 10, if not 20 years. imagine personally shaving off 3/4 of your cat's life because you're too stubborn and lazy to take proper care of an animal you're responsible for

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors

orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :(

orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wanted image reference for a handshake (easy. every stock photo is about this) but instead I've been sidetracked by the interpersonal dynamics of this particular image

Two white guys shake hands across a generic office table. They're both smiling, but their body language and dress suggests that one man, a blonde shaggy guy who is the only guy without a suit jacket on, has the most social cache in the room. In the background, three business-suited fellows watch over one of the handshakees. Two of these people are giving approving smiles, but they're bookending a central coworker whose arms are crossed. She is staring hard at the man shaking the hand of this blonde man. She is distinctly not smiling. It's like she's the only person in the room who knows this is a deal being done with the devil

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Control Resonant is WEIRD! I get why it was off-putting to some people.

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I haven’t been to church since I got kicked out (almost a decade ago!) and yet I just caught myself humming Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing again

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A football player says "glad you're here in the USA for football season, Junji Ito. Let me show you how to throw a perfect spiral." The football plater throws the ball. Ito is mesmerized. Spirals appear in his eyes and he sweats profusely. We zoom in on his face in an extreme closeup as the intensity of his terror increases.

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SimonRead @simonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's star has waned so far he's now satirical fodder for Private Eye cartoonists

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My book has made me love drawing backgrounds and yet backgrounds take forever to draw. This is inhumane

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Warm nights means leaving the screens open and that means rediscovering two things I’d forgotten I enjoyed : listening to the freight trains rumbling through to Wentworth and seeing what happens when an outside cat discovers a throng of enemies watching them on the other side of the screen door

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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 24/09/2026

Something like this Medicare breach would surely be enough to make our government understand that flimsy “opt out” mechanisms are not enough to protect our creative work from AI theft Surely

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nice to see prime minister is putting his foot down and making it clear that if you hack the Australian government, he will say it is ‘concerning’ then roll over and continue with his plans to change the law so you can steal from Aussie artists

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

having a totally Normal Time today trying to imagine what the Australian government's response would be if literally any other kind of foreign company gained unauthorised access to our public healthcare infrastructure. but alas they are thirsty thirsty thirsty for that AI/data centre investment

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do we think the whole “OpenAI hacking government websites” thing will help or hinder the whole “government proposes that Australian artists have to opt out to not have their lives work data-scraped by OpenAI” copyright negotiation going on right now

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The arts in Victoria are in crisis. A key reason is the state government has slashed arts funding. A group of artists and small cultural organisations have got together to campaign for better policy dontbreakourarts.org

dontbreakourarts.org

Don't Break Our Arts

Don't Break Our Arts : Make a donation today to support Don't Break Our Arts

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 09/08/2023

bisexual men are always turning back at the threshold to give the decrepit room behind them and its piled boxes of rotting newsprint one last pass with the flashlight, leaving themselves momentarily unguarded against the burgeoning congregation of shadows in the unlit hallway

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nancy 9/23/26

Nancy is reading a trendy fashion magazine that says “Trend alert! Boys love long hair. Grow!!” Nancy takes the advice, and grows out her hair spikes. Sluggo is stunned by her beauty.

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may @maysuser.name · 21/09/2026

the thing about "trans kids aren't actually getting surgeries" rhetoric is that i'm not sure we should be accepting the idea of trans kids getting surgeries as fundamentally harmful or reckless

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Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The arts and culture in Victoria are in crisis. But arts and culture are not warm-fuzzy optional extras. Don’t Break Our Arts is a new campaign to restore cultural funding in Victoria. Get involved!

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Batman: TAS implies the existence of Batman: Any%.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2026

this whole thing is madness inducing but the middle paragraph here is the one that made me say "oh we're FUUUUUCKED fucked" out loud

Hill was willing to speak bluntly and on the record. But not every scientist I contacted felt able to do that. I called one Florida scientist who studies sea level rise to fact-check some of the agents' comments, but before we got very far, they asked not to be named. They explained that their current research depends on cooperation from county and municipal governments, which means they have to "tread very carefully" when speaking about real estate development in the
area.
That made sense to Hill. "If we get in the way of developers, their attorneys can go after us through our universities," she said. "It's not uncommonẠỊi
For the most part, she said, silence about climate risk in housing is incentivized. Because if climate risk tanks a property's value, she said,
"everyone's going to be pressuring everyone else not to talk about it."

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dwarf fortress bugs @dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

[0011345] Prophets create unrelated deviant sects

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ENOUGH COSY HORROR! Today I am reading CLIVE BARKER

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I just read a queer fantasy novel that was very good on many levels, but which left the weirdest and greasiest aftertaste in my brain because it kept using the word ‘enby’ to describe background characters. Rather than the word ‘person’, which will do just fine also

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What sick and twisted compulsion made me do this

Elaborate field of wheat. Detailed beautiful wheat. Don’t ask about my wrist inflammation

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 17/09/2026

Will this affect my toxicity score (just looking for an excuse to repost this because I was proud of it at the time but it didn't get any bites)

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho

Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives

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Resident Warren G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Her: I have all my ducks in a row Me: (trying to impress) I have all my geese in a column

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m not NOT considering a Piers Anthony’s Xanth books reread. Look, I’ll be honest. It’s on the table

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/09/2026

That's about as clear an articulation of the present problem as has been made by anyone.

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe we need to have a big sit-down as a community and like, discuss the difference between masculinity and patriarchy and how not every culture performs masculinity the way America does, because like… holy shit

“I've never understood how you can be a feminist and not hate masculinity tbh.
Like even before I Knew I had nothing but disdain for the entire structure of what it means to be 'a man' in our culture, there's no part of it which isn't built on domination, subjugation and hierarchy.”

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Briar Rolfe: TRANS INSURGENT @briar-rolfe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s FUCKED UP how much energy I have now I’ve properly recovered from my hysterectomy. Like I knew that endometriosis was making me fatigued and that progesterone was making me depressed but the sheer amount of gardening that I can do now without triggering debilitating pain… it’s unmatched

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Magic trick

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