iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City

On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 20h

lord have mercy

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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bm @brologue.net · 26/09/2026

Reading The Last Continent now (had to skip Interesting Times) and I thought the whole Wizards series was doomed to bore. Glad I've seen myself wrong. If I'd read it sooner it definitely would've influenced my thesis LMAO #Discworld

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bm @brologue.net · 25/09/2026

I'm Sam Vines and I'm a Posting bastard

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

archive.is/xXCaH It's a walkable town, St. Andrews, as all university towns are—which must come as a shock to the crowd who find out that people actually live here.

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

st-andrews.ac.uk/policy/acade... I was told by one of my tutors back in April that St. Andrews would put out a policy on using genAI in teaching, and here it is. *On first skim* there is nothing that tips me off, but I'm sure others will find some bits worth questioning.

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bm @brologue.net · 24/09/2026

The thesis is in with absolutely zero help from the editor

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bm @brologue.net · 21/09/2026

walking into the bar for that neck oil, the bartender says what kinda neck oil and i says that fruity kirkland signature over there with a slimline t, the way he woulda loved it

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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bm @brologue.net · 08/09/2026

Well-Known Fact™: There are only three RPGs provably known to exist: Final Fantasy 7, Persona 5, and Expedition 33. Any other game being marketed as an RPG is a psy-op

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bm @brologue.net · 02/09/2026

this twitter(.)now shit is a social experiment i do not want to be a part of

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Kye Fox @kyefox.com · 25/08/2026

Using AI to evaluate which of a website's 3475 partners to accept cookies from

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

It's not a crime to scrape the web when Grok does it epic chud bacon style #nitter

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bm @brologue.net · 25/08/2026

I'm scouting for people who would be interested in a collaborative #worldbuilding project with me, if such an opportunity was available. The premise? Let's say: A #Discworld adjacent satirical fantasy world that strives to pick up where Pratchett left off.

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bm @brologue.net · 21/08/2026

holy shit, TWO skongs

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bm @brologue.net · 19/08/2026

Belief (in general); they start it by trying to reinvent Philomena Cunk from first principles. When that doesn't work, they attempt an Adam Curtis pastiche which collapses in on itself. 1/2

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Where AI *does* produce value, that value is comparable to a *plug-in*, a new feature for your word processor or image/sound/video-editing package that might help you do your job somewhat better, or it might not. 7/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/08/2026

Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

A giant killer pulp robot bestriding a 17th century map of the world, against an illustrated backdrop of the stars and planets and spaceships from an early 20th century picture-book.

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bm @brologue.net · 13/08/2026

Moments before sunshine breaks under the pressure of being played and then fucking clown honking you like it's some kind of sick joke

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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bm @brologue.net · 12/08/2026

Oh, so thaaaaaaat's why there's a bajillion Blue Lagoons in Glasgow

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of the reasons I work hard not to take myself too seriously is because taking yourself too seriously as an artist is how you start spinning your wheels overthinking "how people perceive you" and not "the art you are making." Impostor syndrome is a symptom of arrogance of the Woody Allen type

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bm @brologue.net · 11/08/2026

>nah i don't need to do pomodoros, I've got meds, i'm a big boy, i can do 250 words a day all by myself >sets up the pomodoro >550 words

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bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026

one of the most lowkey infuriating ways ai has ruined web search is the gazillion ai-generated wikis that crop up whenever a new game comes out and there hasn't been a lot of time to discover things yet. when mewgenics came out i remember stumbling on a "wiki" with HORRENDOUS slop pixel art lmao

many big walk "wikis," one of which is ranked higher on DDG than the real Wikipedia entry

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bm @brologue.net · 10/08/2026

I've been thinking a lot about a point @doctorow.pluralistic.net made 2 weeks ago: AI - the bubble = plugins. Now I'm asking: what can we writers do with this framing? *Should* we talk about plugins? Vibechecking "AI is plugins" brologue.net/2026/08/10/a... Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!

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bm @brologue.net · 07/08/2026

low-hanging fruit, i know

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bm @brologue.net · 06/08/2026

Zuck's strange little greenhouse can stay in his walled gardens for it is a social experiment I do not want to be a part of

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bm @brologue.net · 05/08/2026

Ironically I'm gonna use this Threads repost to put feelers out. For a few weeks I have been writing a little AI piece of my own. I would've liked to have gotten it out... a few weeks ago, but since then both Charlie and Cory Doctorow have put out some nuanced posts about their views on AI (⬇): 1/

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bm @brologue.net · 05/08/2026

I can't tell anyone how to post, nevertheless, what happens on Threads oughta stay on Threads. I have been nonconsensually exposed to the fruits of Zuck's weird greenhouse enough

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New blog entry: On the non-use of AI in my writing process: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

a lot of tumblr-inflected fandom, dating at least back to the superwholock era, has this very specific post-millennial thing where characters get treated like woobies, which is how you end up with people getting mad at you for explaining a thing a character did in a story

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bm @brologue.net · 01/08/2026

cannae be arsed retyping this but you know it's true

Insane nz is like 20k square kilometres bigger than the uk

like the landmass is literally a post-scratch uk if you think about it

fans asking about who or what lives on all these little islands a bit too much? ok now they're gone, you got north island and south, fucking deal with it

map of the *ahem* BRITISH ISLES (pretend RoI isn't here for the bit)

map of new Zealand (feat. stewart island)

Isle of Mann? Skye? Orkney? Shetland? All lorebait for the UK theorists, I'm afraid, you will never get to visit them

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bm @brologue.net · 01/08/2026

born too early for the matrix born too late for MUDs and Usenet born just in time for RSS and copium

words from 2000
4g
A1c
Abandonware
Anthropocene
Boba
Chibi
Climate change denial
Copium
Crudo
Crunk
CubeSat
CUV
DDoS
Deep web
Downvote
EBook
Emotional support animal
Everyday carry
Face time
Faux-hawk
Fire topaz
Geocache
Geocaching
Google
Grain bowl
Micromobility
Molly
Refers
RSS
Side plak
Siloed
Somoni
Speed dating
Spoolie
Sudoku
Tanga
TiVo
Walk back
Zero-day

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bm @brologue.net · 31/07/2026

And once you've done that, writes Le Guin, it is up to *you* to draw the maps and build the cities you will be reporting on. At the absolute worst, an expert in the field will either miss your email or redirect you to some of their recent work. So email them.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have brought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where *you* make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

And all of this, every time, you do alone—absolutely alone. The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

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bm @brologue.net · 30/07/2026

A handful of people continue to mould this island's rapacious fetish for the incredulous and neglectful cruelty towards anyone who is not an immediate family member. That, if they aren't one of yours, they're faking it.

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bm @brologue.net · 28/07/2026

> Let's not fall into the trap of siding with the media bosses who insist that the salvation of creative labor will arrive when Sam Altman pays David Zaslav for the right to cram the entire Warner catalog into Openai's chatbots.

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Soƒti @softisafe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Okay fine you get one more #pronounpalace shitpost from me

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Bookworm @bookwormiest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#pronounpalace all the playables are found family tbh

A drawing of Guy and V standing next to each other. Guy is facing towards V.

G: “I’m 14 years old and have smoked 3 puffs of a cigarette. Will I get cancer or will my lungs be damaged?”.

V (who’s messing with Guy) jokingly responds.

V: “yep you’re dead good luck turning 15.”

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bm @brologue.net · 25/07/2026

it keeps happening

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bm @brologue.net · 24/07/2026

Apologies for unironically linking to r*ddit but someone has gone to the trouble of archiving all of Terry Pratchett's Usenet posts in one place (and I think that's pretty neat): www.reddit.com/r/discworld/... > SUBJECT: Does Terry-that-Legend-Guy ever read this crap? > No, he doesn't.

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Explore this post and more from the discworld community

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bm @brologue.net · 24/07/2026

>It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good It might help you try to defy gravity, though

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bm @brologue.net · 24/07/2026

incredibly cool but i gotta wait til winter 2029? 😫

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026

William Teason www.tumblr.com/ymutate/8227...

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bm @brologue.net · 20/07/2026

hottest leftist podcast on the airwaves is doing an undertale episode and you WILL tune in on wednesday to listen

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bm @brologue.net · 19/07/2026

A real thing of beauty, this is www.jerrysmap.com/the-map

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 17/07/2026

I could be said to have extensive prompting experience (100 million plus tokens) and my advice is to stay out of the river of shit. Don't get the FOMO. And definitely don't be shamed into thinking that this is actually an accessibility tool.

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