iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 11h

Shopkeeper: You don’t understand; it will cost you your SOUL. Me: Yes, this fucked up system of extraction and exploitation erodes the humanity of its perpetrators and participants alike with every purchase, I KNOW.

Cethan Leahy quote reposting tumblr post riffing on the demonic shopkeeper who grows increasingly exasperated trying to explain the evils of his store to a customer aware of the evils of capitalism

010

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yup, that’s the book all right.

000

Reposted by October Caleb

Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

202100192461

Reposted by October Caleb

Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

5456112475

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The scene in Porco Rosso where Marco tells the story of his most horrific dog fight and subsequently witnessing his best friend and the dead pilots of all wars ascend into the quiet sky has to be one of the best in any Ghibli movie.

040

Reposted by October Caleb

Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

149122492052

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once again the writers at Hollywood Reporter demonstrating they do not know what Old English means.

130

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have a friend who doesn’t read novels by living authors because the whole book review ecosystem has become so relentlessly, uselessly positive that it’s difficult to impossible to parse what’s worth his time from recommendations alone.

110

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s telling that Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s weakest efforts are still hugely influential films any other studio would be proud to call their masterpiece.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky Letterboxd review by Caleb:

Certainly the most generic and forgettable of the Ghibli stories, and the one I can most easily imagine having been produced by another studio. There’s very little of interest to say about our two leads or primary villain, though the secondary pirate villains turned sidekicks are a comic delight.

I’m not convinced the hijinks-laden, often Fleischer-esque register of the action and chase scenes in Laputa are a good fit for the more serious moments where the violence suddenly matters and isn’t just for visual comedy. There’s maybe an intended audience tension here, with much of the movie feeling written and directed for six-year-olds before pivoting to heavier subject matter on a dime. I don’t feel that same tension in other Miyazaki movies with a wide audience appeal, in either their heaviest or lightest moments.

So why 4/5? I struggle to rate anything with animation this lively and confident any lower, even if it represents a transition from a rougher earlier era before the studio demonstrated their highest mastery of the art. For all its shortcomings, Laputa: Castle in the Sky is a fine children’s film bursting with the visual imagination we all love Ghibli for, and there’s no denying its influence on many other features (and video games) to come, Ghibli and non-Ghibli alike.

As far as audio versions go, this is unquestionably the worst of the Disney dubs—understandable given it was the first before they figured out how to localize anime in English better than anyone else out there. Vocals are way out of sync with lips, and the kids are simply miscast. Watch in Japanese with subs.

001

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They’re playing I Need Some Sleep by Eels on the radio like it’s 2004 and the Shrek 2 original motion picture soundtrack just dropped.

000

Reposted by October Caleb

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

1475762315

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Leave it to me to make a 4/5 review of an animated masterpiece sound negative. I just wish I could love Princess Mononoke the way so many others do.

Letterboxd review by Caleb:

My central frustration with Princess Mononoke remains. The movie never stops moralizing about nonviolence and “ending the cycle of hatred” amidst a situation in which all peaceful negotiations have failed and there is no choice but violent resistance against the genocidally destructive colonial-industrial incursion. Ashitaka becomes so annoying by about the third time he’s preaching his useless sermon. Miyazaki does everything he can to complicate the situation and place sympathetic actors on all sides without ever altering the math of this basic equation.

Takahata’s Pom Poko, despite being a movie about bouncing raccoon dog balls, always manages to be the more morally coherent and dramatically compelling counter-colonial ecoterrorist fable.

Mononoke nonetheless looks and sounds amazing, the graphic violence remains astonishing, and I do love the colorful cast of characters.

030

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You don’t hate this party enough.

020

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits (Or don't. I'm not a cop). Systems: - Into the Oddish - Sojourn RPG - Mythras - FKR Adventures: - The Secret of Vileplume Mountain - Black Death, Pale Fires - Ravenloft - The Isle

031

Reposted by October Caleb

✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

58114533888

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Guess we’re gonna start running computers on human neurons before we understand the first thing about consciousness, qualia, and how they arise from neural processes.

medicine.nus.edu.sg

010

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If the idea of Slay the Spire x Fucked Up Pokémon sounds like any fun to you, you should give Decktamer a try. I'm loving the tactical loop of it and all the comically grotesque creature designs.

120

Reposted by October Caleb

Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

6072212562

Reposted by October Caleb

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

186151312695

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I ran Into the Oddish at Strategicon Gateway and was told by organizers it was the most popular game of the con (yes, even more popular than my own game systems 😏). An equally big hit with 8-year-olds and 48-year-olds. So many people asked me to run more sessions of it next time.

240

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was worried when these two mourning dove chicks disappeared from their nest on our porch joist, but they’re back on the porch wall now and looking none the worse for it! Must’ve learned to fly a little bit.

Two young mourning doves on a wall covered in bird poop beneath a fruiting orange tree

120

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No punishment I could fantasize about for these people would do anything to change the irreparable harm they’re doing to our world and our future.

030

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The shadows were too dramatic to resist.

060

Reposted by October Caleb

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That’s my Samus

BREAKING NEWS
WOMAN LITERALLY TOO ANGRY TO DIE
10:08
SHE JUST KEEPS BLOWING UP PLANETS WE CAN'T STOP HER

3043941188

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every time I see Spirited Away I manage to take something new and beautiful from it. Truly an all-time fave.

youtube.com

Growing up with Spirited Away

YouTube video by YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary

010

Reposted by October Caleb

zoey 🧀🎼 @zoey.dog · 08/09/2026

this is so fucking funny

1064592

Reposted by October Caleb

Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Why would I deceive you?"

281139131

Reposted by October Caleb

ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

10547741906

Reposted by October Caleb

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/09/2026

yet another example of how companies used the shift to digital as an excuse serve themselves and revoke (in this case) consumer rights. it’s long past time for governments to legislate on this.

624358

Reposted by October Caleb

Double Fine @doublefine.com · 27/08/2026

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

itch.io

Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

A sale by Double Fine Productions, 100% off Brütal Legend

5669664172

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pet Sematary sustains some of the most effective tension and mounting dread of any Stephen King novel for such a long time. Real creepy, fatalistic stuff.

140

Reposted by October Caleb

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

coming out against taco trucks is the caliber of self-imposed destruction with very few rivals. I'm thinking Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus, General Custer, Division General Leclerc. Sun Tzu wrote a whole book about not giving your opps this much to work with

1013163580

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Halo Top's "high-protein" chocolate peanut butter ice cream having 40% *less* protein than Häagen-Dazs is pretty funny to me.

000

Reposted by October Caleb

josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 08/08/2026

the media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion

"This guy, I think, is just an in-your-face type of guy that — for lack of a better word — enjoys this kind of controversy.
I'm just not in favor of him being around, so if he didn't come, I'd say great, we would go. But if he's going to come, I would venture to say a lot of people might not go," said Hughes, who is now retired and lives on Long Island.
The grieving father said he disagrees with Mamdani's politics and expressed anger toward the mayor. "Just the thought of him there rubs me the wrong way," he said.

592242436

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This was the first thing I saw when I opened my phone this morning and almost woke my SO up laughing.

000

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Kicked off bulking season early with ten pounds gained this past month.

Muscular blond guy taking a mirror selfie

140

Reposted by October Caleb

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

212824855

October Caleb @calebwimble.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve maintained for a decade that “the worst Souls game” still means a damned fine video game. One I’m always happy to revisit.

010

Reposted by October Caleb

Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Analeptic Alzabo.

A scene from Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, in which Severian (front) drinks a strange mind-altering elixir.

9544135