iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yaaaaaay yippee!! folsom today!!!

Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m making a new browser game about what happens if you do a Frankenstein and then regret it and try so hard to undo what you did but she keeps coming back every time you put her back in the ground. it is gothic and esoteric and erotic and definitely not a metaphor for anything gender-y

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Wiki Workers United @wikiworkersunited.org · 05/09/2026

Check out WWU’s official press release on the WWU-US win ✊️ wikiworkersunited.org/announcement... What made this possible: worker organizing, global solidarity, and extraordinary support from 2,000+ Wikimedia volunteers. Thank you to everyone involved. This win belongs to all of us! [union needed]

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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.

bloodinthemachine.com

Why office workers are turning against AI

Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly. my heart is a clot of dirt in my chest.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Didn't know this until today but Dolly Parton had a transsexual man named Jason Pirro work as her Hollywood chauffeur in the 1980s, per an interview he gave to The Sun in 1990. "Dolly has been good to me...Dolly knows all about me."

SEXY SECRETS OF DOILY PARTON'S
UMO DRIVER-HE USED TO BE A SHE
DOLLY PARTON is being chauffeured around
Hollywood by a 300-lb. transsexual who
has had an operation to change from a
woman into a ian. The country queen
shares 44-year-old Jason Pirro's secret"
and has promised to help the obese,
tuxedo-outfitted driver attain his goal
to become a movie director.
"Dolly has been good to me," Jason told
STAR. "I'm not real coafortable talking
about ayself. Dolly knows all about me
and is a very nice lady. "Whenever Dolly
coaes into Hollywood for a aeeting, or
for business, or for filaing, or just
staying here, she calls ae and I drive
her around."
Court papers obtained by STAR show Pirro
legally changed his naae froa Susan Ann
to Jason in 198B because of "sex-
reassignaent.* Jason underwent a sex-
change operation in 1982.
Jason, who has a beard and wears his
thinning reddish-brown hair in a
ponytaiI, caae to Hollywood 10 years ago.
At the time, he was taking hormone
tablets and dressing as a «an. He got a
job as a lino driver.
Dolly has said that there's nothing wrong
with transsexuals. "If I were a nan I'd
be a drag queen," she admits. "1 enjoy
being a trashy dresser and 1 love gaudy
things. I love to play with hair and
makeup."
Jason studied theater as a coed at
Syracuse University, but after eight
years at college. left without
graduating. Despite chat, Jason has a
genius-level I.Q. of 144.
A fasily friend says Susan was in her aid -
30's when she decided to have doctors
transfora her into a ian. "Jason has
tried to sake the family feel comfortable
with the situation. Even by the time he
started to grow facial hair and his voice
was getting deeper, if we'd slip and call
him Susie, he'd just hug us and say,
'That's OK."
"He's a loving warm, caring human being.
He teaches transcendental meditation. He
has never had an enemy. People just take
a liking to him. He has that …

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

THE JOKER : wanna know how I got these scars? ZOHRAN MAMDANI, SPEAKING PERFECT MANDARIN: How you got your scars is a personal story, but I want to make sure that every New Yorker who has scars gets to tell their story. That’s why I’m reducing MTA fares on weekends

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

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Wikimedia Waits Until After Its Massive Conference to Say It Won’t Voluntarily Recognize Union

A supermajority of Wikimedia Foundation workers say they have signed union cards, but the foundation is insisting on an election.

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Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

my “ring of keys” moment was probably a guy with like, David Sedaris vibes at a dinner party my parents were throwing when I was 8

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Artists at Silver Sprocket have released their statement. I've personally severed all ties to the publisher because my book had not been printed yet, but there are plenty of artists whose careers are more enmeshed. Please read the statement, share, and support. cartoonist.coop/sprocket-art...

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Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

my fiancée and I signed the contract for our wedding venue today 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 09/07/2026

Layoffs are the only video game news there is now. Just people losing their jobs until video games cease to exist.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

picked up NOTES FROM A REGICIDE off this list and it absolutely whips. the story of two revolutionaries in the distant future, as told by their son. I've cried twice, and a third time from envy

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is cool (the first one especially)

New legislation signed in Illinois:
HB 4834
Removes testosterone and other hormones from Illinois' list of controlled substances
HB 5095
Enshrines the self-selection process for gender markers on state IDs and driver's licenses
HB 5492
Requires insurance companies to cover up to six months of prescribed hormone therapy

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/06/2026

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma feels like a deeply inappropriate and glorious dream I had. What a fucking incredible movie

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Bsky's Goodest Girls 😇 @stalinatrix.kawaii.social · 30/06/2026

every time trans people lose some rights, it's always "what about cis people they get affected too" and I Understand why this impulse exists but I wish for once I wouldn't have to see our oppression be turned into "won't someone think about the cis"

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 30/06/2026

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

A beige computer from the 90s with a CRT monitor, displaying the trans pride flag

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 27/06/2026

if this is your take after cops beat up a bunch of queer people at trans march, go fuck yourself, you bootlicking freak. you're no comrade of mine.

transsexu...
@freyja-lynx.dev
shoutout (derogatory) the black bloc anarchists paintgunning cameras trying to give the city an excuse to not allow the trans march next year 7:58 PM Jun 26, 2026

transsexual gynomorph @freyja-I... 13h you larpers can't even aim your paintguns
Liz as in lizard @sloppers.bsky. s... 10h
That's honestly the most offensive part, how the fuck you gonna play vanguard warriors and need like three shots to hit a standing camera

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Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

outing myself at the function by responding “yeah” at the part of Hey Ya when they say “ok now ladies”

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Geas @geasrua.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Everyone start making zines about this. Seriously spread the word.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.

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playon.bsky.social @playon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is very very ugly, the sentences are completely over the top.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/06/2026

Of course the Strait of Hormuz is open. To the right kind of mind, it's always been open. The mind of a fish. Have fishmind and you can go through the strait at any time

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Command Zoe🔜PAX Unplugged @commandzoe.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The forced detransition of everyone under 18 in the uk is an act of genocide. If you or someone you know is affected by it and needs help, reach out. I will teach you how to DIY. I will help you get the materials. I will walk you through processing it. Death before detransition.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...

Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation

Abstract: Video game archaeology is a relatively new field. This can involve studying players through the traces they leave in digital game worlds, though only limited work of this kind exists. Furthermore, the potential of these methods to record ephemeral play experiences for preservation purposes has not been widely explored. The first part of the thesis establishes the background literature on games archaeology and play preservation. The second part reports on the development of novel archaeological methodologies for preserving play. This includes three case studies; a go-along study in the massively multiplayer online game Wurm Online, an archaeological survey in Elden Ring, and a collaborative autoethnography in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree. The third part of this thesis reports on the results of a player study investigating how participants interpret environmental storytelling. We report on a study in which participants (N=202) played a game about exploring a procedurally generated ruined village and were then surveyed on their interpretations. We draw on methods and theory from archaeology, a field that specialises in the interpretation of material remains, to support a grounded theory analysis of the survey responses, from which we form the theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model. Finally, the fourth part of the thesis synthesises these case studies to argue that archaeological game design brings together both the archaeological recording of player traces, as well as player interpretations of a fictional gameworld that should also be preserved. This work contributes both novel methodologies for play preservation and a new theory for how players interpret gameworlds. This work has narrative design applications, and interdisciplinary contributions to game AI, games studies and HCI.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“As the annual Pride parade weaved its way through Durham… the rainbow flags were almost matched in number by trade union banners, as miners, postal workers, and train drivers swelled the parade’s ranks in solidarity, making it the biggest in Durham Pride’s history.” Solidarity is our strength. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

the people that actually made OBSESSION deserve the fruits of their own labors.

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 19/11/2024

Being trans is a prayer for something better. Transness is belief in a better world.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 02/06/2026

i am not sure if i have seen a single becerra voter that didn't seem like either a bot or someone with severe lead poisoning. wildly inauthentic candidate. anyway vote for steyer if you haven't already because somehow he's the only candidate who is legitimately pro trans, on top of his other policy

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE. The ghost of David Lynch is with us. Happy Pride <3

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Devi Lacroix @devi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"Monkey Man" may have meant even more to me than "I Saw The TV Glow." I sent this to my friends after watching it for the first time:

screenshot of a discord message from Devi:

"One of the most meaningful thins I've ever had anyone tell me about transition was my first HRT doc, who said: you have within you the receptors that will accept estrogen. What you are is alreaedy within you; all we are doing is providing the catalyst that will let it begin."

"So the spiritual moment of restoration that comes with the protagonist listening to a trans woman and remembering his mother's words and knowing that he is old and powerful like a tree with deep roots, that he has always been here, that he is not a stranger but true and *real*, and this juxtaposed against the nationalist rhetoric of how the poor and the trans and the outcast is unclean and a menace and an *encroachment* of something new and horrific into an ostensibly timeliness (sic) body politic... it meant a lot to me."

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Theo Unkrich @cautioncrow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I love boosters best movie 2026

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org

A screenshot that reads, "The AI Resist List" with the subtitle, "Actions against the empire of AI".

A screenshot of the Luddite Lab homepage. The homepage has the tabs: Case Studies; Primers; Resource Library; Contact Us; About. The webpage also has the text, "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."

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