iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

A screenshot of two tweets from the Politico reporter Joe Anuta.

The 1st: ".@NYCMayor elaborates on his comments yesterday that boys and girls should not use the same bathroom. He says he will review the policy of his own education department, which allows students to use restrooms “consistent with their gender identity” and potentially change it"

2nd: "He says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time, regardless of gender identity"

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Man of Tomorrow. In theatres July 9, 2027

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Sophie Campbell 🏳️‍⚧️ @mooncalfe1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My one schtick.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning. Please take care when watching.

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Clay Carlen Burkhead @claybaby.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

One of my favorite things about DC comics is that Harlivy ascended to the eminent position of the truest love in the whole omniverse. So excited for this.

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Chris Feil @chrisvfeil.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Alex’s parents in WEAPONS

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 01/08/2025

I hate being bald and walking the same direction as another bald guy. It looks like we’re being summoned by our king

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IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Today, IGN Entertainment announced that it would be laying off eight members of the IGN Creators Guild.

This is 12% of our bargaining unit, and comes just days after our sister union, the Ziff Davis Creators Guild, underwent similar layoffs impacting 15% of their members. It also comes just months after our multibillion-dollar parent company, Ziff Davis, instituted a company-wide buyout that shrunk our unit numbers, with the express intent of avoiding future layoffs. And it comes just a little over one year after three of our members were laid off almost immediately after our union went public.

The company has told us that the reason for this layoff stems from a Ziff Davis-mandate to cut costs despite several quarters in a row of year-over-year revenue increases, to which IGN Entertainment responded by coming for our members' jobs. This is perplexing to us, as we are told again and again that IGN Entertainment has had a tremendously successful year thus far thanks to their hard work. In just the last few months, our members have been absolutely essential to major events and livestreams, including San Diego ComicCon, Summer of Gaming, and IGN Live. Every single person impacted today was involved in and critical to the success of those events.

Meanwhile, IGN Entertainment continues to spend money on costly acquisitions, only to turn around and gut those companies in the same way it is cutting away at IGN itself. For instance, last year, it acquired Gamer Network, and almost immediately laid off a number of staff critical to making those sites successful. The company has not responded to the union's questions about whether its budget for future acquisitions is being reconsidered as a cost-saving measure alongside these other apparently necessary personnel cuts.

At a time when it is more necessary than ever to support its creators, IGN Entertainment is choosing to eliminate the individuals who ensure IGN remains competitive as generative AI

threatens our reach. We have been told that expert opinion pieces, original interviews, and work that leverages our staff's deep knowledge of gaming, tech, and entertainment are all essential to combating AI summarization and regurgitation of our work. Management has responded by cutting several individuals who do that exact work, as well as others whose job it is to ensure that these written and video pieces are published in a speedy manner — another component of combating AI we're told is critical.

This continued cycle of repeated, aggressive cuts to our staff and being asked to do more with less, only for management to continue to spend on new business it isn't interested in sustaining cannot continue. We will enforce our interim agreement that guarantees better severance and other protections to laid off members, as well as demand additional support for those impacted. We will continue to bargain over our first contract with the aim of enshrining even better protections against further layoffs, working conditions continuously degraded by understaffing, and the encroachment of generative AI. And we won't stop fighting to ensure IGN remains the best destination for trustworthy, original, exciting, and creative work covering video games, entertainment, and tech.

While IGN Entertainment management may not value us, we value one another and the incredible work we can do together. Behind the articles, videos, social posts, playlists, and maps of IGN are human beings, not just numbers on a spreadsheet to be pushed around when some number at the top isn't big enough. Without us, there is no IGN.

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Jana H-S (she, like a knife) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

hey I just met you and this is crazy but if you keep following the power lines they will lead you to the face of god

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Clay Carlen Burkhead @claybaby.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Twin Peaks (including The Return), Gilmore Girls (including aYitL), Justice League/Unlimited, Yu Yu Hakusho

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Clay Carlen Burkhead @claybaby.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ranking Billy Madison number 1 is the good & correct choice.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com · 26/07/2025

"Brian De Palma's PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is decadence splashed on celluloid, a celebration of the shine of glam rock, and a preemptive funeral for the scene officiated by the dark underside of the business." - @dodgyboffin.com

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Phantom of the Paradise (1974): He Sold His Soul for Rock and Roll

Brian De Palma's 'Phantom of the Paradise' is decadence splashed on celluloid, a celebration of the shine of glam rock and a preemptive funeral for the scene officiated by the dark underside of the…

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Clay Carlen Burkhead @claybaby.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I watched a lot of Cosby show as a kid. Theo was my favorite. Later I would see interviews with Malcolm as an adult & he was playing his bass & seeming so at peace & it made me so happy.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I like that people enjoy this one. Feels nice sometimes to drop the pretense and let out my genuine wish that everyone achieve some sort of security and ability to appreciate and find joy in their idiosyncracies.

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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 17/07/2025

Check out the trailer for the new Jeff Buckley documentary www.stereogum.com/2315738/watc...

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Look Out. 2026.

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Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"My uncle works for Nintendo and he said if zohran gets elected they're going to kill off Yoshi for good"

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I was given an ultimatum.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 12/07/2025

Superman debuts with a 4.0 on Letterboxd 🦸‍♂️

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Mollimer @chainchompist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Boba Fett 1980: I do human trafficking for space Hitler. Boba Fett 2021: I would like to begin by acknowledging that we are in dune sea, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Tusken People

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 10/07/2025

Bridget Jones's Diary has now joined the Letterboxd One Million Watched Club 💖

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DanSlott @danslott.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who made the #Superman premiere an incredible event.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🇺🇸💥🗑️

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

this place is a hellhole but jazz music isn't nothing. happy birthday to jazz music

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Today proves that Republicans were serious about one promise: to cut taxes for the wealthy. All the rest was bullshit.

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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

There are no good Republicans. The John McCain's, what few there were, are gone. Everyone needs to accept this and treat them as the threat to our lives they are.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/07/2025

The evil that men do lives after them

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Democrats @democrats.org · 03/07/2025

218 House Republicans just voted to cut Medicaid and pass Trump’s budget bill. Vote them out.

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'ON MOTION TO CONCUR IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT'

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REPUBLICAN: 218 YEA, 2 NAY
DEMOCRATIC: 212 NAY

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 03/07/2025

They aren’t even arguing that this makes life better for people. It’s so detached from the notion of improvement that it’s framed solely as a political victory for giving Trump what he wants. Everyone who crafted it and voted for it wants you to forget that they had anything to do with it.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 03/07/2025

Republicans just passed the most dangerous bill in U.S. history. The largest transfer of wealth from everyday people to the ultra-rich in history. In the coming weeks, we're announcing our support for challengers to those who betrayed their communities by voting for this bill.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 03/07/2025

'Amy' was released 10 years ago today. Documentary filmmaker Asif Kapadia says he knew little about Amy Winehouse when he took on the project. “What I learned was what a creative, intelligent, funny human being she was."

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The Amy Winehouse We Never Knew

New film digs deep into her life, music and demons

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

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