iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9h

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most TTRPGs are basically resource management games and should lean further into that. Tracking rations, ammunition, encumbrance etc can be a fun and interesting part of the experience if you let it (and if the mechanics are interesting) and players do themselves a disservice by handwaving them.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Starting my day making some art.

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Council of Geeks @councilofgeeks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'll keep saying because too many people continue to not listen. But I'm done being polite about it. youtu.be/xeDMD6ckGRk

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Harry Potter cannot be engaged with harmlessly

YouTube video by Council of Geeks

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The emotional whiplash of your #pathfinder2e boss missing almost every attack and going down like a chump... and the players getting hit so hard in the ensuing escape sequence that they just barely avoid a TPK. The dice really do tell the story.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you tell me you use LLM AI, my opinion of you drops to zero.

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James @james.tarnation.lol · 28/11/2025

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Black Pudding Sabbath

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 09/09/2026

Why I'm bringing a motion to Scottish Green conference to cut AI out of our schools - As a software engineer and a dad, this is my wheelhouse. "Students who do not use AI outperform those who do - equivalent to being around 1 year of schooling ahead of their peers" pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/s...

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Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure

Every year, the OECD surveys students around the world for the Programme for International Student Assessment. The 2025 results were just released today. [OECD; OECD, PDF] Around the world, results…

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Genslop is obviously shit in any context but by far the most bewildering is when restaurants use it to make fake pictures of food. Like, you don't have a kitchen back there? You couldn't make a real sandwich to take a photo of? What the fuck are you even doing?

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I really don't care if AI is sentient, that's not my area of expertise and I don't know how that shit works. What I do know for sure is that it's harmful technology by literally every metric that matters. I wish for every data center to be demolished and for all AI companies to go bankrupt.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#pathfinder2e encounter: 2 shadows that pincer the party on a narrow staircase. No room to move. We got through one round, nothing much happened, then basically said "this is going to be awful, isn't it? Let's just not do this one." Spell slots refunded, monsters removed. Gotta do it sometimes.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.

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mag @mag.ferret.ink · 03/09/2026

wile e coyote holding a sign, pointing to it, the sign says "we cannot judge our worth on the work of others"

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not only are you not supposed to identify with GTA protagonists, you are supposed to recognise a difference between identifying with a character and obsessing over that character's junk. It's basic media literacy, it came free with your higher brain function!

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Kevin 🌱 @wankadoodles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Posting all of these today. I loved doing one on her birthday every year that I could. We have lost one of the brightest lights that has ever shined.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: The glass is half full. Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Fantasy writer: The description of the glass is nearly two pages long and it has nothing to do with the story at all.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I believe people should be paid more to work less, but... not like that.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Hi, I'm a cat napping on the stairs.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 12/08/2026

Rowan, Rook and Decard workers unionize with IWGB Games Worker Union www.rascal.news/rowan-rook-a...

A wolfish humanoid wearing a headdress of scrap metal preaches to a gathered crowd. One hand is raised, while the other holds an open book.

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Markus aka The Chindividual @thechindividual.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Knowing when to just say "no" is one of the most important skills to develop as a GM.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 09/08/2026

BLOOD MONEY GOSPEL wants you to rescue Jesus for Lucifer. Limited pre-order patron spots open now! $25+ (66 spots), $111+ (6), and $333+ (2) donor options to be book featured: ko-fi.com/revcasey/shop Read the thread to preview the #exvangelical J-splatter #TTRPG fever dream coming soon!

Black background, black and white + low color image of Jesus on the cross against a stone wall, money in the shape of the cross transparent overlaid on the crucified Jesus, blood red letters in an arc around and above it ("BLOOD.MONEY.GOSPEL"), white stamped letters in black area at bottom ("Written by Rev Casey" + "Published by Thought Punks")

The Gist
Jesus Christ came back. Of course He came back. He said He would. The problem is that He came back gentle and confused and asking questions about sparrows and rent prices.
Before He could get His bearings, Pastor Dominion Crale of the First Church of the Perpetual Tithe had Him zip-tied in an Escalade and driven to the compound in forty-seven minutes flat. That was eighteen months ago.
The main Cathedral now operates HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD™, a multi-level wellness sacrament pipeline moving vials of genuine messianic blood at a year’s Toronto/London/Paris professional’s salary per unit (Blessed Faithful Anointed Healing Moment™), the cost of a large luxurious home in Tokyo or NYC (Chosen Hosts Exclusive Miracles Package™), a tier only reachable by mega-millionaires and billionaires (The Perfected Saints Full Indulgence Membership™), and a newly launched Divine Disciples Triple Elite Plus Eternal Covenant™ option for the most wealthy that comes with a personal blessing, concierge,

They operate on artificial scarcity (above and beyond the limits of their gruesome extraction process). The First Church ensures that even the Eternal Covenant™ tier has a waiting list. Lower tier lottery winners can wait in line even through the night to receive their “blessings” on High Holy Days™. (Universal Love For All™ financing plans available.) The Vatican filed a complaint. It is in a drawer somewhere one guy has the keys to, and nobody’s seen him in a while. The SEC wrote a memo about drafting a proposal to explore a process to review the complaint. It’s in another drawer.
Jesus is in the Sanctum Sub-Basement, connected to the Eternal Harvest Array. He cannot die. He cannot leave. He has been patient about this. He waits, faithful, hoping, suffering. He waits for you.

You have been recruited by Lucifer. Yes, THAT Lucifer. (Please don’t call them “Satan” or “The Devil.” I would say if you value your life, but that is the least of what the Morningstar can take.)
Lucifer (pronouns variable and flexible, presentation business casual, stress beginning to show through the seams) sought you out personally. The pitch ran for almost two hours and included a PowerPoint with extensive citations.
The end of the pitch: “I know how this looks. I know you have questions. That’s too bad. It’s none of your business, really. What I need you to understand is this situation is more personally offensive to me than your little brain can grasp. I pursued every available channel for months. I am standing in this awful parking lot talking to you, exactly because there are no more channels. Please. You will be well-treated for your help. And I am asking nicely. I am… not good at asking nicely.”

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The secret to a good Pathfinder session is throwing in a weird merchant with a wheelbarrow full of badly labelled, heavily discounted bottles. One of my players spent all her money on bottles marked "GENDER".

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"What would you do if the thing you're not using suddenly disappeared?" is such a weird question and it says a lot about the thoughtless drones asking it.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

So they're gonna give their players a shitty spot-the-ball picture as a "puzzle"? Okay, cool. That'll take maybe 5 minutes if they're especially slow. What are they doing for the rest of the session?

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Okay, so let it. If it was worth having, they wouldn't have to force or beg us to use it.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"You're always so precise and thorough in your explanations!" Thanks, it's

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in teenage mutant ninja turtles title font

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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Everyone on here be like “oh yes I am a games designer with very strong opinions”, meanwhile here’s Anna age 12 out-designing all of you with her amazing pavement games. G’aun yersel, Anna.

A photo of a chalk game on a pavement where players are invited to dodje the lightning.

Another pavement game featuring a number of stages presented as physical challenges, dance zones, memory and performance challenges.

The credits section of the local pavement games, crediting Anna age 12, and suggesting people create their own games.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's physically impossible for me to hear or say the phrase "technically correct" without adding "the best kind of correct"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/06/2026

I’m not thrilled that apparently the secret to success in basically every field right now is “be really good at short form video”

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 09/07/2026

This is Oreo. He will eventually eat the blueberry. But first he must establish dominance over it. 12/10 (TT: oreominibernedoodle)

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GuNMouTH🏳️‍🌈 @gunmouth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We DRASTICALLY cut back on factories, and the awful pollution they caused, back in the 1970's with the Environmental Protection Agency. We can ABSOLUTELY get rid of Data Centers, ESPECIALLY when they've been built when the people clearly said they DO NOT WANT THEM.

DON'T TELL US, "PANDORA'S BOX HAS ALREADY
BEEN OPENED," or, "THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE
BOTTLE," AS IF NOTHING CAN BE DONE...

GENIES AND PANDORA'S BOX ARE NOT REAL.
THE HUMAN SUFFERING IS VERY, VERY REAL.

WE ABSOLUTELY CAN GET RID OF SOMETHING
THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE OR NEED FIVE YEARS AGO.
WE DID IT IN THE 1970's WITH THE EPA.
WE DON'T NEED DATA CENTERS, AND WE
CERTAINLY DO NOT NEED THE RICH WHO PUT
THEM UP EVEN WHEN THE PEOPLE SAY "NO."

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"They didn't have that back then". "Back then" was a non-historical fantasy setting, tech level just barely pre-industrial, with largely modern social sensibilities, in no way trying to be "historically accurate". "That" was a cake.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Actually that's exactly what I'm arguing, we do not need these automated fraud factories guzzling our resources and poisoning our communities. This is a definite step in the right direction, though.

“I don’t think anyone is arguing that we should not have any datacentres in the UK or Scotland,” said Graham Simpson, a member of the Scottish parliament representing North Lanarkshire.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Important caveat: take the boxing gloves OFF before you start typing

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My wife is hugely supportive because she is the best. My dad thinks I write CYOA gamebooks. One of my friends is using a Pathfinder archetype I wrote in our current campaign but didn't realise I wrote it until I told her. It's a mixed bag, really.

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Nova The CyberMage💜⭐ @cybermagenova.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

A screenshot from Fire Emblem with a CG of Lyn on a sunset background saying, "I do not love my country. I love the people in it and want their needs met."

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Bluesky users are all whiny and passive-aggressive!" he whined passive-aggressively on Bluesky.

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Ceri Rowland @crowlandwrites.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This, and also: if people could stop interpreting critique of media they like as a moral judgement or personal attack.

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