iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very excited to be speaking at this event! Finally getting to talk about the games/proc gen influences in my art work :)

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 15/07/2026

if you're up for it today, this one from @zoehhannah.com is a worthwhile trek through some difficult shit

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It's everywhere

Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/07/2026

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media

How a decade of hate made me a worse person

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Transgender insanity, like magick and witchcraft are too powerful to be eliminated. We’ll outlive the eugenicists, fascists, and Nazis, dance on their graves and haunt their offsprings.

RELEASES
Supreme Court Bolsters President
Trump's Push to Eliminate Transgender Insanity
The White House

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Adoption day! This is Supernova (Nova for short). We’ve been fostering 3 puppies for the local shelter and the other two will be going to their new homes and Nova will be staying with us :) #puppy #dogsofbluesky #adoptdontshop

An 8 week old Tri-color puppy sitting on stone stairs.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We often desire the symbol more than what it represents: people go into debt because a new car makes them feel like they’ve “made it.” Generated text is a symbol of text in this sense, a cognitive debt that allows people to “think they have thought” about it when they have moved away from thinking.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My institution was impacted by the Canvas hack. We saw this message on Canvas before the service was pulled down altogether. I am sad that my last New Media Theory class meeting was this Tuesday! This would have made for a fruitful final discussion.

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SHINYHUNTERS
rooting your systems since '19
; )
ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again).
Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches"
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WARNING
If any of the schools in the affected list are interested in preventing the release of their data, please consult with a cyber advisory firm and contact us privately at TOX to negotiate a settlement. You have till the end of the day by
12 May 2026 before everything is leaked.
Instructure still has until EOD 12 May 2026
to contact us.
- DOWNLOAD AFFECTED_SCHOOLS.TXT
91.215.85.103/pay_or_leak/ instructure_affected_schools_list.txt
visit us: shnyhntww34phqoa6dcgnvps2yu7dlwzmy5
Ikvejwjdo6z7bmgshzayd.onion

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/04/2026

ICE kidnapped a Virginia Tech student

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Games and stories are imitations of life, ways of playing at life, sometimes ways of learning how to live. Some of the rules may appear both cruel and arbitrary. But if you want to play the game, or live the life, you have to follow them.

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Sevonaut @sevonaut.northsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is what I feel like even the supportive cis people in my life don't really understand.

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 22/03/2026

Do you design or publish board games? Do you want to protect the planet? Earlier this month, the Green Games Guide team updated the website and the Guide to include more info to help you make more eco-friendly games. Please check it out and share! greengamesguide.com

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Home - Green Games Guide

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

ultimately the real nail in the coffin for ai games is that games arent a technology, they are an art

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“What do we do without having to do the thing that works?” - @plante.bsky.social talking to @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on Post Games about tech companies (especially Roblox) are really asking when they ask outsiders what they would do to address child safety on their platforms. Great episode!

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I use “ending trans healthcare” at NYU Langone, Mt. Sinai and Northwestern hospitals and avoid “ending trans healthcare for youth” bc ✅ healthcare for trans youth is necessary healthcare, full stop ✅ “youth” can include up to 19-26, who are adults ✅ ending “youth” care is a gate to end AL care

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.  ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Moon @softmoon.world · 21/01/2026

Processing 4.5.1 has been released, here is a little post about it: medium.com/@ProcessingO...

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Processing 4.5.1 is officially out

We are releasing Processing 4.5.1, featuring redesigned welcome and preference screens.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Enjoyed reading this & got me thinking that the “writing” vs “document production” language is super useful & could be applied to the arts as “art” vs “image production”. I don’t agree with the “usefulness of LLMs to offload admin writing” portion relative to the impacts but overall a helpful read.

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Mothership @mothership.blog · 09/01/2026

It's time to board the Mothership. www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...

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Board the Mothership.

YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We need to stop saying shit like "IP" and "content" when we mean art. Don't let them strip the walls in your own brain, man.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Just got in my copy of @loriemerson.net ‘s “Other Networks” and I am so excited! This partial view of the contents is already so expansive and interesting. This is definitely going to be a vital part of future research and teaching. Also the book is even more beautiful than I thought it would be.

An image of half of the table of contents for the book “Other Networks” by Lori Emerson. Main sections are labeled “Wired Networks”, “Hybrid Networks”, and “Imaginary Networks” with lists of subsection below each.

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Being trans and an academic is like being stuck inside two burning buildings at once.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The virtual exhibition on critical AI “Debox” opens today at Public Access Memories as part of The Wrong Biennale! Very excited to be included amount so many other great artists (list to be commented). #netart #publicaccessmemories #thewrong #criticalai

Promotional image for an art exhibition with a black and green background. The top right of the image contains the text “The Wrong Biennale” and the show url “publicaccessmemories.com”. The artists are listed in white above the show title “Debox” under the title is the text “Opening Sunday Nov. 9”.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Running through some Elden Ring to get images for my talk at @qgcon.bsky.social this coming week. What an amazing game, maybe time for another full play-through?

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

International mail service to the US might be fucked, but somehow my new “A.I. Sucks” print from @sonnyross.bsky.social landed on my doorstep this morning! Great way to start the weekend :) . If you don’t know their work you should check them out and support real human artists! #antiai #fuckai

Two posters, a sticker, and two pieces of paper on a wood table. The main poster is an illustration that reads “I don’t use A.I. I’m not a fucking loser”, the second poster is mostly hidden and has a white background and green line art of a plant, the sticker is medieval inspired and says “shut up”, and the two pieces of paper are white with a personal note in black.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Me: *trying to have a normal first week of class.* Student: “Why haven’t there been any major successful lawsuits about AI and copyright?” Me: “Well the thing you have to understand is that the law in the US serves capital not the working class…”

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

First day of the semester hits different as a transwoman and professor in 2025 in the US. More prepared and capable than I ever have been, but also more anxious to be in public and in front of students than ever. #academicsky #academia

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Every now and again you read a book, watch a movie, hear a song, play a game etc, that fundamentally broadens what you think a medium can do or be. Last week I read @scumbelievable.bsky.social ‘s “Cuckoo” and it did just that. Seriously stunning, especially the handling of transness over time.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus, a peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to scholarly research and critical dialogue on new media art, has a new open call for their next general issue: iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/med... #academicsky #newmedia #opencall #academia #openaccess

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Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus invites submissions for a general issue. | Media-N

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🧵 (1/8) New semester new AI policy for my syllabus. Drawn from my prior policy, @melhogan.bsky.social 's very clear and concise recent post about AI's problems, and reading "Empire of AI" this summer. For context, this is for a creative coding class in an art department. #academicsky #criticalai

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

No big deal "It's just till we get in office ..." "It's just sports," "It's just restrooms." "It's just your pronouns." "It's just your name." "It's just your medications." "It's just your job." "It's just your kids." "It's just you."

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I am just a girl, standing in a desert, throwing antifungal grenades at myself to try to cure my parasitic infection. An actual scene from a recent (Hugo Award Winning) Caves of Qud play-through. My idea didn’t work btw, I had to chop off and regrow my limbs obviously.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

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The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Just two days of our matching donation #fundraiser! And don't forget to get your ticket (whether in person or online)! For games scholars, queer scholars, developers, gamers, GMs, and anyone with a big imagination who is curious to join us! Donations keep our tickets affordable to all.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Instead of: Those who cannot do teach. It should be: Those who cannot do prompt.

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Chelsea Thompto @cthompto.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The world sucks but today I got to hang out with two of my fellow art/design colleagues and test out our new Risograph machine. I decided to print a screen capture from a recent net art work. #riso #risograph #printmaking #netart #newmediaart #contemporaryart

The word darkness overlayed on a vague room like form rendered in blue ink on pink paper.

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