iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For what is a reliquary if not a Medieval Funko Pop

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 08/10/2026

Just to spread the word, there's a spammer contacting previous IFComp entrants. (Not this year's entrants, but 2025 and going back at least to 2011.) Trying to drum up traffic for his "IF community" Discord server. Short AI-generated queries about each game, faking personal interest.

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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s unfortunate for us Summer People that summer is now just the intolerable temperature zone because as much as I WANT to be a Fall Person the daylight shrinking is killing me

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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

please help… my son…

photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coldest take in the world but ten years on, Emotion and Emotion Side B are still both perfect albums.

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on second read, I should have changed 'the shelter' to 'indie devs'

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 29/09/2026

What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/09/2026

dear god, I haven't read Careless People so that's one I didn't know about. playing Catan? the depths of depravity...

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite and most effective design patterns is "tell the player exactly what you're gonna do to them, then do it." You can be SIGNIFICANTLY meaner to the player if you simply tell them ahead of time that that's exactly what you'll be doing, and also the suspense of the warning is a delight

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“AI can make background graphics” could an AI make THIS?

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Cartoonists have known this for a while

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

i have had multiple "oh you haven't heard about cumming in the fluffer?" conversations in the past few weeks which is not great for myself or for others

the xkcd average familiarity comic of two people talking, edited to read: "ai doomsday religions are second nature to us very online folk, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows about the harry potter sex cult and one or two aella cognitohazards" "and sankeys, of course" "of course" captioned below "even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 17/09/2026

if i am elected, restaurants will be required to post their actual in-store menu on their website and not just a link to a delivery service. the menu may be in the annoying format of their choice but it should be descriptive and it should list what it actually costs to get a thing at the restaurant.

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Astrid D @dastridly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

formative episode for me. i dont think i remember any other episode but i caught a rerun of this one and it fuckin stuckkkkk

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Astrid D @dastridly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

on the one hand i dont want my online friends to touch grass because online is where i see them but on the other hand jesus fucking christ

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Astrid D @dastridly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

can’t stop thinking about this essay and my own relationship with my image. good tasty words johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/your-refle...

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Your Reflection Is Not You

On mirrors, magic, and obsession

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Astrid D @dastridly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“i just use AI for…” shut up shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP!!!!! I WILL NOT ABSOLVE YOU!! YOU KNOW THE SINS YOU COMMIT!! THE “JUST” BETRAYS YOUR GUILTY HEART!!!! JUST DON’T!!!!!

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If I'm remembered for just one contribution to ludology, let it be this

A meme that says 'The Myth of Player Agency in TTRPGS'
Player: I consent
DM: I consent
d20: I don't!
Beneath, the slogan reads: Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

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Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The 2026 Hugo Award for Best Novella goes to The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia UK).

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is hanging by my door. I think a lot of us need him by the door

I am not in trouble and no one is mad at me

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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Astrid D @dastridly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

okay i think im starting to see the pattern, fromsoft. If it has blood then its a console exclusive. did i solve your blood puzzle?

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

For anyone struggling with questions of how and whether to make, promote, or talk about art in times like these, I highly recommend a short essay by John Crowley called "Practicing the Arts of Peace."

"I didn't answer for some time, and when I did it was without much thought—or maybe with the distillation of a lot of thought that had been going on below the level of even mental speech. 'Andre,' I wrote at last, 'I was asked by somebody..."

"...back at the time of the invasion of Iraq how we could all just go on writing our little stories, especially we fantasists and poets, and I said that in my opinion what we were doing was practicing the arts of peace. What we want is a world in which funny fantastical stories are possible and are valued, in which there is nothing so dreadful or urgent that it causes the writing of such things to stop or be stopped. Worlds where the arts of peace can't be practiced are wounded worlds, and that's why we have to go on practicing those arts, so that our worlds don't die..."

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Spooky Syr @syrcaid.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

GeoCities/Angelfire edition

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 12/08/2026

😻😻😻

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...

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スキビディミク @thebrainrotgotme.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

As long as you're enjoying drawing that's all that matters

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