iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 7h

The back of my brain is scratching at the door with some writing to do, but when I let it out, it just wanders for a bit before wanting to come in again. I need a cat flap for my mind.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 17h

Followed by: "It's got to be the only time I *want* to see the uncanny valley!"

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An introduction to Michele, a wonderfully kind person in addition to being a great writer and developer. They're a joy to work for and with, and quite tolerant of me living on the wrong side of the Atlantic. You should follow them into whimsical nightmares.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you decide to watch one of the ten most popular movies on imdb.com that have the keyword "broken taillight," there's a 20% chance it'll be a Manos movie.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@ghostofcinders.bsky.social knows my vulnerabilities. (Specifically, my strong opinions on folkloric vampires being horrible things no one should want to play.)

After I ask for encouragement to finish a project on the Scion fan Discord:

Michele: Do it, or I'll put suave vampires as playable Denizens in 3E.

Geoffrey: You. Wouldn't.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hell, grad school in the Humanities will *teach* you how to get by with no money, which is something that will always be useful.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still remember, after being admitted to a British university, staring at the schedule and asking myself, "What on earth is 'Michaelmas term'?"

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't go out without hearing Michaelmas music in all the shops. There's only so many times I want to hear Celine Dion singing "John Barleycorn."

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For when they hold the Feast of the Archangels and they make much in their sermons of St. Michael defeating Satan, I ponder why so many churches resemble nothing other than forts. Angels and saints that need stone security against the world fail to impress me. – #CLNolan

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Years of education and scholarship, languages learned and forgotten, texts pored over in minute detail, all to bring me to the point where I can say, "I understand this sentence completely."

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And just as prone to crumbling while glorifying itself, to devouring its own, and to being incapable of creating anything.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've defrauded so many publishers by buying books and not getting around to reading them.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am "Here comes the knife-sharpener, ringing his bell" years old.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All of @michellefranklin.bsky.social's work—Legends and Lectures, her writing, her short videos—is worth supporting. It pays for itself by rewarding curiosity and a sense of wonder.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would you bring your cursed marionettes to a job interview? We asked our podcast panel last night, with insights from our special guest, Haunted Steve.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I would add more to Michele's description, but I couldn't do better. If you enjoy any of the media listed as inspiration, if you're looking for a new game of fantasy wonder, go try At the Gates.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a reason I call him the rules lawyer of mediaeval Christianity.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is where I bring up Rock Gods, quite the niche supplement — awesome Hiromi on the cover notwithstanding, is a bestseller that sold more than many other "more mainstream" books I've discovered that today! So I'd say the dev duo we are do get something right, would you look at that.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't have to pay anyone *and* I can do it from home.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In my first class as a PhD student (Negative Theology!), the professor started his lecture by showing several pictures of white canvases by different artists. The other students took notes while I thought, "I have no idea what is going on." He became my advisor later.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our love is an old love, baby It's older than all our years I had seen in strange, young eyes familiar tears We're old souls in a new life, baby They gave us a new life to live and learn Some time to touch old friends and still return...

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Game designers: Once again answering the question, "Aren't you afraid you'll be replaced by AI?"

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since it's been ages since I've played a character, the closest I've come is putting an in-joke NPC into a book as a potential follower. (Kevin: office temp, reluctant monster-slayer)

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excellent definition of tradwife in the article: "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is not how I imagined learning that Beef has died.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reposting because I want to see the questions others ask. (My own would be along the lines of "At what point do you stop worrying about the minutiae of a setting and trust no one will notice? Or at least not be put off entirely, e.g., if your rivers aren't perfectly hydrographically sound?")

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A repost for the evening crowd. Reposts are appreciated! We do love this little badass book of ours and would be cool for more people to see it!

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Hiromi @hiromicota.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rock Gods is such a rad RPG supplement. Like, live your rock star fantasies while being a divinely powered hero!

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my (unfortunately, many) memorable encounters crossing the U.S. border was when I was en route to the mediaeval studies conference in Kalamazoo: Officer: Where you headed? Me: I'm giving a talk at a conference. Officer: How much are you being paid? Me: Nothing. Officer: ... ... Nothing?

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy St. Hildegard of Bingen day to language inventors everywhere.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I trust anything Kim writes is fabulous, so check out her introductory adventure for Curseborne.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to save myself some time and blame Blavatsky. It always gets there eventually.

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Michele, a Ghost of Cinders @ghostofcinders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Go grab Kim's Jumpstart! Had the pleasure of reading it while working on the sequel with her as my dev, and it encapsulates Curseborne really well.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 15/09/2026

I am WEEPING with laughter.

youtu.be

Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord

YouTube video by Joseph Murray

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Trafficked and forced to perform acts of bestiality by the criminal underworld, now he's an FBI Agent. Coming this fall to CBS, Max Shreck Jr. is... Agent Blacksheep!"

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pan, standing stones, folklore, fairies, and witches! An amazing list of presenters including Ronald Hutton, Francis Young, Fiona Robertson, Marion Gibson, and Jeremy Harte. In person and online (which is great if like me you live an ocean away!)

conwayhall.org.uk

The Haunted Landscape: Magic, Fairies and Old Gods – Conway Hall

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sharing because *someone* needs to make a benandanti game.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Warframe: Where I can escape ordinary life only to have my space-mutant pet sit directly in front of the in-game computer, just like my cat. Bad Spiny Norman! But I can't stay mad at that smile.

In the interior of a spaceship, an armoured Warframe turns away from the camera to look at their red and black, spiky pet that looks back at them with a disturbing wide set of teeth that seem shaped into a smile.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was done for a month, then someone rediscovered the thread.

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Dr. Geoffrey M, AI Saboteur (allegedly) @drgeoffreym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Great. First, doctors develop the tools to diagnose it properly, then they see how widespread it really is, then the stupid influencers turn up, and suddenly we have breathless opinion pieces in the papers asking whether stupidity is a social contagion.

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