iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me reaping: 9pm coffee with baileys at a party Me sowing: it's 4am and I can't sleep

Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Watching this guy at the airport remove stuff from his backpack and try over and over again to fit it in the personal item bin.

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my never ending quest to avoid AI, my new phone is a pixel 10 I got on sale with grapheneOS flashed onto it. AMA

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yesterday's mushroom haul! Chanterelles are starting to come out. 😋

A basket with about a dozen or so chanterelle mushrooms in it, along with a walkie talkie and a mushroom knife.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 24/09/2026

in the age of AI, making art is a radical act

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 25/09/2026

free shipping on INPRNT today & through the weekend! if that’s something you’re into! www.inprnt.com/gallery/crb/

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like what the fuck are we doing that this isn't being brought up at every meeting. Chat gpt is responsible for one of the worst shootings in Canadian history. I want this banned immediately

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally.....tomorrow is a day off.....

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BUS Game Devs - Vancouver Game Dev Series @busgamedevs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Revealing a new Indie Game Dev speaker event in TORONTO! Presentations and Q&As with the creators of: 💾 Inscryption 🗡️ Slay the Princess 🌟 In Stars and Time 🔎 The Incident at Galley House Tickets are just $10 for this fantastic lineup on Oct 24! Reposts are very appreciated!

An infographic revealing "Indie Game Dev Summit" in Toronto, October 24

featuring the creators of Inscryption, Slay the Princess, In stars and Time and The Incident at Galley House

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jenny.rip 🪦🪱 @hacksawjenny.rip · 21/09/2026

Hey everyone, please check out this cool project my friend is working on. I'm very excited to see it come together, and if you are too please donate, share, and follow along for more updates!

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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 21/09/2026

Commissions are once again OPEN!!!! Please email me to reserve a spot 💚 Prices and examples are on the slides, so please click through and see if something speaks to you!

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026

We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Waiting to get into the ren faire ✌️

A selfie of me wearing a long blonde wig and a witches hat with a feather.

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I dyed yarn with mushrooms I foraged and got these three colours from the same mushroom!!

Three skeins of wool that have been dyed different colours. One is a dark umber orange, one is a golden yellow, and one is an olive green

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I dyed yarn with mushrooms I foraged and got these three colours from the same mushroom!!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/09/2026

lol Ed Sheeran's band quit

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 15/09/2026

if you're ever given the opportunity to work with jenna you'd be out of your mind to pass them up. young suns is an enormous game narrative content-wise and their staggering range of consistently A-tier writing is a sight to behold when you've gotten the privilege of making tools for them

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026

Privatizing airports is a terrible deal for travellers, workers, and the public purse. Around the world, it has led to higher travel costs, fewer jobs and worse working conditions.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!

key art for Goodbye Volcano High by KO_OP

key art for Spirit Swap by Soft Not Weak

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My weekend is packed, I'm gonna be at a co-op summit Thursday and Friday, a ren faire on Saturday, and Full Indie Summit on Sunday!!!

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The tl;dr is that they were hit with a $90k tariff bill from UPS, who took forever to invoice them so the bills piled up until they got one unmanageable bill of 90k instead of a bunch of smaller ones that would've been manageable with their cashflow.

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Burying the lede in the last sentence that Pink is also calling for Macklemore to be dropped 🤡

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 14/09/2026

Ed Sheeran a bitch

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nothing quite like working up the energy to do something productive (dye my yarn with mushrooms) before remembering I made plans in 2 hours and don't actually have time for the whole process....

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fishbowl (OUT NOW on steam & ps5) 💜 @imissmyfriends.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

WAH! Fishbowl is in The Made With GameMaker 2026 showreel in the company of so many of our favourites! 🤩🤩

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 11/09/2026

Trans people are constantly asked to treat their full and equal rights as human beings as something LESS than absolute, something LESS than a red line. "Oh sure he's bad on the trans stuff but he's good on other policies!" It is obscene.

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knock knock knock knock @nicknicknicknick.net · 11/09/2026

it's been a rough couple of days, and weeks, and months. i wrote a bit about how it's felt to say au revoir, and possibly goodbye, to ko_op. nicknicknicknick.net/notes/2026/0... ❤️

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Kerri Hoven (she/her) 🇨🇦 @kerrihoven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Saddle Lake Cree First Nation has launched a GoFundMe fundraiser dedicated to the legal, governance and implementation work necessary to advance and defend Saddle Lake Cree Nation's Treaty health.” Here’s the GoFundMe link: gofund.me/c3a900a11

Scan the QR code to donate to Dr. James Makokis's fundraiser:

"Saddle Lake Cree Nation Treaty Health Legal Defense Fund"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Daniel is a fantastic producer, and the best co-producer I've worked with. He's resourceful, intentional, thinks about problems before they occur and comes up with contingencies for them so that we're well prepared. He's a conduit of communication across our team, and always offers his support.

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 10/09/2026

An important update from KO_OP.

With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives.

KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements.

As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations.

Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible.

In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've been using Samsung phones for a long time (since the Note 2 in 2013!!) but I'm super turned off by all their AI garbage now. I'm in the market for a new phone soon, and I need to know what my AI-free options are, if any even exist 😭

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 08/09/2026

Tired of the same 3 or 4 Black hairstyles in games? Us, too! That’s why we spent months researching and fine-tuning to make sure ALL of our players had options. 🫶🏼 🎮 Play on XBOX: hi.youngsuns.com/XBOX ✨ Wishlist on Steam: hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every time you use an LLM, you are exploiting someone else's unpaid labor. *EVERY TIME* As long as LLMs are built on data sets derived from stolen work, THEY CANNOT BE USED ETHICALLY. You are committing an ethical violation every time you use one.

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some of the mushrooms I found yesterday! #fungifriends

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have succumbed to capitalism. They were out of Piccolo, and Ssj Blue Vegeta though :<

Ssj blue goku and vegeta toys from Burger King

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026

“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Placed an order for some clothes for renfaire back in August, got my package today only to find out the corset I ordered didn't ship with the rest and I only have 2 weeks left until the faire :<

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 04/09/2026

I wish everyone knew they could get their audiobooks through their indie bookstore!

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Emma Bell @emmabellish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been working non-stop for the release of Young Suns and now I have time to relax but I don’t know what to do in my spare time that isn't work 🥴

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