iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Mörkticia @morkticia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While doing some research for MÖRKTOBER, I found this wonderful lil' illustration of some rats all standing around, holding hands.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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kill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm quite tired of having my childhood repackaged and resold to me.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Whenever I meet someone who supports the Oxford comma, I find myself encouraged, delighted, and hopeful.

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Excellently articulated thread. Long, but worth the read.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Walking is for losers.

A person appears to be floating horizontally above a city street with a busy sidewalk in the background. Large text above reads, "Floatmog all those walkcucks stuck on the ground!" Below the person, a magazine titled "Learn to Float" is displayed.

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

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/mind-body-84972760

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just reiterating. I block genAI posters on sight. Carry on.

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Opened up this app. Read the first post in my timeline. I think that's enough for today.

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Power outage at work. Never so peaceful.

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

comic about the age of decay

yellow man going through a cursed hamlet with a fucked up angry moon thinking to himself: Ignore that you're living through the age of decay and get to work

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It goes with the understanding that, being a good person and being a talented person are not related qualities.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A rare occurence whereby literally no one cool is inconvenienced at all

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/08/2026

the reaction to the patrick miller 2XKO article is basically why no devs will ever be honest about their process in public and nor should they be. gamers can’t be fucking normal

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Well, shit. I just heard the news. This one hit me hard.

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nai 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026

Stop posting AI content on here. Nobody wants to see that shit.

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once

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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Oi! We saw you from across the bar and your vibe is TERRIBLE.

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

They are, what the industry refers to as, "High on their own supply".

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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Luke Gearing @lukegearing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

liking this without reposting puts lives at risk

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cee @cee.wtf · 14/08/2026

im never leaving seattle

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

👩‍⚖️🔨⚖️🔜

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Man. I love nerds geeking out about the things they love. Even if the thing isn't for me or maybe, especially if the thing isn't for me.

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FnordianSlip @fnordianslip.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Congratulations to everyone working at @sjgames.com for earning their well deserved Orb-Pondering Day with crossing the $1M mark on their 7 Part Pact Kickstarter! I was rooting for you all!

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