iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

happy spooky season 🍂🦇🎃

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🎵 Animusic 🎵 @anisongs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here it is, the opening sequence you were all expecting to see on this list at some point. For many, it’s the Top 1. It was for me too, for a long time. This opening is, without a doubt, a masterpiece.

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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This would be fucking amazing, oh my god

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is real??????? Like for real for real. Wild days.

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Mikell Taylor @mikell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you don’t know, the FAA has been rethinking the required onboard medical kits. Some rules are being loosened because aircraft end up unusable when meds are out of date. That needs a solution. Some changes, like the below, are going to be deadly for the sake of convenience. Not okay.

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boots @onefootinthegrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this man was the bob hope of the global war on terror. I do not know a single soldier who deployed overseas who doesn’t have a story about meeting this guy, and his kindness and charm.

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Jordan Hopkins @jordanhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sadly I have been let go from Wizards today as part of a bigger corporate restructure. Obviously I'm gutted and I will miss working on a game I love alongside some really incredible people. I'm glad that I get to look back at my work on MagicCon and Final Fantasy and be proud.

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LaTia is somethin’ scary @latiajacquise.com · 28/09/2026

this week, i am going to be a potato. next week, the job hunt starts. send any CM/marketing roles my way, would ya?

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LaTia is somethin’ scary @latiajacquise.com · 28/09/2026

well. two months before my four-year anniversary, my role at wizards has been made redundant, and I have been laid off. i have a lot of feelings i'll probably never put words to, except to say that i don't regret a single day and have so much love for anyone else affected and those who remain.

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explore.org @explore.org · 28/09/2026

A day away from the final showdown. Who will you pick to go head-to-head for the ultimate title? Make today count and VOTE at fatbearweek.org

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adorable pterosaur art? Who's this?

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

new favorite baker just dropped (I am finally watching the new ep of Bake Off)

screenshots from the latest season of British Bake Off of a chef named Mo, he's a tan skinned young man. He's got dark hair falling over his forehead and a beard. He's saying, "I come with a lot of baggage, but it's, like, the good baggage."

Mo continued, "Like Louis Vuitton baggage."

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 27/09/2026

I've read this Rosebuds book ban story, and it's FANTASTIC! Hyun Sook and I are proud to cameo in the funny papers in such a cool way! FUN FACT! It's a crossover! As Maria learns about book bans, she crosses over to the new story in the color edition of Banned Book Club to attend one of our talks!

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 27,1958

P1 - NANCY IS IN THE KITCHEN, LOOKING AT THE COOKIE JAR SITTING ON THE COUNTER
NANCY: H M M
P2- AUNT FRITZI IS SITTING IN THE LIVING ROOM WHEN NANCY CALLS HER FROM THE KITCHEN
NANCY: AUNT FRITZI- MAY I HAVE A COOKIE?
P3-
FRITZI: HAVE A PEAR INSTEAD
P4-
NANCY: OH, BOY --- THANKS
NANCY IS SMILING AS SHE WALKS AWAY WITH TWO COOKIES

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Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The purpose of a system is what it does," was coined by Stafford Beer in 1979. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter what a system is intended, advertised, or "supposed" to do. What matters is what it actually does in the real world, what behaviours it influences, and what outcomes it produces.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Muse: oh wow it looks like you got shot and robbed. here’s what happened: after giving up your home address i told that dude “what are you gonna do, shoot me?” and that’s on me

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026

I was loudly complaining about one of these movies once, and my friend’s mom had to very patiently explain to me that these are not really meant to be watched. They’re background noise for making out on a date if you were a teenager at the time.

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep saying this, but we have been in a long golden age of game creation, and it isn't done yet. I can't think of a better time to be into ttRPGs across my lifetime than now.

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you can’t even write jokes better than this

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laney @saltmalk.in · 02/01/2026

warm again

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Fran Bautista 🔥 on Patreon @franbautistart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⭐🔥October commissions are OPEN🔥⭐ I'm opening a few slots for this month! Very excited to work on some new and/or old faces! 👀 Thank you so much! As always sharing would be really appreciated! ❤️🙏 franbautistart-comms.carrd.co #art #dnd #commission #illustration

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is an extremely interesting thread, documenting this I mean if you're surprised that AI, which is foundationally about stealing the labour of people without their permission and creating a fake simulacra who never refuses their demands, has consent issues, I dunno what to tell you

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Just a bunch of guys getting together on a Saturday night to be like yeah, we’re unfuckable

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Lin Codega @lincodega.com · 27/09/2026

I got hate mail today, so resharing a piece that NEVER fails to make people mad -- how trans and genderqueer people relate to Link and the Legend of Zelda Games. Link is any gender you want him to be. : ))))

gizmodo.com

A Link Between Genders: Trans Joy and the Legend of Zelda

Link’s Awakening takes a more literal meaning for many transgender people who love the main character of the Legend of Zelda franchise.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Along these lines: Doubt anyone needs a reminder, but Gumroad is owned/run by profoundly shitty ppl. They booted Iron Circus from the platform years ago after an unsuccessful Smut Peddler applicant began demanding all adult material be removed from Gumroad, despite there being no rules against it.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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NateMing on Elm Street @nateming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if any, what kind of magazine subscriptions--specifically subscriptions--did you have as a kid?

3-2-1 Contact issue from 1991, cover story on space probes

Sega Visions issue from 1993, cover story on Jurassic Park for the Genesis

Nintendo Power from 1994, cover story on Donkey Kong for Game Boy

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Paul M @fnscienceman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

WAIT DID A NEW SEASON OF KAIJU NO. 8 START WHAT IS NARUMI'S WEEK AT WORK

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw this video ad for a pediatric hospital and it was hard to take the emotional experience of mother and child seriously because the baby's name was Nemesis. They named the child Nemesis.

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Count Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In unrelated news, if you play grid-based TTRPGs like D&D or Draw Steel, and need thousands of minis you can store in a binder, you should join the Patreon! www.patreon.com/trashmobminis

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Jamie Madigan @jamiemadigan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Experiment (174 undergrads, same Dimension 20 D&D actual play episode): viewers told to focus on the STORY felt more transported and more parasocially bonded to the cast than viewers told to track dice rolls. Comprehension didn't differ — attention framing did. Unsurprising. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New: 12 Student Loan Ombudsman call for a Payment Pause. “We have identified recurring systemic problems involving income driven repayment plans that materially affect borrower payment obligations, loan balances, and access to [cancellation].” www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

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Education Department Must Pause Student Loans As Chaos Deepens, Advocates Say

An increasingly broad chorus of advocates and officials are calling on the Education Department to suspend payments on student loans as deepening chaos grips the system.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Jettelly @jettelly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Alfred Baudisch is turning extracted PS1 and N64 game assets into a browsable preservation archive. FF7, Mega Man Legends, and MediEvil are already in! 🎮 See more: x.com/AlfredBaudis... #retrogaming #gamedev #technicalart #gameart

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

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Kii @kiikiibee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my pf2e warpriest Finsley is getting ready to go to another country but isn't quite sold on the fashions 🎀

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

„You pour a lot of resources into disabling equitable relationships, including for yourself personally. Why is that?“

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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boots @onefootinthegrave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“so, what are you doing with your free time now that the kid’s in preschool?” “oh, I keep busy”

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boots @onefootinthegrave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

emperor palpatine shouting “unlimited hotdogs!” while blasting hotdogs out of his fingertips

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