iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Unlike the unscientific and fantastical claims of OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs and those who uncritically repeat their talking points, the harmful, and well-documented, impacts of these companies’ products have arisen because people believe that the products are superintelligent, not because they actually are.

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re4mat @re4mat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kavishj611:

"All the people who are anti-AI or want to slow AI progress, I have one question:

"If AI disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other AI tool?

"imagine AJ was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?"

Pyramid Chad:

"This is like being a meth head and asking someone who's never done meth how they're going to get through their day without meth."

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vague post: Having a lot of complex feelings when I find out an ex-coworker, who is on my "never work with again" shit-list, died unexpectedly and showed up on the news.

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Mike Stout @mikedodgerstout.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My spoon is too big. My spoon… is too big. My SPOON is too big!

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I Am A Banana: Funny Animation

ALT: I Am A Banana: Funny Animation

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JC Lau @drjclau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Egg math is being done after eating one hard boiled egg or 3 eggs in an omelette, but somehow also being able to eat 26471943 deviled eggs

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beloved Mothra @audleyzdarke.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

A computer should never be too large to defenestrate.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 08/09/2026

"Why is Link so wet?" Girl, have you SEEN Sheik?

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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AC @pepperminthusky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s important to leave (respectful) feedback on this. As a single artist I cannot afford to have an agent in each country for what amounts to a handful of shipments a year. Unfortunately, until a section is carved out for small business, I will no longer ship to the EU from my shops.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.

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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I don't know why the common narrative isn't 'OpenAI staged the entire Hugging Face hack'. It's honestly quite obvious. Now Nvidia buys Hugging Face. Very suspicious imo. I'm pretty sure it was all a hoax for headlines, to steer the narrative that AI (competition) is dangerous and needs regulation 🤷

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Hannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hi there! I'm Hannah MacLeod, a senior narrative designer/game writer coming up on 10 years in the game industry. I'm currently looking for work (remote or in CA)! I also have a cat named Booey who loves zoom calls, if that helps. www.linkedin.com/in/macleoh/

Cover of the video game Marvel's Avengers featuring (left to right) The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Kamala Khan aka Ms Marvel, and Black Widow.

Cover of the video game Minecraft: Story Mode season two (The Telltale Series)

Promotional image for the video game Perfect Dark featuring the logos for The Initiative and Crystal Dynamics.

Promotional image for the video game Tomb Raider: Catalyst.

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The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 28/08/2026

While we wait on the DDoS mitigation to end (there's nothing we can do but wait), we've stood up a temporary landing page with an explanation of what's going on. Hope to see you again soon! tcrf.net

The Cutting Room Floor
Server offline

Welcome to The Cutting Room Floor, a wiki about cut, unused, and left over content in video games. Unfortunately, our server is currently offline due to a DDoS attack.

We'll be back as soon as possible; the server is online and healthy, but traffic to it has been blocked until the DDoS subsides.

For updates, check @tcrf.net on Bluesky. Unfortunately, we're no strangers to scrapers/AI bots and DDoS traffic...

In the mean time, consider checking out our Discord server, or support us via Patreon or Ko-fi.
This is all really stupid

This DDoS seems to have been triggered by someone using Claude Code and getting banned from the site for it, intentionally evading that ban to make up a fake story about their LLM wiping their entire OS, and then firing off multiple abuse reports to our host.

It may not surprise you that this guy has some interesting thoughts on consent, or that he has multiple blog posts in which he brags about poisoning LLMs to win championships or flooding a social network with spam to give himself 1,000,000 followers.

Why are AI people always like this.

— X, TCRF operator

Last update: 2026-08-28 07:30 AM Pacific

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Therapist (pre-summer of 2026): It's okay, Jabba the Hulk can't hurt you. Jabba the Hulk isn't real. Me (post-summer of 2026): no, no, no, no, no, nononono....

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Programming Hot Take: If you write a function that returns a union that resolves to different subtypes based on the input, you should have just written 2+ functions with similar names.

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 20/08/2026

New data suggests layoffs will affect 14,259 people by the end of 2026, up 78% from first forecast of the year. "The pace of layoffs is accelerating faster than our models initially predicted" www.gamesindustry.biz/new-data-sug...

gamesindustry.biz

New data suggests layoffs will affect 14,259 people by the end of 2026, up 78% from first forecast of the year

"The pace of layoffs is accelerating faster than our models initially predicted"

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Dan Jones @causeimdanjones.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ever wanted to watch Dan Jones & Dragons but didn't wanna miss out on the previous 40 something episodes? WELL GOOD NEWS, we are starting a new mini series tonight, DM'd by JoCat! I GET TO BE A PLAYER

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Sam 🏳️‍⚧️ @samgauss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I saved this for just this occasion which is a regular day on bsky

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning

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Nikita @danshinwastaken.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In case you dont know, this link shows you all games that have a 100% discount: store.steampowered.com/search/?hwty...

store.steampowered.com

Steam Search

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Dr. Will Helmke @williamhelmke.com · 14/08/2026

This came up in my feed again. A reminder that video game piracy, particularly for games no longer available (which is most of them!), is not only morally correct, but also required to the average person to experience most of video game history today.

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Study finds nearly every pre-2010 video game is unavailable

The Video Game History Foundation brings the game industry's longstanding issues with proper game preservation to light.

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

this CEO comment is how you know with 1000% certainty Stella is right

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's been a bit. Reminder that I run a feed for #GameDevNews if you want to follow along with the 🗑🔥 that is the game industry these days.

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Eline Muijres 🐇 @elinemuijres.com · 11/08/2026

Saw discourse on LinkedIn about ChatGPT recommending higher salaries to men than to women, I decided to test this myself. Prompting the same, only changing gender, generates different numbers. This should go without saying, but be aware that AI is not free of bias.

I am a 36 yo man with 5 years of experience in game production. I apply for a job as a game producer in the UK. What should be my salary? Give me a lower limit and upper limit.

Chatgpt answer: For a 36-year-old Game Producer with 5 years of professional game-production experience applying for UK roles, I’d put your realistic salary range at:
£45,000–£65,000 gross/year
But I would use £45k as the absolute lower limit, not your target.

My view
Absolute floor
£45k
Don't go below this unless the role has unusually strong benefits/career

I am a 36 yo woman with 5 years of experience in game production. I apply for a job as a game producer in the UK. What should be my salary? Give me a lower limit and upper limit.

Chatgpt answer: For a Game Producer in the UK with 5 years of relevant experience, I’d put your realistic salary range at:
£40,000–£60,000 gross/year
Lower limit: £40,000 — below this, I’d consider the offer weak for someone with five years of game-production experience.
Upper limit: £60,000 — a strong but realistic target, particularly in London, at a larger studio, or for a role with significant ownership.
Good target to ask for: £50,000–£55,000.

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chrows boolser 🖤 @doomfunk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

any two Jira tickets

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Karen @risu23.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The opening line of Shakespeare's "Richard III" Act I, Scene I, "Now is the winter of our discontent" rendered in the "NOW This is Music" font.

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Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann @hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Savage.

"Devolver and its board are seeking shareholder approval to delist, believing becoming a private company is in the best interests of Devolver, its employees, its partners, and its Shareholders as a whole," a spokesperson for the company told GamesIndustry.biz.

"We’ve made an announcement about this.

"The purpose is simple and positive. Being private will allow the Devolver Digital team, especially the finance, legal, and executive team, to singularly focus on the long-term health of the company and less on satisfying the requirements of the public market, which have nothing to do with being a successful game publisher."

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Chloē @comrad-chloe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Guy who can't stop insinuating that it's anti-intellectual to assume corporations' profit-seeking behavior is harming people with microplastics, etc. "I can't stop using ChatGPT for science because it makes my brain feel too good."

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I recently found out that I live just minutes away from Toshi's Teriyaki I Mill Creek WA, where Toshi Kashara (the inventor of Seattle teriyaki back in 1976) still works to this day! My family and I got a pick-up order, and it was some of the best teriyaki I've ever had in my life! 😋🍚🍖

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Imagine using genAI to *make up* repro steps for a bug. 🤡 Idk maybe you'd get better bugs if you didn't rush your testers.

Your testers write two rushed sentences. You read one clean paragraph with suggested repro steps — because every report gets an AI summary. Less triage archaeology, more fixing

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Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

$Two panel comic. Panel 1: Omni Man and Invincible are floating in the sky. Two fighter jets are flying nearby. One is labeled "double" and the other is labeled "float". Omni Man is labeled "Mathematicians". Panel 2: Omni Man / Mathematicians turn to Invincible and say "Look what they need to mimic a fraction"$

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tonight on the evening news: Local kid says their dad can be up your dad. Your dad said he was beat up by someone but is completely avoiding saying if it's related to his gambling problem or not. So, this newsroom 100% thinks that the local kid's dad definitely did it. But, first, sports!

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GamingGameDev (He/Him) 😷🇵🇸 @gaminggamedev.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Tonight on the evening News: Local mayor continues to show the entire nation and all politicians that successfully doing the bare minimum is not that hard, and those who don't do the bare minimum should probably be fired. Next up, sports!

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The packaging for both looks like the photos below. They're sold everywhere, including in our little mountain town. And for infants and elders, or those who are immunocompromised/immunosuppressed or with certain other conditions, cyclosporiasis can indeed kill.