iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ruth Husko @dankackroyd.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

‘I asked Grok, I asked Chat GPT’ ok well I asked Michael Owen and he said ‘tremendous by the way’

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Lying is bad unless you do it via AI. False advertising is bad unless you do it via AI. Plagiarism is bad unless you do it via AI. Losing billions of dollars for no good reason is bad unless you do it via AI. Robbing cities of water is bad unless you do it via AI. You’re just embracing the future.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ah shite, I need to subscribe to TNT. HA'WAY THE LADS ♥️⚪♥️⚪

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Lovely, fascinating thread — the crucial takeaway is how incredibly chaotic the act of artistic creation is A film requires hundreds of people, each making hundreds of daily choices, and the iconic final product is often born from collaboration/compromise/improvisations AI does none of this

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Imagine a world where people who made money from music and art liked music and art, people who ran government liked government, people who invented machines to help do work liked and understood the work that needed doing, and what didn’t… Just a bit of fucking skin in the game.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Spot on. You can’t respond authentically to art with your arms folded and a sneer on your lips. It’s impossible to be a good audience.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fall for your friends' jokes, it will make them happy.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Once again, it feels very strange to be making videogames with all this insane stuff is going on. Selfishly, I'd like world peace, not just for everyone else, but so that I can just, you know, enjoy my day and make nice things for nice people.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Big yes. Broken Veil is a phenomenal thing wonderfully crafted and has stuck with me since the first listen. Cannot wait for II.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

[doctor hitting my knee with their little hammer] where are your precious apples now?

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This stinks. Like, it really smells bad. Ew.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

a resource-intensive feature that nobody asked for which solves no known problem AND is functionally not just useless, but actively makes the product worse? SOLD! 100 BILLION TO OPENAI, NOW!!!

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

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SpecialEffect @specialeffect.org.uk · 19/12/2025

This year has been absolutely astounding for SpecialEffect, and we'd love to take this opportunity to give our most heartfelt thanks to you, our amazing supporters! Our team are taking a well deserved rest over the holiday season, and we'll be back on Jan 5th. Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 22/11/2025

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Impossible to listen to Shuhei without falling in love with videogames anew. What a bloke.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The horrific thing about exercise is that it works.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The only safe place to use LLMs is in a field where you are already skilled enough to know you would never trust AI. So you might as well not. We’ve got to start insisting on this Catch 22 being understood in all workplaces: AI only replaces workers too incompetent to notice it doesn’t work.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

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SpecialEffect @specialeffect.org.uk · 07/10/2025

Wow, what a fantastic #OneSpecialWalk! Thanks so much to everyone for braving the rain and (literally) going the extra mile for us, you're all stars! Keep an eye out for an update on how much you've raised, and the date for next year's event 🧡💙

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is important and good. Brilliant work.

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] — and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫡

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Football is life and those lasses do it better than anyone. Unreal.

The Lionesses celebrate winning the Women's Euros by covering themselves head to toe in gold and silver strands of foil.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is awesome and important. So proud of our game and our people. ❤️

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Sunderland A.F.C. ♥️🤍♥️🤍

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Today marks ten years to the day since I bought a PS4 to play Witcher 3 on release. Geralt's stories, through the craft poured into them by CDPR, ignited the spark of realisation that creating games is a worthwhile thing that real people actually do. I will forever owe them a debt of thanks. 🐺

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Alt: A short clip of gameplay from the Witcher 3. Geralt rides his horse across a rugged landscape kissed by light from the setting sun.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

DOOM: Dark Ages is joyous. A beautifully focussed heavy metal spectacle. Beaming grin through every level. Those folks at id really know what they're doing 🔥💥💪

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15/05/2025

you work at ILM! ralph macquarrie and joe johnston worked on star wars with just their brains and their hands and created some of the most beloved/fucked up creatures you've ever seen! and you're getting up on stage to show a fucking possum owl? made by computer? get in the bin you ghouls

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trans people are incredible. They deserve to be joyful, safe and seen in every aspect of their lives. No questions. Today's ruling and the transphobes that enabled it are shithouses. They can get in the bin. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

You can play one videogame one last time then, when you are finished, you can never play another game again for the rest of your life. Which game are you picking? 🎮❤️

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Alb3rt0 @albst3r.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently. I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I bloody love this game, this team, and the community that pours so much love into oour pirate world. Truly life changing. It has been one hell of an adventure so far, here's to many many more! 💙🏴‍☠️💛

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Idk... if a developer doesn't care enough to pay actual human storytellers to create a game I sure as hell won't care enough to play it.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I am maybe too morbid a man, but I have a limited time working on this earth and I’d rather not spend any of it doing anything other than writing my own messages in the sand. I don’t really see any role for randomised, anonymised plagiarism in that process.

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Deadly Osmanthus Soup is BACK ON THE MENU! @madpierrot.design · 16/02/2025

For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Nothing beats a lovely website curated by someone who gives a shit. And the only bar for entry for one of those is “giving a shit”. Which humans do.

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j0toro @j0toro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Good morning from Rare.

A flagpole with a progressive pride flag stands in front of a wild wooded area.

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George Orton @georgeorton.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Please forgive a brief moment of personal pride, but I read a total of 47 books in 2024, having not read consistently since childhood. Utterly adored the discovery of it all. 📖♥️

A stack of all the books George has read this year, with a stuffed Porg sitting on top of them. The books are arranged clumsily on the floor, heavily implying that George needs to sort some proper shelves.

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