iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell

Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 08/09/2026

I don't even know where to look...

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fuck. RIP Dolly. Proof you can choose to do good with your good fortune.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I swear having to question whether every missive is LLM slop is going to drive me up a fucking wall, through the ceiling, and howling up into the nameless void.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

if you see this, post your marine-themed art 🦀

A wide digital painting of an underwater scene, a hill on the ocean floor covered in coral and vegetation to the left while a small sea turtle and a school of fish swim on the right

My rendition of a "Nermaid" which is Nermal from Garfield crossed with a mermaid; they are laying on a rock erupting from the ocean (full credit to Delilah Dawson for inspiring the Nermaid)

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

i feel like a good metaphor for this would be a hot new chef having a meal laid out when their investors arrive (they actually ordered take out) so they get huge investment and on the restaurants opening night their kitchen staff immediately realizes the chef dosent know how to even turn on the oven

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/07/2026

1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...

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AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel

That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Look at this awful/cool ant illustration I made for a fun little horror project. God I love making things

Black and white illustration of a strange ant with a corkscrew mandible and a strange, wisp-like tongue.

Text below the ant reads "Fig. 1. — Secordia Veritas (The Ant of Truth)

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I can't believe people use AI when memes thrown together in 30 seconds using Microsoft Paint are so much funnier.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Disassembled, cleaned, and repaired my own dryer. Immensely satisfying to learn a new skill.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Once upon a time I was trying to teach myself to paint digitally; I'm more comfortable with cartooning but this was fun to do even if I see soooooooo many flaws; luckily the point is in making the thing, not in the thing being "good."

A digital painting of a girl's face; it's in a bluish grayscale, the right side of her face is in heavy shadow, the let is lit. She has ong hair. On the left she has some messy strands of hair.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

He's helping (God I love drawing dumb shit)

A cartoon of a tabby cat flinging himself into a pyramid of soda cans in order to intercept a tennis ball.

The cans are on a round wooden table

The tennis ball is weirdly realistic looking because I added it last and got too much into making it look cool rather than match the rest of the drawing, lol

The wall behind the cans is striped in pink and red

The cans are jokey versions of real sodas: "Cock" (with an image of a little chicken) "Pixie," "Mrs. Salt," and "Bepis." Very dumb

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Incredibly frustrated by people who just don't ask me when they need something. I will do my best to anticipate needs, but for fuck's sake I'm really not a mind reader, lol

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Climbed up on my roof to clear a bunch of pine litter and moss, found some creature had buried a cache of . . . flower bulbs, I think? Glad they didn't start growing up there, lol

A gloved hand holding a golden colored plant bulb of some sort

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

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Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing

A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Took a selfie of myself blowing some bubble gum, thought I looked like a cryptid so I made this lol

Digital art of a polaroid picture pinned to a corkboard with red twine tied to it and leading away to left and right. The polaroid is torn, scratched, and dirty. Written on it in black ink pen below the image are the words "Don't Look"

The picture itself black and white, showing a dark silhouette with a bubble obscuring it's entire face

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

At the present moment I am not interested in anything politically beyond the destruction of the Republican Party as a viable political force. If we don't break the back of the conservative movement nothing else really matters. Whatever good shit you want to do won't happen.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Trying to get through life with some dignity intact seems to be a difficult proposition, lol Ah well, march forward

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

cannot scroll the timeline for more than 5 seconds without seeing a new, unique example of a republican or technomilitarist executive bragging about how badass we are at killing indiscriminately. massacre pride at an all time high. if and when the tables turn on them, there must be repercussions.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm just making silly shit to make my friends smile and try to not be completely overwhelmed by . . . everything.

A cartoon cow smiling weirdly with an open mouth. There is colorful bubble text next to it saying Good moo-rning

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Rob Zacny @robzacny.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Pete Hegseth seems like he might be the first man to have a family court hearing at the Hague.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 28/02/2026

Tired of these scumfucks

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Little Nermaid took over my brain until I could exorcise it, lol

Normal from Garfield as the little mermaid; a gray cartoon cat with a fishtail sitting in a rock in the ocean

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Accidentally typed 'nermaid' and am now pondering Garfield's friend/nemesis Nermal as a mermaid. So that's how my day is going.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

As expected, playing Marathon just made me pine for a single-player Bungie fps

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 23/02/2026

One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Sometimes I'll just paint something on my phone for whatever random "day" it happens to be, and yesterday was Pizza Day

A digital painting of a pepperoni pizza on a wooden pizza peel. It's a top down view, and you can see black and white checkered linoleum beneath.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Some people will torpedo their own dicks and tell you it's good actually that they have a smoking crater in their pants

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Friends, when the history of this sordid period of America is written — assuming it’s not written by historians trying to curry favor with a future fascist regime — I hope the leaders of American business are condemned to the hellfire they deserve for helping destroy American democracy.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

There are so many other non-problematic artists to support I don't feel swayed by the 'separate the art from the artist' like, come on, you're asking me to do *extra* work? Also, I don't want to perpetuate more of the things happening that disturbed me, so why would I keep funding it to happen?

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 19/01/2026

Katherine Kerr is in danger of losing her home after fighting the us healthcare system Please help if you can? (Sorry fb link, I have no other source) www.facebook.com/share/p/1Kbi...

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ceej @ceej.online · 11/01/2026

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This also is why I don’t buy the “I need ChatGPT to generate ideas” argument. Ideas aren’t the problem. As a writer, you’ll die full of them.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Finally got a 100% in Silksong; a great and immensely frustrating game. 9 and a half of these hours were spent on the final boss, 8 on a mini game lol

A tv showing the game completion screen for Silksong. It shows 100% completion, with a time of 99h 31m and 59 seconds. There is also an Xbox achievement pop up at the bottom of the screen, it says Rare Achievement unlocked- 1.18% 50 gamerscore

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 11/10/2025

I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

There's an optional mini game in Act 3 of Silksong that has so far been the hardest, most annoying thing in the whole damn game; I'm at 8 hours of attempting it and sunk cost fallacy has me in its grip. No boss has taken more than ten attempts, and this is the thing that's breaking me blah

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I am continually (and foolishly) astonished by the number of people who never ask themselves "am I wrong about this?"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2025

Fuck these losers

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/09/2025

Real life is complicated. You can be super smart, and make foolish choices, especially in unfamiliar situations you haven't been prepared for. "Smart" and "competent" don't mean "never makes mistakes" or "is always 100% rational."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/08/2025

i hate this smug liar so much

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Flower

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𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛 @johnxuandou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

This is seven photos taken in an unusual fashion, layered, and then manipulated. Think it looks pretty neat.

What looks like abstract digital art; it is in fact 7 different photos shot backwards through a vintage lens, layered on top of each other, and then manipulated. The result looks like seven spheres of blurred light against a vaguely cosmic background, with a pattern in the background of concentric circles

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I refuse to let a mean world make me mean too.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025

i think it is a sign of low character to post something controversial knowing it will get angry comments and then insult the people who responded to your ragebait

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Mike Green @greenmac.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just watched Sinners for the third time, damn what a great movie

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