iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Literally as soon as the ambient temperature drops enough for me to consider strapping what is effectively a small VR-capable PC to my face, I'll ironically be ready to burninate til my head a splode. 💖

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Did you know if you put ∞ jump in a game, Flappy Bird?

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Does the facial expression when the inflatable Gabe goes past Tycho's hotel window count? Otherwise, probably "I heard Timothy Roberts, CEO of Infinium Labs, can't have an orgasm unless he kills a dog."

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It's weird how I can hear the "Fuck You!" bouncing off the surface of the river, and see the .5 seconds delay between the lips moving and the audio hitting.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The mirror moment actually made me hide a bit 😭

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yeah, pics or this is all flim-flam as far as I'm concerned. Flim-flam! Flim-flaaam!

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@sigmagears9.bsky.social remember there's only 171 shopping days left to pick up some Christmas Spumonis for the special someone in your life 👢

A hurriedly photoshopped pair of "Nancy Spumoni snow boots", a reference to KC Nwosu's mention of such during a 2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces stream, the boots themselves being spectacularly deep Hey Arnold! cut.

The boots are depicted as being covered in glitter with fur trim, with a stylised "Nancy" signature on the ankle. The "Nancy" looks suspiciously like the signature of real-world Nancy Sinatra, the inspiration for the Nancy Spumoni character.

In the background and out of focus, Helga G. Pataki can be seen; Helga being the Hey Arnold! character with a strong interest in the snow boots.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So much more efficient than English, where we have to change one AND add one 😔

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Being momentarily mistaken for Jerry Holkins in a Michael mask, even in service of a bit? Just embarrassingly affirmatory for a journeyman sesquipedalian such as I.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Ohhhhh if they made the automata personalities the result of the implicit theft of a billion deceased loved ones' cerebral sepulchres, can you 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦?

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Great show, tell Kurt's wife that all 2,678 of us audience members say hi. And then wink knowingly. ♥️

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's creating such a great "immortal awkward person lost in time" vibe for me, I sort of love it

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Butty is the perfect name. I aspire to one day be the sort of DM that looks in his heart during a moment of ad-lib, finds a Butty, boxed out and low, and names them Butty.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm not even in the States and all my defensive dorsal scales shot up and wobbled just looking at that. And don't even get me started on the state of my dewlap.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Here was me being dumb and naïve enough to think the ChatGPT era would at least end this stuff :( "Surely people won't get anything from a robot reporting to them what another robot brieflyimagined an angry person might say.?" he idly soliloquied like a man who'd never accessed the internet before.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It made me laugh, so now I do it - it's only fair

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

See, this is what the internet should be used for. Weird shit like this.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

People need to... they need to think about what they're calling these fancy AI companies. And like, read it back two times. Just in case.

A screenshot of a Google result for an AI company called "Assai", a company precisely two capitalised letters away from being a machine learning outfit that automates your butthole.

I guess it would replace your butthole with a weird-looking automatic butthole that keeps subliminally radicalising your poop, or giving out completely during rush hour traffic and creating hours-long delays for everyone involved.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I remember watching it for the first time at a school friend's house as he had it on DVD. He just showed me all the action scenes because all the bits in between were "a bit talky"

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Is this a new game? Only I feel like I played it back in college 🤔

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Pizza girl gets a panicked call one night because Baervald has collapsed and Brun didn't know landlines could call 911. But this is the house with the old lady who used to order the Mucho Caliente! DUN-DUN-DUNNNN tragic Baervald backstory. I'd HATE it.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I'd sure hate it if she moved in with Brun and was constantly exasperated with Brun's habits, against a backdrop of Brun's accidental befriending of an ageing watchmaker.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I won't, and you can't make me. In fact, I'm imagining that you lost your keys right as you went to leave the house. HA!

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Draft: "Heyyy... as an ADHD guy, I feel that" (unsent, 43 days)

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Can't wait for the phrase "a pre-2023 publication stated that.." to become common because everything written since then is potentially a sort of weird no-effort pseudo con of some kind.

A screenshot of Jeph's post, edited to look like an autocomplete suggestion text has appeared.

In now reads "oh my god if you pause typing for a few seconds in google docs now a fucking AI prompt pops up where your cursor is. I hate everything about this. I always thought having thinking, talking computers would be great like Star Trek but instead they're shitty and bad like Jar-Jar Binks. I know he wasn't a robot but he was a disappointment."

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Column, fireworks, a.. moon? Racing glove (mabes) and animal ears. Six releases, so every two months maybe ancient Rome (ides of March), Cinco de Mayo, Apollo 11 landing, Italian Grand Prix and a.... maybe that Icelandic Christmas cat thing? (quick DuckDuckGo later) A Jolakotturinn. Yep, that.?

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So glad you made this - great watch and hope lots of young horror devs see it too 🙂‍↕️ I was also a big scaredy for ages, then Ravenholm and F.E.A.R all but won me over completely; FNAF made me think I'd maybe gone off horror games but now I reckon it's that I find unavoidable jump scares obnoxious

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

DON'T EVER LEAVE US AGAIN WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO 😭

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Agreed. You did alright 🙂‍↕️

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

🎙️Watch out boy, they'll eat you up 🎵

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no gods, no kings, only sam: COMMS OPEN @dt75art.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

ITS CHRISTMAS DOES ANYONE WANT A VGEN CODE i only have a few and you gotta be an artist obviously

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

For context, Newbury is a market town in Berkshire of about 40,000 inhabitants. Every weekday the population near enough doubles because of commuters, and sometimes swans happen when we're all trying to go home again.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

9 years ago, this swan messed up traffic across the whole of Newbury for hours. Eventually, me and two other guys led it away - it kept trying to go back to the main crossroads so we had to keep making ourselves look big.

A very 2016-phone-camera image of an angry swan

A very 2016-phone-camera image of an angry swan being led away by a guy

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I don't know her personally, but I think this silkie from Yorkshire is mad at you.

A black silkie chicken eyeballs the camera a bit like "what are you looking at?" - two white silkie chickens can be seen in the background, slightly out of focus.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It's been about 15 years since I worked in graphic design, but the memory of a Business Guy With Bad Ideas doing an initial design brief is already haunting enough - imagining him additionally with a fist full of slop to compare your work against as you go... yyyeeuuuck.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The hero we don't deserve 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Oop - link to the original here: www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/0...

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I am reminded instantly of this classic from the Penny Arcade archive, and look forward to seeing what they do with any warriors as a result.

A screenshot of the 3-panel Penny Arcade comic "Character Selection", from 24/04/2013.

Jonathan Gabriel features isolated in the first panel, saying:

"I'm super excited for Dragon's Crown! I'm going to play as the Sorceress, because she looks like this:"

The second panel shows the Sorceress Character from Dragon's Crown. Her straight-top lace neckline struggles to hold back a pair of over-exaggerated breasts, as she leans forward using her impossibly thin waist.

A speech bubble then adds "But maybe I wouldn't play as the warrior if he looked like this...?"

The third panel shows the Warrior, reimagined with over-exaggerated sexual characteristics in line with the Sorceress. In addition to a chiseled physique and prodigiously thick chest hair, the Warrior's outfit features a tertiary genital loincloth which bulges obscenely beneath his revealing Romanesque kilt. A flame-orange pubic shrubbery erupts from the underside of the kilt, wreathing an ivory pillar of phallic meat that descends weightily into the loincloth beneath. Though further specifics are obscured by the loincloth's hardy construction, the outline of his means of reproduction is clearly visible, hinting at an eventual urethral terminus much akin to three surgically-fused manatees in terms of mass, form, and intensity of purpose.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

And I guess Southampton, Paisley, Exeter, Glencoe, Blenheim, the Thames River, Trowbridge, Dunblane, and Richmond don't help either 🤐

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I had a friend who lives in Simcoe, and I'm constantly double-taking when he talks about going to places nearby. Not everywhere, but spots like London, Chatham, Stratford, Cambridge, Durham, Kemble, Watford, Essex, Newbury, Grimsby, Acton, or Angus sound so British...

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I moved from London to Leeds (via other places) and after years of being a bit too warm all the time, Yorkshire has finally provided me with both reasons to wear a proper coat sometimes and the word "nesh" to describe all the softies I love back down South 🙂‍↕️ it's good here

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I'm assuming there'll be a podcast somewhere; two swamp hags using the phrase "not a lot of people know about this, but" just waaaay too often for like four hours. Still get a lot of misinformation, but it's mainly about locally sourced wetland hex components.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If you're an Oglaf, Platinum Grit, and/or safetyhammer fan, you may be as pleasantly shocked as I was to see an in-depth Trudy Cooper interview pop up on the internet www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...

tcj.com

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal

Jason Bergman talks with the creators of the very popular (and very NSFW) webcomic.

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I remember this being my favourite storyline... When it came out... 23 years ago..?! Maybe this explains why nobody gets the reference when I go "Mr. Mallory!" like an irate cosmology professor

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There we go - no need for an office Christmas party this year, when your present is EVERYONE WAS IN FURIOUS 7!!!

An early Furious 7 movie poster, with the faces of Jane Douglas, Ellen Rose, Andy Farrant, and Mike Channell plastered over the faces of several of the lead cast members.

It's very crudely done, yet with infinitely more intentionality than any AI slop, and its production was WAY less likely to kill a penguin

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Here lies @himichaelhere, who was tragically struck down by watching the last ten minutes of Celebrity Traitors :(

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Michael @himichaelhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

That's not what people mean when talking about donating hair

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