iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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gormless tomfool bea 💗💜💙 @beesmygod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

watterson's principled stance against merchandising from a comics journal interview from 2013 www.tcj.com/the-bill-wat...

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nancy 8/8/26 … cheese

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flame @aeriform.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

had a chance to playtest :::: a permanent echo absolutely gorgeous cyberpunk voight kampff crime investigation experience with strong as hell visual character and lovely music. highly recommend checking this out s.team/a/3727200/ @threemoreyears.bsky.social

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Concept art by Nizo Yamamoto for Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989), dir. Masami Hata and William Hurtz, TMS

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Strong Bad @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Videlectrix finally made the Homestar Runner, Teen Girl Squad, and Onion Bubs iMessage stickers available again. If you ever lost these due to getting a new phone or something, now you can finally wreck all yer text threadz again! apps.apple.com/us/developer...

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Visited the new Chicago Brand Museum today. It's fascinating. (It's not a museum of just Chicago brands; it's a museum of lots of brand, which happens to be located in Chicago.) Fans of typography, graphic design, package design, and more will love it.

Glass shelves displaying dozens of different types of spice tins.

Shelf displaying small containers of typewriter ribbons.

More shelves, this time filled with dozens of varieties of small oil cans

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/07/2026

Teacher Required To Provide Own Salary theonion.com/teacher-required-to-pr…

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Jake Mauer @jakemauer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Or to put it another way, his *bonus* is 253 $150k salaries.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We gotta kick Palmer Luckey outta retro gaming I’m sick of seeing him throwing his loser ass government contract money around in my hobby

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Do not buy the war crime n64.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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Game Boy Camera @gameboycamera.com · 29/07/2026

Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

A photo of the Camera GBD-M2 back, in my hand with grass in the background. It's attached to a camera strap.

A photo of the Camera GBD-M2 front, in my hand with grass in the background. It's attached to a camera strap.

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James Marsh @jamesotron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

HE'S BACK! comic by me.

Optimus Prime is dead...But that doesn't mean the party is!

WEEKEND AT PRIME'S

Coming this summer!

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 27/07/2026

This is a fun project: Use FFMPEG to simulate the sound of audio cassettes. I converted a few albums and it sounds extremely authentic. github.com/AARomanov198...

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation/blob/master/assets/cassettes.jpeg Several audio cassettes

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

en.wikipedia.org

The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

new toy: RayColor 🎾 generative palettes from a raytraced scene: one sphere, a five-sided room, three lights, mirror walls. drag the lights, harvest the colors. palettes stay coherent because every swatch is the same light in the same room. meodai.github.io/ray-color/ let me know what you think.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.

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Natalie (Tali) Vancouver era ✨ @talidev3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

the SPEED at which I ran to my drawing tablet-

a cute little robot design that I drew based on the quoted image

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

hitting a home run is one of the easiest things to do in all of sports since you don't have to run very hard

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Joel Stocksdale @geekygearhead99.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Someone in SE Michigan is selling a BUNCH of what seem to be internal GM posters from the ‘60s

Listing for a GM poster. It shows a pig with its arms crossed and the text says “When asked for secret data be PIG-HEADED”

A listing for a GM poster showing a lady scraping a steak into a trash can in front of sad dogs. It reads “Nobody benefits from needless waste”

A GM poster shows An old lady is knitting with a ball of yarn in a birdcage and a bird on the rocking chair. It reads “Suggest a way to do YOUR job better”

A GM poster shows three colorful birds and reads “Customers aren’t strange birds they just want QUALITY”

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 29/06/2026

Going through old coverage of Star Wars for research and I came across this column by sci-fi writer David Gerrold in a 1978 issue of STARLOG It contains what is easily the coolest, weirdest, most wildly off-base fan theory about Obi-Wan Kenobi that I've ever read: HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME

Somehow, Obi-Wan Kenobi failed to teach Darth Vader how to use the Force for good instead of evil-or the seductiveness of the dark side of the Force is very very strong. In either case, that Darth Vader did not learn all of the lessons that Obi-Wan tried to teach him is obvious.
This implies the possibility that it is Obi-Wan Kenobi's responsibility to punish/stop his former student himself. If so, then it follows that Obi-Wan has been waiting for the proper moment to act. A number of pre-conditions must be met, a number of destinies must in- tertwine: Obi-Wan Kenobi is waiting for Luke Skywalker; he is waiting for the droids, C3PO and R2-D2, to flee with the Death Star plans; he is waiting for the moment when their paths cross Luke's; he has been waiting to give Luke his father's light-sabre; and ulti- mately, he is waiting for the moment when Luke will say, "Teach me about the Force."
After all, just what else is the old guy doing out there in the desert?
I mean, with all his skills and

knowledge, he should be trying to re- surrect the Jedi Knights, shouldn't he? Or does he know that this particular moment in that far-off galaxy's history is a crucial nexus point? The impli- cation and it seems a fairly obvious one is that it is Obi-Wan Kenobi's destiny to insure that Luke Skywalker is properly equipped to meet his destiny.
After all, doesn't he show up at just the right time to save Luke from the sand-people?
This leads right into the next point:
4) Somewhere, in the vast bulk of publicity and interviews that came out in the first rush of the film's success. was the mention of George Lucas's original conception of Obi-Wan Kenobi as a kind of a crazy old hermit-some- thing like grizzled old Ben Gumm in Treasure Island. Alec Guinness had doubts about that kind of character- ization, and in subsequent discussions with George Lucas, Obi-Wan Kenobi evolved into a more mystical and state- ly character.

This characterization, however, car- ries several implications of its own. One of the possibilities, is that Obi- Wan is never really there at all.
Luke's Uncle Owen for instance, says, "I don't think that man exists any- more. He died about the same time as your father."
When Luke tells this to Obi-Wan, the old man rolls his eyes heavenward before saying, "Oh, he's not dead. Not yet." There's something about the way he says it...
When Obi-Wan and Darth Vader finally come face to face, Obi-Wan tells Darth Vader, "You cannot win, Darth... ... if you cut me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
And finally, Obi-Wan Kenobi raises his light-sabre to his forehead in a mystical salute-a "we-who-are- about-to-die" gesture-and Darth Vader strikes him down-except that Obi-Wan has disappeared completely! All that Darth Vader has struck down is Obi-Wan's empty cloak.
The implication here is that Obi-Wan has never been completely here, he has only been a manifestation of the Force

working to bring Luke Skywalker to his destiny. Obi-Wan has long since passed on to a higher plane of existence and only returned now for this specific event in Galactic history. Luke con- tinues to hear Obi-Wan's voice at cru- cial moments of decision-especially at the end of the picture when Luke must "use the Force." It's my own theory that Obi-Wan is a direct manifestation of the Force. But if that is the case. then that also tells us that the Force is capable of appearing as a tangible manifestation in order to cause an event to occur a specific way-in this case, for good instead of evil. There- fore, we are presented with the possibility of an "activist God" who will step in when necessary to work miracles.
The implication of Star Wars is that the Force is not impersonal. It cares.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/06/2026

It would be pretty cute if I got to 300 pre orders this week, just saying

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

One of today's political prisoners. Cartoonist & zine maker Daniel Rolando Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the ICE protest. He was accused of "moving" a box of anti-Trump zines THE NEXT DAY. A rightwing judge sentenced him to 30 years! Just for possessing zines. The darkness is descending.

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wheel @wheelable.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

making a romhack that replaces every instrument in the TMNT 4 OST with those sick Konami orchestra hits

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Chucklestyle @chucklestyle.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Still way too early to definitely say who will win best layoffs at this year's Game Awards

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RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A Mother 1 fan remake done in SNES Earthbound's engine is out now! This project took time and numerous collaborators (I also appreciate the extra "nostalgic" packaging!) 🌍 See where it started, with a few more bits behind it. DL: ebbr.neocities.org/downloads

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kc green @kcg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Th' Dirt Gangg

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Last and least, FWIW, my current AI policy for students. Subject to revision. Recommendations welcome.

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts
This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself.
Recently a friend and I read a cover story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their
Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh. My friend has also taught writing. He likes to tell his
students, “If you want to be a writer, put on a cool hat and go sit in a bar with cheap beer. If you want to
write, write.”
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way
Through College” persuaded me that for many it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed,
you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part
of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled each one of them.
Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher. I’m not a cop. If you want to work with
me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you have the ability to do that, too, and the truth is,
I probably can’t stop you. Per Dartmouth’s policy: “Students may not use GenAI tools for submitted
coursework unless expressly permitted.” I do not permit it. That’s my part. Now, about yours.
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels, somehow, good, even if
sometimes it’s painful. Who seek that feeling anyway. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of
intention. Of practice.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of
this feeling. Sometimes it comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical
juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from
the act of shaping language. I live off the aftermath of that act—the recognitions, financial and
otherwise, I earn from the results—but there is no payche…

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

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JLP @jlp.systems · 16/06/2026

laser beans

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 15/06/2026

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

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SHIPPING SEPTEMBER 2026! Networks of New York is a book by me, Ingrid Burrington. It helps readers identify indicators of physical internet and telecommunications infrastructure in New York City. Usin...

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