iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The truth is, it IS cruelty. Executives make the mistakes, mismanage projects, make bad direction calls, and who gets laid off? Matt the programmer. Claire the concept artist. Sabrina the QA tester. Mateo the game designer. People who clock in every day to feed their families and make games.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The Wachowski sisters didn't use 120 cameras to film one shot just so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Bullet time sequence in The Matrix featuring 120 still cameras in a big circle

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And it's gonna be because the institutional memory got obliterated in layoffs, senior skills demolished, team synergy/morale wrecked while Money Guys were pivoting + derailing entire studios to squeeze more $$$ It's gonna be cause of the human cost. Don't blame the wounded when you start to feel it

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Finally watched Hadestown, can't believe Orpheus biffed it 😩

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 20/07/2026

Make it exist first... then leave it exactly as it is because quite frankly other tasks take priority sometimes. It's already good enough and nobody will spot that tiny mistake, and the fact that you created something in the first place is already an achievement

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🎶Here she comes just a walking down the street

Hand painted miniature of baba yagas hut

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

my belief is that at the end of the day, great games are made by groups of people who have high trust with each other & can fluidly execute a shared vision. which is a small part of why these layoffs are so devastating- it's not just about jobs, it's about these "trust structures" being torn apart.

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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

be punk this weekend fam

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Perseus Greenman @futharkvillage.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Poem sent around at work for Poetry Wednesday (a tradition of the English dept). I thought people here would appreciate.

THEY/THEM
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infant bright of morning

then to perceive the world in binary
is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Companies out here like everyone wants faster! More efficient! More AI! Meanwhile my friends and I are all obsessed with sending each other messages on an app where you have little messenger pigeon birds and the message arrives at the IRL speed of the bird type you picked

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Spent my day off touching grass 💚

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 21/05/2026

At least the stars will remember the shape I gave them.

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Took first place for best use of palette at a mini paint drafting tournament today 🎉

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

He's finally back in his favorite workspace

Sleepy Corgi in a cozy chair strategically positioned behind my wfh desk so he is my zoom background

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My finest paint job- the furple worm

Giant miniature of a furby purple worm for dnd

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Danielle Lalonders @dlalonders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

this is the bare minimum you should be doing when defending your employees. making a statement and proving you support them sets the standard and expectation that these people cannot bully companies into firing employees they dont like

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The devastating part about living alone is that when you can't find something after searching everywhere you know that it had to have been *you* who put it somewhere dumb

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Things you read on a blog might make you angry. They might upset you. Stop visiting that blog. Don't waste your time posting comments. Move on and find a new blog. There are so many fun blogs on the Internet. You'll easily find a better one.
There is always another fun new blog to read online.

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Got his baby lambchops 🥹

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

At what point is it no longer a "miniature"?

Smiling nerd (me) holding a foot tall dragon miniature that I've just finished printing and gluing together over several days

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

My April Fool, happy 10 years since he waddled his way into my life

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

When I was 11 I won a design an ad contest where the prize was $50, I was so pumped to buy some sick Legos until I found out it wasn't cash it was a Patriot Bond I'd have to wait decades to be able to use. I'm pleased to report I cashed it today and immediately went and bought some sick ass Legos

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As always, I recommend just using a photo of the game director's face as a placeholder if you have nothing else to hand.

An early development screenshot from I AM YOUR BEAST where the helicopter is represented by a photo of Xalavier Nelson Jr's face pasted onto a bunch of cubes

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

He's been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

My 73 volume complete Naruto collection from when I was a kid just went to a nice young man whose mom drove him to the meet up and he's really excited because he hasn't read or watched the series before but his friend is a big fan

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a cartoon character says y-you guys in front of a forest

ALT: a cartoon character says y-you guys in front of a forest

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.

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Stuffed Wombat @stuffedwomb.at · 07/03/2026

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.

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William Stone @itswilliamstone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I love games and so many of the people who make them. It was an honor to accept the award on behalf of the team and a privilege to be able to speak to what I believe in. ♥️

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

They bounce! 🧡💚💙

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🌻mei @ ceo of yoohankim @jomeimei.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I assume it's a good sign to find a smiling stone on a holy island

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Mr. Hands is making SuccuDeck 😈🃏 @mrhands31.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Me: Let's go build some fun features today ☺️ My custom game engine, cosplaying as a sickly Victorian orphan: Please... Father... *coughs* I have... a buffer overflow... inside the logging function... *hacks* you wrote... four years ago...

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My leg has fallen asleep but he's just so cute snoring in my lap and I don't have the heart to wake up a lil guy on his birthday so this is where I live now I guess

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Kelly S @kelofkells.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Happy 10th birthday to my baby boy!!

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