iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeremy Peel @jeremypeel.bsky.social · 42m

Every month Failbetter invites a guest writer from the wider world of games and fiction to contribute a subscriber story. They’re brave and weird and funny and choice-driven and perhaps they could become a welcome part of your routine too. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/fa...

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Fallen London is where the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Dishonored and Stellaris come to let their hair down

These interactive short stories are too bold and surprising to stay secret.

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you write critically, you have to do something besides get excited. You have to examine what's in front of you. What you see is a movie industry in decay, and they decay gets worse and worse. (2001)

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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026

incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time

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Ash Poprik 🗡️ @ashleypoprik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interested in game writing or narrative design? I put together my favorite narrative-focused resources FOR FREE for your viewing pleasure. You'll find gems from legends including Mary Kenney, Anna Megill, Emily Short, Susan O'Connor, and Toiya Kristen Finley. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1xIvw...

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ashleyPoprik_NarrativeResources.pdf

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I personally think a good parser is still the best way to play adventures and stories. it became a rare lost art while I wasn’t looking

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Incomprehensible Bias @incomprehensibias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Geller news is heartbreaking. Learning of these crimes always is. Rather than listen to a perpetrator, I recommend reading Nathalie Lawhead‘s important account of outing a rapist and games media‘s subsequent betrayal of her bravery. It must have been so heavy to write. Justice for survivors.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 01/10/2026

it's my birthday. i'd love it if you'd consider joining my patreon to read essays like this, one of the most personal things i've written in a while www.patreon.com/merrittk/pos...

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wild to be a huge FF7 stan in the 2ks but not keeping up with the remakes like… now they got someone called Leslie

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026

September had somewhere to be

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still true. Time to pre-order @timnitgebru.blacksky.app's new book, DEEP UNLEARNING: The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...

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Deep Unlearning

Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“if the game industry values its media” … boy have I got some bad news for you

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Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Pusheen’s Place release day to those who celebrate!!! We worked really hard on this game and hope you enjoy the haptic purrs when you pet your Pusheens 🥹

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Pusheen's Place App - App Store

Download Pusheen's Place by Electric Square Ltd on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Pusheen's Place.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

at the moment I just don’t want to anything. I am benched for this season due to spiritual injury

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

honestly the most depressing thing to me is that we have to talk about this again and again and again and again and again. how to teach men to have human feelings, how to get people to believe us

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 30/09/2026

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Hannah Flynn 🐀 @itshannahflynn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A rare place in an industry-leading writing team, for the right person 💚

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So if you are wondering about AI license plate cameras and real-time crime centers and your car snitching on you, it’s time to read “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” Perfect for book clubs to debate why it was necessary to buy a smart toothbrush.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hypermobility… you can spend ten hours a week training to be stronger and still experience constant pain from such radical acts as “standing up” or “sitting”

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 28/09/2026

The push to make it so that "websites as a destination for humans is over" is an intentional move to violate the freedom to read of individuals and move access to information into a "pay to get an opaquely intermediated version from a nontransparent source" model.

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

complex trauma persists even still. I still lose afternoons or even entire days and weeks to emotional flashbacks. then it’s “what are you working on these days? anything exciting you on the scene?” lol

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 28/09/2026

pack it all up. we're done here.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been keeping a record of games people made in response to this manifesto, they're in an itch.io collection here: itch.io/c/7632694/no.... Each one is a little treasure, and usually very short, I recommend checking them out! I have also come up with a little idea.

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Radderss / Lauren R VO 👩‍🦽 | @radderss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only 74 practitioners in the UK have taken the new ME/CFS guidance module, out of tens of thousands of practitioners Sign this petition to help make it mandatory. ME/CFS sufferers in the UK deserve so much better than this utter wilful ignorance of our needs. www.change.org/p/make-me-cf...

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Sign the Petition

Make ME/CFS learning mandatory for NHS staff

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2009. you have no idea what it was like to be internet games famous in the before times

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Autumn Knight @autumnalknight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ENCRYPTID is a game made with and for my most formative childhood game console – inspired by the games that shaped me then and now. It's also an FMV horror game about cryptids and messy, personal feelings regarding that relationship with those games... 👀 #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gameboy

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my neighbor Howard has been allowing me to call him Harold for like three years

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if anyone says either the wire or mad men is their favorite show I know I can’t rate them

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23/09/2025

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

applications for this coming year's Experimental Games Showcase at the Game Developer's Conference are officially OPEN!! send us your weird games and game-like experiments! www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

why is there now a slackbot messaging to remind me to check if I have jira tasks… get my gun…

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026

Nothing will ever be enough for these people.

Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 21/09/2026

Oh I found a whole sicko QVC host supercut YouTube channel... youtu.be/2I6vuvcQwEM?...

QVC Host Amy Stran rubbing body lotion into another woman's back.

Captioning: Darling, you know what I as thinking for mother's day this year...

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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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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

so many times I have suggested dating sim mechanics to dudes who stare blankly at me these are a type of guy no one would be excited to kiss tho. they don’t know what that feels like. always assumed that was the reason

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