iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

wife, planning out rest day: I'll go for a walk down the street if I see an Astronaut Pikachu at the church me: In God's house. wife: Listen. God's house is full of Pokemon.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Phantoms (1998), hardly perfect, maybe not even good, but I love it. has one of my favourite all-time shots transitioning to a new scene

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 02/10/2026

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

bro, my hams, they're so strung. bro

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A thing that bothers me is that when people don’t know anything about a thing, and then make a bunch of wrong assumptions as a result, and then blame the people they know nothing about.

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if you don't support trans rights, you are a loser

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I always found the constant surveillance on Radchaai ships and stations in Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch novels pleasingly disquieting

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

"Kill all humans" by @leninology.bsky.social. www.patreon.com/richardseymo...

$Tech fetishism, the ascription of human agentive powers to machinery, is always a political act. It obscures that the goals, the purposes, embodied in any technology are human purposes; more specifically, that they are the automated purposes of a minute subset of humanity, a class fraction, the twisted, ruthless, ketamined, indoctrinated, emotionally stunted moral nullities that rule Silicon Valley like child-kings, have made themselves the bearers of myriad impossible hopes, and have now bought their way into the Trump court. It says, that’s just how the technology works, it’s a capricious demigod which can either shower us with riches or have us all killed, we must appease it and ensnare it, we must fear it and cherish it, but what we mustn’t ever do is stop throwing money at it, or stop genuflecting to it, or begin to think: this is nothing but our own alienated collective power turned against us by cut-throat capitalists, and in making us the servants of their technology, they try to make us their slaves. Because that, my friends, is Luddism. And I trust you know what that unfortunate incident led to$

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/09/2026

there are now fewer than 36 hours remaining until the world premiere of "MUSK," and the start of an exciting new chapter in the mental health of the world's wealthiest man

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

watching oldschool X Files, seeing a shit dude get ruined by bugs: yeahg

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

turns out if you say 'Bill Nighy' while yawning, your wife will absolutely not understand you

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stray teeth. @strayteeth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All worries, no good.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

nearly every reactionary cause is some form of it. i guess they figured that if they waited a while, people would forget that previous generations had already relocated their ideas to the trash compactor.

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social
95% of "heterodox views that academia is too afraid to touch" is stuff that was painstakingly discredited a generation or two ago, recycled into a new form. modern people missed those debates, and the views appeal b/c they're based on common misunderstandings or more intuitive (but wrong) reasoning.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

comparison isn't the thief of joy, it's me. I did it

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Thinking out loud and swallowing it back, basically. Gaggle’s monitoring software caught the keystrokes anyway. He never hit send. He was suspended before the day was out” the criminality of thought

slate.com

We’ve Replaced School Security With the Creepiest Possible System

Students are going back to the most surveilled campuses in American history.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Never forget the Luddites, one of the most powerful organized labor resistance groups in history, who attacked machines because employers were using mechanization to deskill their trades, depress wages, and eliminate jobs. Now their name is used as an insult instead of a call to action.

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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I trust J.K. Rowling's apology as much as I trust my cat not to puke on my carpet. Both are versions of vomit, but at least my cat is getting rid of a hairball.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)

The cover art for Thirteenth Step (2003) by A Perfect Circle, which features a side-on close-up of a blonde white woman's eyes. There's a large yellow slug across her temple.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026

Whole segment is too long for Bluesky but the first three minutes is honestly a highlight reel of my work as an AI critic and it was absolutely incredible.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

*to the tune of Steven Universe – It's Over, Isn't It?* It's Writhing Chrysalis, Chrysalis, This game is over 🎵

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

IF WATER WORKED YOU WOULDN’T NEED TO KEEP DRINKING IT

David Wolfe & @DavidWolfe
X.com
IF MEDICINE WORKED YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO REFILL YOUR PRESCRIPTION
7:00 PM • 8/13/26

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jaws asking the waiter if they're on the menu

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✨priya @ DICE Oct 3 @priyahuq.myatproto.social · 14/08/2026

quickly made up some posters you can print! i choose to believe that most HP fans are ignorant about jo rowling's hatred and if educated, would choose better. i don't think this education can be stretched further online. it's up to us to share our knowledge irl. left is letter, right is A4

handwritten/handwriting font black and white poster that says
"HARRY POTTER FUNDS TRANSPHOBIA. If you support the new HP show, you are directly harming trans people and helping destroy ALL of our human rights. J.K. Rowling hates trans people and funds efforts to criminalize our existence." with a QR code to an advocate article about it. 8.5x11", free to print and distribute

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🐈‍⬛🌙 @lune.monster · 13/08/2026

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.

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beccadagoo @silly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

just put a feather in my hat and yankee doodle was right. this shit is straight up macaroni

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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Skyler's Offensiveness Value Theory

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you use the clapping hands emoji between every word for emphasis, screen reader users will hear "clapping hands" after each word. This is true for any emoji. This will be distracting, annoying, and disorienting. The message you're trying to emphasize will likely be lost.

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

eating it corn on the cob, but spinning it like it's in a lathe

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

well, how does your wife put on YOUR jewellery

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SAX-myth ΘΔ 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @sax.fish · 05/01/2025

More reasons to include alt text: + Trouble reading certain fonts + Limited image resolution blurring tiny details + It's searchable, so you (or others) can find the image again more easily in the future! Here's a guide to writing alt text, which you can find by searching "alt text capybara"

an infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara.
Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features.
The finished description reads “a capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head."

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pantomime badger @lonetode.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

well, how does your wife wash YOUR hair

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gibbet cage @gibbet-cage.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hey guys new to PC Gaming is this a good build? CPU: 3-core Oaf’s Cudgel CPU Cooler: FrozenPsychopath AIO Mobo: Poison Dagger B850 RAM: 32GB AR-15 Warcrime GPU: Charging Combat Bull With Bulging Neck Veins Legend Series F SSD: 512GB Budget Chipz M.2 drive Case: Lady Sex Vampire RGB (Wood)

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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

we need to take social disability theory framework away from media people until they learn how to use it properly

New Channel 4 documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?, seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Mercutio from bad lurhmans Romeo and Juliet movie. A young, beautiful Black man with a white silk button up shirt open in the front showing off his chest, he wears a necklace with a cross, and his black hair is chin length. He stands smiling and pointing with one hand on a beach near a merry go round and a vendor do some sort. A speech bubble has been added to the bottom to imply he is saying the attached skeet

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