iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The only real way to communicate your values to someone else is to consistently enact them in full view, while remaining curious about the ways in which their experience of you differs from what you’d intended. Stop using words, lol

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

AI affordances risk destroying social capital by • undermining expertise • short-circuiting decision making • isolating people useful framing from @hartzog.bsky.social & @jessicasilbey.bsky.social If we want these qualities to persist we should design and protect workflows that reinforce them

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

a therapist called Bion once claimed that "the purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire" it's similar to what Freud called hovering attention, or alert passivity, and modern psychoanalysts call 'evenly suspended attention' something I'll spend my life trying to get better at

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

everyone should read this, tho tbh, you might have read it already

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

i’m heavily into my marble race era right now… if anyone has opinions about marble races (irl or digital) lmk 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

it’s very difficult to get excited about effortless creativity, unless you see art mostly as a means to a commercial end… it’s sad to see how many people who fund art feel this way, tho at the same time… makes sense of a lot of things lol

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

if this does end up to graphs whatever spreadsheets were to tables, that is super exciting… I usually just draw things in figma, but a way to record semantics and then style would be awesome with the right UI

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I think this is true of any creative medium, but it’s surprisingly rare and hard to maintain. Can understand why people fixate on technical stuff when it’s missing. Do you find you naturally have things you want to say, or do you do things to encourage that?

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If you’re going to have a midlife crisis, you should at least try to make it generative rather than consumptive

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This really is just like being on your phone… although if I’m honest it was slightly less dissociative and more entertaining than normal. Other than that would highly recommend.

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

reciprocals are really useful, especially when someone sends you a screenshot of a KPI showing a big % change and you're curious what it was before, then you remember reciprocals are really simple but feel like magic, and this is the kind of thing you should do in the evenings to relax

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

it’s funny to think about, but vitality comes from desire, and desire really does function like a carrot on a stick… the ideal carrot is something that remains fresh and out of reach… you don’t want it to go stale, or worse, actually eat it

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I kicked off 2025 by closing 1432 tabs (even I was a bit surprised), and removing 194 apps from my phone, 18 of which don’t even work anymore.

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

ooh, I read ink that bleeds and a swim in a pond in the rain this year too!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of my unpopular opinions is that you should live your life in service of others, and the biggest threats to your wellbeing are over-indexing on self-care, benchmarking yourself against the global elite, and failing to recognise algorithms as paperclip maximisers

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

tfw your work focuses on decentralisation and your government drops a white paper on it 👀 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676028...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

one of the things I really like about bluesky is their plans for community moderation… it’s certainly possible to make a community note labeller now so people could flag for review… just needs someone to build a ticketing system on the other side and recruit fact checkers 👀

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

i can't compete on play count, but that von dutch synth sound is my winner for most frisson triggering sound of 2024

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

so good! just imagining all the cool tea recipes 🍵🧋☕️

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

there’s a familiar pattern to groups imploding… one person is convinced something is happening and starts to act out… the group has to manage/subdue this person, and the next wave of hysteria comes from how they handled it… i wonder how many waves of this one could do and keep it interesting

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

funnily enough, that’s pretty much the sentiment in the original post… it’s not great that shallow abstractions are the dominant form of understanding, but it’s understandable the issue is it makes it harder to speak at the more detailed level on shared platforms bsky.app/profile/wang...

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

this is the same set of thoughts I went through seeing it on gamepass! wondered if actually I should just read roadside picnic again (and the annihilation series for that matter)

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

perhaps the star is a bit like that fungus that hijacks ants; he’s just a host for a malevolent christmas spirit… no clear thinking coniferous evergreen would be willingly decked in tinsel like that

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

hanging out with 9yo and her chosen activities are kawaii christmas doodles (you can see mine below) and building a Mayan afterlife in minecraft, next up is Hades 👀

a doodle of a cute Santa figure with a sign saying ‘Ancient Santa’

A doodle of a cute animal with antlers and whiskers, and the name ‘Hamdeer’ written underneath

A cute doodle of a think christmas tree with the name ‘Treeman John’ underneath

A screenshot of minecraft, with a Mayan temple

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

this is the kind of book I imagine buying because “the sound bite way of knowing” sounds appealing at first, only to realise it’s a critique of exactly the forces that made it sound interesting

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

there’s a nice little tool if you want to see your own stats, and it assigns you an animal based on your activity apparently i’m a 🦚 lol skyzoo.blue/stats/

skyzoo.blue

Sky Zoo

Assigns you a Bluesky animal based on your recent activity

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Realised today I joined bsky when it was 3 orders of magnitude smaller. Old enough to remember the hellthread and how impressed i was with @berduck.deepfates.com

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Very excited for this! Deal with decision fatigue and support social mobility by playing games at the same time as your friends! I love the idea of community game passes, and proud of the @intogames.bsky.social team for making it happen.

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m thankful that a place like this exists… that the bluesky team believed in this enough to build it, that they continue to articulate their intent so well, and that people are remembering social media can be a place where creativity and positivity can flourish (if you choose!)

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

yes! what’s weirdest to me about having the creative hacking & writing vibes back is realising how much I had just assumed that era was gone forever… perhaps its hitting the requisite scale on an open platform? either way, excited to see what people make!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

are we in the centaur syzygy era, and what are MMARPGs?

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

it was also super exciting to watch… not just the velocity and quality of ideas coming out of the team, but also the way those ideas were honed and shaped… so many game pitches I wish we’d had a chance to push further!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

this is very funny… even as someone committed to the importance of decentralisation I still feel the flinch haha

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

interesting way of framing things… we have a much wider range of defences against anxiety than our defaults, and courage and curiosity are undervalued! I think part of it is finding a social context that encourages that, so that it’s not just an individual effort

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It’s pretty clear that this place is already a lot more useful than X. That makes me a little sad… twitter had a massive positive influence on my life and there’s a huge amount of value there that people are willing to see burn because they dislike Musk. Hopefully this place will be different! 👀

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

yeah, it's a golden snitch! haha which is a terrible idea for a high level competitive game, but arguably does have a place in more casual games? it needs to be very difficult to pull off, and very funny when it happens! (which Yogg at least managed...)

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

yeah, I also felt like this was happening, but trying to remember that real randomness can feel like its playing tricks on you!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

go for it! disagreement is very welcome, if you've got an interesting take

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

my friend ID is 9730642055391064 if you do start 👀 it’s definitely a f2p mobile game, but I think it’s a good attempt at a simpler version of tcg that still retains some strategic interest (and it’s better than the irl My First Battle sets I play with my kids 💀)

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

yeah, I saw someone describe it as “too swingy” which I thought was a nice way of putting it… it does seem like a lot of casual players are frustrated at getting tails, but once you factor that in, it actually seems op that said, people report high satisfaction from fending off a successful misty!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

part of me suspects they've implemented randomness differently per effect and tweaked the rates in service of balance etc... but 🤷‍♂️ the game is fun, generous with cards (just don't expect to catch them all), and there are multiple viable decks so is the Misty card broken or brilliant? i like it!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

it might not be immediately obvious, but if you think about it, you should expect the card to do nothing 50% of the time playing Misty and expecting it to work is... naive? a game might once have given you 70% chance of heads, but online multiplayer can't cheat for you, can it? CAN IT?!!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

is it actually random tho? idk... in my very small sample size it's definitely >50% tails on first flip, BUT our intuition for randomness is terrible, and we've been conditioned to expect unnatural luck by a long history of game design responding to that poor intuition

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

i'm not swayed by the bad design camp... there are good arguments against the use of output randomness in game design, but coin flips have always been part of pokemon tcg in fact, I think they work even better here, since the games are shorter and there's less at stake it's... fun?!

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

this has then led to a LOT of angry reddit posts, and coverage in IGN, screenrant, gamesradar, etc It's rigged! It's bad design! We need a balance patch! it's also a meme at this point: "Flip a coin: it's tails" (image via: www.reddit.com/r/PTCGP/comm...)

A picture of two pokemon tcg cards. On the left is an old Blaine's Ninetales card where the Burn Up attack involves flipping a coin. On the right is a fictional new card called Misty's Nine Tails, with text saying "Flip a coin nine times. It's tails."

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

in practice, it's suuuper frustrating. most of the time it's frustrating for the player with Misty; if your first coin flip is tails (it's always tails) then it's a wasted card 🥲 very occasionally it's frustrating for the opponent, as they watch you suddenly have a massive energy advantage 😠

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Luke Gibson @lukegibson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

coin flips are used all over pokemon tcg pocket, but there's nothing weird about this... they've been part of tcg since the beginning with Misty, you get extra energy for each heads, and you just keep flipping until you get tails. 👀 why is that so controversial?!

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