iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14/10/2026

"These are human rights issues... can we afford the consequences of cuts (to the NDIS)?" Sophie Cusworth, CEO of Women with Disabilities Australia, tells the #RevenueSummit26 Australians need to think about what kind of country we want to be

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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Hien Pham 🐻 @hiencomics.com.au · 06/10/2026

🏳‍🌈 WestPride Archives 🏳‍🌈 In tumultuous times like these, I'm grateful for folks like the WestPride Archives who works to preserve human art and the history of people like me. I wrote for @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social a sappy comic about my visit with them last month: www.ohjoysextoy.com/westpride-ar...

A digital comic page with warm earthly tones. Panels are decorated with embroidered flower details scattered around them.

Panel 1:
Hien (chubby balding Asian beary man with glasses) stands in between shelves of archived materials including vintage books and magazines, boxes of postcards and outfits, and even an entire old computer!

Narration: "Bearing witness to the history of people like me changed the way I make art now."

Panel 2:
An isometric over establishing shot of a medium-sized conference room where a group of people are working to digitize, catalog, and preserve vintage posters. The posters advertise lesbian events and feminist messages. They are photographed, then put into custom-made plastic sleeves before being measured and described in details into a digital database on a small laptop.

Narration: I'm not just writing comics anymore, I'm weaving a tapestry of the feelings I have for my friends, and creating proof of the care we have for each other.

It's only thanks to the hands of folks like the WestPride Archives that human stories could have the chance to come across hearts like mine who need them."

Read the full comic with transcriptions: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/westpride-archives-hien-pham/

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New design is live (only because the idea made me laugh and that's all the reason I need): d20monkey.dashery.com/products/997...

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

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Fiction Factory Games @fictionfactorygames.com · 28/09/2026

Meet Detective Inque Wells, your literature teacher. Two fists of cold justice, half a bottle of bathtub moonshine, and They/Them pronouns. Respect 'em or yours become Was/Were. The Edutainment Vortex Diner releases Dec 7 for free on PC. store.steampowered.com/app/4993020/...

Picture of an individual in a trenchcoat and hat, sitting in a diner decorated like a film noir detective's office. Text reads: My name, at least as I'd like to remember it, was Detective Inque Wells. An oozing, stained name for an oozing, stained soul.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026

"If we had started this transition 40 years ago, maybe there was room for these delaying, slower tactics to reduce emissions." "Carbon offsets should be the last option." The Hon Senator Rosa Galvez at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026 @senrosagalvez.bsky.social

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"The kiwi chicks were reaching fight weight in four months rather than six or eight... It’s like they had been at all-you-could-eat pizza night." thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-0...

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‘It was 10 years of work, all in one moment’: Wellington’s kiwi are now truly ‘free range’

Removing the last of the monitoring transmitters from the kiwi roaming Wellington's hills was smelly, but special.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Laura @lwinko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Agreed! Voice acting, plot, mystery mechanics - such a great game all round. I do feel like there's a wider plot going on too.

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Lark 🔞🍉 @sensationseekng.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

guess i'm crying about fiction and fanfiction at 5pm on a monday. no, not any particular story, but how it's all of us saying hey, this is what it feels like

screenshot of a tumblr post of a photo of a book post by vexheart book says "borders and divides. There are large, glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm say-ing? Does it also feel this way to you?" author - Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/09/2025

Reissuing this as a point of etiquette

Impish cartoon self-portrait of the artist, a fellow with sticky-up hair and round glasses, shouts at you:

You NEVER NEED TO FOLLOW ME BACK!!!
I want to follow your posts, not insinuate myself into your life!
BUT IF YOU DO FOLLOW BACK AND WE DEVELOP A NICE RAPPORT OVER
TIME, THAT WOULD BE TOTALLY CHILL.

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Heather @lunarjade.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Been looking forward to this for ages. Detective Grimoire games are a delight and I highly recommend them.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The #BrisabaneIn2028 #MeanjinIn2028 table at @laworldcon.bsky.social needs helpers. If you are interested DM with your details and someone will get back to you.

In the background the Montreal banner on the left and the Brisbane banner on the right. Mid ground a person shape in green with hands coming out and the statement: this could be you. In the foreground a table with a white cloth, a pineapple plushy, small dinosaur figures, a plate of candy, tiny koalas, and a cork hat resting on a pineapple.

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Govt's gambling "reforms" arrived today. They're useless. The PM should personally explain why protecting gambling companies, media companies and the major sporting codes is more important to his Govt than protecting the interests, and lives, of Australians. #auspol #politas

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You've got three hours left to join our Birthday Pledge Drive! We still need another ✨40ish people✨ to reach our basic funding goal so we can provide another year's worth of comics by diverse creators-- and YOU'LL get exclusive comics & posts at any tier amount! www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 22/06/2026

OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.

The movie poster for THE MUPPET MOVIE, which opened OTD in 1979.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today, in Animal Experimentation Everybody Loves: Japanese researchers have been testing the capacity for theory of mind in chimpanzees by making them movies, and the chimps love watching the movies so much they don't even need food reward enticements to do so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdya...

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Scientists Made Movies For Chimpanzees (They LOVED It)

YouTube video by A Curious Birb

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@jpawlik.com shares with us their feelings about sketch-booking. The traditional media and tactile experience of putting pen to paper. Read this PLEDGE DRIVE EXCLUSIVE comic when you join our Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

Jey Pawlik explores sketch booking in this five-page bonus comic. Jey draws in teals and greens with a scratchy inked line and a creative use of negative space.

Jey is sitting legs wide and semi crossed, they say “I LOVE sketchbooks!” as they close the sketchbook in their hands with a quiet “Another one finished!”

Jey runs across the page, holding the pages from the sketchbook above their head, pages flying all around them. They say “I’m just such a sucker for physical media, something I can hold in my hands and own. Like 'I made this, this is mine!' feels so real to me.”

Jey stands next to their bookshelf, filled with older sketchbooks and continues “I love fine-tuning my process and the tools I use, and keeping an archive of all the fun art I’ve ever done. However, –”

Jey sits down next to the bookshelf, saying “Lately, I found I’m not sketching as much as I used to.”

Their face looks more downtrodden as they ask to themself, “Why? What changed?”
Text: Read the rest on patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Happy 13th Birthday to Oh Joy Sex Toy! Join our Patreon Pledge Drive this month for BONUS COMICS and to keep the site going for one more year! www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Erika draws with a bouncy, cartoony style and uses a color palette of warm yellows, oranges, and reddy-pinks.

"Ahh, summer again!" Exclaims Erika, a white cis middle-age woman in beach attire, which is appropriate since she and her crew are walking on a sandy beach.

Ahead of her walks Ziggy, a trans man in his 40s with a heavily tattooed arm, gauged ears, and a septum piercing. He wears big round glasses, a Pokemon trainer's baseball hat, swim trunks and a tank top while toting in more beach supplies under his arms.

He adds, "That means sunshine, BBQs, and celebrating-"

"Oh Joy Sex Toy's 13th Birthday!" reads the text on a giant beach umbrella that Matt stakes into the sand. He is a devastatingly handsome white cis British man with salt and pepper hair who has just crossed the threshold into his 40s. He wears square-ish glasses, a t-shirt, shorts, and sneakers.

"We invite you all to chip in to our annual Pledge Drive and support the site this month!" Matt continues.

"For the price of a fancy coffee-"

"(or tea)" Erika interrupts.

"(or kombucha!)" Adds Ziggy.

"-you keep the site going AND get access to a bunch of BONUS COMICS that we've been cooking up this last few months.*" Finishes Matt with an iced coffee in his hands while Erika and Ziggy rest under the umbrella, each holding up their own iced tea and kombucha.

Caption: *In addition to all the previous years' extra stories if you haven't read them yet.

The scene shifts from the beach to show samples of the bonus comics, under a ribbon banner labeled "Preview"

Caption: Ripley LaCross travels through a backpacking retrospective. Hien Pham tackles Hourly Comic Day. Jey Pawlik explores what sketchbooks mean to them.

Surfing in on a wave of comic pages, Matt says, "Last year, we had to consider closing... but with our successful Pledge Drive, instead you all helped us raise our rates to commission 27 new and returning guest artists to publish 52 comics for the site, which now has... gosh, 680 comics, all available for free to the folks who need them."

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today is May 27th. On August 27th, @laworldcon.bsky.social opens in Annaheim, California. That's three months away! 12 weeks! 94 days! There is still time to join and to download the Hugo Packet. Site selection opens soon, and excitement is *intense*. Vote #Brisbanein28 #Meanjinin28

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Laura @lwinko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I've never regretted preparing, maybe chatting with the moderator and other panelists about the topics you want to cover? But if you're there to represent yourself, don't sacrifice any sleep over it.

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Okay so, remember when we did this big post about the most iconic contemporary speculative fiction books? A lot of responses we got from authors included a "no one else has read this but it's awesome" pick. All bangers, no skips. So we started an essay series: The Hidden Gems Book Club.

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That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

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Guillaume Bonnet @zazb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Another page of sketches while I'm on a roll! A few studies so I can decide the looks of the knight story I'm thinking about.

Sketchbook page filled with 15 drawings of knights in colored ballpoint pen ink.

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Playboy @playboy.com · 19/05/2026

Hello Bluesky. It's Playboy. For our first, and timely post, we share our latest investigation into OpenAI's disastrous plans to become x-rated. "Altman’s idea of an “erotica” feature seemed riddled in uncertainty." Read our piece "Why ChatGPT Can't Be Sexy" here: www.playboy.com/read/politic...

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Mel Gillman @mgillman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I also got to contribute some annotations to this! This book is really something special. Dozens of queer and trans artists, writers, and scholars added their thoughts and experiences to this book — expanding and broadening what was already a seminal piece of queer literature.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 18/05/2026

Six years ago today, Banned Book Club was released. This book changed Hyun Sook and I's lives. And we have a special announcement to celebrate. This September, Iron Circus Comics is releasing a new full color edition, with colors by @amandalafrenais.com and a brand new 20 page followup story...

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Good Luck High Five @glhfmagic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is important stuff, even if it's hard to talk about.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 02/02/2026

A reminder that gas is not a vital industry to Australia. As Polly Hemming explains, if anything, it costs the Australian economy. Some more gas myths debunked here: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/251111-d…

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Laura @lwinko.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

How's it all going? It's been so long since we caught up. Would you be up for online chats?

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Brian F'n Patterson @d20monkey.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Howdy! I have openings in my schedule for commissions and freelance illustration and cartography work! I have decades of experience, a deep client list, my rates are flexible, and I work hard to make you happy. Let's make your thing. #ttrpg #cartography brianfnpatterson.com

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Tony Wolf @tonywolfness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Alan Moore on now.

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Laura @lwinko.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Jinx! It's just the perfect size to take everywhere and scribble notes in.

Black notebook with four stickers attached. A rainbow lorikeet, an Ibis, a yellow breasted robin and a pile of books saying Just One More Chapter.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Share our logos! The ‘Meanjin in 28’ logo was developed by First Nations visual artist Tori-Jay Mordey. It highlights the ideas of self & country held by First Nations Australians, & explores time, space, & land across speculative-fiction genres #MeanjinIn2028 #AustralasianSFF #Brisbanein2028

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The campaign to bring #WorldCon to #BrisbaneIn2028 needs your support! #AustralasianSFF#MeanjinIn202 Things you can do....

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Laura @lwinko.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Scienc-ish fantasy? The more recent series have definitely been more fantasy-horror, sometimes in space.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

☎️🕵‍♀️💄🔍

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Michelle Rapp ➡️ MagicCon Atlanta @kilnfiendpotter.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What kills me about all of these creative roles being axed is that these companies don't want us to have the best. They want to get away with giving us "barely good enough". I think we deserve unbridled human vision and creativity. We deserve the best. And that comes from people, not a server stack

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