iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/09/2026

EFF Director of Cybersecurity @evacide.bsky.social will present the keynote address at @bsidesnyc.org on Oct. 17 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Register today! (And if you go, be sure to stop by EFF's table!)

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BSidesNYC

BSidesNYC (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin will present the keynote speech on the Red Track (L.63) at 9:15 AM.EFF is excited to be at BSidesNYC for the first ...

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Random Stranger @randomstranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because one person demanded it! A bsky exclusive video! As far as I can tell, Alice in Flagland is the first hip-hop song in video games. Here's the song in its entirety! youtu.be/06WdayRfqjE

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The First Hip-Hop in Video Games?

YouTube video by RndStranger

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GAMEHEADS @wearegameheads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! Be part of our 2027 cohort & experience our award-winning program which combines #gamedesign & development, film/VFX & tech training with industry experience, college & career prep! Interviews begin mid-October so don't delay! Apply now! docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

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Dark Zovia @zoviazzg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grandia returns! This scene on the bow of the crashing airship is pretty fantastic, and very welcome after a long stretch of mostly dungeons. When Feena jumps off the ship, I love the long wide shot of her slowly approaching Justin. Devs really understood how to sell scale. #crt #retrogaming

On the bow of the Garlyle Forces' flagship, brave Justin, possessed by divine righteousness, challenges the demonic General Baal to final combat.

Humiliated in fair combat and facing oblivion, General Baal unleashes his hidden power and transforms into the final boss of a Resident Evil game. Clawed tentacles, wet and pulsing, explode out from under his cloak, knocking Justin clear off the airship.

With her ancestors watching proudly, young Feena activates her own hidden power and dives from the exploding airship after Justin, leaving General Baal to his deserved doom.

Becoming the wind herself, Feena plucks Justin from the abyss and together they face fate as one.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 28/09/2026

We just added some AMAZING add-ons to the Kickstarter Campaign for the FINAL 48 HOURS! kck.st/4gu8zAF 📙 An AF2026 Digital Art Book! 💥 A Kochamara Shirt! 👕 An AF2026 Stamp/8HB Shirt! 📔An AF2026 Sticker Sheet! 🚍 A Thank You Bus Driver Pin! 🎨 Cool Art Prints/Cards!

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 28/09/2026

For several years, my CRT photos have been shared widely and received a lot of love on Bluesky. I love all my CRTs, but my PVM has always been the most popular. However, the PVM is dying. While it's in good hands now, repairs are pricey, so, I'm asking for help. If you can, consider pitching in!

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Donate to Save Aidan's PVM from certain DOOM!, organized by Aidan Moher

Hey, all! My name's Aidan — I'm a writer, games journalist, and photographer. For the … Aidan Moher needs your support for Save Aidan's PVM from certain DOOM!

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The Floppy Guy 🌈💾 @floppyguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Disk Space Invader 🌈💾👾 #floppydisks #floppydiskart

5.25" floppy disks arranged on a floor in the shape of one of the aliens in the Space Invaders arcade game

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 11/09/2026

"how do u do, fellow kids"

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

October will always be Rocktober to ME, but our cool new game releases the day after Brütal Legend's 17th anniversary!

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

happy fall y’all 🍂🧡

heknitt on ig a lil frog wearing a pumpkin

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Amy N @amyfluidgoth.gamingfluid.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Going to spin this off into video games: would-be Amiga mascot Zool had not one but *two* tie-in novels, “Zool Rules” and “Cool Zool”. They expanded upon the story and characters set up in Zool 2, like his female counterpart Zooz and his two-headed dog Zoon!

The two Zool tie-in novels: “Zool Rules” and “Cool Zool”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes I think I understand computers and then I get an error message that a headless Adobe app has seized control of a clown horn somewhere on the machine

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Matt Hargett @matthargett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

would PSP Pro be crazy to the power of crazy?

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Claire, Boo Haver @progesteronipizza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

okay, same? you aren't special

25,000-year-old teeth reveal ancient humans were addicted to nut sucking

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

IT'S OFFICIAL: ROMchip's 4TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISER is set for Saturday, March 13th, 2027!🎉 To celebrate, we're dropping the names of our first two streamers: Everest Pipkin and Chris Kohler! Mark your calendars and join our newsletter to get all the updates📰: eepurl.com/crCul1

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is really coming along. I suspect half the reason I draw like this is I really start to feel the scene and place. You feel a bit transported

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, this is an incredibly, incredibly cool discovery. The brain stem is a different organ?

The researchers' breakthrough came from studying the earliest moments of embryonic
development, during a stage called gastrulation when the body first takes shape. Jokhai and Dundes discovered that the hindbrain follows a separate developmental path, running in parallel to - rather than branching off from — the pathway that creates the forebrain and midbrain.

The researchers learned this from examining developing mouse embryos. They identified two different brain progenitor cells.
One, which expresses a gene called Otx2, is destined to become the forebrain and midbrain. The other, which expresses a gene called Gbx2, is committed to forming the hindbrain. They showed that these two cell populations never overlap; they are mutually exclusive from the earliest stages of development.

The team then examined the DNA packaging, or chromatin, in these cells. Chromatin is a way cells determine which genes can be easily accessed and which are bundled away out of reach. What they found was striking: The anterior neural ectoderm (future forebrain and midbrain) and posterior neural ectoderm (future hindbrain) have fundamentally different chromatin configurations.
These differences essentially locked each progenitor cell into its respective fate, like travelers on parallel tracks that never cross.

Finally, the researchers looked back over 550 million years of evolutionary time. They found the same two-origin brain pattern in chickens; zebrafish; and,
remarkably, in acorn worms, tiny creatures living on the ocean floor that share a distant common ancestor with humans. Jellyfish, which diverged from humans about 600 to 700 million years ago, have two nervous systems at different ends of their body.
"Our research suggests that evolution took two existing neural systems and pushed them together spatially," Loh said. "Having the brain as one organ would probably be more efficient, but we rely on this primordial way to make the brain as two separate pieces."

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 19/09/2026

Clock in, drive the bus, and get passengers to their stops...but SLAP anyone breaking the rules (or throw 'em out the back if they don't behave)! It's Crazy Taxi meets Papers, Please! Launching October 14~ Wishlist THANK YOU BUS DRIVER: doublefine.com/games/thank-you-bus-driver#buynow

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Playdate @play.date · 14/09/2026

Imagine yourself playing Soggy Froggy, the new game from the team behind Root Bear……… This dream can come true, if you preorder Season Three ⬇️ play.date/games/seasons/three

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Matt Hargett @matthargett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@play.date I just updated my playdate to latest 3.12, and now purchases get stuck. After cranking and entering PIN code, it just hangs there playing the purchasing music. I pressed B after 10 minutes, and store navigated back, but purchasing music was still playing. Help?

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Sean Murray @nomansbsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is Stage Fright, from our friends who made Overcooked 😍 Overcooked is one of my all time favorite games, and Stage Fright is crazy good fun Shown at today's Nintendo Direct. Can't wait for people to play If you like it, do us a favour and give it a wishlist 🙏

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Wanderjegson @wanderjegson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We stay hungry, we devour

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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

right..?

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IAHFY ✦ @iahfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Samus & Kirby

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

SIGOURNEY WEAVER’s High School Yearbook - 1967 “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal.”

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026

Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

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Engineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From her new musical "The Pirates Of Print-Ants".

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Drove past this building recently and it’s frankly AWESOME. Right up there with Berlin’s ICC building that look like spaceships that landed in their respective cities.

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Matt Hargett @matthargett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@jasonschreier.bsky.social got this in the mail, are you following this $250M settlement?

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Love blooms in the 9999 in 1 famiclone menu

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Kirk Hamilton @kirkhamilton.com · 03/09/2026

I'm so excited to announce 'Definitely Fiction,' a new podcast about books! I'm making the show with my good friend Sam Parrish, and we're kicking it off with a series on The Vorkosigan Saga, a fantastic collection of Sci-Fi novels by the great Lois McMaster Bujold. More here:

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Announcing 'Definitely Fiction' - A Podcast About Books

We're kicking it off with a fantastic sci-fi series

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Amnesia Fortnight games voting is open. Take a look at all of the great ideas, but also --if you're into the idea of racing a mechanical centaur across the wasteland, consider taking a peak at my pitch -- Centauride! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4G4...

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Media Molecule @mediamolecule.com · 27/06/2026

The official LittleBigPlanet soundtrack is coming to vinyl & CD! 🌍🧶💿 Refresh your memory with iconic music from Craftworld, coming soon! Available for preorder with @iam8bit.com here: bit.ly/8bit-lbp

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Tim Berners-Lee @timbl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This Is For Everyone is now available in paperback. You might recognise the face on the cover...a younger me at MIT in 1998 when 150 million people used the web. Today it's roughly 6 billion. Read about how the web came to be and where I think it's going ➡️ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

The paperback cover of 'This Is For Everyone' by Tim Berners-Lee with a photo of Tim in front of a blackboard at MIT.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I inherited a departmental computer lab that nobody wanted, so I got rid of the dying computers, bought a couple sewing machines out-of-pocket, printed out a sign that said "Textile Makerspace", and people believed me. And then they started funding it." quinndaedal.com/blog/2026/08...

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Requiem for a Makerspace - Quinn Daedal

I have a predictable way of coping with the losses that I perceive as a loss: I write about them.My college cats, Vitty then Alla. My old coworker, Maurice. My teacher and substitute mother figure, Va...

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SPELLLING (solo) headlining the second night of Rose Blood Fest at Neck of the Woods, SF. I should have gone to see her sooner. Held the audience in the palm of her hand the entire time. Definitely need to see her with the full band sometime.

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The horrifying realization that Coyote Vs Acme delighted me as a 90s style legal thriller for the same reason Roger Rabbit delighted old people as a 50s noir.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 28/08/2026

Youtooz + Psychonauts 2 = Raz and Memory Vault cutie patooties for you! 😍😍😍 Drops Sept 4th @ 3pm ET! youtooz.com/products/razputin-aquat… youtooz.com/products/memory-vault-p…

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Dolmenwood mossling.

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dino! 🌈 @dinosaurgerms.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

👾 Momoko 120% (1986) ➡️ By Jaleco [ youtu.be/4xyhC_RUXTQ ] #DinoArcadeGifs

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Levi is typing… @leviryken.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can’t stop, won’t stop! ✨

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

🚨 AMNESIA FORTNIGHT IS BACK, BABYYYYYYY 😎 In 10 days, we're gonna put on the best damn game jam the world has ever seen, and we need YOUR help to keep our indie dreams alive! Get notified when we launch on Aug 31:

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Coming soon: Amnesia Fortnight 2026, Indie Reboot

A Double Fine Productions Game Jam, Documentary, and Kickstarter Campaign

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026

Confirming: When you buy a DF game now, you support us directly!

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