iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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remember to block @m-tracey.bsky.social and move on. there is nothing you can say to him that will be crueler than his lonely little life

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

I love Thing Doer settings. Both Ace Combat and Pokémon are Thing Doer settings. Everything revolves around the Thing One Does. I dropped my daughter off at prom in a F/A-18. Dragonite does my taxes. All human activity revolves around Thing. Fuck you.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 5h

We've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h

Most TV is just this now.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5h

Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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isaac @sevier.io · 15h

Lots of folks have plenty to say about "The Left" and what it (lol) should stop doing at a time when fascists are disappearing people in record numbers and there is no actual force stopping them or the fossil fuel industry that they are in league with.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 14h

looking into the sunset from thirty nine thousand feet

picture of a beautiful red, orange, yellow, blue sunset with a mountain in the middle. juni doesnt know exactly which mountain, but its north of the plane when It was east of San Francisco

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15h

OK guys this is my perfect lazy weeknight dinner and it’s SO quick and SO easy and you probably have ALL the ingredients in your cabinets RIGHT now. So first we start with Madagascar vanilla paste and salmon foam

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15h

God I'm so tired of seeing rapists everywhere. I hate these fucking braindead pigs, I hate watching them gorge on power and money for no reason except that they want it, I hate knowing they're torturing women with impunity, I hate seeing their smug stupid fucking faces on the news.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 14h

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 19h

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 20h

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 18h

To make my point clearer: taking Trump to task on the trivial stuff is a way to avoid talking about - and having to take a stand on - the hard stuff. You have to report deeply on what's happening to immigrants, to protesters, to foreign nations, to democracy. Sorry if that's uncomfortable.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing is funnier to me - a person with zero children living in my home - than the suffering of people who DO have a child in their home who believes with all their tiny heart that they are playing a musical instrument successfully and are incorrect it's the greatest genre of comedy known to man

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 27/09/2026

Can @tuyoki.bsky.social draw this sprite please

pluey putting object on very low table by kneading paws (object is not seen)

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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Cointelpronoun @cointelpronoun.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of Trump's foundational beliefs that he got from his father is the notion that originated in a 19th century faith healing doomsday cult, that the more you believe something, the more it becomes true. This is sometimes called the power of positive thinking.

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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 27/09/2026

did you know that large language models can spit out whatever text they want and agents don't have to uncritically run them without safeguards? it's a whole lot like the relationship between ai ceos and the press

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Tony is writing @tonymcfaddenwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love his reviews. Fantastic writer. This, from his review of Rapa Nui:

Concern for my reputation prevents me from recommending this movie. I wish I had more nerve. I wish I could simply write, "Look, of course it's one of the worst movies ever made. But it has hilarious dialogue, a weirdo action climax, a bizarre explanation for the faces of Easter Island, and dozens if not hundreds of wonderful bare breasts." I am however a responsible film critic and must conclude that "Rapa Nui" is a bad film. If you want to see it anyway, of course, that's strictly your concern. I think I may check it out again myself.

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Venus Kii Thomas @goddexxvenuskii.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you're awake and can see this, please circulate to help Natou escape a violent man who just assaulted her. She needs a hotel room immediately. If you have funds, send to any of the platforms in her Linktree. linktr.ee/tichatnwa

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Linktree. Make your link do more.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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