iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 09/10/2026

📢 Wheelie is excited to tell you the game is OUT NOW in Early Access! Pave Paradise and put up the Car Parks of your dreams TODAY. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/... 🙏 Thanks everyone for the support!

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

ICYMI: I came out as trans via Iron Village release notes, just for the bit. That *may* have been too subtle, lol

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Still in the middle of Project OY work before announcing, but figured I'd drop an update to take care of a spelling error in the credits of Iron Village 🏳️‍⚧️: lunarchippy.games/2026/10/06/d... (Still have to update Itch & Google Play) #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev

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Diary #74 – 1.3.05 Release Notes – Lunar Chippy Games

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lunarchippy.games

Diary #74 – 1.3.05 Release Notes – Lunar Chippy Games

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

cbc.ca

Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 02/10/2026

Please stop hedging about programming every time you critique AI. I am sick of hearing non-programmers say things like, "I know that programmers are all using this now, but..." No, stop. We are not all using it. You make the non-users feel like the world has gone mad every time you say this.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 30/09/2026

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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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

Without mixing computer science with humanities and arts, video games could not exist.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not typically a sentence I associate with good news!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reader, I was in fact not prepared

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lol, those salaries are enough that they can just quit, and they'll be set for at least a few years.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

I used to drive a Ford Fiesta, when they actually did bring to the States for a bit. Of course it didn't last 😢 (Then they killed it abroad too 🙃)

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The number one best case for “Republicans were always like this” is that the two absolutely craziest pro-Trump pro-fash justices are two of the three legacy picks.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the basis of my immigration policy. If you’re willing to do something comparable to what Fivel had to do to get to America, congrats: here’s your citizenship and vote Tammany

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Only Aggro Comments @pilco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

mfw my employer donated to the ballroom fund but I have to hit "i understand" during anti-bribery training.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

Still looking for translators for the Steam page descriptions (although German is now covered!)

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey all! So the translators I used for Iron Village said they were going to work with me on Project OY... and then never ended up replying to me. So, I wanted to reach out to everyone here for options. I'm looking to get the Steam page translated ahead of its reveal, 315 English words in total.

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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026

the day google stopped letting you use + in search was the real day the internet died

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/09/2026

Everywhere he went, Ed Markey's biggest applause line was about protecting trans people. The Massholes yearn for trans liberation.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If you want to know why people get touchy around the helmet discourse, this is it. Elected officials who do not know the difference between different classes of legal e-bikes and who also can't distinguish them from illegal e-motos probably shouldn't also be writing bicycle helmet laws.

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Kennedy (open-source maintainer) @kennedyrichard.com · 21/08/2026

A bug that crashes an app can be swatted. But a bug that secretly cripples it can stay hidden for a long time and even when we notice it, it may also take some time to find it. That's the kind of output you can get from genAI. All that plus the plagiarism+harm to environment.

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typing pumpkin 🎃 @typingloudly.zip · 06/09/2025

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 15/08/2026

So, I wanted to look into whether Threads might be a useful place to have an account for Lunar Chippy Games. It doesn't seem like a fun place to exist, but maybe it would be useful for publicity? So I try logging in with my lunarchippy account, and apparently it's been pre-suspended?

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Generative AI isn't good at writing code either (and the code it outputs also comes from code written by humans that was scraped without consent and plagiarized, just like writing, art, music, etc, so if you morally object to using generative AI in those domains please don't use it for code either)

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Start the Count.

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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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I feared this would be one of the effects of the e-bike moral panic: Disabled people losing access to a gamechanging piece of transportation technology. This is a great reminder of how disabled nondrivers are often completely absent from conversations and policy debates about transportation.

Jesse’s Rides specializes in selling e-bikes, e-trikes and scooters for people with mobility or other issues that would preclude them from obtaining a car driver’s license. The law has hit this community hardest because many who can’t pedal rely on throttle-controlled Class 2 e-bikes, which have to be insured and require a license, she said.

The woman who returned her new e-bike has a vision issue and fears that this would prevent her from getting an e-bike license under the new law, since she doesn’t have a driver’s license.

The law also unfairly affects people with medical issues who buy low-speed e-bikes with a throttle instead of a pedal-assist for use as transportation, Connor said.

“There are disabled people losing jobs or who can’t get to school because of this dumb bill,” she said.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 31/07/2026

Mixing up e-motos and e-bikes

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Narrative design.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 01/08/2026

So we've got: - brain freeze - cybercrime - mission creep - SSRI - time suck (Very dishonorable mention to ethnic cleansing 🙃)

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Endometriosis takes nine years to diagnose. That’s about to change. NICE has approved two tests: a saliva test reading microRNA markers, and a gut-sensor test returning results in 45 minutes, sparing women the keyhole surgery currently needed. buff.ly/QX3jHk8 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Rapid endometriosis tests to be made available on NHS in England and Wales

Saliva and gut sensor-based tests hailed as ‘gamechanger’ for millions of women who can wait years for diagnosis

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 31/07/2026

The thing that is perhaps the most irritating about technofascism is how it consists of an endless parade of grotesqueries for which anyone can plainly see how they make the world a worse place, and an entire culture exists to tell us that we are stupid for not being amazed and appreciative of them.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ooof, yeah this has been our summer so far. My two oldest kids have camp in the same building as school, which is like two blocks away from the lake they swim in. It's darkly ironic that they have to cancel the lake part of the day when there's extreme heat. (And on the high AQI days too.)

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally connected Project OY to Steam! And honestly, its automated build system is now better than Iron Village's 🙃 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

A blank library page on Steam, with the name of the game mostly blacked out, apart from the letters "oy". A blue "Install" button is waiting, itching to be clicked.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 26/07/2026

Back when the Waymos were the little tiny glorified golf carts limited to 25mph (i.e. just before becoming Waymo), I could buy into that argument a lot more easily. It feels like they went backwards.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Only 456 reviews away from being "Overwhelmingly Positive"! If you played Lazy Kickers and liked it, do leave a review! I'm nearly there!

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 23/07/2026

Super exhausted from @godotcon.bsky.social , so a couple of days late, but... Iron Village is on sale for 40% off as part of Steam's Train Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/3011060/... #citybuilder #pixelart #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Steam Train Fest
July 20-27 at 10am PT (UTC-7)

In the background is a steam train with a tender and four passenger carriages on top of a very high and long viaduct. Further in the packground is a picturesque view of some mountains, hills, and an evergreen forest.

In the foreground is Iron Village's capsule art, alongside a price label showing -40%, $4.79 (USD)

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've got to say, the red line replacement blue bikes during the downpour - not the greatest. (I'm still soaked an hour and a half later.)

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“actually, people who disagree with me are insane” is not an argument. being against open borders is being in favor of people dying at borders, which is immoral.

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Michelle Gruar @mgruar.northsky.social · 20/07/2026

"It is child abuse to bring a baby on a plane." Welp, not going to beat this hot take, time to stop scrolling and go to sleep.

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(Anti-cyclist label)

Family member deaths and health emergencies are good excuses. Celebrations? No. Sorry. Send a gift and go out and visit when the child is 3. It is child abuse to bring a baby on a plane.

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🍧Meat Popsicle🍧 @baddielynn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Also, almost certainly no one is having a worse time than the infant, who is vastly more likely to be having the worst day of their life than anyone else on the plane.

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