iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I have passed the marshmallow test. I will diminish, and go into the West, and get two marshmallows.

Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Me: our leftovers look like the Hyperbole And A Half character Manda: Oh yeah. What was her name? Me: I can't remember, but I liked her alot (It's Allie Brosh)

A glass container containing burgers and bacon, reminiscent of an Allie Brosh self-portrait from Hyperbole And A Half

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My life is too full of too many things I enjoy too much and want to spend every waking minute on. I'd be having a much easier time if I enjoyed each individual thing 10% as much. Luckily social media is here to help

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

People talk a lot about foot fetishists, but nobody talks about how artists are all sickos for hands. Anyone who draws the human form regularly goes absolutely wolf-howl sicko mode over a well drawn hand. It's like an entire body on it's own, artists are out here hubba-hubba-ing and awooga-ing

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Melissa Reddraws Spandri @melissared.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#inktober with #mermay cause why not mix everything up? Have a good day♥️🙏🏻♥️

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

what incredible beauty there is in just existing for a moment. to sit and breathe and have a pumping heart. to let any goals or expectations fall away. to think 'wow i am here.' life is an unfathomable blessing but in quiet moments of acknowledgment i think we can at least REACH for understanding

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Germans in my Danish class have united against the gulf between written and spoken Danish. "There are seventeen letters here and you pronounce three of them at most! This is completely inefficient!" No, my German friends - it's not inefficient spelling, it's superefficient pronunciation!

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 07/10/2026

It's so calming watching Nanshandawn hand carve each line into this wood as she creates the lines of light under the waves with this whale. So many details - we are in love! #beautifulbizarre #whale #art #underwaterart #woodcarving #woodart

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Zedeck Siew @zedecksiew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You cannot design a game against bad faith just like you cannot cook a meal so delicious it teaches diners how to be polite

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 7yo has turned 8 and already come up with a great new way to wake up mom in the morning. Mom: What is this. What are you doing. Us: It's a potato. Mom: Why are you putting it in my ear. Us: It's an ear-i-tater. Mom: aaaaasuuuughhh

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Up to that point, I'd assumed his head was full of thoughts, but they were just dumb thoughts. Nope. Just take in sensory input, no analysis, no critical rumination, no brain labor required. I think about that moment a lot.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We had an intern twenty years ago, sweet kid but dumb as rocks. I'd just deconstructed some new misinfo he'd heard somewhere and believed, and he's astounded: ”Your brain must be thinking, like, all the time!” and I was also astounded, because it never occurred to me there were brains that weren't

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The fields here are full of magic. And by magic I mean spiders

A photo of a Danish field full of spiderwebs. The dew on the webs is catching the light of the ominous sunrise. The photo looks AI generated but I swear it is not.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Daily birds 78 - Firehawks

top left is a brown falcon, bottom left is a black kite and right is a whistling kite, each holding a burning stick and trailing smoke against a pale yellow background.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sorry it literally burns an entire generation of game developers to ash to make one (1) game like Baldurs Gate 3, and then the whole industry passes into the west like the elves.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But will there be an ailurophobia mode that lets you change all the cats into spiders youtu.be/VA2q1uN0DgY?...

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Another Satisfactory Announcement

YouTube video by Coffee Stain Studios

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/712... It was a different age

Nine games:

X-COM: UFO Defense
King's Quest
Atari Adventure
Starflight
Ultima VI
Final Fantasy Tactics
Dwarf Fortress
Minecraft
LEGO Universe

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We used to discuss reasons why each generation latched onto whichever fantasy. Unicorns and dragons in the greed-obsessed eighties, vampires in the subculture nineties, angels after 9/11, etc. Nothing in the 2020s makes a fantasy of decrepit old men hoarding world-altering power feel thrilling.

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

do you ever think social media is kind of like laser pointer cat toys for humans. like it feels productive but is also extremely frustrating because you cant kill the laser dot

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't know whether to be sad at the loss of a uniquely preserved ecosystem or happy at the victory of the unstoppable rat over mankind's hubris

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But even that reliable contrarian compulsion can be predicted and accounted for. It's the 1% who turn around and do something so outside the realm of logic that even the humans' legendary talent for post-hoc rationalization can't explain it. Humanity's unique niche is "welcome to jackass"

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've been reading through the responses for the last couple days, and nobody has mentioned my favorite niche: No matter how principled or responsible, no matter the incentives or consequences, there's always a 10% chance a human will do the exact opposite of what they're supposed to, just because

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lydelle BLEAAAH!ster @babyshoes4cash.com · 27/06/2024

clowns to the left of me. jokers to the right. jesters as far as the eye can see ahead; tricksters lined up behind. taking a little relief in the fact that underneath me is simply the fresh soil of the sweet earth that birthed us all, but then i look up, and oh no: buffoons

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just learned that we lost one of my design heroes, Jonas Springborg, to cancer this week. One our first and greatest illustrators on Ninjago and Chima, he went on to found the amazing MOOD Visuals design studio and then MOOD Publishing for board games. www.moodvisuals.com/lego

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Lego — MOOD Visuals

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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's so hard to get back to a normal perception of what is possible to achieve in a time period when your attitude is ' all or nothing/every waking moment is for work' , like life ruiningly so. One of the things I've had to painfully re-learn is the idea that small things can build up/ matter

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

rick rolling was so wholesome. you guys! you tricked me into listening to this nice song i cant believe it

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Mighoul Revenantparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes! Although not recently. Thirty or forty years ago they were a staple of public-school cafeterias and no-name middle-of-nowhere greasy spoon dinners. My days of road-tripping across the American midwest are far in the past now, so I don't know if they're still out there.

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Caves of Qud voice) Voices of the Void

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I wish I could get the approval of gruff old men" ( monkey's fist curls )

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lucy taught me how to do this and I wore it around like a necklace and gruff old men would constantly go "a monkey's fish!" and harrumph a note of approval, so if you love approval form gruff old men and Lucy Bellwood(I do), you should get in on this.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Right? I'm sorry you never got to visit!

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dividing the completely natural-light-drenched studio floor to put in a movie theater is hilarious though

A design mockup for how to turn a room drenched in natural light on three sides into a movie theater

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The realtor put together a mockup of what could be done with the house, and we're here like damn why didn't we do any of these things

A mock-up design of how to utilize what's just a completely ridiculous floor plan. Copyright Maverick Realty CT.

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redwyrm @redwyrm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Conversations with the 9yo DM: Me: The desert hag tells you her name is Ham. 9yo DM: What kind of hag is named Ham?! That is ridiculous. Me: What? Who doesn’t like a Ham Sand Witch?

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 11/09/2026

not to do the 'repost stuff from other sites' thing but a friend sent this to me like YES we need uncosiness in games

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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's become hugely dispiriting how frequently I'm having to contact other tabletop news sites asking that they -please- cite BoardGameWire as the source of the story they've just directly lifted, slightly reworded or run through ChatGPT before slapping it on their site without attribution.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yes! Took me a minute to figure out why everyone was talking about it again all of a sudden

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chess battle royale: every turn, the board shrinks to the minimum size necessary for the pieces remaining. If an edge row or column is empty, it's removed

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Anyway, what the styles-as-superpowers misses for me is the hyperemotional component of Fist of the North Star. What is hyperemotion? Glad you asked. Short answer: emotional arcs culminating into explosive action. Long answer is here: www.thoughtcrimegames.net/blog/hyperem...

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Hyperemotion — Thoughtcrime Games

The Action of Feeling Missiles danced through the black of space. Drawing arcs through the void, they veered and tipped drunkenly in violent arcs, nearing but never touching the giant robot pir...

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm forever proud of whatever I'm working on, and then I immediately forget about it the minute I move on to the next hyperfocus. Possibly related to all those paint fumes. The Roblox thing re-surprises me every time, because I always forget about it again right afterwards.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I know, right? Every time somebody reminds me about it I laugh all over again. What a bizarre life

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Manda is referring to an infamous incident where I worked too many hours straight and fell asleep next to an open jar of Gamsol in a tiny unventilated room and inflicted undoubtedly irreversible brain damage. Like most people, I made poor decisions in my twenties.

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I had one successful logo design in 2005 and then never made another logo. What would be the point? No sense interrupting a 21-year winning streak

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Mike Rayhawk @mikerayhawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Manda: You were breathing in a lot of paint thinner back then Me: That wasn't on purpose Manda: I'm just saying you're not beating the allegations

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