iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 1h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 6h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 4h

Another from the vault. Split tongue, #Bonktober2026

A close up of a mouth wearing red lipstick. The mouth is open and a rope is pulled through the split in a split tongue.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 15h

IDK how many of these prompts I can pull off in photography, but I def have some in the tank from years previous. Like, for "corset", I have... many. Like this one! #Bonktober2026

A person with a snarling wolf's head, wearing a fancy pink corset and stockings.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is common. This exact story happened to multiple IRL friends not just internet folks.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i had heard about gamers for years. a lifestyle dedicated to having fun sounded to me like its adherents would form bonds based on positivity, friendship and the joy of fair competition

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quote with your art with the best shadows! (This one is tough for me because shadows are like 80% of my entire thing)

A pale person wearing an off the shoulder blank dress and cross necklace, all in half shadow

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ugh, my doctor who I've had for almost 20 years and who I really liked has left the practice that's 6 blocks from my house, and now I need to start over with someone new. I hate everything right now.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He didn't invent polyamory/free love but he did couple it with "engineers are the best humans and deserve the most sex (with their mom)" and for obvious reasons that speaks to certain people.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if I can bang out at least ten of these with photographs. It's... not impossible.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Late-career Heinlein has got a lot to answer for.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

cover of NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? on the right there is a concerned ladybuck with her hands up in a gesture of NO WAY BUD and on the left is an angry lookin sentient flock camera

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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adorable shot of Brooklyn and Victor. They're so cute together! #nsfw #t4t #nudephotography #nsfwclown

Two people nude and holding each other, one with makeup smeared all over their nose.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Eniko Fox
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is my depression biting, or did I just listen to Suddenly Seymour on repeat for 2 hours for a non-insane reason?

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Matt Dunphy @leviathant.com · 27/09/2026

A study by Pew research found that 75% of Americans say they talk to God or a higher power, and 28% say that God talks back to them. It's a very American thing, and I think it predisposes the population toward unpredictably bad outcomes, as ethics and good faith are discarded by the people in power.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 13/05/2026

There are levels to everything and one of those things is “unless you live in certain parts of New York, Los Angeles, or a handful of other global fashion hubs, you do not know anyone who has gone pro at being beautiful.”

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tonnerre comics @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the 2nd plumtree librarian story! i'm a sucker for bowing to peer pressure, so if you ever want to see more of tiggy, just make sure you keep getting on at me until i make it!

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Apropos of nothing in particular:

A meme featuring freaky orange monster Gritty, with the words "man will never be free until the last line is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" superimposed upon his manic visage

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last year's excellent vampire shoot with Bean.

A red-eyed, gold toothed vampire in a black dress.

A vampire holding a dagger in a dramatic fashion.

A vampire, lit in green, grinning evilly.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was never super into twinks until my most recent ex-bf, and now I wonder if my tastes changed or I'm just looking to recapture something lost.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 23/09/2025

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently today is the day for feeling insecure about my artistic abilities.

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are a lot of good candidates, but this is my favorite shot of Ani from this day.

A topless person with clown makeup makes an intense face as water falls on them.

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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friendly reminder to... Buy my book! Order "Coming Out Like a Porn Star (2nd edition)" from your local bookshop, library, or buy a copy from me and get a special custom signature. jizlee.bigcartel.com/product/comi...

Cover art for "Coming Out Like a Porn Star" shows an illustrated version of its editor peering out from pink folds. Text shows Forewords by Samantha Cole and Dr. Mireille Miller-Young. Edited by Jiz Lee. Words by: Annie Sprinkle, Conner Habib, Jessica Stoya, Joanna Angel, Siri Dahl, Nina Hartley, Neve, Sinnamon Love, Tyler Knight, Zahra Stardust, and more.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026

(the Doyleist reason why Ruatha is named after a phrase in Gaelic is that Anne McCaffrey was whatever the Irish version of a weeabo is, but nonetheless it Watsonianly indicates multilingualism)

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Eye of the Beholder. 1991, SSI, Westwood Games.

Cover of the box for the 1991 video game Eye of the Beholder, featuring an armored skeleton holding an axe.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Mikey Mongol @mikeymongol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am still a photographer, btw. I just haven't had a lot of free energy lately to work on the work.

A black and white photograph of a person wearing a knit mask with horns, stockings, and a jacket with no shirt underneath.

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