iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Something that I've noticed across all mediums in recent years is that everyone wants everything catered TO them, rather than broadening their minds to other directions or possibilities in fiction. From plot to characters to ships. I see people one-star books because it's ~not what they would do~ 🧵⬇️

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KooTheBird @koothebird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

kinda weird how the exact dudes who will tell you how important it is to have multiple perspectives so you don't ban them from various social spaces for being terrible dickheads suddenly want all art to cater to them and reject the idea of needing multiple viewpoints. makes u think

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Waverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

courtesy pictures for sad children

panel 1: announcer at a podium says "welcome everyone to our thirtieth annual air show"
panel 2: a crowd of people clap
panel 3: announcer says "oh, here's the first j-"
panel 4: jet goes WOOSH
panel 5: announcer says "if you were a kurdish villager, this is what it might sound like to die"
panel 6: two jets go RAAAAR
panel 7: announcer says "or survive, waking every night to the sternum-shaking screams of these nightmare engines"
panel 8: announcer says "and here come our vintage planes"
panel 9: vintage planes go WHIRRRRR
panel 10: announcer says "this is what it sounded like to die in the forties"
panel 11: a crowd of people clap

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I mean, a peak *is* the beginning of a violent fall down a mountainside, or a rapid decline on some financial chart :y so like the Titanic footage, it seems apropos.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 08/10/2026

It's good

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

A stack of business cards reads in English and Korean: Generative AI is unethical, annoying, and anti-art. Anything it touches will fail, and be a mark of shame on human history. I do not wish to discuss this further.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 08/10/2026

This becomes less shocking when you really reckon with the reality that this is an intentional, repeated, and committed editorial direction by evil people looking to do profound harm to people up to and including them dying and not just some wide eyed naïveté taking RFK Jr too credulously.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 07/10/2026

So like I keep wanting to float the idea that there's a major unspoken current in American politics where like nine different things are coded versions of "people are angry that they can't control their kids/grandkids' thoughts and lives" but then here it seems to have broken out into being explicit

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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"

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Kimmy - #YuPhasNation 🫷 @kimmykitsuragi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

this comment on a bow only ds1 run is frying me

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah! This is why I love Kane's writing, he refuses to offer anything as simply a threat without any sort of pathos. Even the most monstrous being in this movie is lost in the same confusing, uncaring rooms. And the implication that Clark interacted peacefully with it, even for a short time...

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Of course, the slot machines only dispense the blood of the innocent and exploited when you win, but that's just how things work, apparently)

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore

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dr. hazel 🕸️🕷️ @hazelmonforton.com · 04/10/2026

Failbetter reached out to me in the wake of the Bungie layoff in 2024 and asked if I would like to write a story. That offer became my murine husband, The Prince of All Rats. It was exciting, and very fun to write. It was also incredibly uplifting as I dealt with post-layoff stress and self-doubt.

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rdein @rdein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've written a post introducing Record of Dorathia, the dungeon crawler RPG project we have been working on these past few years. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts! Link: www.bombservice.com/post/record-... #rdein_dev #redora

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And there it is. 🔥

Comment on Reddit: AI is here so the wealthy can feel talented, while making it impossible for the talented to become wealthy.

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every now and then I see people who are just *baffled* that kids latch onto things like FNAF, or Slenderman, or Trevor Henderson, and it's just like... nah, those are no-brainers. Kids can't get enough of scary stories! Reading them, inventing them, telling them, constantly!

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Part of the reason media like Coraline and Over the Garden Walk is so beloved is that we don’t make enough actual horror media for young audiences.

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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 03/10/2026

Thank you for spreading the word! I've been enjoying the fanart. FYI there are 42 prints left. If you want one, now is the time to get one! I will never make these again. owendennis.com/store

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Store 2 — Owen Dennis

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That self-loathing black text... yeah, Ray's got issues of his own to work out.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is nightmarishly broad, and all under a fascist CEO. The entertainment industry can't crash soon enough.

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Case Portman @caseportmanaudio.com · 02/10/2026

5 years ago I released Flynn: Son of Crimson with my wonderful team and I was so exhausted I couldn't bear to think about it anymore. I recently played it from start to finish and you know what.. I couldn't be any prouder. 🥹 The game is actually kinda fun! 💜

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WAVE (1994) Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 48” Of all the paintings hanging in my home, this one probably elicits the most comments. #art

An exponential curve expressed as a massive wave of green-blue water that climbs to vertical against a sky of puffy lavender clouds. Light breaks through the cloud cover just over the horizon casting a flat glare across rippling water before the wave climbs. Fin-like ridges emerge running up the wall give the water turbulence and dimension.

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe I should try this out… I don’t draw enough :y

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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're a fan of a big media property, a really dedicated and invested fan, you have to learn to respond to criticism of that thing in a calm and reasonable manner rather than as a personal attack. In fact, you should learn to do the criticism yourself, without feeling embarrassed for liking it.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 31/10/2024

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/09/2026

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

God, what I wouldn't give for more Elden Ring expansions on par with Shadow of the Erdtree...

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 29/09/2026

i've been saying, one path forward for the mid-budget games industry is just... going and making expansions to popular old games. there's a market here. bring back the era of outsourced expansion packs. i'm so serious.

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE BONE BRIDES is out TODAY! Hayao Miyazaki meets Guillermo del Toro in this Sapphic YA portal fantasy in which a girl must save her changeling girlfriend from a terrifying faery realm. I have waited since I was 7 years old to be able to say... GO FIND ME IN YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE! ❤️

Graphic proclaiming, “Now Available Everywhere Books are Sold!” above a copy of THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. “A marvelous, metaphorical masquerade.” –Kirkus Reviews. The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward. One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage. The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal. In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit. Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines. Very moody and atmospheric. The book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.

Trope map graphic for THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter, that includes “changeling x human romance”; “are skeleton rabbits cute?”; “mental illness rep”; “whimsical x spooky”; “a grumpy witch”; “don’t look up”; “a drowned faery realm”; and “queer girls in love.”

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was a narrative designer for two small games, the second of which crashed and burned before leaving early access, taking the team with it XD I think that counts, somewhat!

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SJ Hartman (#AmQuerying The Sigil and the Serpent) @mkfshard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is nearly me, except that I went *years* after learning trans people existed before I even considered that I was one, despite already having an interest in genderbend narratives. If anything's a plague, it's the religious upbringing that locked me in a mindset of self-denial for years.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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PAR | BSAS | Fem!Shep 👊🏻 CEO @femshepfgc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YOU ALL DID IT!!! 🎉 My debut YA novel broke the big ✨ 100 ✨ ratings on Goodreads. Thank you so much to everyone who has given my sapphic science fantasy Hades/Persephone a place on their bookshelves. 📚

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