iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me 1 second into El Scorcho: what the hell Rivers, what did half Japanese girls ever do to you? Me 3 seconds into El Scorcho: Oh no, that’s not good

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

amazing job on the john fetterman magic card. making him damage you even though you put him into play was a great detail

Kookus
Summon Djinn
Trample
During your upkeep, if you do not control at least one Keeper of Kookus, Kookus deals 3 damage to you and attacks this turn if able.
2: +1/+0 until end of turn
Illus. Scott Hampton
01096 Wizards of the Coast, Ine All rights reserved
3/5

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this shit does not work on me. go try it on the centrists who call trans women "biological men."

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

76th with Mono Green Broodscale Lost round 15 playing for the PT against Goryos for my only loss of the tournament where I had moves in both losses and chose the wrong ones. Nobody to blame but myself.

RC Baltimore
R1 (D) Boros WW
R2 (P) Gruul Broodscale LWW
R3 (P) Lab Broodscale LL
R4 (D) Zoo LWL
R5 (D) Frog LWW
R6 (D) G/b Eldrazi Ramp WLL
R7 (D) Amulet WLW
R8 (P) Trudge WLW
R9 (P) Affinity WLW
R10 (P) Esper Blink WLD
R11 (P) Lab Broodscale WLW
R12 (P) Lab Broodscale WW
R13 (D) Eldrazi Aggro WLW
R14 (D) Hollow One LWW
R15 (D) Goryos WLL

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Playlist for the RC today: open.spotify.com/playlist/2SU... Messed up that the driving distance RC is the one where I’m having trouble sleeping, but I’m going to take it as a good thing that I’m anxious to jam.

open.spotify.com

Weekend to Weekend

My weekend playlist for Magic tournaments

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quagsire posting !! @no-1quagsirefan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

me when i remember something

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also “summary execution” is not the penalty for drug trafficking even if some of them were.

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Heres a simple trick even an idiot can do Make a pot of coffee, boil up a bunch of hot dogs in there. You got yourself a feed of jitter dogs. Simple

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The Emotion Engine @emotion-engine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anytime I am told this I point out that for like thirty years it was just accepted that there was a good chance there was a room in a house just devoted to a model train setup

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stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

new piece out today & for better or worse it is all true — enjoy :)

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CalebDMTG @calebdmtg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

fellow streamers: to opt out of twitch using your channel to train AI, you have to uncheck this button under Security and Privacy in your account settings:

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Carmen Klomparens @carmparens.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Lawrence is great and has been going through a hard time lately. My life and a lot of the spaces I'm in have been made better by him, and if I've got any social capital to cash in, this would be a great spot to get any help y'all can give, be it financial or signal-boosting.

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Modern Challenge Winner! R1: U/B Frog WW R2: Esper Ketramose LL R3: Boros WW R4: Prowess WLW R5: Trudge WLW R6: Energy WW R7: Broodscale WLW T8: Energy LWW T4: U/W Chant WLW F: Trudge LWW

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

i hate that every day i have to learn about some new asshole. why do they keep coming out with new assholes. enough

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Bad Time Records @badtimerecords.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’M OPENING A RECORD STORE! The grand opening of BTR in New Paltz NY will be 9/19, featuring two FREE shows with CATBITE, THE POMPS and MODERN NATIVES. Can’t wait to show you more of the store, what we’re gonna carry, and the 5,000 ideas for extremely cool events that I have … see you on 9/19!!!

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today is my birthday, to celebrate you can get me up to 3 gifts: 1. Reply to this post with a song you've been enjoying recently so I can enjoy it too 2. Donate to translifeline.org 3. Say something genuine and nice to someone that you care about, no matter how cringe it feels to do so Thanks :)

give.translifeline.org

Support Trans Lifeline

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stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

happy birthday to abe :)

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 14/07/2026

excessive technophilia is how you become a hypercapitalist neoreactionary type and excessive technophobia is how you become an anti-vaxxer neo trad nationalist type so be careful folks

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Steph 🔜 Ottawa Weekend October 2-4 @steelcitysteph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've seen an uptick in local game stores utilizing AI-generated images to advertise for their events, citing their "small business budget constraints" for said utilization. If you see this, please direct them to the free official marketing asset library Wizards provides for releases. Linked here:

wpn.wizards.com

Marketing Materials | WPN

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 08/07/2026

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

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marn s. lastname @corpserevivers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

hiiii my car needs various repairs, which means i'm setting all my tabletop games to 60% off for the next month or so! or get all of em for $20! itch.io/s/195539/all...

itch.io

All MarnGames 60% Off by Marn S.

A bundle by Marn S., $20.00 for 20 games

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

this week on @ccmtg.bsky.social @masoneclark.bsky.social and I discuss a burning question: is CEDH competitive Among Us?

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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: prairielanddefendants.com/defendant…

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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Abe Stein @morenothings.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Marvel prerelease sealed rcq today

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Gregor Stocks @gregorstocks.com · 17/05/2026

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

library-of-leng.com

Library of Leng

An archive of Magic: The Gathering writing

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

12K word guide to the Spellementals deck that I went 7-3 with at the PT is out! patreon.com/posts/157633... Deck is both easy to pick up & has a chance to be very well positioned at RCs (Don’t always say this bc I want credibility when I do) @fireshoes.bsky.social

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.

Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

but god forbid we promote actual literacy

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Ryan @r-condon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is *excellent*

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ompuco @ompu.co · 28/04/2026

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

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jesse @tiddypills.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

doing things to help the people who live near you is a very good way to abate your stress about the world at large. there is very little you can do to prevent the horrors far away, but there is so much you can do to care for your neighbors

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 21/04/2026

This is one of the best pieces of pop culture writing I've read in the past couple of years. These excerpts are great but you need to read how the build to that last one. Goddamn. Thank you @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social and @popheist.com

I hate predicting what will happen in a story.

I like thinking about what will happen, sure, and I like analyzing how each piece of the story contributes to the greater whole when all is said and done, but if you ask me "Who's gonna be the new King of Westeros?" or "Who's the killer in this season of True Detective?" or even "Will Captain America say 'Avengers Assemble'?" I am simply, deeply, almost obsessively uninterested. I just want to let the story tell me what it's gonna be.

This view, unfortunately, is incompatible with vast swaths of modern fandom, whether we're talking about Star Wars, The White Lotus, or the reason we're here today: The Pitt. Fandom — and I'm using the term very generally here, so if this doesn't describe you, please assume you can go about your business — is obsessed not just with what will happen, but with what should happen, and while there's nothing wrong with playing detective while watching your favorite shows, at a certain point it all gets a bit poisonous.

Poisonous for who? Well, I hate to sound like your high-and-mighty Nerd Dad here but A) I kinda am, and B) for you. It's poisonous for you, the person out there trying to get the most out of stories you enjoy in a world that keeps paring movies, TV, books, comics, and more down to the barest algorithmic essentials in favor of ratings and ticket sales rather than narrative. In an age when social media fandom has demonstrably tipped the scales for various creative decisions ranging from Sonic's teeth to the Snyder Cut, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left because we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story. The Pitt is not the first case of this happening, but it is the latest and the loudest, so allow me to make this as simple as I can:

The Story Owes You Nothing.

Fiction really is a form of magic. Every book you've ever read, every film you've ever seen, every comic book you've ever slipped from a spinner rack is an exercise in concentrated will imposed by its creators on a creative medium and then, finally, on to you as a reader or viewer. It's not there to be second-guessed. It's there to take you places, draw out emotions, and leave you with a head full of ideas that weren't there before. Like Hunter S. Thompson said: Buy the ticket, take the ride. Let a story happen to you rather than second-guessing every plot point in favor of some imagined version you'd rather have and will never get to see (unless you write fanfic, which is an entirely different can of worms beyond the scope of this essay). Allow yourself the luxury of putting down your accounts book and your checklist and expecting something, and simply be open to anything. Do that, and not only will the stories get better, but you'll understand them better and feel them more.

The story owes you nothing, but if you let it, it will give you everything.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work" I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

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Accented Cinema @accentedcinema.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

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