iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 21/09/2026

For your consideration: RPGs as fanfiction generators for their source materials. Even the rules themselves are part of the text that get referenced and rewritten.

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 20/09/2026

Why did They Live have to be a documentary

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 19/09/2026

This is one of my favorite Bluesky accounts right now

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The Golden Cobra Challenge @goldencobra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ssssssssss The Golden Cobra Challenge 2026 is OPEN for sssubmissions. Ssubmit by October 15th! www.goldencobra.org

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Golden Cobra Challenge

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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gwen pepperoni 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼🍕 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

people act like they've never heard of the Midwest

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Alex @halfloaf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I don’t usually expect to laugh when doing a crossword. This was _delightful_

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 30/08/2026

For @justgravyllc.com’s consideration, a Compile AUX pack that contains the protocols FUCK, MARRY, KILL

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 25/08/2026

No cheating. Post the last image of the sky from your camera roll.

Five gently rusted outdoor light fixtures on a cable, set against a vast cloudless Texas sky

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yup

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 18/08/2026

Sounds like comic book and Star Wars films and shows tbh These are not places of honor. They are the last of the crusty toothpaste being squeezed out of the tube

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Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the sad things about the death of writing is that we are going to be taking life advice primarily from visually attractive people now who don’t know shit. ideally you want the world filtered through awkward homunculi filled with rage who know the plural of homunculus

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Francita, ✨ graphic designer 🖼️🖌 @byfrancita.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I am extremely grateful to be working in something i love, doing ttrpg layout and graphic design in general, but it was hard when i started. And of course i blame capitalism. Let me tell you why. 🧵1/?

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In complete sincerity this is the way

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 09/08/2026

Back when I worked in video games, there would inevitably be groups of high school kids brought through on a tour. They would ask how to get into games and I’d always say “be interested in literally anything else”

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Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann @hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Savage.

"Devolver and its board are seeking shareholder approval to delist, believing becoming a private company is in the best interests of Devolver, its employees, its partners, and its Shareholders as a whole," a spokesperson for the company told GamesIndustry.biz.

"We’ve made an announcement about this.

"The purpose is simple and positive. Being private will allow the Devolver Digital team, especially the finance, legal, and executive team, to singularly focus on the long-term health of the company and less on satisfying the requirements of the public market, which have nothing to do with being a successful game publisher."

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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nine Space Games is now available! Get it here: bpglink.com/9spacegames or here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... as you prefer, but definitely get it.

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Nine Space Games

Nine Space Games is a collection of freeform games that share a universe and a set of rules. They are designed to be played however you like, and they play fast—each lasts no more than an hour. And th...

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 02/08/2026

A stunning indictment of modern cities. Witness Austin, TX, a city that has become a theme park of itself. It went from being the inspiration for the movie Slacker to a tech hustle city. Now service industry folks can’t afford to live there and the tech bros complain about how it “used to be cool”

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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 14/09/2025

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

in case anybody needed a primer in how to write a press release that clearly states its position

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 30/07/2026

I’m still waiting for the first film to be brave enough to have a 30 minute run time, roll credits and then spend another hour in post-credit scenes

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Bread AND roses!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent because she'll be a reliable vote to a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide. I want your tax dollars spent on schools in Michigan, healthcare in Michigan, and roads in Michigan.

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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026

ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance

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stovey @doorhook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Galatea from Claymore. the text reads “A SICK ASS SWORD WOULD FIX ME.”

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

*violently taps the sign*

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 27/07/2026

If I had 5 million, you wouldn’t find me. You would find that all my friends would have their debt paid off

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MegueyB 🔜Metatopia @megueyb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

36 hours left. Just under $2000 to reach the More Money for Artists stretch goal. And then we’re actually looking at the last stretch goal, which is the “play on social media” version. Amazing. Let’s go! #pbta #dnd #psirun2e

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 22/07/2026

What if I just started talking like a disaffected nineties cyberpunk all the time

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ered @ered.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Three panel comic titled Unethical Fiction:
1. Made with AI
2. Printed on human skin
3. The author uses their profits to fund a hate group.

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Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Thing I learned from this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQW4... Poverty is correlated with homelessness - *negatively* The poorer an area is, the lower its homelessness rate; the wealthier an area is, the higher the homelessness rate.

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What Luxury Housing Does To Homelessness

YouTube video by Justine Underhill

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.”

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 17/07/2026

Bit of a rough time to be living in Michigan. And moving across town

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 13/07/2026

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too

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Explosive foodborne outbreak

It's a real shit show out there: What we know, don't know, and what it means for you.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Today is a very important day for those of us who fought for reparations for Chicago police torture survivors. We were told not to use the word 'reparations' because it would "alienate" people. We were told that the City of Chicago would never admit fault or apologize for the torture. Many people+

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Nathan Black, Drifter in the Void @nathanblack.com · 08/07/2026

Honestly surprised that they hired people for this instead of scripting ai prompts

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