iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.

Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New trailer for "The Lovers", an indie Filipino short film by Studio Heartbreak, coming to Youtube in a week. www.youtube.com/@studioheart...

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

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Tania Herrero @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Roll for equipment. fomoria.com #ttrpg #fomoria

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Cats used to be a useful test for rpg combat failings. In one iteration of the Ars Magica combat systems a housecat had a good chance against a fully armored knight

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

posting is free and therapy is expensive

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Mikhail @neotiamat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

The amount of terrible history on this app is nothing short of astonishing. All delivered with the most confident, supercilious sneer at that.

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Larry Cebula @larrycebula.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

YOUR HISTORY TEACHER NEVER TOLD YOU- *me, checks lecture notes* I definitely told you. YOUR TEXTBOOK LEFT OUT- Me: It is on page 37 and again on 54. HISTORIANS NEVER ADMIT- Me: Look will you just admit already that you slept through class?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/02/2025

Oh man, I almost forgot these!

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R8 SDY 🇮🇪 @r8sdy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Please continue to share this picture to raise awareness of the plight of cats trapped in a folk music environment.

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Kate Baker @katebakergm.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We started a tradition a few years ago of watching Casablanca on New Year’s Eve. If you’ve never watched it, I highly recommend it right now.

A still from Casablanca with Paul Henreid, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Humphrey Bogart

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Trying (desperately) to finish this chapter on Hellenistic mobilization systems has left me more impressed with how much the Antigonids do with so little and *intensely* disappointed with how little the Ptolemies and Seleucids do with so much.

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Rigby! @rigbees.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Playing TTRPGs: Goofing, gabbing, fun with friends Designing TTRPGs: I have locked myself in the tower and will only leave for bread and water. My hands cramp with the toil of my labor. Will I see daylight this year? It is unknown.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

when I was a kid I was jealous that my grandmother born in the 1910s got to witness "so much exciting history" and I think there's like an 85% chance her ghost has been following me around since 2019 just constantly punching me in the back of the head

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Heeheehee!! LOOK! He pronounced my name perfectly and the contestant got it right! 😃!!!

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

writing is so funny it’s like “this is my favorite thing to do in the world and my dream” “okay then do it right now” “no thanks I would rather do literally anything else”

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 02/10/2024

WELL, SINCE YOU MENTION IT

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Studio Ghibli Pictures @ghiblipictures.bsky.social · 28/09/2024

Annie “Ancho” Choi is a brilliant young artist whose wonderful animations landed her a gig working for the famed Studio Ghibli. This is a short compilation of her work!

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Brandon Eby @thebrandoneby.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

One thing I wish I had known before starting to write my own ttrpg was that It is in fact like 7 different jobs. #ttrpg

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard. What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT. The experimental design is what I want to focus on:

The European honey bee may have originated from eastern Africa. This bee is pictured in Tanzania.
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim
12mm long Apis mellifera, Apis mellifera. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee#/media/File:Apis_mellifera_Tanzania.jpg

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Elizabeth Neswald @octobeth.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Today in marine invertebrates Hi

a calico crab. It is off-white with a pattern of brown spots outlined in drder brown. It is resting on the sand.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

we truly have to stop letting people get away with couching their bullshit in four layers of therapy speak as a way to deflect criticism

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan. #Japan #torii #Shinto

Photograph of a long row of vermilion torii along a staircase leading up through a forest.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 31/08/2024

a bunch of u are sucking up to all the new brazilian bluesky users in a cheap and tawdry attempt to get more followers and i gotta say that first of all it’s very unseemly and second of all i highly doubt it’ll work because they’re far too intelligent and attractive to fall for such an obvious ploy

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Squelette @squelette.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Recently did the GMTK game jam after a long time of doing none, it was so much fun and went great! My bf and I both worked on the artwork, and two other friends did the rest. Slavic embroidery has long been a favorite of mine and is easy to translate in pixel art. panzerr.itch.io/crossstitched

A slavic embroidery style repeatable pattern, done in pixel art in red, black and off-white. In the center there is a complex cross and squares motif, on the edges a black flowering plant, and in the corners large red alkonosts.

Splash art of the game with the same color palette. On the right is the title in a fancy slavic inspired font (Cross Stitched), next to it a large Baba yaga house on chicken feet walks. a red bird flies nearby and a woman in a white and red dress holds little red flames in her hands. In the foreground an alkonost watches

A screenshot of the game showing the protagonist (the little house on chicken feet) near a border made up of the previous pattern, getting hit with little red projectiles

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

It’s invasive blackberry season in Seattle, don’t talk about my slashed up arms

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лізард 𓆩♡𓆪 візард @ladyforest.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

BG3 slavic fantasy AU! My Tav, the tiefling-sorceress who lives on the outskirts of the village and helps its vilagers with her magic And Shadowheart - the cleric of Mara, the goddess of death and night in belarusian mythology #BG3 #беларт #артшляхта

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

This is another great Tim Walz anecdote

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/08/2024

When we issue a kid their first library card and point out that we don’t tell anyone else what they have checked out, we are doing something for them no other public institution does: telling everybody else to mind their own damn business. I think that is beautiful 📚

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Christina Wald @christinawald.com · 06/08/2024

Had no idea how prescient these bumper sticker cartoons would be. Don't hate us because we are so cool.😺

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

me with every new meme format

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 08/08/2024

"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!" This pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet) is so much more bad-ass than the stupid "quick brown fox." Tribute to master Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).

A white cat offering a dead dove to a giant sphinx cat made of black quartz, in the middle of toppled ruins under an orange crescent moon. The giant cat's eyes shine judgmentally in citrine yellows. Kind of in the style of Moebius.

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izsisu.bsky.social @izsisu.bsky.social · 04/08/2024

One of my goals for the (ENnie Award Winning) Tian Xia World Guide was to display aspects of Asian culture that isn't mainstream and most people don't recognize. One of my earliest attempts was the redesign of the hobgoblins of Kaoling, which is inspired by Chinese archeological site of Sanxingdui.

A hobgoblin dressed in a bronze mask, wearing scaled armor and wielding weapons with faces on the pommels or the blades.

A bronze mask from the Chinese archeological site of Sanxingdui. It has extremely exaggerated proportions, with a nearly rectangular face, huge eyes, nearly triangular ears, a sharp nose, and a wide mouth.

A bronze mask from the Chinese archeological site of Sanxingdui. It has extremely exaggerated proportions, with a nearly rectangular face, gigantic ears, a large sharp nose, and a wide mouth. Two cylinders protrude from the mask's eyes, like someone jammed spikes into the eyes.

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James Case @jamescase.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

It’s an absolute honor to receive the Gold ENNIE for best setting for the Pathfinder Lost Omens Tian Xia World Guide! Thank you to every last one of the 40+ writers who poured their hearts into this book, to all our wonderful staff who made it possible, and to the fans for supporting us!

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Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Yes, this! I don't really care about 'accuracy' (and am on record saying so often), but I absolutely *could* use my knowledge of the material to help you find new, cool things for your ancient world game! Historical experts can add a lot of exciting things, they don't need to be fact checkers!

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 23/09/2023

I've invented a new way to classify types of guy

A graph with two axes. The Y axis goes from "normal" to "weird", and the X axis goes from "(derogatory)" to "(affectionate)"

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

Olympic shooting is great because the athletes can show up in the wonkiest or coolest outfits imaginable, just immaculate drip

Two olympic rifle shooters in vagely scifi tunics

Polish pistol shooter wearing a dope varsity jacket

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Me: "I like to dump the dry ice from shipments into the sink and add a bunch of water so it looks like I'm a mad scientist tinkering with forces beyond my understanding, spitting in the face of the gods with my intellectual hubris." Priest: "Okay, again; kind of weird, but not technically a sin"

Don't do this to your plumbing, because it can really mess it up, and this isn't my lab, but it's a sink filled with dry ice that is boiling over with CO2. A black lab bench with carboy of water next to the sink, and a centrifuge on the bench in fashionable "science beige".

Taken from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/xuo2kt/lpt_dump_excess_dry_ice_from_shipments_into_the/

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

BREAKING: The entire World of Warcraft dev team has unionized at Blizzard Entertainment. The new unit includes over 500 developers and is described by the CWA as another "wall-to-wall union." The news comes days after almost 250 workers at Bethesda Game Studios organised.

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Yes, except for

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