iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tin (The Foil) @tinthefoil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The animal of the month for October will be the CASPER OCTOPUS, learn more about it on my website! . . . . #octopusart #octopus #cuteart #stickerart

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 19h

Continuing posting on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers, this part of our comic shows 6 possible ways of translating just a single panel, to really illustrate how one size doesn’t fit all needs. Accessibility is messy & an artistic act itself! spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

A part of a comics page, it mostly shows a cube that represents six views of the same comics panel (we can only see three because this is flat paper, but can infer all six sides look the same) with a Batman like character swooping down on some villains. Emanating from it are voice captions that describe this panel in different styles - minimalist to radio drama and others.
See full description here https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You heard the pope, making comics automatically gets you into heaven now. He didn’t even put restrictions on it besides “no ai” (rookie mistake imo) so go wild.

A man in religious garb holding up a white circle that says “comics”

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SAHASA 🐙🪸 @sculptedreef.com · 26/09/2026

🐙🦑🐡

Green text: "Eight arms, no answers. Just like the rest of us." On top of a photo depicting a clay octopus sculpture, the species is Giant Pacific Octopus.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No training, just born this way

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whoever put this together used a photo of current students! I guess common sense is part of the “finer intellectual dexterity“ we’re trading for expediency

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fortune. 🌍🐍🐙🙈🌊 #octopolis #tarot #sciart

Fortune, digital art by SS Julian.

A ship's wheel spins, crashing through the surface of an ocean. At its center, an octopus struggles to grip a handle. A monkey skewered to the descending portion loses consciousness as it is submerged, as a ribbon eel gapes as it’s drawn upward from the other end. Atop the wheel a pharaoh cuttlefish hovers impossibly, inscrutable. A rainbow arcs across the sky, as the weather turns. A stone adze sinks into the abyss, and kelp fronds are blown backwards by the current from the wheel.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Privatize the gains and socialize the apocalypse.

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Keishu Asada @cephwarden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite nudibranchs, Bornella anguilla, swimming like some sort of psychedelic dragon

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First 4-player playtest of the Octopolis board game last night!

A photo of a chess board with poker chips and figurines on it

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally a biologically correct land octopus in Magic

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On hold with the pharmacist and they accidentally merged my call with another customer. Took us a few seconds to realize, since we were both waiting for the other to offer service

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Ham 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎨 @thehamofficial.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

My controversial art opinion is that the trick to being good at art is actually enjoying the process of doing art and that's literally it

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Octopuses are expanding their domestication efforts to cetaceans! Good luck buddy you're gonna need it 🐙🐋🦑

three photos of an octopus riding a dolphin by the dorsal fin. photo by Bill Coulson, a volunteer with the Risso’s Dolphin Project South West, off Berry Head in Devon, U.K

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Hel M @purplehel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

close to 5000 now, go put it over!

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring

Kirby, the Nintendo character, would be able to wear the ring with no effect, like tom bombadil. He’d probably eat it and forget about it.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have finished re-reading The Odyssey, and the one thing none of the film adaptations capture is what a terrific bastard Odysseus is.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We present: The Art of #InverteFest - August 2026 Edition A digital art book showcasing the work of 100 artists, in celebration of overlooked invertebrate fauna. Thank you to the artists who contributed to our book! Download & submit to the next edition: invertefest.com/#artbook #Art #SciArt

a promo image showing various pages from the book, each page showcasing different animals like a mantis, trilobite, cephalopod, beetle grub, tick, among others. the art featured shows a range of different medium, including 3D, paper cutout, pixel art, and so on.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Found an old hard drive of films I 'archived' back in college. Anyone interested in watching Casablanca in 240p?

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Incredibly gratifying to learn that Tolkien cared more about the story than the lore. Authors today should take note.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This Sunday I will be at Cape and Cowl Con! Find me tabling with my friend @xkassandracruz.bsky.social and so many other amazing cartoonists this Sunday! The event is FREE for all, organized by @capecowlcomics.bsky.social and held at Faction Brewing in Alameda!

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some cephalopods for #invertefest in a plate from an oversized folio of cephalopod & echinoderm illustrations in my personal library from ‘Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature’ published in Paris in 1791.

Detail of an 18the century engraving from an oversized book of different cephalopod species including octopus.
On the bottom are two views of the same species, one facing so the underside is visible. Also drawings of egg sacs.

🐙 🦑 🐡 #sciart

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP Dolly Parton (1946 - 2026)

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

taking a break from my 9 to 5 to practice a little self care. rest in peace to a legend.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the film of The Odyssey, Sinon tells Odysseus “feel free to add some stuff,” and I think Christopher Nolan took that to heart.

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Max Temescu @maxtemescu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I had not heard of #InverteFest before, but I definitely have them crawlies

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Rich conservatives love to quote the Bible but never the part where Jesus says: “give away everything you own and follow me.”

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

every progressive social movement in history has required support from members of the dominant social hierarchy

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

thread on the importance of biology literacy in understanding our modern world

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

97% reduction in the Giant Australian Cuttlefish population following last summer’s fatal algal bloom is devastating. Cephalopod populations *can* rebound relatively quickly, and I hope in this case they do, but I’m worried nonetheless.

A watercolor and ink painting of a giant Australian cuttlefish in the foreground in red and purple and orange with the ghosts of cuttlefish in the background

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A Muppets Shakespeare would be incredible. Why haven’t they made thirty of them already

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