iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/05/2024

in Japan you can take the Cat Train to the Cat Station to meet the Cat stationmaster, and I think that's beautiful

Tama Densha train running from Wakayama Station to Kishi Station

commuter train decorated with cat themed art

s6atin exterior, building has eyes and ears like a cat

the current stationmaster, Nitima, asleep on a pillow

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10h

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

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IBOL❌👑 @ibol17.bsky.social · 14h

Fighting off a fleet of pirates with weapons like the spinal driver and interceptor array. It's so much fun to take the ships and alien races from my turn-based, tile-based traditional roguelike and turn it into a #bulletheaven / #bullethell #survivorslike store.steampowered.com/app/4511860/...

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 02/10/2026

Spotted on Facebook: sicko game worlds colliding

"My bf is a developer and just made me a program to use his racing pedals to sew realistically. It also adjusts the speed the more you press down the pedal 😭 he just upped my game so hard 🥲🤣
Game: Dressmaker"

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

By popular demand: what I look like with a 5 minute old hair cut

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is (partially) a joke, but more seriously, I have actually found my game designs get better the more I reject conventional wisdom, and explicitly design around my personal strengths I just struggle to give that advice to novices because, weeeeell, your instincts aren't that good yet probably 😭

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Aseprite @aseprite.org · 01/10/2026

Aseprite is 40% off during the Steam Autumn sale, until October 8th! Get it directly from our website: aseprite.org/buy/ or from Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/431730/A...

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Yulia Zhuchkova @avalach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spooky season is open 🎃

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Spock is happy I finished his portrait 🖍️🖖

Cartoon vector illustration of Leonard Nimoy's Mr. Spock, arms crossed, standing at his station of the Enterprise bridge. Made with Affinity Designer.

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Nicole @nicolenab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m at the point where the politicians and oil and gas execs who approve of these projects need to have their home burnt down every time our communities are destroyed by fire.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Sleuth — Joseph Christian Leyendecker, ca. 1906

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mainstream games "journalism" - with a few exceptions - is just plausibly deniable marketing. They are not worried they'll be denied access because they'll miss a juicy story, they're worried because the company won't give them those as dollars. The juicy stories are all adversarial.

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Brad Guigar @bradguigar.com · 30/09/2026

The séance went swimmingly. Who would you try to contact from the great beyond? #HaHaHaHalloween

Halloween Countdown: 31 more days. Five colorful fish gather around a crystal ball for a séance as the ghost of another fish floats above them. One fish looks up and asks, “Uncle Clarence? Is that you?!”

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 30/09/2026

“Ten Thousand Years in Ice” is an early #scifi short story by Robert Duncan Milne (1844–99) where a man frozen in the ancient past is revived in the present. Milne’s documentary style led readers of a Hungarian newspaper to believe it was true #WyrdWednesday #C19 theconversation.com/remembering-...

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Remembering the lost father of American science fiction – and his Scottish roots

Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.

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Mark | Making a Balloon Game @lithiumproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this turned 40 yesterday so don't mind me while I go blast Sea of Madness at full whack.

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WHAT?! Deadlock is one of the few video games I still play on the regular (Bunny Puncher Sinclair!) it's insane that I got a full 6 hero content update, massive VO haul, HUGE content update completely without warning. Didn't even have time to play it this week... 😬

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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

they said I couldn't make a 3D render of a skeleton look like it was from a 60s or 70s film, but what do we have here?

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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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Don Bellenger 𐕣 𖤐 𐕣 @donnotron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I unearthed a bunch of demos from my old goth/wave band and put them up on youtube for posterity. It was really fun to revisit these, some of them's got the juice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e5a...

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Tremor Low Demos - Kiss in the Dark

YouTube video by Don Bellenger

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was laid off in 2023 due to COVID Correction. That was 3 years ago, and it was unnecessary then. It has only gotten worse.

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

From K-D Lab, the same studio that brought us Perimeter. Very hard and weird, and underrated. Might have to reinstall and play it now I know it was updated!

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Somehow missed that "Vangers" got a big official update during the summer. 60 fps support has been merged into the main branch, but also a bunch of mission hiccups that were in the game since 1998 have been fixed as well! store.steampowered.com/news/app/264...

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Vangers - 60 FPS and more! - Steam News

A global update and bug fixes to celebrate 28 years since the game's release

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 28/09/2026

I try to hammer this home in the unfortunately many conversations I have with non-creative normies about the state of games, animation, etc. They have all been lead to think AI is replacing us, and it’s just not true. The money people have by and large just tossed us aside for a shiny new toy!

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

Declines also just correlate with the rise of the AI bubble on somewhat coincidental terms. *all* at-home entertainment was overinvested in during the peak of covid, and we're experiencing a hangover crash from that, for example, which is now being compounded by AI-driven misinvestment.

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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version

YouTube video by Tom Forsyth

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my ordinary life @calne.ca · 27/09/2026

im very busy

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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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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I Die: You Die @idieyoudie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The masterful ethereal wave compositions of Claire Voyant's "Time And The Maiden" are the subject of this month's commentary podcast. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/09/27/w...

idieyoudie.com

We Have A Commentary: Claire Voyant, "Time And The Maiden" | I Die: You Die

The masterful ethereal wave compositions of Claire Voyant's "Time And The Maiden" are the subject of this month's commentary podcast.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Justin Smith @odd-dimensions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Telegram has the absolute worst business model I have ever seen. You are not allowed to block incoming messages from unknown users unless you pay for premium. You get spammed all day by bots unless you give them money. I think I'll just uninstall.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s hard to overstate just how great a social evil the new ubiquity of sports betting has become. Companies like Draft Kings, Fanduel, and all the others are a cancer, preying on addicts and seeking new addicts. It also threatens (and is already undermining) the integrity of sport itself.

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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bring cookies to the job interview. Hand em out. It'll be a hit. Then demand the job in exchange for the antidote.

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 25/09/2026

the obliteration of the video games industry has to be one of the biggest destabilizing events to ever hit the neurodivergent population of earth. this was... the job we could do

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⛤𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖞 𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖞 𝖒𝖆𝖉𝖘⛤ @bigmads.blog · 24/09/2026

I'm having to deal with AI at work now and it's exhausting. I *like* doing research. I enjoy searching for information -- that's why I work in libraries! Why would I want to give that up? Why would I offload the cognitive work I enjoy onto an algorithm??

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