iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The older I get, the more exhausting it is.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Finally feel like I've recovered from Anime Expo. Just in time to start prep for Quakecon.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'm hoping to use this opportunity to become more fluent with my Japanese as well as inspiration to grow as an artist. If you are in the Sapporo or Tokyo area sometime, please hit me up so we can connect while you are in the area! 🧡

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Life update! (Sorry. I know I'm never on here.) I'm excited to announce that I am going be spending a lot more time in Japan! My partner is attending a Japanese language school for the next 2 years in Sapporo and I am joining her with our two kittos for this new adventure.

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

WOOWWW,,, this just hit $100,000. Keep it up cuz it’s going directly to them in Vegas 👍🏾

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

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Sarah Dope @sarahdope.com · 22/01/2026

A thread. 👇

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

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Ash Parrish

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That is a gorgeous sleeve!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Might as well post here. Times are hard so I'm letting go of a few of my more precious collectibles. I'm selling my Mass Effect Garrus statue, my PlayStation Journey statue, and my beloved Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue. Any help spreading the word is greatly appreciated.❤️ Links below. 1/2

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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead. Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today. QRP with your links!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

1/4 Garrus statue by Gaming Heads ebay.us/m/iHgZlS PlayStation Journey statue ebay.us/m/7qKTvT Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue ebay.us/m/P8LcM7

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I appreciate you but it's mostly just trying to get myself in a better position financially to support my kids.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

1/4 Garrus statue by Gaming Heads ebay.us/m/iHgZlS PlayStation Journey statue ebay.us/m/7qKTvT Destiny Launch 3A Mara Sov statue ebay.us/m/P8LcM7

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 06/11/2025

In 48 hours, me and the rest of the Cascadian Gamers will be playing games for 25 hours straight to help raise money to help kids through @extralife4kids.bsky.social. Every $10 donated through me or any of the Cascadian Gamers gets you a chance to win an amazing prize! bit.ly/CGELGlenn25

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Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 02/11/2025

Help me help kids by donating to ensure that they get the medical care they need! New incentive raffle! $10 gets you a chance to win a Destiny Holiday Pack, filled with Destiny themed baking stuff, some gacha emblem packs, and a glass ornament! Only 50 tickets available! DONATE: bit.ly/CGELGlenn25

A Destiny Holiday Pack, including a Cayde apron and baking mitt, three spatulas with class symbols on them, a recipe guide for various Star Baker cookies, an engram themed tray mitt, a silicone ghost mold, three gacha emblem packs, and a glass ornament!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

California will start producing and selling its own supply of low-cost insulin in January. The suggested price for consumers will be no more than $55 for a pack of five pens. Currently even generic insulin typically costs about $260 for a pack of five. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin

Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is why they’re deleting studies

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 26/07/2025

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

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Cooperstreaming ♿️ @cooperstreaming.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

embarrassing myself

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22/07/2025

18,000. That's the low and conservative estimate for the amount of children Israel has violently massacred in the past 600 days. That's a kindergarten class of 30 every single day. Speaking of, Israel literally bombed a kindergarten yesterday. I'm not sharing the video, but it is horrifying.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I heard so many stories like this when researching my piece on engineers and scientists leaving the U.S. or planning to. It was really astonishing, some of their tales

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2025

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Imagine being part of a floundering political establishment at historic lows in favorability, seeing this guy's absolutely infectuous energy, and deciding to try to stop it through an array of embarrassing media appearances and editorial blunders.

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michael (blizzcon attender) @blastbody.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

In order to comply with the WARN Act, people are still "employed" for 60 days, that's the window of time for unions to bargain to save jobs Also, for the love of god, journos, don't start posting in 2 months "more layoffs this week!" They already happened. You are hurting, not helping

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Cortana 👻 @cortanav.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Shut the ✨fuck✨ up.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq. archive.ph/tfOaG

100,000 Dead: What We Know About Gaza's True Death Toll

The death toll in Gaza, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, understates the true scale of the crisis, researchers say. Hunger, disease, and Israeli gunfire at food distribution centers have made the war in the Strip one of the bloodiest of the 21st century

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Back in Okinawa for a couple days. Always feels surreal to be back here.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This seems to be a bigger deal than I was expecting on reddit lol

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I still don't understand how we found this.

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John @oldmankaidan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Found something pretty amazing at a second-hand store in Sapporo today. Twin Peaks Box Set on VHS. All except one are still sealed. Never been opened. Released in 1992(?) #TwinPeaks

Opened boxset of Twin Peaks on VHS. Shows the blue booklet that comes with the set.

Open boxset of Twin Peaks on VHS. All cassettes are still sealed aside from cassette 14.

Opened booklet from the Twin Peaks boxset. Shows a photo of David Lynch.

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aXL99 _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hey artists! My WebGlaze invites have been restored, I've caught up on my backlog and now I've got roughly 13 more invites I can give out until next Wednesday Reply here if you'd like one!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It would be great if America’s pundits would pause this entire genre. “Burning down my house means I don’t need to take out the trash!” Your cleverness is not winning the day right now.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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