iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ChitinKindred @chitinkindred.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Life is truly absurd but most importantly it's really fucking funny sometimes and that's why you have to keep living

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EngineTrap @enginetrap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Free Palestine, Free Ukraine, Free Cuba and Venezuela and wishing the best to my Brazilian friends so they get to keep their democracy too. Imperialism is the enemy, thats all.

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EngineTrap @enginetrap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I keep seeing this attitude in this site and with things getting even sourer in LATAM due to US interference I guess I have to say it but: You can and should support Palestine without putting down other conflicts around the world. Playing misery Olympics helps no one, We are all in this fight.

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koebi @growlithe.online · 26/09/2026

tell your friends you love them every day if you want to love is love is love is love, saying it more often can't dilute its meaning you can't say it too much tell your friends you love them

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EngineTrap @enginetrap.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

pretty interesting question.

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✦. @beastbait.art · 17/09/2026

Lean into this push. Please. Cling to hope for a much, much better world. Believe that you deserve more, that you don’t deserve this stress.

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Eric W. Schwartz @ericwschwartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's kinda hard to believe that Sabrina Online has been going regularly for 30 years (save for a little break around 2016), but here we are. Thanks to everyone out there new & old who have read, enjoyed, and supported Sabrina over all these years! sabrina-online.com #SabrinaOnline #SabrinaOnline30

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Eltonpot Toons @eltonpot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In 1996, Eric W. Schwartz (@ericwschwartz.bsky.social) debuted his webcomic "Sabrina Online". The series grew alongside the internet itself, and certainly influenced several artists around the world. In its 30 years, I'd like to thank Eric for sharing his great talent & humor with us! 🎂🦨

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Service Heckhound 🏳️‍⚧️🐕‍🦺 🔜 MFF, Magfest @harleighdog.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

genuinely, *any* brand that is still doing harry potter collabs in 2026 is dead to me if you are gleefully putting money into the pockets of a violently transphobic billionaire, you are just as much of a direct threat to me and my community as she is it really is that simple and that serious

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Actually you know what, let me just

A still of the character Chihiro in the film “Spirited Away”. A character called No Face is offering her a pile of false gold that has been edited and overlayed with the logos of Claude, OpenAI and Grok. She is saying, “I don’t want any. I don’t need any.”

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEAR THEY GOT A COMPUTER FOR THAT NOW.

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Xydexx Unicorn 🦄💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @xydexxunicorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Good morning. If you want to draw but don't think you're good enough, remember this advice from Jake The Dog of Adventure Time. And then go draw things. Don't be afraid. You can do it. I love you. ❤️ #FuckAI

A pink post-it note pencil sketch of Jake The Dog from Adventure Time with the quote "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something." - JAKE THE DOG

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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*Nurbs @nurbs.ca · 26/08/2026

I am not a great singer but I am always walking around my home, singing little songs to Flora, or my cat, or my fish, or nothing at all. It's good for the brain, I recommend it to anyone!

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Tansy, barking quietly @offbeatbarking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s okay to just unfollow me if you hate babyfurs. i am not a babyfur but i don’t fuck with furries who go out of their way to do shit like stand in front of the baby lounge and stalk people when they could just go be fucking normal and hang with their friends WHICH IS WHAT THE BABYFURS ARE DOING

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B'alith Tia | 7.56 spoilers @inmyleylines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.

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twist @twist.dog · 21/08/2026

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Équipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

good morning: once again, this account’s stated policy is to bring you every Hyena that gets listed around the globe and today we’re fulfilling that mission www.metcalfecars.com/lancia-hyena

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/home/itsoasus @itsoasus.com · 13/08/2026

This has apparently been fixed since this has been reported, but the fact that it was disallowed in the first place is honestly another black mark on Twitch's reputation :/

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ande ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ @andewitt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

let’s hang out by the field with mama

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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 07/08/2026

grand theft auto six is out in three months and will determine the fate of the entire AAA console video game industry and also we still don't know what you do in it that's different from grand theft auto five

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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

be punk this weekend fam

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Lead Paw Racing @leadpawracing.com · 29/07/2026

Ever see the worlds fastest Twingo? 🔥✨ Ari's made it through qualifying and is about to race in the Rauh Racing Twingo Cup today at 1PM Central! Gold looks quite good on the TwinGOAT dont you think?🏆 @temtem79.bsky.social #SimRacing #Twingo #AssettoCorsa

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horse c. @horseonvhs.com · 27/07/2026

twipie comic from 2023

A comic featuring Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie.
p1: Pinkie zooms up to Twilight with a gift box on her head. Pinkie: Oh Twilight: Guess who got you aaaaa present! Twi: For me? Aw, Pinkie, that's so sweet of you.
p2: Twilight opens the box with her magic. Pinkie: Open it open it open it! Twilight, smiling: ok, ok
p3: Twilight lifts the contents of the box. It's a mug.
p4: She looks at the mug, which reads "Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee"
p5: She stares.
p6: She begins to laugh. Twi: *snrk*

p7: Twilight laughs while Pinkie smiles at her. Twi: Hahahahaha *snort* haaahahaha ahehehehehehe
p8: She gestures at Pinkie with her elbow. Twi: uh huh huh huh don't talk-- heehee! don't talk to me until I've--
p9: she flops to the floor; Pinkie looks surprised. The mug moves out of frame. Twi: huhuhuhHAhahahaha hee! hee! ahaha hahahahahaa
p10: She is curled up slapping the floor, laughing hysterically, tearing up. Pinkie, smiling, steps towards her. Twi: Heeheeheehee hahahahaha uh huh huh *snrk* ahahaheehee
p11: Pinkie sets her head on top of Twilight's. Twi, tears in her eyes, looks up to her. Pinkie: So you like it? Twi: *snort* yuh huh

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cinder @cinderkatt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

tea with the 30 year old mouse woman

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Pat "Peppermint" Fleck @pastelflecktarn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And FWIW, I think you're picking up track stuff! - but you just push yourself too hard sometimes. Sim rally is absolutely just as overwhelming if you dive into the deep end - but you don't start rallying with RBR marathons. Let yourself take time to learn things one at a time. You've got it. <3

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Pat "Peppermint" Fleck @pastelflecktarn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Celebrating progress is always worth it! And I wouldn't call your preferred discipline a "comfort zone" - rally is challenging in its own right. Celebrating progress is how we acknowlede how far we'd come and how we find the will to keep going forward still. it's how you give yourself due credit.

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𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮 @hotchickhell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

As of late

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 19/07/2026

had this pulled up for my freelancing guide how topical indeed

A screenshot of a tumblr post.

From user radiqueer:
Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget.

From user aromanticduck:
Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

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Shapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In light of Microsoft being cunts, I just want to say: hey if you loved fallout, you can just make your own post-post-apocalypse setting and have campy fun with it. There has literally never been a better set of circumstances to imagine what a future after global disaster looks like.

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Shapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Make it aggressively solar punk, make it unabashedly queer, think about musical instruments around a campfire, think about make shift collaboratives, think about using the glass-roofed atriums of malls as year round greenhouses, consider roaming bands of bycicle repair transexuals.

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Shapeless Ink (but spooky) @shapelessink.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"But Ink, that doesn't sound campy that sounds almost idealic" YEAH. THAT SHOULD SAY A LOT ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS.

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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

im sorry if this offends but i believe that you are in fact capable of learning new things, improving your skills, becoming a better person, and having a happier life than you currently do.

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Pat "Peppermint" Fleck @pastelflecktarn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

That is such a mood, dog, same here. So many projects waiting that I keep telling myself I'll get to. Just gotta keep track and don't lose sight of 'em, girl. We'll get it all done yet. <3

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Pat "Peppermint" Fleck @pastelflecktarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Incredibly happy to have taken part!! It may just be a P5 here, but that number does no justice to the fight for it. <3 Thanks for having me on, y'all.

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DOGBOX 🐶🌄🏆 @dogboxracing.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

That's a wrap on our first ever in team event! After our double sprint, we have our confirmed prize winners and driver standings. We hope to see you in the future for the return of the Touge Terrier Cup, and congrats to all our competitors who participated today! 🐶🏁