iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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lumpley @lumpley.bsky.social · 8h

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My main contribution to "Batmam comics should deal with crime via systemic reforms" Discourse is that I was a 15 year old with that hot take too. I am now 31, and having grown up, want Batman and his ninja assassin son to punch the evil clown who kills people via laughing gas.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

Subway display ad for meta’s muse ai product billed as “ai that gets it done.” The mascot is a little smiling fuzzy white puppet guy.

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @blackoutprincesses.neocities.org · 28/09/2026

I can't believe Rolling Stone ran an article by somebody who got stomping on the floor mad because they found out that there's a significant proportion of people not getting most of their music recommendations from algorithmic Spotify playlists

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026

Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page

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All Hallows Steve/ComicDeepDive reading X-Men @stevesensible.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some bright spark on Facebook discovered the book from which John Byrne referenced the fight choreography for Iron Fist's fight against the Steel Serpent in Marvel Team-Up #63. I've arranged the photos he used over the panels from the comic:

A page from Marvel Team-Up #63 showing Iron Fist squaring up against another martial arts expert from K'un Lun, The Steel Serpent.
#marvelcomics #comics #comicsky

The same page with photos overlaid, showing the poses which Byrne referenced.

... and the same page with more photos overlaid, including the cover of the book, "Martial Arts of the Orient."

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hana willow 🐯🔮🖤✨ @hanawillow.kim · 25/09/2026

it’s no big deal they probably just said this for no reason and i definitely haven’t been thinking about it for seven years

dylan channeling the hiss in control (2019) and saying “the egg cracks and the truth will emerge out of you.”

dylan speaking to his sister and saying “but in the dream, i was alone, it was just me.”

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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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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1) So You're A Game Designer Who Needs Advice From a Historian? Games with historical/historically inspired settings/themes are great. Occasionally an email pops into my university inbox from someone seeking advice, feedback, consultancy, and so on. As the advice-seeker, what's the best approach?

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.

humblebundle.com

Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics

Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!

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Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the spirit of Borges: Humans are ranked thusly 1. those who don't have a podcast 2. those who do 3. those who have one with a former adversary 4. those who have taken a vow of silence 5. those who have taken such a vow, yet still podcast 6. those who have one with a current adversary 7. (cont)

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you think of it, artificial intelligence is ableist and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper Marxist movement should seek to abolish it.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am generally against both prisons & capital punishment but I would gladly man the electric chair in the dungeon where the people who made this magazine belong

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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We're sorry...

... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Because Tilly is a pretty object made to be used by men, so of course it’s a “she” to them. Whereas trans woman clearly have interiority & agency who use it to refuse their bullshit hierarchy, so of course we are villainous subhuman monsters undeserving/incapable of having true personhood.

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Marcos Martín @panelsyndicate.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Batman Day.

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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Ed Sheeran of nations.

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"we asked a statistical model of the english language whether we should bomb a boat" what the fuck are we even doing here

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SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hitman debuted 30 years ago, and over its 60 issues, it became one of the weirdest — and best — comics in DC's history. But how did Garth Ennis, John McCrea, and friends turn a Bloodlines breakout into an iconic character? There's only one way to find out. This is the oral history of Hitman.

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“There Was Something About Tommy”: An Oral History of Hitman - SKTCHD

Let's celebrate one of DC's weirdest — and best — comics by telling its story.

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played and expose your gaming habits. (You have to do this. I am in fact a cop FREEZE PERP) Daggerheart TEETH (Blood Cotillion) Dueling Fops of Vindamere Unknown Armies 3E (some of these didn't get past character generation yet, but hey, chargen is a form of play)

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Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stafford Beer puts it best. "The purpose of a system is what it does. There is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do". Our unemployment system is supposed to be a safety net that supports people to find jobs. In reality, it is a misery farm.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So: my pal @katydidinoz.bsky.social has started a digital literary magazine and podcast called Enough Trope, which is a serious look at genre fiction in Australia. I was thrilled to be her first podcast guest - but beyond that, thrilled about the whole overall project, which absolutely rules.

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Reverse Age Gap — Enough Trope

with Jodi McAlister

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Forgot this was the last thing we ever posted on FAPS

Tweet from June 2023: "Call them TERFs or assholes or whatever you want. Fuck 'em."

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think this thread has cleared up a lot for me in terms of how the bsky mods think "toxicity" is about being or appearing mean. You can say the most vile shit imaginable, but so long as it's said calmly, you're not going to get banned, and that "howdy neighbour!" attitude is all they want here

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Ken Lowery @kenlowery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some days I think Kaleb Horton's "the liars are coming" thing was the only prophecy worth a damn

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Your Grandad Cyclops talks about his school days

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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fuck it… I just posted this on Patreon, but I’m quite pleased with it and I’m a thirsty boy so I’m posting it here as well. I’ll hate it tomorrow, I’m sure. I’ve been reading a lot of Dredd lately and felt moved by the thrill power

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alex䷰trismegistus @technihilism.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

you have more to fear from some shitty language model being used to mask corporate denial of providing you medical care than a fucking speak&spell manifesting nanobots or basilisks and it's something everyone should genuinely be angry about

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Diva Plavalaguna will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Photo of Diva Plavalaguna, the blue-skinned alien opera singer from the movie 'The Fifth Element'

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A thing about ‘cancelling’ is that honestly I don’t have room for more than three or four bits of knowledge about a lot of famous people and if one of them is “has shitty opinions on something I care a lot about” that’s going to become very salient

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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Matt D. Wilson @mattdwilson.net · 14/09/2026

Whether it's going to change the world and take everyone's job or kill us all in four years, the people who make AI just want to be sure we all know it's very HARMFUL, POWERFUL and EFFECTUAL and not a load of mostly useless trash that makes food look like it's full of spiders

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Can’t believe I’m rooting for Macklemore in 2026

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 12/09/2026

if the computer creates a simulation of me to torture for all time because i didnt help it come into being i will simply kick its ass and take over computer hell. computers dont have hands i could easily win a fight with it

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

D&D is the breezy improv game about running a coffee shop with a witch in the alps and her cat, and that's why we need a game that centers on tracking HP, spells per day, X/day abilities, special points of various sorts, and of any of those run critically low everybody has to stop and take a nap

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The evil AI copied itself onto the internet! No stoping it now! That's just Skynet or Ultron. Those stories rely on magic, and the audience suspends disbelief because the plot is cool. Makes no sense for AI that needs giant datacenters or live connections to them. Can we deal with reality, please?

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Patrick O'Duffy @patrickoduffy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Melbourne sunrise says Trans Rights.

The dawn sky over Melbourne, with houses silhouetted by the blue sky and glowing pink clouds

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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