iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2024: every bug bounty program shuts down because of a flood of bogus AI generated bug reports 2025: open source repos begin closing submissions because of AI generated PRs 2026: Anthropic begins trialing AI generated police tip line calls

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'd been eyeing that up for doing something similar. Glad it's working well for you :)

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

women can do anything

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Clover @cloverpatchmouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gaia online my beloved

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

So turns out the answer to “if Franklin knew it was a helix why wasn’t it in her notes” turns out to be “because the famous photo was a second, better photograph she took for accuracy and all the useful notes stayed with the earlier flawed photo where she talks about it being a helix.”

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

respectfully, you are absolutely wrong. being banned is *always* bad for authors, even in the EXCEEDINGLY rare case that they make some list that people go to. because the goal is for most of us that KIDS have access. and ANY kid that doesn't is an arrow straight thunk to my heart

I still remember when getting banned in visiting on your book cover was a guarantee of extra sales. this is different, but I think there is still some merit in being banned. it depends on who's going the banning and why

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Dennis Furia @furiagames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tickled with my contribution to a discussion about life lessons learned from XCOM 2.

Image of Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/1ww3hxx/comment/pdjnia4/

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I released The Lighthouse Box today. I'm just going to let it do its thing and check on it in a week. #mmromance #booksky Here is the link if you want to pick it up. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFTSDJFT

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Kara Corvis @karacorvis.vtubers.social · 26/09/2026

TLDR: Game is made by nazis

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Natalie Cannon @nmcannon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

September newsletter! Shakespeare says free potatoes & gay marriage for everyone. LTE has a mysterious bug, yearning for a non-existent text file. Book & game news holds hope, sorrow, & analysis. And 1 article about the dictionary #IndieGameDev #BookSky nataliecannon.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/d...

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Do you remember, that day in September

When I posted my neewwwsletter! Hi everyone! What a whirlwind end of summer and start to fall! This year is ending up very Shakespearean for me. I’m incredibly lucky to have seen a ballet ver…

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Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION @yourdadloves.me · 18/09/2026

People would be shocked how often a romance mechanic is planned or pitched for a game that could genuinely benefit from it, only to be blocked by a single oldhead dude in leadership despite everyone else being into the idea because he thinks romance game play is "weird" or "cringe."

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 17/09/2026

To all the folks frustrated by Google and how they have ruined their own search with genAI slop: I cannot stress enough that there are other search engines out there. They offer little-to-no genAI slop*. Are they AMAZING? No, but they are passable, workable options.

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Search Engines That Don't Use AI: 8 Options | The Write Direction

Looking for search engines that don't use AI? Compare 8 private, link-first options, learn what "no AI" means in practice, and how to turn off AI in Google.

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well, that's a new one. A game dev saying they have to use LLM voice gen because casting a human to play their robot character would be cultural appropriation 🙄

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Natalie Cannon @nmcannon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Since it's Sapphic September AND Werewolf Wednesday, you should play the demo of my sapphic werewolf interactive fiction. Break the Masquerade. Kiss girls and 1 enby. Adopt lovable teen. Save "Dracula's" wives. www.choiceofgames.com/user-contrib...

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Moonrise

Teeth, fur, kisses, bone. Date and thrive in the queer supernatural underground.

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some deals on my books today! #booksky #queerbooks #gayficiton #horror #SciFi #EbookDeal #Kindle Brief Pose is FREE. (Science Fiction Drama) www.amazon.com/dp/B01KKVYPEA/ The Forgiving is $0.99. (Horror) www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZZIEX2/

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeah it's sort of interesting that if the tech lives up to the hype of the "adopt it or get left behind" folks then all the 'skills' those folks want us to adopt and learn are gonna be useless if the tech matures the way want it to.

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Fraternity Box: A Mystery Box Romance is £0.99 for UK readers. College rivals isolated together over winter break receive a mysterious invitation from a closed fraternity in this spicy paranormal romance. #mmromance Link: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX36SDHM

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

📖 Who We Could Be by Chelsea M. Cameron ➡️Dual POV/dual coming out romance inspired by Anne of Green Gables with a modern twist. ✂️Bffs to lovers 🥵butch/femme 💋Practice kisses 📚Bookseller/Librarian 🍁Fall vibes 🏠Small town books2read.com/u/bMXQJ5

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Who We Could Be by Chelsea M. Cameron

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol that's fair. Elden Ring didn't really vibe for me the same way their Souls games did so I haven't had that problem.

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yeah, sounds like a good plan, it's a lot of fun :)

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tomorrow, The Fraternity Box: A Mystery Box Romance goes on deep discount in the UK. Link: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GX36SDHM

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dragon's Dogma 2 has just had a big engine update in prep for the new Dark Arisen expansion coming soonish, so I've been back checking it out. And oh my gosh, I forgot just how fun exploring it's world was 😁 (and the very noticeable performance improvements help too)

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way

Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's going to be so funny if Sony makes it all the way to trial arguing that "the EULA says you agreed you didn't have any rights" as it wouldn't be the first one of these things a judge has looked and declared it an invalid contract. (which is why they'll probably settle but 🤞)

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New name for Reacher

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 14/07/2026

So, I haven't Formally Announced this anywhere yet, but IT'S NONBINARY DAY and I, A Nonbinary, have something pretty cool coming up. If you like CHAMELEON MOON, and/or Weird, Queer/Trans/Polyam/Disabled-centric, Stubbornly Hopeful Dystopia series finally getting a Book 3, might I suggest...

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Get Ready For Chameleon Moon Book 3: Call The Storm!

From RoAnna Sylver - Get Ready For Chameleon Moon Book 3: Call The Storm!

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The Motel Box is 99 cents today! #mmromance #booksky #deal #ebook Buy it here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3VHCXY9

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ah that first payment is so nice 😁👍

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

there is a terrific essay on m/m romance called “The Shoulder Check Problem” by @nathanburgoine.bsky.social which examines tropes which pull queer readers out of books that weren’t written by or for us, of which a big one is “Happy Ending Requires Queer Protagonist To Reconcile With Bigoted Family”

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The disgraced news reporter seems very timely, but the "if i can just get the story out" optimism of the guy is painfully naive, so comes across as much less of a nutjob as that character type used to as well

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Checked out the new season of Reacher (it's good) and hoo boy does the squeaky clean former military presidential hopeful who earns Reachers respect not hit the way they intended these days lol. (his wife looking like she's from Fox News central casting might be some good foreshadowing tho 🤷)

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

agreed, although it's more the Obsidian jank that puts me off replaying more than the Bethesda jank. I can normally mod out the Beth jank to my liking. It's got some great bits, but the amount you have to slog through to get to those great bits meant I normally ditch replays before getting to them.

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You can now buy all three of my Mystery Box Romance books! #mmromance #booksky 🌶️📚 Each standalone M/M romance delivers an isolated location, intense chemistry, a mysterious box, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ7D94KF

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Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My Mystery Box Romance anthology series is like if The Twilight Zone had a lot of gay sex and romance in every episode. Each story stands on its own. They're short, 50k-65k words. The Cabin Box is the most straightforward (they find a box in the woods). The third one comes out Thursday. #booksky

Welcome to the Mystery Box Romance anthology series, where each box you open reveals a new path to love. From secluded wilderness escapes to the dark academia vibes of university life, each standalone M/M romance delivers an isolated location, intense chemistry, a mysterious box, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

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Hennessey Book of World Records @lordofthekevins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

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ered @ered.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seen some talk of unethical fiction, so here’s my take

Three panel comic titled Unethical Fiction:
1. Made with AI
2. Printed on human skin
3. The author uses their profits to fund a hate group.

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phobosmiller.bsky.social @phobosmiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I really liked how they followed this right through to the ending. With Whiptail and Redback never getting a hero/villain showdown and instead its resolved in a callback to the shared experience Debbie and Judith had on the train.

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