iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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NihonTiger @nihontiger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Pope says your AI art sucks.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I likely don't even need to tell you but this smirking piece of human shit is Rupert Murdoch. Him and his repulsive brood have probably done more damage to global media in general than any other individual, but to British media in particular.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, i, and Metro are all owned by one guy who is literal dynastic nobility.

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Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere - Wikipedia

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People talk about how transphobic, ableist, sexist and racist British media is, and don't get me wrong, they're right to do so, but not enough people understand WHY. It's because it is an incestuous hive of cronyism and nepotism shot through with abject corruption.

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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do not think it is much of an exaggeration to say that British media is one of the least trustworthy institutions on the planet.

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 22/09/2026

Don’t call layoffs and closures stuff like “reset” or “refresh” or “rejuvenation” or “rejigger” or “reshuffle” unless you’re trying to get clapped.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

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Dr. Funk McLovin @funkmclovin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Articles about video games titled "Hope is Gone" or "There Is No Roadmap" or "All Is Lost, Permanently." I am truly sorry to those who don't exclusively play games like Terraria and Factorio

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Palette Swap @paletteswap.site · 23/09/2026

have you heard this fact about the limited edition Xbox?

Xbox Unveiled a limited edition "Xbox 25" branded console. This is not a celebration of Xbox's 25th anniversary, but an acknowledgement that the division only has 25 months left in business.

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🐝Nick🐝♥️💜💙 Birth Month 🎃🎃🎃 @bananabumblebee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can't believe no one's shared Johnny Five-Dicks yet

A screenshot of a Tumblr post, with gifs from the movie X-Men the Last Stand. It's the scene where Rogue comes in wondering if the government actually has a mutation cure and Storm dismissing her saying there's nothing wrong with them. The text above the gifs reads thusly;
"Finally, a cure for my chainsaw hands!" Decreed Chainsaw-Hands Joe.

"There's no cure," said Johnny Five-Dicks. "There's nothing wrong with us."

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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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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i would, without a second thought, run over a human with my car to protect this guy

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 18/09/2026

no one was on sonic team's level. from like 1998 to 2006 they did not know what shame was. and it was stupid. and it was beautiful. shadow the hedgehog died for the sins of man and then omega crucified him

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 18/09/2026

you cant marry sonic. but you can take the memories of your whirlwind affair with sonic with you your whole life and let it make you a better person. this is genuinely the message of sonic 06

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m really trying not to go for cheap heat on here but you can write off any politician that does not support trans rights without equivocating because it’s the morally correct thing to do and additionally because it means they’re not above selling anyone out.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's important to remind everyone that some absolute madlad, before LLMs ruined all mod voice acting forever, got a girl into a recording booth and redid every single voice line in Deus Ex to let you play as a girl www.moddb.com/mods/the-lay...

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The Lay D Denton Project mod for Deus Ex

The Lay D Denton project is an effort to provide a FULL seamless female JC Denton experience. Features include: -A complete female JC voiceover -Female JC model -All pronouns and gender references mod...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

These dipshits made TheFlow quit??? Fuck you!!!

"I am stepping away from the PS5 scene and stopping all my work on PS5 Linux," posted TheFlow. "After pouring my heart and months of my life into it, including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down the sink. The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand.
Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony."

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/09/2026

Phew, what a relief.

Headline from cosmopolitan.com:
No, it’s not just you — animated foxes actually *are* hot as hell

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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ah yes, election watch, also known as "elaborate stats indicate half of the population is fascist".

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 13/09/2026

Oh for SURE. Like the older Metroids aren't big A Action games. You're exploring and platforming and like Mario, there is some built in weirdness to the movement. Each game designs movement to match the goals and the screen! The point of movement isn't to "Feel good" in giant air quotes.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 13/09/2026

So funny that some people treat Super Metroid as an inaccessible game because it controls a little weird. Or honestly that people treat any of these games as inaccessible. They were made for children!! They were all like the easiest shit you could find that was actually good when they each came out!

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Trumpet @standing720.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If someone is interested in the new Metroid but never played them before, I think they should start with Super Metroid and then play whatever But I also just think that about most video games Like if you wanna play GTA6 but you haven’t played Super Metroid, you should start with Super Metroid

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"One more thing Miss Barlow... you were about 14 in 2001, and you grew up in the UK, so why did they dismiss your school at noon on 9/11, when the attacks would have happened around 2 pm your time? I just don't understand how the school knew the attacks would be happening later"

Columbo (Peter Falk) asking one more question

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Shane Phillips 🏳️‍⚧️ @shanephillips.northsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Democrats are more right wing than the Republicans were 50 years ago. And in the UK, Labour are more right wing than the Tories were 50 years ago. Have you people seriously not worked out what "lesser evil" voting does yet?

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this website, distilled:

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much like your ghosting @mlyp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This image was posted on Something Awful within the hour of the second tower being hit iirc

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barleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

27 years on, and The Matrix is still never beating the coolest shit ever allegations.

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Ripperley @ripperley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The other half of the pair reinforcing their dynamic less than a week later I see.

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Ripperley @ripperley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Evergreen.

"Sony is run by people who would drown if it rained and they still have no competition because Microsoft is the 8 year champion of Slamming Your Dick in the Car Door."

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Ripperley @ripperley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sometimes too much repetition gets stale but over the course of any MG1 MSX playthrough "I forget to tell you" slowly become the funniest five words in the English language.

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Edwyn "Omahdon" Tiong @edwyntiong.com · 06/09/2026

I do not have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, nor the courage to change the things I can, and am too much of an anxiety-ridden stressed out mess to know the difference.

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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

All Playstation 2 games can be sorted into three distinct categories; Dreamcast, Playstation 2 and Xbox 360 light.

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Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

Constant, pressured rejection of a technology that is demonstrably ruining cities, environments, and ecosystems is actually 100% rational. I don't care if it makes you little treats, it's literally burning the world. Every time you allow it to operate, you are creating demand for it.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 05/09/2026

I feel this so bad I remember when MFers were fighting for 140 characters in Twitter like "Nooo if we add more it won't be as funny!" like shut up!!! I was on tumblr and those crazy bitches are way funnier! Also way less funny! At the same time! Gimme the long posts!

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