iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

sometimes I gotta do all these dots to feel alive

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This needs quite a bit of signatures and you can just be a comic reader to sign it. You ever read Hellboy and want to help the next generation of creators make their Hellboy, this is the kinda stuff we got to do to ensure that. Sick of seeing corp mindsets destroy creative life’s into nothingness

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Ignore the poor video quality and enjoy a live performance overflowing with pure joy. The dance at the end is bittersweet today. RIP Glen Hansard.

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The Swell Season - Heyday (Bonnaroo 2008)

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

allow me to surf on odyssey hype to repost an old piece from 2013 Penelope, Queen of Ithaca - 30x40cm ink on claybord

a black and white scratchboard illustration depicting Penelope, queen of Ithaca waiting for Odysseus. She is standing at the edge of a small stone platform, the sea right underneath, like by a ray of light, wrapped in black robes. Behind her, stairs climb back up the hill behind tall pine trees. In the distance, a square palace sits on the top of the hill, with light coming from the windows.

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Dave Chisholm @davechisholmcomics.com · 26/07/2026

IS TED OK? issue 6! Does it finally answer the question?! Read the thrilling 40-page conclusion to find out! Hits comic shops this Wednesday, July 29. It looks great and I’m so proud of it!!

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

EM DASHES returns with a question. What happens when the world's most rational-minded filmmaker decides to adapt a work of fantastical mythology? What is gained, and what is lost? buttondown.com/riqkquinn/ar...

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A Rational Fantasist

Ever since it was announced, my anticipation for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been cautious. I’ve held a lifelong interest in Greek mythology; I am a...

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Everyone (rightfully) denounced Scorsese's AI endorsement. But did you watch the accompanying video? It's even worse than you think. Join me in the latest EM DASHES as I go through nearly frame by frame, articulating just how stupid and unnecessary this all is. buttondown.com/riqkquinn/ar...

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The Last Temptation of Marty

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to type prompts into generative AI systems.” Last week, the New York Times ran a headline that made my blood...

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The Last Temptation of Marty

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to type prompts into generative AI systems.” Last week, the New York Times ran a headline that made my blood...

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Much like the lady raptors at a certain theme park, I enjoy being described as "clever." Here's me exploring why—and whether that impulse is a good thing?—along with thoughts on Okkervil River's "Lost Coastlines," a pop sea shanty that will excite your body and your mind in equal measure.

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The Outliers: "Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River

It only took a year of procrastination, but I’ve finally updated my online store. You have an online store, you ask?? Yeah, I’m not the best at self-...

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The Outliers: "Lost Coastlines" by Okkervil River

It only took a year of procrastination, but I’ve finally updated my online store. You have an online store, you ask?? Yeah, I’m not the best at self-...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Today's EM DASHES newsletter: exploring the sonic cotton candy of Vetiver's "Wonder Why", a song I've listened to just shy of a billion times and it never gets old.

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The Outliers: "Wonder Why" by Vetiver

This is part of a new series where I thumb through my music collection and write 500 words or less about a song I love. I’m organizing them around a theme....

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I could name a dozen Oasis songs I know by heart. Blur? Not so much. This is the first in a series I'm calling THE OUTLIERS. What's the hook? Other than this one song I love I’m either: oblivious to the respective artist’s discography, or I've heard the rest and I'm not a fan. This one's the latter.

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The Outliers: "Sweet Song" by Blur

This is part of a new series where I thumb through my music collection and write 500 words or less about a song I love. I’m organizing them around a theme....

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The Outliers: "Sweet Song" by Blur

This is part of a new series where I thumb through my music collection and write 500 words or less about a song I love. I’m organizing them around a theme....

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Grave robbing is bad! Profiting from the dead is not cool! The human soul is worth defending!" and other things I thought were obvious but I guess not. New EM DASHES newsletter inspired by the news of an upcoming movie "starring" an AI-generated Val Kilmer.

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Bringing Out the Dead

Thoughts on the unholy resurrection of my favorite Batman

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New EM DASHES inspired by that stupid New York Times article/poll about "worst casting choices in movies ever":

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Casting For Engagement

On bad faith actors writing about acting, badly

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

New edition of my EM DASHES newsletter this morning. No longer on Substack! I talk through how the rogues' gallery photo of tech billionaires at the inauguration last year inspired me to remove Google, Amazon, Meta, et al. from my life (as much as possible) and reclaim my attention and my soul.

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Em Dashes finds a new home

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

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Rick Quinn @riqkquinn.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

my dentist: so, have you been keeping up with your flossing? me:

The Mouth of Sauron, from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Read SPECTRUM #1. It's a dazzling and gorgeous debut issue unlike anything else on shelves right now. @davechisholm.bsky.social is in a league of his own. @riqkquinn.bsky.social's script is lyrical and layered. Seek it out. You will not be disappointed.

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