iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 3h

Nerdy has been dealing with far too much lately, anything can help literally keep them off the streets

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 9h

I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 9h

Today in "absolutely not"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15h

fantastic work here, a service to history

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I lived through decades of people saying THC will turn people into violent rage zombies and now you can get it next to the mixers and no one cares

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm speaking at Roguelike Celebration this year! Come see me talk about the only three games that matter: Blackjack, Skull, and Can't Stop

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Random encs are a perfect tool for old-school dungeon-crawler style of RPG: they're all about getting as deep as you can with the resources you have. Taking a step is a risk and battle is a resource sink. The more an RPG is in that resource-attrition mode of play, the more appropriate they get

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John Harris @rodneylives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you know now many posts Set Side B (setsideb.com) has? We're at around 4½ years of updating daily, so it's quite a lot, as I'm discovering doing a site export.

Just a bunch of post titles from Set Side B

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026

Hi, I'm looking to speak to people who have left games journalism in the last few years and have gone onto do something else. DMs are open, or luke@aftermath.site, thanks!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/09/2026

Proboards just updated their terms of service for their forum software, essentially saying "you give us the right to use anything you post to train LLMs, and we can also disclose and sell your personal information, fuck you." One of the worst of these I've ever seen. www.proboards.com/tos

15. USER CONTENT

"User Content" is any content, materials or information, not including Personal Information (as defined in ProBoards' Privacy Policy), that You upload or post to, or transmit, display, perform or distribute by means of, the Website, whether in connection with Your use of Services or otherwise. To clarify, You maintain full ownership of all your User Content posted to ProBoards. Because You own Your User Content, under the law, ProBoards requires a license from You before it can allow the User Content to be posted on the Website. For these reasons, the following provision is a necessary part of this Agreement:

YOU HEREBY GRANT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES A PERPETUAL, FULLY PAID-UP, WORLDWIDE, SUBLICENSABLE, IRREVOCABLE, ASSIGNABLE LICENSE TO COPY, DISTRIBUTE, TRANSMIT, PUBLICLY DISPLAY OR PERFORM, EDIT, TRANSLATE, REFORMAT, ADAPT, PREPARE DERIVATIVE WORKS OF AND OTHERWISE USE USER CONTENT (INCLUDING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING BY US AND/OR OUR PARTNERS) IN CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE, SERVICES OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR OR RELATED BUSINESS, IN ANY MEDIUM NOW EXISTING OR LATER DEVISED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY. YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY PUBLISH OR OTHERWISE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION. YOU AGREE TO WAIVE, AND HEREBY WAIVE, ANY CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE EXERCISE BY THE PROBOARDS PARTIES OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY CLAIMS RELATING TO YOUR RIGHTS OF PERSONAL PRIVACY AND PUBLICITY. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THE PROBOARDS PARTIES MAY REMOVE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR USER CONTENT, AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY CLAIMS AND ASSERTIONS OF MORAL RIGHTS OR ATTRIBUTION WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USER CONTENT. YOU WILL NOT BE COMPENSATED FOR ANY EXERCISE OF THE LICENSE GRANTED UNDER THIS SECTION.

You hereby represent and warrant that You own all ri…

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Jill Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last month, a Google alert directed me to an interview I did with cartoonist Matt Furie—creator of Pepe the Frog…only I haven’t done any interview and I’d never even met Furie. So I clicked. "None of this is true": AI, content farms, and one completely made-up article. bsky.app/profile/then...

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We're screening HIGHLANDER for free at 7pm at the Ojai Playhouse tomorrow night in honor of my dad, one of the original film's co-writers. I have no sense of whether any Bluesky people are actually In My Area, but you're invited! ojaiplayhouse.com/event/highla...

A poster showing deep blue and black art from the 40th anniversary release of Highlander. Text reads "Free screening in memory of Peter Bellwood: Highlander, Ojai Playhouse, Tuesday, 9/29, 7pm. Reserve seats at ojaiplayhouse.com"

A film photograph of a cinema marquee showing Bronson Murphy's Law, Walt Disney Cinderella, and Highlander: there can be only one. On the sidewalk in front of the cinema, Peter Bellwood leans against a lamppost. He has a shock of white hair and looks uncharacteristically cool.

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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The thing is that Nadella and the rest of the executive scumbags running the industry don't *want* to make games and sell them for money. They want to invent a new class of rent where people have to pay them forever, which will appeal to investors and make the stock price go up.

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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This country is horrifying

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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lyssa ✨ @lyssahh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You 100% do NOT have to, but if anyone is able to donate a bit to me this coming month I would greatly appreciate it. I owe around $900 in october, and while I'm more than willing to work for that money, it's still a bit overwhelming. My donation link is in my pinned post! ❤️ love u all sm

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 27/09/2026

anyone else getting "access blocked" for pixiv? tried vpn, jp vpn and non-vpn my assumption is american ai scraping bots hit them and cost them a ton of money and this is an improvised fix

Access blocked, you cannot access pixiv from your current environment

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

durability of cd rom's and the destruction thereof, geocities domain, excerpts (circa 2001) web.archive.org/web/20010726...

this is the compact disc for internet explorer after it has been through the microwave. it looks incredibly flaky.

this is the compact disc for internet explorer after it has been in the oven. it looks incredibly warped with little wrinkles.

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John Harris @rodneylives.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think the ultimate solution to the proliferation of generative "AI" in coding tools is to attack the problem from the other direction: creating systems and languages that make software creation much easier, so that no one would want to even use them.

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DiscordianKitty⭐ @discordiankitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I have nothing but contempt for how spineless most people are. "You can't possibly expect a billion dollar company backed by Microsoft to enforce its rules if its going to be inconvenient for them" fucking christ.

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Kurayami Rin 🐺🔪《V-Opalyte》 @kurayamirin.vtubers.social · 27/09/2026

I need game devs to seriously take a look at how people react to finding out there's genAI in games before making decisions like this. As much as I am pro "go do the thing", not everyone is gonna be cut out to make games. Stop using the slop machine just because you don't wanna learn!!

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🌙 CamronJK 🐰 • Enby Bnuuy Vtuber • 🏳️‍⚧️ @camronjk.com · 29/10/2024

Know what my favorite chat rule on Twitch is for any channel? No Pet Names. None. Not dude, not bro, not sweetie, not dear. Someone is being made uncomfortable by it, and I don't want it around. You're gonna misgender, you're gonna trigger someone. No Pet Names!

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Tacomaster Studios @tacomasterstudios.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now, a guide to the various "formulas" used by Hanna-Barbera. Assorted sidekicks with the opposite personality of the star not included.

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Nicole Rodriguez @shnikkles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Resharing this old GF art because of the art show, the art book, and the crazy amounts of cool new stuff on the website! Goddammit I love this show. I miss it all the time ;-;

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/09/2026

I honestly have never considered switching from Google Pixel phones until they sent me a "wanna celebrate destroying the lives of trans people" as a system update.

Android Pixel system update screen, showing Harry Potter customizations as a bullet point.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Pete Skerritt @peteskerritt.com · 27/09/2026

Unfortunately, there will never be agreed-upon criteria for what is and isn’t “retro”— and, worse yet, the term has pretty much been hijacked by influencers to plant flags of expertise on. It’s kinda like… “gamer”, a term that used to work once upon a time, but became synonymous with bad actors.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Act like it.

Graphic with a quote from KAPOW Handbook, it reads:

“People engage with politics when politics engages with their real lives. Give them a reason to show up."

At the bottom, it displays the URL: https://kapow.works/handbook

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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John Harris @rodneylives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gold Stake makes clear what really matters to a good Balatro run, which is ultimately Times Mult, but before that you need high Plus Mult and Chips. Chips and +M keep you going until the xM shows up, and +$ speeds up how much searching you can do for all these things.

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John Harris @rodneylives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, after getting Completionist++ in Balatro, I went back to White Stake, the easiest difficulty, and started going for a long win streak. I'm up to 47 wins in a row! It's amazing how easy it seems after struggling through Gold Stake for so long.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 26/09/2026

If only there was some way for these companies to stop their many civilizations of AI agents from hacking every website on the internet. Perhaps something that controls what traffic leaves their network, like one of those walls you have to prevent fires from spreading.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 24/09/2026

I'm currently the only one of three disabled trans people in my household who can work, but 16 months of being bedridden and an ongoing chronic migraine issue has left us very broke. If you can spare a few dollars, it'd really help, thanks! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

ko-fi.com

Support Alice Averlong ❤️

Become a supporter of Alice Averlong today!

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

HUNKS/TOOLS.GIF

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this isn't conjecture. This is the EXACT reason why one of the quickest ways to shut down a fash with a camera is to start shouting: "this video is brought to you by SquareSpace!" INSTANT demonitization. Because the streaming/social platforms already protect their advertisers more than the state.

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