iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Where I will be found for the day/remainder of 2026. #aoty

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

seriously if you're linux-curious but don't wanna fuck up your Important Computer, get a used thinkpad on ebay and pick one of the basic bitch starter distros like mint or ubuntu or cinnamon and play around on it. if you don't vibe with one of those try switching to another before giving up. no risk

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Ever remember Demon's Souls but not most of a year you lived

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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

More parsimonious is that you're just a brain in a sous vide. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vat PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update - Two men are walking in the woods. The first asks the second how he can know that he's a brain in a vat experiencing an illusory reality. The second man's rebuttal to him being in an actual body experiencing a reality is that it would be unreasonable to suggest that an entire cosmos lined up just to give him the experience of walking though a park that morning. The caption below the comic reads : "Technically, external-world skepticism is the most parsimonious theory."

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

think a lot about how this guy thinks parents want kids who run on 4 hrs of sleep

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 24/09/2025

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is here, and it’s an impressive remaster of the classic PlayStation SRPG. For my review, I did something a bit different: Gathered your AMA-style questions, and spilled tea on the new graphics, Delita’s kissability/punchability, difficulty, and more!

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Blame yourself or Kazutoyo Maehiro — Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Spilling all the details on Square Enix's fabulous new remaster of the all-time classic in a AMA-style early review

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 27/08/2025

Jesus fucking Christ. it does not need to be like this.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Me filling out my self-assessment on my annual performance review:

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Pareto Optimizer @paretooptimizer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

It’s so bizarre to me how 2020 shedded these guys’ minds. It was hugely inspiring to me to see a moment of cross-cultural solidarity, but I guess I’m just built different

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I was asked to elaborate on how I've done this. If you also want to do this, do the following: 1) Go to bsky.app/profile/skyw... and click "Subscribe". Set at least "Fully Automated Reply Guy", "Follow Farming" to Hide 2) Go to bsky.app/profile/did:... and bsky.app/profile/did:... + "Block All"

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Apple has gotten shit for not going all-in on AI but they published an interesting paper in response. "Through extensive experimentation across diverse puzzles, we show that frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities." machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

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Nick Wanserski @nickwans.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I just feel here, at the end of the world, I should be able to get Symphony of the Night on Steam.

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

If anyone needs me (including my children) beginning on September 30 you can find me in the world of Ivalice in the Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster and that is where I will remain until further notice.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Love to know about history

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 07/04/2025

THIRD GRADERS. 8 or 9 years old.

Letter about ICE picking up third graders

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

Principal Jaime Cook describes one of the third graders in her northern New York school as particularly rambunctious. In a phone call with me Saturday evening, she says this particular student loves to sing and loves to dance. But last week this child was handcuffed and taken by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with other family members—two of whom are high school-aged kids. While they all remain jailed in Texas, classmates leave cards on the student’s desk and hang a welcome home banner they hope will be seen.

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy New Spiritbox Day to those who observe

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Maybe I’m the only one brave enough to say it but has anyone even considered that maybe our airspace was *too* safe?

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

One washer for dishes and an entirely different washer for clothes. Open your eyes. They are laughing at you

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One Dog’s Opinion 🐾 @onedogsopinion.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

if you missed the last bad thing, stay calm and do not panic, the next bad thing is around the corner and it promises to be even worse. if you’re in line for the next bad thing, STAY IN LINE

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Min-maxing is no longer sustainable. Min-minning seems to be the only viable path at this point.

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Sid Menon @beamsplashx.wethoughtaboutgames.com · 10/02/2025

zsnes... welcome to the resistance

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

On the down side, this week and everything. On the bright side, the critically acclaimed mmorpg final fantasy xiv with a free trial featuring the award winning expansions heavensward and stormblood etc etc

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

New toys acquired, larger pedalboard required.

Picture of a guitar pedalboard featuring a polytune mini tuner, digitech drop, keeley compressor pro, boss metal zone, Fortin Zuul+ blackout, Horizon Devices Apex Preamp, Horizon Devices Precision Drive, and a Boss DD-5 digital delay.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 02/01/2025

thursday with monday vibes

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

FINALLY some good news, NYT Spelling Bee supports dark mode.

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Buying an 8-string guitar will fix me. I know it.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

feeling depressed about how one of the greatest scientific triumphs in history, the rapid development and deployment of the covid vaccine, led to *increased* distrust of vaccines thanks to amoral grifters and fools

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

it's so weird how one side is always trying to suppress the vote and the other is always trying to expand it, I wonder if it means anything! oh well I guess we'll never figure it out.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/10/2024

There are many reasons why Trump must lose. But if you need another one - don't let this maniac take over the FDA

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FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I don't know how this ends, but it's now abundantly clear that It Could Happen Here. I'll never get over the craven blind-eyeing and preemptive supplication from people, groups, and institutions who ought to know better. I hope voters bail us out. But we've been tested. And too many have failed.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/10/2024

Stop Looking At Election Polls. The Polls Only Exist To Make Your Mental Illnesses Worse

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Best time to stop thinking was yesterday, second best time is today

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

A reminder to Americans. In none of our lifetimes.

“Not until 2111 will we have had more years of freedom than of slavery in this country. “

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2024

one of the worst things about the Trump era is that free speech - which most of us are brought up to think of as a bedrock value - has been rebranded as “freedom to be an asshole without pushback” so it becomes closely associated with Trump even though he’s all in on crushing dissent

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Robin Hitchcock @hitchdied.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

This Washington Post report haunts me every day

"Efforts to diversify gender norms face profound technical challenges. For instance, when OpenAI tried to remove violent and sexual images from training data for DALL- E 2, the company found that the tool produced fewer images of women because a large portion of women in the data set came from pornography and images of graphic violence.

To fix the issue in DALL-E 3, OpenAI retained more sexual and violent imagery to make its tool less predisposed to generating images of men."

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eric van allen @seamoosi.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Well, I woke up to a Slack that wouldn't log me in, and an email that says I'm no longer at Gamurs / Destructoid. Didn't even get to say goodbye. So uh, yeah. I'm on the job market! Please hit me up if you have any opportunities. RTs appreciated.

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Damning stuff. Welp, better post more I guess.

A Bluesky image noting this account was user #68562 out of the first 10 million and “elder bluesky certified” as part of the first 1% of users

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2024

I really do need older people to understand that you will absolutely terrorize your millennial and Gen Z colleagues if you, even in complete innocence, schedule last minute meetings with no info on what it’s about

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Ryan McBride @ryanmcbride.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

I am done with “thought provoking.” I have had enough thoughts provoked. It’s a big part of my problem actually. I would like the opposite for a while.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

It just sucks that anyone who wants to complain about dumbass culture war shit gets paid a million dollars by Russia and anyone who wants to investigate corruption in a Sheriff’s Department has to be like “hey can you PLEASE send me five dollars for my newsletter I’m begging you”

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