iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my wife @raywithawhy.bsky.social said "i would eat the shit out of those!" while i said "it's my nightmare!"

Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

how DARE you, silly thai historical drama, for making me cry with your SWEET AND GENUINELY HEARTFELT ENDING??? HOW VERY DaRE yoOOOUUUuuu

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Ray @raywithawhy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me: I'm gonna go to bed early tonight @samarbles.bsky.social: You should, you've had a long week. Me: It's TUESDAY.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Piper is like this. Never pee alone!!!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

who is excited for "why did my insurance deny coverage of my prescription?" Monday?!

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just tried to explain who Nightcrawler's parents are to my wife @raywithawhy.bsky.social and they were like ".....sure." then: "Wait, if Mystique was the father, then who carried him? whose womb was he in??" so i had to explain there's a mutant whose name is Irene Adler - yes like in Sherlock.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026

hating ai is a pro-social activity

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

screaming into the void about my self-paced flexible WFH job suddenly becoming a micro-managed HELLSCAPE

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every time my manager does yet another stupid mico-managing thing that makes me seethe with annoyance, i'm thinking to myself: i am not a teenager, i am 38 years old, you do not need to do the equivalent of telling me to clean my room whole i am already cleaning my room. fuck off into the sun.

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Harebrained @harebrained.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Help me raise some money for my kids’ elementary school! Buy one of these large DRAW pins and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to their arts magnet school! Do it for the kids! www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...

Black enamel pin with red type that says “DRAW” and white lettering underneath that says “To keep kids off generative AI” in the style of DARE program tees.

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Karli! @karlicartoons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've seen people try to rehabilitate roy Lichtenstein among cartoonists. "he brought us into the mainstream" "he made us matter" fuck you. he stole and he profited and he left us in the goddamned dust and so did everybody who forgave him

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ME: it is the middle of September and it is almost 80 degrees outside. it still feels a little early to be drinking pumpkin spice coff- STAPLES: merry christmas you piece of shit

K cup display with peppermint bark coffee and peppermint Swiss miss in goddamn September

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ohio is a fucking CURSED place to live. We have a choice between "openly evil tech bro" (Vivek) or "pretending to not be evil" (Acton) for governor. So for a lot of assholes voting, it's gonna come down to like, "are you more racist or more misogynistic?" and i hate the answer to both.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i love when my cat jumps up next to me on the couch, and instead of cuddling me, sneezes all over my arm in a fine misty spray. gosh thank you so much i feel so blessed. so honored. then she sticks 1 single claw into my flesh, just to make sure i know she loves me. I love you too Fidget, my gremlin.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Redrum @redrua.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Annual reminder that there is a Columbo statue in Budapest and it includes Dog. Happy Birthday, Peter Falk.

Statue of Peter Falk as Columbo with a smaller statue of Dog looking up at him

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI psychosis and anthropomorphizing chatbots are a bigger problem than the risk of spontaneous emergence of super-intelligent consciousness. LLMs can already do a lot, will be able to do more, and are changing society. Yet much of the worry assumes they have dreams, desires, independent thoughts.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Humans see animals in clouds and faces in furniture. We make up inner monologues for our pets. We heard loud noises in the sky and thought it must be gods feeling anger or jealousy. Is it really such a leap to say we have trouble differentiating human-sounding chatbots from human-like intelligence?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/09/2026

We REALLY gotta get this guy elected. If other candidates are getting you down, this is a good campaign to toss some dollars at or volunteer for. abdulforsenate.com

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Home

Abdul El-Sayed is running for US Senate in Michigan to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 08/09/2026

Labor Day may be over, but that doesn't mean that the wins for working people have to stop! Congratulations to Starbucks workers who just won their union elections! 💪CONWAY, AR 💪RENO, NV 💪SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 12/09/2026

Body: The autumn approaches. Consume carbs. Make soup. Me: It was 94 degrees today. Body: Nestle in the bed beneath a mountain of blankets. Me: I was sweating so much I had to change my bra. Body: You crave cozy. Become one with the cozy. Me: I'm going to go sleep face-up in the pool.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026

i am always forgetting to PLUG but today is a good day to tell everyone to listen to TEMPORAL CULTURE WAR, where me and clayton examine america’s deeply fucking sick post-9/11 cultural output while watching a both fairly and unfairly maligned trek patreon.com/temporalculturewar

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it's two things, to me: 1) trans rights matter because trans people matter and deserve rights, not just because failing to stand for trans rights is a bellwether for inauthentic progressivism more broadly 2) if you can't be trusted on trans rights you can't be trusted on anything

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Ray @raywithawhy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Let the youth have sidewalk chalk

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/09/2026

#OtD 8 Sep 1946 numerous empty properties, including 148 luxury flats in the Duchess of Bedford House in Kensington, were squatted by homeless ex-servicemen and their families in London in a wave of occupations across the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1086...

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/09/2026

I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...

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The Starbucks Boycott Heats Up

After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.

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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day, comrades

Miles O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine speaking of his ancestor "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day to those who are relaxing today, and solidarity to those who must work anyways. We have more in common with each other than with our bosses! 🌹🍞💪

Remake of a "loose lips sink ships" propaganda Poster originally by Cecil Calvert Beall. Features two working class men in overalls with two beer glasses in front of them. the man on the left, wearing glasses, is gesturing emphatically as he speaks. the text above and below says: "The Boss needs you, You don't need him! Labor is entitled to all it creates."

Remake of a Poster, by Will Burrows: the man on the left, Star Trek engineering officer Miles O'Brian, is gesturing emphatically as he speaks. Listening to him are: in front, Rom, a bartener at Quark's on DS9; and behind him is Leeta, a Dabo (game similar to roulette) hostess. Miles has a beer and Rom has snail juice (a ferengi favorite!) The background shows that they are seated in Quark's bar. the text above and below says: "The Boss needs you, You don't need him! Labor is entitled to all it creates."

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm ready to blast out a lot more comics like this one that'll never be in The New Yorker or touched by a publisher. thanks to everyone that's backed the kickstarter. y'all bought me a lotta time to work. there's 4 days left of the campaign. plz consider backing www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...

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Good Lord! He Done... Up and Quit!? a CARTOONSHOW collection

take this job & shove it! a lean full color swan song career finale comics cache (maybe?) in 48 pages from America's #1 cartoon dad.

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garth marenghi's darkcayce @cayce.zone · 24/10/2024

1973 Ferves Ranger...beep beep

Red Ferves Ranger, it's basically a real life Richard Scarry car

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey YUP it got me real good, i didn't actually expect it to be as specific as "hey you, you're ohioan!" (i could see which certain questions would've pushed me towards Indiana because that's how my mom & aunts talk!)

Map of united states, with comps ranging from red to blue. Text about says: Your dialect map

Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.

You talk most like someone from Ohio — about 56% of your answers match a typical resident.
mydialect — standard

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If It Gets Too Real, Blue Can Always Turn It Off @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Had breakfast in the State Fair crop art line so we could beat the rush, and it was worth it.

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

OMG? FOR REAL??? i wonder what "suspend" means here, especially longer-term. ...also i bet that it's yet another creep cop stalking his ex or stalking some innocent stranger who just happened to interact with him once. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

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Ginther suspends Columbus' use of Flock license plate cameras, citing officer's alleged misuse

Mayor Andrew Ginther said the decision was made due to suspected misuse of the technology by a Columbus police officer.

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When ppl are like "I don't like ai slop, but obviously the technology is cool" no man, fuck you. You don't have to believe in technology just because it's new and being sold to you. It's literally a theft machine designed to replace us all. HAVE ONE SINGLE THOUGHT

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Sam @samarbles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"...bipartisan bills were filed in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House that would ban members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks because they might be privy to such insider information.... Democrats opposed it after Republicans inserted an unrelated voter ID measure."

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

Personality tests mostly just exist to appeal to the part of you that thinks it would be neat and fun to be on a super sentai team

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