iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paul Adasiak @amicusthespis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And y'all know that it begins with a several-second lift of music from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet?

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 03/10/2026

The "Stealing the Enterprise" sequence from Star Trek III is still probably my all-time favorite bit of cinema.

Kirk, Sulu, Chekov, Scotty, and McCoy on the bridge of the Enterprise in "Star Trek III"

Kirk and Scotty attempting to open Spacedock's doors in "Star Trek III"

Uhura holding Mr. Adventure at phaserpoint in "Star Trek III"

The Enterprise fleeing Excelsior in "Star Trek III"

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 27/09/2026

Getting grammar advice from my first grader.

Screenshot of a text message thread.
First grader: "Hey dad Does rock tunnel lead to lavender town. PS Always remember To leave A Period At the end of a sentence"
First grader: "🙄🙄🙄"
Me: "Yes, Rock Tunnel leads to Lavender Town."

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 24/09/2026

Couldn't do a FFXV collab without camping.

Screenshot of Final Fantasy XIV. A female Roegadyn WHM camping with Noctis from FFXV.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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🎃👻 all hayo’s eve 👻🎃 @superhayo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we have this but for vietnamese restaurants with the same name

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 10/09/2026

I don't understand why people saying "The thing we're building probably will kill us all inside of a decade" need to be our friends. They need to be imprisoned.

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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

STAR TREK premiered on NBC on this day in 1966.

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 04/09/2026

"I posted years of information and photos of my kids to the data vortex, and now the data vortex knows these things about me! How could I have known?"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 25/08/2026

It took me forever to get through the post-Heavensward quests, but now that I'm into Stormblood, I have some momentum again. This shit is good. I love liberation stories. #ffxiv

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cinnamon @cryptidcuisine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

do you guys see the vision

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HELLGORITHM @hellgorithm.website · 14/08/2026

A friend recently got a stent put in related to a kidney stone removal. My brother came up with this incredibly clever and useful mnemonic for remembering the difference between urethra and ureter that I have been laughing about all afternoon.

Discord post from Berntley at 12:50 PM:
Easy way to remember: ureter goes _ter_ the kidneys, urethra goes _thra_ the dick.

2 Pointing Up reacts, 4 Laugh reacts including from myself.

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Chris Helgerson @chrishelgerson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think it's cool that fans rallied to change the name (and were listened to). But if they'd kept the original name Constitution and made the first space worthy shuttle Enterprise, that would have made the Enterprise Constitution class...

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izzy @isobel.top · 11/08/2026

logging into bluesky

chrono trigger screenshot:

Welcome to the Millennial Fair!
Have fun!

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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./yemáko/badgames.zip @badgameszip.itch.io · 10/08/2026

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10/08/2026

There's a beautiful new JWST image today of the Lion Nebula, the link to which I'll drop in the second post. But something felt missing from the original image, which is why I photoshopped in this rad 1990s planar shockwave from when Praxis exploded #jobdone

We can confirm the *location* of Praxis. We cannot confirm the *existence* of Praxis.

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

planet's dyin', Cloud.

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 22/07/2026

Funny, I didn't realize Ditto could learn Guillotine.

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goatsoup.mp3 @galesosa.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Stardust Speedway from Sonic CD (8850 Cover)

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

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Colin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Lightning strikes behind the illuminated Washington Monument, as people gather to watch 250th anniversary fireworks.
Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

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Count Chuckula 🧛‍♂️ @chuckxl.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

God, give Jonathan Banks the Emmy he never got for Better Call Saul. youtu.be/KYrMwxrZ2TU?...

youtu.be

Right v. Wrong

YouTube video by Saul4Democracy

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.”

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Couldn't be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T'Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.

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pauvrecobra.bsky.social @pauvrecobra.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This web comic is SO GOOD. I’m so sad to see the end of this chapter but also so excited to be able to go back and read the whole thing again in one go.

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 25/06/2026

My Polestar 2 is the most fun I have ever had behind the wheel of a car.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 22/06/2026

Finished the main story of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward last night. What a fantastic story, and the final boss being the Knights of the Round (and not just as a cameo, but truly earned) was chefkiss.gif. Can't believe I've slept on this so long, but I'm happy I'm experiencing it now.

A screenshot of the final boss in FFXIV:HW MSQ. King Thordan and the Heaven's Ward. Thordan says "Fight me if you will, Warrior of Light".

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 22/06/2026

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah this insane to me. People just playing a beloved game, going about their lives, and malicious actors go “we can use that to kill people”

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 09/06/2026

It’s 2011. An Ocarina of Time and a Starfox remake are coming to the latest Nintendo system It’s 2026. An Ocarina of Time and Starfox remake are coming to the latest Nintendo system

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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Dr. Eberhardt Ecksau @dreggsao.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I try to be an ally, but I am old. I grew up in a different time and my brain is slow to adapt. So I hope you can believe me that I deeply regret not being able to wrap my head around the gay dorito flavour scale. I try to do better.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

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Samuel McConnell (Earthman) @samuelmcconnell.com · 26/05/2026

My daughter plugged in her tablet by herself.

A USB-C cable plugged into the neutral side of a US electrical outlet

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