iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 6h

chat is this good

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A customer just tried to use an employee discount code that ChatGPT gave her. I work at a high-end clothing store and clocked in to my manager telling me about the most unhinged interaction from yesterday. A woman walked in asking if she could use a 40% off code she got online. We don't have any sales running, so my manager looks at the screen and realizes ChatGPT straight up handed this woman a real employee's internal ID number.

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R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social · 3h

I have encountered all three of the first three kinds of people. Professionally and personally. Take that as you will.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 4h

I taught my kid that the first thing you do as a Californian receiving election propaganda in the mail is to flip the flyer over and look for the small print on the back at the bottom to find out who paid for the ad, then look them up

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously. Riverdance, lord of the dance, roar, all the Irish step dancing videos, and hell even the terrible power rangers knock off Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 4h

One of the weird things about this moment in time is that a lot of pop culture listicles I read by folks from younger generations consider what vintage things are popular *now* because of memes or virality and mistake that for having been popular or beloved then

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6h

This whole thread is a cackle

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 6h

The original Google search algorithm that was wizard magic was machine learning. Same with videogame enemies learning flocking techniques and figuring out how to beat you based on your tendencies. LLM stans fucked this up just let the scam artists define what AI is now because they are dumb.

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PREORDER CASCADE CASCADE ISSUE 2 NOW! @cascadecascade.com · 7h

With the removal of some cards everyone ignored and the addition of God Packs, WotC has proven that they are only catering to collectors and thus tarnished the good name of Collector Boosters

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(S)Cary 🎃 @acry.bsky.social · 6h

If we don't get one written criticism of god packs cheekily titled "How It's Folded" then the entire Magic: The Gathering experiment was for naught

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Samus But a Final Girl @samusbutagirl.bsky.social · 10h

file sharing was before my time, but every time i hear millennials reminisce about that era, they're always saying "yeah, it's how i got introduced to one of my favorite bands i never would've discovered otherwise, and bought their album as soon as i could afford it" streaming disincentivizes this

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 7h

Folks, the concept of a "god pack" in card games predates journey into nyx by many decades. In the 90s and early 2000s these were just printer collation errors that accidentally filled packs or boxes with fancy foils or rares.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 7h

I have *so many* cds of western chant and chant inspired chill trance and techno from this era. As a hindu, seeing westerners finally come around to chanting being cool was great for me personally.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 17h

believe it or not this is what a datacenter looked like before ai

strong bad and coach z, both cartoon characters, in front of beige computers labeled datum center

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8h

Very cool. Losing a chunk of common and uncommon foils kinda sucks but also makes the quest to get them more fun (for me personally)

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of folks in the games industry need to read @theradr.bsky.social's book On Repentance and Repair.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 8h

This article rules, not least because you can see my newly beloved Brisbane Lions (die hard fan since, uh, July of 2026 don't judge me) just completely take over the game with an epic for the afes comeback. This is peak sports writing.

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David Roy @davidroy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everything Rodger writes is worth clicking, but this is beyond. So many twists and turns--WHARFIE TIME!

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 9h

10/5 #scryfallrandom turns your bin into a bucket of scathe zombies

Graveyard Marshal
{B}{B}
Creature — Zombie Soldier

{2}{B}, Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

“Rise and shine, my dears. We have work to do.”
—Isareth the Awakener

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Illustrated by Mark Behm

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10h

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Commander Mechanic @cmdrmechanic.bsky.social · 9h

I have two C-suites that are doing nothing but copy-and-pasting AI responses to each other in an email thread. Neither is reading anything, they're having AI summarize and respond to AI summaries and responses. No conclusion will ever be reached. This is oroboros.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 9h

Vib ribbon was a formative game for me even though it came out when I was in college

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 17h

Also Paratha is the greatest food in india

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 23h

Highly recommend Macross Plus. I've yet to see a game that captures how a variable fighter moves in its entirety. It would basically involve making the most complex character controller in recent memory. One of the reasons I'm investigating/experimenting with such a thing >:3c

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 18h

Someone should make a sheep shearing game

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 20h

I do not understand mukbang. I do not get how these tiny Koreans can unhinge their jaws so far and still stay so thin

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 20h

This article fucking rules. Proud to say I have always been on the enya train since Pure Moods came out. I looooove new age music.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 20h

My dudes have no idea who they are fighting against

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 20h

It's funny to imagine Dracula's epistolary format as modern day social media, all vagueposts and callouts and Dracula employing predatory therapy speak, etc

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Ard Collider @ardaniel.collider.mov · 21h

I was about say that the 1960s Spider-Man cartoon scared the shit out of me because of the era-appropriate sort of blank mask stare he had but then YouTube's slop captions stopped me in my tracks.

Spider-Man, in his red and blue usual costume, is web-slinging through a canyon of buildings, but the YouTube slop caption says "take a look over his penis and there was a Spiderman."

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 22h

Indiana Jones last crusade - drinking from the wrong grail.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love going backstage to hang out with my buddy after the end of his tour 😁

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

Cohost allowed us to become aware of the silent battles we would've never heard of otherwise.

Cohost user quackintosh plus writes, "like 5 or 6 years ago i noticed that my neighbors across the parking lot from my apartment had put a trans pride flag and a pansexual pride flag in their window for pride month, so i decided to signal back to them by hanging up my asexual pride flag and my genderqueer pride flag in the same places. the next day when i got home from work they had responded to my signal by adding a pup play flag and an age play flag and, to be honest, if this was a competition, i lost.

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A Spiced Pumpkin Sergal 🎃🍂 @adorablesergal.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

We were also gifted this. Truly, the Last Webbed Site.

Jae makes ao cohost post urging users to "not block yourself", writing, "i don't know why multiple people tried this but: don't do it. it breaks shit. we're going to put a fix up tomorrow (when i am actually working) to make it impossible to do but also. come on. don't do it. i have to go manually fix it when you do. thanks."

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

another day at the machine learning factory. everyone keeps asking me if the machine is intelligent. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"I love elder scrolls and hope they make a UB set about them, but like, I don't know much about the older ones, you know, like oblivion"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

HfHR condemns the reported brick attack on an Ohio Hindu temple while people were inside. We stand with its community and urge @RichmondHtsOhio to ensure safety and accountability. Via @ambazaarmag buff.ly/CNwABlU #ReligiousFreedom

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Ohio Hindu temple hit by brick attack while priests, devotees were inside

An Ohio Hindu temple was attacked with bricks while priests and devotees were inside, shattering windows and prompting an investigation.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"...and that's why I think you are subhuman and should be deported. Pass the ketchup?"

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Oglaf @oglaf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

www.oglaf.com/damselfly/

Comic strip!

panel 1
a prince climbs through a window. A princess watches him enter.
Prince- Sure I could rescue you

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Prince- but withing three months, ninety percent of rescued princesses are back inside a tower

Panel 3
Prince is really narrating this one now
Prince- at 'staircase down' we believe real change comes from accepting you're part of the problem

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Prince- and that's the most difficult part of the journey

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Princess- apart from the fire breath
Prince- The what?

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Princess breathes fire, incinerating prince

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Princess stands over smouldering prince skeleton

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ghost of prince hovers over the smoking bones
Prince- I have to accept, on some level, that I needed that to happen

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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

today marks a whopper of an anniversary as we released the very first episode of Retronauts on October 4, 2006. Twenty years of podcasts! Thank you for listening for two entire decades. What's your favorite episode or Retronauts memory?

a screengrab of 1up.com listing Retronauts Episode 1: 10/4/2006
(the topic was Final Fantasy III and its recent port to the Nintendo DS)

the banner art for the Retronauts blog on 1up.com featuring an astronaut in front of a colored rainbow. We're still partial to this theme all these years later!

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm.

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