iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Please help if you can - aid is already scarce, and thanks to disgraceful tactics, trying to acquire it on the ground is often dangerous

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Looks like Elon isn’t Gretchen Wieners - he’s Janis Ian

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I sometimes feel this is precisely because most execs don’t (or won’t) create anything themselves and so they resent those who can and will. No one seems to hate game devs more than the people running the industry.

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Meanwhile in North America we stripmine artists’ talents, use them every day to survive the prison that this planet is, and are then outraged when they ask for a living wage and job security

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Let’s stop calling them layoffs. They’re wage suppression tactics at best.

Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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If you’re in North America, PLEASE consider joining @videogameworkers.bsky.social. We cannot allow these robber-baron execs to keep doing this to our profession and art form. We deserve dignity. Unemployed workers and freelancers/contractors are all welcome in our union. We MUST fight back.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’ll be at Comic Con this weekend at a panel with some great industry folks!

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you’re a leftist group, stop using AI images in your promotional materials or social media. Theft is not a good look for your cause.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism By Jennie Kermode

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Should trans people have fewer rights? ‘Not in our name’, say over 35,000 women

Women tired of being told that their rights are threatened by trans people are using a petition to stand up for inclusive feminism

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I would love to know this as well!

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If Bleak House feels like swimming through molasses, I think three words of Finnegan’s Wake might kill them dead.

Every time I think my nerves can’t take more bad news…

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Sweet Baby Inc @sweetbabyinc.com · 21/06/2025

There is an almost direct correlation between the days I volunteer and the days I am able to read the news and not fall into a pit of despair.

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🎉 It’s a @narrascope.org weekend! 🎉 We’ve seen so many amazing talks so far this year, and today, it’s OUR turn! Catch Tristan J Tarwater and Camerin Wild (www.linkedin.com/in/camerin-w...) in ⏰ EXACTLY FIVE HOURS ⏰ for “Lost & Found: Converting TTRPG Experiences into Video Games” See you there! 😘

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Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games

NarraScope 2025 at Drexel University is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s so hard even staying motivated to find work as a narrative dev in an industry that seems to actively hate us.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Also there are so many people (rightly) pushing back against unpaid tests but I was recently asked to do an extremely predatory test (~ a month’s work in a week) and when I asked fellow game writers for advice was told that if I don’t do it, someone else will, because that’s just the industry now.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It’s both hilarious and horrifying that we all know EXACTLY which company this is. Have we all gone through their recruitment “process”? Should we form a support group?

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Ever since I found out how Jon Hamm horrifically mutilated someone in a hazing ritual I cannot bear to see his face without wanting to vomit.

Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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They are being intercepted right now. THIS IS A WAR CRIME.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is the one games-related story that we really can't let get buried by the worst guys you know fighting or summer geoff fest.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Someone on Reddit said Musk today was like “Gretchen Wieners cracking” and I have been laughing at that for like the last four and half hours

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’ve been volunteering with Food Not Bombs’ NDG chapter for a few months now and it’s been one of the most enriching experiences ever. If you’d like to cook some delicious food, meet some cool people, and connect directly with the community, come hang out with us!

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Mais arrêtez c’est même pas de la satire maintenant 😭

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Only someone who has never created a thing of value in their life would look at a project that people poured their heart and soul into, and see a financial write-off.

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J. @doverej.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I'm not using "DEI" or "Pluralism" or any other word other than kindness. Anything else can be co-opted by MAGA as a racial slur. Sick of it. No more corporate and capitalist lingo infiltrating basic human decency. Language is power. #culturallinguistcs #languageandpower #linguistics

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

White supremacy can only function in wilful ignorance. Racists will claim Europeans invented maths and science, but will know nothing of Aryabhatta or al-Khwarizmi, or indeed anything about the rest of the world.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Until the Lord Chamberlain fires him and the entire company after producing another hit in the Henry franchise

Smo - Screaming for vengeance @smomotion.tv · 26/05/2025

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I remain convinced that AI is the fascist's answer to controlling the flow and messaging of the arts.

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A happy glorious 25th of May to all who celebrate. We need the People’s Revolution more than ever in a world where truth, justice, freedom, love, and eggs are getting harder to find. #discworld

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Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I knew trillium was a protected species but I had no idea about the earthworms! They’re everywhere now with the near constant rain.

Shoma Patnaik @shomatic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This cold and rainy May here in Montreal is really starting to give Year Without a Summer vibes (Hope this at least leads to the invention of another literary genre)