iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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UFO 50 is 30% off on Steam for Autumn Sale! 🍒: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Less than a month til I found out if I'm accepted to the Rad Tech program at the community college.

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And found a spanking deal on a Donner DMK 25 Pro on reverb.

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think creativity is trending towards a high point and that many people are recognizing/remembering that creating this is a core part of living and necessary to engaging with the world fully.

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Aster ID @aster.id · 30/09/2026

The modern research ecosystem of online tools and communities is controlled by for-profit companies. But we think that researchers should be the priority - not the product. So, we're announcing Aster ID: not-for-profit Atmosphere account hosting for researchers.

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Announcing Aster - a home for researchers on the open web

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finished The Wax Child by Olga Ravn. This was a five star read for me. The prose is extremely innovative in its descriptions.

no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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For thee, my soul, for thee.

no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Still gazing on the spires of grass

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ordered an M-Vave FM-1 from Alibaba. We will see if I get scammed lol.

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Sham of The Dead @brucef0rte.io · 27/09/2026

Sidearm? Ya that's where they go

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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And death is ever nigh;

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me and my friends having a generational run of happiness

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Describe your music taste in 3 artists 1. mewithoutYou 2. The Chariot 3. Lady Gaga

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I feel like getting into sacred harp singing is me reaching my final form

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Northernlion remains based as fuck

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Spookbar & Death @borgmamel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The 𝐹𝑦𝑟𝑒 imparteth a crumblie Vertue to the 𝐶𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑒, & the chocled 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠 do then ther naturall Gouiness shew. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟.

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wonder if PR firms have started offering bot-based image repair services. Like they set up a bunch of bots to scour social media to make comments to reverse damage to their public image. Wouldn't be surprised based off some of the threads Ive seen online.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 12/09/2026

Hey man I’m looking around for you but I don’t see you. Yeah I’m outside the store where Goku is using a drumstick-sized soldering iron to fix an absolutely gigantic iPhone. No man not a Pro Max. No I wouldn’t say he looks mad per se. Smug I guess. Like he thinks this skill makes him better than me

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Catch me referencing Jerma's streams in my work the way Hegel referenced Goethe's plays.

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why the fuck have we let "woke" become standard terminology? Why are we ingratiating ourselves to the far right by validating this as a concept for discussion? Is this not insane? It's a useless phrase that's only real meaning is "ideas that fascist leaders want you to disagree with".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Q: On the checks, we have $40t in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote? T: I'm doing it as a reward for having to put up w/Biden Q: You also offered tariff refunds-- TRUMP: Not you Q: And that didn't happen T: You're the worst

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Finally listened to Live Vol. 3. Made it to track 10 before crying, was bawling at tracks 13 and 15 though.

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dammit Obama!! I mean, Hilary! No no, I mean Biden!

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Danny🔞💜🤍🖤 (2/3 comms done) @dannyswrites.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bringing another post over from the other site because it's too good for them

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Setup a Jellyfin server. Now to acquire media

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Windows are the eyeballs of the house

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Finally made it halfway through Tom's Crossing by @markzdanielewski.bsky.social Really trying to finish it before the end of the year, but I'm also taking my time and trying to savor this book that I'm sure I'll return to in years to come.

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NPR @npr.org · 02/09/2026

A lawyer for an anonymous whistleblower says Postal Service plans for an unusual verification rule, combined with a hastily built online system, could delay mail ballots from reaching eligible voters. n.pr/4i8r136

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Whistleblower's lawyer warns USPS plan for Trump's order could keep ballots from voters

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Spookbar & Death @borgmamel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the movie is called "Saw" because that is what they hope you will have done with it

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It Ends is a direct response to The Myth of Sisyphus

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I won the lottery, I would buy many copies of every Lorcana card so me and my friends could build whatever decks we want and play together. But as it is I am poor and thus have to wait for the digital game to release.

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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Just sawe a Blue Skye alert message that seyde "Upstream Timeout." Ys thys site being run by... salmon?

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

May be shitty, but as soon as I saw Rick Rubin for the first time, I figured he was the type of "creative" I would have little respect for.

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Working on a new personal website because I can't help myself

Spookbar & Death @borgmamel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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last night i was trying to describe a particular genre of country song and came up with "toxic nostalgia" which i feel captures it pretty well

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026

My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...

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Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When I posted this I had no idea that a year later I'd have another daughter. How will the world contain two such incredible beings?

Shoob @shoobiecast.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

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I dreamt a god that dreamt of me