iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did it for my old neighbourhood from back in the day and, man, it's hard out here in the top-left corner of the vote compass.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me, anytime a battle anime has a move called Uzumaki (If I had a nickel for every time this happened I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's still weird it happened twice):

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pictured: three cats who definitely need a song with their breakfast every morning.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They updated their policy page and, yeah, it's all AI Slop.

Our Scraprats Content is made with humans that apply extensive use of software, algorithms, technology (including artificial intelligence) and physical tools. We use varying AI tools across our work — writing, art, world-building, software, manufacturing, and the systems that run this site.

A human is involved at every step. AI accelerates the work; people set the creative direction, make the decisions, and create the final results before anything reaches you. We know there are many ideologies around how technology infuses the creative process and we feel that we have found the balance that suits us.

We believe that ambitious inclusion of technologies including AI in our process, guided by human judgment and human creativity at every stage, lets a small team build a deeper, more living world — while keeping it coherent, safe, and true to our creative process.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well that card is going to make green / black token decks into nightmare fuel.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's critically important to put care for my tamagotchi into my will.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This guy is another one of Zak S's minions. Don't engage. Just block.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the people who made this website are such a brain trust.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I should note that a lot of my work does not look like Soutine directly - my latest two have been playing with him and Goya a lot - but it's more that I really love his work. I've also played a lot with fauvist and surrealist motifs in my work.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Four painters to get to know my taste: Chaim Soutine Francis Bacon Francisco Goya Mark Rothko

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It is somewhat telling that my vacation photos contain more pictures of birds than my own family by volume. Love you fam but gotta photograph them all.

A grackle scrounging at an outdoor restaurant.

A bunch of waterfowl. I forget the species but there were lots of them.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the esoteric types who try to "reclaim" the Nazi Black Sun because "what about Sol Niger from Alchemy?" My friend. Read an actual book. Those two things may share similar names but they are easily distinguished by, you know, looking at them. At all.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Or you could just read Percy Jackson. Magical summer camp. Unexamined baggage of 9/11. Kids on magic quests with whimsical monsters.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think a perusal of my media tab will show that I just kind of love birds. And one way that shows (besides all the birds I keep and breed) is playing Wingspan where the Kākāpō is consistently on my "I don't care about the meta I want that bird" list of cards.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yesterday I learned that the Kākāpō has had a massive resurgence in population this year. This is great news for lovers of absolute units.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Saw on another post but they disabled quote posts so I stole the image. If they see this and want a courtesy tag I'll add it below. But I just thought this was really funny because, frankly, both Ruffalo and especially Bardem are far more decorated actors than Lipman.

And if he doesn't grow up, then he's going to limit himself to working with just Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem for the rest of his career.

--Dame Maureen Lipman

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am so tired of seeing Nathan Cofnas' doughy face. Big man on campus is the softest soft-boy. Also Preacher stays fully correct.

Preacher asks a Kkk guy where his chin is

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Major Karnage by Gord Zajac - parody of the Disney / Apple cultic mode of monopoly capitalism.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Starfish by Peter Watts An SF classic of environmental collapse and deep sea exploration

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Patrern Scars by Caitlin Sweet Bronze age dark Fantasy on a Le Guin mode.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

VN by Madeline Ashby Robot uprising SF with deep questions about the nature of self

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some of my favorite books by Canadian authors: Eutopia by David Nickle - period horror about company towns, eugenics and horrible things in the woods.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This juvenile hen stayed out after her bedtime yesterday and couldn't figure out how to get back into the chicken run so I had to catch her. She was NOT impressed.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The white house source in question: After all, I can think of no inner-palace maneuver more historical than the poisoned gift.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reported him for targeted harassment first.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This little guy made yet another attempt at outdoor cat status today. Fortunately his interest in being outside subsided when he realized the grass was wet and I was able to grab him and bring him back into the house. Again.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Artists! Drop something creepy.

Ab aboleth painted in expressionist style.

A skeletal wizard with actual necromantic spells painted in Enochian on his robes.

A blindfolded wizard in a rain of blood.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The reaction of virologists and other specialists to Chan's hypothesis has been largely, but not exclusively, negative... Chan detailed her views on Twitter LOL

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Painting a whole painting almost entirely in green was a fun challenge I set myself here.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Untamed was filmed in 2019 like come the fuck on.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Although I have to say that "the bot would have rendered the cover-art of this romantasy book more horny than a human artist" is a bit of an indictment of romance cover artists lately. We used to be a real country, etc.

The cover for Seaswept Abandon by Jo Goodman depicts a naked, muscular man lifting up a woman in a yellow dress and passionately kissing her neck. It's all very horny.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

IFLf you see this post your marine themed art

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And I'm not even exaggerating a little bit.

Three of Charlottetown's six flock cameras. All on the same block. Two are surveilling the parking lot for Value Village and No Frills with clear overlap allowing for full coverage of pedestrians on the frontage for a plaza with stores that serve lower-income Islanders. the third camera points north along a major street, also surveilling that parking lot and the sidewalk across the street.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Another useful labour relations tool of the past for dealing with humanoid bots:

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"They would never join a union" and there's the main motive for "AI" robots right there. But I bet that plastic would smash if hit hard enough with a wooden shoe.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Look The Children crave classical surrealism. Right?

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

(For what I'm talking about with Neoclassical influences in Brom's Dark Sun work look at Oath of the Horatii and compare it to the Dark Sun painting below.)

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