iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Chris Beveridge @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And @sonicbug.bsky.social gets us underway with another fall anime debut!

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Yen Press @yenpress.com · 02/10/2026

Who knew the best way to bond with your senior coworker was surviving the Lands Between together? 📗 See You at That Site of Grace After Work Pre-order now: buff.ly/Fe2rQQm

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Needed a ray of hope amidst all the darkness in the world, so I reread "We, the Fleet" by Alex T Singer. Give yourself a treat and read it. It's no wonder Alex won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award with this story. #sciencefiction

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Animation by Milt Kahl* | Robin Hood (1973) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Ryan AKA Ben Graven @bengraven.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We know Professor Tolkien loved a good party, but now we know he had contingency plans. That’s me in the wheelbarrow.

An imitation from JR R token and his wife for a coming of age party for their sons, Christopher. The small printer states that carriages will be there at midnight, ambulances at 2 AM, wheelbarrows at 5 AM and hearses at daybreak.

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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈 @midimyers.com · 01/10/2026

if you aren't already supporting @mothership.blog, you should be. support women and queer people in video game criticism and journalism. we deserve to exist in these spaces but, at least in the case of mothership, we can only exist and pay our writers and introduce you to new writers if YOU help us.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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cari •ᴗ• @caridescent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

on my puter 🐟

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello we the good people of Reactor have recently launched our OFFICIAL YOUTUBE PAGE!!! Sharing interviews, book recommendations, and more! Some delicious morsels are coming up soon, so you'll want to subscribe!! www.youtube.com/@ReactorMaga...

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Reactor Magazine

Quality sci-fi/fantasy/genre book coverage + short fiction + essays + news + everything else

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I checked the internet archive and it has records of it dating back to 99, where I reference updates going back to 97. So…. Fucking old.

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I used to run an Early Edition fan page (aka website) in the previous century. I was not the most popular fan page, and it was hosted on Angelifre which died earlier this year.

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m actually pretty impressed with whatever database this pulls from cause no way should it be able to pull that middle square.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god wants you to back my kickstarter 💦 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Kestrel Swift @kestrelswift.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crunchyroll's Ultra HD Blu-ray disc from their US Suzume SteelBook appears to be reused for at least their UK, Ireland, and Germany releases based on the ratings included on the disc.

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IT'S ERIKA ISHII O'CLOCK, EVERYBODY! 🎉🚨🎉🚨🎉🚨 THANK YOU, BACKERS! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 And thank you, @erikaishii.bsky.social!!!! :D

Kickstarter funding at $613,561 (pledged of $400,000 goal)

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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Witchchild129 @brainchild129.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently one last Tokyopop email has hit the internet, and this one's a doozy in sheer length and rambling. It starts off w/ Stu glossing over the company's history yet again while revealing he wanted to do a similar investment scheme in Japan in 2006.

WE ALMOST WENT PUBLIC 20 YEARS AGO IN JAPAN

Back during what I call TOKYOPOP 1.0, things happened very fast.
We were a young, small, rapidly growing startup.
We weren't a technology company - we were a content company - but we definitely had a tech company vibe.
Some of that certainly came from me.
I was a young coder before I ever became a creator or entrepreneur. As a middle school kid I had a RadioShack TRS-80 at home and taught myself BASIC, making silly graphics and text-only RPGs with my friends.
Years later in Japan, I launched an early online service called Japan Online, won an award for it and was even offered an opportunity to lead Microsoft Network Japan at the dawn of the Internet era.
I chose a different path.
Manga!
And in 2002, when we launched what we called AUTHENTIC MANGA, our little company suddenly took off like a rocket ship.
Waldenbooks caught on. Then Borders. Then Barnes & Noble.
Manga sections exploded.
TOKYOPOP blazed the trail for an entirely new category of publishing in America.

We got attention from the media.
From Hollywood.
From Japan.
And eventually from Wall Street...

TOKYOPOP'S FIRST SHOT AT GOING PUBLIC

While we were hot, Warner Bros. and DC Comics made an offer to acquire TOKYOPOP.
But our primary financial backer was SBI, one of Japan's leading venture investors - and still Tokyopop's second-largest shareholder today.
So, we signed Daiwa Securities as our lead banker and started preparing to take TOKYOPOP public in Japan.
But it was incredibly difficult.
Our business operated primarily in America. Our documentation was in English. Our financial statements were prepared US GAAP.
Suddenly we were trying to translate enormous amounts of corporate documentation and prepare an American company for the Japanese public markets.

Remember, this was *long* before AI could translate a 200-page document in a few seconds!
We worked our butts off, but we didn't make it in time.
The market window closed.
And the world changed almost overnight.

AND THEN THINGS GOT REALLY HARD

Manga piracy exploded.
Compeition intensified into what I used to call the manga "arms race."
The global financial crisis hit.
Borders - one of the companies that helped build the American manga market - went bankrupt.
And TOKYOPOP nearly went down with it.
We had a massive layoff and ultimately shut down our US publishing operation.
It was the toughest period of my life.
I've certainly learned something about entrepreneurship over nearly 30 years:
You're constantly fighting for your vision through a roller coaster of ups and downs.

And that's especially true in creative businesses.
Nobody knows where the next massive franchise will come from.
Nobody knows with certainty which story will connect with millions of people and which one won't.
You can study the market.
Look at the data.
Work with incredibly talented people.
Make the smartest decisions you know how to make.
And sometimes you'll still be wrong.
Other times, something you believe in that everyone else thinks is crazy turns into something huge.
That's the business we're in.
Our job is to keep swinging.
Learn from the misses.
Build on the hits.
And keep searching for that next creator, story, or idea that fans will fall in love with.

THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED THAT CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/09/2026

Behold, the prelaunch is open for the graphic novel of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red!

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s this. This is how they get rid of it, by kicking the stool out from under it.

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone wondering why original actor was ditched for a new Darkwing show haven’t gotten then memo that dude was milkshake ducked hard for being a right wing wacko… and the stuff with his divorce…

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 22/09/2026

First look at the new ‘DARKWING DUCK’ animated series. Mark Hamill will star as Darkwing Duck.

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TC 🍊 @isuggestarson.fruitbowl.systems · 23/09/2026

We've hit the "art program that gets mad people are using it to make art" stage of whatever this is...

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Britain being unable to make Doctor Who and the U.S. being unable to make more Muppet Show feels like the same problem

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From back in April. Y’all now know it was the Muppets I was working on. I’ve never had more fun drawing 20 pages and I hope that comes through when you pick up the book tomorrow. I’m so grateful for this opportunity.

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Chris Beveridge @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And that is end of season! Major kudos to @sonicbug.bsky.social for tackling this one, as it's a series that I wish we had more of out there.

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DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A former coworker of mine could really use some help. Dealt a rough hand; back in the day he was a great teacher, absolutely beaten down by the place we both worked until he wasn't, anymore. Consider it, please. gofund.me/52d2bbf3d

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Donate to Help Duane, Lori, and Kitties Through Hard Times, organized by Duane robert Wirdel

My name is Duane, and I’m reaching out for help for my household—… Duane robert Wirdel needs your support for Help Duane, Lori, and Kitties Through Hard Times

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wait, there’s a Holy Grail of Eris 5? I thought that was done!

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(Thousand yard stare) I was there when PE swooped in and bought up all the local papers. I watched our staff shrink, our presses close, our papers dwindle…. i watched our 200 year old publications blink out without fanfare or sympathy.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"historians will look back on this time and shake their heads in disbelief" dog our historians now don't even do that about the horrible shit in OUR past! they say stuff like "he was a complex individual" and "we can't say for certain if 'lesbians' truly existed back then"

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 18/09/2026

Not sure what the most insane piece of information about this game is. Is it "Italian units need more water than other nations because, the rules say, they use it to make pasta." or is it that it took these guys 20 months and 85 podcast episodes to learn the rules and play six turns of the game

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"This is a full-blown PR crisis, which Kraft is handling the only way a billionaire knows how: throwing the barest fraction of his wealth at the problem, and issuing a statement more empty than the feeling inside Drake Maye’s stomach after throwing 3 picks in Seattle." defector.com/everybody-ha...

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Everybody Hates Bob Kraft | Defector

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

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Mark Thomas @mdthomas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This really should have been the last episode. Them closing by doing New Year's and promising to smoke together next year would have been the perfect note to go out on. Do next episode before. Or we could just get to it next season. There is going to be a next season, right? Right!?

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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i believe i originally learned about the license plate thing from the ta-nehihsi coates essay and it's a really stark illustration of how wrong this all is.

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Seven Seas Entertainment @sevenseasentertainment.com · 17/09/2026

Seven Seas is hiring! We're currently looking for an PUBLISHING DIRECTOR - NEW TRADE FICTION IMPRINT to join our team. Info at the link: sevenseasentertainment.com/about/jobs/

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here’s a zen photo for you all today that I took without actually being able to see due to my sunglssses being polarized

Derelict cranberry bog, overgrown with milkweed and hawkweed, with a low sun in a pleasantly wispy sky.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Holy shit. WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS SHIT WHEN TRYING TO ATTRACT INVESTORS, STU?

And then the fans came.

That's When We Understood

Tens of thousands of people visited.

Some traveled from France.

Some came from England.

We even had fans come from New York.

People would spend hours walking through the exhibition.

And sometimes, when they reached the end, they had tears in their eyes.

That's something I'll never forget.

There's a Japanese word I love:

Kizuna.

It means the bond or connection between people.

You could feel that bond between the fans and these characters.

And frankly, our team felt it too.

We had built something special.

There was only one problem.

We Lost Money

The fans weren't the problem.

The costs were.

Construction cost far more than we'd anticipated.

Rent was expensive.

And in Berlin, seemingly every little thing required to build and operate an exhibition cost more than our models had suggested.

Those costs killed the economics.

We later learned that this isn't particularly unusual. Live experiences have a steep learning curve, and first-time operators often discover things that no spreadsheet can teach them.

We certainly did.

Would I make some different decisions knowing what I know today?

Absolutely.

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Chris Beveridge @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

First up on the review docket today has @sonicbug.bsky.social taking a look at this new series from @darkhorse.com

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

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Kate J. O’Neil @sonicbug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I remember how back in college we basically forced the school president to vacate when we saw how much getting the president’s office lounge renovated cost. A very small victory considering the recession was a scant two years away.

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