iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

An important PSA from Batman

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The leaves are finally drying and the rain has hit Seattle. It's fall. The sun sets sooner, lower, redder. A copper focused Halloween shop drop for 2026 to remember the warm, weakening sun Monday Oct 12 7pm PST pamwishbow.com

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's time for me to talk about the story behind this piece. It has quite a history behind it. 🧵

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ROWAN @rowanclair.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ginkgo biloba, a living fossil, the last surviving species of its genus.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow.

Illustration of autumn ginkgo leaves in different shades of vibrant yellow arranged into a repeating pattern.

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N*Kim @nkimillustrate.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Halloween in Hanbok 08

Witch Crocodile and Witch Goat in hanbok standing side by side

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok this is the favorite commission for day 2. The prompt was "ghost rider as a mail carrier"

Ghost rider driving one of the new electric mail trucks

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

hey all, just a heads up to my artist peers- this is all AI slop, I would avoid this. It isn't adobe code, it's just vibecoded to emulate their features.

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Spooky Jess @spookyvulcan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After not being able to find my preferred shampoo for a couple months, I finally found some and omg my hair is so soft and fluffy! That nuerodivergent "pick a product and never change it" really does hit hard.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After six long years, vampires are coming back to the Deadlights Theater! Come and join us for... SUCK IT A month of vampire movies leading up to an all-day Halloween marathon! BYZANTIUM: 10/4 CARMILLA: 10/7 BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: 10/11 BLOOD FOR DRACULA: 10/14 www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

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Mike Flanagan @mikeflanaganfilm.com · 04/10/2026

Oh Jesus - @letterboxd.social can you help us get this AI slop away from our series?

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Mind if I do a J?”

The Dude from 'The Big Lebowski' making himself comfortable on Picard's ready room sofa.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 03/10/2026

FA is being pressured to remove adult content but they're holding the line. It's so important sites like this survive, please check out their post and help if you can

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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996

A colorful retro computer setup featuring a purple keyboard, a small teal touchpad, and a teal circular CD-ROM drive with a matching keypad-style controller resting on top. The hardware is arranged against a dark background in a vivid purple-and-turquoise color scheme.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Untitled, Yulia Sidneva, watercolour, 2022

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

recently I came to a realization about why "smart devices" are so shitty if you take an appliance that creates some sort of physical output, and connect it to a network, what you've actually done is invent a new kind of printer and printers are, of course, the devil's machines

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 21/09/2026

Seriously tho - if you’re at a con and suspect (or know) someone is selling AI - TELL THE CON ORGANIZERS. You are not paid enough to deal with confrontations like this. Their insurance does not cover you if some dipshit decides to go all Walking Dead on you. They are there to enforce their rules.

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can confirm ;-;

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imperium, screenshot, dos (1990) www.mobygames.com/game/3786/im...

a decomposing skeleton corpse (still some hair on head) in a white robe, sitting on a stone throne between two pillars.
on a marble rectangle, font below reads:
your body can take no
more you die of old age

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Biblically Accurate VLC Instance

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🎱 Kelly Pringle 🎱 @kellypringle.com · 16/09/2026

Enjoying some me-time 💻

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

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VOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To anyone saying "just push thru" or "it just be like that" Please take it more seriously. I was hospitalized from it. You can get major health issues. Your loss of sleep and loss of self should not be a pride. If you no longer can feel enjoyment in what you do or anything at all that ISNT GOOD.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

tired of getting content review'd on tumblr for mild 500 year old oil painted nudes by Titian. you used to be able to log onto that website and see fully uncensored genital PORN gifs right next to the superwholock

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Spooky Jess @spookyvulcan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Drank coffee late in the day and now I cant sleep and can't stop thinking sad thoughts

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Endpapers of The Cat Whose Whiskers Slipped and Other Stories by Ruth Campbell, illustrated by Ve Elizabeth Cadie. 1925.

Aggressively vibrant, colorful art deco style geometric pattern incorporating cat faces and mouse pairs with their tails twirled together. The cats and mice are red and dark pink, set in triangles of yellow and blue.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

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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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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/09/2026

I have a very respectable 20-yr sample size. While the number of men sending me AI generated content has increased, overall the number telling me that they’ve solved the problems of the universe has not changed. So for me, it’s just the mechanism that has changed, not the frequency.

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Spooky Jess @spookyvulcan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Perhaps my worsening revenge bedtime procrastination is trying to tell me something?

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