iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Anni K. Comics @annikcomics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Alan was poor little meow meow in AW2 then Dylan is a sad puppy. A sad, 34yo killer puppy who's probably the most powerful being on earth. #ControlResonant #ControlResonantFanart #annikART #DontEatTheMold

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 27/09/2026

Finding dog toys and fighting vending machines. #ControlResonant #Gaming

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not quite the money shot, but I’m never here anymore so I’ll post it anyway.

Red Marunouchi line crosses Kanda River, crossing paths with the Chuo line pulling into Ochanomizu station. Missing is the Sobu line that would be crossing that green bridge back there. Imagine it for me, if you will. Taken from hijiribashi but you knew that.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 25/09/2026

Feeling pretty bummed out by Control Resonant. I absolutely loved the original game, but the combat design in this one seems tuned for optimal misery for me. I just do not enjoy (and suck at) the melee combat and dodge mechanics and it seems like that is all you get. #Gaming #ControlResonant

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 21/09/2026

1992 POV-Ray can still render pretty well. Here's default-settings 1280x960, on DOS.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 21/09/2026

Upon reflection, I think that I am content with the Sayonara Lara ending. (rot13) Ynen erwrpgf gur vzcbffvoyr snvelgnyr dhrfg vzcbfrq ba ure, pubbfvat gb yvir ba gur fhesnpr, nf n uhzna, va gur jbeyq jvgu Znev, ohg fgnaqvat ba ure bja srrg, gnxvat ure gvzr, abg unhagrq ol fbzrobql ryfr'f qrnqyvar.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 17/09/2026

The dumbest thing about this place is people thinking the crypto-bro dipshits that built this half-assed slop-coded twitter clone were ever going to do anything other than speed-run the dumpster-fire-ification that twitter went through.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 13/09/2026

It's not fair that we didn't get a Mari & Gon-chan slice-of-life side series or even a few webisodes or something! #Anime #SayonaraLara

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 12/09/2026

I remain pretty terrible at shmups, but am still enjoying slowly improving at the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (Touhou 6) remake. The Spell Practice mode where you can just keep trying against specific boss attack patterns is a favorite QoL feature. #EmbodimentOfScarletDevil #Gaming #Touhou #Shmup

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/09/2026

AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I used to think Call of Cthulhu was a little optimistic about the number of death cultists that exist in the general population. I also thought the MCU was a little over the top with its Nazis in congress thing. My life has become the single ongoing revelation that I haven't been cynical enough.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 09/09/2026

Happy Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Remake Day to all those who celebrate. Also Happy Cirno Day! store.steampowered.com/app/4659620/... #Gaming #EmbodimentOfScarletDevil #TouHou

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

recoiling in horror every time this oily haunted porcelain doll turns to face the screen. dropping the controller and voicing an involuntary bark of alarm

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 08/09/2026

I'm not really sold on the "realistic-ish" visual style in the OOT remake (even though I don't have terribly strong nostalgia for the very rough early 3D graphics of the N64), but it isn't quite as jarring in motion than in the stills I've seen posted, I guess... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFf...

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct 9.8.2026

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 07/09/2026

Just hiked through the Marble Gallery for the first time in my new SOTN playthrough... love this OST... #Gaming #SymphonyOfTheNight www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP5S...

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Castlevania - Symphony of the Night - Marble Gallery [soundtrack]

YouTube video by William

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 06/09/2026

Happiness is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on a 65" OLED TV. (SuperStation ONE / MiSTer FPGA PSX core) Just the soundtrack alone is soooo good.

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

GAUNTLET ATARI 1988 NES

A ghoul picking up his door dashed potion

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 06/09/2026

The SuperStation One I ordered a while back turned up this week and it is a lovely device. Basically a single-board implementation of MiSTer FPGA with a nice enclosure in the style of the psone. $250. retroremake.co/pages/supers... #Gaming #RetroComputing #MiSTerFPGA

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026

Had an amazing time visiting @cern.bsky.social yesterday!

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 28/08/2026

i started my PhD in robotics in 2003. 23 years later, the main real-world use of humanoid robotics research continues to be "extremely expensive ways to generate viral video clips" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IMU...

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Robots Fight for $1M Prize in China's First Human Size Robot MMA League

YouTube video by Chris Wabs

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Guy, Katsu @guykatsu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

thinking about this again. I hope they're doing alright

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 27/08/2026

Well at least some things have not changed on this timeline... #Gaming #SteinsGate0

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 23/08/2026

(An) Ending: Get! Though I'm not at all sure what choices brought me here. #Gaming #SteinsGate

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 23/08/2026

I'm enjoying Steins;Gate a bunch. The first 4 chapters are a bit of a slow build, but then chapter 5 escalates from somewhat ominous to very dark, and chapter 6 just puts the foot down on the accelerator (while also starting to pay off some longstanding threads/questions/character development).

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 22/08/2026

Been enjoying a bunch of vocaloid tunes (and animations) recently, and this one (song from 2016, lyrics video from 2024 for Hatsune Miku's 16th birthday, revised in 2025) that I stumbled upon tonight made me smile. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bl_... #Music #HatsuneMiku #Vocaloid #Animation

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MIKU by Anamanaguchi (Lyrics Animation) Extended version

YouTube video by Shiro Gami

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タムマヨ(tamumayo) @tamumayo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

＃シュタゲリブート＃STEINSGATE

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 22/08/2026

Some more assorted STEINS;GATE (original VN) moments... #Gaming #SteinsGate

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 18/08/2026

One thing about every time bsky shits itself and I have to login again is that I'm reminded once again that they've managed to fuck up their login page so that it's incompatible with Firefox's password management, something that feel like it takes a special brand of incompetence to pull off.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 17/08/2026

Chatter about a soon-to-ship STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT reminded me that while I had seen (some of) the anime, I had never played the original VN, and it turns out that's on sale for $6 on Steam right now, and really, the character and background art for the original is delightful and just fine at 1080p...

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 11/08/2026

Okay, Hyper Light Drifter question... I've defeated the bosses in all the cardinal directions and unlocked this elevator back in the town... if I go down (up?) there, am I going into a point-of-no-return endgame situation (should I wrap up my above ground exploration, etc. first)? #HyperLightDrifter

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 10/08/2026

If you believe that "ai" makes you 10x (or 50x!) more productive, what this tells me is that you are utterly useless and I'd be better served hiring or working with just about anyone else (though ideally someone with critical thinking skills and an interest in actually learning things).

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 08/08/2026

Playing some Hyper Light Drifter... Enjoying the scenic vistas, pictorial story-telling, mysterious artifacts, and buying thermal detonators from bird-person NPC vendors. #Gaming #HyperLightDrifter

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 07/08/2026

bsky's limitations (this time the post size limit) are once again preventing folks from experiencing the future of (emoji based) computing! oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow...

i have a new emoji program for you.
Save as MANDEL.COM. Should be 1092 bytes.
md5 should be 9ed65cc927b257b113a298dee37215cc

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 05/08/2026

Big Walk is a fascinating experience (from the Goose Game folks) that I just spend about two hours blundering around with some friends. Looking forward to more exploring and puzzling in the future. #Gaming #BigWalk

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Peter Wartman @peterwartman.com · 04/08/2026

Sketchbook page

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

if you make the mistake of talking with your kids now you might be stuck talking with them your WHOLE LIFE www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak to Your Kids Again

AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 04/08/2026

Yesterday, while the AI Coding Geniuses of Tomorrow were burning their tokens creating Ultimate Slop Dungeon VII or whatnot, I implemented support for HTTP byte ranges in my toy web app project so seeking around in videos was faster, which was very satisfying, including fixing a dumb off-by-one bug.

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 03/08/2026

The modern world is full of hazards for the unsuspecting mermaid joining the workforce. #Anime #SayonaraLara

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Brian Swetland @swetland.frotz.net · 02/08/2026

The job market is tough everywhere these days... #Anime #SayonaraLara

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/08/2026

It's a small thing, I know, but there really is a difference between "palate cleanser" and "palette cleanser," and also, while we are on the subject, "pallet cleanser," and it is worth making the distinction

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