iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The ills of the world make the situation lighter @bankuei.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When I was young, I ended up watching folks running some carnival games. I peeped game to how when little kids came up to play, the person would demo and mess up, so when the kid lost, no big deal. When it was a cishet couple, the person would make it look SUPER EASY, to get the guy to spend money.

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 11/10/2026

interesting—this article in the washington ghost claims the reason halloween isn’t scary anymore is because this latest clutch of zombies were all raised with too much screamtime

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Asinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 08/10/2026

if this presidency has been good for any one thing, it's trump's utter commitment to making the ambient violence in the society that's usually left at a subtextual level into outright text in bold face.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

loving cats, apparently, makes you more attractive to 28% of Americans, per a new survey. that compares with just 23% for owning a home. among Gen Z, the cat figure rises to 34%. having trouble on the apps? put down that mortgage application and get yourself to a cat rescue.

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tarrouvian.bsky.social @tarrouvian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hell yeah ✊️✊️✊️ I also Union, keep us posted how it goes

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Oh, drat,” said Toad.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 20/09/2026

The Flytrap's content is 100% human-made and we are so proud of that! This will never ever change, but to continue doing this work, we need your support. And right now, you can support us by getting an annual subscription at 40% off. f.mtr.cool/96kd0qvk11

A graphic of a pink TV on fire with the words FUCK THE ALGORITHM, FUCK AI! on top.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Calvin Lin @calvinloveinternet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

A scene parodying the Neon Genesis Evangelion scene of Asuka and her Eva unit getting pierced by the spear of longinus. In this scene, Linguini and Remy from Pixar's Ratatouille take the place of the EVA unit and Asuka respectively. Linguinis eye is pierced by a fork version of the spear and Remy is depicted in an inset where he is grabbing his eye and screaming like the anime. There are anime subtitles at the bottom that say "AHHHHHHHHH!"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

man hell yes. had dinner. and you know where that puts me....one step closer to bedtime

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jay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!?

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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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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

look, the fact is, a lot of swing voters looooove torturing the omelas kid. they want to put more kids in the hole, actually, yeah. but not YOUR kid--oh, okay. well. still, big picture, thinking about the electoral map--

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

don't think this is enough? while i'm cheering today the work continues! and [captain planet voice] YOU can make a difference in YOUR community by showing up at YOUR local school board meetings!! even those of us who have no kids (i don't, but i care about all of my friends kids!)

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEAR THEY GOT A COMPUTER FOR THAT NOW.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

hey basilisk if you're reading this: :p

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julie muncy, calamity's augur @julie.radiantarray.io · 26/08/2026

--ursula k le guin

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

possession of a sunbeam is not established by paperwork, title, or polite appeals to management. that is bourgeois nonsense. it is established by planting one’s entire orange body across it, forcing one’s adversaries to confront the new material reality, and daring the world to make you move.

an orange and white cat is in a sunbeam on a bench. he looks like he is laying in seclusion, deep in thought

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Ms T 🐘💙🎵📚 @elephantlass.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Friday

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tarrouvian.bsky.social @tarrouvian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

("You've got to get better at buildings" is what I tell my starter construction pawn) Great art!

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alyssa mercante @alyssamerc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Do I have moots in games or games journalism who would want to help out with a charity stream and feel like they could "teach" something? Can be things like "how to design a character" or even like "how to speedbuild in Minecraft." The options are endless. Please DM me! Signal boost!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Yikes, Odysseus -- you looke prettye roughe aftir your journeye." "Well, you Odyssey the othir guye!"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026

I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.

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harper gruffy 💛 @harpergruffy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We offer pet sketches, and cat doodles

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 04/08/2026

I was banned by BlueSky (then apparently unbanned) for calling for the trial & death penalty for Ralph de la Torre, former CEO of Steward Health Care, a man directly responsible for the deaths of disabled Americans. I stand by my analysis - the full writeup is here: www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

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Ralph de la Torre, Steward Health Care CEO, Is A Murderer (And I've Been Banned By BlueSky) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. I have been suspended from BlueSky. Patreon — now with new, easier URL, ShoudntNeedToBeALawyer.com or ShouldntNeed.com — is the best pla

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

worseonpurpose.com

Worse on Purpose

The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

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Waggtoon (Commissions Open) @waggtoon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey may be out in theaters now, but the best adaptation is available on Youtube for free. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iACq...

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Wishbone S01E05 Homer, Sweet Homer

YouTube video by Aaron Blomquist

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tarrouvian.bsky.social @tarrouvian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Your ms paint sleep diagrams make me really happy, I hope you keep them up!

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The marketized ADHD of the liberal paradigm is nothing but creating barricades and an endless implosion into the materialistic image of the self.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“food for thought” buddy my thoughts don’t need any food at all. been trying to starve them fuckers for years and they still keep doing the thing

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 17/07/2026

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 14/07/2026

it’s an availability heuristic—the *real* psychics quit as soon as the runes show them the anti-god beneath our world, so the only ones left selling palm readings or whatever are the fakes. there’s no hope for any of us, we’re all sliding down to suffer under his pitiless gaze

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hero paleontologist Sam Neill has died. He never would have crushed our dreams by suggesting Dinosaurs had lips, like the Sickos in the “scientific community” did. @theonion.com

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Reminder if you are not tradCath do not say skibidi

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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Never forget: Jesus died for your country. @theonion.com

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tarrouvian.bsky.social @tarrouvian.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The hibernophobic brackets 😭😭😭

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

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tarrouvian.bsky.social @tarrouvian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is very funny but I also feel like it explains something that's probably real Your creation?

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