iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 54m

our internet cable got chopped. it got chopped so I'm not gonna be online for a day or two

Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 17h

I think the guys who made the doomsday clock shouldve defined the terms of midnight way less restrictively so that they wouldnt have ended up in this situation where they have to move the minute hand 0.001 degrees every time they update it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

when a song is 2 minutes long you know it's going to be good

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

regardless I do think steam is currently suffering an elsagate from the sheer volume of fake AI games it's getting spammed with every day, the store is borderline unusable, and I think it's gone underdiscussed by the wider games press

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what I've been thinking is basically "make it harder to use AI than to not use it" and I feel it might happen one day if they stop running it at a loss and the technology costs to use what it should cost.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we won't have to go the rest of our lives asking if it's AI or not if we turn the machine off. dream big

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's my turn to be sick for a whole day

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feeb @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

self portarit

me with a piece of paper with the word "dumb" written on my head

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I speak for everyone when I say this summer was NOT brat

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

tommy tuberville butting into a conversation at a party "AND did you hear they're letting furries fly the planes now. your pilot could be a furry hooooo boy lemme tell ya"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when I get a bunch of new followers I'm just like, ok me, act normal for a few days so you don't scare everyone off by acting like a cartoon and oversharing every detail of your life

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

when I play dark souls I have what I've termed the spanish flea test which is would this boss still feel scary if the backing music was the spanish flea

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm incorporating techniques I haven't used since I was a kid such as "getting bored of redrawing the same background detail and letting it look increasingly rushed each time"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

even though I refer to the backgrounds I've been drawing as "mspaint art" I actually draw everything in photoshop these days. microsoft kinda screwed paint up

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

regarding that take where someone said not knowing about pop music put you out of touch with american voters (???): I think that, to me, there isn't one "mainstream" of culture in this era but there's like 5 or 6 conflicting mainstreams

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

pulled off my fastest Shrine Of Amana ever

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☁️ hourly yume nikki fangames @ynfgbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

dream records (2022) dragon's den

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

municipal waste have some of my favourite song titles ever such as "Thrash?! Don't Mind If I Do" and "Covered In Sick/The Barfer"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think steam is currently weak enough (AI slop, 30% sales cut, $100 submission fee) that another game storefront can swoop in and kill it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

shout out to the people on the train who talked in expository dialogue. "is that how you speak to your wife-to-be?"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Amy's had a slight, subtle makeover- more detail on the sweater & pants, slightly shorter hair that doesn't clip into her, sweater has a collar now, arms get subtly wider toward the hand, better idle animation (has a more relaxed position rather than the really stiff one before)

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Odyssey of the Mind (circa 2019, unfinished)

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Odyssey of the Mind: a point-and click journey through "the mind" started in 2019 and I still have plans for the rest of it and think about it frequently

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Super Dev 64

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a pet theory that a lot of alpha male crypto influencer types talk like children because a lot of them are literally children, pretending to be grown ups by using AI avatars and such

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't watch tv but I can list a bunch of TV shows I've heard of

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

final fantasy has in fact been putting out numbered entries at a similar speed to how it used to. it's just most of those numbers are "7"

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my album actually has an anti-bush song. cause I'm channeling the spirit of the 2000's. hoping I can finish the song before he dies

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

i guess i dont know a simpler way to explain this than that people who are willing to throw trans people to the wolves to stop fascism arent actually stopping fascism like that IS fascism dipshits

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

fucked up that the list of "best tv shows of the 21st century" is so heavily biased towards the first 30 years of it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

everyone is applauding me the shittier my mspaint drawings are. I can't begin to tell you how this is an inversion of my brain's entire reward system

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

ok but how many of these so called ‘100 best tv shows of the century’ had illegal sold out stadium screenings in mexico for their finales. that’s what i fuckin thought

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm already expecting some things to not be finished until 2030- what I don't want is for this decade to fly past me though

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

quick Kate B "Direct" where I run down what I'm working on right now: 2027: secret unannounced thing: believe it or not this thing has a deadline. which makes it all the more questionable that I'm goofing off mspaint thing: this is doable within maybe a few months and I have momentum on it

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I knew what a "time signature" was for years though of course. just that when I wrote my music I was thinking "I don't care about any of that, someone else can figure out what time signature it is later". turns out that someone else.... was ME!

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have become the fucking Count Von Count of time signatures- listening to music like 1!... 2!... 3!... 4!... a ah ah ah!

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

using these shoddy mspaint graphics has allowed me to churn out a ton of game over just a couple of days. each one takes maybe under 10 minutes. still things that require work (keeping details and colours consistent between screens)

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 24/09/2026

I would like to make it to 10k follower before my birthday 🎂 in a couple weeks 🥳 Give me a follow for cool game dev stuff 😎

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a little more wandering around this world

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

well it finally happened, I drew a super complex background on top of a screenshot at the wrong angle. I have no idea how I did it

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