iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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🏳️‍⚧️Critical Kate Willært @katewillaert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I saw this great Metroid piece by @max58.bsky.social shared on the Metroid FB group, it deserves to be seen by more people on this side of the intarweb.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 5h

Has any line encapsulated the weird US-UK co-production of Ted Lasso more than a Bristolian football steward saying “Used Kleenex? Lush.”? Like, how do you know to use “lush” but not that no-one in the UK ever calls a tissue a Kleenex?

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 6h

From 13 years ago where I was playing Draw Something 2 on the iPad. You had to draw something for a prompt and then you were randomly paired with someone online who had to guess. The person guessed "BIRDGUY" and then "BIRDGOI" and then gave up.

A very good drawing of what is clearly BIG BIRD

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Col @bigshirtlesscol.bsky.social · 8h

I should call her.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 9h

From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 15h

Man City fans going through hell of a lot right now.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t read the Economist but can give some pretty good financial advice. Make them share (“one between two” as they’d say at school) and save… ::tries sums:: at least £40.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 16h

Most TV is just this now.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 18h

Pluto is quite a cool free TV app that offers a lot of variety at any one time through dip in dip out streams. For instance, there are three (3!) different episodes of Rookie Blue on at this very moment. Rookie Blue season 2, Rookie Blue season 3, Rookie Blue season 4: all the genres!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Finally, here's the famous graphic that was made by the TNG art department (Okuda I think) to convey the true scale of the Enterprise-D to the writers by overlaying its outline on a map of the Paramount lot.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve started reading silver age Aquaman, which is just disposable gag short stories so far, but man, Ramona Fradom could draw. Love how smug Aquaman looks here, undercover in the navy.

Two navy guys look confused around a stack of crockery. A third guy (secretly Aquaman) looks smug as hell.
Dialogue:
There are thousands of these greasy dishes! We’ll never get them clean in time!
Relax boys… I’ve got the best kitchen detail in the world.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of all the pieces of technological dystopian literature that gets brought up in reference to current AI stuff the one that I think of a lot and needs mentioning more is Vaughan and Martin’s The Private Eye.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ooo, the Gen 4 Citroen looks nice.

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Curse the surveillance bot's sudden yet inevitable betrayal

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“No-one knows what a good or bad idea is until you try it”, claims the voice over on Homes Under The Hammer. Yet I could quite confidently claim many things are bad ideas without trying them. Like peeing into the mouth of a wild crocodile. Though feel free to test that if you don’t believe me, HUTH.

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kattsdogma.bsky.social @kattsdogma.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

they’re called hooves, dummy🙄

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Robin June @celestialrobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Quite an encyclopedia entry!

A screenshot from the Wikipedia entry on Stanislav Petrov. Encyclopedia Britannic noted his death with the words "He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race."[31]

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can Mario feel pain? Logic and science says no yet the “ai-yihowow!” noise he makes every time I walk him into lava suggests otherwise.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Weirdly, Hard West II has made me think a lot about my beloved Freedom Force (which also has a ragtag bunch of weirdoes with wildly different power sets). It's almost impossible, but I'd love to see a Freedom Force 3 done in the same style as this, rather than RTS.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did the penultimate mission (I think) of Hard West II (a weird west X-Com alike) this evening and it took me nearly three hours. Mentally draining and hard as hell, fittingly, I suppose.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The stupid thing about lists like this is that they never look beyond scripted shows (and sometimes not even beyond drama). Only Connect and Taskmaster are better than half the stuff here.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like how in Dogtanian, most of the main characters are shown at one point or another to be wearing full body tights the same colour as their fur, to prove that Dogtanian isn’t Winnie the Poohing it half-naked all the time. And presumably to imply that he does have genitals.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD

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V-Rider 🏍️ @vriderch.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Assuming this WAS some sort of secret prelude, yeah, I would want Dan back instead of, well, this f*cking guy.

Jaret LeMaster

Jaret LeMaster (born June 17, 1979) is a Los Angeles-based audiobook narrator and voice-over artist, best known for appearing in almost sixty episodes of The Babylon Bee Podcast. He also has producer credits for such short films as College Figures Out How to Discriminate Now That Affirmative Action Is Banned, Satan Asks Democrats to Tone Down All the Evil, and Homeschool Family Visits Woke Library, the latter presumably inspired by his four homeschooled sons and his other job as a worship pastor. Cool.
Voice roles
Optimus Prime: Awakening

Bumblebee/King Bee

External links

Jaret LeMaster at the Internet Movie Database

Category:

English voice actors

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@peachsaliva.bsky.social I don’t know what’s going on with this table, but I figure you’re probably into it.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

DC using this as the cover for their Finest trade about their Romance comics is a phenomenal “fuck you”

Cover of DC Finest’s Romance collection taken from Secret Hearts #88 drawn by Werner Roth and John Romita Sr.

Lichtenstein’s “Crying Girl” (1964), a direct ripoff of the Roth/Romita panel

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unsure about Mad Professor Mariarti. I was too young to really get it (not that it seems that good anyway) but I did appreciate that it has a TARDIS hidden in it.

Grid of 9 games that "shaped who I am". MechCommander, Freedom Force, The Curse Of Monkey Island, Simon The Sorcerer, Mad Professor Mariarti, Mega Man X, Metroid II, Super Smash Bros and Donkey Kong Country.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bonus picture from the photography I did for the review of those Visionaries figures. "Now how does this work?"

Photography of a blond barbarian man (200x He-Man from the MotU Origins Cartoon Collection) holding a silver staff atop which is a green hologram of an owl thing (Leoric's power staff of Wisdom from the original Visionaries toy line).

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I got those new @officialsuper7.bsky.social Visionaries figures yesterday and felt compelled (COMPELLED, I say) to write a review (with pics and everything) for my blog. transmithim.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/s...

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Super 7 Reaction+ Visionaries Leoric and Darkstorm review

They’re everything I’ve always assumed Super7 figures to be. It’s quite disappointing to be proved right.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote something about SNL:UK and what I learned by going to see it being made… joelmorris.substack.com/p/live-from-...

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Live from London, it’s SATURDAY NIGHT!

What seeing this week’s episode of SNL UK taught me about comedy.

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Dave Stokes @davestokes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Commission list for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social is now open. Email stokesbook@gmail.com to save a spot on the list. 9”x12” single character black and white commissions £90

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Surely it should be Bruce Wayne day and Batman night and no-one ever realises why they’re on the same day?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m on the bus and the driver isn’t taking payment from anyone. I thought maybe he was just running late for a timing stop when I got on, that he would call me up to pay when he could stop, but nope. Bus full of unpaid passengers, all baffled. Is the till dead? Is he quitting at the end of the day?

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this 1922 new york times story on hitler, over 100 years later, is like the poster child for why you don't just accept spin from people you have access to as gospel when you're doing reporting.

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch messes of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political pur- poses.

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Mariaje Pérez @mariajeperez.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Therapist: the horny pipes don't exist and cannot make you jealous The horny pipes:

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Ferran M @ferran-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean, only a very stupid person can see the machine that can't count the "e"s in seventeen fail at a simple task and go "Yes, that is my equal in intelligence".

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