iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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MAMDANI SCANDAL: Mayor Said To Think Several Songs From “We Shall All Be Healed” Are On “The Sunset Tree”

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"who is this fool" "thats mr bean, roland. he is a tv character from a nation over seas" "he has forgotten the face of his father"

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 7h

What if, for about the price of a new record, you could support physical media made by passionate people? Trick question, baby, you CAN.

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 29/09/2026

They're calling it "The Panel So Good It Will Make Them Feel A Little Bad About Not Giving Us A Badge For Detroit" and we said that's a little long and they said "this is exactly why we did not give you a badge for Detroit"

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 29/09/2026

ISSUE 2 has continually asked the question What is community? Where can we find the people that Get Us? It's hard. It's worth it. @narukamiknight.bsky.social masterfully brings us home with today's piece: Mage-Ring Networking. www.cascadecascade.com/mage-ring-ne...

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Mage-Ring Networking

What is community? Who are our people?

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 29/09/2026

I can tell you're not from around here by the way you pronounce "shibboleth"

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the mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yeah, life is too short to let it go to waste like this But I never tasted jam before that tastes like this And life is too short to refrain from eating jam out of the jar

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Steve @yinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Friday

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 25/09/2026

Bride & Groom’s Signature Cocktails Laura: Aperol Spritz Scott: The stuff from the beginning of Prometheus

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

going to start saying “I have trauma responses” in casual conversation like I’m holding a Daze

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a call to love in glowing words

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This could have been in the same block as Survival of the Fittest. Lesson: take big swings.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don’t want to make art for the general public, who I hate. I want to make art for guys like me, who somehow I hate even more

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is hanging on my wall, and it makes me smile—and remember my sweet idiot—every time I walk by it. You too can have a Shafer original (and you should)!

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Cal is Stitching & Cascading @caljones.com · 21/09/2026

the support for this last time was truly unreal, we're ready to do it again bigger & better than ever. The last issue was 62 pages... I'm still working on it, but I think this one is gonna crest 80.

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george @stackofbears.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My job is to sit down and enter "Now?" into a computer terminal, which randomly responds "No" or "Yes". I repeat this task for nine hours a day, and twice a month they pay me for the number of Yeses I got. I am quite skilled at this and often speak at professional seminars. Lately I've been very sad

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Snow is falling in Manhattan In a slow diagonal fashion On the Sabbath, as it happens Snow is falling in Manhattan If it looks like it might be a bad one The good caretaker springs to action Salts the stoop and scoops the cat in Tests an icy patch for traction

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Officially old and decrepit now that the local venue is hosting “I Can’t Feel My Face: A 2010’s Dance Party” nights in between Shrek Raves and tribute acts.

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 17/09/2026

It's okay to play cards that make you feel something, even if they aren't the best cards to play.

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Sam @rhysticstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

30 years ago, Barry Reich designed a visionary Magic set that Wizards purchased but never published. Spectral Chaos was a daydream about what a game could be, long before we knew what it would become. 🎥 youtu.be/gco_njeerfE

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Omen of the Day: walking my kid to school, encountered dozens of worms dying on the asphalt across multiple blocks. Hasn’t rained in days.

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i bet firing a barrage of nematocysts feels so good

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

really innovating in the “how many times can one sad man listen to ‘the midnight organ fight’ in under two weeks” space

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com · 15/09/2026

I wrote about the Knicks, community, and building towards something larger than ourselves.

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Never been more tempted to go to law school than when I receive an email from a 60+ lawyer, they truly do not give a fuck. What power, what security, it must take to send a two sentence email with six typos that addresses none of the questions posed by my email. In awe.

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 15/09/2026

Print Edition of Issue 2 is being leveled up in ways you simply do not understand

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Me in February: “well, at least I know Wizards of the Coast won’t print a better Elf that makes me shuffle my library than Formidable Speaker this year!” WotC, every few weeks: “ffuck yuo, rob.”

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 01/09/2026

Jace looked at a world where Yargle wasn't caked all to hell and said "this sucks. this is not good at all" and history will see him redeemed

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This new Lambchop album has been incredibly important to my mental stability over the last day or so, it’s amazing (and makes some Wild Choices).

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Possum Acquainter @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(buzzing in so hard i crack the podium) CREMASTER AND CREMMANDER

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

now that’s a 3/9 if I’ve ever seen one

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

When you have proved your ardency enough and warped your bones like a bonsai tree, the world will align itself in certain subtle but unmistakable ways. P3P1:

The Magic card Incremental Blight, next to the Shadowmoor pack out of which it was busted

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

the reddit girl training that guy like a shelter dog is fine. a problem with most men is an unwillingness to believe we're responding subjectively to various stimuli to begin with and the internet is doing gangbusters on exploiting that so at least here an actual person is giving him literal treats.

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Orcish Librarian @bibliovoreorc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today's #flavoradded is: Stone Giant "Uppies! Uppies!" - Krix, goblin cloud enthusiast, last words #MTG #MagicTheGathering

The Magic card Stone Giant, which reads: "Target creature you control with toughness less than this creature’s power gains flying until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step."

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Petro Kim @trasgomorph.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

living in a college town, baby

A recycling bin absolutely overflowing with Busch Light cans, boxes, etc. You could make plate armor out of this shit and have enough left over to lightly armor your horse.

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You have to give race science at least this much credit: these are the genetically ideal skull shapes and haircuts to say hello ♩ Hello ♪ HELLO ♫ while poking out from behind a wall

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Andy Mangold @andy.luckypaper.co · 22/08/2026

I am buzzing with excitement this morning. We're streaming the most interesting and experimental cube event ever run, Cube for a Cause: Obscura. The 17 cubes on offer were all designed in secret, specifically for this event, and none of the ~128 players have any idea what cards they contain.

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CASCADE CASCADE - SUMMER VACATION @cascadecascade.com · 21/08/2026

We made a starter pack of writers, editors, and collaborators. Ever-growing but always worth your time!

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