iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A deep cut joke for you movie nerds via Brian Akey

Pinhead holding the lament configuration with the caption, "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion," a line from the film Donnie Darko.

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think of this all the time.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kay Vaindal is back in STP with An American Execution. A woman travels to witness the resurrection-execution of one of the 9/11 hijackers with the daughter of her abducted neighbour and her boyfriend who claims to be an emissary from another universe. Dark and wacky in pure Vaindal-esque fashion.

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"An American Execution" by Kay Vaindal - Seize The Press

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 04/09/2026

bethany frankel of the real housewives of ny going to burning man really hammers the last nail into that coffin

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Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape.

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.

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SiriusXM Urban View @urbanviewradio.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy Birthday, Mavis Staples!! #UrbanViewMornings

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

if i were participating in a world soccer tournament i would simply not have accepted a tainted gift from the trickster king of the fae realm

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

seriously, get rid of your crap

misidentified Netflix descriptor screen: text says "tidying up with Marie Kondo" and photo is a person with an assault rifle in the desert

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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes. “So that’s where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn’t coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass."

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Trey Jackson @treyjackson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

yeah, it's fuck philz but it makes me sad as well because I remember going there when it was just int he Mission. private equity strikes again

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

you fucking guessed it! "Last year, Philz was purchased by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co., which also owns Popeyes Chicken and El Pollo Loco, for a reported $145 million, according to Mission Local, though the company did not provide details of the deal."

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Naomi @naomicath.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”

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Pete Volk @petevolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

Top headlines: Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash. Sources: Sun sold, will relocate to Houston in '27

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2026

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-unc…

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

PANEL 1: NARRATOR: "Cultivating the measured NPR cadence and placid deference to the military that characterizes the ideal neoliberal subject, Clark Kent returns to the editorial meeting..." A group of DAILY PLANET reporters are in a meeting, Clark Kent is responding to a question from his boss. CLARK: "Well, chief, the bombing campaign--"

PANEL 2: Clark is talking and the other reporters and co-workers look unhappy. CLARK: "Obviously war in the region is not-ah-"ideal," but regime change could ultimately provide socioeconomic benefits that far outweigh the regrettable civilian casualties..." CLARK (thinking): "As Superman, last son of Krypton, these words of course sicken me; however, it's Clark Kent's job to manufacture consent!"

PANEL 3: (inset in a larger panel) One reporter is whispering to another. REPORTER: "Kent is such an off-putting sociopath" REPORTER 2: "I hope he kills himself". An arrow points to this inset panel that reads "Thanks to super-hearing" from Clark's ear. Clark is smiling and thinking to himself. CLARK (thinking): "Looks like my secret identity as Clark Kent is safe...FOR NOW!"

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Crim Reaper @crimreaper.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Kaijune 2023 Illustrations Nessie - the Loch Ness Monster

Nessie, a long serpent-like spotted creature resting on a lake shore

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Here is me singing Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” based on the top ten hit by Bram Stoker Want to see Varietopia in Los Angeles or on tour? Get tickets here: bit.ly/varietix #varietopia

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Vampire - Paul F Tompkins

YouTube video by Varietopia with Paul F. Tompkins

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David Marshall @illdave.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

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Bearded Stoner @beardedstoner.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dying in a mental asylum in 2004 because I went back in time to tell people that The Apprentice would lead to the end of medical research, the Civil Rights Act, and birthright citizenship.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Kendrick Lamar beat Drake in a rap battle so thoroughly that Drake called the police. I will never stop laughing about this!

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