iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 2h

Mostly driven by capitalism. No one cares about creating, only generating output that will get someone to click and/or pay. They don't want to make a thing, just sell it. ugh

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 3h

sleepy noodles

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 4h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 3h

I feel like there are some State Fair stands already gearing up for this one.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3h

I mentioned Dressmaker to my sister and now it is mine. I am having SO MUCH fun. Priya, my beautiful mermaid of death, go. Scare those harpies away from your brother.

A screenshot of one of my dresses in the video game dressmaker. The mannequin is of a larger hourglass body type. The upper bodice, sleeves, and a daring little split down the front are black lace. The lower bodice and mermaid skirt are shiny black satin. The high collar is tied off with a black bow. It’s giving Morticia with a touch of don’t flirt with my brother at our uncle’s funeral.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 4h

I continue under emergency, so I'm opening 3 more portrait sketch commissions for *next weekend*. 50USD each, as the image says. you can schedule it with me directly or via Ko-fi or Patreon: www.patreon.com/tomeofsalvat... ko-fi.com/s/edbbafe083 #portrait #commission #commissionsopen #sketch

five black and white portrait sketches of diverse people. around their heads the letters say "black and white hand-drawn portrait sketch. photo reference only - or fictional character. payment upfront via ko-fi, patreon, paypal or wise. delivery in 3-5 business days after receipt of reference.

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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 4h

Literally every single US conservative - whether or not loudly MAGA - is a horrible person. Without exception.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

The number of "just use AI. why aren't you using AI, dummy? i used AI to write the script for this video and if i could, i'd use it to star in the video for me too, you shit for brains." videos out there is maddening.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

I don't know who is giving authors this advice, but when your covers all look like the same ai-generated crap, it really does not stand out anymore. And it's becoming a scourge on ebooks. I love me some fun reads, good smut, sappy romance, and all. But I am now judging a book by its cover. Ugh. 😕

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

My cheap/free ebook included this title in today's email ("paranormal romance" is one of my categories) and it was the second image. I went to amazon to see if all the books in the series had used these ai-generated yass-style covers and saw the page listing still had a mix of the old art and new.

Book cover for "Lattes and Spirits" by Alyn Troy in the Mystic Brews series.

Done in a colorful art style, a white woman with blue hair and a purple witch hat holds up a to-go coffee cup next to an adorable cat. In the background is a large haunted house style house against a full moon with ghosts, bats and a jack-o-lantern.

Alternate book cover for "Lattes and Spirits" by Alyn Troy in the Mystic Brews series.

Done in what looks like an ai-generated style, a white woman with blue hair and a purple witch hat holds up a coffee mug in what appears to be a cafe. On a table behind her sits a black cat. Seated at another table is a bedsheet-style ghost. While there appear to be words written on signs and a chalkboard around the shop, they are all illegible.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously. Riverdance, lord of the dance, roar, all the Irish step dancing videos, and hell even the terrible power rangers knock off Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog

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Edgar Allan Hoe @dlcrumbdump.bsky.social · 4h

the idea of getting away from the big problematic corporate social medias is great and all but people can't even be relied on to try less shitty alternatives LET ALONE follow creators, artists, journalists etc on their own websites or check out and engage with any small community spaces so like...

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

All to say, if you're someone who's sitting on a "I'm not on that social media platform anymore, I never trusted them, I'm so glad I left" etc. response, leave it in the drafts. Folks out here are just doing their best to cope in an increasingly shitty landscape with no relief in sight, y'know? 💖

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Fin

Alt: "Fin" aka the end

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

Old internet may have been more fragmented, but it still feels better than the dead internet we're heading towards. And knowing that it's only going to get worse. There's no getting better anymore. That's one of the most depressing things. I would have hope, but tech bros are too AI-cooked now.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

I know part of the social media strategy is getting people (and everyone they know) hooked on the site, making it impossible to leave. Add to that how interminably shitty they're getting and it sucks even more that you can't just leave. Gotta be a traffic warden just to see things you want online.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

So the moral high ground of "I'm not even ON Facebook anymore," sounds nice, but then like... how do you find out about things? Not national news, but like when your neighborhood bar is having a special theme night? My walks don't take me past many restaurants, plus it's 7a or 11a, they ain't open.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

And I remember the days of awful venue websites. They'd barely remember to mention the phone number or address, might have a static menu or PDF that hadn't been updated in months, maybe a shitty "events" page that was out of date. And those only got worse once social media really got popular.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

That's the other damage that the sites have done, and which makes it hard to "just leave". Even if you leave, everyone else doesn't! The gay bar in TX that had their page deactivated by Meta? You know their entire marketing/outreach strategy was FB and Insta. That had to be devastating.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

Those places are easily over a mile and some change from where I live. I'm not likely to walk down there a lot after work, happen to see a special, and stop in. It would be a planned trip. Except those specials aren't on their ACTUAL websites. They might be mentioned on FB, TikTok or Insta. Maybe.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 4h

Thinking about this as hopefully my last set of thoughts about this today because it's fucking depressing. When I went out to get cheap end of day pastries, I wandered past a lot of restaurants and bars with specials on signs out front. Without visiting in person, I might never have known.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

Everyone is using a site that's becoming increasingly more shitty. Bluesky is not immune to that by any stretch of the imagination. But if we stopped, the idea that people would take the effort to maintain these followings when they aren't fed to them on a silver algorithm platter is ridiculous.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

Yep, my best friend—love him as I do—is still on Twitter. I have tried to get him to leave, but he's already at the "I don't wanna move to a new site" point, regardless of the shit on display there. He's still on TikTok, I'm not. Our "Did you see the...?" conversations have dwindled to zero lately.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

Yep, that's the largest part of it people seem to casually forget. Someday, I may no longer have an account there. But that doesn't stop my relatives, my school, my organizations, my favorite restaurants and theaters. I'll have to engage with those sites in some way just for information regardless.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

It is completely valid to complain about "the only games in town" when they are just that. Alternatives exist, yeah, but are you—the you who keeps telling people to stop using Meta sites, Amazon sites, Google sites—gonna use those alternatives? Naturally, without having to be constantly prompted? 💖

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Probably Not Imurgency

Alt: Probably Not

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 5h

😑 Like my earlier thread about platforms sucking. I'm sure I'll see many similar comments here "that's why you gotta get off of Meta sites". Which, OK, they're not wrong. Except… Are you gonna follow your faves on their own sites, sub to their Patreons, buy their merch directly, go to their shows?

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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 7h

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Benji, Brewing since 2023 @benjithebrewer.bsky.social · 7h

Share if you need a timeline cleanse 😙

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

It’s not that data brokers and social media companies haven’t been building profiles on people for ages, but it’s worth noting how they are now trying to normalize this by touting it as a benefit rather than the creepy and invasive function that it is.

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Meta's Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life

Meta’s AI agent creates profiles of people in users’ lives even if they don’t use Muse.

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Fa-ghoul-tha Christie @joelnb.bsky.social · 7h

You're laughing? Kent State GunPoop Girl is currently cheating on her husband (a MAGA influencer himself) with a member of a pretty popular legacy “scene” band who is absolutely not right wing and you're laughing?

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

I watched that video like, "Y'all. Youse. You lot. You 4 guys... are seriously gonna start a 'Who's a hottie' war? Looking broke down as hell on a broke down podcast set." To quote them for a sec, "Black is beautiful." but their ugly goes down to the bone. Damn.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 7h

Me: “Dont body shame people” Also Me: “Nigga your mouth is the equivalent of a broke down rusted out pinto. Asking what woman is and isnt attractive when you look like every Peter Lorre caricature from Looney Tunes. Do be quiet.”

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

Hee hee hee, I knew someone else would hear it.

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gwen 🌶️👹 @gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 7h

You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of heat and cold but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of insulation. Your next stop, the October Zone!

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Wes Franks @carrion-comfort.com · 7h

I was excused so I'll be live at 2pm eastern!

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

Just Another Park Walk Monday… Fall temps are here and it’s so lovely! #PersonalLog 20261005 It was rainy/gloomy over the weekend, so felt good to get out today. youtube.com/shorts/gWcwq... #goodmorning #exercise #fitness #walking

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

Another day, another "AI-crafted lofi music" channel popping up on YouTube and Bluesky. *ugh

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

Yeah, out of the two of them, I don't think either is a particularly great person. But if we were weighing their deeds on a scale… one of them is not gonna come out of that looking great.

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Chris 🧠 talk with humans @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 10h

say what you will about the julies at least they're blatantly just a straightforward python script copy pasting the same identical post text and randomly picking name emojis from a hard coded array as god intended making them trivial for a person or content moderation based on string match to detect

Captain Crunch "Oops All Berries" cereal, except it is "Oops all [4 screenshots of julie with emoji after each, common bsky spam bot]".

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 7h

If you're going to pitch a game for consideration, to ask to keep an eye out, or an ask to add it to my Wish List… Please remember to include a link to the game's Steam page in the email. 💖 (This is about video games, but it counts for other things too. Just. Add. The. Link.)

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Fuzzerween @fuzzerhop.bsky.social · 7h

Dentists poking my mouth:

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 8h

I'm now reading the article in which this news came out and uh… I'm really not sure he read it all, or that this is the hill he wants to die on. VBNMW tends to lean towards a certain type of online behavior. Especially celebrities who toe that line. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Interviewer: Do you feel that people on the left should have voted for Kamala Harris?

Morello: I’m crystal clear that people’s conscience cannot allow them to do something that they fundamentally believe is wrong. I was the scheduling secretary for United States Senator Alan Cranston. I saw how the corporate Democrat sausage is made. It is worse than you think. And there is a reason, there is a righteous fury at the corporate controlled, money controlled electoral system we have that is absolutely legitimate, and people cannot choke down — I understand it — voting for a candidate that’s responsible for what happened in Gaza, and they just can’t do it, and I’m not gonna blame them for that.

Morello (continued): But I think that putting it on them is the most cowardly thing. Put it on the fucking Democratic Party. First of all, I don’t believe it’s their responsibility and they’re never gonna necessarily never do the right thing, but I think it’s all of our responsibility to co-create the world that we want and not point fingers at people that were just like, “Well, you know, my conscience didn’t allow me to do that, so it’s your fault.” I will not co-sign that.

Interviewer: Did you vote for Kamala?

Morello: I certainly did not.

Interviewer: You did not?

Morello: Did not. I couldn’t do it.

Interviewer: I didn’t realize that.

Morello: "V for Vendetta" — that one inch of who you are belongs to you, and they can’t have it. Now, I live in a state where it may not have moved the meter, but I just couldn’t do it. Couldn’t do it.

Interviewer: When’s the last time that you didn’t vote for the Democratic candidate?

Morello: Can’t remember the last time I *did*.

Interviewer: Wow, okay. I thought you were softening a little bit.

Morello: Can’t remember the last time I did.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 9h

Sorry, for those who aren't searching. tl;dr - He is 'disappointed' because Tom Morello didn't vote for Kamala Harris. He posted this on his Threads account which has spilled over to Bluesky discourse even though he has not yet posted about it here.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 9h

Watching that man do a full 180 on his oft-repeated "Don't be a dick." mantra over time was just wild.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 9h

i know it's one of you | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A GRIZZLED MAN pacing in a grey hallway on a spaceship. He's wearing a boiler suit and holding a knife.
GM: NOW I KNOW ONE OF YOU BASTARDS IS A SECRET "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" SENT HERE TO KILL THE REST OF US.
GM: AND *WE AIN'T LEAVING THIS ROOM* UNTIL WE FIND HIM…AND KILL 'EM!

PANEL 2: Three more CREWMEN respond.
CREWMAN 2: I- I TOLD YOU SIR, I'M A HUMAN! FLESH AND BLOOD!
CREWMAN 3: ME TOO! I SWEAR!
CREWMAN 4: HEY, HOW DO WE KNOW *YOU* AIN'T IT?

PANEL 3: Back on the GRIZZLED MAN, who pricks his arm with knife, dripping a small amount of blood.
GM: PLEASE.
GM: HOW ABOUT THE NEW GUY. YOU'RE AWFULLY QUIET.

PANEL 4: Just to the right of CREWMAN 3, a COMPUTER MONITOR is on the table, with a pixelated emoticon smiley face on it.
COMPUTER: Hello there! It seems like you're looking for who the computer might be – I bet I can help! Let's all take a look at the facts together.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 10h

I got a game pitch and they included links to other streamers who covered the game and both had AI generated/enhanced thumbnails like… come on, now.

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