iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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elz @elzhen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

forgot to upload this cute little sketch commission! :) #slaytheprincess

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hey, look: the cover of my next book has been revealed. Looks like it'll be out next March. Details: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This isn't a simple case of incoherent messaging, it's slamming every button on the console at once in desperation as they realize how egregiously they've overspent on this relative to what it can return financially. In six more months they'll be promising it regrows your hair.

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Wayne Maddison @waynemaddison.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Tree of Life web project is back! A phylogenetic view of biodiversity way ahead of its time (ca. 1995!), conceived and led by David Maddison, collaborative & human-curated, widely used in teaching. Defunct technology had doomed it until Travis, Danny, and Andrew revived it. 🥳🎉 🧪 #evolbiol

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New Past Lives: Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age. The Romans never conquered Scandinavia, but thousands of Roman-made items - largely weapons - were dumped into bogs far beyond the frontier. Why that happened opens the gate to the Viking Age. pod.link/1852618120/e...

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Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age

Listen to Weapons Sacrifices and the Long Road to the Viking Age from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

at America's Largest Humor Website (at the time) Cracked.com, my job for half a decade was to pick images for the articles. Finding relevant stuff in the public domain was a creative task that often inspired me to write more and better jokes. Even using Getty images was more creative than AI.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

my views on AI are extremely nuanced. i have a detailed and deliberated list of specific things that need to happen to these people

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RIP king…nobody played baddies like you. 💔

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casi-bev-art.bsky.social @casi-bev-art.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Inner Moons The small, short-lived moons of the inner Uranian system.

Digital painting of a landscape of one of Uranus' moons. The reddish-brown landscape is rugged and barren, with scarps and ridges scattered with flat, dry rocks and a few craters. In the background, Uranus is a blue-green giant planet with subtle storms and bright clouds. Another small moon passes in front of the planet, as do its dark rings.

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heywow @heywowart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

recently obsessed with Petra Parker all over my timeline, she's so cool

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

End of Days. Some cheerful new Tyrannosaur art from me. #SciArt

A digital illustration shows a large T.rex, with a vivid pattern of grey and white spots, walking through a barren landscape of burnt trees. A weak sun shines through the smoke-filled air.

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ohhh, not Luther, but Luther's dad! The Luther face got passed down a generation without much change, huh?

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 13/08/2026

During times of transition, I always think of the opening of Dune: "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct." When I created this desert world, a drop of a more fertile future was added - a lake full of potential. #exoplanets from fiction #sciart

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 12/08/2026

What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tips for UK eclipse-watching later today: 🔖Take white card/paper & a colander with you 🏞️Go to slightly higher ground if poss-for a better view 🌿Look at dappled light under trees-gaps between leaves create loads of tiny images of the eclipse (v cool) 💠Use your colander to project lots of tiny 🧵1/2

Images of an eclipse beneath a tree created by the gaps between leaves

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Know the difference! -When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, it's a solar eclipse -When the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon, it's a lunar eclipse -When the Sun is between the Earth and the Moon, it's an apocalypse #Eclipse

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

i think we’re going in a healthy direction

2 panel comic

Panel 1: Heading: “Discussing Movies with Friends”
Three people sit around a table discussing a movie they just saw. The conversation goes:
Blue Person: I think it’s his best work
Yellow Person: Really?
Purple Person: It was pretty good

Panel 2: Heading: “Online Movie Discourse”
Yellow Guy is being dragged to hell by terrifying ghouls. They scream “WE SAW A BOOB AND IT SCARED US”

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jules ☔️ @rainydayjules.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

this is gonna be a really useful clip

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

End cretaceus hell

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'd love to have some of the Simlish versions of real songs from the Sims soundtrack in there as a troll.

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

No worries, I was just confused by the absence.

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@hotgpod.bsky.social I was looking for some information in the podcast archive (I love that every episode is transcribed btw) and noticed something strange: episode 94 (the post-Hohenstaufen Q&A) is completely missing from the archive. It's not found in either season 4 or 5 either.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good chance that most stories about early medieval rulers are apocryphal, but there are two fun ones about the Frankish king Clovis: first, he split a guy's head open with his axe as revenge for taking a ewer; second, after converting to Christianity, affirmed that he would've saved Jesus from death

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wish polymathy returned to the scientific community. Where you're not just a specialist in a narrow academic field, but also a diverse artist; versed, if not involved, in politics; fluently multilingual. Polymathy died with industrial revolution. It should be revived.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

once again thinking about the best Lord of the Rings meme

Aragorn and Theoden talking before the final journey to Minas Tirith in Rrturn of the King (3 panels)

Theoden: 6,000 spears, less than half of what is hoped for

Aragorn: hey check it out, I found two more

Theoden: 6,002 spears. More than half of what is hoped for

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elz @elzhen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

a cute commission! :) being commissioned stp brings me life

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/11/2023

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

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David Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.

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General Guinan @madmaudlin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The entire internet

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mʌp ᯅ @map.wtf · 30/06/2026

I feel relieved when Germany exits a World Cup. I feel with those genuinely enjoying soccer and identifying with "their" team, but when I see just how much public excitement drops after Germany is out, it seems like this is heavily an exercise in national pride. And that alienates me quite a bit.

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This incredible graphic is by @maijakarala.bsky.social and is an excellent crash-course in bird (and honestly animal) color/pigmentation. Check it out! I’ve continually come back to this for reference and always love sharing it with others 🐧🐦🐤🏳️‍🌈

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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

more of this real journalism pls #SciArt #comic

fake news screenshots, the left is colourful people one getting vaccinated all giving a thumbs up while confetti fly around! the text is “New vaccine saves billions! Everyone is happy, lives long”
the right is a yellow scorching desert with skulls and bones and dead plants, the sun blazing with a :T face and just a giant black cube in the background that says DATA, the text is “Heatwave kills thousands, But the AI CEOs are even richer”

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The big beach kiss from Love Galaxy by @sierrabranham.bsky.social ! This book is delightful and wonderfully gay and you should absolutely read it. #MyArt #LoveGalaxy #LGBTArt #Lesbian #Kiss #Watercolour

A watercolour painting depicting Spie Expani and Temmi Ialan from Love Galaxy intertwined in an intense kiss on a beach at dusk. Temmi is a dark-skinned human woman with cerulean blue hair in a chin-length bob. Spie is a pale-skinned homan woman with dark hair tied back in a long queue. They have their legs wrapped around each other's hips, Spie's legs going over Temmi's, and Spie is running her hands through Temmi's hair while Temmi has hers on Spie's light purple shorts. They are blushing as they kiss. The sky is pink with an orange glow at the horizon at dusk, and the sea looks purple in the lighting. The first stars are visible in the sky. In the distance there are green grassy dunes.

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vickysaurus5.bsky.social @vickysaurus5.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Desert Bus for Hope 🚌 #DB2026 OCTOBER 23rd @desertbus.org · 22/06/2026

And thanks to our Anonymoose benefactor and RainCity Rents, that number will be tripled to an incredible $126,239.07!

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RTGame 👑 @rtgame.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Larry the Cat, the appointed Chief Mouser of Downing Street, has now outlasted 6 UK Prime Ministers, and the Queen herself. He holds the true power over the country

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy 10th anniversary to Daniel "The Brain of Brexit" Hannan's absolutely hilarious article about what Britain will look like after leaving the EU. 👉 www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo... 🤡

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they made gooseworx @gooseworx.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

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