iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 08/10/2026

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The idea of a pristine wilderness untouched by man is a myth and folly. The ecological devastation of Colonialism and it's extractionary nature can never be overstated.

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Jordan Carmalt Stokes @floreustebius.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

An under-appreciated strength of Hannibal, IMO, is that the dialogue has the same level of wroughtness as everything else on that show. Like can you imagine if a character walked onto those sets, in those costumes, with that music, and said “Hey, how’s it going?”

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Guest is a movie about a guy who’s cool. Really no other way to read it.

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Si F Sweetman @sifsweetman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't think I have ever posted Last Shooting on Bluesky, so here ya go. Still one of my favourite cover commissions I've gotten. (The game also rules, btw: my-name-is-grant.itch.io/last-shooting)

The cover art for the Tabletop RPG Last Shooting. In sunset hues, a destroyed mech in the foreground is missing its head and arm, the wounds sparking blue. In the midground facing it down is another mech, the upper left half of its torso blown out and smoking, its arm hanging limply to the side. Its remaining arm points its beam rifle at the camera. Cyan energy down the barrel.

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 04/09/2026

New video on the channel! Discussing Cicadamata, Neon White and the rise of Speedrun FPS games. Enjoy: youtu.be/OcLbYF24LnM

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

motoko: i can't jump in for this mission, batou, i'm about to have a whole lesbian cyber orgy. batou: [listening to the khz shifts in the background of the call] batou: batou: no you're not. motoko: hey- batou: you've got one basic PC rig running. you're posting on forums. motoko: HEY.

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I love @maconblair.bsky.social like a brother so I can't review IDIOTS, but IDIOTS is awesome and you should go see it.

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A Low Poly Robot @lowpolyrobot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Kirby Get Cell Phone

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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

in today’s game of “IS THAT GOOD???”:

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Oh yeah, the headache that makes you wrong about Gundam

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 18/08/2026

Like come on

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Vesper @voilevogue.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Seeing a Tesla Model X with the vanity plate "BOTNET" is a nice reminder of who's making money and how. But having the pride and nerve to advertise that is wild.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026

NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...

wired.com

The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty

A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I like how pedantic and defensive people got about the environment impact of data centers and then many of the major players decided to run them on the power equivalent of a giant shitty lawnmower engine.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

they should play Hannibal (NBC, 2013) in theaters

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

a true crime podcast I would listen to is one where the victims families walk in and sit down in the studio halfway through the episode

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"mmmm you say ai bad BUT ai actually refers to a lot of different things and actually we've had what could be considered ai technology for a long time now" bro shut UP you KNOW i'm talking about the algorithms they shoved all recorded information and one trillion dollars into

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rika @strawberryrika.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

havent been able to watch new GiTS yet. Coping by watching '95 again (in breathtaking 480p!!)

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026

Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Who says cops never have to face any consequences.

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LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

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Rafael Moco @rafaelmoco.art · 27/07/2026

Hello everyone! Many of you likely saw this image recently with the Apple TV+ 'Neuromancer' promotion. Some know, others don't, but this artwork is mine, created alongside actor & post-production artist Milton Menezes, as a personal project and a homage to the original Neuromancer romance

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Raymond Chandler on what people really care about in a story

"A long time ago, when I was writing for the pulps I put into a story a line like ‘he got out of the car and walked across the sun-drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cool water.’ They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn’t appreciate this sort of thing: just held up the action. And I set out to prove them wrong. My theory was that they just thought they cared nothing about anything but the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of death he was trying to pick a paper clip up off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half opened in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even"

"hear death knock on the door. That damn paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just wouldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell."

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 18/07/2026

I think there is a real reason why a lot of older creators fall into the AI usage trap. It often happens to creators who were ahead of their time with technology/style in the past, and think this is their chance to regain the edge, rejoin the young folks, be able to complete another project quickly.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In honor of his 75th birthday this weekend, here’s my @brightwalldarkroom.com interview with Abel Ferrara about his memoir, his life, his addictions, the end of the world, and his thoughts on redemption (and how the Bad Lieutenant would react to the 2025 World Series).

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Always Trying to Get Beyond the Veil: An Interview with Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara recently spoke with Bright Wall/Dark Room from Rome about his new memoir, Scene, his films, and his life as an artist.

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David Howe @monolithfiji.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The cover of my copy of Twin Snakes got water damaged (discs are totally fine!) but IMO it goes hard as fuck

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes with a unique water damaged cover

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 14/07/2026

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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I Am Not Sorry Lindsey Graham is Dead - Assigned Media

How a decade of hate made me a worse person

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

elated that I can finally announce I wrote the essay for Lionsgate Limited's release of The Furious

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 14/07/2026

heard this in a youtube video and burst out laughing so went to find the direct quote and there it is buried in an old kotaku interview, one of the all time funny executive quotes and also another rosetta stone for why video games are Like That now

One source described a meeting in which ZeniMax executives told Id leads that “Doom 4 can and should be as big as Skyrim,” as far as both sales and cultural impact.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As The Odyssey is very much a companion piece to Oppenheimer, I think I might have a companion piece in me to this essay I wrote when that movie came out www.polygon.com/23809966/opp...

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Oppenheimer undoes decades of American denial about The Bomb

How Hollywood finally made The Bomb personal

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Sometimes all you wanna do is do a little dance 🎶 Puppetry and CGI combine into an eccentric French sci-fi adventure. 📺: Commander Blood, Cryo, 1994 (DOS PC)

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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” - Anne Lamott

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Every decade of my life I have watched Major Kusanagi sexily fall off that damn building in a new way and you know what: I bet it'll still get my ass the next time, too

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#28 satellite

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