iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Keep an eye on your old phones left in drawers folks haha. My old Galaxy S6 battery went 'spicy pillow' and pushed the back glass off the phone!. Fortunately I'd kept it somewhere it wouldn't have been a problem if it caught fire, but these old batteries get angry when not used for years 🤣🤣🤣

Partially disassembled Samsung Galaxy S6 phone, face down on a workbench, showing swollen battery.

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Gary Erskine @garyerskine.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry. An absolute Legend.

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Arielle Phillips @sprinklem0nster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Okay, one more: this photo of Tim Curry goes so fucking hard 💜

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Mayo 🔜 Pawsome @mayopup.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Big puppy with a tiny little cage, such a fun combination

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おっとん @lazybear-zzz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

bear animation

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Elweonfurro @elweonfurro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I like Charizard, they're useful and adorable

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

A yellow Backmarket poster in the subway showing a pink Game Boy with the caption “AB > AI”

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KORNdoggychub @korndoggychub.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

'Code in a box' games should be banned imo. Just producing plastic waste for absolutely no reason at that point. And a completely pointless waste of space on a personal level. It's like publishers assumed the love of physical media was purely due to the box 🙄

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Mayo 🔜 Pawsome @mayopup.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Are you looking for your own personalised telegram stickers? Furies? Puppies? Kinksters? I wanna make sure that you can express yourself as much as possible when talking online!

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Henkatenka @kinghenkatenka.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

400 followers! A first for me! Thank you everyone 😘

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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I think about this comic all the time.

Comic by drawer of drawings on Instagram. A detective stands in a kitchen that looks like it's splattered with blood. The detective says, mother of god. Nothing human could have done this. In the bottom panel it says, earlier. And there is a dog uneasily holding a ketchup bottle with its paws trying to put ketchup on a hamburger.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

After a stressful day and fairly long drive, I'm finally safe in my hotel for a weekend in Manchester. I forgot so many things, including my coat, so I hope the weather isn't awful 🙄

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Whoever drilled the mounting holes for those bin legs was clearly drunk or something 🤣🤣 (yes, there's only three sets of holes)

Picture of a round metal bin, upside down, showing it has three legs, one of which is very clearly not in the correct equidistant position.

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

That is a very VERY dead battery 🤣🤣

Picture showing the remains of an extremely corroded PP9 battery in a plastic enclosure.

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K-9 @k9art.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

And the answer is ... cuddles.

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Jasper Fox 🔜 MAW @redfuchs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Persist against all odds

A bipedal red fox paints a rainbow across the sky. They have a determined look on their face.

To the right of the rainbow are segments of text from newspaper articles about grim news for LGBTQIA+ folks, especially trans folks.

On the left, there are flowers on the ground, with butterflies flittering about. The discouraging words are illegible faint smudges.

Artist: BriarhideIllust

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e(Ag)le 🦅 @silvereagle.dev · 10/02/2026

Reposting this with alt text.

A graphic with two vertical halves. The left half, with green background and check marks, says: "A safer internet IS MADE BY Encryption, Privacy, and Open Source"; the right half, with red background and crosses, says "A safer internet is NOT MADE BY Age verification, Scanning communication, or Tracking & data collection." #saferinternetday

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Balls. Can't believe I did that 🙄. Just pulled some work I'd done in the office ready to build some test software, forgetting that I hadn't committed my local changes from this morning - so I just overwrote this morning's work *sigh*

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed

the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized

text says:

Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved.
Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like.
Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch.
This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I don't know what it is about the little animated videos we have to watch occasionally for secure working practices training, but my god, they make me so irrationally irritated. Why is the malicious actor always portrayed as a moustachioed villain?! I am 50, not 5! 🤣🤣

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Cashew 🔜 FUVE @mintcashew.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

In my corner of the universe

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Relatively Royal @royaltivity.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Block block block Do not dunk Do not respond Do not quote Do not @ them Do not screenshot Do not even type their name Do not type anything adjacent to it Do not feed the trolls Do not give the algorithm reason to feature the post Do not grant them the pleasure of wasting your time and ours

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Guess it's _that_ time of year again. This is number 5 in 2 days!

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Kay 🌱 comms open! @kf1n3.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wanted to paint this dog

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Fuck 🥺. Rather specialist item I'd been saving for on eBay, hoping I got the funds before it sold, just sold 😭😭. This week's really just been total shit.

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Daniel Albu 🕹️ (Tech Talk with Daniel Albu) @danielalbu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

35 years ago today, Ron Gilbert finalized the gold masters for Monkey Island. (They were labeled 1.1 because the game was sent back into testing during the final two weeks, prompting a version update upon its return). A defining moment that launched a legendary adventure!

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🐀Rat Daddy🐁 @threeratmoon.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

the new IT guy is working very hard

a drawing of a cartoon rat wearing a headset typing on a keyboard with a pensive look. speech bubble: "Have you tried chewing on the wires?"

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Wistfulbear @wistfulbear.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Age verification? I watched E.T. at the cinema when it came out, recorded songs off the radio onto cassette, and remember the "Get Ready for ITV" theme tune first appearing on TV (UK)

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