iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A reminder for those at the back.

A redraw of the i nice panel from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, where Batman snaps a rifle in two over his knee.

He says "THIS is the weaponnof the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it."

I've replace the rifle with a plank of wood labelled "AI Slop"

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

im really and truly not the kind of person to shame people for the media they consume but if you watch the new harry potter you can get fucked

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this is really beautiful

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SPLITMANTRA// @splitmantra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I heard Spider-Man was beating up fascists at a rally and thought that was rad. Never give up hope in a world that makes you think there’s none left. Someone’s fighting for you, even if they’re wearing spandex. #spiderman #spidermanart #splitmantra

Spider-Man fighting against men who are seen as oppressors

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ecta foole @ectafoole.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I worked really hard on this! Play Ostranauts!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

*Sigh* You know who doesn't use AI to produce their videos? Me!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Oh wow, this looks gorgeous

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Excuse me, I do not have a Steam Backlog... I have a library, where books and tomes are stacked on upon shelves that reach the rafters, where spiral staircases lead to upper levels, and I sometimes lose myself wandering its halls that seem to wind endlessly.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Now they're forcing id to move to Unreal which is like firing the guitarists from Van Halen and making the remaining members into a boy band.

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Len @len.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is why you can't just be a cheerleader for the *concept of video games* if you actually love video games.

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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Huge win for Canada!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Gilbert Gottfried really had things figured out, because if he was ever recognized in public he could just be like [Normal voice] "No sorry, I'm not him. Ah it's okay, I get that a lot." and then when the person is walking away after apologizing [Gilbert Gottfried voice] "NO PROBLEM!"

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's impossible to overestimate how important the RPG Maker community is to video games, so many classic games in the past 35 years were either made by the community or inspired by them. To see one of their main knowledge banks nonchalantly wiped away like this is disgusting.

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Andy // Curry Paws 🍛🧸 @currypaws.com · 30/05/2026

fuck you

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

Screenshot of Kickstarter's new rules against mature content, in which everything pornographic is banned. It's a long document that's formatted in a way that I can't copy and paste all the text that's in it, but the first is that all point and anything sexual is now banned.

This part of the document outlines how even self censoring your own work will not work, because even the implication of sex is too much. Even in prose works.

This document is confusing because it says that erotic comics ARE allowed... you just can't show sex acts or genitals or try to arouse people. Also you can make sex toys, just so long as they're not for sexual gratification.

This is how Kickstarter's email began:

"Hello,
Kickstarter has always been a home for bold, boundary-pushing creative work, including mature content projects like romance novels, nude art books, and provocative comics. Creators working in this space are a valued part of our community, and that hasn’t changed." And yet it definitely has changed.

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Canuck is a Slur Podcast @canuckisaslur.preg4pay.biz · 06/05/2026

Behind the scenes on "The Red Green Show" and "History Bites", straight from the (co-)creator!

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I think with the level of venom with which AI proponents have treated artists, writers, musicians, whole creative industries, they deserve at the very least to have that venom met in kind, and I hope it stings. I'm only sorry it hasn't happened sooner. Party's over, enjoy the hangover.

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Yuri ♥ 🔜 PAX-U @yuriandthebeast.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My old person trait is that I believe single player games should still be able to be played without requiring an internet connection. My old person trait is that websites should always work in a web browser instead of forcing me to download an app to access it. And the app should be optional.

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"placeholder text" "concept art" either the temporary thing you put in matters to the process, in which case you need to get a human to work on it, or it doesn't, in which case you can just as easily put a bright pink rectangle that says PLACEHOLDER in and save everyone time and effort

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JS @theeldritchjs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

been really annoyed people seem willing to fall upon the blade for Larian because they made their blorbo game. concept art is an art and strong concepts build up on communal studio brainstorming thats where the magic gets forged into the steel frame to build on

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Len @len.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I don't see a coherent case for the idea that we shouldn't rush to judgement about GenAI use that doesn't hinge on the idea that it couldn't be *that* bad if [studio I think is cool] is using it. If it's "early visualization" you're still hitting there plagiarism button that makes RAM unaffordable.

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 12/12/2025

Epic pays for licensing fees for the games they give away for free as promotions. Which means even if YOU aren't paying for it, you're giving money to JK Rowling to harm transgender people AND elevating her stature by giving her franchise higher numbers. NO TERF WIZARD GAME. NO TERF WIZARD SHOW.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/11/2025

I genuinely think @mrnikli.bsky.social may be one of the best business writers in history, and “Brainwash An Executive Today!” is one of the best written and insightful and funny business pieces of all time. A must read. Execs can be really stupid! ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...

"Would you say that data observability is an issue?", they inquire with a tone that very clearly implies that this is a leading question.
I am immediately deeply worried. For those who are unaware!
, my specialty is building systems that move large amounts of data through companies, organize them in a way that is at least marginally less of a horrific clusterfuck than what random people without specific training will do when left to their own devices, and sometimes assist with statistics. Data observability is the high-level term that captures the ability of a business to go "Instead of downloading the data, it would appear the computers caught fire this morning. Would you like to fix this or pretend it never happened?"
The reason that I'm concerned is that the executive in front of me should not be using that term. They have no idea what it really means, which is fine because they aren't specialized in my area, but I am wondering why someone who requires crayon-tier technical explanations is inquiring about a niche, unsexy element of a platform they don't understand. This would be like my 96-year-old grandfather asking me about Bitcoin mining-impressive if he had arrived at the question organically, but in practice I'm already dialing the bank to report a massive theft.

...Yes," I reply hesitant, "but I think we can remedy most of that by implementing some basic testing. With some backing, I can accomplish that in a month or two."
"What do you think about Monte Carlo?"
What the fuck is Monte Carlo? I've never heard of that. I mean, I know there's a place called Monte Carlo, and I know of Monte Carlo algorithms, but there's no way this person is talking about either of those. It must be a product.
"I don't know what that is."
"I saw it on LinkedIn last night and I think it will solve our observability issues. Do you think we should get it?"
Oh. Oh no. I don't understand what exactly happened last night on LinkedIn, but I know it is dark and sad and reeks of unfulfilled wants. The executive sat before me has been marketed to. No, worse, they have been Marketed to, with a capital M.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I can understand asking for nuance in these discussions, but deliberately muddying the water by bringing up automation tools that people understand are not generative AI and asking for a middle ground is disingenuous. The nuanced position is that people are roundly rejecting the tech, respect that.

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GC Negative (For Spooky Season) @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Leaving this video on the feed like a suspicious package on the subway.

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The SCP Foundation 🏳️‍⚧️ @scpwiki.com · 18/07/2025

...You're welcome...??

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"We had meetings with the publisher the day before this happened, there was no mention of it." Really fucked up of this publisher to pull the rug on them so suddenly, absolutely sickening.

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Accursed Farms updates @notrossscott.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

They should have a Zelda themed cosplay contest where every week the worst cosplay gets booted. Call it The Weakest Link

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AdiFitri @adifitri.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/06/2024

I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on

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