iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The process of turning Ocelot Pride into a Pokémon card.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

researching baseball

The Circleville Herald
Sat., Nov 28, 1970 - Page 9

Washington rookie pitcher Dick Suck, 25, hurled for Savannah and Buffalo in 1969.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🎶this is how legends are made🎶

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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

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Jordan Starkweather ✨ @jackal27.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

damn, that’s crazy anyway

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Evan Lewis @akaleth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I just uploaded a what's-the-play video to YT! I want to work some shorter, more digestible stuff into my work, and this is where I'll start. In this video, I analyze a Thoughtseize from one of my recent challenge runs. Please check it out, and let me know if you like it! youtu.be/RTdoev5Yelk

youtu.be

WHAT'S THE PLAY? WB Death and Taxes Casting Thoughtseize vs Dimir Tempo!

YouTube video by Akaleth

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El 🗡🐺🛡 @defiantmartyr.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Reminder that corporations are not your friends. Bad fucking look.

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Robert Taylor 🔥 @fireshoes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I swear to god, Wizards can't get out of their own god damned way sometimes. They are making Magic Online change what decklists get published. Only the Top 8 decklists will get posted for challenges under 64 players. #mtg #ReleaseTheDecklists

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Grok is so much worse than you think.

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Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We’re in Chicago.

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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 15/01/2026

Repost for reasons

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

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Jarvis Yu @jkyu06.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving in Magic the Gathering? I'll give away 5 playpoint codes on @magiconline.bsky.social on December 1st to people who do the following: a) Share this post b) Reply c) Follow me

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a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock sitting at a picnic table with a turkey on the table .

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock sitting at a picnic table with a turkey on the table .

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Eric Burghardt @0kay.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It's time to take your turkey out of the freezer and launch it into the sun.

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.

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Evan Lewis @akaleth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I'm kinda shocked that Forge was not touched, but I find it difficult to complain that we are FINALLY seeing some much needed movement on Legacy bans. Tamiyo and The One Ring feel like they are on extremely borrowed time, but they'll be a bit more manageable without Reanimator and Nadu in the room.

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Magic Online @magiconline.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

As a make-good for trade not working until at least tomorrow, please enjoy All-Access between now and Wednesday's downtime - use code REPAIR2025 to receive the Rare Event Token (entry fees still required) Paid for A-A already? You'll get 50 Play Points during Wednesday's downtime

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Eric Burghardt @0kay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Saw a moon halo tonight

$A ring of light around the moon caused by refraction of light through millions of tiny ice crystals.$

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jakeslop @okbuddycomputer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

slutty 👏 police 👏 officer 👏 costumes 👏 are 👏 copaganda👏

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Rachel @lhea.me · 03/10/2025

Crude, derogatory, misogynistic comments have no place in society, let alone at a Magic event. Construing this ban as a persecution of political belief and a 1A violation is a stupefying level of bad-faith. @cardtitan.bsky.social did the right thing. When people show you who they are, believe them.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States:
(a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip;
(b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide;
(c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law;
(d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide;
(e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court:
(a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants;
(b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

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John Ryan Hamilton @xjcloud.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

WOTC WHERE MY PAPER WHITE THOUGHTSEIZE AT WOTC I JUST WANNA TALK

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

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Eric Burghardt @0kay.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Beautiful day to be at Wrigley

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Robert Taylor 🔥 @fireshoes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Oops all spells has remained tier 0 or 1 through metas with UB reanimator with grief, UB reanimator with frog, UB reanimator with troll, UB reanimator with Tamiyo, and to this day. The deck is always the most broken thing in Legacy and just avoids bans by being hard to play.

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pissduggery 🎆🐍 @fishduggery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

gonna post a bunch of thoughts on the legacy B&R. I think the most important note to keep in mind is legacy in 2025 is inherently a casual format. There are competitive events, but it is a format defined by casual interest. Without weeklies and paper play, legacy dies. This B&R ignores this fact.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The NYT's anti-trans fear mongering was cited in a Supreme Court briefing that stripped away the rights of trans kids. They need to be fully blacklisted by queer people and their allies. Don't work for them. Don't use them for book press. Don't speak with them for stories. They made their bed.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If everyone in that crowd in Savannah was masked, the cops would not be arresting a lone person trying to protect themselves from Covid. Put on a medical mask - an n95 or kn95 - protect yourself, protect the resistance, protect the vulnerable. Easy hero shit.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

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oritart @oritart.ca · 18/04/2025

I don't play the wizard game anymore but given I recently found out I got posted yet *again* on the wizard game's nazi subreddit (matching rumors I've heard about me even outside of that sub) I figure I should clear something up this is re: my work on judge academy conferences c.2021-2023 🧵

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

You guys know what to do.

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pissduggery 🎆🐍 @fishduggery.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

fuck sowing mycospawn

a hastily googled image of a hole punched in drywall, passed off as if i had myself punched a wall in frustration at a childrens card game

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

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Eric Burghardt @0kay.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@raeofsunlight.bsky.social made this for me and I. Am. Totally. Normal. about it

Crotcheted Yorion, Sky Nomad (noodle) styled like a worm-on-a-string woven between my fingers

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Jakob Heckert @oomegagenesis.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Just hit 400 Followers and figured that’s worth a little giveaway! Like, repost and follow to be entered. Winner will be contacted on Tuesday 😃

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