iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 12h

now this feels like a possible Vibecession Explanatory Variable.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

the october surprise is october being tomorrow

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Mahito @mahi10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ちーちゃんニャルソック中。ご近所さんの植木の剪定を見守っているようです。 #Blueskyねこ部部員No.23 ちよ

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Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

For the bibliophiles like me! #BookSky

read-and-be-merry post - List of books to read before you die
1. Any book you want
2. Don't read books you don't want to read
3. That's it
4. Congratulations you did it

iammewhooaryou comment - I really like this list. All my favorite books are on it.
replay from read-and-be-merry - Thanks I worked really hard on it

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Economic issues not cultural wars' produces a party that both loses elections and abandons moral causes and vulnerable people. That’s not a theoretical argument—it’s the story of the Democratic Party of my entire adulthood." newrepublic.com/article/2159...

newrepublic.com

Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”

Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am going to take the compromise position and call it “skeets.”

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here you go.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A friend of mine, somewhat skeptically but his old truck is dying, put a deposit on a Slate in so I keep getting these increasingly nice stories about how they’re coming along. 🤞🤞🤞 but it is sounding really good. Especially if you need an actual truck that can carry a sheet of plywood and stuff.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear grocery stores, I love that you have fancy apple varieties. Literally the only thing I want to knpw is whether they’re considered good for cooking, eating out of hand, or both. Signed, I guess I’m buying Granny Smith again

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 28/09/2026

i should be allowed to read research papers instead of doing my job [remembers that 'researcher' is a type of job] they should make researchers that are paid more than three dollars per year

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whelp. After 15 years of me saying “every shark swimming through a flooded city street after a storm photo on social media is fake,” we may finally have a real one. I’m awaiting confirmation from folks with better eyes than mine. abcnews.com/video/136803...

abcnews.com

Shark spotted in New Jersey floodwaters during nor'easter

A dogfish shark was spotted swimming through floodwaters in Surf City, New Jersey, heading up a resident's driveway and then toward Barnegat Bay on Saturday.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I should get up but Cloud is in my lap purring and making biscuits.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have an earworm to share with you Strategy cheese, strategy cheese Doing just what a strategy please What’s he like? It’s not important Strategy cheese

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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have been blessed by the friend onion :).

A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am going to be thinking about this for a while.

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...

paydayreport.com

X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula

Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Per the thread, it’s CGI and _not_ GenAI, which is super interesting. (And apparently it’s clearly not a deepfake.)

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The psychology of doomerism is that the Doomer is the smartest boy in class because he can see the Real Problem, which obviously negates the primacy of Other Problems. For totally mysterious reasons, the Real Problem is never poverty or discrimination.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I had a skin care routine that I liked and worked pretty well, except for one thing (redness around my collarbones, probably from a sunburn) the dermatologist and several aestheticians said would be very expensive to even try to fix and likely wouldn’t. Then the routine stopped working as well.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kinda strikes me like the xkcd cartoon, except here the geologists are saying people claim not to know the chemical formula for quartz because they’re snobs but really they do. You can have a whole life that never intersects with entire genres. xkcd.com/2501/

xkcd.com

Average Familiarity

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For #caturday, here is a bad video of training my cat Prem to roll on command. This is just the start, but it’s working reliably as long as it’s not in a circumstance that usually means a different trick.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We should be treating this like we would treat Lockheed Martin if they started hacking the US and its allies.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For #caturday, let's teach that mf LEGO its place.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

scrippsnews.com

Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if your pet had a bluesky account, what would they post about

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026

I should put this back up

"in this office, we believe... This is not a place of honor copy"

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

time.com

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s a book explicitly aimed at middle school kids in which the main character commits suicide at the end and continues the narrative as a ghost. It’s the author’s debut and I liked it; I’m questioning marketing and genre much more than the text. But holy shit wtf.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Without the threat of giant SUVs and pickups running over their children, people were beginning to feel too safe and started taking their families to hang out here more often—it was getting out of hand, especially with the lovely Waterfront nearby.”

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone who reported on cybersecurity for a decade, reporters not focused on cybersecurity are very bad at reporting on cybersecurity.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GIRL DINNER GOALS

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 24/09/2026

Human understanding is always the limiting factor in any endeavor. The promise of these tools is that they scale human understanding, but what they actually scale is human output, they scale human output much faster than human understanding, and that is why I am opposed to them.

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We could make this happen. WPA Hobby Division with grants for small businesses (like pottery studios and paint n sip and knitting circles and whatever classes)!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Kathleen McLaughlin @kemc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The reach of the lesbian bar story in the Boston Globe gets to something about local news, which is that people want deeply reported, weird and wild stories in their newspapers - that was a big part of the draw for local news for generations, it was fun to read!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When the time comes for the cultural revolution necessary to get out of this mess we need to set up a cabinet position like the Department of Hobbies that supports literally anything that gets people out of these brain breaking sites and counteracts this collective breakdown

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rm [-r] lininger @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I broke the ceramic pot that goes with my tea-making alarm clock, and have been trying to make a cup that fits (and catches the safety). I can’t throw to spec yet; I had one that worked as long as I shoved it in right. The mug on the right _really_ fits, and it makes me so happy.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep picturing the bees strapped into li'l bee carnival rides

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