iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"regular" people write books every single day. I find it interesting what some say "regular" people can and cannot do. Now, are "regular" people able to PUBLISH those books? That's a totally different question.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I didn’t see the pin option! Will definitely double check. Thank you 🙏

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

South Dakota zines!!! Let’s go!

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

AI can’t help a grieving widow. A case for humans who know when to break the rules and then make it right. substack.com/@tblive/note...

substack.com

On AI and widows at the tax office

And why I’m passionate about client services

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Dakota Rural Action @dakotarural.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Congress is working a new #FarmBill but right now it misses the mark on what #farmers really need, like mandatory #COOL, conservation funding, SNAP funding & pesticide labeling. app.publicnewsservice.org/story/sd-far...

A photo of a farm with a big red barn & a grain silo. A quote from Duane Carlson says: It really doesn't do the things that we need it [the Farm Bill] to do....There needs to be a good hard look at what these dollars are doing and how it's affective our local farmers."

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Help an iyeska writer! Purchase a dynamic reading link for Chapter 4 of my novel, "The Real Fight," on my Ko-Fi page. If you 'buy me a coffee' this month, get a discount as a thank you. Someone set the bar high with buying me 10 coffees so they received 100% discount. ko-fi.com/s/19125f328e

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Waking Up Chapter 4 of The Real Fight - Tasiyagnunpa's Ko-fi Shop

Enjoy early and dynamic access to part one of my debut novel, The Real Fight. Once each chapter is 'fully developed,' I will release the link here, th...

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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Meta was quietly shipping face-recognition code as part of the mobile app needed for its smart glasses even as it publicly said it's still “thinking through” whether to add the feature. WILD scoop from @dell.bsky.social and (newly back at WIRED!!) @dmehro.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Check out my new post! What can we learn from job loss, divorce and other issues around worth, value and security? From someone with a natal Chiron in Taurus dealing with all the things right now. substack.com/@tblive/note...

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TBLive (@tblive)

Check out my new post! What can we learn from job loss, divorce and other issues around worth, value and security? From someone with a natal Chiron in Taurus dealing with all the things right now.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I have sat face to face with detainees inside Delaney—high schoolers, elderly folks, a pregnant woman, people detained while waiting for court hearings. They told us the horrible conditions they face: lack of medical care, moldy food. Delaney Hall needs to be shut down.

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Pregnant, Indicted, and Not Backing Down: McIver Returns to Delaney Hall

The Trump administration charged her with a felony for showing up. She showed up again to fight for migrant rights and close an infamous for-profit detention center in New Jersey.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I realize I’m admitting to being a wildly boring South Dakotan when I say I finally had my first real boba tea today. And I really liked it. (As if I needed more drink cravings lol.)

A pale pink boba cream tea (jasmine with pomegranate) in a sealed boba cup on a plank of wood bar top looking out a large window onto 6th Street In Brookings South Dakota. A second boba that’s strawberry juice with strawberry boba sits near it.

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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Gee, thanks "teach the dems a lesson voters." 😡😡😡😡

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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 01/05/2026

Nine tribes filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over its approval of a graphite drilling project near Pe’ Sla, a site in the Black Hills that holds cultural and spiritual significance.

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Nine Native American tribes sue US Forest Service over approval of drilling at sacred site • South Dakota Searchlight

Tribes in the Dakotas are suing the US Forest Service over its approval of a drilling project near a site in the Black Hills.

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Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋 @uniongrl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am so frickin disgusted with SCOTUS gutting the Civil Rights Act. This is shameful! So apparently there isn't racism anymore...huh. I had something happen to me only three weeks ago. This is bullshit! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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US supreme court ‘demolishes’ Voting Rights Act, gutting provision that prevented racial discrimination

Justices rule in landmark decision Louisiana must redraw congressional map, largely killing major civil rights law

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2026

Utility companies shut off Americans’ power 13.4 million times and gas 1.7 million times in 2024, a federal report said — a newly collected number that consumer advocates say signals a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.

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Americans’ electricity was shut off 13 million times in a year, data shows

An advocate called the higher-than-expected numbers “jarring,” and consumer advocates say they signal a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Meatloaf grilled cheese?! Bet.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I’ve been following this Zinester on Substack for a hot minute now and though I don’t know her I still consider her a virtual mentor. This is the actually anti-capitalist guide to zine selling online that you didn’t know you needed. open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...

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How to Sell Your Zines Online, Part 1: Choosing a Shop Host

aka Etsy vs Ko-Fi vs Patreon vs Substack

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I’ve hardly ever lost, though I admit to putting them on the back burner and forgetting now and then. Also, can’t believe I missed this word of all words. 😳🤦🏻‍♀️ Wordle 1,766 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I had no clue she’d survived this. My favorite movie of hers will always be the gorilla one from the 90s, but now I wonder how much of her acting was just imagining if her own mother hadn’t survived. Uffda.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Well we do pay sales tax. That was one reason South Dakota early on pushed for local taxation of internet commerce. I miss that type of common sense conservatism. But how much does actually offset the costs?

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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Finally! Wordle 1,763 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Very rarely has Wordle stumped me, but today was that day. I ended up looking it up, and I can’t believe I missed it. Granted I’ve only been at it for less than an hour but I wasn’t getting any smarter. 😅

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Applying for jobs right now is a trip for more reasons than I want to make public on social media. However I must confess I let the Indeed AI write my intro thing cuz it can job hunt speak better than me, and I’m okay with that at this point. However this is the only quasi-valid use for AI imo.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Amazon proved it could get things to people in break neck speed. Employee safety concerns have always been there, but now their shipping isn't even that great and employees are still literally breaking their necks. www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

thewesternedge.media

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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Mark Tolman (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🖖 @mtolman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The only president stupid enough to do it.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Um, okay. Wordle 1,755 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

South Dakota State University graduate in Wildlife and Fisheries has a mention as having worked for a large pro-prairie and pro-bison nonprofit for many years. Wonder what tribal buffalo programs and ranchers think of it.

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John Fraley @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

pretty tired of everyone on earth being involuntary contestants on Celebrity Apprentice Deathmatch

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Would someone please just tell Trump that for national security, he may no longer use social media? Remember when that was a thing? Cause surely this level of existential chaos isn’t that profitable?! Right?! Right?!

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Two weeks to remove him. Now.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Again, so close and still needed the 5/6. Maybe because every day in America is a new level of existential crisis. And it’s not like I even bought into American Exceptionalism anyway, but if we know it’s this bad how much worse is it really? Wordle 1,753 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Wordle 1,752 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This might be the best petty religious flex ever in the history of Christendom. And I’m here for it.

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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

(April 1st ) Iran strikes Bahrain's Amazon Web
Services
:
IRAN
I STRIKED ON AMAZON'S
BAHRAIN CLOUD SERVER & CENTRE WITH MISSILES

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

These fascists are gonna zombify an old law about Natives but not know for sure how it’s going to affect us? Yeah, right. They know. And my guess is this is a land grab. Either give us your land or we deport you. SMH. Maybe one of my other ancestral homelands will take me, cause I’m not selling.

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

So this is kinda like fairy Bridgerton but thankfully queer?

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

So I may or may not have just sent what I now realize was a way TMI gushing thank you note to the author. In my defense, @dmihesuah.bsky.social ‘s new novel Blood Relay is freaking amazing. Read it! #booksky #novels #mystery

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ToBeAlive @2balive.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wishful thinking on the part of Wordle today? Wordle 1,740 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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