iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

adam @a.falk.wtf · 2h

Grandpa has good days and bad days

joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · 4h

adam @a.falk.wtf · 2h

"warriors can use 'boobs!' as a password, make it happen nerds"

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How frightening! We're lucky to live in a free country where the richest business people control every layer of government as well as the media 👍

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Jess @ennui-haver.bsky.social · 5h

if you're evil fuck you.

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adam @a.falk.wtf · 4h

My wife was watching this last night and that lady could tell me to drive my car into a wall and I'd have a hard time saying no

adam @a.falk.wtf · 5h

They're all like that (lovingly, mostly)

Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 17h

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What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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adam @a.falk.wtf · 5h

Keep honking, I'm jamming out to SKA=ALMIGHTY by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

tokyoskaparadiseorchestra.bandcamp.com

SKA=ALMIGHTY, by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

14 track album

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Strong Des Moines @strongdesmoines.bsky.social · 8h

Week Without Driving starts tomorrow, Oct 1–8. About 1 in 3 people already live this way. Try a day, a few trips, or the week on foot, by bike, or by bus—and notice what works in your neighborhood and what doesn’t. Even one trip helps us see what our neighbors experience every day in Des Moines.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 7h

Today marks 50 years of the Hyde amendment. 50 years of harm, injustice, & politicians obstructing our bodily autonomy.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 8h

MAD TV’S 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY 1. Butter Ball Saul 2. Hicks 3. Widow’s Bae 4. Mad Men’s Wearhouse 5. Succotashion 6. Kevin Hart Can Fuck Himself 7. The Wirewolf 8. Slow Lorises 9. Twin Peaky Blinders 10. Reacheround

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cluftnyc.bsky.social @cluftnyc.bsky.social · 14h

This passage, from Luke O’Neil’s amazing book “We Had It Coming,” took my breath away with its immediacy and humanity, the palpable mission of connecting the artist to the reader. I had to capture it then and there (it would have been better to write it down, but I was not in a place to do so):

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adam @a.falk.wtf · 10h

This is terrible and awful but I'm laughing thinking that a parent could talk a young kid into eating "just whatever" for dinner

Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 13h

adam @a.falk.wtf · 11h

The Bar Diet: only eating bar things but the definition is very loose Protein bar, salad bar, candy bar, meal replacement bar, gin from the bar

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then i got on the hammersmith & city line

A poster on the tube that says

POSTHOG
PERMISSIOONS SKIPPED DANGEROUSLY

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

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my 4 year old just "no way Jose"'d me for the first time today

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BREAKING: OpenSI has filed for IPO

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

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DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think I never posted the finished version of this drawing here, so here it is!!

a decorative guillotine painted with folk art inspired floral motifs with a ribbon at the top and two babushcats framing it on the sides, the hand lettered text in the guillotine's interior says "destroy capitalism"

the drawing from the previous photo printed on paper

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Is it a shower head? Like are there showers forecasted?

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Making peace with the fact my To-Read pile will only ever grow

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Also the original configuration of Now Now

I'd be shocked if this thing actually gets built and/or turned on

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Sorta hate doing this comparison, but could you imagine the outrage machine that would kick to life if someone from the other party even proposed something like this?

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Just for love of the game at that point

Ah nice. Thank you! And, judging by that, agreed!

GNU C Mane @andy.scrolling.site · 27/09/2026

Who's Kira Baker?

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An authentication request has been sent to HARP. To verify your identity you must PLAY ENCHANTING MELODY ON HARP

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Wow. Thanks for the sleuthing!

adam @a.falk.wtf · 27/09/2026

I'm sorry for your loss