iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I missed a #Wikipedia History quiz question about the #Ragamuffin Revolution in 1830s #Brazil. #history

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Narnia books as Isekai Manga

1. My Sweet Tooth Made Me The Villainess’ Slave
2. In Another World, The Dwarves Picked Me To Lead The Revolution
3. All At Sea With My Level 0 Sailing Skills
4. On A Mission In Another World And I Can’t Remember The Cheat Codes
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Horse
6. Help! My Uncle’s In Love With The Demon Queen!
7. Reincarnated In Another World Just As The Game’s Ending

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

John Green is a Mountain Goats fan? Yeah, that tracks.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/08/2026

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. (Published April 2025)

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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”

Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 16/08/2026

Once again I am simply appalled at the anti-science sentiments on Bluesky

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.

Headline of paleontology news article: Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026

As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a pattern: women describing similar abuse; a preacher who knew what was going on. And the same prescription for the problem: forgiving and forgetting it happened. Listen to this episode of "Paper Trail":

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The Church That Told Sexually Abused Children to “Forgive and Forget”

A man was convicted of abusing young girls in his church. Preachers had known the allegations for years. So why didn’t they report him to the police?

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I'm getting so tired of my favorite authors predicting the future.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/08/2026

Once again, I HANDED IN WOLF WORM IN 2023 IT WASN’T A THING YET

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/07/2026

A mother, a daughter, a granddaughter: For the Peldo family, three generations of women have been victims of sexual abuse. Each woman was told by church leaders to forgive her abuser instead of reporting him to police. with @startribune.com

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In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.

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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

A photo of a Magnapinna squid captured by a deep sea drilling company.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2026

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

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What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Another 4th of July with minimal animal shenanigans.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A year a half a ago, this professor made a plainly false statement that “an entire literature” existed— it didn’t—and then got multiple justices to buy into the historical fiction he backfilled, covering 800 years in a few weeks. A bastardized history, not in the search for truth, but for power.

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A bit of swamp ambiance for you late night enjoyment.

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The armadillos have grown bold.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/06/2026

Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:

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Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom

A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE

A white gloved hand reaches out and touches something that looks like ET fucked a monkey’s paw — a desiccated tiny nightmare hand

Text: Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Deeply disappointed to discover the whale tracking account that is following me crypto and not cetaceans.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/06/2026

Thank you, everyone, yes, I know about the screwworms in Texas now. Again, Wolf Worm was finished in 2023! I didn’t mean it!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/05/2026

NEW: More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a new Brookings report.

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More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates

Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s rep...

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Calling Middle GA folks - come join in tomorrow afternoon for a Community Healing and Grief Support session at Rosa Jackson Community Center!

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Join us on Sat 4/18 for the Macon-Bibb County Earth Day Festival! This free family-friendly event is all about learning, connecting, & taking action for a more sustainable future. Here’s what you can expect: - Live music - Exhibitors & giveaways - Wellness zone - Free Earth Day t-shirts for kids

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/04/2026

The impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown on mothers is particularly pronounced, our analysis found: Moms of U.S. citizens have been deported at about four times the pace under the Biden administration.

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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids

A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

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Paleontology has an Epstein problem. Women in the field say it's a symptom of a deeper misogyny | CBC Radio

The names of hundreds of scientists have appeared in the Epstein files, including prominent dinosaur researchers. As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations, women in ...

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Happy "Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" day to all who recognize it (primarily @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social readers)! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

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March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Andrew @abenesh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

On the upside, the trout lilies are coming in nicely this year.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It's all very bad, and I don't want to take away from that reality when I say this, but we've had an awful lot of "I told you so" moments and I'm tired of not saying that so I'm saying it.

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