iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 48m

don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 28/09/2026

happy sunday from me and The Boy (◕‿◕✿)

A handsome tuxedo cat laying on his back looking at the camera. His paws are kind of crossed and his cheeks are sooooo chubby

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 27/09/2026

Free marketing idea for Jack In The Box to advertise their late night menu: “Get your Jack on before you Jack off”

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SCOOP: Justifying its ban of Politico, the White House said the news outlet used anonymous quotes from a "senior administration official." But those quotes were provided to Politico and other outlets by the White House during a background briefing. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The White House cited anonymous quotes in Politico ban. It was the source.

In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 25/09/2026

just got copies of my records from my old provider and i’m floored at how riddled with inaccuracies they are but this is my favorite one. literally what the FUCK are they talking about. beeswax????? what would that do for mental illness??? WHAT?????

The patient presents for follow-up reporting overall improvement in her symptoms. She notes significant reduction in ruminative thoughts and anxiety since her last visit, attributing this improvement to the addition of beeswax to her treatment regimen and adjustments to her medications.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 22/09/2026

so i knew that The Boy is currently a teenager in cat years (1yo, so about 15 in human years) but i didn’t realize that teenage boy cats are like real teenage boys in the way that they eat EVERYTHING and constantly masturbate. everyone shame this gluttonous pervert 😡😡

A tuxedo cat laying on his back being petted. He looks adorable and innocent in this picture, but don’t be fooled. He is a goblin.

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 22/09/2026

does anyone have tips on what to do when your neighbor’s GIANT dog barks for 2-5 hours straight? **I’VE ALREADY SPOKEN TO HER DIRECTLY** & nothing’s changed. he comes out to the backyard to bark & i’m not exaggerating when i say 2-5 hours NONSTOP barking like idk how its vocal chords still function.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Zohran post about filling one pothole: We filled our 2,000th pothole! Wow! New York is the greatest city in the world! Zohran post about meeting with the president: Some guy was here and that is now over.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 04/07/2023

gin blossoms had no business popping off that hard on hey jealousy

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 20/09/2026

The Boy’s quarantine is over and he’s already made himself right at home 🥰

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 18/09/2026

just dumped my shitty psychiatrist and i feel free 🎉🥳🍾

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 11/04/2024

throwback to a meme i made in the twitter days

Meme of a guy sitting at a keyboard, implying that he’s typing, with a girl sitting in his lap. She’s saying “baby can you touch me already” and he replies “hold on, someone said unions aren't important”

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 17/09/2026

one thing about me is that i will absolutely be the bigger person…in the sense that i will become a giant bitch :)

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 17/09/2026

one thing about me is that i will absolutely be the bigger person…in the sense that i will become a giant bitch :)

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.

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Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 15/09/2026

UPDATE on The Boy! he had a follow-up vet appointment today and he’s doing wonderful and he’s been cleared to end his quarantine on saturday 🥹 everyone at the clinic was enamored with him, he’s such a sweetie and so well-behaved (albeit VERY vocal lol). more pics to come this weekend! 💕

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 11/09/2024

9/11 is like christmas for Posters

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 26/11/2024

coming out in NYC in 2024: mom, dad, i’m gay coming out in NYC in 2001: mom, dad, i’m—holy shit was that a plane????

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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 11/09/2026

hey got get ur prostate checked btw stop neglecting it

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✨trash✨ @dollarpbr.gay · 26/08/2024

i think “wet bitch” is one of the funniest insults because it implies a hydration-based hierarchy within bitchdom

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026

Maricopa County, Arizona, often sends out more than 2 million ballots in its initial mailing. Under new regulations ordered by Trump, it’s possible that one ballot with a bad barcode or wrong voter information could delay the entire batch.

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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 08/09/2026

i think everyone on here could be like 5 percent more normal about stuff. just something i've noticed

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 09/09/2026

very much a work in progress but do u ever get bored and start drawing ur wife like dolly parton

Cartoon-style drawing of my beautiful wife except she has long, voluminous, blonde hair like Dolly Parton’s and she’s wearing Dolly-style makeup (blue eyeshadow, winged like, pink lipstick, generous amounts of blush. The outline of a denim button-up is in process (I might end up changing it to flannel instead idk). There are several layers lined up on the right side of the screen and several reference pictures lined up on the left side of the screen.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/09/2026

Has your cat been gaining weight and staying out at night, only to arrive home reeking of marijuana? These are just some of the signs that a neighbour is trying to entice them away ...

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The unsettling rise of cat seducers: ‘My little companion was missing – and I was consumed with anger’

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sam @samthielman.com · 03/09/2026

anyway if we're sharing 9/11 kitsch in advance of the anniversary, here's my favorite

A Porsche 911 Carrera with a vanity place that says "bushdid"

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 03/09/2026

How it feels watching a video on 2X speed then going back down to 1X

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grace @acab4cutie.top · 15/03/2024

one of those liberal coexist stickers except it says “big mommy milkers”

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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

*wokely* jews control the money!

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i'm sure this will be universally equally enforced for everyone and not just whatever special little birthday boy is saying some stupid shit and getting ratioed

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 02/09/2026

Is this called the Will Stancil Act

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...