iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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RTL3 @russelllatshaw.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Nobuhiko Obayashi on the special effects of House

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 42m

BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 30m

They also have The Chosen aka Holocaust 2000. I snapped this one up. enniomorriconemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ch...

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The Chosen: Holocaust 2000 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by Ennio Morricone

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 32m

For the cult movie soundtrack collectors trawling Bandcamp Friday, they have Morricone's score to O.K. Connery aka Operation Double 007. enniomorriconemusic.bandcamp.com/album/ok-con...

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OK Connery: Operation Kid Brother (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai

28 track album

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Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social · 1h

Niche question but my favorite folks over at @tablestory.tv are learning Call of Cthulhu and talking about IPs you could run in it. Has anybody run a game based in Laird Barron’s Old Worm universe?

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1h

If you absolutely have to listen to something, try this You might not like it, but this is what peak performance sounds like youtu.be/-6W0WmczXW4

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Suspiria

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2h

If you were making a list of the world's freakiest fish, which would you put on the list? So far I'm thinking Viperfish Mola Mola Anglerfish Oarfish Humphead Wrasse Telescope fish Red lipped batfish Barrel eye

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2h

If you know one thing about me consider making it this: I trust a Black woman named Pontheolla Abernathy with my life, you hear me? That’s a woman who could lead me anywhere. (I have to visit this Inn.) www.southernliving.com/clevedale-hi...

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This 113-Year-Old Inn Is A South Carolina Treasure—And So Is The Couple Who Runs It

What do you get when you add 38 years of marriage, a former broadcaster, a former priest, a 440-acre property, a 113-year old inn, and one life-changing road trip? Paul and Pontheolla Abernathy, that’...

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 8h

⚒️ Sigh. Apparently we're relitigating the ICS vote to reject establishing the Anthropocene as a formal geological epoch. I'm not sure what is actually going to be achieved here except to keep everyone mad at each other and muddy public understanding. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Battle of the Anthropocene: allegations re-ignite row over proposed geological epoch

Researchers say that a vote to reject the epoch violated procedure and call for transparency.

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 8h

'Geologists can't agree that humans are changing the Earth' is a gift to the forces of deny-delay. That is not what actually is in dispute, but that is how it looks, and it's certainly how it can be framed.

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an evan @elsplice.bsky.social · 2h

I knew Vincent from back in school. Just an incredibly talented and sweet guy. This is awesome! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI86...

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Vincent Valdez | 2026 MacArthur Fellow

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 5h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Craig J. Clark @hoodedjustice.bsky.social · 3h

As someone who cosplays as the Texarkana Phantom at horror conventions and loves seeing people’s eyes light up when they recognize me, it was a distinct pleasure to write about THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN for @crooked-marquee.bsky.social’s Classic Corner: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

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Classic Corner: The Town That Dreaded Sundown — Crooked Marquee

Made 50 years ago, Charles B. Pierce’s proto-slasher straddles the line between docudrama and horror.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/10/2026

"I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thought to how to protect girls and women after they’re born?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg

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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?

“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...

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Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social · 5h

This new guide ‘Emotionally Engaged: A Toolkit for your Archive Journey’ is a great introduction for students (or anyone else) that demystifies working with archives as well as navigating the ethics and emotions of historical research ahc.leeds.ac.uk/history-rese...

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Developing Healthy Engagement

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 13h

It's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 5h

#DigitalFriday secondly: this genius idea for an inclass intervention about speed/modernity/time (open to suggestions about how to replicate this in powerpoint or other platforms) bsky.app/profile/blai...

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Also, I made it using rudimentary powerpoint animation tools like 10 years ago and I’m afraid that if I touch it I’ll break it. (The lesson in which I employ it was my first ever teaching observation in 2018, and I used it during my teaching demo to get this job in 2024. It’s my favorite trick.)

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The takeaway is that in an adult’s lifetime, the time it took for information to move across space shrank dramatically, which was a phenomenon people noticed and addressed. NY and CA felt closer together, etc. But mostly I just enjoy watching them fidget, forced to sit still for FOUR WHOLE MINUTES.

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I make the students close their laptops and watch as their letter creeps across the map. The first one takes FOUR MINUTES and is excruciating for them. And then the next one (post Panama-Pacific Railway) takes 2.5 mins. Then the overland route takes 30 seconds. Then an instant telegram.

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In my history of tech class, we’re learning about the “speed-up” of communications during industrialization. I made an animation where we pretend to send letters from NY to CA at different years in the 1840s-70s. Each second that passes in the animation is one day of real time.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3h

“Tubas are at least $9,000, and the high school band wants four. If the proposed brass tariffs go into effect, she said, buying all of them would probably take her five or six years. By then, the would-be tuba players would have graduated.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3h

“Latasha Casterlow-Lalla, the supervisor of visual and performing arts for Passaic Public Schools in northern New Jersey, said many instruments had doubled or tripled in price since the pandemic. A student saxophone that used to be $420 is more than $900.”

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3h

“Band and orchestral instruments have been hit the hardest… In the second quarter of this year, imports of instruments were down nearly 20 percent from the same period in 2024. Imports of orchestral string instruments, including violins, violas and cellos, dropped 50%. Brass instruments fell 43%”

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Tariffs Are Making Instruments So Expensive, School Music Programs Are at Risk

When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.

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Jess 🫠 @jessness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope they get raked for likely violating the WARN act in some of the states they have offices. Most of these employees didnt even get 24hr notice.

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CT-9902 @mindorese.bsky.social · 8h

Anyway this is what I was vagueposting about yesterday. If you’re not in the industry it’s hard to understand the scale, but that’s maybe HALF of the jobs in the industry just POOF not to mention the projects they’re just… abandoning?

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Nat Lyon @natlyon.com · 19h

As a former CRM field director- I always despised large regional/national firms that low balled contracts and took work away from local subject matter specialists that could actually approach their work as scholarship. There is not much new work out there due to Trump administration de-regulations.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking of all the archaeologists I know who've been impacted. I have no understanding how a big and seemingly vibrant company like Chronicle just disappears... Hopefully people will get snapped up by other CRM firms but this is really awful.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 22h

From what I can tell, there's no plan! Currently trying to coordinate a return of some collections from one of their offices and the people I am talking to both gave me their personal contact info bc they're pretty sure the company is going to deactivate their work accounts before we sort it out 🫠

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday one of the largest CRM employers in the country, Chronicle Heritage, announced that they are dissolving the company and immediately fired and recalled all of their deployed field crews with no notice or severance. Private equity is a disease 🏺🪏

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 3h

When the unit returned to Fort Missoula they were disbanded. Lt Moss filed a report stating, “the durability, as well as the practicability of the bicycle as a machine for military purposes, was most thoroughly tested under all possible conditions except for being under actual fire.”

A photo of African-American bicycle soldiers carrying their bikes across a river.
Image via the Mansfield Library, in the public domain.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 3h

On July 24, 1897, the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps arrived in St. Louis and were greeted by a crowd of over 40,000 people organized by the St. Louis Associated Cycling Club (source: NPS). Lt Moss requested an additional ride, but his request was denied and they were sent back to Ft Missoula.

A map of the route the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps took from Fort Missoula, Montana to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1897.
Image via Missouri State Parks.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 3h

They left for St Louis on June 14, 1897. Bear in mind there were no roads like now; the Model-T was a decade in the future. This was a grueling cross country ride with a plan to follow railroad tracks. In Nebraska they had to “walk through 185 miles of sand, pushing their bicycles before them.”

25th bicycle corps soldiers mounted on their equipment laden bikes in a single file in a field. Location unknown.
Image via the Mansfield Library, in the public domain.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 5h

Directly after on Aug 15, 1896 they rode to Yellowstone National Park. Lt. Moss reported “several tourists came to camp to take pictures of the bicycle corps… soldiers delighted with the trip – treated royally everywhere – thought the sights grand.”

Bicycle Corps soldiers dismounted next to their bikes with a crowd of young and old folks around them. Location unknown, in a city. Image via Mansfield Library, in tbe public domain.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 5h

On August 6, 1896, the Bicycle Corps departed on their first long distance ride, traveling 126 miles from Ft Missoula to Lake McDonald and back carrying “rations, rifles, ammunition, tents, blankets, extra underwear, medicines, tools, repairing material, cooking utensils & extra bicycle parts.”

A photo of Bicycle Corps soldiers crossing a creek by wading carrying their bikes along with all of their equipment.

#blacksky

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 5h

The volunteer soldiers selected were Sgt Dalbert P. Green, Cpl John G. Williams, Musician William W. Brown, & Pvts John Findley, Elwood Forman, William Haynes, Frank L. Johnson, & William Proctor. Moss found out Findley once worked at a bicycle plant & made him the mechanic (toolbox on handlebars).

A group of soldiers, those named in the post, standing next to their bikes on the Minerva terrace at Yellowstone. All images in this thread are in the public domain. This one is via the Mansfield Library as are several other photos.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 5h

The Spalding Bicycle Company in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts agreed to donate nine bicycles for project. Lt. Moss had each bicycle’s frame customized with containers to hold supplies. He wanted to test the bicycle as a fast, quiet,& resource-efficient alternative to horses for military transport.

A soldier on a bicycle wearing a wide brimmed hat .What looks like a bedroll is rolled up on the handle bars.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 5h

On May 12, 1896, 2nd Lieutenant James A. Moss received permission to organize the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps. The soldiers he selected were stationed at Fort Missoula, part of the 25th Infantry Regiment, a racially segregated, all-Black unit, one of the legendary ‘Buffalo Soldier’ units.

The regimental flag of the 25th infantry regiment activated in 1866 and deactivated in 1957. My photo.

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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 6h

I took this photo a while back at a museum of soldiers with bicycles at Yellowstone National Park in 1896. For those, like me, who enjoy mountain biking, my morning ☕️ thread is about a pioneering group of African-Americans who probably deserve the title of the “first American mountain bikers.”

A photo of a diatomaceous with a large photo of three soldiers in uniform standing next to their bikes on the Minerva Terrace at Yellowstone National Park.

#history #militaryhistory 🗃️

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Margaret Spring @margaretspring.bsky.social · 3h

Changes to the #EndangeredSpeciesAct risk the survival of our nation’s most vulnerable species—including ocean wildlife like sea otters. Your voice matters! It takes only seconds to send a letter to your representatives today: lnkd.in/g5zxsb-y

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Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 3h

Wining and dining theologians

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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 4h

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the first of three videos exploring the legacy of @thatgamecompany.com, we talk to co-founder Jenova Chen about Flower, Flow & the unique origins of the studio. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/6uYOnnz8o0g

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Flower, Flow & the Origins of thatgamecompany - /noclip Documentary

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 22h

some call him the henry darger of edutainment, but others argue henry darger never had a hit

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

after the guy who wrote the Alphabet Song died they were cleaning out his place and found more than ten thousand handwritten pages of an unfinished Numbers Song

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE MY NEXT LIVE TOUR TO GO BUCKAROOS? there are limited places that a typical book tour visits, and behind the scenes we are working to change that. please help by taking this very brief survey. none if this information is shared outside of team tingle www.chucktingle.com/poll.html

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 7h

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Marshall Project Guild @marshallprojectguild.org · 23h

Starting today, our out-of-pocket health care costs are surging thanks to management, who shifted the burden of rising medical expenses onto us. At the table last week, we showed up to defend our healthcare — management is union-busting by refusing to bargain with us.

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