iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remembering MILES DAVIS — who left us 35yrs ago today, aged 65.

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LK @lkcreations.art · 29/09/2026

Artist! Quote with the artwork you cannot explain!

Photo of a sketch depicting a weird black and withe shape growing up toward a white orb.
Brushed ink pen on a5+ paper.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 28/09/2026

Getting that “I bought a new domain I may never use” dopamine hit. ✨

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alan @al9000.com · 28/09/2026

I haven't done any real photography in years. Ended up taking a last minute trip to visit a model buddy over the weekend. She's training with kung fu swords. Seemed like a good time to dust off the gear. (mildly nsfw because of a nude rear end)

A sepia toned, monochrome image of a nude woman with a sword. Tattoos cover her body. She's in a half lunge looking to the left with her back directly to the camera. The illumination comes from the left which highlights that side of her body leaving the right side in shadow. Her left arm is extended. Finger pointing. Her right arm holds the sword above her head parallel with her left arm. The tip of the sword extending not quite as far as her pointing hand. The background is almost entirely black with a small splash of light behind her.

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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

Surprise mfer First prize mfer Heart eyes mfer Supplies mfer Some fries mfer Disguise mfer Some pies mfer All rise mfer

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alan @al9000.com · 26/09/2026

pretty sure I just had a sword named after me

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 25/09/2026

Made a new friend at lunch

A European praying mantis, an introduced species in Canada, hanging out on my white sleeve

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alan @al9000.com · 25/09/2026

last minute trip to visit long lost buddies and bring the camera out for the first time in years? sure, fuck it. let's go.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

first attempt at water, I think the errant dog hairs stuck to the pastel are a nice touch

An oil pastel drawing of ocean waves and a craggy cliff in the foreground

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alan @al9000.com · 24/09/2026

pro tip: if you've got an elderly relative in your life, make copies of all there keys

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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alan @al9000.com · 19/09/2026

kinda want to start a rewatch of the wire

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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Call of the Winterluna @sorrowsoftheluna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i love when a metal band is like THIS OUR VOCALIST, THE BESTIAL COMMANDER OF SATAN'S LEGIONS, LORD FUKKHAMMER. AND ON GUITARS, Tim.

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alan @al9000.com · 19/09/2026

still no idea what they're saying. still beautiful Takapuna Grammar School, Leonessa | Te Iwi E* – Wehi Whanau www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPPu...

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Takapuna Grammar School, Leonessa | Te Iwi E* – Wehi Whanau

YouTube video by New Zealand Choral Federation

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Tiricohairline @trejames.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

This is understanding the assignment

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 18/09/2026

I understand everything that’s happening here… i too have had the compulsion to rub my face on somebody wearing obsession

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alan @al9000.com · 18/09/2026

I don't have the spoons to look at this right now, but love the idea of GIFs in the atmosphere. take a look if you're into that type of thing

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 18/09/2026

It's almost space heater season.

Three figures in dark robes stand before a castle as the moon rises. The castle is on fire! The first figure has a face made out of a space heater. The next figure has a face made out of an extension cord. The third figure has a face made out of a power strip. The text reads: Home safety traitors. Always plug your space heater directly into the wall, never a power strip. Keep it at least 3ft away from flammable items. Turn it off before you leave a room or go to sleep.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)

a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

SIGOURNEY WEAVER’s High School Yearbook - 1967 “Please, God, please, don’t let me be normal.”

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alan @al9000.com · 17/09/2026

seriously, watch this. it's beautiful

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Kaz Coyotl 𓃦 @mow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Added (basically) the whole song and adjusted the animation speed to match the song better.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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🐩 @reignhurricane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Summer in the morning, winter at night. September is finally here 🥴

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Ky @ky.fyi · 16/09/2026

INSPIRED site navigation. cool as hell

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alan @al9000.com · 16/09/2026

TIL: there are people who make their own rocket motors. Building Two N-class Rocket Motors www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppwe... #WeLiveInTheFuture

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Building Two N-Class Rocket Motors

YouTube video by BPS.space

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grant @grantcuster.com · 16/09/2026

I can post a blue sky from the tabletop now using a frame.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 16/09/2026

i still don't know where to pitch music stories/reviews/profiles to and i do not know if i ever will again lol

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Peter Falk was born today. Such a great actor.

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ok folks, I wrote social media posts (at least, the ones for the official account) so as a reward, have a cool diagram we've discussed yesterday on stream 👀 that I may or may not have a prototype for 👀👀 (no promises though, a lot that goes into making this *real* real)

Hand-drawn style architecture diagram of a community-shared infrastructure server for an open-web hosting setup. On the left, a purple "User" node says "let's make cool stuff on the open web!" and step 1 uploads their site to a "Tangled Knot" box holding three Git repos. Step 2, the uploaded site gets built by "Tangled Spindle" (annotated "needed?? we just don't know"). Step 3, "ATproto Dokploy" picks up the deployment, holding several site configs. Step 3.5, stuff runs in isolated containers, drawn as "FireCracker VMs or some of that bullshit (affectionate)" with two running sites, which a "HappyView Instance" pulls data from, all under the "watchful eye of the Tailscale, probably." A blue "Community PDS" circle sits beside clusters of other PDS circles and a note asking whether it maintains access/membership policies. At the bottom, "ATproto NGINX (cursed)" serves a visitor asking "Hello! Can I see cool stuff from the open web?", with a side note that they'll switch to Caddy when Trezy rewrites HappyView in TypeScript. A legend lists what "Sites" may be: personal blogs, webrings, community forums, personal labelers, chatrooms, community wiki, alongside boxes for Labelers, Microcosm, and an Image Service marked "co/infra has one!

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danielroe @danielroe.dev · 15/09/2026

we're live! 🔥

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

Current Yak Shaving Journey GOAL: Extract the @neodoc.style parser from my website builder so other folks can use it Yak 1: I want a website to check things instead of just using tests Create stub for website as sibling project Have problems getting my editor to switch between projects properly

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

it once took me three minutes to scroll through spotify's cookie consent form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzg...

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We Care About Your Privacy

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

I made a bunch of timer videos a while back to test something (I can't even remember what). the 46 second one has 2.9K views for some reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5T7...

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46 Second Timer

YouTube video by alan w smith

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

what's the over-under on the first time a weaponized drone is used to intentionally target and kill someone in the U.S.? 2030? I'm taking the under

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Belle @ autumnal wonderland! @torrentempress.neocities.org · 15/09/2026

I lied about the other post this video which sums up the discourse this week and around the atmosphere is actually my magnum opus. this is it, this is everything, this is the entire thing.

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

in which I get to learn more about beyoncé's catalog 🎵

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

brain offline yesterday. trying to spin back up today. tbd

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 15/09/2026

Compiling a list of illustrators who are posting art via social blogs like @leaflet.pub @pckt.blog and @offprint.app. If you'd like to be added to the list, pls reply with a link to your social blog? Thanks! Note: I'm looking for blogs where you consistently post your art (even to accompany text).

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lemeki and Thamana wasted no time this morning. As the water bowser rolled in to top up the trough at Voi, the two were straight there – drinking their fill before the fresh water had even settled. This is one of a dozen water bowsers we operate, travelling across Tsavo filling waterholes.

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alan @al9000.com · 15/09/2026

some number of folks I know would appreciate the hell outta this also: it me. I'm one of those folks

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is so good put some joy in your evening

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