iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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stellz @piss.beauty · 13/10/2025

solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way

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CPUs can make a little heat, as a treat

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 16/09/2025

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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BBBen and his Big Brass Band @bbbengames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Holy shit, and it's my birthday next week.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...

Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

As the temperatures finally cool in SEQ I'm starting to see the occasional knit pop up and am running up against how to figure out who is likely to be offended or pleased if asked about their knit. This morning it was a cabled vest on a gent at the local shops, if I wasn't already in my car....

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 02/07/2025

No financial data was leaked! Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Democracies do not mobilize their military against their own people. Authoritarian states do. This is a war-footing escalation, intended to assert control. Massive violation of 🚨 civil liberties and🚨rule of law.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

We're reaching the time of year when I one again go looking for patterns so I can knit Annie some pajamas that aren't too hard to get on her. Maybe I should just see if an old flannel works.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Today has turned out to be a part-mitigated shitshow, a definite improvement from unmitigated. Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"

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a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp

Alt: a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 27/05/2025

Here we go. I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:

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I can’t pretend everything will be ok.

To love what we have as if it ever mattered to us at all, we must bear witness and grieve. Today I bear witness.

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'.

of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Typing persimmons instead of permissions is definitely not going to confuse anybody when talking about file access.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I didn't intend to be a RTs account but here we are. It's a case of bantering elsewhere mostly these days. I've been quite an enjoyer of the cooler weather this week, finally getting to wear some knits.

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Ash G. @kilomonster.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

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doloresquintana needs a nap @doloresquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I learned to stop saying that things couldn't possibly get any worse in the new year because every year since 2016 has gotten progressively worse. 2025 is no exception.

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Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

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Steve Downey @sdowney.org · 14/04/2025

Mom, I do not want to get in the water. Wait. No. I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Writing cover letter after cover letter in the pursuit of starting to work in my newly-trained industry. I refuse to use AI; this stance is frustrating when it's probably to my detriment. If I was to use it, then the letter wouldn't be indicative of my personality, I don't outsource my work to LLM.

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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Gary Oldman crying at farts being dubbed into some of his his movie roles. Farts are always funny…

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The last fortnight has been a super duper lot and choosing to hibernate for 2 days to help bring the exhaustion levels down is a great idea. I'm also behind on Sock Madness so having a little solo project is a good timepass.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just landed in Townsville to serve in the flood IMT. My flight got in, the ones before and after were diverted or cancelled. 2 rounds of applause through the cabin once we'd landed.

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brenna 🌈🌿🍂 (she/her) @senesced.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

break every rule, knit straight from the bobbin, sow chaos 🧶

Brenna's latest work in progress, a hat knit with the Musselburgh pattern, sits atop a closed laptop. the project is connected to a bobbin of yarn, in reddish/pinkish and brown hues, which Brenna was clearly too lazy to wind into a center pull ball. She will unwind from the bobbin as she knits.

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

On this, or any other day, surely this is a much better Australian flag?

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

When I'm at a cafe I become the quiet guardian of dogs who are nearby. If their humans step away I will insist on staying put until they come back. I remember which humans belong to what dogs. Have absolutely no ability to do that for kids with grown-ups though.

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Molk | The Guidefather 👍🇦🇺📺 @molk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The US enters another dark phase of political life. In Australia, we have the opportunity this year to ensure we don’t go the same way. A ‘protest vote’ to ‘give the other side a go’ (emboldened due to US politics) will hurt us as a nation far quicker and much deeper. #NeverDutton #auspol

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

During our fortnightly video chat my Best Woman threw a large and wild idea out there and its all I've been able to think about since. Will need so much planning and money but damn do I want to do it with a few of my favourites.

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

While I get better at remembering to post here instead of just in my 5 or 6 regular Discord servers here's a #BougieBlanketMAL update. 5 rows done and a handful more gems.

Triangular piece of knitting laid on table. Pattern is comprised of eye-shaped gems of different colours with a thin grey border in between each shape. Gems are an assortment of different colours.

White, green and purple knitted eye-shaped gem with wing-shaped counter above showing the number 16.

Green,blue and purple knitted gem with wing-shaped counter above showing the number 17 and grey knit border below.

Deep blue with flecks of white knitted gem with wing-shaped counter above showing the number 18 and grey knit border below.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A scorcher in SEQ today, how hot? - 3 loads of washing hung out and dry before 13:30, - not letting the almost 9yo dog be outside for longer than 5-10min even in the shade - okay fine, 37°C and feeling (every part) like 43°

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 15/01/2025

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Cord Jefferson, quitting Instagram, sums many things up: “I don’t need Instagram to be a haven for free speech for the same reason I don’t need a Jamba Juice or a Hooters to be a haven for free speech.”

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The #bougieblanketmal I've started is looking like something. I'm just not 100% sure it doesn't look like something else. Especially since there's a bunch of variegated and semi-solid yarns in the pile. Pattern is Little Gemstones but I've rewritten the gems to be larger.

Knitting project laid on couch that shows curvy eye-shaped coloured sections in red, green, blue, purple, yellow with grey lines separating the coloured areas.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 08/01/2025

Lastly, there is no mobile services (no towers) in national parks and they are BIG. So, you can't use Google Maps. We built an app that allows you to download the map prior to leaving onto your phone, then use the gps blue dot inside the download map: www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/app Hike safely!

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NSW National Parks app | NSW National Parks

Heading to a NSW national park? Be prepared with the free NSW National Parks app. Download now.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hey Liv. I have questions. I just wanna talk. Meet me outside.

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NateintheWild @nateinthewild.com · 23/12/2024

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image. All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

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Ben Curran @bencurran.dev · 21/12/2024

I am in this picture and I don't like it.

A Tumblr post from l-a-clift (Laura Clift) that is all text that reads:

"That's why it's hard to make friends when you're older," she said. "Friendship is rude."
Her friend's eyes widened. "What?"
"Think about it! When we're kids we decide who we like and stick by them no matter what. As adults, we're taught to be polite.
But, friendship is an imposition— at least, I want it to be. Call me after nine o'clock. Don't think you'll ever wear out your welcome. Overshare, show up at my door, go to the grocery store with me so we can waste another hour chatting.
We'll never be friends if we spend all of our energy trying not to bother each other."

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

the feds: stop trying to turn this guy into some cool antihero with a badass public image also the feds: *treat him like they’ve captured the joker*

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Alison @alegrya.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The advertising from ABC News Daily worked and I listened to the current season of Expanse and enjoyed that immensely. Get into it if you like human interest stories. I'm still wracking my brain to think of who the Pennisi was that I knew when I lived in Mackay. pca.st/episode/e80e...

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INTRODUCING – Expanse S4: Uncropped - Expanse

Season three of Expanse dives into the murky world of spies, lies and secrets that surrounds the most secretive place in Australia.

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 17/12/2024

The answer to “why doesn’t America have [insert social program every other Western nation has]” is always racism. After they could no longer legally exclude Black people from receiving them, they nuked them altogether.

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