iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Finished Dave Eggers’ Contrapposto last night and found it an incredibly moving, deftly sketched outline of a man’s not-easy life, a meditation on art and creativity, a polemic against pretension. Deeply enjoyable.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Thank god we had clothes on when these guys turned up #tokyo

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Losing all those toots in the Great Forkiverse Switch was a good lesson in impermanence.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Got stuck in Bangkok en route to Tokyo and this is the view from the hotel lobby #flooding

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

When will Australia get s2 of Ludwig, does anyone know? S1 was essentially perfect.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 27/09/2026

i don’t know how i manage to still be astounded by any of this, but it’s astounding how closely the enron story mirrors the ai bubble. to me the only difference is the scale of the fraud, how many billions are involved, and how many people will be utterly destroyed when it all pops

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Sleep apnoeia is no fun. The risk of dying is quite obviously shit, of course. The comorbidity with snoring brings further risk (spousally induced concussion), but the massive joy killer is the constant tiredness. The first thing you notice when you get treated is the spring in your step; you […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This article was incredibly reassuring and in fact completely reset my expectations and experience of my run this morning. Thinking ‘this feeling of discomfort is just my body adjusting to the new status quo of being in motion’ rather than ‘this feeling of discomfort is because I am old and […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: front-end.social/@sarajw/1172737134… Wasn’t expecting a video about Ferrari’s poor design choices to bring me to tears but then we’re not in a normal timeline any more, are we

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Total clickbait. The baby isn’t even that big, let alone huge.

Paparazzi photo of Lady Gaga with a baby in a sling, accompanied by the caption “Photos confirm star's huge baby secret”

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Teenagers sleep a lot. The opposite happens when you reach the other end of the hormonal rollercoaster. Help me, I can’t live like this!!

Apple Health sleep highlight showing my August sleep average of 6 hours 35 mins per night, compared with my September sleep average of 5 hours and 53 minutes per night 🫠🫠🫠

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Is the Nordic warmth in the room with us, Vogue Australia?

Screenshot of a Vogue Australia article with the headline ‘A Haussmannian apartment in Paris balancing elegant restraint with nordic warmth’. The accompanying photo shows a starkly monochromatic room with white-drenched walls and furniture, a nearly black floor, and one blond wood chair.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Shadow home affairs minister says Opposition will support opt-in social media algos as long as they don’t ’impede on people’s rights and freedoms’. Obviously he meant to say ‘impinge’ - but regardless, in what universe would limiting a tech giant’s ability to manipulate users impede on anyone’s […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Late to the game and I doubt there’ll be anyone on here who also cares about The Traitors but I’ve finally started watching this new season and nearly everyone has gigantic ‘Turkey teeth’ and slightly impeded sibilants. So want to know if it’s just because they’re reality stars or if they were […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Joan Crawford was fair and right about the hangers honestly.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

What on earth is this kind of web ad - never seen it before! In an article on The Independent, a single word is highlighted with the tiny word ‘ad’ in the top right corner of the highlighted rectangle. When you click on it, it takes you to a completely […] [Original post on theforkiverse.com]

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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

It was proven today that the Fediverse liked Dolly Parton as much as it likes cats. #DollyParton #Fediverse #Cats

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Dolly was a shining example of the best kind of person. Her humanity, her drive to succeed and to do good in the world, her immense talent, her intellectual and emotional acuity - it’s hard to think of another celebrity who inspires (and deserves) the kind of universal love and loyalty she […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

For all my #gardening folks out there, don't do that! Not...at...all...al right?

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

There’s an ad for a chain of women-only gyms that shows various women lifting, pulling and pushing gym equipment before cutting to them carrying grocers/gesturing to a slide deck/pushing a pram. And I find it SO depressing. ‘Hey, pay us some money so you can practice doing all your usual boring […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Perfect dinner with friends last night Relief of successfully rebooking a flight bc daughter is unwell and can’t fly today Feeling like the cloud of complex grief from losing my mother is lifting, in ways I can’t fully articulate #threegoodthings #3goodthings

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Gareth Harmer @gazimoff.gamepad.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In Kent, in England, there’s a town called Sandwich. Nearby is a village called Ham. Which means that you get this street sign calling out “Ham Sandwich”. There’s also a bus that starts at Samdwich, goes through Ham, before finishing at the coastal town of Deal. English, eh?

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it. I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Normalise microsubscriptions - I don’t want to pay $150 for an entire year’s worth of access to your website. I just want to read a couple of articles. More than happy to reimburse you for the work but $150 for one or two articles is insane!

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 16/08/2026

This is pretty cute. Frogs hanging out in dahlia petals. #Nature

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

As grotesque and obviously AI generated images start to appear on every single menu, poster, billboard, etc I’m starting to understand why the Amish are like that

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Just remembered the era when we all wore our jackets propped on our shoulders instead of using the sleeves as intended. What was that about.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Cats like to wait until they’re sure you’re really going to stay sitting down before they join you, but by then you’ve sat down long enough and are ready to get up. And now you can’t, because there’s a cat on you.

A fluffy seal-point Birman cat, its back to the camera, sitting on a person’s socked feet.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I can’t believe it only just occurred to me that looksmaxxing is just boys engaging in the same self-loathing bullshit that women have been struggling with for millennia.

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MinmiTheDino @minmi.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I regret to inform you all that earlier today my children escaped their sandbox. I told them explicitly “stay in your sandbox” but they are just too powerful.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

You know how you can wake up from a really gripping dream convinced it would make an amazing movie but then slowly realise it actually makes no sense and is in fact quite boring and stupid? That, but with LLM output.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

“I tell the students I meet: imagine you’re an Olympic athlete. You set out to sprint the 3km across London, from Clapham to Balham. You know if you take the bus, it will be faster. But you also know that the point was never being in Clapham or Balham; they’re very similar: they both have a nice […]

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

"I sometimes pop out in the middle of the night to make a sculpture out of building sand left unattended on a roadwork site." — Zara Gaze www.zaragaze.co.uk/sculpture #RenegadeArt #SandSculpture #Sculpture

Night-time street scene with terraced houses in the distance dimly lit by streetlamps. In the foreground are barriers protecting roadworks and, formed from a pile of sand, is a sculpture of a stripy cat lying down in a relaxed posture.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong. Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being […] [Original post on thistlenfern.org]

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