iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve just flown back from the place where they build the cars for Mad Max and boy are my tires armed.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I draw all of my maps and artwork by hand. Where do I get my "Pope Approved" stamp?

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

do you guys ever have thoughts like "Amber Midthunder"? and "Amber Midthunder should be in more things where I can bask in her aura? her je ne sais quoi? her certain kind of ...... I don't know what?

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

you could avoid the atlantic and read my essay about the right's attack on empathy instead, if you wanted. therevealer.org/what-we-can-...

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What We Can Learn from the Right’s Attack On “Toxic Empathy” — The Revealer

Why are prominent right-wing figures and conservative Christians claiming empathy is bad?

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Rose Canardly @ahaikulife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Voting Julienite because it makes me think of Dr. Bashir, which makes me think of Garak, which makes me happy.

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Star Trek Ds9

Alt: Garak doing jazz hands.

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spooky murwolf the wereduck 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Quartz is so sparkly and cool. You can use it for fun or a tool. It's been great for eons, For the famous and peons. So many colours. A jewel. VOTE QUARTZ (it does not seem to need help but I wanted to do a little paean.) #MinCup26

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 2 Both of today's minerals can be found in hydrothermal vein deposits as cobalt arsenide #Skutterudite is against classic silicate #Quartz for a spot in the semi-finals. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Vote in Quarterfinal 2 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote in Skutterudite vs Quartz Credit: Joel Williams

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the NHM opened in 1881, visitors with cameras had to buy a permit and send two copies of each print to the Museum’s collections. You can scroll through a few highlights from each album by swiping left in this post. See every page here: buff.ly/31893CL #MuseumArchives #DigitisedCollections

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Halite is beautiful! #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

heartstopping Google News check

Alex Jones announced as BBC Children in Need presenter ahead of 2026 Appeal show. (Different Alex Jones)

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Watermelon Salt - Harry Styles

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Despite my usual affinity for copper-based minerals, I've gotta go for the mineral in my kitchen working wonders on a regular basis. #halite #MinCup

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

FUCK YEAH FAT BEAR WEEK

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every time I watch an episode of The Boys and hear Billy Butcher say "These supe cunts", I can't help but think of an x-rated version of The Clangers

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026

This concept is still occupying my brain, btw. Over lunch I have concluded: a) he's an assassin who uses a thin high-tensile wire retractable skipping rope as combined nunchucks/garotte/bolas b) I want Blumineck to play him in the surely inevitable hit TV show.

Searle drawing of fotherington tomas, a small weedy curly haired schoolboy, skipping

the athlete/pole dancer/arrow bard Blumineck, drawing a bow while holding himself on a pole by his legs

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just find the #chrysocolla texture upsetting 😭 #Xocolatlite looks beautiful!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 15 It's blue vs red for vibrant cyan-blue #Chrysocolla vs rich chocolatey red-brown #Xocolatlite. Are you with the hydrous copper silicate or the tellurate? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of rounded towers of aqua-blue crystals resembling a puffer spike ball and radial splats of reddish-brown crystals resembling lichen growth.

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My stance on #chrysocolla is usually that it’s meh and gross so this is actually lovely to see! #mincup26

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

Flyer for Think Write Edit Romance. Quote: “...she offers up here the sort of expert advice on the nuts and bolts of prose, from punctuation to grammar, that makes my copyeditorial heart sing. And if that weren't enough, she does it all engagingly and wittily. I can't imagine a writer, of romance or of anything else, who won't find much that's invaluable in these pages.” --—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English and former Random House copy chief. Out 15 Dec in print, e and audio

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My FAQ, which includes questions like “am I transphobic?”, “am I in the Epstein files?”, and “do I have mold in my house?”, is prompting a lot of questions already answered by the FAQ.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

“Don’t get a tattoo! Don’t get a piercing! Your body is a temple!” Linda what we do with temples is decorate them. Like literally that’s the main thing we do

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work buff.ly/cGHwM0M #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Species classified extinct makes comeback in Chongqing reserve

After being declared extinct, the ancient cliff cypress — a 300-million-year-old "living fossil" — has staged a stunning comeback in Southwest China's Chongqing, thanks to a two-decade-long…

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I forgot his dad was married to Gloria Steinem

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 12/09/2026

Murderbot. "Why would I want this. No, ART should not have it." /engages blasters/

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Franca Parianen @fparianen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The strongest argument against gen AI is also the least coherent: it has no soul. It’s the woo-woo argument. But what’s the thing we can do AI can’t? Hurt. AI can send writing into the world & feel nothing about how it’s received. My writing is mine. I’m connected to it. My nerve endings are here."

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Calcite is what trilobite eyes were made of! In today's oceans, calcite gives coral structure, as well as all sorts of shells. 🪸🐚 #MinCup26

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh no! I love Category Is. Got some great books and stickers from there - would also love to see them meet their goal

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 09/09/2026

Just learned that Category Is Books, a lovely queer bookshop in Glasgow, has been targeted by transphobic violence, & is fundraising to cover the costs of a smashed window & roller shutters. I hate that they have to do this & would love to see them meet their goal.

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@chrishewitt.bsky.social @helenlohara.bsky.social I’m so glad I listen to the Empire Podcast. Your movie news segment is so helpful to me - an idiot - personally. I just realised that the Tom Cruise sequel film with the car is a sequel to Days of Thunder and not Tropic Thunder.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 4: Cogwheels of #Bournonite are up against colourful #Vesuvianite in a battle of unexpected chemical compositions. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of metallic grey solid wheels on one side and pointy-ended green columnar crystal on the other.

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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dr. rehemat 👩🏽‍💻👩🏽‍🔬 @rehemat24.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No matter how long it’s been since I’ve looked at foraminifera under a microscope: Always #TeamCalcite

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oooh, a bracket! www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket

A sports-style elimination bracket of 32 minerals labeled "Mineral Cup 2026". Text below reads, "Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org in September. Campaign on your favourite social media using #MinCup26."

The starting matches are, in chronological order in pairs from top to bottom alternating from left to right each match:
Azurite vs Smithsonite
Erythrite vs Skutterudite
Sphalerite vs Anorthite
Bournonite vs Vesuvianite
Cuprite vs Orpiment
Quartz vs Asagiite
Monazite-(Ce) vs Andalusite
Stichtite vs Talc
Hafnon vs Putnisite
Pyromorphite vs Gypsum
Calcite vs Julienite
Pyrrhotite vs Cylindrite
Arsenopyrite vs Halite
Riebeckite vs Gadolinite-(Y)
Chrysocolla vs Xocolatlite
Cassiterite vs Graphite

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Pumpkin spice horchata @eldritchanchovy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I haven’t examined the bracket closely, but I’m rooting for whichever one is best for literally making a cup out of

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026

My Ukrainian publisher Ranok asked me to pass along the news that on 8/1 a warehouse was bombed by Russia, burning about 8 million books, including the print runs of their translated Murderbot editions, + The Cloud Roads & Witch King. This really hurts the publishing house, and 1/-

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Alex Booer @alexbooer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Rachael is making us watch Dracula Dead and Loving it, so I’ve been cursed to discover that every performance Tom Hiddleston has ever done is an impression of Steven Weber in this film.

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