iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20h

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Right. And there is (I have found!) a certain amount of art to creating and maintaining strictly informational handoff/changelog docs so it's easier to return to something later

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't say it's turning out pristine code, I would have no way to tell. But for private tools I have been more taken with it than I expected to be. (I'm making stuff with an open-weight model using open-source code and graphics, I am trying to do this "ethically" to the extent that it can be?)

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been running a model locally (no datacenters, no cloud) for some light coding work to build tools to solve minor small-business administrative headaches for a month or so and it has been genuinely useful there, as a non-coder who loathes it in a creative context.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

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Tara Ariano @taraariano.com · 01/10/2026

It's the first anniversary of my layoff from Cracked and most of the job listings I get are for "AI trainer" so if you wanted to join our paid subscribers, I would personally love it againwiththispodcast.com/club/

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Club | Again With This

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think what has become more and more clear is that there’s an elite group of rich people and media members that never interact with normal people in normal ways and spend all day messaging each other about how other people are elitists who don’t see what normal people are thinking

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oh yeah this is real sophie bait huh

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks for the note! Obviously some sections of this are written a bit ahead of time 🙂 I’ll take a look.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they gotta change summer these names

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I saw a man on a train in a full business suit finishing a foamy Starbucks drink. He slurped the bottom with the straw, then he used the straw to scoop foam bits into his mouth, then he methodically ran his finger around the entire inside of the cup so he could lick the flavor off. It was 3pm.

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the Male-Grievance Grift-o Sphere going after popular stuff might seem like a tactical error at first but it's designed to put vulnerable/stupid men into a siege mentality by making it seem like all of pop culture is out to get them. it's an attempt to isolate

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel the same way about both Hasan Piker and peptides, which is: you can't make me learn what this is

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So proud of my brother for having produced this documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that made clear the scope of one of Dolly’s many precious gifts to our world.

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Nick Geidner on producing Imagination Library documentary, "The Library that Dolly Built"

Nick Geidner on the motivation to produce the documentary "The Library that Dolly Built," a documentary on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

my jr high pre-algebra teacher called improper fractions "Dolly Parton fractions" because they "had big ones on top." We can debate the appropriateness of this but i *do* still remember what improper fractions are.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Imagination Library is a truly wonderful thing, a beautiful idea that meant so much to so many people at home and all over the world

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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 25/08/2026

bro just neglect my ass

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i feel like the newspaper should not have to take you seriously as the Live Forever Guy until you’re at least 100, but maybe that’s why I’m not in the news biz anymore

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it’s just very funny to me how much credulous coverage this guy gets when all he’s done *so far* is live to be a 48 year old man who looks exactly 48 years old.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This guy is so much less interesting than the media's bizarre obsession with writing the same story about him over and over

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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

my buddy texted me this story with the comment “embarrassing day to be a weezer fan.” i was like “day?!”

Rivers Cuomo painted in gold, wearing a shiny gold outfit, sitting next to Bluesky’s Jimmy Fallon. He clearly hates himself.

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

[living in Arizona as the Colorado River runs dry] our age of lawns is collapsing

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I maintain that most of the problem with this is the 10 episode season, it’s fine to do “the muppet episode” when it’s one of 22 eps but when it’s one of 10 you’re always sort of wondering “what perfectly good Regular Episode ideas did they pass on so they could do this muppet thing”

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m still on board with Strange New Worlds but it has been weird to see it morph from “classicist Star Trek” to an almost Community-esque “A THEMED GIMMICK FOR EVERY EPISODE” show

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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Though you may not support the sites on account of how they’re all terrible now, important to know Screenrant, Collider, CBR, Polygon, and other companies all deteriorated because they were bought out by Valnet, a truly heinous company started by shitbags.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/08/2026

For example, during Woke 1.0 @davekarpf.bsky.social made a joking reference to Bret Stephens being a begbug, causing Stephens to try to get Dave fired. That was crazy.

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

to describe "the median 26 year old's apartment" as "grandpa core" is hilarious

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

they put "house hang" in quotes! they describe having a couch as "grandpa core"! they find a way to sort of imply that people are doing this because Mamdani hasn't done enough to lower the cost of living! truly it has a little of everything

NYT text: "Budget-conscious New Yorkers say they are cutting back on socializing and are pivoting to cheaper activities, like Ms. Dunlop’s “house hang,” and making calculated decisions about which events are worth the expense."

NYT text: "Back in Inwood, Ms. Dunlop and Mr. Lamberti set up the card game, explaining the rules to Ms. Rodriguez, who was still learning how to play.

Their one-bedroom apartment offered a cozy respite from their typical outdoor haunts. Decorated in what Mr. Lamberti described as “grandpa core,” the living room featured a nubby blue-and-brown plaid couch and matching armchair, model ships and a vintage bread box. A cabinet from Goodwill housed wine and spirits, and on the door, they had posted recipes for cocktails, including the corpse reviver.

“We chose to go out of our way to figure out how to have a welcoming space,” Ms. Dunlop said. A space that “would feel just as fun as going out to the bar.”"

NYT text: "One of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promises was to make New York more affordable, and some of his recent initiatives have aimed to ease the cost of socializing. He invited parents to drop off their kids for one night in August at a New York recreation center and enjoy four hours to themselves. And in May, he promoted a World Cup $26 drink-and-meal special for city residents."

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

losing my mind a little about this NYT article where they write about "hanging out at a friend's place" like someone just invented it because of The Economy www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/n...

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‘I’ve Hit My Limit’: Some New Yorkers Opt for Fun at Home to Save Money

When wages are low and activities are pricey, the frugal find new ways of socializing.

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

it's not even a CONVERSATION the chatbot is just like "yes i am a chatbot!"

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Yes, because it’s A GAMBLING APP, NOT A POLLING FIRM. THAT IS HOW GAMBLING WORKS. YOUR “ANALYSIS” HERE IS BASED ON PRETENDING THIS ISN’T JUST PEOPLE GAMBLING, JESUS CHRIST

Regardless of your view on who's favored, it's pretty clear Kalshi is not actually reading what those drops mean and are reacting to headline changes in raw vote totals. There's no need for this kind of oscillation

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i hope he's getting the help he needs

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this was specifically about a drive-by in another later chapter lol

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i read a draft of this and one of my notes was "uncle stripe has suffered enough, you leave that poor man alone"

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If you are a Bluey Adult or a parent-of-kids-who-aged-out-of-the-show who is maybe looking for some closure, this one's aimed right at you

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am really, really, really, REALLY excited to be able to share the cover of my book, as well a link so you can preorder it for when it comes out in April. Look at the ears!!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

cover for my new book, The Bluey Years - blue backdrop with clouds, the words the bluey years written in scribbly writing like a kid who wrote on the wall in crayon, framed with triangular blue ears

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Andrew Cunningham @andrewwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

LOTR pop radio hit from 2011 called Beorn This Way

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If Stevens won they would not print that moderates didn’t get the big election night they wanted, they would print that moderates have struck back and reasserted their place leading the party

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A reminder of the news that came out of Philadelphia hospitals in 2020:

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I know people are tired and overworked, but I feel like oftentimes they’re offloading a creative (and, on some level, rewarding) activity to free up time that they’ll ultimately spend scrolling on their phones—thereby further reducing their brains to mush. it’s a vicious cycle of meaninglessness

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