iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by aU

may @maysuser.name · 09/10/2026

sent him a birthday message

email to dr. Ray Milton blanchard iii

Hi Ray,

Hope everything's going well! I'm a big fan of your work. I hope you're having a fantastic 81st birthday! I got my nails done just for you. In your expert opinion, are they AGP or HSTS? Please see attached and let me know your thoughts!

Yours,

May

[pic of my nails attached]

1929433

Reposted by aU

ren faire @lathrys.at · 08/10/2026

sharing for the rest of the class

responding sincerely to this even though i don't think you meant it that way. my answer is no, not really. or, well, not on its own in my universe of what paying respect to someone (in this case a woman, but anyone too) means (literally 'looking again' in latin).
i'm not saying expression of desire is bad, i get overwhelmed by it sometimes. being openly, joyfully desirous can be lovely. but there's a way of doing it narrowly which makes seeing another person about yourself, flattening them in the process. i don't want you not to want, but to want *bigger*.
a bigger wanting in your whole being that can coexist with another person's sovereignty instead of overriding it with your lust in a narrow, self-directed focus that makes someone a thing to possess. a wanting so big that you cannot contain it; so big it cannot be held by you for even a moment.
i want you to *see well*. i want you to see women and look again a second time (pay respect) and a third, past the point where your initial impression dissolves. i want you to attend to the women if your life for an uncomfortably long time, and come back to that attending again and again and again.
in seeing well i want you to be seeing what is put on offer for you her, seeing of her what she would endorse, and not just seeing what you wish to take from her. i want you to see in her what she would give you to hold with care and reverence and admiration.
and in loving well i want you to be unmade by her, and to suffer—truly suffer—in the realization that someone other than yourself is as real as you are. in loving well i want you to scream and laugh and cry in agonizing delight that there's someone real in front of you who you can never fully know.

310334

Reposted by aU

bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

102143164713

Reposted by aU

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

3255931940

Reposted by aU

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Jailed for violating banking laws", much like Hitler met his end after losing a battle with suicidal ideation.

231187158

Reposted by aU

PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

77107414700

Reposted by aU

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/10/2026

Chiitan loves transgender people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Even a plain statement like this now brings slander and insults, but I think a society where people can live happily as themselves matters more than silence, so I will keep saying it until the account is gone. love everyone🤍

198140873423

Reposted by aU

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

for anyone who followed my episodes about the Drug User Liberation Front, and their canadian supreme court challenge... well, good news

338842

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've considered seeking out a local women's bike group for safety. But the fact remains that a space that once felt like the place for an easy, safe and fun ride by myself at any time is now closed to me. It makes pursuing the hobby that much more inconvenient.

3512

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I haven't ridden my bike since about 10 months ago when I was on a local secluded bike trail and a man either catcalled me or was just singing a crude song. Either way I wasn't going to stick around to find out. It was the fastest I've ever ridden and also the last.

1353

Reposted by aU

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

168188254721

Reposted by aU

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

180126922235

Reposted by aU

Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

272407466

Reposted by aU

hilkojj @hilkojj.nl · 22/09/2026

17 days until launch!! Watch the *alternative* trailer, voiced by Not Just Bikes. store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...

281213343

Reposted by aU

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

They even made DoorDash apologize.

DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.

11870781481

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fuck my chud governor we deserve so much better holy shhhiiittt

010

Reposted by aU

Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

ebar.com

Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care

Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.

205922318

Reposted by aU

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THIS 👇 if you are a journalist who does this investigation, I promise to help share your article far and wide!

334085

Reposted by aU

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It isn't explicit, but we've seen this pattern before. 1) Black Americans are twice as likely to get Alzheimer's 2) Scientists want to study Black communities to figure out why and what insights this has for treatment/cause 3) Trump people cut the program, most likely because they think it's DEI.

151479472

Reposted by aU

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

1013241776

Reposted by aU

tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

515338098133

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whether you call yourself a Socialist, a Communist, Anarchist, Marxist, Maoist, Trotskyite, eco-communalist, even you antifascist liberals - though we disagree on massive issues, I hope we can agree that we should always be caring for each other and building this world, no matter how bleak it gets.

000

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The better world might just start as small pockets of freedom carved out from within. We saw windows of these with self-governing areas during the George Floyd uprisings and with the campus encampments for Palestine. We might see different kinds of pockets if Socialists keep winning elections here.

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The project is extremely abstract at this time - it can feel like a million years away sometimes - and yet it manifests itself in the tiny acts of solidarity and defiance being taken every day. It manifests in the many works of fiction and nonfiction that inspire us constantly.

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But with my actions today comes a kind of faith (spirituality???) that they are contributing a single pebble at a time to this grand project that is "a better world".

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On top of this outcome being dependent on the efforts of others who are not under my control - I hold the belief that the future is truly unknowable. An asteroid could come next year that ends the human experiment. Most likely, the future I will die in will be better in some ways and worse in others

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The death of my naive optimism is not a bad thing - it has not turned me into a doomer. My optimism is now a responsible one. I still truly believe one day I will live to see a better world. In the same vein, I know there is no guarantee I actually will. This isn't a contradiction.

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

For historical motivation, I used to frequently look to the "heroes" and movements from the 1960s in the US (they still did much in the face of terror and repression and have much to teach us) But now I tend to look to resistance to fascism in Europe between the 30s-40s more often (CNT, partisans)

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And as terrifying as that reality is, it grounds me in the truth that my local mutual aid work is actually more important today, not less. The impact might seem small when it isn't a part of a wave of a changing order, but the worsening conditions only make it more vital that we care for each other.

120

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But then I remember that actually, the time we are living in is much closer to the 30s-40s when it comes to environmental and economic crises, fascists rising to power, xenophobic and racial violence, genocide, etc.

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Like, sometimes I'll read news and my brain flashes back to 4 years ago when I had this naive optimism that I and the rest of Gen Z were going to imminently bring about a wave of social change comparable to the 1960s and I freak the fuck out that things are not getting better and in fact worse.

100

aU @anxiousutopian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is it just me, or is it really easy to forget sometimes that mutual aid/social justice/organizing are actually MORE important than ever in terrible times like these, not less?

100

Reposted by aU

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.

9232791260

Reposted by aU

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

1035972951

Reposted by aU

Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 10/09/2026

Only two more days to get Future? No Thanks! at 20% off! An open-world retirement simulator set in a cozy solarpunk Midwest. store.steampowered.com/app/3861870/...

0237

Reposted by aU

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's hot. After last month's historic heat wave, many CA temps will be in the 100's again. Remember the farm workers out harvesting the chilled snack you're enjoying. #WeFeedYou

Mixed berries close-up above a farm worker harvesting fruit in the sun, text highlights extreme heat in Coachella, CA at 118°F and labor behind fruit harvest during a heat wave.

7031821126