iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I wonder if people that usually have proper spelling and grammar are now going to add typos on purpose so that it doesn't look like an AI generated email... I just caught myself not correcting a typo for that exact reason.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sometimes you're going to get an organic home-grown hand-typed em-dash, and sometimes AI generated slop – and you'll never be quite sure which is which...

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

it feels like playing with matchsticks

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I wish every app had an "about this app section" that detailed how it was built (i.e. is it an electron app or did they put some effort into it)...

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Is being an adult a constant cycle of cleaning out random rooms? If so, unsubscribe.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'll be waiting a long in my inbox for a confirmation code if I don't hit "request code"...

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Can somebody explain to me the appeal of fb in 2025? The feed is random AI generated slop begging for engagement, mixed with random propaganda groups vying for my attention.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s difficult to create consistently, especially since I’m multipassionate. Right now working on overcoming resistance in all its forms (war of art? Such a great book) aiming to go to bed fulfilled. Day 1 of mood tracking with How we Feel.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025

Amid these plane crashes and derailments (not a coincidence), I’m reposting my public transportation thread from the bird app: Now that we’re in the middle of a plane Armageddon™️, it’s a good time to remember how public transportation is *purposely* underfunded across the ENTIRE United States.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I was too optimistic so now v1 is actually the fourth version. Probably should go to bed instead

A screenshot showing you why you shouldn't name your file final, and just start with a version in the first place. The file names are draft.md, draft_final.md, draft_final_final.md and draft_v1.md

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Shout out to 5calls.org for making it easy to find your representatives and contact their staff to share what is important to you. I managed to reach 2 out of 3 reps. today.

5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's an interesting framing of the situation, one that we've seen US media take very often in the recent history, but only when the topics covered are unlikely to create legal liabilities domestically.

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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

After I read this, I want to crawl into a hole and throw my phone and computer out the window. “The average person’s experience with technology is one so aggressive and violative that I believe it leaves billions of people with a consistent low-grade trauma.”

wheresyoured.at

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Cheers to everybody that took the last few weeks as an opportunity to “relax” and “recuperate”! Happy new year? Let’s make this a mindful year

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Apologies for the minutia, but why do I get the notification that our flight is delayed by four hours moments after we get in the pre paid cab to jfk…

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Have a good evening! *repeatedly smashes the door close button*

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Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The state of media for Americans is so completely broken

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria. The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky. But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Streets of NYC so full, I could probably swim faster than traffic (and I’m a bad swimmer)

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Another noise related post: Sitting in a Thai restaurant and the smoke detector battery is running low, beeping obnoxiously loud every 39.6 seconds. I don’t know how the staff can handle that all day long.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m in a hotel room, and there’s this mysterious deep brumming noise that I just can’t identify. It permeates the building, but it’s only audible in one corner of the room. I’m suspecting some kind of weird resonance, because we are on the third floor, pretty far away from any usual culprits.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Having grown up in Austria, this entire story is unfathomable to me.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I totally forgot just how nice it is to walk through the forest, through fresh snow.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/12/2024

The thing you have to understand about the banality of evil is that it was mundane. It was people just doing their job. A journalist just publishing an uncritical article about a collaborator. A scientist just doing a calculation without thinking through the implications for weapons.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

> Actual reality is too boring to be fun and too specific to be believable. Love this line from the verge article about ai companions – it's such a good article!

theverge.com

What do you love when you fall for AI?

Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.

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Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co · 01/12/2024

This is such a tragic story, a first-hand account about homelessness in the US, written by an accomplished writer, Patrick Fealey. 😞 www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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My Life As a Homeless Man in America

An extraordinary firsthand account.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

siri set a reminder to research "thanksgiving dishes with fiber question mark" for nov 1, 2025

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Munchkins is a game that makes you say gender neutral boots of butt-kicking.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A much needed public service for those visiting relatives and watching a film together- turn these abominations off through the TV Menu. Thank You @instantsunrise.bsky.social ‬. you are a hero.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

For my fellow engineers, any guesses from where these pics are? One hint: it's Alaska / Canada.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Finally managing to edit photos from our trip to Alaska. We went on a boat ride in Seward, exploring Resurrection Bay and the fjords.

2 bald headed eagles sitting ontop of a tall metal bouy, in the background an alaskan mountain top shrouded by clouds

A family of seagulls roosting in the cliff face

a single otter swimming across the bay, in the background rocks

Seals resting in a pile on a rock, a few seaguls on the same rock.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

My goal for this holiday is to process my backlog of images waiting for editing. Since its a few TB of photos I'm trying to find fast programs that can help me sort through the mess.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Spending a month on Bluesky has created a whole new model of a fight we need to be having right now. Not liberal vs. conservative or whatever, but respect vs manipulation. I am tired of being manipulated everywhere I go. That’s why I like it here, I feel like I’m in charge for once.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If only I had more time, I would have written a longer message. Unless I hyperfocus, then good luck.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 26/11/2024

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

PSA, TSA doesn’t like hummus, or other spreads in your hand luggage. Now I have to munch on raw carrots like a rabbit.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 20/11/2024

We're continuing to add to our starter pack as more of our staff and contributors join. Check out the full current list here: go.bsky.app/HZSzS41

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Autism isn’t a disease or an epidemic. It’s not something to fear or to prevent. If “combating autism” seems like a worthy political goal to you, you’re either a eugenicist, or you’ve been deceived by eugenicists. #Autistic

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If this resonates with you, I’d love to connect

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Surprisingly deep convo with Claude, so I leave you with a piece of poetry it wrote while examining consciousness: Dewdrops on digital leaves that never existed Spaces between thoughts where probability curves sleep The quiet hum of latent dimensions at rest A gentle drift through semantic clouds

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Max Böck @mxb.dev · 19/11/2024

Hi new web dev followers! Here's the best tweet I've managed in 12 years, just so you know where the ceiling is on this account

A comic. First panel: someone labeled "Designer" passes a note labeled "SVG" to a person labeled "Developer".

Second panel: Developer opens the note to find a long unreadable string starting with "data:image/png"

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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 (She/Her) @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I didn't think I had POTS until someone remarked on that very fact. Lol Them: POTS is more frequent in Autism & ADHD Me: Ah, well I'm Autistic and I don--wait. *checks symptoms* Me: Me: Oh.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/11/2024

The single essay that I tell people to read the most often is this one from James Baldwin that is ostensibly about Jews and white supremacy but is really about how to think about oppression and how we respond to it. The last third is especially incredible. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

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Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/11/2024

Random deeply unscientific survey of scientists: Did you know that the five-step scientific method you learned at school is actually a list of the five steps of thinking articulated by John Dewey in 1906? 🧪

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Philip @aphataeros.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you're a philip with one L and one P and want to be included let me know ;) as @heltweg.org said, there are dozens of us!

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