iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 22h

Thus Potatoes au Gratin is the ultimate seduction dish.

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Grey Demon @greydemon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The fact so many people equate rehabilitative justice to we must forgive everything someone has done really and give them back their platform frustrates me, rehabilitation also requires holding someone accountable and what better way to do that than to remove their social power

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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes she left the party, sometimes she left the college. Maybe she went to another one or maybe she decided college or grad school wasn’t for her after all. Maybe she decided that career wasn’t it, and lowered her expectations for her whole damn life.

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Dr Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just released a new keepsake game- Bleed Map! You play alongside a video game of your choice, creating a map of the digital space. At the same time, you'll be prompted to record emotions and thoughts from your everyday life that bleed into the experience. florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/bleed-map

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Bleed Map by Florence Smith Nicholls

A keepsake game for materialising digital play

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Really excited to announce the online launch of The Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, the result of two years of work between academics, archives and museums. Register here forms.gle/PYBjxGNDitDp... to join us on Friday 16 Oct at 3 pm BST online #histmed #photohist #ethics #medhums

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My mum wanted the details of her death heard. She strongly believed in the right to die & had a living will. We need to be honest about what death often looks like & that there is often *no* palliative care that can make someone like my mum's death any easier. TW: This thread is a difficult read.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026

I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Am digital ethicist, can confirm, it is unethical to have LLMs or your chair do your research for you.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You said, "Sadly as I am not as creative as others, I used chat GBT to help me figure out how to do it and what I needed." I am one of your creative friends. I would have been delighted if you had asked me. If I could have shared what I know, with you. If we could have done this craft together.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In a situation of hard job scarcity, as an aside, this is one of the key problems with academic hiring: it generally works as a series of veto points with many stakeholders but no singular decision-maker. So *anyone* in the process having bad vibes kills you, but no ones good vibes can save you.

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Please, please, I beg of all hiring committees of all kinds, stop asking us to fill in docx files instead of sending our PDF CVs! I’ve given more mental time to the formatting of this application than I could to actual introspection on the role… and I really want the job!

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Jessica Jones: Day Drinking on Resume Meme

Alt: Jessica Jones: Day Drinking on Resume Meme

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My article "Black Heritage Sites & the NRHP" dropped today. I crunched the numbers to see if we had improved the number of listings since 2020 & evaluate claims of structural issues in the National Register. Spoiler, its not the #NRHP. 🏺#archaeology #preservation www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GRBHV...

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Black Heritage Sites and the National Register of Historic Places: A Snapshot in Time

This article explores the historical underrepresentation and recent revitalization of African American heritage sites within the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historically, Black her...

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🐈 At a Roman villa In Adramytteion (Turkey) 🐕 the owners put the name of their cat and dog in a mosaic—I am reading σμαράγδιη (“emerald”) for the cat. (I am a little bit mystified by the eta on the end unless it is a nu, but this is cool). Dog is named ὠκεανός (“ocean”) arkeonews.net/1800-year-ol...

Mosaic depiction of a cat from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, accompanied by an inscription giving a name interpreted as meaning “Emerald.” Credit: AA

Mosaic depiction of a dog from the Roman villa at Adramytteion, identified by an inscription with the name “Okyanos” (“Ocean”). Credit: AA

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As a rule of thumb, museums should not have active acquisitions policies for antiquities from outside their own countries.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

no one should ever be allowed to become so powerful they no longer have get-a-grip friends

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A nice example for educators in the technical aspects of #datavis, cartography and computer science (I am one). We need to be teaching tech people to take the ethics of their work seriously and the obligations they have to act responsibly.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Certain bigots emphasise the need for middle-aged men to have hobbies. Posting is not a hobby. If your husband / father / uncle is exhibiting early brainworm symptoms act now. Practice gently encouraging your loved ones by saying things like: "Do you know what's really cool and sexy? ..."

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

None of us will be remembered as complex individuals navigating shifting political realities. We’ll be remembered as Nazis or resistance. Everything else is a footnote.

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is how fascism is normalized.

The image is a screenshot from the website ‘The Cut’. It has a neck-up photo of Natalie Harp, a blonde fascist who is part of the Trump administration and is actively destroying democracy in the United States. The image is accompanied by text about how she does her eyeliner, because we live in a hellscape.

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Young Pete Toms @petetoms.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Big Walk feels like a game that’s just about walking around and solving puzzles, but it’s actually a spiritual journey towards discovering that you’re the stupidest person in your friend group.

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Karma's Dad @karmasdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

300 people you never want to take a class from, have as a graduate advisor, or buy their book, just outed themselves

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think we can safely say the history department had the best stickers today

A large circular sticker for the UAA Department of History. It reads "god forbid women have hobbies" and features a reproduction of the famous illustration of The Women's March on Versailles, 1789

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I owe a lot to Canadians. A PhD supervisor. An external examiner. A besty. As I have said in multiple contexts, “I’m so sorry, Canada.”

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Crystal Maze workers want union contracts! They’re demanding union recognition to end the culture of low pay, unsafe working conditions, and inconsistent shift patterns. Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

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Recognise Equity at The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience

Crystal Maze workers want union contracts! We’re demanding union recognition to end the culture of low pay, unsafe working conditions, and inconsistent shift patterns. We need your support to show L...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026

Turns out that right now, it is very hard to find a job if you ethically refuse to work on Murder or Mass Surveillance

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’m having ‘big ethicist feelings’ today, but this is the closest to my own personal sentiment.

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I would love it if they would *stop* sending me the alert. I’ve had it four times now just tonight. While I know I joke about burning everything to the ground, I don’t actually need to be told not to start literal fires… that many times.

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

(1) Labour's extending "Indefinite Leave to Remain" qualification from 5 to 15 years is a big attack on workers rights: Currently 100ks workers on Employment Visas are stuck for 5 years unable to complain about their bosses, who can have them deported.Mahmood's plan makes it 15 years of servitude..

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When u been through multiple decades of online engagement, u see how quickly concepts ppl claim to be passionate about burn out the moment it involves challenging capitalist hegemony.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For every instance of a woman discriminated against, remember the man who got ahead because of it. Now make it intersectional.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

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Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

every three months, somewhere in the world, an indie game maker accidentally recreates quaker silent worship while trying to come up with a new 1-page TTRPG.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sharing this on Bsky, since WoG aren't on here, but lots of artists are! Applications are now open for two Glass Artists in Residence 2026–27 Applications close 15 August 2026 (11:59pm GMT). Apply here: www.worldofglass.com/venue-inform...

A poster of a person, wearing protective equipment working on a cone shaped piece of blown glass, cooling it with an air blower in a glass studio. White text reads: Open Call, artist residency, The World of Glass, applications close 15 August 2026. Supported by the HLF and Arts Council of England.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Perhaps it’s not fair to draw a straight line from Discovery’s “megalodon is still alive and scientists and the government are lying to you about it, don’t trust them” to all of this… but a supposed non-fictional educational channel sure didn’t help matters.

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Nit Nurse With Wound @dannybirchall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you're a freelancer working in heritage, you're going to want to come to this! We're setting up a branch of @prospectunion.bsky.social, and this is our first meeting, open to members and non-members. This Thursday, online from 12-1. Register for a link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It’s spitting in York. I miss the thunderstorms of my Florida childhood summers. Every afternoon rain at 3:30, just in time to come in from the pool to watch Scooby-Doo.

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I still owe money, to the money, to the money I owe, the floors are falling out from everybody I know.

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Tess, I want to #AskAnArchaeologist! I’m out of the archaeological loop by a country mile, what have I missed in the past few years, what events/sites/analyses/books etc that have passed me by that I should read, watch or catch up on?

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Other technically non-games media I’ve been looking at lately is (a lot of) immersive theater. These experiences, if done well, rely on the combined lived cultures of the participants, and the physicality of interaction with objects of created landscapes and times.

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Meghan Dennis @archaeoethicist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Feel free to use this chance to #AskAnArchaeologist about video games and how we work with digital media! (Below is a tiny bit of my current thought exercise game on community and archaeological ownership.)

The image shows a split screen. On one side is the technical ‘code’ for a game. On the other side is the output, which is all text.

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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The schism comes to Orkney! I repeat: The Schism Comes to Orkney!! 🍿

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