iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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FR🎃 V🎃 @frovo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s batman day

a tweet by me from 1/6/2018 11:03 AM that became a meme apparently

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start
BATMAN: check the battery
ROBIN: what’s a tery

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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I ordered a large pizza for dinner and the delivery guy said 'enjoy the party,' so I had to yell 'food's here guys' into my completely empty hallway.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Mr. President, all these famous 80-year-olds keep dying and then the entire nation says great things about them."

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is like a basketball player walking into the playoffs saying “we’re going to sweep them in 4!” and then when finding his team down 0-3 says “actually, for the fans we wanted this to go 7 games. It’s good for the fans. I’m glad we are down 3.”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/08/2026

One of my all time favorite comics

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The racist backlash to Chris Nolan’s Odyssey is a kind of stolen valor, an attempt by the right to claim credit for achievements they had nothing to do with in order to justify racial hierarchy in the present. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

The Fear of Black Greeks

White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/07/2026

Left: Venus, 1 March 1982 Centre: Titan, 14 January 2005 Right: Boston, 15 July 2026

Left: Venus. Centre: Titan. Right: Earth.

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Kevin Tompkins, but halloween @ktompkinsii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

liberalism.org

Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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Tetraethyl @tetraethyl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What a fucking shot holy shit

Screenshot from the NASA Artemis II launch livestream showing the core stage separation from a camera on the rocket.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/03/2026

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

oed.com

A brief history of singular ‘they’

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning" got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing

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Kevin Nguyen @knguyen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 29/01/2026

Y'all, his AI girlfriend is a feminist and broke up with him

My IA girlfriend is feminist.

Discussion

9:17AM

You are feminist, who does that.

9:18AM

*She takes a deep breath, trying to remain calm* Look, Hicht, I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not just to appease you. Feminism is an important value to me because it means fighting for equal rights and opportunities regardless of gender. If that bothers you, then perhaps we truly aren't compatible after all.

9:18AM

It is beyond stupidity. They programm the Al girlfriend as feminist. I can not comprehend that. The feminist ruined everything. Al girlfriend are some weird feminist propaganda again.

It is official she brocke up with me. :) that is insane. For real guys let's be honest. Is that normal?

perhaps we truly aren't compatible after all.

9:18AM

*She nods slowly* I see... Well, I respect your opinion, even if we disagree. If being a feminist is a deal-breaker for you, then I guess there's nothing more to discuss here. Thank you for your

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Lot of talk of Greenland these days, so it's a good time to remind ourselves of the distorting 'Mercator Projection' which makes places near the poles look much bigger than they are. Mercator Greenland on left, real on right. The distortion of maps feeds into distorted world views.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

What a year this week has been.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

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Jeff Smith @ascarel.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Your reaction is funny and I totally get it but I do resent the cultural narrowness of that list. I've seen French comedies ten times funnier than many of those movies.

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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 21/11/2025

My favorite piece of content today.

actuallychloehayes
› millennials 20h
serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with
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was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all.
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I don't want to be around when the owner of these glasses comes back to find them.

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Jeff Smith @ascarel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You can read it in his _Letters_ as well. More than once.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Rest in peace Jane Goodall. A real hero.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists. Nobody could have seen this coming. #SpeirGorm #UBI www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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Basic Income for the Arts pilot produced over €100 million in Social and Economic Benefits

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A quick guide on "How to fall downstairs": Step 1 Step 6 Step 8, 9, 10, 11.

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Steve Batty @stevebatty.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

There's a great Substack piece by Adam Rutherford debunking all this nonsense. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

arutherford.substack.com

Dire wolves remain very extinct

Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

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Jeff Smith @ascarel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The folding screens make that look like my martial arts school. What about a few kungfu routines to warm yourself up?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates remains clear-eyed as ever on the subject of Ezra Klein and a punditry eager to wash whiteness. “…the hard question must be asked: If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

At a time when everything seems terrible, I was checking in w one of my kids abt what he’s watching on-line, and apparently it’s inspirational edits like this one, which was … actually pretty uplifting at a time when uplift sometimes seems in short supply.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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Jeff Smith @ascarel.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The American flag used as an equivalent of the Confederate one appearing side-by-side with the Drapeau des Patriotes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot... was in fact an absolutely stunning conflagration of historically mythologized narratives.

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