iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h

Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 13h

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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Elena Wicker @elenawicker.bsky.social · 10h

“Hey babe, whatcha cookin?” “MAPS FOR THE MEUSE-ARGONNE OFFENSIVE.”

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 17h

bring back calling it a chatbot

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 03/10/2026

No but like, this Golden Calf is different, you see

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 02/10/2026

If u don’t die a lowboy, babe, you live long enough to run dry on grifts

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s time for vampires, werewolves, seahags, and all the other wonderful creatures that can be alone with you in space as you drift along the unfathomable cosmos. So Monster Mash your way to the Space Hotel, which is opening in only two months!!!!!!!

NEW YORK POST
New York Post V @nypost
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First ever space hotel slated to be operational by 2027trib.al/iswu2uU
2:23 PM • Mar 1. 2021

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He figured out the whole deal right away

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Monday: The Workman's Curse Tuesday: The Day of Bastards Wednesday: Heavy is the Burden of Sisyphus Thursday: The Second Day of Bastards Friday: Business in the Front, Party in the Back Saturday: Me Old Ham, My Good Time Charlie Sunday: Fairweather Friend

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 01/10/2026

someone please sprinkle queso fresco and cilantro on the Strait of Hormuz so I can afford to heat my house

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site

A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."

America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

technically anything that impedes wildlife populations is stealing our collective shit

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Nolan Hahn @nolanhahn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This podcast has also slandered notable football icon The Moon

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A work of art, including the finer points of (a) 60 Minutes, which was mutilated by conservative Republicans and (b) the cowboy hat, which for 50+ years has symbolized faux-self-reliance subsidized by an intricate web of government policies.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan

newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“i apologize to the parents for indirectly having to address a genocide in which at least 20,000 children have been killed”

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Uh oh. Lane Kiffin is Living Coral.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"'We've also been singing on the tractors and in the fields,' he said. 'The work of the farmer is the same in Punjab as it is in America as it is in Canada.'" www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/e...

cnn.com

The border-busting birth of Punjabi country music | CNN

The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots. But as artists Assassyn and Jaggseer have discovered, the two cultures aren’t so...

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Well, every time somebody posts this, me & my drummer get tagged, so, preemptively: mountain goats are wild, majestic animals. The Mountain Goats are a band. Out of respect to our namesake, we do lick pee from rocks when we’re in a national park, but nobody ever airlifts us anywhere. We walk home

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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Phoenician Thnkr @phoenecianthnkr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TRANSMANIAN DEVIL LMAOOO

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

dig through the TINKER and burn through the TAILOR and slam in the back of my SOLDIER SPY

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Extremely Haunted @extremelyuncanny.com · 07/09/2026

As is tradition

Todaybor day is Labor Day!
Homestar Runner holding a wooden spoon with a bowl for a helmet screams as The Cheat stares off

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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week

A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?

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Borzoibot @borzbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I will forever admire Wendell Berry's insistence on living his values through to their natural conclusions and relentlessly ripping through layers of politeness and habit to hold up for judgment those who do not.

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Lake America" sounds like a summer camp for men whose wives have left them.

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mitch on the web @howintensive.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

here's a few of my favorites from the "eating cigarettes era" of swan boy

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/08/2026

Irish people. Relax

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

fond memories of his editor's comments on his godawful manuscript. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 27/08/2026

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ... lol the part where ross douhat seeks spirtual guidance before officiating this shit show of a marraige buries the lede so hard it is hunting for rare earth elements

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The Connections That Turned a Precocious Teen Into the Fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’

A 24-year-old investor hailed as a visionary attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street’s latest cautionary tale.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it.

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 26/08/2026

CNN doing operation desert storm like it was sweeps week.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 14/12/2025

people don't want an agentic os they want to do this

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 25/08/2026

We are gonna do our goddamndest to leave the kind of world Dolly would be proud of, I cannot imagine a more concise way to tell them to fuck off.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 25/08/2026

DRAG HIM (thru the garden), PAPA

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 23/08/2026

it's really very simple, the major obstacle is a bunch of vultures would need to find another line of work to get exploitatively rich off and they've got lobbying money factored into the budget to keep medicare for all off the agenda

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 23/08/2026

one of the major problems with white supremacy is the inability to understand color theory. i'm saying these gloobs can't dress worth a shit

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vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 22/08/2026

smoking never stopped being cool, it's dying young and/or painfully that became unfashionable

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