iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

You mean, mid-event? I dunno, I haven’t tried. I’ve just used it for movies and plays.

010

On the other hand, the Do Not Disturb mechanism on iPhone has a nice feature: If you call up that menu during an event that’s in your Calendar, “Until the End of [This Event]” will show up as one of the options on the menu.

In particular, the ability to add a quick-access icon to your home screen for an individual contact. This was quick and easy on Android, and a clumsy half-assed mess on iPhone.

110

Having spent a few months as an iPhone user, it is *shocking* to me how difficult Apple makes it to do things that are quick and simple on Android.

240

Wouldn’t really good sex toys be earthmoving equipment?

1142

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’s Excellent Adventure

3372

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mighty Joe Young Frankenstein

241

Reposted by Avram Grumer

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

20674114

Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think she’s just got one registered for professional use.

110

Reposted by Avram Grumer

if you legitimately think that every single Israeli deserves to be murdered because of the actions of the IDF, then you are not anti-genocide. You are pro-genocide. You just think the wrong people are being genocided

19413

Chris: I’m off to the library, to do some clerical work. Me: Healing wounds, turning the undead. Chris: … I’m not hiring you for my office.

Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Far too many people on my feed and in my mentions are debating which Israelis are inherently killable. Guys, the issue isn't whether all Israelis serve in the IDF, or whether you can get out of conscription. It's that anyone who says "all members of group X are guilty" is advocating genocide.

1585

Did she really name her dog after an Israeli submachine gun?

1300

There’s often a difference between the law and how people act. French law says anyone can become French. Israeli law says Israel is a Jewish, not an Israeli, state.

130

I really like Snapdragons now. Gotta remember to pick some up tomorrow.

010

This one: The “Hatikvah” comes in right at the end, so you can skip to about 0:48 if you don’t want to stare at a cute nearly-nude blonde for a full minute.

youtube.com

Novig is Just Sports

YouTube video by Novig

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Honestly surprised that I haven’t seen people melting down over that sports betting website ad where Sydney Sweeney appears nude and the music suddenly and inexplicably veers into the Israeli national anthem at the end.

10162

Inputting bookwords into my brainspace risks infectifying and corrupticating my personally hand-tooled thinkitecture.

040

Reposted by Avram Grumer

פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Judaica publisher told me rabbis keep filling his Talmud margins so I asked how many margins he has and he said he just goes to print and adds wider margins afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding whitespace to rabbis and then his printer started crying.

433755

Yeah, I have a Standard Breakfast that I’ll eat for months at a stretch, then switch to a new one. Excepting Sundays, which are for bagels & lox.

010

But trivia is just lore that hasn’t yet been acted upon.

000

Pyat, a Mouse @pyat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My memory is that the news media in the late 1980s reported it as a simple “sex scandal” and didn’t go into details.

2490

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Matt Howarth has died. He did a lot of art and creative work for the Myriad Song RPG from my publisher, though I'm sure is best known for the Post Brothers and work for Heavy Metal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Ho...

en.wikipedia.org

Matt Howarth - Wikipedia

32219

Julian @jl8e.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I’d catch the brain worm.”

020

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Any truly benevolent dictator would dismantle the systems that let them hold power

031

Having lived through the 1980s, I can tell you that it most definitely was.

050

… So when Congress sat down to work out the Volstead Act, the banking industry was like “Wait a minute, if we have to trash all this booze, you’ll wipe us out!” So Congress kept the warehouses, and established a “medicinal exception” to Prohibition.

060

… This meant that if you were a distiller, and you needed a bank loan, you had a convenient form of collateral: A whole bunch of booze in a gov’t-run warehouse, with gov’t documentation, and guarded by US Treasury agents! So a lot of banks wound up holding a lot of booze as collateral. …

140

… See, in 1897, Congress passed the Bottled-in-Bond Act, to improve the quality of American whiskey. This act set up government-run warehouses where distillers could deposit their booze, provided that it met certain requirements. …

140

damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/10/2026

Well, maybe. People did used to believe in a variety of medicinal benefits to alcohol consumption. But also, “for medicinal purposes” was a bit of a scam during the Prohibition Era. …

130

Reposted by Avram Grumer

one time i was in a restaurant with my mom and she was talking about her digestive issues and she suddenly says “i can’t even eat your father’s nuts anymore” and i and everyone else within earshot stop and stare mouth agape and she says, “you know those jars of cashews he always has sitting around.”

1957

Yeah. A few years back, I caught part of an old Chris Rock comedy special while channel-surfing. There was some pretty great material in there. And then he got to the part where he talks about women. Whoof. Dude clearly had some issues, even back then.

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not sure I’d want to stay, but I’d certainly ask them to run me through the sickbay for some free super-future health care.

1120

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

Just bumping into this again with people _reflexively_ using the word "grape" or a 🍇 emoji and not even realizing they're doing it. It's all part of the same system, where the men running these companies make platforms that don't even let people accurately describe the crimes that they enable.

12619144

Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We could have had taco trucks on every corner.

142

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🎶🎶 Hot town, punching Hello Kitty So adorable-even bleeds real pretty Head’s big but her body’s itty-bitty Should I punch her more? Gonna ask the committee Staggering ‘round, kitty Walkin half dead Walkin into traffic-squashed like a flatbread… 🎶🎶🎶

3452275

Reposted by Avram Grumer

Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A little known fact about the CARS universe, is that post-World War 2 many Volkswagens, BMWs and Mercedes fled to Cargentina to avoid the Nuremberg Time Trials

493160541

You’re not going far enough. We could abolish time zones altogether. Just put the whole planet on GMT time. Go to 24-hour time, too. Businesses in each region can pick their own times to start and stop things. The standard workday in NYC would run from 14:00 to 22:00.

230

“The Pope? How many local models runs he?”

041

The Six Sigma of Palmer Eldritch

053

Pretty clear that the “Yeshua” bit is supporting the line about getting names wrong.

040