iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/10/2026

Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Work can be stressful. Deadlines. Meetings. Your boss falls under a curse that turns you into an anthropomorphic candelabra

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G.C. Houle @gchoule.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sorry, pornographers are getting chased off the internet and browbeaten by peers while the US gov is planning to livestream a murder???

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whether it’s Donald Trump asking his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard on his hamburger, both men have made unusual requests

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026

Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃 🐅 🍂 🐻 🍁 👻

Top image: A bear sitting on rocks, holding a fruit or vegetable.

Bottom image: The same bear stands and interacts with a pumpkin. Dates "September 30" and "October 1" are noted.

On the left, a tiger is in a grassy area, appearing to yawn, with "September 30" written nearby. On the right, the same tiger is interacting with a carved pumpkin, labeled "October 1".

Two images of a hornbill: The top shows the bird perched on a branch with text "September 30." The bottom shows the hornbill on grass with a carved pumpkin, labeled "October 1.

Two images of a red panda. On the left (September 30), it is chewing bamboo. On the right (October 1), it is interacting with a carved pumpkin.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Many men would rather engage in violent fantasy about what they WOULD do instead of doing what they easily COULD.

Threads post from @protextor

“I'd kill for my daughter."

OK. Will you risk social inconvenience by calling out your peers loudly and to their face? Or is that bare minimum real-life scenario scarier than your hypothetical one? 1/2

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026

Claude making a scientific discovery

Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These kids have real balls. I hope they gut Cornell.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s one of those things that I’ll have occasionally at restaurants, and it somehow never actually occurs to me to make it at home. I should change that. It tastes better balanced than pesto to me anyway. Pesto always tastes like it’s flat and needs acid to me.

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As someone who can’t eat pine nuts, I do need to go harder into chimichurri. I frequently want something that is that kind of punch in the face of herbs, oil, and garlic.

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R. Blaylock Art @meanderingunicorns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Many fantasy and sci-fi authors have created compelling fictional religions, but @tkingfisher.com has written the only one I actually want to join. Let me be be useful. Let me be practical. Let me find ways my skills can serve others in the Temple of the White Rat.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NEWS: I don’t like transphobes and here is a short list of why. 1) They are full of shit.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Liking things rules, actually.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

transphobia is a lot more widespread than I’d like transphobia is also a luxury belief and only really gains traction when people think their lives are otherwise pretty solid it simply cannot hold a candle, electorally speaking, to “car juice expensive”

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/09/2026

Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.

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Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the article to share with all your healthy friends and family to help them understand what’s going on. #LongCovid #ME

To be clear: not every disability or chronic illness is caused by COVID-19. However, the runaway acceleration in the diagnoses of common post-COVID conditions like ME, POTS, and autoimmune diseases is absolutely caused by the ongoing failure to control unmitigated COVID-19. And it's why there's an apparent "trend" in these diagnoses.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

Many of the babies’ autopsy reports were clear: Vitamin K deficiency was the immediate cause of death, or contributed to it. The reports also included details about parents refusing the vitamin K shot, a long-standard injection, for their newborns. (Published May)

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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Hannah Who @notablyuncool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In times like these, trans joy is anything but trivial. It’s a lifeline. To every trans person sharing their happiness: you are giving hope. To everyone amplifying it: thank you for spreading the light.

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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

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Fallon | [see pinned!] @fallonturing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The naked contempt for disabled people is a major problem for the left. Capitalism used covid to excise us from society under effective ugly laws, and most leftists quite frankly do not give a shit.

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Brian Moritz @bmoritz99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Both @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

thank you bisexual dice polycule

image of a swirling purple background with light blue dice floating in the air they all have faces and look DANG GOOD. the text says 'congratulations. if you are seeing this you have been chosen by the bisexual dice polycule. they have cleansed your misfortune hexes have a wonderful day'

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Vaccination remains THE key intervention against severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Make sure you are protected and WEAR A MASK. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Before the day ends, we can’t forget that it’s a holiday, & those of us who celebrate should all light a candle for the late great Maurice White.

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)

ALT: Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fascism requires collaborators.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Holy shit this is amazing

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Shrew @shrewshrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello everyone following after I was added to a "defend democracy" list. First, I don't know who did that or if you can trust the list. However I shall use my soapbox. My proposal for defending democracy is Defend trans rights as if they were your own rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Because they are 💫

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Courtney/Lucy 🍉 from the river to the sea @magicalgurll.com · 17/09/2026

when you make a typo in the group chat

A photo from Stardom, a Japanese women's wrestling federation. Perfectly centered is a woman on her knees leaning forward against the ropes. Five women in fun, colorful, sparkly outfits are all mid-air launching towards her to deliver flying kicks to her back, lined up close to each other and about to land their attacks all at once.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So you're not alone. You're not failing. So please be good to yourselves. Rest and fill the well.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don’t forget to take care of yourself. Don’t forget to rest. Don’t forget to read banned books. Don’t forget to dream. Don’t forget to be the reason that forests seem haunted.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026

Saying things like this is a really good way to get rich people killed. Why have they all forgotten this?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I cannot tell you how wrong this is. I’m an author and a library worker. Ebook lending gets people to READ. People who can’t go into libraries because people love airborne infectious diseases these days. People who can’t hold a traditional book up. People whose schedules don’t align with open hours

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The fact that this isn't treated as an objectively valid reason for immediate impeachment, by the press, by Democratic party leadership, is enraging

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Barbara @batesbarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*Taps Stephen J Gould quote beside the bus door*

A black and white picture of a white man sitting at a desk with a microscope beside it. Above it, is the quote “I am, somehow less interested in the weights and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” -Steven Jay Gould

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Frightful Boo-schoff @mpbmke.com · 17/09/2026

[Freddy pulling the mask off the monster] "It was eugenics this whole time!"

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"we've heard you, and we understand that you're upset that big tech has put poop in your food. That's why we're putting 100% open source poop into your food instead."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.

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