iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Windows 98 Plus: Underwater

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Casey Dunn @caseywdunn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new book, Phylogenetic Biology, is now published. Available online for free at dunnlab.org/phylogenetic... . Physical copies can be purchased at shop.lightningsource.com/b/085?params... or your favorite bookstore.

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social

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Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026

Guess who saw a mf'ing Orca off the side of their ferry this evening?

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Emily Tull SGFA @artbyemilytull.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Mountain Hare" hand embroidery artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p1/mou... #StunDay #embroidery #WildlifeArt

A square shaped artwork.
A light sap green fabric background with layers of light ochre fine tulle outlining the hand embroidered mountain hare head and shoulders.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

You might need this little soapstone carving of a whale today… (1200-1600 CE, Chumash culture, California, held at Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal)

A little smily soapstone carving of a whale by Chumash culture, circa 1200-1600 CE, California

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 24/06/2026

GP on the BBC this morning parroting the oft-heard “stay indoors between 11 and 3 because the sun is hottest then”. The sun is *most intense* then, that’s the time of day you’re most at risk of sunburn. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-6. Thinking you’re safer at 5 is daft.

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“necessarily have negative attitudes” my brother in casuistry THOSE ARE THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My grandfather, in 1960, on the idea that integration would violate the "freedom of association" of racist Southern whites:

The question must be answered, but I would approach it in a way which seems to me more normal—the way in which we more usually approach comparable symmetries that might be stated as to all other asserted rights. The fourteenth amendment forbids inequality, forbids the disadvantaging of the Negro race by law. It was surely anticipated that the following of this directive would entail some disagreeableness for some white southerners. The disagreeableness might take many forms; the white man, for example, might dislike having a Negro neighbor in the exercise of the latter's equal right to own a home, or dislike serving on a jury with a Negro, or dislike having Negroes on the streets with him after ten o'clock. When the directive of equality cannot be followed without displeasing the whites, then something that can be called a "freedom" of the white must be impaired. If the fourteenth amendment commands equality, and if segregation violates equality, then the status of the reciprocal "freedom" is automatically settled.
I find reinforcement here, at least as a matter of spirit, in the fourteenth amendment command that Negroes shall be "citizens" of their States. It is hard for me to imagine in what operative sense a man could be a "citizen" without his fellow citizens' once in a while having to associate with him. If, for example, his "citizenship" results in his election to the School Board, the white members may (as recently in Houston) put him off to one side of the room, but there is still some impairment of their freedom "not to associate." That freedom, in fact, exists only at home; in public, we have to associate with anybody who has a right to be there. The question of our right not to associate with him is concluded when we decide whether he has a right to be there.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

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Benjamin @benjaming.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I’ve had a similar thought about those “Western Art” accounts. Instead of actually valuing the beauty of those works for their own sake, they just see them as useful for political propaganda.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There's an art account on here that posts pictures of like people driving home in the rain, a sort of water-colourish style but I could be getting that wrong. Lots of blues, yellows, reds. Anyone know who that is?

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

always vocal fry never vocal hashbrown or vocal tater tot

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Windows XP Plus! Aquarium

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Benjamin @benjaming.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Pokémon Yellow was my first Pokémon game. I played it on a teal Gameboy Color.

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Benjamin @benjaming.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is problematic behavior. To counter against it, we should have an author who cites all and only those authors who do not cite themselves.

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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/01/2026

man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes? 89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Solitaire on WIndows 95

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Oooooookay time to hit that block button

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

gonna have to break out the old 'Hungarian policeman' jokes for these fuckers.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

What a beautiful photo from last night’s snowfall. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

Snowflakes at night in front of a bridge. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

Drawing in white on black background using stylized cartoonish figures to depict the Nativity, with angels and a star above, the three kings at left, baby and two adults in a small structure, and crawling babies below

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water. You *will* find them in the worst possible way.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/12/2025

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
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YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]

Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

As everyone knows who has ever written a book or manuscript review, summarizing a text is essential work. It’s the first step of an analysis. If you haven’t summarized the text there is no way I believe that you have understood it.

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Benjamin @benjaming.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This reminds me of how a lot of the playground rhymes I heard as a kid involved violence towards Barney. “Joy to the world. Barney is dead. We cut off his head. Don’t worry about the body. We flushed it down the potty.”

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases. Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

A roaring grey feline in ink-wash style illustration

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/11/2025

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

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the corghoul from cowboy beBOO! 👻 @realqrampage.fightins.online · 29/11/2025

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This was the calculator included every version of Mac OS from 1984 until the launch of Mac OS X in 2001. Steve Jobs designed it himself.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

90s 3D rendering. I've had this rendering on my hard drive for 28 years.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

look how beautifully these trousers hang

Reviewbrah of Report of the Week is in a thrift store. He's wearing a gray suit with a white shirt and light green tie. The trousers hang pin straight without a pucker or ripple.

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober (Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023

A fuzzy blue spider with longer white hairs scattered throughout its blue fuzz. It is standing on mossy rocks.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Windows 98 Plus: Mystery

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

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