iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Haven’t taught my Museums class since 2020 and, returning to Simon’s Participatory Museum (2010), I’m struck by how much of the work seems infused by the optimism associated with “web 2.0”/early social media/Arab Spring.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Annual reminder that there was a single, brief burst in which a bunch of things named after Columbus were named after Columbus and it was the result of a political project to create a founding hero who wasn’t linked to Britain.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You asked for my interpretive signs sticker to be turned into a tee, and I complied. Available in a bunch of fun colors, sizes XS to 3X! www.etsy.com/listing/4588...

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I Love Interpretive Signs Tee - Etsy

This Gender-Neutral Adult T-shirts item is sold by LittleBrainComics. Ships from Charlotte, NC. Listed on Oct 4, 2026

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Nikki M @powderedsugarbear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You have been blessed by the friend onion :).

A clear container with fried onions in it the sign says "friend onion".

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Jiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the trick is to drill up instead of down

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/09/2026

Terry Riley’s In C is a composition where any number of musicians improvisationally play 53 melodic fragments in the key of C. This web app lets you play multiple In C live performances layered on top of each other. In C to the power of In C, if you will. [incync.space]

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iNCYNC — Terry Riley: In C

Play multiple recordings of Terry Riley's In C simultaneously. Adjust playback rate to sync tempos across performances. Scores of recordings spanning over a half-century.

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I pretty much enjoyed everything about my grad school experience at UNM except for the nonsurance

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

remember to let interpretive signs know you love them! littlebraincomics.etsy.com/listing/4516...

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

bury me in khakis and a lanyard so hell knows an expert is coming

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the most excited any comic has ever been about historiography #skystorians

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You get to put out one (1) comic per year about why you’re not getting more work done on your comics. Here’s mine….

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you’re at the Small Press Expo this weekend, well, so am I! Come say hi.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For an engaging, humorous, and well-researched take on Project Plowshare in general and the history of the RULISON and RIO BLANCO experiments in particular, be sure to check out @berincole.bsky.social’s superb online comic book (which is also available in print).

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Project Plowshare: Nuclear Testing in Colorado

In 1969 and 1973, the Atomic Energy Commission detonated nuclear bombs deep underground in Western Colorado, to try and release natural gas. These tests were part of Project Plowshare -- an initiative...

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nuclear fracking, anyone? Today in 1969, in the second of three Project Plowshare experiments (RULISON), a 40-kiloton nuclear device was detonated in a 8,425-foot shaft near Grand Valley, Colorado, to stimulate the flow of natural gas. The gas was—surprise!—too radioactive to sell.

An official black and white photograph showing the canister (with "LASL Rulison" painted vertically on its midsection) containing the RULISON test device being lowered into its emplacement shaft from a crane. Four men in hard hats and light-colored work clothes are clustered around and looking at the bottom of the canister. A hill with scrub brush is visible in the background.

An annotated black and white graphic showing the location of the test shaft and its distance from Grand Valley, Rifle, Grand Junction, and Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Enlarged drawings (in circles, as under a magnifying glass) designate ground zero, the control point, and the observation area.

$A cutaway color graphic showing the location of the underground detonation relative to the surface and layers of gas sands and shales, and how the explosion would fracture the surrounding rock, freeing the natural gas.$

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

there are many more pretty funny tweets out there, but let me tell ya, people are PISSED about JR East "graduating" the Suica penguin on the other site

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“They want to replace me, the world’s greatest mascot, with……these?????”

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A couple of my new stickers from @berincole.bsky.social (aka Little Brain Comics)

Two stickers on a table. The first shows a book with an orange cover with a face on it and a speech bubble that says, "that thing you thought was bad? turns out it's way worse than you thought!" At rhe bottom of the sticker it reads, "I ❤️ history." The second sticker shows a cartoon brain holding a yellow sign saying "little brain comics!"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026

i think much of the democratic party's low ratings reflects a palpable sense that it is institutionally incapable of standing up for itself or going on the hunt

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

if there is one single thing worthy of US pride it is the civilizational advance of ice water. this fancy restaurant lukewarm barbarism must end.

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

when the reading is too much, you can gaze at colorful stickers instead of

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sad about having to start another fall semester? Maybe you need to stock up on stickers to keep you going between now and December…. #skystorians #publichistory www.etsy.com/shop/littleb...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

New most New Mexican crime just dropped

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dan ozzi @danozzi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

my tv is currently restarting because its terms have changed and i need to accept the new agreement. a tv shouldn’t have terms of agreement. it should be a tv.

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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 25/08/2026

I totally judge a performer by how natural they appear alongside Muppets and yes 👇🏼💖

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am always up for some sturgeon lore

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The impulse to dismiss everything you don’t know as fake and unimportant is turning out to be a bad way to run a country, survive as a society, structure all institutions, etc

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Kris 🎃 HORRORchild @direkris.itch.io · 13/08/2026

It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains

A topographical map of the US showing that there are far more, and steeper, mountain ranges in the west half of the country.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Excellent long thread, by a cartoonist who specializes in nonfiction graphic novels, and who has read both books. (Something that is, but shouldn't be, a rare distinction among people commenting on Cleves' accusations against Walden.)

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

but we need to actually think about the claims we are making I saw some of the worst possible takes on comics and cartoonists possible coming from historians note: if you have tenure, you are in a better, more stable economic situation than 99 percent of the indie cartoonists out there

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

historians are used to having the labor we do in archives l and the work it takes to interpretive work overlooked with AI, everyone I know who teaches history is seeing more plagiarism, fake citations, and terrible arguments turned in than before, so I think everyone’s on edge about this

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A graphic novel isn’t an academic text, and the citation norms for academic history are just not that common outside of academia - hell, they aren’t even shared by other academic fields

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Glad to see someone write up something comprehensive about this. A lot of historians I know had very defensive reactions when Cleves first made her claims. Me included! although as a historian and cartoonist, the problem seemed to be how different disciplines deal with citations, not plagiarism

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you! This is pretty exhaustive.

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Kwertzy Industries @kwertzy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You know what salsa will NOT give you parasites? sadiessalsa.com/product/sadi...

Sadie's green chile salsa. Pretty good salsa which will also burn the inside of your ass.

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B. Erin Cole @berincole.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

dang, I need to catch up on the literature

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is #America250 this summer - and it is also #Colorado150.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

if you see me at the pavement show say hi. you can’t miss me: I’m with the guy wearing the guided by voices hat

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viashinowizard.bsky.social @viashinowizard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

folklore is great because it includes things ranging from "if you use an umbrella for a hundred years it will become alive" to "what if there was a Really Big Skeleton"

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Jonathan Wojcik @bogleech.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.

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