iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

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an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Outsourcing your hobby or pasttime is the ultimate sad person behavior. That's a level of depression I can't comprehend. You can't find joy in any damn thing at that point.

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Seattle Department of Transportation @transportation.seattle.gov · 01/10/2026

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

The ancient two-panel Drake meme. On the top, he's looking away in disgust and holding his hand up. The text next to it says "Truck-or-treat". On the bottom, he looks pleased and is pointing toward text that says "Close your street".

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Posting tips for women on how not to get murdered according to Dateline NBC. Will update with more tips 1. Don’t go on a boat with a man 2. Don’t go on a hike with a man 3. Don’t go near a hot tub or bath tub with a man.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Minneapolis remains unbeaten when it comes to delightful local festivals

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This Christopher Pike erasure will not stand.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When iPads came out, I remember hearing that if kids didn't start using iPads in kindergarten they would get left behind. As if it doesn't take 5 minutes tops to figure out how an iPad works.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Meta's statements are always like "we know we've made our products impossibly appealing to teens, but you adults know them best and enforcing limits is a you problem." But also now you're ableist if you do.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So they can do a 3rd country deportation and these poor people will have no proof that they were ever citizens here.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Was unprepared when I moved to the PNW for how often I'd be in this position

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/

The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I feel like we are on the verge of making information and media literacy on the Internet nearly impossible. People are already very bad at it!

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Nothing but respect for Laika Studios' borderline maniacal commitment to doing their work by hand.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I've held on to many of my books from college English classes and I love looking back on what I was thinking and noticing when I wrote in the margins. Like a time capsule of my own understanding.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's so good. I think about this book a lot.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Ironically, the US DOT website reports that "converting traditional bike lanes to a separated lane with low-cost flexible delineators can reduce bicycle-vehicle crashes by up to 53 percent." I guess saving lives is DEI www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/i...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Not to mention reclaiming the giant chunks of real estate that dealerships occupy

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 15/06/2026

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

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The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10/06/2026

This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hosting an exchange student for a year was delightful for this reason. You never knew what totally banal thing to us would blow their mind. Our Swiss exchange student didn't believe me that when you added water to frozen juice concentrate, you would get juice. He loved it.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

No joke, a great piece of persuasive writing. Give the horse some cake.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The other day I saw one car pass another car - another moving car! Like how you pass someone on the highway! - in a grocery store parking lot directly in front of the store's doors. No one should be driving fast enough to pass or kill someone in a parking lot ffs

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yeah I thought it was a joke 😭

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ok but he really is on the Smithsonian Board of Regents. www.si.edu/regents/memb...

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Members of the Board of Regents

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amberkitty 🐈‍⬛ @amberkitty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Explaining microfiche to my coworker because I’m 95 years old

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/06/2026

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-…

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
Agency Bans On-Air Portrayal Of Employed Mothers

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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Also you don't earn interest

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"bikes can be useful for some people" one of the most controversial things you can say in the social media space.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And to make sure there is no money to run public services like the libraries he sees as competition.

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Anyway, check out the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University. They host writing retreats at Shotpouch cabin, which I can tell you from experience does not have cell or internet service. It's the best. prax.oregonstate.edu/spring-creek...

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Working and Writing the Woods | PRAx

Working and Writing in the Woods | 2006-present Location: The Cabin at Shotpouch Creek

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Amanda B @bookcurious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I feel like there is a market for writing or artist residencies in remote cabins where the Internet is not available and you can certify that a work created there couldn't have been made with AI.

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Like come on, this is adorable.

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