iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2026

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover for Tax Purposes

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/10/2026

Whenever it is damp, drizzly November in my soul

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15/10/2026

any interest I could have in AI as something cool (I have been on computer since the 80s, online since the 90s) has been swiftly eclipsed by its corporate purveyors’ strip mining of what I love (writing, reading) and how I love to do it (good labor conditions for all)

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az🎃🎃z | عزوز @azzaalt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

good time to recommit to 2 basic practices of noncooperation w the fascist state: 1. you can and should opt out of facial recognition scans at the airport. 2. wear a well-fitting face mask in public settings to disrupt surveillance and disease transmission and disposability politics

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 09/10/2026

Broadcasting the bloody death of a brown man. No messaging from the administration there, not at all. /s

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

While my wallet regrets my rapidly switching ADHD hyperfixations, my desire to avoid surveillance capitalism does not: Amazon believes I've got a whole bunch of hobbies that I very much do not 😅

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

It could be! I've never been able to explain it even to myself

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

It could be. I've never been able to explain it satisfactorily to myself

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't dine with fascists. I don't coddle their feelings or make them comfortable. If they hold inexcusable beliefs, I have no reason to excuse them.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

If basic human rights are predicated on whether someone committed crimes (see the "except as punishment for a crime" clause in the Thirteenth Amendment), then you create perverse incentives for those in power to create as many "criminals" out of the opposition as possible. Prisoners are humans.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Think about the core tenets of American conservatism: a government serving 300 million people and leading the world should be “small” and that we should orient all policy around servicing the rich so that they throw us gruel. It’s fucking stupid and we should say so.

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

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

You are the only other person I've encountered who understands this!! bsky.app/profile/book...

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some of the teachers at my junior high used that as an emergency sub plan if they were going to be out. DEEPLY fucked up.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was a small child and I can no more explain why this terrified me now than I was able to verbalize it at the time... (I do mean this: just the start of the theme music would send me scurrying from the room nearly in tears...I never saw an episode until I was an adult.) youtu.be/Pi_aPoaK4Tg

youtu.be

Doctor Who Theme 4 - Full Version (1967-1980)

YouTube video by DarthJedi2005

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so now i am on a bus, i do not know who has taken us or where we are going, i have either been taken tenderly into the embrace of the EU regulatory framework, or someone has kidnapped me and a bunch of other tired and confused PNWers

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gavin Newsom caved to that pressure. So did Xavier Becerra. And eventually, so did Attorney General Rob Bonta, agreeing to a weak settlement that will be exceedingly difficult to enforce. People want champions who are not afraid of rich bullies. Newsom, Becerra, and Bonta did not meet that mark.

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Kiyara ΘΔ Hagfag @kiyara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mom says it my turn with the legs!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm assuming he's expecting to have a third child at some point, and I just want to know what he'll do if he has twins

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

I can hammer on this forever: dehumanization is the root of all evil. The moment any group is "less than" or "expendable," you're doing present evil & enabling future evil... To borrow a different slogan, dehumanization anywhere is a threat to humanity everywhere There's ALWAYS another group next

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 20/09/2026

It reminds me of the underreaction to half the country becoming livestock in the eyes of the law after the Catholic extremists on the Supreme Court overturned Roe. "Fifty percent of the country isn't functionally free anymore! Anyhoo,"

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh look: a face that regrets losing its nose

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the only thing I know about that competition. That makes it likely to be the only thing I EVER know about that competition.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

My dad swore the Breakfast of Champions was a cheeseburger and a diet Coke, and any time someone at a diner commented on it, he'd tell them "enjoy your unfertilized chickens"

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Genuinely, I feel that. I'm only barely coming out of literal years of time when I read only books I'd already read or fanfic (because tags and warnings)...I didn't have the mental or emotional bandwidth to take on something completely new.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The existence of The Fall...shows utter contempt for the medium, attempting to boil the work of hundreds of skilled workers into slop produced by a tiny team. It's so terrible it'll make you appreciate human-made art all the more."

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel that! I will say, if you do check it out, you've got to get past the first few episodes where the characters are screechy and awful: the development is SO good, and the show consistently avoids the easy laugh to go for the *kind* choice... It's an excellently done show

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 16/09/2026

“The perfect book doesn’t exi….”

A book sitting on a ledge in front of a beautiful nature landscape, the book is called a place for every book every book in its place the betrayal of librarians and video games. It has a sprite of a librarian behind a desk.

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

I very much enjoy @jococruise.bsky.social because of the specific groups of nerds who attend Cruises in general? Definitely not

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bookwyrm42.northsky.social @bookwyrm42.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? When Alexis and Ted mutually realize that their relationship has gone as far as it can and they agree to it's time to end it. It's vanishingly rare for a show to do this, and I desperately want more of it.

Alexis and Ted's farewell/breakup dinner

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