iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Decorative shelf tabby. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat sitting upright on shelves next to a television set. It is staring at the tv.

Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 28/09/2026

I for one am not ready for tomorrow to be Monday. Can we all agree to make tomorrow Saturday II: Saturday Harder? Then Tuesday becomes Sunday II and Wednesday we can try for Monday.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 28/09/2026

the bad news: it's Starlight Express

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been working on this for a year and a half and they just tweeted it out

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Koalas have fingerprints remarkably similar to ours, which is how they managed to frame the zoo's dentist for bank robbery.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/09/2026

You taught me language, and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula 🦇

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

Groverfield: The Monster At the End of This Movie

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

it was never gonna happen given my background etc., but I'm really glad nobody even considered making me super wealthy at age 19 or put me in charge of anything important.

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 27/09/2026

From experience, it's because an 9th grade algebra teacher required someone to buy it

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

well *that* drove everything else out of my head

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Binx showing off her new galaxy of white hairs. Again, *pretty* sure they'll all come back in black after next shed, but we'll see! #cats #becurious

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I’m watching a horror movie I never ever want to see the monster clearly unless you have a really, really good and clever design because 90% of the time it looks fucking stupid

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

most guys won't even be able to find the cork

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

"consent" is something these techbros do not understand. Every one of them needs to be [redacted] with a [redacted] until they [redacted] all over the [redacted]

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The straights can get sexual liberation after they get feminism. I'm sorry, but it has to be done in order. Like two shots of a vaccine. You get one before the other and it all goes haywire.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

stress is bad cat is good I choose cat

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

went for a walk by the canal this morning which was very nice

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll add to this that a big part of why Biden’s approach failed is because he tapped Title IX administrators to lead the effort, instead of survivors and their advocates. He picked the betrayers instead of the betrayed.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

he's so out of touch with reality it's almost funny. people can't afford food or driving to work, but yeah. let's pretend we'll all have a world-burning privacy violation machine in 5 years 🙄

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Deep in their evolutionary history, gastropods underwent a process called 'torsion' in which their digestive track folded back in on itself such that the anus exits directly above the head in nearly all snails. For this reason, I am afraid most snails identify with the Rationalist community.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

Grassley's so stupid, he probably thinks the Senate is what's keeping him alive, so if he never retires, he'll live forever

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must always do the hacking haha what are they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao'

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Absolutely. Purely homosocial. And this is one of the core tenants of fascism.

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John Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh, to be a crow doing that surfing on the air thing

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 27/09/2026

Fewest women I've ever seen in a single event space, and I cover comic conventions for a living.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 27/09/2026

Jane Wickline somehow found a way to make Dario Amodei’s whole deal funny youtu.be/-Nvne3LzBls?...

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Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

eugenicists gonna eugenics, just saying. ableism and transphobia/queerphobia are all the same ideology.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And @katelynburns.com put a fine point on it, pointing out how taking on data centers aggressively, especially Musk's especially filthy ones. This could help them defang the trans-hate gambit Elon used in 2024 and 2026, which he uses to undo democracy and make Democrats scared to show solidarity.

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The Data Center Guy Wants This Election to be About Trans People

Elon Musk obviously hates trans people, but let's not pretend he has nothing to gain personally from a Republican win this fall

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Mousecow @mousecow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday morning meaty breakfast chorus (and tail check) #EverybodyLovesMousecow #ScampiVonMonkeyface #AndMissyToo

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

*possibly* the first horror story I ever heard as a kid

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

a notable number of Senators don't live in the states they represent (Marshall, Tuberville, Hawley, etc.) and I feel like this is a thing that should not be?

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

LIES Sandal would never order a war, that's too much like work

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 27/09/2026

I am enjoying "Control" a lot even though I keep dying over and over because I suck at vidya games

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot don’t, in my opinion. They fall in love with him, they like having sex with them. But LIKE them? Want to spend time with them? Appreciate the things they like and the way they think and their perspectives? Nope.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Faine just out to murder this entire website until we beg once more for the sweet release of Tom Boobadil

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

I ain't sure *I* should be allowed to use a credit card

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please say this again...

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

tfw your cats are play-acting spaghetti westerns in the hallway

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

so what are we reading right now? I just finished a novel that didn't quite do it for me (very well-written, just didn't think the central conceit worked) and just started another novel that is larger than my first apartment, so I may shelve it for now and come back later.

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

her passion

cat miette on a jean lap staring with passion

cat on a jean lap resting her head on my hand

cat on a jean lap making a little weary beard

cat on jean lap surrendering to love entirely

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026

Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro”

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