iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 30/09/2026

I think having infinite "personalized" art to mindlessly consume would feel very lonely and sad

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Collective Action Against White Supremacy @caawsboston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We will continue to send our weekly newsletter with actions and updates from our partners organizing for racial justice in Greater Boston, which you can sign up for at www.caawsboston.org/weekly-newsl....

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Collective Action Against White Supremacy @caawsboston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

After much discussion and deliberation, SURJ Boston has chosen to disaffiliate from SURJ National and organize independently as Collective Action Against White Supremacy (CAAWS).

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We have chosen to organize independently to reflect our focus on local, grassroots organizing led by BIPOC, working class partner organizations.
Community Change Inc continues to support us + we remain on good terms with SURJ."

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Your Saturday read is about the struggle to put words on the page, and the temptation to use LLMs. “Eventually your LLM will write your child a note and their LLM will write a reply and neither of you will actually know what is in each others’ hearts.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

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How to write it like you told it

What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Something has really bothered me about the Gloria Steinem discourse—something that's not really about Gloria Steinem. So, I wrote about it.

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Grief Is Not a Verdict: This Is Not Really an Essay About Gloria Steinem

We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.

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quasisocial 🏴 @quasisocial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i don't do it anymore but u have to admit the vibes of blowing through a red light on your bike with music playing thru your earbuds are unparalleled

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DVD Menus @dvdmenus.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Criss Angel Mindfreak The Best of Season One & Two (DVD: 2008) 🔊

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c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I will keep repeating this until the day I die because I have no other way of processing the anger and trauma. Obama opened Dilley. Obama ramped up family detention at Berks and, also, Karnes. Children under his watch were suicidal. At Berks, the mothers called a certain meal "monkey meat." ...

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 10/08/2026

There’s such a history of fascists and reactionaries in sci-fi (thanks to The Old Iron Dream by @davidforbes.bsky.social for distilling this for me many years ago), especially “hard” sci-fi, so it’s a pleasant surprise to happen across further confirmation that Greg Egan is decidedly not.

Screenshot of a 2009 interview with author Greg Egan. Text follows:

There was a fairly large gap between your 2002 book Schild's Ladder and 2008's Incandescence.
Why so large a gap between books?
In 2002, I got involved with the refugee support movement, trying to help some of the asylum seekers who were in long-term detention in Australia. It really was a disgraceful situation; many people were locked up for three or four years, and some for as long as seven. That ended up monopolising my attention for about four years, so l didn't get much writing done.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 27/07/2026

I don’t know if this is really an eating habit but I used to toast two pieces of white bread, put a couple slices of American cheese between them, and then microwave it for like 15 seconds to melt the cheese and make a “grilled cheese.”

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I love this point because it’s one of the things that’s always bothered me about so much “patriarchy hurts men too” discourse—the emphasis always seems to be on things like “men can’t cry” rather than the people who are feminized relative to compulsory manhood and thus the most victimized.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 21/07/2026

Album of my lifetime. Nostalgic and continues to give me courage in the face of fascism. Fuck the border, and better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in the prisons, and lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in palaces. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQb...

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Propagandhi - Ordinary People Do Fucked Up Things When Fucked Up Things Become Ordinary (Audio)

YouTube video by FAT WRECK CHORDS

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"it's OK to be manly" sounds a lot like the male supremacist version of "it's OK to be white"

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We were super proud to be able to host this account of the citizen response to the Belfast pogrom by Lee Hurley. Please give it a listen.

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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The majority of American and British architects and proponents of the Iraq war who are still alive are thriving professionally, meanwhile Iraq and Iraqis continue to suffer and America has never truly stopped oppressing us. I honestly don't know what to do with all the anger inside of me.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The lament over a lack of “viewpoint diversity” is not a manifestation of a sincere concern over academic freedom, but part of a political project that aims at breaking what the Right calls “the cathedral” in order to establish reactionary hegemony across society.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

If you give a damn about trans lives, STOP PRAISING THE POPE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HIERARCHY. They're literally a key part of trans genocide. Right now. Today. Actively and aggressively. You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is really worth a buy if you’re at all interested in science fiction and/or the roots of the modern far right I read it some years ago and it’s helped me understand a lot of current events

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 04/04/2026

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

A collective photo taken at Firestorm Books. Our team, including five humans and two dogs, is sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building looking relaxed. The sky is bright but cloudy and flags on the building hang without any indication of wind. The building is painted forest green and various posters and signs are visible in the windows, which reflect the sky. The largest reads "Immigrants Welcome."

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 25/02/2026

👀 Couldn’t sign up fast enough.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 04/02/2026

Can’t legally share how this makes me feel other than to say that Rahman’s testimony is incredibly cutting and direct, and fuck the systems and the people who make this possible.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 04/02/2026

This is great. Continually impressed with the design and content of the stuff from @activistchecklist.bsky.social 🤌🏻.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 29/01/2026

Great example of typical pig tactics that escalate nonviolent demonstrations into violent chaos.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 07/01/2026

The number of people in the replies misreading this segment as a secret critique or meaningful dig directed at Rubio (rather than good-natured ribbing) is something.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

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Detention of Rümeysa Öztürk
On March 25, 2025, following the revocation of her F-1 student visa, 30-year-old Turkish national and Tufts University student Rümeysa Oztürk was arrested ...
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F visa
People also ask
What did Rumeysa Ozturk do?
DHS and ICE investigations found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege not a right.
Mar 27, 2025
https://www.hks.harvard.edu
On the Frightened Voice of Rumeysa

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By Way of Plymouth @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Bobby Garcia of Killingworth CT is a neo-Nazi organizer, highly likely to be responsible for violence at the Red Ink Library during 02/2022 as NSC-131 member "Phillip Roberts," and is the owner of the "New England National Party" LLC registered in his home state.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 30/09/2025

Spent some of my best times on the computer as a kid making custom WinAmp visualizations. Can’t wait to try this.

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brian @brian.mutualaid.info · 27/09/2025

If you can spare a few dollars, donate to support families in the Brockton, Massachusetts area impacted by ICE terrorism. gofund.me/984634872

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Fundraising for Brockton Area Immigrant Families

Please join the Brockton area LUCE network in establishing a revolving fund for local immigrant families directly impacted by detention and fear of being detained.
Any amount will help - please share widely. Your support is critical!

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 21/09/2025

No peace for #ICE agents staying at #MedfordMA hotel www.universalhub.com/2025/no-peac...

Protesters outside Hyatt Place in Medford demand hotel stop renting rooms to ICE, photo by Ron Newman

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Yawu Miller @yawumiller.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Demonstrators gathered outside Gov. Healey’s Arlington home to demand she end 287g agreements allowing the Dept. of Corrections to detain immigrants for ICE.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

There's a line from the riots of sailors and the enslaved all the way through to 2020 and today. Past the counterrevolutions, coups and propaganda (including official holidays) intended to bury it. "The great men are going to take all we have." They still are. The question is what we do about it.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/06/2025

Happy #Juneteenth! May every relic of hate burn to a crisp and may Black people be FREE. bsky.app/profile/redr...

I AM IN TERARS LAUGHING. DR MIA A CRAWFORD JOHNSON WENT TO NOTTOWAY PLANTATION TO WATCH IT BURN DOWN. LMAO

Real shit you should have told me. I would have absolutely went.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This, by the way, is why you should never RSVP to a protest that wants your name & address.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

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