iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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it’s been ten years easily but the song title “Take a Knee My Ass (I Won’t Take a Knee)” is still the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life and I think about it weekly

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 7h

The Hitcher is rad as hell. A little like No Country if Anton’s whole deal was hating C. Thomas Howell.

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Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Oklahoma Watch @oklahomawatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Five years after natural gas prices hit $1,200 per thousand cubic feet during Winter Storm Uri, a key court ruling has Oklahoma's market manipulation lawsuits heading toward trial. Paul Monies explains what happened. ow.ly/sIpk50ZTMr7

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

thinking a lot rn about how Europe has insanely great third spaces, it's walkable, it has a good education system, it reallllly teaches WWII history, they have good social programs, etc, and none of that has seemed to help in preventing the rise of the far right

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is how a cartoon dog would stand if it was about to be lifted in the air by the aroma of a delicious pie

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 29/09/2026

I love this picture of Macfadyen as Smiley. (It’s pretty much the first one I’ve seen, by the way - we’re all in this together!) www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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Matthew Macfadyen and Charlie Hunnam revealed in first-look images from Legacy Of Spies

Filming has wrapped on the highly anticipated espionage thriller, which will launch exclusively on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I really liked “Choosin’ Texas” when I first heard it back in March, and I think the reason it connects is simple: Americans yearn deeply for the power of 90s Country.

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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI psychosis patient zero

Michael Ginsberg, a character in “Mad Men,” being wheeled out of the office on a stretcher after the advertising firm bought a computer that made him go insane

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

new JCO in this week’s New Yorker is a coldblooded killer

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the Criterion Channel's "Made-for-TV Terror" collection next month.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Probably the scariest and also most intellectually rigorous uncanny novel I have ever read. My review for the NYT. Free link. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...

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Book Review: ‘The Rouse,’ by China Miéville (Gift Article)

“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to raise and weaponize the dead.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A crayon artist sits with their legs crossed in a chair next to a wall they have covered in dinosaur illustrations. They are wearing overalls and a bandana. They exude the confidence of an artist who has seen their vision to completion. However, like many creators, their vision is not shared by everyone. They are confronted by a man in a sweater vest, “Heard you been drawin dinosaurs on my walls.” The artist replies, “You heard right.”

Artist’s note: I try to do my drawings quickly so they maintain that spontaneous feel I’m going for (something we’ve discussed in previous posts). For this one I ended up redrawing the artist’s pose and subtle facial expression over and over again until it felt right.

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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hope this Ishmael finds you whale

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Michael Clayton characters and their counterparts in Coyote v. Acme:

Stressed out Karen Crowder from Michael Clayton

John Cena squeezing Tweety Bird in
Coyote v. Acme

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A Clax @lesseroftwoweevils.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coyote vs Acme (2026)

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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here is a brief thread about unintended consequences in the entertainment industry. 🪡

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · 08/09/2026

we talked at some length about nolan's (and homer's) odyssey — way before the internet became saturated by thinkpiece after plodding thinkpiece. it just took us a really long time to get it out to you. here's part 1. parts 2 and 3 to come. www.patreon.com/relentlesspi...

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Nolan's Odyssey (part 1) | Stanley Picnic

Earlier this summer, Adam, Erikk, and Nick saw The Odyssey separately, and then came together to talk things out. This discussion took place

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)

Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Coyote v. Acme is the best legal comedy since My Cousin Vinny.

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#SpookySunday 'The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea' by Danish artist Thorvald Niss (1842-1905)

Painting of a bleak sea shore with a lighthouse in the distance. In the foreground is a skeletal figure tugging on the arm of a man trying to pull him into the waves.

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Congratulations to Marlon James on an extraordinary literary achievement: writing the single horniest thing ever written about Bruce Springsteen (The Disappearers, p. 7.)

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Works of Genius @worksofgenius.org · 27/08/2026

NO MAN CAN WEAR ONE FACE TO HIMSELF AND ANOTHER TO THE MULITUDE WITHOUT FINALLY GETTING BEWILDERED
AS TO WHICH MAY BE TRUE
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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If anyone has any information on the last new release motion picture Orson Welles saw before he died, please contact this department.

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Night Moves (Penn, 1975); Spoorloos (Sluizer, 1988); Zodiac (Fincher, 2007); Oedipus Rex (Sophocles, 429 BC): You really don’t want to know.

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B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.com · 02/09/2026

Every time I see this poster, this is all I can think of

The Last Temptation of Christ poster but the red thorns are covered with '90s Cherry Coke

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briantedjones.bsky.social @briantedjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

When Dolly Parton covered Stairway to Heaven in 2002, she *added* lyrics: Oh, the great almighty dollar Leaves you lonely, lost and hollow You can't fool yourself forever You got to work to get to heaven If we listen and hold fast To every question that we asked The truth will come to us at last

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