iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Google is evil. This is a disinformation generator designed to foment hatred and violence.

Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

That truly sucks. I don’t know what else to say other than a true but abstract and unhelpful “you are not alone in these feelings, and your feelings are a reasonable reaction to the circumstances”

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🫂 Ngl, my immediate emotional reaction to your post about that horrid ex client demanding a refund basically amounted to “if that happened to me I would either do some arson or never be able to work again, and those are the ONLY two options.”

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🥁. Getting angry about one injustice does not imply that you condone every other injustice.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Being mortal creatures with limited time and energy, it is totally natural that human outrage is selective. If you tried to do work on every injustice and horror on this earth, you would collapse into an exhausted ball of trauma it is absolutely fine for you to select a cause that is yours

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mind blown. All this time I though he was a skeleton who somehow had been blessed with a nice ass

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Wait. His face isn’t actually a skull??! Tasky is actually just a guy?!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Oo those are some of my favorite birds!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Stalker (1987) has made my opinion of the colors and lighting in many current movies sink to new lows. It’s a weird, snail-paced, cerebral film but my god it is uniquely gorgeous to look at

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Would you be willing to share your recipe for gf vegan cheese scones? Asking for a loved one! My normal biscuit recipe was a total fail with gf flour.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Trader Joe’s gf bagels are only marginally worse than many wheat grocery store bagels. It can be done.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

As soon as this tool accuses people who are not using AI of doing so, it will be a witch hunt in the original sense of the term. That innocent writers should live in fear of & have to alter their writing to avoid false accusations is not acceptable collateral damage.

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Melita Curphy @missmonster.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

missmonster.bigcartel.com real pewter Warding Paws are available now!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I use LibreOffice every day. It just works, and it’s free. No complaints! Microsoft Office these days is horrifically clunky, unintuitive, and obnoxious. I do not even wish it upon my worst enemies.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I resurrected a 2013 MacBook Pro with Linux mint. It felt like cheating death and capitalism at the same time! What a rush. It has some quirks but it’s still going strong. I dread the day it dies and I have to buy a new device.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026

The push by companies and the government to normalize biometrics, particularly facial recognition, as access to the online world is an authoritarian move. It’s that simple.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I also shut all the windows that were open all night because I don’t have a/c and it was a wonderful temperature outside.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thinking about how I, healthy, able bodied, & able to avoid strenuous activity today, just put on a kn95 in my own house because I can feel the smoke in my throat & lungs. How much worse it must be for all the people & animals who can’t avoid it, and/or who are less study to begin with.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Added “Meta, rot in hell” to my lurker ig profile and half thought it would ban me. Maybe I will add increasingly flowery insults every so often until it does

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 18/07/2026

yeah, they got me too :/ tinfoil hat on, this is absolutely done to legitimate slop label almost all the real artists as slop, then give people the option to filter it out. oooh you dont wanna filter it out because then all the good art is gone? well too bad feature wasn't taken up by our user base

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A new example of Meta shithousery. This is a post of mine on Instagram (left). Click the dots top right and this advisory note appears (right). I never use ai, never will. Why would they do this? Who benefits? Are they just trying to make viewers think everything is genAI so they just accept it?

A digital painting I posted on instagram. I didn’t use ai to create it.

An Instagram advisory saying the artwork in the post is ‘likely made with AI’

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Nabil Samandari @nabilsamandari.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People always go for the printing press as a comparison, because nowadays we see the printing press as something that introduced literacy to millions around the world. But nobody compares it to, say, the cotton gin or the machine gun, even though those revolutionized their fields too. I wonder why.

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🎃-_. Southpaw ._-🎃 @onegeekybelgian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's not so much a verification badge as it is META running a protection racket.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Origami pattern design is completely opaque to me, but I am so curious to know what you are looking for!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I am a human loafing right now and it is very comfy

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yes I’m so curious what kind of music you make!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Try Tello if you’re not a big data user. It works fine.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Is not the point of being an author to write a book you want to read?

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think this is also why we go through these rough spots. Because that essential artistic drive isn’t something we can ever fully control. There’s a reason why so many say the inspiration comes to them or through them.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I was going to say jail the CEOs, but I think real productive manual labor alongside genuinely incredibly hard working and underpaid, under-appreciated people would give them some small possibility of learning to actually appreciate human beings and what actual problems and solutions are.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

White hot take: AI companies should pay every single person $500/hr for all time they spend discerning AI slop from human production, & 1 CEO demoted to farmhand paid federal minimum wage for every creative falsely accused of being AI.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It does help evaporate the part of the self doubt that is about feeling like one is uniquely feeling like that, though. It takes a layer off of feeling like shit when you know you’re not alone

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’ve been eyeing your work for ages! Just sent some of my birthday money your way in exchange for a tiny bowl. I’m so excited!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Seeing that this kind of self doubt is a common, normal reaction under the circumstances is good for people. Holding oneself against a standard no one actually meets is a large part of how we end up crashing so hard

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nah, you’re still cool!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Probably because crashing out shows that you’re a real human with flaws and insecurities just like your followers. Genuine emotion is something people like! And then they stick around because your art is cool and entertaining!

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Or it could have been fixed, or only happen sometimes or only in public servers or?

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just posted 2 types of grids in my friend group discord to find out 🤷

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In other words, you aren’t a machine, and if you find acting like a machine makes you miserable, there is nothing wrong with you.

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tameflowers.bsky.social @tameflowers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

miscellaneous animal found subsisting on saucers of milk left by endeared pensioners

a four-legged ceramic animal of unclear species. it has a cat-like tail, a rounded snout with no nose, small pointed ears and large, glossy black eyes on the sides of its head. it has markings similar to a black and white cat, but with a white face and a series of white diamond shapes running down its back. it's putting its best foot forward.

a side-on close-up of the face of the same ceramic animal. it has pink areas near its eyes and inside its mouth. its mouth is closed and it has a slight smile; it's not clear if this is an expression or just the way the creature's face rests.

the same ceramic animal from a front view. its ears are somewhat horse-like. its snout is much more like a horse or a hippopotamus than it is like a cat; its shiny black eyes bulge from the sides of its head like a rodent's.

the same ceramic animal gripped in my hand. it's about the size of my palm and its mysterious snout rests on my thumb, looking soulfully at the viewer. please leave it a dish of cream on your doorstep.

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

CeraVe lotion is great! Does the job and leaves no gross residue feeling or weird scent like some lotions do

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Several people in my city have big plastic skeletons in the yard year round

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Tell your kid that rinsing off the clovers increases the luck

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Oh gross yeah definitely get an A/C if you can! Dries out the air along with cooling it

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I know! I don’t know how humid it is there when it’s really hot

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

They are rather huge and hideous but not terribly loud. Definitely worth it. If it’s a dry heat that is infrequent you can get a swamp cooler, which is much cheaper to buy and run, and less effective, but still pretty nice to sit in front of. (I’m from part of the US with a dry, mild summer)

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Calyn @calynart.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Maybe just pry that one off, and then “accidentally” spill epoxy on the mechanism

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