iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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america.gov vs gov.uk on my iPhone 8 (Safari 15). Watch this talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBx... by @therealnooshu.bsky.social Hobbs about what happened during the pandemic, people desperately looking for gov't info and browsing with horrible connections on devices such as ...

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Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 24/09/2026

The call for Interop 2027 proposals is closing today. More than 100 proposals got created! Here are my favs 🤩 patrickbrosset.com/lab/interop-... Check them out!

40 colored squares with my favorite feature names.

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The most otterly pawsome week of the year is here… #SeaOtterAwarenessWeek! 🦦 📷: Animal care staff Kacie

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Seattle Aquarium @seattleaquarium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Big news! 📣 We're partnering on new research. The goal? Eventually bringing sea otters back to Oregon. 🦦 Learn more: bit.ly/4h6sTZj @orcoastaquarium.bsky.social @elakhaalliance.bsky.social @wildnetorg.bsky.social

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I honestly sort of feel like a lot of ppl who do knowledge work or art are just gonna … quietly go on strike, ngl. Or switch to only releasing things in very small, very interconnected circles of trust and patronage. Why would you release stuff to the public when it's just gonna be stolen & mulched?

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The idea that immediately came to me on reading today's strip (apologies to Disco Elysium) Fantastic story arc, definitely read Swan Boy if you aren't already.

A stylized painting from the game Disco Elysium, with a man in a jacket firing a revolver off-panel & a ghost guiding his shot. Crudely overlaid upon this is two Swan Boy characters, a lizard & a swan, emulating the same pose. Caption is "God, please..." with two sixes rolled on two dice. A child is looking on in awe in the corner.

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Neat webperf investigation thread, & one that has me eager to look at if this is happening within my purview as well

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

How cool! I've paddled the Bronx River in NYC. A river otter was spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in over 100 years! Because otters need clean water and abundant fish to thrive, this sighting hints at the waterway’s ecological recovery from being treated as a dumping ground.

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Otter spotted for first time in 100 years in New York City’s Bronx River

Image captured in early June shows animal foraging in the waterway in first since early 1900s, signaling its recovery

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Hannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I feel like we need a reminder sometimes, so there is no amount of extra hours you could've worked to keep from getting laid off. Seniority, company loyalty, importance to the project - none of it matters when you're a number on a spreadsheet. Anyone telling you different is selling something.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.

I can never resist getting inside an old lime kiln. This one was near Newton Abbott. The view up through the hole in the top of it to the overhanging trees on the ledge above is, I have to assume, even better than listening to the second Doors album on acid.

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Tim Kadlec @tkadlec.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My talk from last year's @perfnow.nl is now out. Come for the dad jokes & advice on how to troll your kids, stay for my thoughts on stubborn empathy for our users as the foundation for web perf & two threats to the web: the monoculture and the machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvpi...

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Stubborn Empathy - Tim Kadlec - performance.now() 2025

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Believe in the me that believes in you" was bars in 08. Its a fucking holy anthemic prayer right now because it acknowledges that belief in yourself is hard if not impossible "Oh you don't believe in yourself, that's fine, believe in me and that'll carry us both" BARRSSSSS

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Guilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

cat wakes up from a coma and his last years of life were just a dream

painting of a cat waking up in despair from a coma while another cat with glasses looks scared and a doctor cat looks at the scene as if he has seen this movie before

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 23/06/2026

We have a new #1 Link 🚊 ridership day! On Friday, June 19, Link light rail saw about 280,000 riders, amid the USA 🇺🇸 v Australia 🇦🇺 World Cup ⚽️ match and Mariners ⚾️ home game day. 2️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

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Ethan Gardner @ethangardner.com · 18/06/2026

My presentation, Making Performance Allies from @perfnow.nl just got posted to YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdx.... The tips I share in the presentation were designed to make #webperf stick beyond the occasional task that finds its way out of the backlog. Enjoy!

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Making Performance Allies - Ethan Gardner - performance.now() 2025

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NY Web Performance @nywebperf.com · 15/06/2026

Video from @paulcalvano.bsky.social's "Introduction to the HTTP Archive" from April is up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCy6... Subscribe for more! #webperformance #nyc

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Introduction to the HTTP Archive

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WSDOT @wsdot.wa.gov · 15/06/2026

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

A hot mess of colorful scribbles all over a map of Washington, featuring doodles of iconic Washington features like mountains, orcas, ferries, cherries, onions, and other produce. The map emphasizes the busyness of the Seattle area, I-5, I-90, US 2, and the U.S./Canada border during the World Cup games.

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Marcy Sutton Todd @marcysutton.com · 12/06/2026

My talk from @perfnow.nl is out! It was a super special time compiling years of information on Accessibility and Performance into one talk. Even cooler that my little family could be there in Amsterdam to see it. 💗 youtu.be/Fdvk_qOKjVM?... #a11y

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Accessibility and Performance - Marcy Sutton Todd - performance.now() 2025

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 10/06/2026

贈貓詩 For My Cat 執鼠無功元不劾，一簞魚飯以時來。看君終日常安臥，何事紛紛去又回？ You haven’t caught any mice. I let it go. The fish and rice were set out at the appointed hour. I watched you drowse the day away — so now What’s got you galloping madly everywhere? --Lu You 陸游 (1125-1210)

Pierogi and Gyoza snooze in flagrant breach of contract

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Embrace @embrace.io · 28/05/2026

Mobile teams deserve their Core Web Vitals moment. That’s why Embrace is building Core Mobile Vitals: a rigorous, user-focused framework for understanding mobile app performance through the experiences users actually notice. Read more from @tammyeverts.com: shorturl.at/5A8Ye

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Decided to wander out for a Wing Wednesday deal, & I succeeded in convincing someone to try Fernet & Malort on their own tab. This feels like some sort of bar persuasion accomplishment.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

MetaFilter! (FYI, we're one of the last bastions of Web 1.0 that's still a going concern! And these days i'm on the Board!)

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

ME, IN A MYTH: sorry about injuring you. in repayment for the damages, here's some grain CAT: thanks. this is either adequate or insufficient in a way that will work out poorly for you ME: that's what makes this a myth CAT: it's what makes this a myth

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15/05/2026

The best stock photo sources these days are very specific people who take photos of very specific things. This guy takes pictures of trains. All trains all the time. Only trains. Do I have to worry that one of these photos is AI? Nope. He would never disrespect a real train in that way.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 14/05/2026

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 14/05/2026

Look at the absolutely bonkers collection of songs on this CD compilation I bought for €1 at the Lisbon flea market

Oasis Live Forever
02. The Clash
Should 1 Stay Or Should 1 Go
03. Pulp Disco 2000
04. Suede Trash
05. Iggy Pop Lust For Life
06. New Order Regret
07. The Cure Friday I'm In Love
08. The La's There She Goes
09 Happy Mondays Step On
10. Saint Etienne
He's On The Phone
11. Everything But The Girl
Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
12. Chumbawamba
Tubthumping
13. The Boo Radleys
Wake Up Boo!
14. Supergrass Alright
15. James Sit Down
16. Ash Girl From Mars
17. Kula Shaker Hey Dude
18. Ocean Colour Scene
The Day We Caught The Train
19. The Bluetones
Slight Retumn
20. Babybird You're Gorgeous
21. The Farm
All Together Now

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CD TWO

01.Manic Street Preachers
A Design For Life
02. R.E.M.
What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
03. Stereophonics
The Bartender And The Thief
04. U2
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
KillMe (From Batman Forever')
05. The Stone Roses Fools Gold
06. Primal Scream Loaded
07.Embrace
All You Good Good People
08. Shed Seven Going For Gold
09. The Charlatans Forever
10. McAlmont & Butler Yes
11. They Might Be Giants
Birdhouse in Your Soul
12. Elastica Connection
13. Sleeper Inbetweener
14. Placebo Nancy Boy
15. Hole Celebrity Skin
16. Weezer Buddy Holly
17. The Wannadies You & Me Song
18. The Wonder Stuff
The Size Of A CoW
19. Reef Place Your Hands
20. Soundgarden Black Hole Sun
21. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah

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01. The Prodigy Firestarter
02. Underworld
Born Stippy (Nuxx)
03. The Chemical Brothers
Hey Boy Hey Girl
04. Faithless Insomnia
05. The Be…

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 08/05/2026

It's our favourite thing when people tell us that they had to sit with a choice in Fallen London for five full minutes. That's how we know you're suffering the correct amount.

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John Mueller @johnmu.com · 06/05/2026

Speed still matters. "for every 100 milliseconds slower a store loads, conversion tends to be about 3.5% lower. (...) For every 32 milliseconds slower a store responds to interactions, conversion tends to drop by about 1.5%." www.shopify.com/enterprise/b...

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Store Speed and Conversion: What the Data Shows (2026) - Shopify

How does site speed relate to sales? Find out in this Shopify data deep dive.

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I *do* love fruit news & listening in on trends for industries I'm not directly in

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Elakha Alliance @elakhaalliance.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

What an excellent article from our otter friend, Dr. Heidi Island - a professor of biological psychology and behavioral ecology at Pacific University and a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Otter Specialist Group. www.popsci.com/environment/... #seaotters #riverotters

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Why playing is no laughing matter for otters

Play behavior is not all 'marshmallow science,' and more play can equal better health.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Chuck's Hop Shop in #seattle, 16th anniversary. Cheers to making it this far. Thai Lay's Max, extra ridged ghost pepper extra chili. Mild enough on chip 1 you wonder what the fuss is 1, hot enough halfway through the bag you understand.

Taster glass of a yellow, mildly clear beer next to a red & black bag of Thai potato chips

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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

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Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 23/04/2026

I say it every year - if you're even the least bit interested or involved in web performance, this is THE place to be every year. It's the one trip I prioritize my travel budget for. The talks are awesome, but the hallway track is unbeatable. The concentration of experts in one place is insane.

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HistoryLink.org @historylink.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#OnThisDay in 1962, Belgian waffles made their American debut at the Seattle World's Fair. historylink.org/File/10092

Belgian Waffle House, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, 1962

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Bao is growing up fast! At four months old, our Asian small-clawed otter pup is getting more confident every day. He's splashing, exploring, and discovering new habitats alongside his loving parents.

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David Ross @cdaveross.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Would recommend, this was a gripping read

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Tim Kadlec @tkadlec.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

p75 and p90 JavaScript bytes on the web have exploded since May, 2025—easily the largest 10 month period based on HTTP Archive data since 2023. The long-tail is getting worse, very quickly. Gemini, what happened in May 2025?

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