iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 16/08/2026

this has been the most topsy-turvy year of my life so i haven't been online much BUT i was invited to host some @scishow.bsky.social episodes and they're rolling out now 🗣️ yee haw youtube.com/watch?v=5okD...

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 31/07/2026

i had never heard of it before this exercise but same!! this duality is why it is exactly my vibe 😇

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 31/07/2026

collectible card game, webcam, International Bitterness Unit, fan service, virtual colonoscopy honorable mention (unsincerely): girlboss

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 29/04/2026

without downloading anything new, where are you mentally

a 3D rendering of a running skeleton with the text "Me running from my oppressive, suffocating flesh and its rapacious demands for even more productivity to be wrung from my bones"

a screenshot of a tweet that says "i have this crazy twisted fantasy where my friends all sleepover and then i get up early and cook them a huge delicious breakfast"

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 20/04/2026

i complained the entire time & also understood SO much more how self-driving cars can both seem very sci-fi but are supremely dumb somewhere in here is a lesson about experiencing the world, not just reading articles about it etc etc, but alas we don't have a podcast to soapbox about it anymore

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 20/03/2026

i did see your question when going through the P4A DH&J form and it was SO GOOD so i put it on the short list lmao and then i realized it was you. more content mined from your life for the pod

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after my...uh...4 hour nap, it still feels like a fever dream

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i'll have to ask @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social real nicely to come out of his poem/song-writing retirement, but i think i can be persuasive if we're bringing the gang back together for charity 🙂‍↕️

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i will use ANY excuse i can get to work with @tunaloons.bsky.social on silly music!!

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YESSSSSS SO WELL DESERVED!!!! A SILLY MUSIC MAN THROUGH AND THROUGH 🎶

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 09/02/2026

i was too busy producing this to post about it but what a freakin year it was. i love to do silly good things with silly good people‼️‼️

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ugh trace i'm so sorry 😭 a real nightmare. we had a pipe burst last january and it's a headache to deal with all the little things.

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 02/02/2026

i think the probability isn't zero (so technically yes it can happen by chance) but it's VERY unlikely because the developmental signals can result in so many tiny differences! sort of like how there are a finite number of QR code patterns that could exist, but the number is so unfathomably big

🙂‍↕️ now we're cookin with gas

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also maybe it's easier to weigh a static object like a turd with more precision than your body because you can shift around? i haven't been on a scale since i was a kid but i feel like if you bounced even a little or shifted side-to-side you can affect the number because the force changes

honestly i didn't even consider weighing yourself OFF the toilet since it wasn't part of the constraints of the question to my brain 💀 the binary of ideas was either scale for human (above/attached to toilet) vs scale for poop (in toilet & cleaned by,,, bidet attachment?)

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probably easier to weigh your poop than weigh yourself BUT my "i have thought about this for 5 seconds" suggestion is you could sit in a swing just above the toilet bowl (sort of like a fruit scale but with a hole in it to poop through) and then you can watch the number go down

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 28/01/2026

eat a piece of burrata cheese like a soup dumpling (slorp) credit goes to @silvia717.bsky.social for this one

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i was also imagining Hank *continuing to host* but having to remember that he was doing this challenge, which will be its own kind of absurdist humor

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(the answer is yes and this is the line that resulted: "No two zebras are alike, and even genetically identical twins don’t have the same stripes. It’s even probable that if you took one zebra and /cloned it/ that your clone would have different stripes from the original.")

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We Were Totally Wrong About Zebra Stripes

ok this was the video where i had the weird hypothetical question & it was about whether the "zebra stripes are as unique as fingerprints" idea is true & SPECIFICALLY whether two genetically identical zebras (twins or clones) would have different stripe patterns www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVS...

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start a stopwatch. without looking at ANY clocks, try to guess when exactly 8 minutes have passed.

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color your hair based on a poll (with chalk dye / wash-out unless you want to be really brave)

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jump as high as you can OR do as many somersaults as you can (please do not hurt yourself or your office)

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 15/01/2026

see how many {grapes, baked beans, mozzarella balls, hard boiled eggs, hot dog pieces} you can fit into your mouth at one time like chubby bunny but more chaotic than marshmallows

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it's soooo fun to stumble upon weird knowledge or discoveries! sometimes i wish i could pause time for a little bit to just read a whole bunch of old papers or journals

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 10/01/2026

maybe we just need to start a new podcast and see where it takes us 🙂‍↕️

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 10/01/2026

and i didn't get any of the ad products hmmmmm 🤔

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 01/01/2026

lmao please i must know sam's nickname too

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 30/12/2025

Just noticed that @lingthusiasm.bsky.social is very close to a satisfyingly round number of followers on here If you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, maybe head over there? And if you think your followers might like to, give this a RT?

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 19/12/2025

wah thanks for the kind words; they mean a lot! we really want to figure something out too & miss podcasting together!

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Project for Awesome @projectforawesome.com · 17/12/2025

The Project for Awesome 2026 livestream will be February 13-15, but what is P4A? These are the #P4A2026 important dates to remember!📆

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During the Project for Awesome (P4A), hundreds of people post videos advocating for charities that try to make the world a little better. We raise funds as a community and vote on where our donations will go!
The P4A 2026 livestream will be
February 13th-15th!

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How to Support Charities through P4A:
Submit a video to the P4A website from January 24th - February 8th, 2026

Vote for your favorite charity vidoes on the P4A website from February 10th - 18th, 2026

Learn about new organizations and donate your time & money directly to them

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How to Donate Money to P4A

Join the Matching Fund
if you want to donate more than $500, from December 1st, 2025 - February 8th, 2026

Get fun, exclusive perks on Tiltify from
February 10th - 18th, 2026

Contribute year-round at fightworldsuck.org

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ah thanks, lauren!! as we're exploring what a debunking / mythbusting-type show might look like, we're trying to decide how much outreach to subject matter experts makes sense. so i may reach out! i appreciate you (& all you and gretchen do for lingcomm!)

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eee lauren's book is on my tbr! i'm so excited to see that it's out in the world!

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stop this is so funny and i've never heard of it before 💀 thanks for sharing lmao!!

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(and by "this" i mean this post/thread not the one i quoted...language ambiguity is hard!!)

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 28/11/2025

Sam and I are continuing to scheme & test things out & we will let folks know when we have something!! Could you reply to THIS with anything you're wondering (or have seen across the internet) about body language? Power poses, postural stuff, weird business or dating or other "hacks," etc.

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silvia was trying to get her dad to go upstairs and nap (so his snores wouldn't overwhelm the tv & so i could have the other reclining seat) and he simply said "no i like hearing you all talk" 💀

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Sam "Mr. Podcast" Schultz @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Ceri and I miss doing SciShow Tangents, so we're testing out ideas for a new project and we need your help! Please reply to this with any questions, misconceptions, rumors, or weird things people say on the internet about dowsing rods (the things people use to find water or talk to ghosts)!

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This format is incredibly helpful for reframing debates. It's also pragmatics 101. Negation only operates on the "comment"/focused part of an utterance. If you introduce a presupposition, negation will not be able to eliminate it. Example: A: Have you stopped stealing office supplies? B: Yes/No?

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Ceri Riley @ceriley.com · 30/09/2025

yay!!! congrats trace! congrats julian!! this is a huge amount of work & an exciting milestone‼️