iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A friend called to see if I had plans in case I lose power, so I told her I lost any power I had a long time ago and ever since I’ve been running on anger, fear, and hope, to which she responded she meant losing power in the storm, so I said: I also have a flashlight.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

One of my heroes in navigating this life.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just one thing can start making a difference immediately! Look through this thread for some ideas.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The Pleasure of My Sole Proprietorship

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm Cheryl and I write about a new job. Alternatively, I'm going to be a little late and I write about it. Bwhahahaha

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)

Original SG-1: Teal'c (Christopher Judge), Carter (Amanda Tapping), O'Neill (two L's) (Richard Dean Anderson), and Jackson (Michael Shanks)

Middle years SG-1: Teal'c, Carter, O'Neill, Quinn

Late SG-1: Mitchell, Carter, Gen. Landry, Jackson 2.0, Teal'c

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I don't know about y'all, but I'm pretty overwhelmed if not speechless every single dadgum day. Just trying to be productive, both in fighting for my communities, and in my day job, are exhausting. Keeping myself from being demoralized is daily overhead on my effectiveness.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 23/02/2026

We're fundraising for public libraries again! 📚This week, when you donate $15 USD or more to your public library, friends of a library organization, or the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, you'll receive a free audiobook credit 💓 Last year, we raised $55,000. How much will we raise this year? ⏬

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Remember: news was subsidized since America’s founding via Media Mail, designed to support sending physical newspapers & magazines. When news went digital that subsidy didn’t apply, so news effectively lost its subsidy w/ the digital change. It never did pay for itself & needs new support to thrive.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 26/11/2025

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Timothy Snyder says positive freedom is about being unpredictable. Both he and Cory Doctorow relate freedom to privacy rights. Predictability is augmented by surveillance. Businesses and sometimes governments use it to predict & influence our actions, to make money and exert control. Think. Resist.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I want to wholeheartedly endorse everyone read Cory Doctorow's Enshittification. I thought it would be mostly review for me, but I wasn't correct. Even better if you buy it like I did on Libro.fm and support the indie bookstore of your choice. Here is a referral link: libro.fm/referral?rf_...

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Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Turing and Turing in the widening gyre The prompter cannot hear the prompt; Things fall apart; the algorithm cannot hold; Ransomware is loosed upon the world, The capitalism tide is high, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Buy memecoins

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 04/04/2025

Good idea. bsky.app/profile/altg...

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

As of me writing this, the feed is continuing, currently has 40k people viewing. It would be lovely to push those numbers higher

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Arriving at Ann Arbor’s #TeslaTakedown

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The GOP Congressman in Michigan’s 10th district is one of many who are refusing to do town hall meetings with voters. So my friend @maxwellfrost.bsky.social and I are heading there on Saturday to make sure every American has a chance to hear about the Trump and Musk’s corruption.

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

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"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

“A system may say that it exists to provide homes for stray cats. But if it actually fires nuclear missiles, then the system’s purpose is to fire nuclear missiles.” — @cstross.bsky.social talking about the system as villain at @glasgow2024.bsky.social

Charles Stross on a panel with John Scalzi, Aliette de Bodard, Abigail Nussbaum, and SJ Groenewegen

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18/02/2025

Americans are changing their shopping habits and even dumping their favorite stores in a backlash against corporations that have shifted their public policies to align with the Trump administration, according to a poll exclusively shared with the Guardian.

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A quarter of US shoppers have dumped favorite stores over political stances

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm working toward what feels like pretty drastic remodeling of my life. Changing news sources and habits, changing ways I engage with friends, ending subscriptions and looking at ending more of them. Changing grocery and shopping habits. New activities. Probably looks like nothing from outside tho.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/02/2025

I spent my weekend putting together a cover of a Peter Gabriel deep cut from "Us," you know, as you do youtu.be/P1M-XjykfXA

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Love to Be Loved (Peter Gabriel cover)

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Strong, resilient systems are not efficient systems, and vice versa.

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AK Faulkner ➡️ MCM @ravenswordpress.com · 16/02/2025

It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent. Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/02/2025

w8 big ballz isn’t 1337?

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Just did it myself. Just because.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11/02/2025

I hate to inform you of this, but you are, in fact, the adult in the room.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"But first, sleep, and wake to a new morning. Fill your belly and negotiate its continued fullness. You can't save anyone if you neglect yourself. All you can do is fall slowly with them." Thanks for that @seananmcguire.bsky.social

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I've done my part and sent a letter voicing my objections to this plan and intention to close all of my multiple visa accounts and write to Costco to disassociate from them as well, since that's the source of one of the Visa cards I hold.

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Cheryl O.🥄 @cherydactyl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Insomnia has me listening to an audiobook when I'd rather be sleeping. I thought I had read Dennis E Taylor's Outland (2019). Turns out, I had conflated it with Steven Gould's Wildside (1996). I like Taylor, but he definitely has old school engineer patriarchal sensibilities. Unfortunately.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I just read Reid Hoffman's NYTimes essay "A.I. Will Empower Humanity" The following thread is a brief discussion of that essay. Brief, not because the subject of AI isn't deserving of consideration, but brief because the essay devolves down into two simple points. 🧵

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