iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Maybe people are answering other questions when asked about the economy “How’s it going? Badly! Yeah, sure, because inflation. Whatever”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s what people are asked about

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

There are two circulatory systems in the body, one for blood, the other for lymph There are two circulatory systems in a capitalist economy, one for money, the other for anxiety

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would send a moment of air moving

Late afternoon sun casts shadows on a green lawn beside a winding tan dirt road

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would send a moment of air moving

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They want to make us NPCs they won’t mind abandoning to the climate crisis Let’s lock them in their stupid metaverse instead

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

China believes in the future and is planning for it and the US does not and is not

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’d pay for cable to watch this

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Red Hot Chili Peppers some time when they were playing with socks on their dicks Made me hate everything from California for a decade

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The implausible deniability machine

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Spurs game not on peacock. May be a mercy

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There’s an ick factor for military/security issues on the left that leads to a sort of proud incuriosity These issues have been thought about—a lot!—and you can disagree but you have to grapple with that body of thought

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I used to not believe in evil, but that belief has been sorely tried

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Throw in climate crisis for a full picture. Billionaires need us to be bots or NPCs and/or their AIs to be real people to justify hoarding the wealth that could be used to save so many human lives

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If anyone wants a vision for the future, I’ve got one I’m not using that I’ll sell for cheap

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The cat got a longer obituary than I will

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finished the first volume of the Stalin bio. Apparently the communist party was a bunch of dorks writing book reports at each other

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the capital for the data center buildout had been spent on transition to renewable energy instead, where would we be right now?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Second concert I went to was this tour. (First was The Clash at the UPenn skating rink) I wish I’d known at the time

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If undecided voters are indeed that stupid, why can’t we be as effective in bamboozling them as the right is?

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The bait and switch in this discourse is that it’s all physics and math when it comes to moving to the right to pick up centrists, but it’s personal responsibility if voters to the left don’t show up

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are slowly shedding all of our streaming subs and not missing them

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Finished the first volume of the Stalin bio. Apparently the communist party was a bunch of dorks writing book reports at each other

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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/09/2026

University of Vermont Medical Center's health care workers want their employer to join the Milk with Dignity program. buff.ly/CBxTfMN

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Vermont Hospital Workers Are Building Solidarity With Farmworkers

University of Vermont Medical Center’s health care workers want their employer to join the Milk with Dignity program.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is that metaverse thing still lying around in a janitor’s closet at facebook? Can we just confine them to it? We would ALL be happier

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meanwhile, on Vermont side of border the state is shutting down a successful program of motel vouchers. “Homelessness in Vermont?” Yes, 2nd or 3rd highest rate per capita. Not despite being a tourist destination but in part because; 2nd homes are a plague that drive full-timers here into the cold.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I think of language as a thin straw of information connecting whole universes Encoding the experience of a universe is ridiculously lossy compression at best, but the common humanity of the recipient universe allows words to resonate and explode into meaning there

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Bevin was arrested Thursday in Paris, Ky., on the set of a Christmas movie where he was working as an extra”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the all-gender cave has a new record shelf

A big ikea shelf with a few hundred records, the end of a green-clothed pool table, a computer with a keyboard and speakers

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The river that rises in my town and borders my back yard is older than the Appalachian mountains

A small quick stream flows over rocks between green banks and under an arching tree

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You can’t just say the word “vision” and then your 20 minor policy tweaks magically cohere into something compelling

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026

NEW: Seven faith leaders were arrested in Vermont this morning while blocking entrances to a building that houses a group ICE uses to target its efforts. Two clergy were physically carried out as they were arrested. religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...

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Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center

(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Somebody had a party, and I wasn’t invited (The pile of shit is just extra)

Ears of munched corn scattered at the feet of corn plants in a weedy garden

A couple ears of munched corn on the ground next to what is presumably raccoon shit

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The river that rises in my town and borders my back yard is older than the Appalachian mountains

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rule: You can’t vote for anyone who reposted this onto your timeline

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dems should be saying NOW that corrupt deals will be investigated, undone, and prosecuted Make every company/institution wary of what’s coming and *maybe* prevent some damage

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was hoping to google find a show poster from when my band opened for Cornershop in 95 or 96, and the shit the genAI made up (with links!) was hilarious You can just hit refresh to get new fun “facts”

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Somebody had a party, and I wasn’t invited (The pile of shit is just extra)

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Almond @almondsquirrel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Smartest plain English article I've yet seen on what these "bot swarms" and "rogue" AI actually are doing and how lax OpenAI is about it.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At its heart the Dem party defines itself as a party that co-governs with the gop to achieve a balance that most Americans can support The gop is under no such delusion

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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Charles O’Connor @coconnor8.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My daughter started the new @annleckie.com book and sent the group chat articles on self-mummification and clown fish Don’t know how that all relates but I’m in line to read it

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