iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com · 14h

Ojalá la trayectoria esta cambiando, ojalá por Dios. Estoy harta de vivir sin esperanza de nada más que quienes me disparen tengan buena puntería.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 15h

Q: why can’t orangutans play comic songs? A: because there’s no ook allele.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 16h

Huge thanks to my pal @damonyoung.com.au for this super cool betentacled dice holder. (The other side of the d20 says SHIT for a nat 1.)

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Adam Morton @adammorton.bsky.social · 16h

A story of our time: Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’. Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits.

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Approval of biggest coal project in NSW planning commission’s history described as ‘infamous betrayal’

Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits

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Douglas Netchurch @dnetchurch.bsky.social · 18h

Glory to you, and to your house renovation development application.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Star Trek One Line At A Time @trek.onelineatati.me · 23h

Radiation passing the tolerance level, entering lethal zone.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FORTY-TWO BILLION. Anthropic lost FORTY-TWO BILLION dollars in one year. The inevitable world-changing, ultimately efficient technology that everyone wants apparently.

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Blades and ladies @bladesnladies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was a fun project - the model wanted pics of herself with a flaming sword. I provided the karabela and took part in the brainstorming with the photographer to find a way that doesn't damage the blade. It turned out quite spectacular, and the blade made it through safely.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks @crikey.com.au for publishing this great, but sobering, piece by Jason Chatfield.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 28/09/2026

Me trying to put a spider outside

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 28/09/2026

I can’t believe I came to Lois McMaster Bujold so late. I read THE CURSE OF CHALION earlier this year, and I can’t get enough of her fantasy and science fiction. Palpable characters, living plausible lives in vivid worlds. Often deeply moving, but very rarely sentimental. And so very *embodied*.

A hardcover book being held before a wall of books. The cover shows sixteenth century folks on horses in front of a high castle

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 28/09/2026

🎶 Venus on* the mountain top 🎶 *above

A photograph of a river at night time, the river being a light silvery indigo, with an ombré of dark blue to light blue above dark clouds then mountains dotted with lights

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The golden age of Soviet air travel... An Aeroflot-branded folding knife, fork, and bottle opener 🗃️

colour photo of a folding knife, fork and bottle opener with "Aeroflot" written in Cyrillic on the handle

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.

Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cannot do justice to the colour of the moon tonight!

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 27/09/2026

whalefall, but the whale is a comfy bed

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Only quibble here is the headline: the algal bloom was not "mysterious". It was another event exacerbated by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels. Government officials were also aware within the first months that hundreds of thousands of marine animals had been killed in the bloom.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 26/09/2026

I'm such a sucker for shelfies. Books. Taxonomic systems. Knick-knacks. Glorious. Let a hundred shelves bloom.

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 25/09/2026

Hey, I’ve got a piece up on #shelfies, the newsletter edited by @lavietidhar.bsky.social and Jared Shurin! I really love reading this newsletter, and it was fun to reminisce on the books that I’ve gathered around me as a writer and reader. You can read it here: shelfies.beehiiv.com/p/shelfies-1...

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Shelfies #107: Andrew Liptak

What book nut hasn't dreamed of having a wall with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

found a new type of guy

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AITA for correcting my girlfriend's family every time they mispronounce my turtle's name?
I have a turtle named Geoff. Yes I know Geoff is normally pronounced Jeff. His isnt. My girlfriend's family knows this and still calls him Jeff basically every time his name comes up.
His name starts with /dz/ instead of the normal American English J sound /d3/. So regular Geoff/Jeff is roughly /dzef/ and his is /dzef/. They are similar but they are NOT the same consonant. /d3/ is a voiced postalveolar affricate and /dz/ is a voiced retroflex affricate. Basically you make the beginning of "Jeff" with the tongue farther back/retracted, which gives it a harder, deeper "dzh" sound.
I'm really into etymology and historical linguistics so the spelling was intentional too. Geoff is already a weird spelling from a modern English perspective because gives you basically no reason to predict /dzef/ unless you already know the name. Obviously I am NOT claiming medieval Geoffrey was pronounced / dzef/. I

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a Murakami short story. The rat lives in a mountain town and listens to jazz records.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/09/2026

Outstanding image choice. I salute you, @nerdist.bsky.social.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

drunk girls when you have to go home early and work in the morning

NYT opinion focus group with little drawing of all their dipshit faces:

Erica, 40, Republican, Latino, customer service
Bad.

Pam, 66, Republican, white, retired
Amoral.

Becky, 51, Democrat, white, retail
Disgusting.

Robert S., 52, Republican, Latino, human resources
Two words: morally corrupt.

Hitesh, 57, Republican, Asian, looking for work
Disgusting.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 25/09/2026

I’m quite certain @premeemohamed.com had something to do with this.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Do you want to see the cursed cupboard? Of course you do.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a critical weakness in far too many left-wing spaces is the lack of any real strategy for dealing with people who weaponize social justice language to lambast and tear down others while framing even the mildest - let alone well-deserved - pushback against them as bigoted abuse.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox

Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach

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🟢RNGundam @rngundam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981) 01:34:38.508

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Although his lines hit harder when delivered by Blofeld. "Tell me, Mister Bond - would you be willing to live this life over again in every particular, every moment the same?"

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Stonecold Steve Baker — Afternoon nap advocate @dickierock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Repost with a image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only):

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Repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only):

A photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche in a Prussian artillery uniform, holding a sabre

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