iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reposted by Darael Draconis

The Meta brain trust is like "so what people don't like about the pervert glasses is the glasses part right?"

131432

Reposted by Darael Draconis

Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Racist organisation set up by a racist to appeal to racists is somehow being taken over by racists.

38844203

Darael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 27/09/2026

There will never be enough times. Anyone who writes this column for the umpteenth time is invested (emotionally or financially) in the narrative being sold, not the truth of the matter.

040

Darael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 27/09/2026

I don't know why it isn't for you, but for me it is:

Screenshot demonstrating the article to be paywalled

020

Darael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 26/09/2026

that there is absolutely no limit to what Democrats can do and still have your backing, up to and including trying to outlaw our public existence.

000

Darael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 26/09/2026

There's a certain irony to berating people who have not expressed an intent /not/ to vote (well, I might've, but not the way you're implying: I'm not eligible) for not coming to save you… by telling them not to expect you to save them. Don't worry. We didn't. You've made it abundantly clear

100

Darael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 26/09/2026

Precisely the point. Hubbard could and did. El-no evidently does not. Hence the objection to the comparison.

040

One of the standard caveats to Hanlon's Razor is Grey's Law: sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Even if we reject cynicism, there comes a point where the two aren't meaningfully different.

established, is an older one even, doesn't change the fact that it's a deceptive shift.

000

Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Discord has, since its launch, promoted itself as being primarily for video-game players. For them to abruptly start using "gaming" in a sense that includes gambling, having built their brand identity around a demographic that doesn't use it that way, /is/ nefarious. That the sense in question is

111

Reposted by Darael Draconis

Disable gambling ads:

Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Sponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressed

Manage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)

8387226071

Reposted by Darael Draconis

QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 23/09/2026

Unlike Section 28, these rules are spread across a myriad of documents, which will make it harder for LGBTQIA+ groups to fight to overturn their harmful impacts Read our full analysis 👇

Section 28 2.0 begins
Children in England are back at school, in a new era of strict rules on what teachers can say about LGBTQIA+ identities.
Schools have begun implementing guidance and curricula which require them to segregate Trans+ pupils, while teachers are banned from “encouraging” pupils from ‘questioning their gender’. Many view the new rules as directly parallel to Section 28, the now-revoked law that banned schools and local authorities from “promoting” gay identities until 2003.

24827

Having read the Bible, I know that if the God of Abraham exists as described therein (he doesn't) he is a monster and a tyrant, unworthy of so much as recognition let alone worship. Have a good day!

000

On the contrary. You claimed your god met people where they were at, but Samuel suggests he punished someone who didn't sink to the level *he* demanded. That's not meeting people at their level and raising them up; it's pushing them down.

010

Over half the world has heard a story of the god you believe in. That is very different from the kind of "knowing" you claim. The equivocation here is strong!

The all-loving God who wants to teach people to love and be merciful… punishes Samuel and his people for showing mercy. Or we could discuss the whole book of Joshua.

Deut 20 demands the extermination of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites, and Girgashites (20:16-17). Amalek is not Deut but Exodus 17 and again in 1 Samuel 15, and Samuel is punished for showing any mercy whatsoever.

So the children deserved to be slaughtered?

000

Yeah, no, you're right, it's definitely glitched. My apologies.

000

Really? Where is "nobody can follow me who does not hate his brother" in the teachings typically promoted on Bluesky? Who on bsky is promoting the notion that every man, woman, child, and animal of Amalek must be slain? That when an army conquers a country the virgin girls should be taken as slaves?

000

Not really astonishing when you consider that a heterodox Jewish sect went on to justify conquering and colonising vast areas of the world, explicitly in the name of spreading that idea.

000

truth, then you should believe in the truth of those. But you don't; you are applying a special standard to the thing you already want to believe.

The works of a woman who wants a vulnerable minority destroyed and has taken enormous action to bring that about have sold nearly as many copies as the Bible, in far less time, and have been banned in some places to the point where people risked severe punishment to read them. If popularity proves

So all those times he commanded genocides, the killing of not just adults but children and animals, that was good, was it?

The traditional tales of Aboriginal Australians have been preserved with significantly less deviation over a significantly longer period even without the aid of writing, but they do not match the Bible. Will you therefore abandoning Christianity and follow them?

030

"Almost" is doing a vast amount of heavy lifting in that sentence, especially when we have both fragmentary and complete manuscripts of most biblical texts that contain major discrepancies. People trying to preserve books they care about is not odd at all. That doesn't make the books true.

explicitly in the name of the god is describes and the teachings it promotes. I'm glad you found positive meaning in whichever translation you use, but your assertions about it as a basis for the modern world do not hold up to examination nor do they prove it good.

Popularity has zero bearing on correctness or morality. For the majority of its history, people following that book or its predecessors used it to justify atrocity upon atrocity upon atrocity. You are trying to give it credit for good things only loosely connected to it while ignoring evils done

210

If your claim is that the book is written for the people of its time, then you must also accept that its moral prescriptions fall short. Either it's a complete guide to life, or it meets people where they were; it cannot be both.

It is reprehensible that 45 continued and expanded upon that programme, and did so again as 47. Will you acknowledge that it is also reprehensible that 44 presided over its introduction and 46 maintained it, or do you only care when a Republican is in the White House?

There is no evidence for that delegation having met any eyewitnesses. Isn't it odd that despite the delegation itself being recorded nobody recorded anything as important as meeting the witnesses?

don't derive from the book (a book which, by the way, never treats slavery as immoral, only immoral to do to specific people) but rather were developed independently and promoted using the most popular framework of the time.

Western Civilisation, to the extent that that's a single thing, derives largely from people /rejecting/ then-nigh-universal interpretations of your book. The good parts of that civilisation have been independently justified in other places with other religious texts, suggesting that the ideas

220

thaspook @tharook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paul also notably never named or gave any information that would have allowed anyone to contact those witnesses, meaning his claim (if it was even he who wrote the letters, which appears to be the case for some but not all) is of zero relevance to anything.

100

Reposted by Darael Draconis

This IS the outcry to the right overturning the law in such a nakedly political manner. The anti-trans movement is one of misogynistic cowardice, hiding behind women.

022

Reposted by Darael Draconis

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/04/2026

1. A new study claims trans care worsens mental health. It is fatally flawed. It didn't measure mental health—it measured psych visits. Even visits that stemmed from mandatory checkins, surgical pre-psych evals, or pre-treatment that was classified as post. Subscribe to support our journalism.

erininthemorning.com

Fact Check: New Finnish "Study" Does Not Prove "Trans Youth Care Leads To Worse Outcomes"

The latest Kaltiala study is filled with fatal methodological flaws, and does not support claims made about trans youth care lacking efficacy.

361904543

Not even the courage for an "appears inconsistent with", which would be squirrelier than I'd like but at least outright indicate that the court record conflicts with their claims rather than some vague "it's complicated" nonsense

010

Even if we accept the usual excuse of ass-covering they could certainly have gone with "appears inconsistent with".

000

One of those options is reprehensible and the other is foolish.

000

I have never advocated withholding votes or voting for the right. You are the one who came into this thread to berate everyone who dared acknowledge the problems with the Democrats. Either, therefore, you don't want them criticised, or you assume none who criticises them will ever vote against fasc.

100

Obviously organise around primaries, as so many did this year. AND do not give blind loyalty to an organisation that seeks to avoid resisting fascism, the way people insist every time that you must because the other guys are worse. Conditional and critical, always, but still do it when necessary.

100

No evidence of you exerting pressure, only very occasional acknowledgement of that party's issues, lots of focus on individual voters and deflection from focus on policy-setters. Obviously vote for the best option with a real chance to win.

100