iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I am a single issue voter and that issue is to federally mandate that the glyphs l and I be easily distinguishable across all fronts

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Hegseth has the most easily provable murders. I’d argue that puts him at the top of the list

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For a while there I thought I was going to get away with not feeling it at all but I got super achy after about 12 hours so I didn’t sleep great. Still, no fever this time around

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My wife and I got our covid and flu vaccines out of the way today

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We need fewer colons in console gaming, generally. Fewer colons - but more colonoscopies! If the launch of Galactic Racer has you thinking fondly of Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, it's time for a colonoscopy!! www.cancer.org/cancer/diagn...

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Colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is a procedure that requires a certain type of prep and uses a flexible tube to look inside the colon and rectum. Learn about the procedure, how to prepare for it, what to expect after, an...

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 02/10/2026

Aren’t republicans really against mail in voting?

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I’ve got the same problem with one of our secure environments. They’ve guaranteed that my password is always going to be a short phrase plus a monotonically increasing number

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 01/10/2026

The one that really infuriates me is the “we take security so seriously that we’re not going to let you paste into the password field.” Yes, don’t let people use a password manager easily. That’ll definitely make things more secure

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 01/10/2026

“His best work since these two movies that were mid, at best” isn’t a quote they’ll want to put on a trailer

Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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San Diego residents are paying $3 million to wall off SDPD headquarters, because apparently our cops are incapable of protecting their own building and employees, despite occupying it 24/7

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Construction to begin on security fence around SDPD headquarters

The downtown San Diego Police Department headquarters complex's construction on a security fence surrounding the facility is set to begin this week.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 29/09/2026

It’s good thing we didn’t have to cut mass transit routes, close public bathrooms or pay millions to settle cases brought against SDPD or I’d be mad

Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 29/09/2026

Until platform holders are willing to accept liability for the scams running on their platforms I won’t be turning off my ad blocker arstechnica.com/security/202...

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Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 29/09/2026

I want a Superman story in which the world realizes that the most good he can do is use his super strength to turn a crank at exactly the right speed to provide the world with clean energy while we figure out how to transition to cheap, plentiful renewables www.smbc-comics.com?id=2305

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2011-07-13

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They’ve been out of San Diego for ten years and nothing’s changed

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Credits were never intended for the audience. Expecting the audience sit through credits for a commercial is disrespectful of them and their time

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YouTube video by Dimension 20

I’d say “This bit from a Dimension 20 (tabletop RPG) stream but sincerely” except that he was already being sincere m.youtube.com/shorts/bmaoN...

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Laws Are Threats #shorts

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Cue the D20 “laws are threats” monologue

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Old school payola without the middleman

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s Nashville attempting to do image rehab after pushing music like “Try That in a Small Town” for a long while

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Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl...

An official color photograph of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov posing in his uniform around the time of this incident.

A screenshot of the linked February 10, 1999, Washington Post article on page A19 headlined, “‘I Had A Funny Feeling In My Gut; Soviet Officer Faced Nuclear Armageddon.” The article also includes a large graphic title "A Crumbling Warning System," showing problems with Russia's early-warning satellites and ground-based radars. The continuation of a front page article headlined, "Dearth of Satellites Fogs Russian System," appears next to the article about Petrov.

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Please tell me this is about iced coffee in interviews. I can’t handle anything more significant right now

Hang on. When did I get two masters degrees?

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As someone much funnier that me said: the JD stands for Juice Deficient

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

See also “Why are people saying the economy is terrible when all the data says it’s not so bad”

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It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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It’s OK to admit that you’re not good at voting and leave it to the people who are

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 24/09/2026

Early in our relationship my wife told of similar experiences and she was in 6th grade in the 80s. For me it was eye opening

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I’m only 100 pages in but the parallels between Opus Dei and Scientology are striking

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Al @dash-notheactualworddash.com · 24/09/2026

The “or” in that second sentence feels a little optimistic

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I very much want to read this one. Pope Leo summoned Gareth Gore to the Vatican awhile back for a closed-door meeting about which Gore - who has desperately tried to get multiple popes to give a fuck about his reporting - said little except that he left feeling good about where they left things 👀

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Next book is Opus by Gareth Gore. When the Pope calls a book a “rigorous piece of work” and you’re a lapsed Catholic that’s married to a Catholic who’s very frustrated with the church and loves your recaps of @clairewillett.bsky.social threads, well, you put your name on the waitlist

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If knowing a big plot point makes a book, show or movie irrelevant then they weren’t that good to begin with. There’s lots of good reasons to avoid the internet but spoilers isn’t one of them. Rosebud is a sled. Darth Vader is Luke’s dad. Avatar is anime. You’re free.

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We make way too big a deal about spoilers. They don’t matter. I read 800 pages of spoilers for books 4 - 6 and I don’t care. I’m still going to go back and read them because the books are good. The stories are interesting.

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This is the seventh book in the series and it’s the same fast paced action that I enjoyed from the first three. If you’re this far in there’s no reason to stop now. I will say something that’s not about the book but about me skipping from book three to seven which no gen x, scifi fan has said ever

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Hoop Dreams should be mandatory watching for anyone getting themselves or their kids into sports

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Wow. That’s almost as much as MAGA thinks the US gave to Ukraine