iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An old comic from 2021 about being an alien

DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

... I thought Regulans were the offbrand-renamed Caitians, the Kzinti the bigger-meaner ones... and I don't recall word one about her having injuries with lasting effects; but whether canon, deuterocanon, or fanon, I'd love to read whatever stories you're referring to.

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qntm @qntm.org · 07/09/2026

"Spock's Brain" probably isn't even in the bottom one hundred episodes of Star Trek at this point

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today I learned that "My Little Pony: Friendship is Optimal" now has its own universe, the optimaverse, in which .... nah, if you don't know, that'll spoil it. I guess, depending on how much you care about the universe, it's either a utopian story or an armageddon story. As SF, it's awesome.

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Friendship is Optimal

Hasbro just released the official My Little Pony MMO, with an A.I. Princess Celestia to run it.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

... Aren't those the marks for _underlining_, instead of /italics/?

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oddly enough, I listed to 'Werewolves of London' just last night - part of the 3-hour compilation of WKRP music at www.awphooey.com/wkrp ... I should snag a best-of album for Zevon, find out what I've been missing. ("... and his hair was *perfect*...")

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WKRP: Johnny Fever

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phoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Verify my age" One of my first video-games was Radar Rat Race on the Vic-20

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If you're still missing some, don't forget that they're available to play online now - www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

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Project Aon: Main / Books (browse)

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

lim(x→0+) 1/x approaches arbitrarily close to +∞

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026

The thing is, Mark Carney has shown his political opponents how to beat him: just *embrace Carneyism*. The things Carney *says* are incredibly popular. Now we just need to elect someone who'll *do* them. eof/

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Now I'm kind of curious what you *do* subscribe to in your RSS reader...

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Offhand, I can only remember seeing one such, by a kaiju artist: www.deviantart.com/kaijusamurai... . (Not counting all the fans of MLP's Big Mac, of course.)

Painting of a buff black unicorn with glowing-teal horn, eyes, nostrils, and hooves

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Unaccompanied Sonata" by Card, surely? (I never could quite square the circle of why the prodigies received escalating punishments for continuing to make music after hearing recordings, including physical mutilation; it all seemed overly allegorical.)

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Bumble Snow Bear of the Fall (aka Insatiabear) @realinsatiabear.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

First of May, first of May! Outdoor fuckin' starts today! Jonathan Coulton knows what's up. Do you? 😈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZa...

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First of May

YouTube video by Jonathan Coulton - Topic

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When you finally give in to the urge to disappear into the woods and become local folklore 🎨 Sarah Graham

Illustration of a mouse in a cloak holding a toadstool umbrella, walking in the woods.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Odd; it shows right up for me at www.google.com/search?udm=1... - have you given the udm=14 parameter a try, such as via udm14.org ? (I've got a quickie GreaseMonkey script to auto-add it, so don't even notice standard google results.)

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Google Search

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Splashhhh @splash52.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

No copies have been sold in quite a while, so the algorithms have been cranking the supposed price up to seven hundred dollars or more. ... Am I allowed to mention the existence of interlibrary loans, and of the site e-hentai?

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"The Day the Universe Came" out of Nightstand Books in 1968?

Book cover for "The Day the Universe Came" by Ray Kalnen

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Natasha Tara Petrović @ NYCC H03 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I AM THE BIG RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF THE RULES

Illustration of a giant rat with a crown, surrounded by smaller rats. The text "I am the BIG RAT" is above while "that makes all of THE RULES" is below.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bees sleep between five and eight hours a day. They enjoy company and even hold each other's feet.

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Painting by Jessica Brilli ‘Traffic and Weather’ 2023. Acrylic and oil on canvas. Size 24 × 18 Inches.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

uBlock Origin Lite may not be as good as the full original, but it (and uBlockDNS) does turn at least some of the pages that are unusably cluttered with ads into fairly mundane browsing.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Guessing you don't want any Firefox clones; Lynx would be silly; TOR too specialized... Chromium instead of Chrome, perhaps? (It's the one I use when I need to do any non-Firefox browsing.)

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

If you're planning on chucking Firefox anyway, maybe toss your issues at an LLM to see if any of its suggestions might fix things, since 'making it worse' isn't a worry? Eg, browser.low_commit_space_threshold_percent , widget.wayland.fractional-scale.enabled , and layers.acceleration.disabled

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The Tree on the Corner - Gator Days

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm within 20km or so of the border; used to occasionally cross it for good shopping deals or a movie or such; and currently find it unlikely I'll do so again for the rest of my life. (And that's without even assuming that an Unfriendly Singularity will kill us all within a decade.)

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 10/03/2026

Man. The world fucking is on fire. So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people. Live whats left of your only life. If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul. Fuck the haters.

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J.J. @thetellurian.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Another reminder.

Andre the giant. "You be careful. People in masks cannot be trusted.

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I remember back in the day, finding *any* NSFW content catering to a niche was rare and valuable, no matter what other details were attached, and so I shrugged at and enjoyed a lot of iffy stories, images, etc. Now, with so many dedicated galleries, I've also gotten a lot more discerning about such.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

<pretending-not-to-be-envious amusement from lake-effect flurries and -15C / -24 windchill>

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

One of the reasons you should never press "Yes: Round up for [charity]" or put money in a chain store's charity box is that their accountants use those figures to calculate how much discretionary cash is loose in a neighborhood and next quarter raise prices to suck it all up for the corporation.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Sparse? A quick search of the usual places turns up nearly a hundred images; if you want sparse, how about, oh, the Anabukin-chan gang ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEh... ), of which I've only ever found a single fan-pic.

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Anabuki Commercial WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

YouTube video by SUPACARIBOO

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Pack rat sketch I did🐀🧀 Also: happy holidays, everyone!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Remember: There's always strength in a union. Solidarity.

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DataPacRat @datapacrat.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I'll admit that I've poked at a few LLMs, seeing whether I could get around the filters. The most successful trick was starting asking for litcrit analysis, then swerving into the most bizarre content that they'd never have thought to train out: transformation into body-parts, or weirder. Silly fun.

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