iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your moment of calm

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 29/09/2026

Mathematicians studied knots under "knot theory" for about a quarter of a millenium, but never analysed what kinds of knots humans have actually tied. In this paper we applied knot theory to study human-made knots spanning over ten millennia. Turns out some of our everyday knots are very old.

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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kyndinfo @kyndinfo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Bowls and Pringles お椀とプリングルス [Math short write-up] www.notion.so/kyndinfo/Bow...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Supporting someone waiting for their MRI brain for MCI. Also reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and calculating that if 150,000 locations were evenly spaced from each other on every land mass on earth, they'd be 20 miles apart. Thanks restless mind.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whoa! I'm glad I'm sitting down.

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Zeno Rogue @zenorogue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A version projected to a spiral.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fascinating. This reminds me of a story about how smart Toronto raccoons have grown to be in defeating garbage securing schemes. A culture of learning, teaching, and play. But these pygmy raccoons of Cozumel rule! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...

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On This Mexican Island, Raccoons Make and Play With Toys (and Also Sip Margaritas) (Gift Article)

Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.

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Drmaypole @drmaypole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Physician self care should be a priority. Get sleep, and eat a good breakfast. Otherwise, things might get a little “confused” as blood sugars dip and the noon hour approaches. #graphicmedicine

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can see the validity of this perspective, but my take is that you'll grieve either way, so maybe optimism helps you thrive in the meantime.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Free music live-coding in the browser. Check this out! sonic-pi.net/code.html and join Sam Aaron's patreon.

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Sonic Pi Code Link

Open to view, play and modify the code in this link.

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Tyler Black, MD @tylerblack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

America started a war, spent billions & changed the world after 9/11. Every year in the US, >1,400 kids (one tower) die by VERY PREVENTABLE firearm suicide (not all suicides, mind you), and its only gotten worse in the past 10 years. You are a contradiction, America.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two great tastes that go well together: Moomin and tower-tunnel. By Paul Antoine Takahashi on instagram.

Moomin with lantern looks down into tower-tunnel with the words from the wall in Annihilation represented next to the steps.

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-hp (art & word) @kultivazy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm so tired of being tired Sure as night will follow day Most things I worry 'bout Never happen anyway [Tom Petty] #Ermutigung #music & #art

abstract painting in blue and red - kind of landscape with sea mountain la and sky appears

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

This mfer lookin' like he gonna try and make me solve his riddles

A large tree with a hole in the trunk, there is a duck sitting in the hole, only its head is visible

Close up of the muscovy duck in the hole

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 22/09/2026

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you: the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. Mine was the original ascii text dungeon crawler game Rogue.

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Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And then he saw it, standing there. ~~~ #osr #ttrpg #art #sketch

Drawing of a portrait of a bearded guy wearing a helmet, with an expression of atonishment

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"I used this on a patient and she got better" is what passed for science before we had controlled trials. It's why blood-letting was a standard treatment for, like, 400 years. And now it's giving us unregulated peptides. @juliabelluz.bsky.social reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

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Opinion | The Peptide Wild West (Gift Article)

Welcome to the new Wild West of peptides.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 22/09/2026

Fuck you, Doug. Incarceration doesn’t solve the root causes of poverty , lack of economic opportunity, social infrastructure and mental health.

An advert on a railway hoarding in monochrome with a welder welding that says ‘a safer Ontario: building new jails

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just read about the therapeutic benefits of perceived contact with a loved one who has died. This reminds me of my fitful sleep the night after my daughter died. I felt a comforting hand on my shoulder, and never again. Hallucinatory or not, I needed it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...

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Opinion | Go Ahead and Laugh at Mediums. They May Be On to Something. (Gift Article)

Research shows there could be benefits to sensing those we’ve lost.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

good to see that Affinity now has shape-blend groups

a 13-step blend between a violet cup shape and an aqua double-wave shape

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕂𝕖𝕪 @skeletonkey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~ Galileo Galilei

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rat Purse — Paul Frey, 20th C. brass, ruby

A brass Queen purse in the shape of a rat the body of the Rat is around bag of chainmail with four little rat legs coming off of it there's a rat tail at the end and the Rats I is a bright red thanks to a little speck of Ruby

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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mallard Duck hybrid (likely a Mallard crossed with a Pacific Black Duck or similar dabbling duck), looking #scruffy in his colouring. The mottled tones are normal cross genetics rather than him playing in the mud or old age. 🎨🩶💚 #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #ECK #Duck

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's totally normal to take 78 photos of a Blue Jay in a bird bath, right? RIGHT? #birds

Head and shoulders portrait of a bird with a bright blue crest and black necklace. The bird looks super confident.

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Don De Tina @donnyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Visited a local table-top gaming paradise Black Knight Games looking for a birthday gift for my son. How much they've grown over the years! Many days include three separate meetups. Huge retail for every appetite. Decided on a Wingspan game for Greg and The Librarian's Apprentice for myself.

interior of meeting space with people at tables and chairs

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

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Brian Christian @bcriverside28.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A watchful Raven on a damp, grey morning for Tuesday’s #BirdOfTheDay #Silhouette

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is yet again having a sale, so all my books, including my latest graphic novel Speaking in Pictures about language, cognition, and visual communication, are 30% off this week! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...

Quotes promoting Speaking in pIctures by Neil Cohn

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The moose is loose! Bullwinkle is all fired up and ready for a new home 🍁 #sciart #canada

A chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

A closeup of the face of a chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

The other side of a chocolate brown and metallic silver raku pottery moose sculpture on a white background

A raku pottery moose sculpture being lowered into the reduction bin. Flames abound!

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aleha_84 @aleha84.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Shelter 2

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