iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Manosphere shepherd is my father’s name. Call me Shep.

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

their own... PERSONAL... Jesus?

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Oh man—I already loved these books and now 10x.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/01/2026

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

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Caroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Personally I just really love reading. But I also adore libraries so go to your library this new year. They have all the books, you can request books and they nearly all have a online service for e books these days. #Libraries2026

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

2025 Year in Review! -falcon hearing worse than ever -center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity -blood-dimmed tide containment failure -the Worst with record high passionate intensity

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Amazon really does deliver anything.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

God bless this NYRB writer who describes the Smiths as “walk[ing] on the Wilde side.”

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse" "Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots." snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...

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The Grift Bubble

A Political Theory of American Collapse

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

There goes 90+ day credit-card delinquencies. New cycle high. (via Kev Gordon)

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.” Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...

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A book 15 years in the making

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The cultural conditions to revive this moment were there in 1996 but history had other plans.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Glad to know that checking the app would have in no way improved my similar experience.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

History as tragedyfarce? Farcetragedy?

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

There are wonderful people in local government.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

City gov Mt Vernon, OH after raid today: “The City remains steadfast in its commitment to supporting our citizens, upholding the rule of law, and, above all else, defending the Constitution of the United States and the principle of due process for all individuals.” www.cleveland.com/nation/2025/...

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ICE raids restaurant in central Ohio, detains workers

Local officials say they received no prior notice of the immigration enforcement action at the restaurant that opened in 2024.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In reading both *Banal Nightmare* and *Jillian*, I was badly tempted to put each down, because the opening chapters are rough on the reader. But the claustrophobic feel of the early stuff makes the late-chapter brightness feel like a joyous revelation. Writing is stunning too.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I really love Halle Butler’s books. She leads us into depression’s dark, self-violent, isolation, then signals a near-imperceptible shift, one conversation that cracks open the cell, leads the soul into a community where it can thrive.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

All is not lost, tomorrow you wake up and probably get to eat oats. Perhaps an egg. The possibilities are endless.

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“The challenge Arendt poses to us is to think of truth and meaning not from the perspective of the economist, financial analyst, data scientist, or sociologist, but of the historian, the kind who sees human events as a series of breaks, anomalies, & initiations” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

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Stupidology | William Davies

The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

“whatever rate limits may be in place appear to, at times, get completely ignored, and there doesn’t seem to be anything they can do to stop it.”

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga... Incredible. Apparently AI companies cannot control how much compute users burn (and thus how much users cost the companies). “even the model developers have no real way of limiting user activity, likely due to the architecture of generative AI”

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The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.

Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Reminder that September is National library card month, so you should totally go get a library card! Yes, they have books, but many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and more! Maybe it's time for a visit!

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I appreciate and understand zero-tolerance re: generative AI in the classroom. I'm also disallowing it; we'll spend a lot of class time with pen and paper. But I like the ethic here to be positive: students deserve and should cultivate space to think away from the machines.

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 02/08/2025

mohonk curve section interior, new paltz, new york, 1978

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Great thread, which debunks a number of myths re: the humanities.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future

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Marc Channick @marcchannick.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

super cool to realize that the capacity for shame was a load-bearing part of our system of government and that the MAGA movement's total rejection of that is an insanely powerful cheat code

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Drew Strombeck @drew-strombeck.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Great observation—holds for The Trees too. (Perhaps Himes’s influence.)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here's the West Philly Tool Library! Brooklyn's got the Greenpoint Public Library Tool Library, the Flatbush Tool Library, the Green Guerillas' Tool Library...

A sign with the letters WPTL made out of tools!

Ladders along one wall; power tools on the other wall; a long table with other tools laid out on top

Lawnmowers, power cords, dollies, and other gadgets

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I for one am tired of Humanities academics pushing their elitist agenda of basic literacy, independent thinking and an elementary knowledge of human history

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

The liberatory power of mass literacy has been established across half a millennia. When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line. Literacy is the foundation of democratic society. It must be enclosed & economized.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it. People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist. my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

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The Cross-Reference Coalition An Experimental School

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 08/06/2025

the funniest thing about the “ice agents are human beings with families” line is that there is no evidence to support the claim. oh they’re real people? what are their names? as far as I’m concerned they’re the T-1000 until proven otherwise

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It’s sad to see the old MetroCard vending machines gone. They were a great example of good, durable, legible, cheerful public industrial design. About 20 yrs ago we invited Antenna Design to come talk @ The New School as part of our media + public space project.

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