iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 12h

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I tore my calf muscle by stepping off a kerb in a jaunty manner

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh my god the tins in The Terror gave me such intense DREAD. The cartoon bear was awful - would have been far better left unseen as a sacred mystery, not for our eyes to see. But the TINS were genuinely terrifying.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I loved it when I was 2 or 3, but suddenly something changed and I became TERRIFIED and still am to this day

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh nooo the little boot with pleading desperate eyes 😭😭😭😭😭

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely this film, but not this scene - and I can't bring myself to describe the actual scene, much less find an image. I tried to rewatch recently and had to give up, and yes cover my eyes and put my fingers in my ears at the most horrific moment.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

get attached to this new uruk because definitely nothing bad can happen to him...

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh I was terrified of skellingtons and lived in fear of this skull being exposed in Knightmare!!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Jimmy Shaker Day @brgbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whenever they insist they just want to exchange ideas, I’m always never curious as to the new and exciting advances in hatred of other humans

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love them. I haven't so much as been on a date for 20+ years but I want what they have!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was just telling my first years (on day 1!!) about Stanley Fish's thing about Paradise Lost making Satan sexy so the reader becomes complicit in the Fall of Man!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have you seen the theory online somewhere that she's the same alien species as Pennywise in IT? I find her creepier. I'd definitely watch that show.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

The underlying assumption is that budget allocations in universities are ideologically neutral: that institutional investment just goes to wherever lots of students choose to spend their time. But this is not how it works. Admin decide what forms of knowledge they want to incentivize.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I suspect that watching Pillion as an asexual person is a rather different movie, because I was wondering why that table seemed so heavy for 2 naked men to carry, and then I realised it was probably reinforced in some way to bear several bikers pounding on it. Specialist orgy furniture, or DIY?

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cry and sob hysterically at every occasion, especially when confronted by government clerks.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you hate academic reading and writing? Do you hate them so much that you’ll buy an app to turn them into tiktoks and slop for you? Try this one simple trick: Do something else

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been watching Alone on all4 and I'm baffled. 1. Do other people feel lonely when they are NOT around humans? Weird. 2. Are the contestants contractually obliged to keep crying that wild wolves & bears are going to attack them?

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you cannot defeat fascism by ceding anyone’s bodily autonomy.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I recently listened to the audiobook. Ughhhhh it was rank. But weirdly compelling.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The problems these grading machines solve: grading fast, more, and cheap, are quite different from the problems writing instructors, writing tutors, writing center solve: developing ideas, human conversation, learning.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is absolutely 1000% my opinion on Batman, almost word for word! I did howl laughing at Lego Batman eating lobster alone in the batcave. But yes, Adam West is THE Batman.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rewatching Trueblood and it is truly awful, but the highlight is Ginger, who must be a professional horror-movie screamer

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

naww Event Horizon is one of the best romantic comedies, and the protagonist claws his own eyes out to be in a hell dimension of infinite torment with the spaceship he loves

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't really swim, and am terrified of water, but maybe this would work for me??

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the flare things are supposed to make noise less annoying & triggering. I worked nextdoor to a primary school and I think the shrieking became less irritating, but I might have imagined that. But at least Flare don't feel like a bung.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think Loop advertising gives the impression they're special, but they are still just a bung in your ears and you can hear the inside of your skull and throat amplified

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yes. Not for me. Horrible bung feeling in ears. Flare audio things that reduce reverberation in your earhole were ok.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am delighted to be on several “unhinged about AI” lists because of my firm believe that human beings should not participate in our own deskilling and replacement for the further enrichment of tech billionaires. Yes, please block me. Cleanse my timeline of your creepy pick-me energy.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📣 Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator (12-Month Fixed Term) 📣 Salary: £23,500pa Contract: Full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period Application deadline: Friday 25th September at 1pm Please visit our website for full details and how to apply.

A poster with the background of the building of Gladstone's Library framed by flowers. Along the top reads 'Work With Us!'. The text reads: Now Hiring: Events, Conferences and Marketing Administrator
You will work across the breadth of the library to deliver strong administrative support for our group bookings and events programme. We are looking for someone with an eye for detail, excellent communication skills, who is highly organised and proactive. This a full-time (34.5 hours per week) role for a fixed 12-month period with a salary of £23,500pa. www.gladstoneslibrary.org/about/work-at-gladstones-library/

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo.

Students are using artificial intelligence for everything, including cheating, and a recent M.I.T. report said the technology was creating
"cognitive surrender."
Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. anyway. →

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This 1892 eugenics book is readable via Wellcome Collection online. I bought a copy for £10 during my PhD, and happy to say many pages were still uncut, so someone did not get through it. wellcomecollection.org/works/h6vxpu3a

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Marriage and disease : a study of heredity and the more important family degenerations / S.A.K. Strahan.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If anyone wants to read the 1890s stuff, a Dr called SAK Strahan was absoutely wild. I'm not saying representative, but still very illuminating to see the seething, hateful language directed at disabled people, their bodies, their sexuality, etc etc, in the name of 'science'.

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Many I read were unscientific & contradictory but claimed to be scientific & rational. A kind of masturbatory slavering over the suffering of the 'unfit', making 'brave' statements about who doesn't deserve to live, and over commanding women's bodies. BUT I also found contemporaries saying WTF???

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I study 19th century eugenics & this is the answer I reached there. Even in 1890s, people wrote that letting disease run riot = more disabled people, not fewer. But eugenicist writings seem to get off on *deciding lives unworthy of life*. And their other thrill: demanding ownership of uteruses.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's always astonishing to me how effective "THEY don't get it, but YOU have the special insight and intelligence to get it" is at suckering people into cults. High achievers and strivers are easy marks precisely BECAUSE their achievement and high self-regard renders them susceptible to this line.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Frog and Toad stayed on the island all afternoon. They ate wet sandwiches without iced tea. They were two close friends sitting alone together.

Frog and Toad sitting on the island together, reveling in their friendship.

From "Alone"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Alex @drspider666.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ragnarok on Netflix! It is so silly! Loki gives birth to a giant worm and feeds it coco pops.

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