iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Chris King @ckingsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dumping a cooler full of this on the winning team in the CFL.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Boatman Cryptics @boatmancryptics.co.uk · 23/09/2026

Very disappointing move by The Independent. Loss of its cryptic crossword will be felt both by readers and by the very many new setters (I’ve taught 33 of them!) for whom it’s been an essential route into professional puzzle setting. @the-independent.com please listen to your readers and reconsider!

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Vince @jva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On my microwave there's a 'microwave' button and you have to push the microwave button before you can microwave anything in the microwave

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal

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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Flu and COVID vaxxed last week, easy as hell, got in immediately at the CVS down the block. Side effects negligible (mild sore arm, mild fatigue). Do it now while it’s on your mind! ❤️🙏

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Frisco17 @frisco17.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’ve started up a new blog about werewolves! Make sure to lycansubscribe

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

today years old when I found out that Frances Tiafoe got into tennis because his dad was a day laborer at a construction site for a tennis center, where the family lives in the construction office after fleeing the civil war in Sierra Leone. what a story

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ICT News @ict-news.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Georgina Lightning, a trailblazing Cree filmmaker and mentor who helped carve a path for generations of Indigenous creatives, is being remembered as a “true matriarch” following her sudden passing at 63.

ictnews.org

‘True matriarch’: Producer, writer, director Georgina Lightning dead at 63 - ICT

Indigenous film and television community mourns sudden death of Georgina Lightning

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John Lieb @boswords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Registration is now open for the Boswords 2026 Fall Themeless League! Go to boswords.org for details and to register. Also, a new practice puzzle is available to solve. We're excited to bring you puzzles from this fabulous group ... come solve with us this fall!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Basde on prior solver grievance- im proud to assert that Today’s crossword contains no obscure trivia. Every answer is known by at least one (1) Living Person, whose name and daytime telephone # appear after clue

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Ettuardo "Ettu" Etui @ettuetui.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Excited to announce my daily game has been acquired by the Huffington Post! They'll be using it in their Punishment Room for employees who steal from the communal fridge

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Vince @jva.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Minneapolis, MN-- home of the Pillsbury corporation. They built this city on raw can roll

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erik @e-a-rly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

i read Nancy Armour as saying each of us has a duty to reckon with our passive complicity in the systems that benefit us by harming others, and that part of that effort involves learning history. e.g., if you (like Caitlin Clark) are a white woman, the story of Emmett Till is relevant to you.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today is Ida B. Wells-Barnett's birthday. Wells-Barnett dated many men, married "late," delayed wedding 3x for her speaking tour, in 1890s took hyphenated married name, traveled with nursing baby for political work, named a daughter Ida Jr., and wrote petty stuff about other women in her diary. ❤️

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The news isn’t covering it but Houston has not stopped protesting for Lorenzo Salgado.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior... even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Art, scholarship, or activism––there’s the work and then there’s the work.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 07/07/2026

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

God I miss the national do not call list

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Lena Webb @finitealright.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For many years, someone has been using plywood to try to make certain unlevel/muddy bridge transitions on my commute path better. Today, I MET Mysterious Ramp Man 😱 another bike commuter was thanking him as I rolled up - this dude is a CELEB 🤩

A humble piece of plywood is acting as a ramp to one side of the entry to a wooden bridge on an unpaved shared-use path

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I was gonna post this before I knew it was a black kid named Oliver. Now I’m posting the hell out of it

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

syracuse.com

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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Pallonate in Faccia @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🇨🇩 Michel Kuka Mboladinga, the Congolese fan who attends matches dressed as former President Lumumba, made his debut at the #2026WorldCup today by replicating a famous gesture of protest against the massacres of civilians in the DR Congo. 👇

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 14/06/2026

something powerful and frightening is happening in new york

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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tell your friends about jury nullification.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some heroes don't wear capes

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Lowdown Cryptic @lowdowncryptic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

⭐🇺🇸 Attention, US & Canada Crossword People! 🇨🇦⭐ Free registration is now open for our first-ever national #cryptic #crossword solving championships, online this July! www.crypticsingh.com Prizes for top solvers, fun and challenge for all! 🤓 Please share! Let's make this big 🤩 #USCanadaCrypticCC

Poster for US Cryptic Crossword Championship 2026
Organized by Extra-C on CrypticSingh.com
For US residents of any nationality

Every Sunday of July at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
July 5 - Practice Round
July 12 - Online Round 1
July 19 - Online Round 2
July 26 - Final Leaderboard

Free registration on CrypticSingh.com

Prizes:
Winner $500
Runner-Up $300
2nd Runner-Up $200
Medals for Podium Finishers
Certificates for all State Winners

Poster for Canada Cryptic Crossword Championship 2026
Organized by Extra-C on CrypticSingh.com
For Canada residents of any nationality

Every Sunday of July at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern
July 5 - Practice Round
July 12 - Online Round 1
July 19 - Online Round 2
July 26 - Final Leaderboard

Free registration on CrypticSingh.com

Prizes:
Winner $500
Runner-Up $300
2nd Runner-Up $200
Medals for Podium Finishers
Certificates for all Prov/Terr Winners

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

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Big Baller Brandon @brandonbeck4.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Olivia Miles answering the age old Minnesota question "what if Ricky Rubio could rip 3's like Steph?" tonight

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

they're saying there's never been a better time to buy a gay book...

50% off all Girl Dad Press books and PDFs with code "PRIDE" all month

little puss pride sale! (exact deals not listed)

use code PRIDE26 for 30% featured LGBTQ+ titles at feminist press

30% off plus free shipping on 2SLGBTQIA+ titles with Arsenal Pulp Press using code "pride" all June

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These Puzzles Fund Abortion @tpfa.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

FUND-A-THON ENDS TONIGHT! fund.nnaf.org/tpfa6

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Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

A screenshot of an email that says "We've had enough of McClatchy's bad faith bargaining."

Text from an email that reads:

"Hi friend,

We're officially on strike. Journalists across Idaho and Washington's five McClatchy papers are calling a one-day unfair labor practice strike today, May 26, to show our hedge-fund owned company that there is no paper without us.

We're the ones chasing lawmakers down at our state capitol buildings. We're the ones listening to local business owners, attending court hearings to get the full story on crime and diving headfirst into why traffic is worse.

Yet our corporate owners won't even send their decision-makers to the bargaining table to deny our reasonable requests for a living wage and AI protections."

Text from an email that reads:

"But we need your help.
Don't cross the virtual picket line today. Don't click on links for the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune or The Olympian.

Show McClatchy that you know you deserve reliable information, not AI slop. You want to know what's happening in your community, good or bad, and that's not possible if reporters can't afford to live where they cover.

Sign the pledge to not cross the virtual picket line and help us in our fight for a fair contract!"

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😈™ @cooltimesonline.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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