iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

hey, just checking in to confirm

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York. That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026

The bar for progressive policies is: "did this unilaterally solve the entire gigantic systemic issue without making a single person sad?" The bar for conservative policies is: "did the people pushing this yell out the name of a real problem before doing something unrelated, cruel and ineffective?"

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The violence in Belfast is a reminder of something I don’t want to take for granted: The fascists here hoped the response to the depredations of ICE would be similar, with people turning in or attacking their neighbors. That it was the very opposite is worth remembering in this season of despair

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/04/2026

staying in a fancy hotel for a few days is nice but nothing hits like returning to your shitty little apartment where all your garbage ass crap is

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ceej @ceej.online · 14/04/2026

10+ years of tracking biometric data has led me to the stunning insight that I feel better on days I don’t work

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(spoo)key @lefttwix.com · 07/03/2026

i feel like this is all happening cause we stopped pumping up the jam

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 01/03/2026

my problem with these takes, is it's like imagine if you were being attacked by a tiger at the zoo, and the zookeeper was over there kinda halfheartedly going "hey. come on now. get off him" and you went HEY WHAT THE FUCK! and the zookeeper went "uh don't oyu think you should be angry at the tiger?"

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Driving at or under the speed limit is such an amazing feeling

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

the europeans Fucked Around (at best quietly sat around during or at worst actively abetted our utterly lawless sponsored genocide in gaza) and now theyre Finding Out (getting the other end of the utterly lawless US stick)

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

forgetting the word Domesticated and telling people at this party raccoons have gotten "more coachable." at some point i start adding "over the offseason" which i don't think raccoons even have yet

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/01/2026

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

Mamdani's Executive Order Number 1, as described in the post.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 30/12/2025

we have to figure out the exact amount of wealth that drives everyone who attains it permanently insane and stupid. it's way less than a billion but there are some low end millionaires that seem reasonably intelligent. i think 14 million sounds about right

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

unironically a good idea

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Gavin Newsom is Mitt Romney for the Democrats, a department store mannequin who will lose in a general election

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

three wise men... don't see much of that nowadays

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/09/2025

this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/03/2025

we are living under fascism right now

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Hails @whatuphails.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Bad news : You don't know what will happen. Good news : You don't know what will happen.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/01/2025

my opinion on congestion pricing is that it should cost 10,000 dollars to honk your car horn

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2025

i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Posting this, the greatest video of all time, to BlueSky for posterity. Please discuss all of its life-changing details.

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ceddanne rafaela enjoyer 🧦⚽️🦅 @stylo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

gf said something yday about the exploitation inherent to the production of artistic "genius" that had me feeling like Wallace Shawn after reading Capital

a passage from The Fever by Wallace Shawn: "
... I came to a phrase that I'd heard before, a strange, upsetting, sort of ugly phrase: this was the section on "commodity fetishism," "the fetishism of commodities."...
His explanation was very elusive. He used the example that people say, "Twenty yards of linen are worth two pounds." People say that about every thing that it has a certain value. This is worth that. This coat, this sweater, this cup of coffee: each thing worth some quantity of money, or some number of other things—one coat, worth three sweaters, or so much money—as if that coat, suddenly appearing on the earth, contained somewhere inside itself an amount of value, like an inner soul, as if the coat were a fetish, a physical object that contains a living spirit. But what really determines the value of a coat? The coat's price comes from its history, the history of all the people involved in making it and selling it and all the particular relationships they had. And if we buy the coat, we, too, form relationships with all those people, and yet we hide those relationships from our own awareness by pretending we live in a world where coats have no history but just fall down from heaven with prices marked inside. "I like this coat," we say, "It's not expensive," as if that were a fact about the coat and not the end of a story about all the people who made it and sold it, "I like the pictures in this magazine."
A naked woman leans over a fence. A man buys a magazine and stares at her picture. The destinies of these two are linked. The man has paid the woman to take off her clothes, to lean over the fence. The photograph contains its history—the moment the woman unbuttoned her shirt, how she felt, what the photographer said. The price of the magazine is a code that describes the relationships between all these people—the woman, the man, the publisher, the photographer—who commanded, who obeyed...."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024

News Happening Faster Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions theonion.com/news-happeni...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hasan Piker rightly pushes back on the idea that the Democrats simply need their own Joe Rogan, telling CNN "It's 100% a policy thing," calling for "real left-wing economic populist messaging instead of purposely avoiding that stuff because they're terrified of upsetting their corporate donors."

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Social media has weirdly conditioned a huge number of people to feel like they're Doing Something by posting, and Doing Nothing if they don't post about a particular thing, and in general neither of those things are true.

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