iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 1h

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sorry but "I don't believe Helen Keller existed. There's just no way she actually flew that plane." is perhaps the best 1st date icebreaker of all time...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 1h

this is all awful but by far the most diagnosable part of this is his obsession with beards as destructive to unit cohesion. having a beard is as bad as being a communist to Pete.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18h

"The child asking you for string cheese is obviously reminding me of government handouts. Instead of providing this much-needed sustenance, I would answer a question with a question: 'Who is John Galt?'" buff.ly/FwI2iK7

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An Incredibly Chillaxed, School-Bus-Stop Hang with the Gen X Dad Who Keeps Putting Atlas Shrugged in Your Little Free Library

“It’s me, the Gen X dad who tells people he could have played college football within five minutes of meeting them. Grab a cold septuple IPA even though it’s...

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 1h

The idealized form of the future American subject (nee citizen) is as a walking surveillance camera or listening device.

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Coureur de Fembois [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 5h

nearly every trans woman, if not literally all of us, have seen this. we've seen men in groups, what they say about women and queers, how they treat *each other*, and it's horrifying! it's no wonder why the few I trust personally were never there plenty of men who seem fine become beasts in private

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 1h

And losing a major war to a minor power and it's not even close

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1h

Hey I was close! Almost two years ago.

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TIA THE TALKING TITTY TITAN🧿 @prettttystoned.bsky.social · 2h

Hey whores, no means no. but it also means: “Maybe” “Not right now” “I’m tired” “I don’t feel like it” “I’m not in the mood” “If I do it will you stop asking” “I’m on my period” “I don’t like that” Body language.

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TIA THE TALKING TITTY TITAN🧿 @prettttystoned.bsky.social · 1h

Coercion is explicitly pressuring someone, but it also means: “But your mouth is working” “If you don’t do it then you don’t love me” “Stop being boring” “I’ll stop asking if you just do it” “I’m not asking for a lot” “Why can’t you just do this for me” “I have needs” A sudden change in attitude

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Aluminium Bat @aluminiumbat.bsky.social · 1h

Interestingly, in this article the Third Way rep is even saying that transphobia is a losing position to take, though she is still insisting that it WAS a good thing before but magically in two years things have changed so much that it's a bad idea now.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 1h

this book is good! come learn the terrible truth that tennis balls are a microcosm of technological modernity and they weren't bright yellow until 1972 when you had to see them on a color tv. the world you know is a web of strings and gauze and anything can be changed at any moment

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 1h

I guess I made up for it by experiencing a truly incredible amount of sexual harassment and abuse in the heavy metal scene. there are frat guys everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 1h

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1h

Jane Doe, you are remarkably brave. I wish you didn’t have to be. “I am Jane Doe.” Do not let them doxx Jane Doe. If you see their name, you did not. Do not punish the victim. I stand with survivors. You will not take away their power. We believe you.

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Minnesota hates ICE @kibbles0515.bsky.social · 1h

Amazon has also helped contribute to poorly-made, disposable, sweatshop products. When you can get a new widget delivered to you in less than 48 hours, why does it matter if it breaks?

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 59m

Not a scam at all. Definitely real things and not just a scam to steal taxpayer money

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 8h

this guy is just an AI booster on Twitter, of course he's going to have this opinion because it lures in the town he's currently trying to sell a monorail to, but it's not actually real. When guys say this, they don't actually know or care about music or history, they just care about the attention

The general public hates AI music.

Here are other things the general public hated over the years.

1920s: microphones.

The idea that you could project your voice was lambasted by critics for being "manipulative" when they were first released. Today, microphones are pretty much a requirement.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 8h

So much of the lens on culture has been turned into a numbers game, where everything is about chart placements and streaming numbers and data. Its a horse race to who gets to do data best, and all of these dorks forget that people just want a song that will make them cry at the grocery store.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah this Cornell thing is like a mass disabling event for survivors. I am fine, I *was* fine. But now it's in the zeitgeist again so I get to be reminded of my own college experience, something I hadn't thought about in decades, on a daily basis.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 5h

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation can be difficult. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust. Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 (24/7) Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310 or online.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5h

OPINION: "Charter schools have increased inequality and racial and socioeconomic inequality within school systems, some research shows," William McCorkle and Beth Lloyd write. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-scho...

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Opinion | School Choice Options Don’t Always Extend to Immigrant Students

William McCorkle and Beth Lloyd write about how school choice policies often leave immigrant and low-income students behind.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 20h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6h

I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 5h

this picture is from 10 years ago in October. as students we took it upon ourselves to organize bystander intervention and consent workshops because our institutions let survivors down. it popped into my head this week considering how in some ways students today have worse material conditions

Lex in 2016 in college, holding a white board reading “it’s on us to end sexual violence because as a 2x survivor I am seeking justice by creating an accountable, healing and radically loving community”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

💔 Rep. Ilhan Omar shares her story about have a miscarriage

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Stephanie LaTour @stephanielatour.bsky.social · 4h

Or to put it differently, about 90% of U.S. households earn less than $250,000/ year. The 90% should wake up and support the wealth tax!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

Earning $250,000 a year puts you in the top 4.1% of individual workers or the top 11% of households in the United States. WAKE THE FUCK UP!

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Cornell 7 we’re all talking about? That story was broken in the work of Cereese Qusba, who is a reporter at The Ithaca Voice and a news editor at The Cornell Daily Sun, two independent newspapers. She is still herself, a student at Cornell University.

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 4h

i’ve taken to telling new yorkers “step back to allow customers to exit; when boarding, please move to the center of the car.” metro life lessons

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jon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4h

If you're trying to "solve art" you're either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil. Art isn't a problem, it's a solution

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Brad the Inhaler 🌳 @erectilefunction0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I deleted a post in which I said Michael Tracey should kill himself. That was a mistake, I’m sorry. I should not have deleted the post, I will be better next time.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 20h

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 4h

“Why do they always have to be perverts, like gays or pedophiles” I have enough “allies” thanks you can go back to whatever it was you were doing.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

You have a better chance of going bankrupt than of becoming a millionaire. Wake up!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 4h

So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h

‘oh that guy just thrives on negative attention’ ok but what about what i thrive on though. what if it’s very important to me medically and nutritionally to remind certain men whose addresses are in the public record that they are god’s mistake

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

It’s bad that beating a kid until they bleed can be framed euphemistically, even in critical media, as long as they can also be described as an inmate.

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