iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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here is a riddle, what do you call it when you copy what other people seem to make work without understanding why and having limited success in repeating results with different team and goals you may be thinking "cargo cult" but no it's "software methodologies"

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 10h

You just never know what you'll see when you step out the door

Several fancy Koi fish swimming just below the surface of a pond. Bare tree branches overhead are reflected on the water and there are several yellow leaves floating on the surface. It's a complicated mixture of colours and levels but it kind of works.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

“Welcome home” - Joe Biden, 2025

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 8h

It's a beautiful day at the zoo, and you are a horrible goose.

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 23h

Geese are insane: Example #2,987,304

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10h

"This system will absolutely work as a series of checks and balances as long as there are no strong political parties, see you later, gotta go form a bunch of strong political parties because I *hate that bewigged asshole right over THERE*" galaxy brain Founding Fathers work.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10h

Your occasional reminder that the Founding Fathers were not psychic democracy angels descended from Heaven but problem children spot-welding a first of its kind system together while both (often) being drunk and (always) hating each other.

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 8h

And already suspended, hurrah.

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 9h

@cherylrofer.bsky.social Hi, is @chrylrf@mastodon.social actually you, or another impersonator?

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Betty Kraken of Florida @bettycrackerfl.bsky.social · 10h

It’s already illegal! But worth calling your reps about — shitty Republicans especially since their party leader is breaking the law, betraying an ally and funding a genocidal dictator who’s helping Iran target U.S. troops.

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 11h

It's a warning to critics that they can be SWATed at any time without consequence to the AI companies.

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 17h

simply do not understand the anti-impeachment impulse on the left. even if you think there's no point to impeachment without conviction (i think this is wrong on the merits, impeachment means public inquiry), what else do you think a democratic congress is going to do under this president?

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 17h

what i want out of the next two years of an at least partially democrat-controlled congress is robust dossiers on every criminal in this administration ready for relevant agency heads and state governments at 12pm on january 20, 2028. impeachments are one avenue to help build them

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

yes. gotta call these dirty white supremacists what they are to their faces. more of this.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He called his bigoted opponent a bigot to his face. Ossoff knows his voters and trusts them enough to tell them the truth. He talks about those responsible for this horrible situation in ways that resonate with those of us who are looking around like, what the fuck? He’s v good at all this.

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 20h

Ludicrous. SF magazines have been around for a century without the kind of rights thievery you want to do. Your statement stinks of bad faith and I hope you go bankrupt.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 23h

This statement is utter nonsense, unmoored from anything real.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22h

I have never ever understood this phrase because to me it has always sounded like "get a gun and you can be a complete asshole and ppl will put up with it in case you shoot them" like if you need to be armed to get ppl to be nice to you maybe you should just go fix your fucking personality chad

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21h

The entire "we will not have ID" is insane at every law enforcement level unless the objective has fuckall to do with laws

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 21h

this is literally why you have uniforms and badges every member of the media pretending that any of this is due to anything else should be frogmarched out of public life

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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mcc @dryad.technology · 10/10/2026

A detail I initially missed, minor compared to everything else, but I found it interesting: One of the effects of the US issuing sanctions against the ICC was "the video platform YouTube removed more than 700 videos documenting evidence of possible war crimes." pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/10...

pixelunion.eu

How the US is sidelining the ICC through tech, again | PixelUnion - Free your photos from American tech platforms

The US sanctions on the International Criminal Court show how exposed you are when your digital infrastructure is in foreign hands.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3467 catching a rogue penguin

A bunny runs after a small penguin, who is waddling across an expansive snow-covered landscape towards distant mountains. The penguin is transfixed by the horizon, while the bunny is more concerned with catching up to the penguin

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Ed Gaillard @edgaillard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Somebody should ask him about Ditka again in an hour or so, see if he remembers.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 09/10/2026

Drawing a political compass where three of the quadrants are Naomi Wolf, Naomi Klein, and Ezra Klein, and then using the fourth quadrant to derive the hypothetical political interests of a hypothetical "Ezra Wolf"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 06/10/2026

Sentences which describe something entirely ordinary, but which sound alarming when you say them out loud: "I have a normal number of skulls."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon Happy Friday! Long weekend for us in 🇨🇦 🥳🎉🦃

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 09/10/2026

Voters in the Peruvian town of Queropalca have chosen their new mayor: Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores.

politico.eu

Hitler Mussolini wins local election

Peruvian voters pick their new mayor, despite his unusual name.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026

Corporate death penalty.

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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The city added an AI search to the 311 app and now the app is almost unusable nygroove.nyc/nyc311-ai-sm...

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The 311 app has AI now. It kinda sucks

Ensloppification comes to 311, but the city says the tech might be needed

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

She’s pure as New York snow, she got Bette Davis eyes

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3466 guards the nest

A bunny sits beside a nest of sleeping mice, at least three of them, who are curled up and sleeping in a thicket. The bunny is eating a flower.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026

apropos of nothing in particular remember when the NYPD kidnapped and publicly threatened de Blasio’s daughter

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/10/2026

you can see an NYPD blue shirt shove Darializa to the ground here at about 0:19 x.com/timmyfacciol...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/10/2026

as always the gap between "what the mayor's police force does" and "what the mayor says in high production value vertical videos and guest podcast appearances" remains informative

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 09/10/2026

one thing you really do not get on this website is real-time protest reporting. on the other website it is being reported that NYPD SRG is yet again running interference for ICE x.com/merrux/statu...

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reggie seidman @ennui.org · 08/10/2026

pay $45 to fly anonymously

Sign at the airport:

Don't Have an Acceptable Form of Identification?

Scan the QR code to pay the $45 TSA ConfirmID fee or visit tsa.gov/ConfirmID

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tichodroma @feathertrail.net · 08/10/2026

weakly, fitfully chanting No New Taxes as ancient permafrost methane chokes my last breaths

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when democrats pander to anti-trans panic they are telling people to stay home and not vote. demoralizing your vote with moral cowardice.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I grew up learning that if you treated people with respect and built relationships with them, you could move towards a mutually beneficial understanding. But if the only thing they respond to is bullying, welp, I guess I have a new organizing principle.

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