iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

When the British editor adds in the u's and swaps out the z's to anglicize the spelling, it feels a bit like my writing is getting tastefully reupholstered.

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I promise, no matter what they say they are doing, Meta is using this to scrape everything they can find on your devices and recording everything you do or say. It is what they’ve done with every product they’ve ever released. Nothing of yours is safe if you use this, no matter how careful you are.

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Meta’s New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

Permission isn't the same and what a user actually expects your AI product will do with their personal information.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trendy new pop-up restaurant boasts audacious urban locale

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got a delightful story coming out next week that features a little cameo from this guy

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've long known mosquitoes travel with us including via plane. But infected mosquitoes carrying malarial parasites is a nightmare situation. Going to need to start fumigating. 🦟🦠✈️🧪

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretty sure one of them is a bronze statue

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gemini: A Gemini is someone you can trust to help you hide a dead body, but you can’t trust them not to dress the body up in a clown costume and parade it around a bit.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 18/09/2026

Ever heard of the five-toed worm lizard (Bipes biporus)? This critter spends most of its time underground: Each of its forelimbs is equipped with five clawed digits that are used for digging. It can grow up to 8.3 in (21.1 cm) long. Photo: franfauna, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

A photo of a five-toed worm lizard on a human hand. The animal somewhat resembles a worm, with pink skin, but has visible facial features and tiny arms.

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You can learn a lot from people who don’t say much

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Documentaries that invite a closer listen… We’re launching a new podcast built from nearly three decades of our Falling Tree documentary archives! Listen to Falling Tree for innovative docs, radio features and audio art - podfollow.com/6812121787

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More people should use hashtags so I can mute them.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10/09/2026

okay so what you’re gonna do for this one is, you’re gonna scroll down a bit, click on ‘Google street view’ and then go thru the house that way www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

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Check out this 5 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

5 bedroom detached house for sale in Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey, GU5 for £2,000,000. Marketed by Queenwood Property, Surrey

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More people should use hashtags so I can mute them.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2026

"Drop-off is not a time to chat, say hello, kiss your child goodbye, hand them their lunch, take your hands off the steering wheel, or even use your brakes. If you need to do any of these things, simply CIRCLE THE BLOCK." buff.ly/kRzGM8g

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New School Year Drop-Off and Pick-Up Rules

“Drop-off is not a time to chat, say hello, kiss your child goodbye, hand them their lunch, take your hands off the steering wheel, or even use your brakes. ...

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Old enough to remember when we didn't have day-biting mosquitoes in this area to turn every lunchtime dog walk into a blood sacrifice.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sept. 6, 1926: Agricultural agent L. M. Hollingworth stands amid 2-year-old kudzu that was planted to improve the poor soil on the Dorsey farm in Alabama.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This looks like a cartoon, like something that didn't make it into the final cut of Fantasia

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I believe giant wooden trolls are filling this niche now

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

All the robocalling bots are adding a fake cough in to their spiel these days and I hate it.

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Leon 🌟 @witchdaddy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Did you know that bigfoot sightings overlap near perfectly with the range of the american black bear, indicating a potential symbiotic relationship between these two incredible species

A range map depicting bigfoot sightings and american black bear sightings. There is an image superimposed on the left of a black bear standing upright on two legs with a caption below saying “fun fact: black bears have often been recorded standing and walking on their hind legs”

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Clearly I need someone with a pet #SlimeMold to help me map out the most efficient travel route for upcoming college visits à la this experiment: youtu.be/HyzT5b0tNtk?...

youtu.be

Can Slime Mould Solve Mazes? | Earth Science

YouTube video by BBC Earth Science

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Not a great picture, but possibly carnival candy #SlimeMold

A cluster of pale pink tufts emerging from stalks growing on a fallen log.

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Adrian Smith @dradriansmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New video, spotted lanternfly & ailanthus webworms! youtu.be/-iryUM79Ce4

youtu.be

These (AMAZING) bugs are not supposed to be here

YouTube video by Ant Lab

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dog is suggesting it's time for a nap. I'm impressed with her thought leadership on this initiative.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah, August is when we open the Hellmouth around here. Sure, we flirt with the heat in July, but August is when we throw the doors open wide and just bake for a while.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I do this too; I label it Parking. Sometimes stuff left in Parking launches a whole 'nother piece.

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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 09/08/2026

Mt. Washington. 92 Crane Ave - Miller’s Crossing Fleatique. Caller said that the store is selling individual parts of human remains.

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efriend @efriend.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You ever meet somebody and instantly feel bad for their ex-wife, whoever she may be? Might not even be married yet, but you just know.

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Gary Muppet @garymuppet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The thing about living in the woods is that every stick at first looks like a snake and every snake at first looks like a stick.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 06/08/2026

society chose the wrong path

tiny adorable Subaru 360 van circa 1970
a normal sized woman roughly two feet taller than the vehicle is leaning with her elbow on the roof

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