iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 6h

Would you believe it if I told you there were samurai with Gatling guns and a war that a lot of people writing in English don't want to talk about? #FridayNightHistory Season 5 is Into The Scale of Battle: A History of the Boshin War, available wherever you podcast or at komaneko.gay

Into The Scale of Battle: A History of the Boshin War, is Season 5 of Friday Night History. Available wherever you podcast or at http://komaneko.gay

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 10h

This would be an excellent PR opportunity for churches to loudly proclaim they have women's backs by condemning sex assault but I guess preaching hatred is the bigger agenda.

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Aleksei I. Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 10h

I just need the doctor to actually fill the refill request I've been trying to get him to do all week. I hurt so much and the meds supply is perilously low. It shouldn't take 5 days to get a script!

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 10h

Only question is are quacks like him the 1st or 2nd biggest challenge facing healthcare 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 10h

Not giving me warm feelings about my surgeon colleagues 🤬🤬🤬

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

The amount of gibbering spit-inflected rage scholars like Bender and others get has been really eye opening but also scary

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 8h

If you're on pixiv, follow my account there! I'm trying to set up there to build a portfolio of my visual art. You might see some familiar pieces, and soon, some new ones: buff.ly/ZpIoGEI

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Historian of early modern Japan, cyberpunk novelist, podcaster, and erstwhile journalist.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7h

More photos (and more to come) from today at Beinecke Plaza, a historic site of protest at Yale. Students, faculty, alums are calling for academic freedom, free speech and assembly and no settlement with the Trump administration.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 7h

It's also one of the things that seems to trigger reality breaks. Talking a lot at a bot even in a non-real imaginary context as a character in a story you know is pretend is dangerous, we really should not let these uses become normalized. These programs literally kill people. Often children.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 7h

Everybody wants you to talk to a book character on their service because it keeps people on the platform for hours and hours and hours and they get money when you do that.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 7h

Chatbots for RPing (not even only for sexy roleplaying, plenty of it is extremely mundane) is one of the only things making AI companies money right now. Millions of people use character chat services, it's a thriving market. It's ALSO incredibly dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/t...

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What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

Harassing bots with “funny violence.” Confiding about a broken heart. Chatting with a block of cheese. Filling a void of loneliness.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 7h

I love this ❤️ People have all sorts of reasons they avoid vaccines- some as simple as this. Being open about it and having a simple thing like a friendly person helping you through it is great 👍🏻

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 7h

Interrelated point: ai has been everywhere in visual art world for four years now. Just: around. Being looked at. For a whole high school/undergrad stretch. You know how my art low key looks like Masters of the Universe? Guess what was around while I was learning?

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 29/09/2026

A win on fair use: court rejects fair use defense of AI training

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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still $758 needed to make rent tomorrow, Oct. 1! Please help me not lose the momentum I’m gaining toward a healthier life, where I can once again support myself. Small amounts add up, and shares go far. 💜 Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Please help my wonderful friend El.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 20h

I thought maybe people had finally stopped doing inktober. Please stop doing Inktober. Pick a prompt list that wasn't trademarked by a plagiarist who hates disabled people.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are already feeling stretched by gas/groceries, a big hike in your Medicare or ACA plans will plunge your monthly finances into the red. Options become cut something elsewhere (if anything left to cut), or gamble with foregoing the coverage. Lots of ACA peeps will forego…and be at huge risk

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

Hey read my latest article, it’s protective against basilisks, according to Bayesian inference

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

So the work that the Anthropic settlement people split 25%/25% with 50% into the ether has now completely vanished from my portal. Why.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you believe "real Christians" choose justice and love, you could at least write letters to the Pope asking him to actually lead in an issue there is literally no downside for being on the right side of history about, if you're not a hateful bigot about trans people (which the Catholic Church is).

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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kari is an artist (& interesting thinker/critic) w/ debilitating long Covid who needs help covering property taxes and too many due bills. You can help at the link below—as well as look at pretty art & read one of their archived Blind Yelling media criticism threads.

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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still $131/$950—$819 needed to close the gap for rent, due Oct. 1! Hard work on my health’s starting to pay off, but staying housed is essential to my achieving stability. Your help means I keep making progress toward *being* a helper again. Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is how AI wipes out huge swaths of humanity - faulty medical “advice” and insurers who use its “expertise” to deny care.

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deedotkurses @deedotk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Boosting, Cheryl’s good people!

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The point of suppressing information about queer and trans people is that more of us do not successfully make it to adulthood alive, have adult lives of meaning and happiness. That's genuinely the goal. They want us to die. I'm never going to be on team "why can't queers just hide and be hidden"

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The English Wikipedia's ACCURSED insistence on using Eastern Armenian orthography for diasporan Armenians descended from WESTERN Armenian ancestors is GALLING. for the record, if I ever merit a Wikipedia article: render my name in Western orthography, for chrissakes.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dogs dream, too.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You aren't a writer if you're asking a puke machine to spit out ideas modeled after books people like me actually wrote. The EASIEST part of the job is the idea. That's why real writers are asked 1700 times if they want to "go halfsies" on someone else's idea while the writer does the labor.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The presence OF harassing block lists insulting and willfully misinterpreting every possible aspect of my identity and life is why I do not EVER look at Clearsky. People doing a racism could also simply not look at their Clearsky or accept they don't get to control other people's opinions.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This from the website that sees nothing wrong with putting me in anti-queer and anti-trans lists?? Is "the world's most annoying [protected class]" not shaming?

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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s Friday (good!) and I’m $0/$950 for Oct. rent (not so good). Could someone help me nudge this forward? I’m on Day 2 of an increasingly brutal migraine and could use a win; small amounts add up! Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

like I do every year, I offer this poem of mine from @utopiascifi.bsky.social about Stanislav Petrov on his day. utopiasciencefiction.medium.com/thanks-to-st...

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Thanks to Stanislav Petrov for Fairy Tales about Birds by Elizabeth R. McClellan

February 2021 | Utopia Science Fiction Magazine

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Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Semi-regular reminder that I have books and they're all on sale (sadly not on Amazon for all of them) until the end of the month! There's fantasy! There's romance! There's queer people just being queer and weird because I love writing weirdness just for the sake of it 👍

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And that has always been the problem with the way AI pushers and the credulous people who seem to be doing most the reporting talk about "AI"'s feelings and "pain": they are far more willing to believe that "AI" feels pain than actual living human beings or non-human animals, even. Its dehumanizing.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Extremely sexist and unhinged superficially so-called anti AI people and spaces exist. Probably because loads of sexists exist, but we don't have to tolerate them. Being anti-fascist should be a low bar, and being against sexism isn't difficult to maintain at a community-level unless it's tolerated.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YES OMG YES

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If only all of the women who believe his sister could get her case in front of a prosecutor.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

As a long-time drone delivery hater, this is very validating to my long-time suspicions about how the public would actually view constant drone deliveries over head

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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian @riversidewings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who's reposted this today! With your help I can make this goal.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I taught a doozy of a lecture on smallpox, colonization, slavery in the Atlantic and taught my students about smallpox in Lakota and Sioux winter counts and how to grapple with the silences and erasures of the archive and I have earned a long deep sleep surrounded by my silly snoring dogs

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

The Effective Altruism movement, which is an offshoot of the Rationalist movement and remains very linked to them - and is hugely popular amongst many Silicon Valley AI executives - has a sexual harassment problem, per this 2023 article.

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Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say

Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Saudis are learning what every contractor who's ever worked for Trump knows: He does not honor his deals or pay his bills.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh no someone on Bluesky thinks masking is fine, even in 2026; quick, someone use the AssHole Signal, summon the teeming hordes of sneering sportsballfans to tell us why we are just "scolds" and they and they alone understand science, and what is best for OUR bodies (not theirs even, OURS)

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