iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

hello new followers from the "republicans are active opponents of democratic pluralism" post this is also a "democrats who waffle on trans rights are both cowards and stupid" account and a "chuck schumer lied to my face and i want him out" account just so we're all clear what we're getting into here

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

❄️ SNOWING AT TAOS SKI VALLEY! Snow is really coming down and accumulating at the @TaosSkiValley this afternoon! Snow levels have dropped down to around 10,000' with snow falling at the base of Lift 4 and the Bavarian Restaurant! Winter is just around the corner! #NMwx

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To every SA victim reliving their trauma, disassociating, battling rage and fear every day: We survived the hardest part. We made it through, changed, but we're here. Those memories are vampires sapping our very existence, but vampires die in the light. You can borrow some of mine awhile. Love.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good night friends. Going to detox from my devices and news for a few days. Trying to stay present for myself and my family. “Rhythm of the Wind" by New Mexico-based contemporary artist Ed Sandoval.

“Rhythm of the Wind" by New Mexico-based contemporary artist Ed Sandoval.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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phoebe-jeebies @funkjunkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

sorry, i'm sorry, i'm trying to delete it

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“One such wave hit the northern tip of South America in late August and has begun moving up towards the west coast of the US. That wave could reach California shores within days, and when it does, ocean scientists say it may raise sea levels by up to a foot for months as El Niño.” Oh.

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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Driving directly into trees over and over because I'm trying to get my money's worth from Progressive

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Listen, I'm just saying: a) @marynmck.bsky.social is a treasure b) if you like this kinda thing, I really really hope you'll read BLACK RIVER ORCHARD, because it literally features apple detectives hunting rare apples

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026

started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed

“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”

“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns

and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026

Dozens of cyclists raced in the annual British Penny Farthing Race in London last week. The high-wheeled bicycles date back about 150 years and have no gears, making climbs, descents and turns challenging.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

I for one am tired of the “all of human existence should be quantified into spreadsheets, and things that cannot be quantified should be viewed as irrelevant and useless” faction running everything

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Video from Maura Hennelly captures her sunbeam snake named 'Vespira' in all her glory. Sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis) are non-venomous snakes from SE Asia that kill small prey (frogs, rodents) by constricting. They burrow through soft dirt or leaf litter in humid jungles. (📷:@maurahennelly IG)

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love good data visualizations

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The nice thing about making panzanella is realizing that your frequently-thwarted childhood desire to fill a bowl with croutons and dressing at the salad bar was actually Correct, and Fancy, and Italian, Actually.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

All of Demi’s September 21 videos are of course wonderful, but this is the one that’s always hit my funny bone the hardest youtu.be/CG7YHFT4hjw?...

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YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love living on the border of First Hill and Pioneer Square and taking a ferry from SeaTac Airport to West Seattle. It's too bad about what happened to Lake Union though.

AI generated image of "Seattle, Washington neighborhood by neighborhood with a lot of problems

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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026

Hannah Michelle Brower and Aspen Simone are leaders of “South Philly’s hottest new excursion” — a pigeon tour. They’re trying to change the narrative that pigeons are just dirty birds.

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Some people hate pigeons. This couple’s bird tour aims to change that.

The Philadelphia pigeon tour was intended to be a one-time event, but demand has kept it going, despite a few pigeon poop mishaps.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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𝔱 𝔶 𝔫 𝔢 @tyneparadox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

boy do we need an update to this

Album cover with a topless lady, stars on the nipples. Titled: “KTEL Presents 23 original hits by the original stars Vol 1: Difficult-to-strip-to hits”

The song titles are listed and are as follows:

* Cat's in the Cradle HARRY CHAPIN
* New York Mining Disaster 1941 THE BEE GEES
* Free to Be You and Me THE NEW SEEKERS
* JUST THE POEM AT THE END OF Nights in White Satin THE MOODY BLUES
* The Fishin' Hole (Theme from the Andy Griffith Show) EARLE HAGEN
* Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree DAWN FEATURING TONY ORLANDO
* The Gambler KENNY ROGERS
* Sailing CHRISTOPHER CROSS
* The Lion Sleeps Tonight SOLOMON LINDA & THE EVENING BIRDS
* Somewhere Over the Rainbow JUDY GARLAND
* Tears in Heaven ERIC CLAPTON
* Dust in the Wind KANSAS
* It's a Small World (After All) THE SHERMAN BROTHERS
* Send in the Clowns JUDY COLLINS
* The Longest Time BILLY JOEL
* The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll BOB DYLAN
* This Land is Your Land WOODY GUTHRIE
* Born Free SUNG BY ANDY WILLIAMS
* Revolution #9 THE BEATLES
* Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) JOHN WILLIAMS
* You're Having My Baby PAUL ANKA & ODIA COATES
* Old Man NEIL YOUNG
* Everything is Beautiful RAY STEVENS

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026

Teenagers feel less anxious, sad and lonely and more calm after spending just three minutes with rescued miniature horses and donkeys, according to a new study. The animals have served as therapy animals in recent years, including in hospitals. wapo.st/4hdSgqS

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Just 3 minutes with a mini horse or donkey improves teens’ moods, study says

The teens reported feeling less anxious, sad and lonely and more calm after interacting with the equines.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ME: *jumps off a cliff* PAR K 　 O 　　　 O 　　　　 o 　　　　　o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　o 　　　　。　　　。　　　. 　　　. 　　　 . 　　　　ʳ

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heart pounding in my ears, I run, the muted sound of webbed feet slapping the pavement behind me. I dive into the car and slam the door, shouting in triumph. Turning the key, I am rewarded with nothing but a single dry click. My blood runs cold. From outside the window, I hear a dark, throaty laugh.

Inside shot of a swan staring through the driver’s side window of a vehicle.

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EEK! Semper Tyrannis! 🕸️🦇🍬🍫 @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gooses are always creating value. I should invest in geese.

It was the goose that created the value. Unhinged ai slide from SoftBank's wacko CEO who loves goose and golden egg metaphors so much he's lost the plot.

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Raquel 🌈✨ @aistear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blumineck lo ha vuelto a hacer 🥹 le aplaudo hasta que se me caigan las manos, bravo. "Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both. But be kind."

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