iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Altman casually commented that GenAI blurs the border between the authentic and the artificial, so that soon we won’t be able to differentiate between the two, which btw is the goal. Art, history, science, & democratic societies cannot function without truth, reality, expertise, and facts.

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This January I finally got covid, and decided to take a break from masking for a few months after while I would presumably have strong immunity... then a month later got a cold that was way worse than the covid and regretted that choice. masks are great!

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

love when I get to blow my linguist friends' minds by pointing out that it's [grilled [cheese sandwich]], not [[grilled cheese] sandwich]

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

someone who understands clothes and gender should make a website about how to adapt the various fancy wedding dress codes to nb/gnc presentation so those of us who don't understand clothes don't have to always just read the "for men" and "for women" websites and interpolate from there

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

hey, it's a thing I worked on! existing in the real world!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2026

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

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2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!

This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Never forget the reason for the season (Earth tilting on axis)

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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"AFK" is an old chatroom acronym for "away from keyboard", describing stepping away from the virtual to attend to the real but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones, which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym! 🐦🐦🐦

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 07/11/2025

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in
December 2025
We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change.
New York City Transit

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

First 5(!) episodes out now! www.youtube.com/@FeltSideUp/...

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

hello if there are Blood on the Clocktower fans here check out my friends' new channel, Felt Side Up! Trailer and first short out now, full episodes coming soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH9i...

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Welcome to Felt Side Up!

YouTube video by Felt Side Up

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"flipping a house" means something different from "flipping the House" means the same as "flipping seats" means something different from "flipping chairs"; language is wonderful

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

paradox, you say

Research reveals a paradox: the more people understand AI, the more hesitant they may become to embrace it.

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

a hazard of being Jewish is that it doubles the amount of time each year you spend taking psychic damage from year numbers (what do you mean it's almost 5786 already)

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 11/07/2025

I have found my new personal anthem thanks to @esmanning.bsky.social, this is EXCELLENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucc...

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Fuck It I'm A Flower

YouTube video by Crying Day Care Choir - Topic

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

discovered today that iOS emojis are so devoted to a Specific Hair Length as the signifier of gender neutrality that they use it for the gender neutral elf even though the man elf has long hair

iOS versions of the 'woman elf', 'elf', and 'man elf' emojis. The woman elf has long wavy hair, the man elf has long straight hair, and the ungendered elf has straight not-quite-chin-length hair.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/04/2025

AI alignment papers be like…. learning from human preferences is important for language models to match human needs and to align with human and social values. in this paper, we *generate synthetic data and use fancy simulations* to align LLMs with human values

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I just did this! I hate making phone calls but it was nice to be able to leave a "thank you more of this please" message

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

happy trans day of I just did my taxes please clap

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

reminder that tomorrow (march 31st) is trans day of snack. if you are cis, your job is to feed a nearby trans person. if you are trans, you are invited to post your cash sharing application links and handles in order to facilitate this #tdov

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

openai’s new ghibli “generator” is explicitly an intentional attempt at humiliation of a prominent objector openai is culturally fascist as well as functionally fascist it’s not an accident

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've had so much practice over the last couple years exercising restraint and not yelling at every internet stranger posting generated slop but the 'ghibli' images are REALLY testing me

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

hello internet please enjoy my new favorite petunia photo

A black and white cat, lying on a bed sorta curled up, with her belly showing, back legs bent forward, front paws curled at her chest. She's looking up at the camera and looking incredibly cute.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

When we say "AI" is a conservative force, this is definitely what we're talking about. Under this admin (and the conservative institutions that cowtow to it), the racism that's baked in is a feature, not a bug.

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Just as an observation about the risks of small on device “helper” AI models, the ios AI email summarizer told me my mom has cancer today (she does not). That was a bad few seconds.

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Dr Lena M Blott @lenamblott.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

At the playground with the 5yo. Daddy: You can lie on this hammock here if you want. M: I did a poo on my monkey in the night. D: What?! Really?? M: No! You said I can lie on here. #lexical #ambiguity #linguistics

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 05/03/2025

An important post from a friend of mine currently on a Fulbright in Estonia. Consider: the human impact on the individual grantees, the impact on the people they serve, and the hit that the image of the US takes when these folks leave. Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.

This week, alongside Fulbright English Teaching Assistants, Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, Student Researchers, and Faculty Scholars around the world, I was told my grant is frozen.

I am proud of the students I teach and the communities and institutions I work in. It's a privilege to participate in the Fulbright Program, a State Department exchange with bipartisan support promoting understanding between the US and the world c. 1946. I'm in my second year as an English Teaching Assistant here in Estonia, working in the Tallinn Freedom School founded for Ukrainian refugees in 2022, as well as American Spaces; the Ukrainian Cultural Center of Tallinn; and various other on embassy trips.

We were to receive the next few months’ payment this week. Instead—one week’s pay, and a notice that, our placements are under "review”. While rent payments are due and we continue to do our best work in our assigned roles and beyond, we wait.

Many people have been made to condense their work into five bullet points. I will do my best. This week, I’m:
—Teaching grammatical concepts to nearly a hundred students in weekly classes and one-on-one lessons
—Planning cooking, civics, and history lessons for upcoming Embassy outreach
—Teaching weekly Saturday English lessons for children, a conversation club for parents, and a professional English skills lesson for refugees at the Ukrainian Cultural Center
—Running our biweekly American English language and culture club for community members of all ages and backgrounds at the American Space
—Providing space through two afterschool clubs for my displaced Ukrainian students to use word games, discussions, and tabletop roleplaying to express themselves in English and prepare for crucial upcoming exams

It's a blessing and a life-changing experience to be able to teach in these classrooms; to provide cultural context for the language students learn every day; to help students of all ages and backgrounds reach their communicative goals; to represent my own nation and discuss key shared values; to learn about Estonian and Ukrainian culture; to reflect on my identity as an American abroad. It is my hope to complete the last months of my grant and provide the support my hosts rely on me for.

To my AMAZING colleagues, friends, and host institutions—I'll continue to work for and with you as long as I can. I will hold up my end of our agreement. I hope my government will do the same.

US AMERICAN FRIENDS: If you think my work and the work of hundreds of other Fulbright grantees around the world should continue, please contact your representative in support of the program.

Not sure who to contact? (Congress.gov link)

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel. 👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

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Bending the arc of AI towards the public interest

By Abeba Birhane, 18/02/2025 Following the first in Bletchley Park in 2023 and the second in Seoul in 2024, the third AI Action Summit took place in February 2025 in Paris. In the context of previous ...

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

if most people can't read in dreams does that mean you don't get to have the boring work dreams about reading emails or analyzing spreadsheets full of text data

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

remember to wish a tree happy birthday today!

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Omg. This is Jasmine. She had an upper respiratory infection and she’s feeling all better but still has a tiny bit of inflammation giving her the funniest little trill-purr.

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I don't want to leave! I'm not currently planning to leave! I'm also aware that I might be wrong and letting down all my ancestors who did know when to gtfo!

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ε manning (he/they) @esmanning.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

how 2 limit doomscrolling enough that you're still capable of fulfilling your regular life obligations while also doomscrolling enough to like, keep an eye on whether or not it's time to flee the country

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Unfuck Your Habitat @teamufyh.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Panic and despair without an outlet can be self-destructive. Interrupt the doom spiral: -Do 1 self-indulgent thing that makes you feel happy or content. -Do 1 thing to make your home environment more calm or comfortable. -Do 1 thing to help your community and people in it. Repeat as needed.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 31/01/2025

Social media is getting fragmented, so if you've newly joined somewhere or are thinking about switching and want more linguistics in your feeds, we've put together this list of tons of linguisticsy options both online and off!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I keep thinking about how the misrepresentation of the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit convinced Americans that it was too easy to sue corporations — a laughable idea if you think about it for 10 seconds. It's the same with trans kids: The scandal is that care is too hard to get, not too easy.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else

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Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online · 20/01/2025

The wee beastie has been a wonderful excuse to rewatch Steven Universe, a show that I now realize did an amazing job of bridging the Obama and Trump pt. 1 years in terms of sensibility, themes, and outlook. So today I’m taking a page from Steven’s book: