iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈 @kourge.net · 12/09/2026

[blowing on my Enter key like a superstitious gambler] c'mon... c'mon..!! yes!!!! JACKPOT!!! an ssh public key data with the word "gay" in it

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 09/08/2026

I snort my verb and then rev up my adjectivebike before speeding away to Noun City

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 09/08/2026

selecting funny mouth sounds is an important part of my writing process, which is why i wholeheartedly believe no floating-point matrix, no matter how many non-IEEE-approved small floats it may contain, will ever be able to convincingly imitate me

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 03/08/2026

the sigh that left my body. sighs within sighs within sighs, a sighducken, the sighpocalopyse, the sigh of the times, the inceptsigh, arch deluxe with sighs, blue sighs smiling on me, I sigh with my little eye, sigh newhouse, the palace of versighs. and a little tiny manicured sigh, aka a bonsigh.

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 30/07/2026

the reason it takes me so long to get out of bed in the morning? i’m glad you asked! i’m DIMM training.

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André Arko @indirect.io · 24/07/2026

do you think "webapp" stands for "weblication application"? or "website appsite"

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 19/07/2026

me when I open a TCP connection:

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/06/2026

within the utterance, the uttering itself— & the utterancinger & the utterancinged!

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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

the hungry observatory

black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 07/05/2026

the ten genders (north, south, east, west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, zenith, and nadir)

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Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

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drih com h no final @drihhawkeye.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Crying over the moon is my new hobby apparently

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 10/03/2026

"he put out his wide and long tongue which reached upward to the Brahma world. he emitted innumerable and immeasurable colored rays of light from all his pores and universally illuminated the worlds of the ten directions."

a screenshot from "Pokémon the Series: The Beginning" episode "A Tent Situation" showing a Lickitung standing with its long and wide tongue stretched out and its two cute little arms raised up

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 03/03/2026

the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it

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Nathan @nathanbeddoe.com · 16/02/2026

Who is Tim?

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 15/02/2026

wired: the eternal september tired: the eternal sloptember uninspired: the eternal hypertember

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 09/02/2026

"Braiding Sweetgrass" was a key part of how I stumbled over backwards into Shin Buddhism and its account of 信心 ("faith") as a universal gift relation encountered in/as the collapse of self-willed/contrived faith; and I love Kobayashi Issa (e.g. as in www.ull.es/revistas/ind...), a Shin Buddhist poet

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The Chanting Frog: Speciesism and the Possibility of Communication in Issa’s Haikus | Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 09/02/2026

The spiritual dimension of Robin Wall Kimmerer's book "Braiding Sweetgrass" was transformative for me as someone who grew up in Michigan under the shade of Maples, and Kimmerer's emergencemagazine.org/essay/becomi... is maybe my favorite essay for the rhythm of its ending.

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Becoming Earth – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature o...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

me at 13: dear diary, me today: dear gay people in my phone,

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

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arachnocapitalist @arachno.capital · 12/01/2026

the hungry ghost it destroyed its jar yes YES the ghost is out

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 13/01/2026

a lot of authors talk about wanting to write the representation that they didnt have in the fiction they read when they were a kid. and thats good. unfortunately, what i want is for everyone to experience the alienation i felt reading books as a kid. woe. estrangement be upon ye.

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skyking @jkachmar.com · 07/01/2026

"Uber for Dogs" is OUT "Theranos of <Whatever>" is IN!

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We had a good run

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Jim Calabro ♟️ @calabro.io · 23/12/2025

gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr

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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 03/03/2025

programming is just the art of adding bugs to an empty file

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

OH: "LinkedIn is really just Business Grindr"

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 16/08/2025

You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence The LLM: You can eat that rock

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ti zhang @solarizedtitanium.gg · 05/11/2025

honey wake up new sentence just dropped

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 17/10/2025

to paraphrase something I heard, every hole you touch you change / every hole you change changes you

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 15/10/2025

RIP to everyone killed by social media for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the posting gods.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 02/10/2025

Why do they call it model view controller when you view the controller viewcontroller model control the view model?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I can still fix it.

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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 01/09/2025

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

between Cha, Liu, Hanayama - a 心 eternal, illumination of truth, the 無礙光 of unyielding peace. noticed after ordinary words, or ordinary beings, are collapsed by the weight of light, or the dead, returning to pervade all darkness. to show us a way home.

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

"[...] They take from you your tongue. They take from you the choral hymn. But you say not for long not for always. Not forever. You wait. You know how. You know how to wait. Inside MAH-UHM fire alight enflame." (from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, on her mother as exilee in Manchuria during the occupation)

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

+ also, in Cha's "Dictée": "But your MAH-UHM, spirit has not left. Never shall have and never shall will. Not now. Not even now. It is burned into your ever-present memory. Memory less. Because it is not in the past. It cannot be. Not in the least of all pasts. It burns. Fire alight enflame. [...]"

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

if people could feel embrace from something beyond the horizon of the "innocent/forgiven=reward, evil/sinful=punish" moral paradigm, might we better face history? Curley (in translating/reading Hanayama) & Liu consider idea of liberation through an aspiration to take responsibility for the past...

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

+ surprising resonances w/ Melissa Curley's "Prison and the Pure Land: A Buddhist Chaplain in Occupied Japan" (blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethi...), of how Hanayama Shinshō narrated war criminals' death row as a call for his readers to remember them & take similarly total responsibility for the war.

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

I think its presentation, as a science fiction story styled as a documentary (but based on real-life quotes+text!), deepens its reflections on how to represent/communicate such history. maybe this narrative device serves as a way to ease into facing the brutality & "open wound"ness?

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 21/08/2025

Ken Liu's "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" (kenliu.name/binary/liu_t..., cw for graphic descriptions of 731 atrocities), dedicated in part to Iris Chang, was really powerful and moving for me as my first exposure to this horrifying history beyond a passing mention in a bioethics class.

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 08/08/2025

I never really learned to pick out yúcì with my kuàizi. but maybe languages are closer to glass shards, singing delicately as we grind them against each other between our teeth.

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 14/07/2025

I turned to (and fell in love with) Go after burning out...it's kinda wild to hear that apparently this is not uncommon!

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 29/06/2025

I started using chezmoi to manage my dotfiles via github a couple years ago, it really reduced my stress in getting back to a working system after my laptop's SSD failed!

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 23/05/2025

“my other mug is a podcast with data-center-scale full-stack computing infrastructure offerings that are reshaping industry”

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

love a little writing side project that spirals out of control and eventually becomes the main obsession

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Ethan 李昌澔 @ethanj.li · 30/03/2025

this reminds me of something 曇鸞 Tan-luan wrote in 無量壽經優婆提舍願生偈註: 如海性一味，眾流入者必為一味，海味不隨彼改也。 it is like the ocean’s nature having one taste; when various streams enter, they necessarily become the one taste, and the ocean’s taste does not alter accordingly. (CWS translation by Dennis Hirota et al.)

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