iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your daily reminder that paying actual artists and writers and programmers isn't just the morally correct choice, it's also often cheaper.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣Last day to speak up for America’s Roadless Areas and the wildlife that depends on them. Nearly 45 million acres of America’s forests could soon be opened to road construction and logging putting intact landscapes and critical wildlife habitat at risk. Take action now: ow.ly/yWkU50ZUHNR

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 29/09/2026

Opposition to generative AI is *everywhere*, but AI propaganda doesn’t want you to know that. The vast majority of people want human art, not AI counterfeits.

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Ash @fishyash.com · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026

Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.

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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Dead Man's Online @spadetheskeleton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heads up windows 11 users, microsoft now has this setting enabled by default. Be sure to disable it :]

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hux | vtuber @1ocentz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

💟 Disabled LGBTQIA+ Couple Needs Help!! I do really hate this. I hate feeling like we cannot make things work on our own but we are extremely nervous about making it the next 4 months. My mother cost my wife her job after I stood up to her severe abuse. We need help. 🧵 ko-fi.com/10centz/goal...

Art of an OC, Dime Dyatlov, as he sits crying in front of a painting.

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henemimi 🎀☁️ @henemimi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

in a million years it would have not dawned on me to do fake ad reads to kill the monetization of harassment social media videos. thank you intelligent beautiful bird furry whose moving beak entranced me into paying attention

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kinkgo @fluffdungeon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

posting this here because it's so true and so awesome

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Eli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Tired: using torrents to download the latest Harry Potter movie. Wired: using torrents to download the Amnesty International report that JK Rowling wants to censor.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Fiona The Eepiest Kobold 🏳️‍⚧️ @scalieshutterbug.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Okay, so I guess people in Texas can't use this app anymore. How many of my friends are going to disappear now? ☹️ Also, this isn't going to stop with Texas. If the KIDS Act or KOSA isn't stopped, this'll be your future, too:

A screenshot a friend of mine from Texas shared with me. They can't access BlueSky now unless they share sensitive information with the app.

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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Please use this link twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338... and tell twitch how fucking insane this is. Comment and let twitch know that this is horrible. Thank you

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𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm running low on funds and we barely have any food in the house once again, sorry to keep asking over n over again

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

you don't have to let this guy walk free among you

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Good idea to start mentioning the PROTECT Act as something to oppose now when making your calls to representatives

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🌵 prickly specimen 🌺 @wodnesse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I left a comment, you can too. You don't have to leave any identifying information. Tell them that un-exploited lands are a resource that cannot be replenished through carbon credits.

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Nice Footpaws @ionotter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One of the furry community's originals, Roz Gibson, is in really big trouble. She is in kidney failure, and needs a donor, so please reskeet. www.furaffinity.net/journal/1138...

I’ve thought long and hard about making this post, but really, at this point, I don’t have much to lose. Desperate times, and all that.

TLDR version: I need a kidney transplant, and I’m looking for a donor. Read below for all the gory details.

Since late 2019, right before Covid hit, I’ve been battling a serious illness. I’ve been kind of cagey about what exactly is wrong, for a number of reasons, but here’s the truth—I’m in full kidney failure.

There is no history of this in my family, so when the symptoms began appearing I didn’t recognize them until it was too late. By the time I went to a doctor my kidney function had dropped into the single digits. Most kidney failure is caused by diabetes or high blood pressure—I got some weird kidney disease I can’t even pronounce and never heard of: Oxalate Nephropathy.

By adopting some dietary changes and careful monitoring, I was able to limp along with reduced kidney function for several years. But you don’t appreciate how much your kidneys do to keep you healthy until they stop working. There’s constant fatigue and nausea, and a general feeling of unwellness that never goes away.

But eventually I lost even what minimal function I had left, which left the end of the line for kidney disease: dialysis. As of this point I’ve been on dialysis for about 3 years. Let me tell you—dialysis is its own special kind of hell that you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy.

But even that is just a stop-gap measure, and my condition is continuing to get worse. Despite this, I’m trying my best to live as normal a life as possible. I’m extremely lucky I have a job that’s willing to allow me 9 hours a week for dialysis, so I’m still working. On weekends I work on my art and comics, and one or two days a month I do my volunteer work at the bird-banding site. I can even travel to see my family—if I arrange for dialysis at a local clinic ahead of time.

All of that is done while trying to deal with the symptoms of kidney failure. I’ve known 4 people who were on dialysis—none of them worked or really did much of anything, and at this point they’re all dead, which doesn’t really give me a lot of hope for my future.

Which brings us to the point of all this—I desperately need a kidney transplant. That is the only thing that will give me a chance at a relatively normal life. I’ve been approved and on the transplant list for a few years, but the waiting period in California is very long. By the time I get to the top of it, I may be too sick to get one. Right now I’m still in relatively good condition, comparatively. A transplant from a living donor lasts much longer and is better in every way than one you get from a deceased donor.

Unfortunately, everyone in my immediate family is too old or has other health problems that preclude donation. So this post is a desperate attempt to find anyone willing to donate. I realize donating a kidney is a lot different than giving ten bucks to a GoFundMe, but as I said at the beginning, at this point I don’t have much to lose by asking.

Here is the living donor site: https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-.....t/living-donor

You can inquire and even arrange to donate completely anonymously if that’s what you want. Hopefully there’s a Jack Salem fan out there who wants to see the stories (and the artist) continue for years to come.

That is all.

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MJ Quigley @mjqwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is why JKR is a danger to queer people, and people need to wake up to this sooner rather than later. She is picking fights with human rights groups, because they support the existence of trans people and our human rights.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Happy Disability Pride Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. I've brought back these compression gloves to my US store! You can buy these now (until stock is sold out)! Store: Bibipins.com

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Repost to make it die faster

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🎆 oceaned min 🎆 @oceanminex.myatproto.social · 30/05/2026

Repost to scare Bluesky developers

Scott the Woz leaning on a TV that says “PORN” on it

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Queso @queenqueso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".

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Kane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

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breathe 🌬️ you’ll pull through 🌠🪽 @blackquadrant.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

YIKES!!!!!! thank you for sharing this wlswarts! copying this from the tumblr post for reference

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That is awful! If you're looking for a gdocs-like replacement, Ellipsus @ellipsus-writes is an explicitly queer friendly, anti-AI equivalent with online syncing and sharing - I've been using it for almost a year now as a replacement for gdocs and absolutely love it. They are pro-fanfic, so much so that they have a dedicated "export to Ao3" option that preserves all your formatting. They don't have an app (yet) but you can add it to your home screen via your mobile browser if you want.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

when AI companies go bankrupt

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Red Guy with “AI” on his chest is falling backwards off a cliff. A Purple Guy is running to “save him”

Panels 2-4: Close up of Purple Guy’s hands gradually going from outstretched fingers to a closed fist

Panel 5: Red Guy falls backwards off the cliff while Purple Guy does nothing but show him his middle finger.

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🔞Mae - Mayor of Shitpost Town 🔞 @xx-emocat-xx.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Hi we're in hell. Our life is falling apart and we had a crisis moment that led to multiple people leaving our llife. ko-fi.com/emocat4eva We will not have housing after march so we have to save everything we can, sell what little we have, and go from there. So. Tired. Please help us if you can.

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Buy Xx_EmoCat4Eva_xX a Coffee

Become a supporter of Xx_EmoCat4Eva_xX today!

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Despite the world, good news persists.

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ChocoMingo 🦩 #RaysUp @chocomingo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'll say what Bluesky fails to address in v1.122 They've rolled out a new "adult content" tag applied on an entire account, hiding all their posts from users, including text posts, even if they may be SFW This update, while well-intentioned, defeats the whole purpose of the content filters system

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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BBBen and his Big Brass Band @bbbengames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

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Olivia and co. @oliviaandstaff.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you care about artists online, wether NSFW or not, you MUST write a comment. And it's simple to just write a comment there. Please go save your artists, and yourself if you are one.

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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · 31/03/2026

Kei Zama is just about the hardest mecha artist out there and a very nice person. But being trans in Japan aint easy. Consider buying them a coffee. 🏳️‍⚧️ ko-fi.com/keizama

a drawing of transformers optimus and soundwave in action. VERY good reds and purples. they face the viewer dead on.

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🔞 Wysty, CEO of vampire yuri | Comms Open @wysticlipse.art · 12/04/2026

You should know that the infamous I Love You virus uses the same trick - Always make sure to turn on 'show file extensions' in your windows/browser settings.

Tumblr user thereisselfpreservation

"I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck."

Reply from the same user:

"For reference (heh)"

Screenshots of messages.

Sender: "Okay, I've sent it now."

There's a file attachment called "Shork_YCH_MyReference_v1.vbs". The vbs extension is circled.

Sender: "If everything is in order, I can send the overpayment."

Sender, in reply to the file attachment (again with the vbs extension circled): "How much would the full piece cost?"

thereisselfpreservation:

"At a glance, the file name checks out. But!! do not open a .vbs file!!!

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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