iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All my syllabi have a Remedios Varo image this quarter and I might do this for the rest of my life

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OH MY GOD I SAW A SNAKE on the edge of Nichols Park I THOUGHT NO SNAKE IN CITY NEVER OKAY AGAIN

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also when some celebrity comes out shilling for AI it’s never a parasocial loss it’s always like “oh them? They were always super lame and dumb” and when some celebrity comes out against it it’s like “yep they were always a cool guy”

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

White Wedding in my head except it’s “it’s a nice day for a/girl dinner”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shouting, “I’m the masses and I want a sop!”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reactionary centrist pundits: Democratic leaders need to drop the identity politics and focus on economic issues! Democratic leader: [does that] Reactionary centrist pundits:

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Eavesdropping on a guy talking about how he’s disappointed his tenants “seem to just want a lessor-lessee relationship” and don’t want to hang out with him. Also: “I intentionally don’t have leases with them, that way I can kick them out whenever I want”

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Delbert Grady Seasons @delbertgseasons.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Groimes she’s hetting on kipitilism agin

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A city in Kansas is suing residents who tried to ban data centers. Edgerton, Kansas, is suing multiple women and an organization in an effort to void a citizen petition that would have banned AI data centers. /1

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Edgerton calls citizen petition ‘void and invalid,’ files suit to block data center ban

The City of Edgerton has filed a lawsuit to block a potential data center ban, calling the petition surrounding it "void and invalid."

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“A Boy Named Sue” is an excellent demonstration of how you can understand & even inhabit someone else’s perspective w/o taking it on or conceding that the truth is “somewhere in the middle” or some bullshit 🧵

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s amazing & affirming to me how the worst people also tend to be heavy users of AI

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pointing out real cases of “woke 1 run amok” does not negate my argument that it was mostly a few isolated cases. The backlash to the Peak Woke era is cutting funds, changing curricula and explicitly politicizing science — actions that affect millions.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

NYT stating this like it’s normal when it’s absolutely berserk.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Vanderbilt President Daniel Diermeier was provost at UChicago from 2016-2020. During that time he actively blocked grad student unionization, despite a certified NLRB vote, while claiming to stand for institutional neutrality. Union-busting is fundamentally at odds with academic freedom.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

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Arish Singh @arish-ish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Dog mommy stays winning 😀

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Withholding these funds is impoundment. It is illegal and unconstitutional. And doing it on the basis of partisan politics is corrupt patrimonialism. It’s the logic of machines and mafiosi. We need impeachments and prosecutions.

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hey but what about an ecumenical journal of the Christian faith called Cross Purposes

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Last week, The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board wrote that DSA is too radical and alienating for everyday Americans. We beg to differ! Check out our response in today’s Letters to the Editor 🌹

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This boat is the namesake of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the organization created by Pete and Toshi Seeger to advocate for cleaning up the Hudson. It's one of the reasons why these boats are sailing on relatively clean water today. In a just society, it would sail in a place of honor.

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Think beyond the nation-state and take public transit in any condition

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Why as a man are you not killing my cousin’s ex

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Becoming my mom: people tell me my sunblock isn’t rubbed in and I’m like when will you realize that I do not care

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Happy Bloomsday to all who masturbate, micturate, and ruminate

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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sitting on a couch in the Wayfair showroom and discussing the labor theory of value who else knows this vibe

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Can someone please just ask him how much money would be enough for him, I want to see how he’d answer

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Baby Cheetah (Marxist) @willbloom.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If Victor Lazslo were alive today he would be a member of the Bread and Roses Caucus

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Baby Cheetah (Marxist) @willbloom.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

He's in the Black Lodge

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Cubs fans on the red line proving once again that they don’t have theory of mind in the suburbs

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/04/2026

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Can a Darth Vader be a “King Kong”? Inside a meeting between grifters and frauds

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gnellknellmnell @gnellknellmnell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Everyone has a person they think of when Dylan sings “you’re an idiot babe/it’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe” and for me that person is NYT polyp Thomas Friedman

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

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