iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 15h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My car was giving me weird alarms today. Only place open on Sunday is Wal-Mart Automotive. They checked everything, reinflated tires, informed me that the dealer installed tires BACKWARDS (hence alarms and deflation) and charged me nothing. Subaru dealership, that's gonna be tough to beat.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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Nae King! Nae Quin! Nae Laird! Nae Master! @bloodyhades.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

LRP: additionally important to know that if you’re allergic to coconut, you’re also allergic to most activated charcoal products. Many of them are made using burned down coconut husks, but no one advertises that/it’s extremely hard to find out. So be careful this Halloween season!

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Okay, I don't usually tout my own fics, but because I love #JimHenson 's work and everything he stood for, here's my Muppets / Good Omens crossover: archiveofourown.org/works/48044272

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

So today, honor the memory of the guy who wanted to “make the world a little bit better for my having been here.” Go do something worthwhile today. Create something. Collaborate with others. Read something. Or go be silly simply because you can. Jim Henson would want you to.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible thread.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.

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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 24/09/2026

this is what happens when cis women don't support their trans neighbors

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Question for #historysky #medievalsky not sure who else to tag: Religious celibacy is often talked about in terms of a) theology of spirit/flesh dichotomy b) institutional discipline c) women's economic/social/reproductive emancipation Student interested in context of #asexuality validation. Ideas?

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I resent being told that BAPWOOPLE isn't a word.

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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wonderful #Tolkien news! Westminster Abbey has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien will be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner. I've known about this project for some years + was privileged to be consulted during its development. Great to see it made public! www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a...

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Holy shit this is amazing

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some moms nag their children about their love lives. Other moms nag their children about their professions. This mom nags her children about their voter registrations.

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lol bsky.app/profile/smoo...

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Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com · 18/09/2026

“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now." The Big 5 have shown their cards. I think it's time to call their bluff. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...

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In the Library Ebook Market, Can Librarians Learn to Just Say No?

If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Le...

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

macklemore calling kraft's bluff is so good

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You were more than a maple. “Spend rhe afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” RIP Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard pilgrim at tinker creek:
Thomas Merton wrote, There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.
Ezekiel excoriates false prophets as those who have "not gone up into the gaps." The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself for the first time like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the cliffs in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are the fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple—a universe.
This is how you spend this afternoon, and tomorrow morning, and tomorrow afternoon. Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We elected them to do actual work, not to get nearly two months’ vacation.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When things that are objective facts start being labeled as “controversial” it creates just enough of a crack for the gaslighting to get in. Defend the truth.

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OMG. One of the "Three Annies" (Dillard, Lamott, and Fadiman) whose writing I revere -- among the few authors who make me think not "did I like reading this?" but "how did I deserve to read this?" Annie Dillard did not write much, but every word she wrote was perfection.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣📣📣📣

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"if you’re not worried about police brutality, or floods, or warfare—things that can actually kill you—then you can obsess over the machine-god." <---- yup. Q&A w/ @timnitgebru.blacksky.app by @laurengoode.bsky.social @wired.com

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Don't forget the culminating "boing boing boing"

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Spelling Bee doesn't seem to understand the zeitgeist.

Rejected pangram "DICKHEAD" in the Spelling Bee game

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My daughter just texted me "Shana tova" "AI" suggested the response "Oh no!"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026

I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whether you love or hate AI this shit needs to stop. What are we even doing A bunch of Silicon Valley sociopaths should not get to decide the future of humanity totally unchecked.

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

from today's restaurant inspection reports: "power drill used to mix food"

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks to Arkansas's new book banning and librarian criminalization law, Jonesboro Library has decided no one under 18 can borrow any DVDs. The City Council is now also where final decisions on materials challenges resides. www.kait8.com/2026/09/01/j...

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Jonesboro library board approves policy changes after Act 372 ruling

The Jonesboro Public Library Board voted to change library policies following a federal court’s decision to enforce Arkansas Act 372 earlier this month.

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Out of curiosity, I checked out the campaign websites of my blood-red MAGA Rep and Senator. CongressCritter Steve highlights videos of him tossing a football with his grandson. Senator Tom emphasizes how much he loves Jesus and killing people. Neither mention Trump at all.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Everyone doing this just needs to understand that they are actively skipping the thinking step

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

me whining again about how eating food seems impossible note: any response along the lines of "hurr hurr hurr I *wish* I had this problem" will reveal things about you which you might prefer to keep concealed

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 06/09/2026

Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET

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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set

Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 05/09/2026

50 years ago today it was time to play the music, it was time to light the lights. Happy birthday to the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational MUPPET SHOW!

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Am I surprised to see LoC move to change Ontario to America in LCSH? No. Am I disappointed to see it proposed and moved towards approval so quickly? Yes. Great reminder that information is not neutral and that includes how we organize and describe it. classweb.org/tentative-su...

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Tentative Monthly List 09 LCSH 2 (September 2026)

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this is kind of stunning tbh

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is good stuff. Read the whole, etc.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Look at that nose dive. So awful. 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ Ref: aas.org/posts/news/2...

Plot of NSF research awards in the astronomical sciences made through the AAG, ATI, and MSIP programs, demonstrating a 57% reduction in the number of awards made between FY25 and FY26, corresponding to a 51% decrease in awarded funding. Note that FY21 had an abnormally large number of continuing grants awarded (50 compared to an average of 5 in other years), so these grants were removed from the FY21 data.

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is killing me that I can think of absolutely nobody who will play this with me.

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 30/08/2026

There's no reason "entry-level work" should mean poverty level pay. Full time work should always pay enough to live a decent life.

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am terminally online and pathologically political, but I wouldn't recognize Hasan Piker if I tripped over him, and have only the haziest notion of what he talks about It is possible that this is not the most salient issue in the Michigan election contest

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hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Help, I am in a very specific manic mood, one in which I want to spend money on acquiring STUFF. Tell me STUFF that I should buy.

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