iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I share my account with my cousin who lives in a different state), and Amazon decided I must live in her town. Even though my fiancé and I still order plenty of items to our place!

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was surprised to see that Amazon knew 4-5 major traits of my fiancé (3 hobbies, his beard, and his dependence on energy drinks) and gathered almost nothing about me! What about MY hobbies?? What's a girl gotta do to be noticed by Amazon AI on her own Amazon account?

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just muted the word Cornell for the next 30 days. I can't do this 🙃

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't tell you a single thing about the mystery, but the second you mentioned Mrs. Japp was out of town I knew exactly which episode this was!!! It's iconic

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Omg this episode is one of my faves for how bonkers it gets. I couldn't handle this last scene and had to record it (poorly) on my phone 😭

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My fiancé and I quote "Poirot says NO!" at each other when we don't want to do something. I love this dumb show so much.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just watched Toronto Airport: Uncovered and it featured the analogous team at Pearson, so I'm very excited for this.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“And Loki in His Prison” is currently 25% off through Barnes and Noble preorder from W 9/9-F 9/11. Order your copy in hardcover, e-book, or both! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/and-loki-i…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/08/2026

one of the funniest bumper stickers i’ve ever seen

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

update: I just remembered that I have the car today. I can be the change I wish to see in the world.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

sending this to my bf rn so he knows what to pick up for dinner tonight

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm about 50% interested in the plot and 50% interested in the psychology of the previous owner.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Worse, their selection of what to underline makes no sense to me. I can't see a pattern. Sometimes it's dialogue, sometimes description, and sometimes inner monologue. No common thematic link. And sometimes they're underlining HALF THE FUCKING PAGE??? What is the point of this??

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I'm reading a used book, which usually is not an issue, because the occasional margin note can be fun. But the previous owner of this book underlined copiously. Like a quarter of every page is underlined! That's too much?!?

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

70mm must be the size of the little TV the college football refs use

A referee at a football game looking at an instant replay monitor that's a few inches tall

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Gary K. Wolf •
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica.
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica.
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

shoot shoot shoot smash smash smash

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

if someone took me aside and said hey rax that dumb flash tattoo you got for $50 when you were 19 is actually a nazi symbol. i would be at the shop getting it covered before they got the sentence all the way out. i would blow red lights the whole way there

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Neither. I put Red Rising down after 2 chapters. I finished The Name of the Wind but it was a slog. My go-to fantasy rec is the Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Farthing cozy??? I love cozy books, but that book destroyed me (complimentary). It was the opposite of cozy to me!

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

DC single-issue voter for making buses reliable

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

If you can afford to hire Quinn Emmanuel you don't need to be asking an LLM for legal advice lmao

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

See also: the Q-Line in Detroit

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

We are planning to make chai pumpkin pie this year at Thanksgiving. Chai gelt is a natural next step

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I read this as the Desi chai and not the Hebrew chai and thought this was actually a huge win for the Hinjew community.

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Turbro @turbro.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh my god it was right after the chorus dropped too

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Turns out that selling something people don't need is a transferable skill!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/08/2025

Re-upping this for the afternoon:

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Every thousand-page click-through consumer contract is a policy failure.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I have (Hindu) Lohana heritage and this was fascinating to learn! My friend married an Ismaili recently, and attending their wedding was delightful because of how much we have in common. Now I understand the roots of it in more detail - we truly are so similar!

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We lost the election by 114 votes, and she never faced any consequences. Honestly? That event radicalized me. For some reason, UF SG was a beacon for morally corrupt power-seekers. It was a microcosm of the worst tendencies of our national politics. And now, it's become our national politics.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

When I was a freshman at UF, I campaigned for some friends who were running for student government. The day before the election, Katie Miller (then Katie Waldman) and one of her friends threw away copies of the student newspaper that reported an endorsement for our party.

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A loyal partisan

In February 2012, Ms. Miller was a 20-year-old student government fixture at the University of Florida when her political allies received some unwelcome news: The head football coach, perhaps the ranking authority on any Southern campus, was endorsing against their preferred vice-presidential candidate.

But voters could not know what they did not see.

So around 9 a.m. one Monday, according to eyewitnesses at the time, Ms. Miller and a colleague from their “Unite Party” swiped 268 copies of the student newspaper chronicling the endorsement and deposited them in the trash.

When confronted, Ms. Miller denied any involvement, even amid follow-up coverage from the student paper and an eventual apology letter from her peer that named Ms. Miller and placed her at the scene.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

First and foremost, the models that drive this tech were created illegally. That's not hyperbole. We have the evidence that these companies went out of their way to find and download copywrited and trademarked works to train the models. bsky.app/profile/polo...

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I want a prime minister chosen by a parliament elected through mixed member proportional representation with publicly funded campaigns

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The linguistic irony of Trump denying his authoritarian tendencies while using the ROYAL WE.

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Text:
Mr. Trump addressed the “No Kings” protests directly for the first time on Thursday, brushing off their central message.

“I don’t feel like a king, I have to go through hell to get stuff approved,” Mr. Trump said, appearing to refer to the opposition he faces from Democrats. “We’re not a king at all, thank you very much,” he added.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

emotion wheel starting with "joy, fear, anger" in the center and then lapsing into gibberish

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It isn't just that this is such a dumb take (which should be immediately apparent to anyone who has heard of a CMS). I used to follow Sahil on Twitter. He took a predictable turn in recent years, but seeing his name in this article was still a jumpscare.

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

idk why this of all things got me

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

PSA: it’s about to be April Fools’ Day on the internet

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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down. Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional
notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity
groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration on DEl, representation and staffing has forced my hand. We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not
continue to work here.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/02/2025

Anyone unfamiliar with how these systems work might think that an SSN makes for a natural primary key by itself. But spouses can share a single SSN. People can and do have multiple, legal SSNs for a variety of reasons. I guarantee you that Musk has no fucking clue what he is talking about.

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lighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"We've got too many people here. They're up against the barricade. We're losing the barricade"-- phllly pd scanner rn and also les mis, victor hugo, 1862

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Helie @helie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I wonder why my phone reported that I'm consistently up 3 hours past my planned bedtime. And why my most used app is the browser where I read news. Strange!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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