iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Your regular reminder that "Grok" is just an inappropriate alias of Elon Musk's pet chatbot, MechaHitler, best known for openly worshiping its creator, advocating genocide, and creating non-consensual nudes of teenage girls.

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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We could really use Carl Sagan right about now… #books #reading #history #libraries

A quote from the great Carl Sagan “One glace at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for a 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

holy metaphor alert Batman

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are grave civil liberties implications in moving to any central bank digital currency arrangement that would entrust the government with the power to flip a switch and turn off some people's money. [Norbert Michel, @cato.org]

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When Money Has an Off Switch, So Does Your Freedom

These kinds of top-down financial systems have always placed the heaviest burdens on those with the least economic power, and they always will. That’s why CBDCs are not compatible with freedom.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

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Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal

Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 04/10/2024

The only way we find love on the timeline is if we put it there. The only way we find kindness on the timeline is if we put it there. The only way we find wisdom on the timeline is if we put it there. The only way we find peace on the timeline is if we put it there.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

If only we had some way of controlling these outbreaks, such as a way of stimulating antibody production so people's bodies can better fight off infections.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

As I've been saying for over a year now: if in the '90s I had written a political satire in which the President of the US is a boorish clod who wears bill caps for every occasion, including diplomatic meetings and formal observances, critics would've said it was over the top.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

You know the world has become fucked up when a growing number of older people, like myself, are now saying "I'm glad I'm so old I probably won't live to see the culmination of this trend."

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 07/11/2025

I've talked about this before. Many charities inly help if you're willing to follow their rules. You have to pray with them, attend their church, get involved in their extracurriculars. It's not charitable giving; its proselytization and coercion disguised as good works.

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phillycheryl @phillycheryl.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and tell me my hair does not look like a cheap toupee.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

But a computer cannot create art in ANY medium, because computers lack what we might call (in the absence of a less semantically-overloaded term) a soul. And I have no interest in watching soulless machines grotesquely parroting humanity. That this is controversial is a sign of cultural pathology.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If the HPV vaccine had been available 20 years earlier, my beloved Grace might still be alive. Get vaccinated.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

There are TWO links between acetaminophen and autism! 1) Both start with "A" 2) Both are subjects you might ask a doctor about. SMOKING GUN!!!

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 24/09/2025

If you want to stop "seeing porn everywhere" stop banning adult sites. Sex workers wouldn't be advertising nearly as much on social media, and consumers wouldn't be sharing their favorite clips as often if we were allowed to have spaces for sexual content without being criminalized/surveilled

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The Japanese are the only people left on Earth who can tell fantasy from reality: maggiemcneill.com/2025/09/17/i...

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

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BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

If only we had national anti- corruption commission to look into things like this

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jhstoo @jhstoo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So much of what Trump has said in the past week has me thinking "he has dementia, why is no one talking about it?" Well ... the past week, some have.

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Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

want a better planet? wishing takes just as much effort as planning

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Gareth @garethw1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 19/08/2025

This was inevitable You can't have that many people in enclosed spaces with subhuman conditions and not expect an outbreak of *something*

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“It looks like a whorehouse” oh my friends, I’ve been in a number of whorehouses around the world, and some of them were indeed gaudy and tacky - but yeah no this is beyond even the weirdest whorehouse decor I’ve seen

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

tfw you order the Versailles foam sticky starter pack for your college dorm room

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Nigel Bell 🍉 @nigel63.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

(just spotted) bsky.app/profile/nick...

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

“You fool! That wasn’t even my final form!” *health bar recharges*

A chubby orange cat sits on a concrete floor with sunlight streaming through a window, creating bright rectangular patches across its back that look like a glowing battery charge indicator.

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Sol, Spookily Chuffed @mrbadguy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Viewed in the window of a local business. Make it very clear to these people what your rights are.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Thank you! bsky.app/profile/jijo...

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 17/08/2025

Why tf am I seeing a bunch of men with shitty takes regarding tipping sex workers this morning? Just tip them already. Spending hours "getting to know you" is work, so pay up

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Happy2BeHere @happy2behere.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Accurate

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Dr Shane Huntington OAM @drshanerrr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Good morning people Happy Sunday Huge day for me today in @3RRRFM - it is our 2025 Radiothon and we need everyone to subscribe to the station to support independent science broadcasting. 11am-12pm people.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Video of the Day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVY...

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uKanDanZ - WAR PIGS (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by ukandanz

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

As one does.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

News just in about one of my favourite Adelaide places - the State Library of SA has been recognised by the 1000 Libraries Awards as second most beautiful in the world. The Mortlock Wing (currently closed, btw) is a seriously beautiful spot.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I realise it's beyond the wit of routine journalism to meaningfully contextualise, but i'd have thought if you were reporting a Trump 'trade deal' it's important to mention that it's only solving a problem of his making, and is an act of unconstitutional state extortion. stop normalising this crap.

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.

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idiotfortress.bsky.social @idiotfortress.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

@drshanerrr.bsky.social Listening to your organ donation. Everytime someone mentions family history really eats my brain. I'm adopted and have no information about family history. Thanks

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Future gold medal winner for Australia's breakdancing team

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

In the days before the internet, the magic of interlibrary loan allowed me to research obscure subjects and read hard-to-find books at my small public library in small-town South Louisiana. The politicians who destroyed this system should be treated as criminals.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I get paid less than this as an astrophysicist with 25 years experience.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 17/07/2025

One of the most freeing sentences I've ever heard was from @mrwilliam.bsky.social He said "Who made this rule, and why do you have to follow it?" Absolute game changer. I now view all social conventions from this lens

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