iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22h

Okay, I definitely need to see this.

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Hannah Harris Green @whatsitlike.me · 28/09/2026

When I set out to fact check “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs” which argues that harm reduction may increase overdoses, I expected some cherry picking and misdirection. But not to find basic math errors and debunked right wing talking points asserted as fact in the Atlantic’s print edition.

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Atlantic's anti-harm reduction screed riddled with errors

A close read of "The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs" found errors in basic arithmetic as well as more deliberately misleading elements

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Jeanette @jmgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To ShinyHunters- do America a solid and give them a choice … release complete Epstein files or FBI files.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 22h

Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or, take something else that happened: A retired person who proudly had a schedule. It was a lot of time allocated to their hobbies, the purpose of which is to not clock in but to prioritize. You can’t really optimize that and it didn’t fit what the vendor thought an agent should do.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Car lane pick up <— happens routinely but sometimes the kid catches a ride. Sometimes the line is long. Sometimes it’s short. Sometimes you do it, sometimes your partner does it. You don’t really put it on a digital calendar - because you know to get your kid every day.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21h

We can conclude here that either 1) these lads have been assured none of this is going to happen, or 2) somewhere in Labour HQ there is a drawer full of evidence against them that’s so utterly damning, all of these guys will squeak “Oh yes I love nationalising things” like their nuts are in a vice.

Times Radio
@TimesRadio • 2h
"Was that a better speech than any that you can imagine yourself ever delivering?"
X
"100%."
Wes Streeting says he feels "completely vindicated" by his decision to back Andy Burnham.

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 20h

I sometimes wonder about the chicken and the egg thing: Were the romans the meanest sons of bitches and that's why they made a big empire, or did, by making the big empire, become mean sons of bitches

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are two ways to sort this - perhaps BOTH need to be implemented. By far the best is to introduce short primary legislation to restore the position of trans people in the Equality Act. The second is to recognise that the promotion of womens’ (or anyone’s) rights is a matter for all.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly. The entire water industry has failed. Must be nationalised. It is similar story in the energy sector. Profiteering, low investment. Privatisation has deepened cost of living crisis.

theguardian.com

The Guardian view on Thames Water: Andy Burnham should nationalise this failed monopoly | Editorial

Editorial: Bill payers should not fund another rescue for financiers of the water industry. Public ownership can end the cycle of extraction and failure

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

A fiscal cost the headbangers, bigots, and racists are never asked to justify or account for.

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Mongrel @mongrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I actually find it kind of incredible how little I've been exposed to popular music from the past *decade* or more. When I go out, the ambient music playing is never new. When I talk to friends, the most recent music they reference or mention they're listening to is at least that old.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's eminently possible for someone to have spent 40+ cumulative days listening to Greenlandic rock and have never heard of Slayyyter.

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was talking about this with my partner last night - we do actually live in a time where "charts" do not mean all that much. This is one thing in which the internet still remains a progressively individualising force which allows us to curate our engagement with culture.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That fucking sub-heading though. "Left-wing anger". It should be uncontroversial to be angry about this if you're anything other than an ardent, genocidal fascist.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The obvious questions regarding the Kindertransport is: why it was privately run and didn’t permit Jewish parents to accompany their children? There is continuity between the British govt’s refusal to accept hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees and its present-day refusal to accept refugees

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I realize "fans believe sex workers are human and have feelings" is a low bar to shoot for, but the religious right and a whole lot of second-wave feminists have campaigned for years that no one could actually see these people as human so...

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.

psypost.org

Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests

People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Eniko Fox
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OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay apparently I'm not done 😭 But I feel like the insistence on these men's (always, always, men's) idealism is standing in for a lot. What is "idealism" in the absence of an articulated politics? What is "idealism" amidst a failure to critique one's own position of power? It's bullshit.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is such an unbelievably, historically unserious bad take from Steven Levy, the light from bad takes would take a million billion years to reach it. www.wired.com/story/war-br...

wired.com

War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

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TGWeaver @tgweaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Okay, I was struck with an idea for a porn meme format. Hear me out, because I believe in this one. I call it "timeline preview"

A youtube-style video is pictured, titled "Meeting My New Neighbors!" in which three cartoony animal people wave to the camera. A bashful horse and excitable dog flank the video's host, a cheerful pink cat. Everything appears wholesome.
In the second panel, a mouse cursor has drifted over the video's timeline, and a tiny video inlay pops up, previewing a single frame several minutes later in the same video. In this small frame on the simulated UI, all three characters are seen having wild, messy sex in someone's bedroom. There is no indication of what happens between then and now to result in the video taking such a dramatic and pornographic turn.
While her new neighbors remain oblivious to this, the cat host appears to somehow be able to see this preview frame, despite it being part of the user interface. Now very distracted, she stares at it, and her imminent and inevitable future, with a blank, wide-eyed expression.

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bran 👽 @pupnik.moe · 31/07/2026

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's that last bit that's the real tell; "...from the outside." They're completely outside of gaming and are operating without the understanding of why people play games or enjoy art, and again their only pitch is how to appeal to them; more shiny slop.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But the thing is, visuals that aim for high definition and more realistic graphics, the cinematic AAA high budget style... IS STILL AN ARTSTYLE. Those games look good because they've got highly skilled artists working on them, it's not just high definition, there's great art direction there.

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Horizon Character Smart Reaction Meme

Alt: Horizon Character Smart Reaction Meme

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And there's no way in hell I could explain to someone like that how something can be beautiful precisely because it is ugly. From the AI techbro perspective, developers only use "old" graphics out of a lack of skill and competence, and their input is valuable they can "fix" it for them. With AI.

Screenshot from Judero featuring a guy whose face is made of modeling clay, because it's a game where everything is made by hand and uses stop-motion animation and looks entirely unique.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I can't explain to someone who has no interest in art why someone would want to use specific artstyles, nor why someone would find that appealing. I love art from people who have something specific to express and to experience the feeling and texture of what that art evokes.

Screenshot from The Seance of Blake Manor showing a ghostly woman in red making "shush" gesture

Screenshot from Mundaun showing a room in the grandfather's house, all of the textures are hand-drawn with pencil.

Screenshot from Slay the Princess showing the princess looking all sad eyed, the player character's scaly hand is holding a dagger, probably for slaying, who knows?

Screenshot from Stories From Sol: The Gun-Dog showing a stern looking blond woman, the text reads:

Captain Bartermews
"Forget what I just said, that's an order."

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They don't understand art because they believe it is beneath them, why do a thing when the computer can do the thing faster and better? And because they don't care about art, they don't seem to be able to see the flaws in the AI generated output because it looks higher definition and thus better.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my steam account is old enough to buy alcohol. i signed up with a credit card. my username is a reference to a game from 1992. what do you mean age verification. my hair is going grey

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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position

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Overly Sarcastic Productions @overlysarcastic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think if a game mandates that you're about to lose in a cutscene you shouldn't have to win the fight first -R

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8

youtu.be

Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

Musk

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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K'eeg @armormodekeeg.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

recently I came to a realization about why "smart devices" are so shitty if you take an appliance that creates some sort of physical output, and connect it to a network, what you've actually done is invent a new kind of printer and printers are, of course, the devil's machines

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Like what the fuck are we doing that this isn't being brought up at every meeting. Chat gpt is responsible for one of the worst shootings in Canadian history. I want this banned immediately

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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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it's charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

remember when they put master chief's digital clone of his abusive, adopted mother that helps him kill with greater efficiency and he is impossibly in love with inside everyone's windows start bar

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/09/2026

rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Did you know that in the late 1800s a group of anarchists tried to kill john d. rockefeller by blowing him up with dynamite. they were almost sussusful and it scared him so much he started funding the building of hospitals and libraries all over the country so that people would hate him less.

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Crowley Boots🔞 @crowleyboots.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’d like the propose a creative challenge: Write a short story based on this artwork. #CrowleyExpressChallenge #eroticart

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