iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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aric @aghastronaut.com · 30/09/2026

Someone is replacing my body with a slightly worse body each night while I sleep.

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” - James Baldwin #RadioFreeAmerica #politics

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [dreamye lute solo] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

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The Daily Jaws @thedailyjaws.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stunning hi-def photo of right-to-left Bruce shark being worked on at Easterbrook and Norton's boat shed in Edgartown, where the props were built. The sharks were completed here, then taken to ‘Shark City’ afterwards 🦈 #jaws

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nancy @indiie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy Feety Friday from Miss Maisie! #CatsofBluesky almost #Caturday

A tortie cat is curled up on her left side on a pale blue blanket that has a pawprint pattern. You can just see her tiny black nose. All four feet are sticking out in front of her; they are all different colors, and so is the fuzzy tip of her tail.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Heart-Wrenching Movie Scene Immediately Cuts To Liberty Biberty

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walking into your local library improves mental well-being by at least 62%.

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Meeps and Squeeky @meepssqueeky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Adoptable kittens alert! If you are in the Seattle area or love kittens, please share this! For anyone in the greater Seattle area, if anyone wants to adopt a kitten or 3, this mama (pictured playing with one of her daughters) has a litter of 5 kittens that need homes! Thread 🧵 for more info.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth." — Henry David Thoreau

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Oliver Kornetzke @kornetzke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m happy to share my first attempt at a scifi novella. I hope you enjoy it, and if you give it a read, I’d genuinely appreciate any thoughts or feedback. Feel free to share it with anyone you think might enjoy it as well. Best, Ollie Kornetzke substack.com/@oliverkorne...

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Please Don't Let Them

I. It came on a Saturday in early fall, not many years from now, and nothing about the morning suggested anyone would remember it.This Substack is reader-supported.

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Keith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent.

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this is utterly adorable and i think if i saw this show as a kid i would've been bouncing off the walls

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/09/2026

New queens of the stone song is genuinely incredible youtu.be/9jA_Bg_r_cw?...

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Where The Goth Girls At?

YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age - Topic

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026

Pete Hegseth Deploys 3,000 U.S. Troops On Beer Run theonion.com/pete-hegseth-deploys-3…

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

can you feel it in the air?

cover of THE HANDSOME PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF AUTUMN TURNS ME GAY featuring a handsome man on the left taking off his shirt and on the right there is an already shirtless man with a PUMPKIN HEAD there are orange leaves all around them

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is my kind of data centre

Daunt Books in London, massive number of books for sale on long rows of shelves

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Forrest Plump @nahyoudoit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

HIM: what are you up to? ME: just laying in bed, decomposing HIM: you mean “decompressing?” ME: sure

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A thunderstorm enhances the reading experience by at least 52%.

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🎃 Ryan S. Pumpkins 🎃 (Any Questions?) @ryanwritesgood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I dunno, I just feel like a lot of this could have been avoided if Kenneth had just told us the frequency.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ON SALE THIS WEEK: - Jimmy Eat Wood - Parafloor - My Chemical Remnants - Floor Out Boy - The Promise Rug - Floorboard Confessional

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't do much 9/11 posting, but I always think about Bretagne, the last surviving ground zero search and rescue dog. When they took her to be euthanized in 2016, first responders saluted as she entered the clinic. She was later carried out in a flag-draped casket. www.chron.com/news/houston...

Bretagne with her handler at Ground Zero

Old golden retriever walking into a vet, saluted by first responders

A flag-draped casket being carried out and saluted

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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sky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have one thing to say to the people who drive those Jeeps without doors. Monsters are going to get your feet

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i've been married almost 20 years and yet my soulmate still wanders free

Since 2003, an anonymous "grammar vigilante" in Bristol has been correcting misplaced apostrophes on shop signs and street signs at night. He uses a long-handled tool called the "apostrophiser" to reach high signs and fix errors like "Amy's Nail's" and "Cambridge Motor's". By day, he is a mild-mannered engineer who considers his work a cause worth pursuing.

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Todays song is Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues by Skip James. First recorded in 1931, here performed in 1967. James voice alone can break your heart. From the generation of classic Delta Blues players (b.1902), his ethereal voice gave his work a unique, uncannily modern sound. youtu.be/DoBxzb-8oPc?...

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Skip James - Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Live '67) HQ

YouTube video by The Charity

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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate

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