iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's my 50th birthday & I spent the afternoon sailing Boston Harbor on a replica 1812 privateer. Now I'm drinking gin cocktails & yelling at my family about the Georgian-era British Royal Navy, & later there will be fireworks over the harbor & we'll watch Master and Commander. Legendary birthday.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I think it's possible I have too many big feelings about the sea.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Today's mood is: crying about Mary Ann Patten, I guess.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I love my WoW guild. This from a beleaguered @invisibleinkie.bsky.social in Massachusetts:

this blizzard is running a lot more effectively than Blizzard sometimes does. at least, assuming i understand its operational goals correctly.

emoji reactions: rofl, 100, frog_please, sangry

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Is "I want ice cream" a valid reason to send one's husband out in a bomb cyclone or nah?

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

It's not just fine but amazing to make amateur art. Humans are artmakers. You don't have to be professionalized as an artist, you don't have to make art of professional merit. Just create!

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My main question is why so many of these guys look like moldy potatoes.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sorry, I felt morally obligated to repost without the typo. I do also have great thinks about my husband, though.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A great thing about my husband is that I can say to him, "I have ordered donuts because I'm mad at the cat," and he both knows what I mean and agrees it was a completely reasonable course of action.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Socratic debate with the child in homeschool this morning until he finally yelled: I DON'T CARE. I WANT TO RUN IN A FIELD AND HUNT WITH MY FINGERS. I DON'T CARE IF SOCIETY COLLAPSES. I WANT TO LIVE IN A FOREST AND EAT BIRDS. so I feel I am fulfilling my highest responsibilities as an educator.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

In the service of homeschooling preparation, this morning I am reading about the legal case United States vs. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton, which I mostly just wanted to tell you because there is a case called United States vs. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Well since you're asking I guess I WOULD in fact like to take a comically luxurious train tour through Wales and Cornwall. I don't suppose you have a spare sixteen-to-twenty-thousand dollars lying around that I could have? www.belmond.com/trains/europ...

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

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Encephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Screenshot of Tumblr post by lurker-at-thresholds:

Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”.

Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny.

Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I also told my husband miserably last night, "I can't breathe through my face," which was not what I'd meant to say and yet also accurate.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I know what the phrase "productive cough" means technically, but I always feel a little guilty when my cough is not productive. "Yeah no it mostly just disrupts me at work and interrupts conversations. "Right, yes, also no phlegm."

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Another lawyer interviewed in the piece:

A few months ago, I had a similar conversation with another attorney. This attorney practices post-conviction law. I had called to talk about another matter, but the conversation inevitably turned to Trump. This attorney mentioned that he’d recently had some work done on his home, and had gotten to know one of the contractors. The contractor was undocumented, and feared he may be deported. In the 20-some years he’d been in the U.S., this contractor had done well for himself — he owned his contracting business, his home, and some property. He asked if the attorney could help him transfer the business and title to his home and property to his son, who is a U.S. citizen. The attorney and his wife — who is also a lawyer — agreed to help.

“As my wife and I started filling out the paperwork, we realized that we might be doing this sort of work for other people over the next few years, so she suggested we bring up one of the old desktops from the basement, so whatever immigration work we were doing would be on a separate computer.”

The attorney’s college-aged son had taken an interest in all of this.

“My son asked if what we were doing was illegal. I told him it was all perfectly legal. Then he asked me a question I really couldn’t answer: Why did we feel like we had to take these steps to hide legal work that was perfectly legal? And all I could think to say was that this is the kind of country we live in now.”

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"elder scrolls" is just me looking at my phone

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

My child, gazing at her computer: "The Pope died?" Me: "Yes." Child: "Who's the Pope?" > One hour later... Child on Discord to friend: "Did you know the Pope died?" [Friend reply inaudible] Child: "That's what /I/ said!" Child: "But he was important. Like a church boss guy."

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I am... /pretty/ sure that's supposed to be an exclamation point?

A child's hands holding up a Starbucks cup of iced juice, upon which the barista has written in black Sharpie, "enjoy?"

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

They gave me this very nice single room at the end of the hall, and everyone who came in to see me put on a new mask and a disposable plastic gown at the door, both of which they promptly disposed off on leaving.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The first solid food you are allowed to eat in the hospital after three days of IV fluids and lemon Italian ice is the best food you will eat, even if it is terrible. These home fries are completely unseasoned and taste slightly metallic and I love every one of these little potato angels.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Well, have you? Saved the daylight? Because I'm here to tell you, if you don't, you'll miss out when I eat the Sun.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If adderall were actually fucking addictive then the people for whom it is prescribed wouldn’t constantly forget to take it.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I feel like wikipedia is the only institution that was actually ready for this.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I wish the Senate handled a coup in the US treasury the way Philly handles winning a ball game

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 09/02/2025

Anybody positing that the problem with the games industry is that devs are too expensive is gonna get an instant block. For the cost of one EA CEO you could afford 213 devs making $120k apiece. Read the room, my dudes; a LOT of very skilled people are out of work right now. Profits are trickling up

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/02/2025

We need to fear the consequences of inaction more than the consequences of action.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My daughter to her friend: "Oh, wow! I've heard of this! It's a really esteemed RPG." Friend: "What's 'esteemed'?" Daughter: "It's... like. When something's.... I'm not sure. It's good, though."

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Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This is disgusting harassment of the only trans member of Congress. If you’d like to let Rep. Miller know you disapprove of her childish bullying: DC Office: (202) 225-5271 IL Office: (217) 703-6100 Web: marymiller.house.gov/contact

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/02/2025

A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Start asking Trump at pressers how he intends to implement Elons agenda

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The people who still enjoy video games after they've already got stable jobs and families and whatnot - these are the people you could make a mint off of if you gave a darn about 'em. Anyway, done shaking my fist at clouds, got stuff to do today. Like defend my lawn. And play video games.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I mean... all children love digging in the dirt. That doesn't mean archaeologists are all children. This is the logic gaming companies seem to be using. They'll be doing focus groups to find out what ten-year-olds prefer in ground penetrating radar next.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Honestly it's so weird. Old folks are the ones with all the money, and yet video game execs do not care 1 whit what anyone over the age of 20 wants in a game. Do they... do they still think gamers "grow out of" video games? Someone tell them... people who grow out of video games are... not gamers.

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Wren Wallis @invisibleinkie.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My dog is an extortionist. He figured out I'm keeping him prisoner in my office so my husband and the plumber can talk unmolested, and that the treat I had given him was bait. So he decided to make the most of it and asked for another. Which I gave him.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 06/02/2025

Do you have republican reps? Now is the time to call. They only need to flip 3 to keep Musk out of your most sensitive data. Right now he may have access not only to your SSN and tax records, but also potentially whatever bank accounts you use to pay taxes/receive refunds.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Not sure who needs to hear this but the filing to run for Texas school boards with May elections closes next Friday, February 14. 💘 /1

Image of text reminding Texans school board filing for May elections closes on February 14.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ich get unhorsed But Ich mount up agayne Ich am nevir goinge to lose thys joust

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 05/02/2025

I'm watching people argue over what campaign should have been run and who is to blame, and Jesus Christ shut the fuck up and get to work. You're going to have to save yourself. You're going to have to save your neighbor. They think they don't need people. That computers can do it all

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Favorite sign so far

A hand-drawn old school doge meme, it's quite good

Text: fake agency, much illegal, very data breach, such treasury, unelected, very cool, wow

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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