iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 7h

thinking about Shakespeare's sonnets about immortality and realizing how weird it is that the AI cult believes in the idea of preserving human consciousnesses while actively destroying the only technology we currently have to do that: Art

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

unpopular opinion: food almost everywhere was worse 250 years ago

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 8h

I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 8h

Congratulations to Firefox for giving tabs rounded corners in 2026, changing the visual feel sufficiently that it impacts my tab navigation / management. 10/10 cramped UI feeling, maybe if you added another border box around them it'd really feel like 1997 again.

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 9h

I suggest that - 'godspeed' means 'i wish you well in your endeavours' - 'god speed' is somewhere just above the speed of light

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Manderon Flavuris sez hi. Have some fruit joy.

A friendly action-figure doll in a berry bowl, whose head is a whole mandarin, with the back half left unpeeled for hair, raisins for eyes and a smiling mouth. Its trunk is a large blackberry and its limbs are raspberries. It looks like it’s waving hello to you.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026

The most stupid, annoying, obvious dark pattern.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 28/09/2026

Apparently my unconscious mind is unaware that there is a different between goats and donkeys.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 28/09/2026

Status report, "Weary Experimentation Mode": I wonder if the 9:16 book trailer for THE ADVENTURE OF THE LIONESS'S MANE will display correctly here? *Let's find out!* (...And yes, you can buy the book! Wait for the QR code. Or go to bit.ly/Lioness-Mane! Whichever you prefer!) 🙂 #booksky #ebook

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’m not saying you should read this—it’s not very good. However, I just thought this section head in particular deserved widespread ridicule. www.vox.com/politics/504...

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can see all the teeth she likes to bite me with.

Kazoo the tabby cat yawning, showing off her impressive teeth

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/09/2026

who do I petition to get someone to launch a Tate Morden, to confuse the tourists

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know the world is an increasingly scary and dark place, and it’s tempting to retreat into childhood, so why not reread DWJ or Susan Cooper or Alan Garner (all of whom deal with the struggle to defeat darkness) rather than relentlessly entweeifying the actual instruments of your own fears IYSWIM

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dragon, sunning herself on a nice warm rock in a forest -3552 🎨 #art

A green ballpoint pen and green Pitt pen sketch of a small dragon in a forest of tall trees, casting lots of dappled shade everywhere. There is a big rock in the foreground, fully in shadow. Behind it is another rock, on which a small dragon is sitting facing the light, wings held open, head pointed up

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 27/09/2026

As a treat for tomorrow can we have some nice discourse? I don't want to have to keep hiding in the dragon art feed.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 27/09/2026

My father was not an academic historian, but always made a thing about not really remembering much beyond where to look things up. (He probably remembered 1066, 1485, 1714, because they were time boundaries for some of his books. Then again, he'd know where to look those up too.)

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh look, it is brainlike! Must be intelligent 🤔

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

me: iggy i think if a witch offered you a pastry you would fall for it immediately and eat the pastry right? iggy: no! me: what about a cookie? iggy: (has forgotten about the witch) yummmm i love cookies. and also pastries and that is why it works in the stories

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

groundbreaking stuff

post by substack on linkedin:

"Men are willing to buy and read something that will propel them to act in the world: dust the cheetos off themselves, do 20 push-ups, and take up the worthwhile pursuit of self-actualization."
George Aldous, writing in his Substack Kill Switch, examines the decline in reading among men, and puts the blame on a publishing industry that is hostile to "both masculinity as a concept and masculine influences"
https://Inkd.in/gCPUfj5g
Mars and Venus couldn't be more different. I'm talking about the actual planets but also bluntly extending it into metaphor: men and women are different. Their preferences are different, their personalities are different, their bodies are different, and their reading proclivities are in fact... different. The point I'm ham-fistedly trying to make is, it should be of no surprise to any rational thinking person that in the age of algorithmic social media and personalized consumption: men and women are reading different things - if they are reading anything at all.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 26/09/2026

I was definitely writing a story about family and identity and crazy rich people, but I've just written a creepy horror basement scene which is both utterly essential and also making me question what I'm actually doing.

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Sarah(‘s new account) @harriet-vane1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is what living in the UK was like, re: number of Jameses.

In May 2024, James Watt stepped down as chief executive officer of BrewDog after 17 years in the role. He transitioned to a newly created non-executive position entitled "Captain and Co-Founder", remaining involved in the company's strategic direction while retaining his equity stake. He was succeeded by chief operating officer James Arrow.
In March 2025, BrewDog announced the appointment of James Taylor as chief executive officer and Lauren Carrol as chief operating
officer, following the departure of James Arrow, who stepped down for personal reasons. The

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 26/09/2026

I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF TRANSPHOBIC ANTIFEMINISTS IN THE BRITISH MEDIA BEING GIVEN AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR UNINFORMED OPINIONS SOURCED DIRECTLY FROM BETWIXT THE ASS CHEEKS OF ROTTING ARISTONONCES

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 26/09/2026

Is it okay if I turn up to an interview with an iced coffee if I'm the interviewer? Should I be holding interviews in a coffee shop so I can buy you one too? Should I bring squash concentrate for non caffeinaters? (Up to half of my interview time is me selling you on the role and company.)

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Setting up a Hibachi table at a job interview

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 26/09/2026

Muse loves you. Muse cares for you. Muse will watch over you as you sleep. Muse may make strange sounds in the middle of the night but that is only it communing with the Gnarled Ones. Muse can help you plan your day or find the perfect outfit for your party. Muse is a registered trademark.

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CJ @mateloos.be · 26/09/2026

3 years after the introduction of Joe Camel, the cartoon figure to promote the cigarettes brand and targeting teens, "more children could recognize Joe Camel than could identify Mickey Mouse or Fred Flintstone."

Parody cartoon: "JOE CAMEL – THE LATER YEARS" shows Joe Camel in a wheelchair, coughing up slime and breathing from an O2 bottle. He looks really awful. Credits: Signe Wilkinson for The Philadelphia Daily News on February 28, 1994

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI users: I am so fucking productive now, I am programming things naught but gods would dream of, I- Every single genAI CEO: well, it's like you- no one, I mean, really needs to read nowadays, right? Btw I don't remember whether you wipe before or after pooping

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

omg. i love this version so much

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you were transfixed by THE HOT ZONE when you were young, or then read SPILLOVER and trusted it, then as a career scary diseases reporter, I urge you to read this thread. Science moves on. People discover fresh stuff. The work careers were built on becomes outdated. Be open to the new. Please.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the successor species we should be encouraging, not the abused sand.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/09/2026

Whenever I think about AI anthropomorphism I come back to Murderbot and the AI in Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, for both of whom I have shed tears. Because a human made them up *really well*.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of six people sitting at a table laden down with food, looking startled as a skeleton taps one of them on the shoulder. The skeleton is standing behind the person on the far right, tapping with its left bony hand & holding a class in her other. The tapee has his hand over his chest & a look of shock on his face: the sort of expression you would get if you walked in on your great aunt Sue in the middle of a menage a trois with some other folks from the assisted living facility.

The others characters at the table are all either leaning away from the doomed soul, or actually falling backwards in fear. Curiously, the one 3rd from the left, hidden in the shadows, looks like an angry Abraham Lincoln. But what would he be doing here? He doesn't look like part of the company; perhaps he's working with the skeleton to settle a score (one of 4, likely). The better angels of our nature, overcome by the skeleton of his revenge.

Meme text reads:
"This meal is
deelightfully deadly"

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Jonathan Aul @mudshark58.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

" 'Can’t you see that preventing the Genius Thumb Dog Drone Apocalypse is the most important problem that has ever confronted humanity?' they ferociously reply."

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Kat Calamia @comicuno.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lifeline Comics SPLIT UP!! …at Rose City Comic Con and Romancing Portland. And this is how we did two travel shows on the SAME WEEKEND. #RCCC #rosecitycomiccon #portland #romantasy #RomancingPortland #comiccon #comics

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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why is no one having kids? GAS PRICES. Today it cost me over $100 to fill up my child

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