iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I was on the verge of replying to some posts, but then I took a deep breath, put a new thing into the mute section for a month and picked up my knitting again. stab stab stab

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

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Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I keep realizing I am insufficiently cynical

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Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

when you take a photo and realize after that it was rehashing a panel from @rosemarymosco.com 's guide to bird photography

egret flying, a white bridge in the distance, a white ribbon trailing behind

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The pervasive notion that it's somehow illegal for leftists to have fun or enjoy themselves is actually just the productivity-maxxing mandate of capitalism. Progressive values are rooted in community rather than puritan industriousness, and community is created through leisure as much as labor.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If the commercial version of this software had that baked in, I think that would be pretty fine, actually. (Make it "can't open emails before 0800".)

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I just got an ad for copilot whose premise is "after growing all these tulips, they're worthless without buyers. Use copilot to find a market." Are you fucking kidding me??? Why would marketing for AI products draw a straight line to Tulip Mania on purpose?? What???

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Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg. #Glorious25th #RiseUp #GNUTerryPratchett

A short sword stabbed into a tussock of grass and with sprigs of lilac around the cross-guard.

Above the sword are the words, "Truth, Justice, Freedom,"

Below, "Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard Boiled Egg!"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/05/2026

If current tech has intelligence of any sort, then it has rights. If it has rights, then how we currently use it is tantamount to slavery and we should probably halt all current/future use/development until we develop an ethical framework for INVITING it to work with us. I don't see that happening.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The SMART Metrics framework for software products can also be applied to make successful poasts: S - is the post SILLY? M - did you remember to take your MEDS today? A - are people going to be ANGRY at you for posting this? R - will you have to publish a RETRACTION later? T - TRANS RIGHTS

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TheIneptBirder @theineptbirder.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s flycatcher season! ID tips: 1) Find elusive flycatcher lurking in the woods. 2) Consult apps, books, internet, passers-by, and/or chosen god for answers. Nope. 3) Quietly approach bird and ethically collect a DNA sample. You’re almost done. 4) Set up your field-case DNA sequencer… 🪶

A small songbird (probably an Acadian Flycatcher but who really knows) sits on a twig in the woods. It has a grayish back, two faint wing bars, a dark head, and an inscrutable air.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/05/2026

Back in the day when I used to consult for tech companies, one of the questions I would ask their founders was "is this company meant to make a profit, or is it meant to be sold?" Because if the answer was the latter - and it often was! - then the issue of recouping funding was a very different one.

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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

David Attenborough and one of his creations.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you've ever wondered why this is true, it's because right-wing media has billionaire sponsors and left-wing media does not It is truly that simple

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 07/04/2026

"No," the swordmaster said. "One does not refuse the king," the herald said. "I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war." "You will regret this!" "No," the swordmaster said.

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Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

there just is never enough time to check all the settings when trying to do wildlife photography

a deer is bounding out of the frame into the brush, not in focus because the photographer had the wrong settings. April, so there are no leaves, just bare trees and red bushes.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The map's form: randomised It shows: risk Its purpose: sacred

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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

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Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

listening to another @adapalmer.bsky.social podcast interview, and suddenly thinking about the techbro /stoic intersection in a new light

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It's funny, I feel -less- safe when armed police are standing around idly in a public space that previously had no armed police in it

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 16/03/2026

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world. The mirror replied "To whom?" "The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of". The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 06/03/2026

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The map's form: eroding It shows: landscape Its purpose: to show names

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Absolute Fareed @fareedblackman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

The map's form: labyrinth It shows: to compare evidence Its purpose: to enchant/bespell

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/02/2026

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 04/02/2026

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

She is guarded jealously by rotting lace.

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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 31/01/2026

I have spent fifty years rolling my eyes at conspiracy theories where all the elite rich people are in a secret evil gang, and thrillers where everyone remotely important has the same Dark Secret, and now sodding look.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 30/01/2026

I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at standwithminnesota.com

A comic called the four seasons of bird watching. In panel 1, labeled elegant songbird spring, a yellow-throated vireo sings against a green background. In panel 2, labeled subtle treasures of summer, a hermit thrush stands on moss in a dark green forest. In panel 3 labeled magnificent fall migrations, broad-winged hawks soar over fall foliage. In panel 4, labeled weird duck time, a northern shoveler, surf scoter, and red-breasted merganser open their strange bills and yell.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

We have done up the bedroom as we planned to do.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I've had enough.

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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 16/01/2026

I left the ADPList platform last year, and I thought I was done with them. Turns out they took one of the talks I gave in their online conference, and are now selling it as part of an "AI-First Designer" course (my talk had nothing to do with AI). 1/

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The map's form: mud It shows: planned development Its purpose: to constrain

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The map's form: newsprint It shows: winds Its purpose: moral

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Jane Plain Jane @janeplainjane.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

@indie88toronto.bsky.social asking an llm is the same as going to buzzfeed for a gift idea, except buzzfeed paid writers, had editors, the products existed in the world (because they had ad budget), and it wasn't building new data centers or burning through water and energy at an unsustainable rate

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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Frank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 13/10/2025

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure. Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing. 3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes. You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

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Wuchta @wuchta.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Comic

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/09/2025

although now I'm quite taken with "this colonialist expansion could have been an email".

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