iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It’s almost as if generations of pathological institutionalized selfishness and unmitigated greed might cause an issue for most of the population. Hmmm. Yup. Shocker.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

How are all these presumably well educated people on TV saying “Sososecurity” over and over again?!? This makes NuQueLur feel like a friggin vacation! Gahhhhhh!!

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

My “doorman” hasn’t been to Manhattan in two years.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social You’re doing a GREAT and brave job. May I humbly suggest that we all get explicit and tell the youth that “stand up/fight back” means “in person”?…occurs to me that many might think they’re doing it already, and posting isn’t enough for this mess. Thanks!!

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Every. Single. East village bodega has HUGE mountains of prominently displayed Zyn. They were not here a few weeks ago.

Tins of Zyn in a crowded NYC bodega window.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@edzitron.com just kicked off my trianual Tool binge. Thank you good sir! Perfect timing.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

These same people have been failing us my entire life in just this way, while Sen. Sanders has been out there being The Actual Good Guys for just as long. The fact that he’s still an utter anomaly slash tiny minority is grotesquely depressing. And now, bonus, dangerous.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Exactly. The sheer volume of shame to go around here is astounding.

020 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Remember when all those Greek people killed themselves because Austerity? I do.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@chrislhayes.bsky.social really did his part last night by trying (hard) to talk some sense into this truly delusional husk of a throwback, who in no way lives on the same planet as the rest of us and who is fully leaning in to an obviously huge mistake. I truly appreciate the effort.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Jesus. Screaming at the TV while @maddow.msnbc.com interviews Jeffries. These people are living on an entirely different PLANET from the rest of us. Nightmare. Utter nightmare. Why can’t the democrats find ONE person who can JUST TALK LIKE A PERSON?!?! (And who maybe knows an actual American?)

001 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ok. So the democrats can’t or won’t do actual civil disobedience why now? Every single one of them should be on tape being arrested for attempting a citizens’ arrest of every tiny Nazi in the servers. Let the cops haul them away. On TV. The failure of imagination here is stunning.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ohhhhhh Hakeem. Oh god. Hakeem. Oh dear Jesus, how is this a real person?!? Yup. Confident. Firey. Engaging. Clearly down with the cause. Obviously knows people with jobs. This is all going to be just fine. The guy with the beige personality has a memo plan. All good now. Phew.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This, right here, is why you stop teaching phonics and civics decades prior. This moment right now. An echo of things that already happened.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have an actual question for people who can stomach much more BroPod than I can… How often does the phrase “I think that’s right…” appear in 3.8 hours of Rogan? Or 2.5 hours of PBD? Or whatever the thing of the day is? Like, ever?

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“Sorry your grandma might starve but we have to eradicate THE WOKE-EI!” … Dems: “Look who is REALLY defunding the police now! Also, tell everyone about how much you followed the rules some more. That’ll fix it. Or maybe a condemnation of something that happened a week ago? Yeah. Do that more.”

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’ll believe that the Democratic Party Folks are serious when they start sounding more like @garyseconomics.bsky.social and less like 1994 Republicans. (Y’all shluld follow Gary on all platforms right now. And this shoukd be in every middle school in america.) youtu.be/m5yfbWyHPac?...

youtu.be

How economic inequality controls your life | Gary Stevenson | Full interview

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Useless is a kind way to describe what this is. Or… what they are. Whatever. I keep hearing Sarah Palin sneer about “that hopey changey stuff”…she called it.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Also it’s polite and “shows its work” which makes me feel just slightly less “dirty” while playing with it.

😂 exactly! They’re going to find a use case. They are. Just give them a little time. You’ll want it eventually. You will. It’s going to Change the World. It is. They promise. Just hang on while they figure it out. It’s going to be great. It totally is. Uh huh. Yup.

Ain’t nobody coming. We are entirely on our own here. The good news is, all these people can absolutely afford $12 eggs and medical tourism for when the virus that’s causing the $12 eggs breaches containment and morphs into the Next Big Thing killing all kinds of us. Don’t worry. They’re fine.

011 0

What part of “Neosegregationist fascist assholes” are we still not able to grok in these parts? This shit is what they do best. This shit was the whole point.

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I keep sayin’ it. And apparently it’s literally true.

000 0

I love that DeepSeek politely “shows its work”…which should just be a thing in all these mostly useless bots nobody asked for.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Who wrote this drivel? Jesus.

000 0

Protesters attend 'People's March' in Washington | REUTERS

Huh. It occurs to me that we ought to worry that this isn’t getting major coverage, but we should also worry that so few people knew it was happening before it did. I mean. Crickets. youtu.be/ugUQtamxJVY?...

youtu.be

YouTube video by Reuters

000 0

And there went TikTok. Meanwhile Quote RedBook is all kinds of 1987 Cultural Exchange for Peace “The Russians love their children too” fresh exotic pen pal vibes in every direction. I’m sure they’re scrambling to build us a pen so we don’t infect their minds too much. But fun for now.

000 0

Presumably we are cool with Temu because nobody pointed out a genocide on it? Is that what I’m gleaning here? National security my ass.

000 0

Hopefully somebody over on red note is explaining that a huge percentage of Americans basically can’t or don’t read, can’t find China (or most of the rest of the world) on a map, and have no sense of history, let alone a sense of “Common Good”…in a way that doesn’t violate the app’s guidelines…

110 0

Please. Make it stop. I really don’t like this timeline at all.

000 0

I’m feeling deeply freaked out that there are this many grown ass people in the world who appear to be well rounded in the “culture” dept and yet have no idea who David Lynch was. This just feels impossible to me. Or like it should be impossible.

000 0

Announcing one of our most auspicious nominees for this year’s No Shit, Sherlock Moral Panic Boomerang Awards. Come on, dude. Really now.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Oh my god it’s TRUE! The Chinese propaganda national security risk over on the Even More Chinese App™️ is clearly not only REAL, and DANGEROUS but EFFECTIVE!! 12 videos deep and this panda is turning me into an actual socialist as we speak. Oh god. It’s happening. I can feel it.

000 0

These people are actually trying to kill us all. It’s grotesque. And just so blatant.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

If you’re looking for “The Good Guys” I promise there aren’t any.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Pretty sure it was actually an image of a vulva, but still.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

They’re all doing some variation of this. Ask GPT to generate a high school essay about cats (or whatever) written by a 15 year old in Harlem and you’ll get an eyeful…yo.

000 0

Jena Starkes @jena.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

These two things are the worst and best things I’ve seen this week. One makes me deeply sad and the other makes me stupidly happy. Welcome to New York City. Land of extremes.

A pay phone on a Brooklyn street with the broken receiver hanging by its cord, covered in grafiti and clearly just busted.

A black vintage gas powered car on a New York street, parked and devoid of humans.