iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

7'scarlet has been sitting in my backlog for quite awhile and I have a couple of days off so I decided to start it and like hearing Shin-ichiro miki's voice in the first ten seconds and the town is like haunted or whatever? Yeah, ok I'm in

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is profoundly alienating to see how gleefully folks are turning back the clock on body politics by *decades.*

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

one of my all-time favorites (along with tail concerto) little tail bronx was a beloved series that could do no wrong for me, but i just couldn't go along when they went in hard on the "feed more kids to the soul cannon" concept 😭

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whoa, no, that's not how this works. You cannot replace school libraries or public libraries with bookstores. We have entirely different goals and objectives. And the idea that we can just privatize public goods makes me full body cringe.

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

threads of fate just very right place, right time for me

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They'd probably think I was a bitch for being over 30 and having a grown-up job but would respect how I hate diet culture out loud now.

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Retronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Happy 40th anniversary to Hudson's Adventure Island, originally released for the Famicom on this day in 1986.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

🛎️🛎️🛎️

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

LRP I wonder if companies realize that all of these visible "security" measures really just communicate contempt for customers and make me not shop at that place

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Deanna Something @deannatheanalyst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Policies like this drive me to shop online even more. I want to scream at various CEOs "Stop treating your customers like criminals, and your business will improve."

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“Spooky” Tom Guycott @thomasguycott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy birthday to a real champ.

A cartoon Sega Dreamcast with googly eyes sits on a table and is talking with its lid as a mouth:

“OH NO! MY CMOS BATTERY DIED! I CAN'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES ANYMORE!”

“HA HA! JUST KIDDING! YO, WHAT TIME IS IT?”

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

trans people deserve EVERYTHING everybody else gets and more. romantic love. romantic angst. mistakes. reconciliations. dreams. happiness. fucking up. respect. marriage. jobs. success. failure. kids. choices. divorce. learning. growing. messing up. still being loved

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Marc Normandin @marcnormandin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When you say "time out, Hungary" fast enough I think "yeah, I could eat"

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is amazing

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just finished this one! It's lovely and there's more to it than what it seems to be at first glance!

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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 02/09/2026

AI food photos trigger my trypophobia so bad. I can't fathom turning to a bot for photos of food I've cooked, seeing the maggot-infested rot the AI spits out, and saying, "Print it." Poorly lit photos of burritos >>>>>>>>>>> whatever the FUCK gen AI is doing.

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it's good i've never played a version of this that i dislike

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Last night I drifted off to sleep looking forward to the nap I was going to have today

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Lindley @lindley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to shame people" Me, a fat person: oh bless your heart

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

omgggg plz free him let dizzy ride again; i love him

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Michelle Allison, RD @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

People are always like, "Why does fat have to be your whole identity?" so let me stop you right there: YOU made it my identity. You did that. A culture that hates fat people decided that body size = identity. Some of us simply reclaimed it, and NOW you have a problem with it. You're not clever.

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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 17/08/2026

Did you know that August is Fat Liberation Month? A really great way to support my work, especially now, is to subscribe to Fat Forward Books on Bindery Books at ANY tier including FREE. My goal is to grow this space into a fat-focused publishing imprint, and you can help! Shares encouraged! 💛📚✨

fatfwdbooks.binderybooks.com

Fat Forward Books

Celebrating books by fat authors and about fat experien...

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 10/08/2026

In most scams either the scammer is the "chosen one" "I have all the answers to your problems" or the mark is "you're so smart and unique and special for coming to me to solve all your problems", but this is a neat trick where that aspect of it extends both ways.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The “LLM escaped containment” rubbish reminds me too much of the cybersecurity panics we have had such as “public WiFi is dangeous” or “airport usb is spreading malware” or “you can’t write your passwords down” Consider who makes money out of you believing all this.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

anytime I read an article and the author's like "now, full disclosure, I do use Claude/ChatGPT for research/tech troubleshooting/etc" that's the last thing I read from that person

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/08/2026

all bigotries are connected.

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 06/08/2026

Hats off to @aftermath.site for making a list of all the video game studios refusing to use gen AI and cheers to all said studios. It's a real pleasure to read their words on their choice not to touch AI 🤍 ➡️ aftermath.site/video-games-...

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah. And the user icon one that is the same, as it incites similar curiosity/spectacle if less specific. (I've blocked them both.)

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I mean, I don't think "they just *begged* me to take the sack of cash with a dollar sign on it" is ever true.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You're not special, penguin. I do that every day.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Fyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗

"That rare kind of voice that leaps off the page. A knock-out adult romance debut."
-Courtney Kae, author of In the Event of Love
"Fabulously well crafted and full of all the charm in the world. These characters grabbed my heart and didn't let go.
Schwartz is one to watch."
-Charlotte Stein, author of When Grumpy Met Sunshine
"Schwartz proves herself a worthy successor to Meredith Willson."
-Publishers Weekly
"Are you checking anything out?" "Oh, definitely."
L.A. SCHWARTZ
A slick conwoman selling a fake music festival meets her match in a hot and nerdy autistic small-town librarian fighting book bans, in this gender-swapped homage to The Music Man perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.

US print/ebook/audiobook • UK paperback (FREE US/world shipping from Blackwell's) / ebook

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/07/2026

there's 5 main reasons they want you to think AI is now self-aware and "goes rogue" 1. product marketing misrepresentation 2. props up insane valuations for a sector not making money 3. scares lawmakers into trash legislation 4. distracts from technofascism 5. distances execs from accountability

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

lol, no, that's not a thing

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Sam Altman says we are in the singularity: 'This is the moment'

By Lakshmi Varanasi

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

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AI cures cancer.

Bluesky: actualky the AI didn't really cure cancer. Just predicted the next most likely word in a loop until a solution to cancer was extruded

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jael @jld.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I loved the stylishly bleak staging of this production; really gives the feeling of a doomed city operavision.eu/performance/...

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Le Roi d'Ys | Operavision

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Michelle Allison, RD @fatnutritionist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not even gonna call it "diet culture" anymore. It's starvation culture, all the little cultural messages that whisper to us, "Maybe you should try starving yourself, just a little. Just in the morning. In the afternoon. After Xpm. Just try not eating when you actually want or need to eat."

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/07/2026

So, what will it take to actually communicate a needed cultural change that if you use the products of hateful supremacists, you are directly funding their ability to be hateful supremacists? Because this doesn’t seem to be understood by the world at large.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I always love telling folks that autistics eating buttered noodles are actually doing antifascism so leave them alone

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Arjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Facebook was created to bypass consent. It’s in the DNA.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Daily bunny no.3389 makes a big splash

Bunnies ride an old-fashioned log flume ride, three of them falling into the water down a wooden ramp. One bunny in back flies out of their seat, while the one in front holds on and leans forward

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.

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