iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, Melissa Clark. That looks delicious, but if I asked you for a vegetarian take on a BLT and you handed me a mushroom burger, I’d feel rather cheated.

Screenshot of a recipe article featuring a large, crispy mushroom sandwich on a green plate. The sandwich is topped with lettuce, tomato, and red onion on a brioche bun. Image caption reads: "Yewande Komolafe’s crispy mushroom sandwiches. Andrew Bui for The New York Times.” Article text reads “Melissa explains it all: meatless BLTs. Speaking of tomato sandwiches, several readers wrote in asking for ideas for meatless BLTs."

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

May I remind you all that the only successful political use case found for him after he chucked a tanty and left Parliament was being made US Ambassador, where he could hang out in Trump world and finally have the chance to be the smartest political person in a room for the first time in his life.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

marvel keep a showrunner for more than 46 minutes challenge

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 22/09/2026

Do people who want less immigration actually think Australia would be better off, or are they just racist? Hint: it’s the racism, stupid.

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

weird how they never say this about extractive industries

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Dillin Apelyan - Bob the Builder's #1 Guy @superdillin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Next time you get publicly mad about a popular channel or account exclusively promoting Dungeons and Dragons you have to say 10 Hail Mary's (you have to publicly promote one of the many excellent shows that exclusively showcase other games). I do actually make the rules, I'm a game designer.

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deck.blue @deck.blue · 01/09/2026

in case you didn't know, deck.blue is currently my main source of income while i'm also getting into photography work here in são paulo, so i really appreciate everyone that's currently subscribed to the patreon; making all this possible if you can't subscribe but want to help, there's a ko-fi too!

patreon.com

deck.blue — Get the most out of Bluesky.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 19/09/2026

“… and I didn’t speak up because I am not a CNN, MS NOW, or Politico journo.”

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 18/09/2026

If I was a superintelligent AI hellbent on the destruction of humanity, I’d just sit back and let billionaire idiots do the dirty work for me.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 18/09/2026

lol. Different channel, but same clickbait-y “terrifying” slop history MO. Or is it? I mean, Joe sure looks upset. mPerhaps this one is legit? Perhaps we’ll never know — I’m not watching this one to find out.

YouTube thumbnail featuring a split image. On the left, Joe Rogan is visibly emotional, wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. On the right, there is a digital rendering of Göbekli Tepe, with a futuristic, glowing humanoid figure reaching toward it. A Fox News alert banner at the bottom reads "THIS IS TERRIFYING!" in bold letters. The video title below is "Göbekli Tepe's Buried Half Finally Rebuilt by AI — What It Reveals Will Shock Historians" by the channel Cuneiform Vault.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 17/09/2026

I haven’t watched this, but either the “solution” is bullshit, or this is another example of the devaluation of the word “terrifying.”

A YouTube thumbnail featuring a split screen. On the left, there is a man with glasses and the word "BREAKING" in a red box. On the right, there is a metallic, glowing Roman dodecahedron surrounded by futuristic, holographic displays. Large, bold text across the bottom reads "THIS IS TERRIFYING!" in black on a white background. The video title below is "The Roman Dodecahedron Mystery Is Finally Solved — And the Truth Is Worse..." by the channel The Lost Codex.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 16/09/2026

BREAKIBG: Josie and the Pussycats will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran.

Animated characters from "Josie and the Pussycats" performing on a stage. The three band members are wearing matching leopard-print bodysuits with cat ears and tails. From left to right, there is a character with short red hair playing a red guitar, a character with blonde hair playing the drums, and a character with dark hair playing a tambourine. The bass drum in the center displays the band's name, "Josie and the Pussycats."

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 15/09/2026

Why does Apple keep trying to enshittify the battery icon?

Screenshot of top section of iOS 27 Home Screen on an iPhone featuring their latest iteration focus battery icon, which looks objectively worse than the previous iteration.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 14/09/2026

Dear Journalists, When a serial shitstain claims they have apologised for something, you should not report that statement as fact unless they have actually apologised. Noting that some people are “skeptical” does not make your headline any less of an outright falsehood.

Snippet of article from Wyoming Public Radio.

Headline: “Pastor apologizes for Sundance comments. Protesters are skeptical”

Intro: On a rainy Sunday at the end of August, about a dozen protesters held up signs outside the Foundations for Nations church near Arapahoe. Cars and trucks honked in support as they passed. One sign hanging on the fence summarized the general sentiment: “Leave.”

“She called our sacred pipe an idol,” said Northern Arapaho member MiRae Yellowbird.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev · 14/09/2026

🔭 Where Your Elements Came From Image Credit: NASA's GSFC, SVS ap260914

A chart is shown which a version of the periodic
table of the elements. Each element has a thumbnail
image that indicates how it was first created in the
universe.
Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 13/09/2026

Why would a recipe call for whole tinned tomatoes in the ingredients, then instruct you to crush them in the methods? 🧐

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/09/2026

I just want one killer app before we get a killer robot.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a great take. Anthropic is now, in seeking “embedded evaluators,” exactly what banks in the 2000s were in asking for oversight through credit rating agencies. . . and we all knowhow that turned out.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Durian Durian

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Going out on a limb: 1918 to 1920 was probably worse.

"Is this really the worst flu season ever?" muses Radio New Zealand

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's not about "fairness in women's sports" any more than it was about "ethics in gaming journalism."

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 12/09/2026

"Meanwhile, what’s really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare... This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these."

wired.com

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Being kind actually makes you a happier person. Scientific research supports this assertion. Do good things and others might do good things too creating a virtuous cycle. What good thing or deed will you do today?

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 10/09/2026

Dear 1Password, Your UX sucks. When I open your app I am most likely to want to search for something. I shouldn't have to tap on a search button to do so. Also, when I tap on a search button, I am definitely going to want to type in a search term. I shouldn't have to tap on the text field to do so.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mutuals from twitter times will remember my very dark yrs of Long Covid 😵‍💫 I lost so much, but found a wonderful silver lining to the dark cloud: I decided to use all the time in bed to v slowly write a book. It took 3yrs. I can't quite believe that tomorrow is publication day & Fri is book launch! 🥹

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Me too bitch, you're not special.

A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago, research finds"

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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When I started writing about this earlier in the year, there were comments that said it didn’t mean anything and anyway diesel is gonna be like $8 in California soon.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 08/09/2026

Honestly I think a TTRPG’s lethality is more a function of the table than the system. I played Shafowdark for 6 months at various tables and there were remarkably few PC deaths, yet I hear stories of utter carnage from other groups. It should be noted that those stories were gleefully told.

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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 07/09/2026

Old mate Barnaby Joyce says he’s not Jesus Christ yet he always finds a way to crucify himself.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In lefty spaces, there are often a lot of abstract paeans to unions on Labor, but since most people don't actually belong to a union, it often feels like a platitude more than a lived reality. But I am in a union: Writer's Guild of America East. I'm also one of two union stewards at Salon.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 07/09/2026

“Radical transgender ideology,“ or as it used to be known, “other people’s genitals are none of your damned business.”

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Dungeons and Dyslexia @adx74.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ONE OF MY TOP 10 ESSENTIAL SHADOWDARK BOOKS IS ON SALE! If you play or run Shadowdark RPG, this is one book I genuinely think belongs in your collection. Adventure Anthology for Shadowdark is currently on sale at DriveThruRPG #ttrpg www.drivethrurpg.com/product/5120...

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 07/09/2026

Funny to see the primary cause of the fires only discussed briefly. “The forestry ministry is investigating and prosecuting cases of fires being lit to clear land for palm oil plantations and road construction.” Sad to see Kalimantan Barat like this and it’s affecting maritime SE Asia in a big way

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Devastating season in Indonesia sees 'water sources dry up'

For three exhausting months, Andri Susanto and his crew have been fighting raging fires on the island of Borneo — and blazes are taking a toll across the region.

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Dr. Teddy Kareta @teddykareta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

bair, schleicher, kareta, knight, and kelley, "The Highly Unusual Behavior and Chemical Composition of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov", accepted in PSJ and available on arxiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2608.23701

the title and author list of the paper as listed in the post

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is good news for melanoma patients! Melanoma is one of the deadliest cancers out there. This BREAKTHROUGH personalized mRNA vaccine, used with existing therapies reduced melanoma recurrence. The big deal is employing mRNA vaccines to tailor therapies to the patient. 🧵 🧪 archive.today/8JoNQ

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This Cancer Breakthrough Has Scientists Cheering—and Crying

They know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible.

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Matheus Graef @omiosures.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm an official D&D/MTG illustrator working on a game that's p much a love letter to everything I like about RPGs. and more: it's pay-what-you-like. get OMIOS URES for free if you want, I don't care. spread the word, play the game once with your group and I guarantee they will want a campaign. :)

page of OMIOS URES. digital painting over graphite sketch of a chameleon hunter with a hand cannon. his prehensile tail is holding a torch behind him, and various items are strapped to his body. a bandolier with potions, a large bag with a bear trap sticking out, a fairy in a cage hanging from a rod. waterskin, pocket watch, sleeping bag, retro aviator-like goggles on his forehead. he walks hunched, as if sneaking about, and his delicate gait - exactly like a chameleon's - is a visual play, resembling the tippy toe walk of a cartoonish hunter

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ITEMS ITEMS ITEMS

The following pages cover a number of ordinary (and extraordinary) miscellania favored by adventurers.

When employing an item’s Skill Check for a NPC, replace the skill with the NPC’s Body, Mind or Magic. An NPC trying to break out of manacles uses Body instead of Physique.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 04/09/2026

I do like @bsky.app’s new auto-numbering for threads feature.

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John Carney @johncarney.dev · 03/09/2026

A tune about a typical panel at a STEM conference.

Now-playing screen for a track entitled "Valley of the Sausages" by Mr. Scruff from the album "Trouser Jazz." The album cover is read and featured a hand-drawn pair of blue jeans surrounded by bean-shaped musicians playing guitar, double-bass, a kettle drum, and what I assume is a saxophone.

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A tune about a typical panel at a STEM conference.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026

As someone with an e-bike, I can attest to the fact that having an e-bike makes me do things on e-bike (which requires exertion) rather than car (which does not). Both e-scooters (which terrify me) and e-bikes (which I adore) expend more physical injury than driving.

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