iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kevin from Pixel Lit @kevin.pixellitpod.com · 02/10/2026

In the midst of all the Geller fallout shoutout to the thumbnail king @hotcyder.bsky.social for always being a consummate professional. If you have thumbnail or graphic design work, consider going to him.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2026

I can still only hear it as a paean to the transformative might of Lord Dagon and the inescapable call of the Cyclopean and many-columned Y'ha-nthlei.

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026

just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2026

Unless of course you are a rapist, in which case fuck off! Go do a job that is not about introspection, where you do not cultivate power relationships with strangers, and where you can’t break anyone’s heart. Art is not for you anymore. Shoo. The rest of you, though, you’re on the hook. Go essay.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2026

You can make better art than they could, because yours won’t be built on a lie about yourself. Everything they did, you can do with greater integrity and more honest introspection. It is impossible to be honest and hide yourself at the same time, and it is impossible to essay without being honest.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 02/10/2026

When an artist who inspires you turns out to be a rapist, your response cannot be to stop making art. Reject them, their work, the parts of them you once emulated, but don’t stop. It wasn’t their crime that inspired you. Make the things they made you want to make. Fuck them; keep the inspiration.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Goofy Movie is better than The Avengers.

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The Essay Library @theessaylibrary.com · 29/09/2026

OUT NOW: 21 Video Essays About Video Essays! youtu.be/qNjiS_FHD4I For The Essay Library Anthology Vol. 10, video essayists were invited to create video essays about video essays. Video essays? Video essays!

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21 Video Essays About Video Essays

YouTube video by The Essay Library

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Abdul said. Every word.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

What's happening is that Republicans are priming Democrats and Democratic voters for more violent forms of transphobia. They're manipulating people into caring about something that is most likely never going to affect them.

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Maple 🥞✨️ @mapleburr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They're certainly getting more creative

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 28/09/2026

I don't think that AI is conscious, but I have a different problem with people who do. If it were, how is that not a moral emergency of catastrophic proportions? If AI is conscious, then *we've reinvented slavery from first principles.* How is that not the only thing the AI bros are talking about?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 27/09/2026

It seems so implausible to me that the balaclava, the balalaika, and baklava all come from distinct cultures and none of them were invented by Bob Balaban.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

The best art I ever made started in a DM with Sam where I said "I have this weird idea and I think it's probably impossible." And she said "That sounds amazing, but yes probably impossible." This video started the same way, with the roles reversed. It's probably the best art she's ever made. Watch.

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FilmOtter @filmotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Well damn, I fear the video essay as an artform was made so this could exist. 🫡

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my voice is in this, reading a poem by Jamaal May it was a tough read, having had some violent shit happen to me, to my friends, and to my hometown thanks for letting me participate, Sam

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James Woodall @jameswoodall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw an early draft of this and it moved me to tears.

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Questing Refuge @questingrefuge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not sure I have the words to capture how beautiful this video is as a work of art. Just go watch it!

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 25/09/2026

ok so i felt like this beetle deserved better than mission impossible youtu.be/NY5B3dRorBU

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this beetle can rob me any time

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 24/09/2026

Still Balatro. It is probably bad *for me?*

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 24/09/2026

So, question for the bsky team, is it the position of this website that bugs actually owns a piranha pool? Or is it that their audience of piranha pool owners might take this as a serious suggestion. Like for this to be a legitimate rules violation *there must be a piranha pool in play* #freethebugs

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 23/09/2026

read back in the thread and follow along with harry, who is about to be Having A Time

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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Brian Moritz @bmoritz99.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Both @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/09/2026

…yeah, okay, that’s pretty much it.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a Vegetable, huh?

Wednesday, it's lemon

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 12/09/2026

Congratulations! I am always glad to see a friend come to understand themselves better. (Also, I read this in the voice of Snagglepuss.)

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 12/09/2026

*Stellar* start to a my man thread from Kruse today

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josh (with paranormalities) @joshwithparenthes.es · 11/09/2026

A lot of Americans (including me!) *did* experience 9/11 as a unifying event in the aftermath. But what we were united in was abject racism, and *many* Americans were excluded from and victimized by that “unity.” Those who still laud that unity either haven’t realized that or still endorse it.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.

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