iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026

I for one am tired of the “all of human existence should be quantified into spreadsheets, and things that cannot be quantified should be viewed as irrelevant and useless” faction running everything

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026

We are surrounded by horrors born of the very worst kinds of cynicism, ignorance, and sadism, and perhaps that is part of why I am sitting here overcome with feeling about a Wikipedia editor I had never heard of. (Wikipedia is a miracle, fight me. And this guy is a hero.)

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

7. "some people find LLMs useful" is a different claim than any of the following: a) LLMs are good at doing the things people use them for b) LLMs are well suited to the tasks for which they are advertised c) LLMs "can do" something

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

Last night's @jakeblount.com set was exactly the stringband music I needed. Horsefly legacy strong. And Megan Jean, who I hadn't heard before, was exactly the right old-school, unapologetic singer-songwriter sauce. A real good show for Jake's old-time send-off.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally read this through and jokes aside the stats are much worse than the headline makes them sound. They’re not talking about the existential fatigue most of us feel. They mean the debilitating, life-ruining condition that accompanies ME, flu and oh yeah, Long Covid which they do not mention.

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orithyia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

The dismissal of COVID’s effect on our brains may be the most frustrating part of all of it. To me.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

Sharing this information late, but maybe it will be of use to someone: Partner goes to DragonCon every year. He does his best with precautions, but he works and performs. There are always times he can't mask, and also 75,000 people is 75,000 people no matter how you slice it. 1/7

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

People who live in Vancouver, do you know how lucky you are? I assume you do, what with the gorgeous scenery and mild climate and sophisticated urban amenities (uh, sorry about your housing costs), but here's another perk. You can take your knitting or whatever and go listen to Deb Chachra! What!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/09/2026

Okay rich friends employed with companies that do employer matching: Please help me raise $7k to support @scarleteen.com's fall fundraiser. We're expecting 7 million visitors this year (up from 5 million!) in a climate where access to good sex ed, esp. for LGBTQIA+ young people, is dwindling.

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Scarleteen's Raising $7,000 to Celebrate 7 Million Visitors in 2026!

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 15/09/2026

I'm sorry but I simply don't know how I'm supposed to take someone seriously who *starts* a Substack in 2026.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

I'm not much of a convention person, but partner usually goes to DragonCon (mostly for professional/arts-community stuff; shout-out puppetry track). It really is a very special beast of an event. This is just one reason. Big 🩷 to everyone who showed him a good time this year and sent him home safe.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026

Bumping this for a second round of visibility...and because my DM settings were messed up. Because I am very smart. Anyway, hi, bye, hi again, hi in the future if you want?

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I think I need to be on here less. Not-on-here more. Not saying I'm always around or posting a lot, but this does divert my attention in ways I'd like to control better. Esteemed social-internet comrades, please DM if you'd like to exchange info or want to keep in touch/do other stuff. <3

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For Victory Over Your Enemies ☠️ 🏹 #art

a simple drawing, in flat color halftones of a yellow maneki neko holding an arrow and a laure wreath. She has skulls reflected in her eyes and is blowing a raspberry. Text above says “for victory over your enemies”.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026

Hi, I'm intestinal damage and blockage caused by undiagnosed stage IV endometriosis.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Part of the problem with pretending Covid is over (besides the massive ethical issues and the science) is it effectively destroys your ability to understand why anything is happening the way it’s happening now. You can only ram into that wall of cognitive dissonance so many times.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 09/08/2026

If you've known me for long, I've probably waxed weird and poetic about John Crowley to you at some point. This one is hard for me. Goodbye, goodbye, no one else did quite what you did.

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winston @winston.cc · 08/08/2026

thinking a lot lately how the rise of finance capitalism has made seeking profit the defacto best use of every dollar. but a significant part of living is unprofitable; money was invented for trade and transfer not profit seeking. we gotta find ways to make profit uncool.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026

Last repost: See, it's not just me, smart and scholarly people are ALSO furious about the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 07/08/2026

The Beat is one of the coolest things going in Baltimore (caveat: opinion from a nerd, but still). I donate monthly and never plan to stop: well worth my money. If you don't yet know the Beat—or aren't yet a supporter—and you can spare the cash, today is a GREAT day to send them some dollars.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Easy: if the establishment would like to stifle the socialist insurgency they can simply pass a New New Deal, employ millions of workers and artists improving infrastructure with a new WPA, and raise the top tax rate to 94%

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

Last repost: I truly do not know what to say to folks who complain, in a broad sense, about young people. Our world is so extraordinarily hostile to children and teenagers. WTF do people expect?

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 04/08/2026

who could have foreseen this outcome

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 04/08/2026

I would just like to point out that I moved to Baltimore as a non–baseball fan who was expressly ready to *become* one, and Elias has, to my admittedly inexpert eyes, done his damnedest to discourage me from adopting the Orioles as My Own Guys. I would like to?! Dude, what are you doing.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 02/08/2026

If it seems like I post/repost about COVID "too much," well, that's because I care about public health and because it is still actively ruining my life. I have (modest) long-term effects myself, and I'm an only child of two low-income parents, one of whom got absolutely destroyed by this virus. 1/6

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/07/2026

let trans women play sports with their friends, end of story

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 30/07/2026

Fuckin' leave trans people alone, good grief. No one (no reactionary right-winger, no "concerned" citizen, no feminist of any stripe who purports to—and ought to—defend me) has ever shown me a single good reason to be more afraid of trans people than of the oppressive forces arrayed against them.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 29/07/2026

Baltimore and DC, GET YOUR KITTIES?! Look at them. They are perfect. I cannot get a cat. If you are so lucky as to be a person who *can* get a cat...you could get these adorable creatures!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you have type-O positive blood and you can manage it, please consider donating blood *as soon as possible* - this is a very bad situation.

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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 27/07/2026

If everybody did this, even places where people can't mask effectively (restaurants, bars, etc.) would get safer for everyone because transmission would be lower overall. Audiences mask = performers are safer. Students mask = teachers are safer. We have fuckin' got to learn to help each other out.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am 53 and have been essentially forced into retirement. I thought it was just me, until I found an entire community of women in the same situation on Instagram. So many of us have just been told that we simply have nothing to contribute to society anymore.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 23/07/2026

"Jo," you might ask, "What do you do in your spare time? Are you working on any cool projects?" You might also ask "Why is your forehead like that?" or perhaps "What's that noise? Is that your teeth grinding together or can I hear the flames in your brain?" unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...

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Special Edition: ICE Is Still Everywhere — Unbreaking

A special briefing from the Immigration team on what's changed—and what hasn't—since ICE reduced its emphasis on named, military-style operations.

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 21/07/2026

1. Judge mad(TM) and I like it. 2. The Supreme Court is a fucking circus.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I appreciate people who share numbers on the many AI brand deals being pitched these days. They best explain the, ahem, strange bedfellows you see these days. When someone or some org suddenly starts sliding some normative-sounding claims about AI? Safe bet to wonder if it’s stealth sponcon

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sam @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/07/2026

For the one millionth time this is why we need a free N95 mask program everywhere. Masks are important tools we all need to stay healthy throughout our lifetimes.

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John Breen @breen.tech · 11/07/2026

I’m not trying to be rude, but many of us, especially in DC and Memphis, have been saying exactly this for months and people weren’t listening

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 11/07/2026

My parents live in a neighborhood that is unofficially known as the "city of trees," and the difference in temperature and livability when crossing in and out of that area effect from historic urban forestry is fucking stark. We need trees everywhere we can reasonably put them.

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