iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

It is highly plausible, with enough evidence to suggest this, that UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was killed by a Belgian mercenary with ties to US and UK intelligence during the Katanaga Crisis. A crisis exacerbated by western mining interests. www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...

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Man accused of shooting down UN chief: ‘Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to …’

Exclusive research reveals that a British-trained Belgian mercenary admitted the killing of Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961

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Zig 🪩 @zig.computer · 30/01/2024

can I get a northern hemisphere amen????

you made it through the darkest 10 weeks of the year

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 26/01/2024

GOP lawmakers are nuking a immigration deal because the guy who was just ordered to pay $85 million for defaming a woman he raped told them to.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 26/01/2024

Ever since 2016 there has been this idea that Trump is Baba Yaga and he cannot be hurt or die and gravity doesn’t apply to him and uh he has lost every election he has even been tangentially involved in since

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 24/01/2024

like, it’s impossible to tell how much of this is just abbott posting and how much of this is abbott legitimately gearing up to try to secede from the united states, but i am not comfortable with how fuzzy that line is, because it means we won’t see it until we’re past it

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 24/01/2024

either way, referring to some of the poorest people in the hemisphere coming here for opportunities to work as if they’re an invading hoard of mongols headed for the khwarazmian capital is fucking grossly unamerican

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

immense respect to this science teacher for seeing his opportunity and grabbing onto it with both hands

New YorkTimes screenshot
Headline: Science Teacher Finds Missing Piece of Boeing Jet’s Fuselage in His Yard
Subhed: Bob Sauer said that his 50-foot cedar trees had acted on the same scientific principle as an airbag, disrupting the door plug’s fall in an act known in physics as impulse.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Every detail about Bill Ackman that I have learned has been learned nonconsensually.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 07/01/2024

lol at people who think i’m gonna leave my apartment while harvard is being run by an interim president

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Hey folks—if you type “thank my driver” in the search bar on Amazon, and click the “Thank my driver” bar that pops up after you search, they are tipping the driver of your recent order $5. I’m shocked, but it works. Please tip delivery workers, especially at this time of year.

The Amazon App. The search bar says “thank my driver” and there is a red circle around a section at the top that says “Thank my driver
Let the driver of your most recent delivery know they are appreciated. Click here to say thanks.”

The top of the Amazon app. A pop up that says “Thank you for sharing your appreciation. As a special thanks, your driver will receive an extra $5, at no cost to you. This promotion is live for a limited period.”

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 12/12/2023

The huge nominal expansion in economic activity from the post-COVID recovery was an unmitigated policy success. Wage growth kept up with inflation, labor bargaining power rose, debt burdens were inflated down. People arguing against it are arguing for a capital-friendly, labor-hostile regime.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Thete's a pretty finite set of words for killing civilians where they stand after they have been corralled by force.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 07/12/2023

it remains staggering to me that our tax dollars continue to pay for “training” for police that would get the trainer fired at any fortune 500 company in america and blacklisted. for all the caterwauling about DEI training, it’s at least actually training and not this.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

Doomerism leads to a hedonistic view of what life should be, a consequence free romp through whatever years you have remaining, and fascism indulges that.

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A Robo Duckie @jotram.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

“We who come later have one advantage”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

I find myself thinking a lot about this passage from Benjamin Carter Hett's book Death of Democracy. "Alongside the viciousness of politics...was an incongruous innocence: few people could imagine the worst possibilities...How could a German government systematically brutalize its own people?"

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 05/12/2023

a note to Washington Post readers: On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.

docs.google.com

A letter to our readers

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🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

2 social work grad students at ut austin were fired from their teaching appointments for sharing mental health resources for palestinian, muslim, & arab students w the tenured prof’s approval this means they’ll likely lose their salary, tuition remission, & health insurance

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Austin TAs Dismissed from Roles for Message of Support Offered to Palestinian Students.pdf

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

“When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target...These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional" www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...

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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 30/11/2023

Bluesky takes this opportunity to remind everyone to drink responsibly

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

theory: extremely online people read a lot, and so are on average more informed, but if all they read are other extremely online people's posts, they're *badly* informed, and on net dumber than someone who isnt online

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

the children discourse has pretty good vibes IMO

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Some people don't want to have kids, but there's a big ol' political prize waiting for the party/candidate who pays for all childbirth and early childhood bills. Price of used car to do the thing that keeps the species going! www.uwhealth.org/news/how-muc...

uwhealth.org

How much does it really cost to have a baby?

What’s the average cost of having a baby and how much can I expect to pay? The answer: It depends. Let's break it down:

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

oh hell yeah. dudes rock

Confronted by "pirate re-enactors" while on the water
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I was visiting some buddies recently on the West Side of Central Florida, and while on the water, we were confronted by a group of what I can only describe as pirate re-enactors. These guys were in full costume, and were aboard a Bass Pro Tracker boat with cardboard affixed to the side painted to look like the side of a pirate ship (Portholes, cannons, etc.)
At first we thought these guys were just frat boys or YouTube guys doing some kind of a prank, but one of them pulled out what looked like a real sword and demanded we hand over all of our food, spices, and citrus. One of my buddies gave the leader of these guys the lime wedge from his Corona, and we rummaged through our stuff to see what else would make these guys leave us alone. I think they ended up with the lime wedge, a pepper shaker, some protein bars, and half a box of chicken fingers.
I've never been down here before, and have honestly never heard of anything

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

CNN just said some of the Palestinians being released in the hostage deal are "young men under 18." Feels like there might be another word for that.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

You can't beat Senator Menendez hiring an attorney literally nicknamed Gold Bars for getting paid in laundered money by a precious metals dealer.

"Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is bringing in more legal heavyweights to help with his defense against a federal indictment from September that alleges he took bribes in the forms of cash, a Mercedes-Benz convertible and gold bars.

The 69-year-old Menendez tapped Robert “Gold Bars” Luskin to represent him pro hac vice, or outside of his typical jurisdiction, according to Nov. 17 court filings with the Southern District of New York."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Your occasional reminder that Ken Paxton has been under indictment for fraud, and has managed to prevent his case from coming to trial, since the Obama administration.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

periodic reminder that because of the combination of high inflation and the student loan pause, nearly everyone got ~20% real student loan amnesty

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

I watch PBS’s Nova religiously and learned last night that Oxford has developed a new vaccine for malaria that has 70-80% efficacy and it just got approved by the WHO and will save millions of lives in the years to come. Sharing some good news bc it tends to get lost out there.

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James Felix Black @tft.io · 18/11/2023

I do this for a living and when people ask me if I’m afraid of the robots I say, no, I’m afraid of the people who own the robots. Same as it ever fucking was.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month is a good reminder of the need for a ceasefire.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

ICYMI — a highly consequently congressional gambit seeks to leverage U.S. intelligence’s top surveillance priority to win the ambitious attempt at surveillance rollback since 9/11 (maybe since 1978). And it’s happening at THE most dangerous time for Palestinians & their allies in the United States.

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

So the wildest thing happened to me today. I was scuba diving in fuertaventura and my dive turned into a turtle rescue 🌍

Green turtle with rope coming from its mouth.

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

it's absolutely stunning to me that anyone could take this fucking clown seriously

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Jay Daigle @profjaydaigle.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

This is like exactly the opposite of "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/11/2023

elections are tomorrow please vote in your local elections - there are plenty of incredibly important things like judges and school boards and ballot measures around the country where you can make a difference no matter how you feel about the current state of national politics

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

were john wilkes booth, blackbeard, john dillinger, and the starting line of the 1976 philadelphia flyers all busy?

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Reminder: The fact that Hamas does not care about Palestinian civilians is not an excuse for the Israeli government not to. Similarly, the fact that Hamas does not care about international law is not an excuse for the Israeli government not to.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

i will acknowledge the Corded Ware peoples who stole my family's homeland when hell freezes over

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 01/11/2023

When anti-ceasefire people ask "well what SHOULD Israel do?" you can point them to this, it's good and succinct and also runs through why all previous (VERY RECENT!) attempts to do what Israel is currently doing have failed

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

this political comic about Israel is from 2009.

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 31/10/2023

they mostly seem interested in killing palestinians regardless of their status and if that’s not the goal, they are indifferent to it as an outcome

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Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

Happy Halloween 🎃 Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin. 🧪🔭

Two carved pumpkins, lit from within, photographed at night. The larger pumpkin is carved with a detailed, stylized image of the sun including prominances that arc off the limb of the sun. The smaller pumpkin is carved like a planet, resembling a stylized Jupiter.

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