iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 4h

"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you."

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Quahog.org @quahog-dot-org.bsky.social · 22h

Postcards from Rhode Island: Providence: ”Hoyle Square, Providence, R.I.” Undated.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking at the headlines and thinking, it’s true, since the beginning of time mankind *has* yearned to destroy the sun

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

El Greco's sublime 'St. Francis receives the stigmata' at the National Gallery of #Ireland #Dublin Look at that cowl/head line... amazing work. Today is Francis' feast day, 4 Oct.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eastman Johnson October , 1873 Oil on canvas mounted on board Worcester Art Museum

Painting of an older man with white hair sitting outside against a tree with a walking stick against his leg and a large book in his hands on his lap. He’s falling asleep, the sun is starting to set, and the changing leaves and grasses around him, with some few colorful standouts, are fading into an autumnal glow

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some guy in a YouTube video just said that beans had “a soft heart inside a thin skin” and I felt seen

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

☔️ ‘Burberry Trench: Crafting an Icon’ is a small but well worth seeing (and it’s free!) exhibition at the V&A. Until 3 January 2027.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You should go, sounds fun!

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s my favorite this year no doubt, top of a very crowded list (including yours, which is terrific). One of those records where from the very first note I was hooked, just completely on board with whatever happened next

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That is often very good advice

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October date idea Calcedonio Reina, Amore e Morte, or Two Lovers before the Desiccated Corpses of Monks in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, 1881. Oil on canvas, 119 x 149 cm, signed on bottom left- Cal(cedo)nio Reina (Catania, Museo Civico Castello Ursino) 💀❤️

A painting of two lovers, all dressed up, kissing in the catacombs of Palermo, surrounded by the desiccated corpses of Capuchin monks

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Star Moles record is my favorite of the year and compares very well against anything I have ever heard

starmoles.bandcamp.com

Highway to Hell, by Star Moles

10 track album

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday grid confirming that while it’s been a horrible year in so many ways it’s been a very good one in music

4 x 4 grid of covers of records by Asher White, Lex Walton, Rubber Band Gun, Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Sadurn, Sen Morimoto, Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Land of Talk, Wednesday, Bassvictim with Worldpeace DMT, Greg Freeman, Josaleigh Pollett, The Femcels, Adrianne Lenker, and Smerz

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paul Weller & Pete Townshend meeting for the very first time, outside London’s Marquee Club in Soho’s Wardour Street, 1980, by Janette Beckman. And what a fabulous photo it is!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yabu Chosui Portrait of a Rabbit, 1867 Color woodblock print; surimono Art Institute of Chicago 🐰🐰

Color woodblock print of a large round rabbit with pink eyes facing the viewer set against a pink background. There’s a large inscription in Japanese characters on the rabbit’s large, soft tummy and its cute tiny feet peek out from under its mass

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Dee Lilley🔻 @deelilley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Les Grands Arbres, Paul Cézanne 1887

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh that is a *really* good one

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Words and phrases I look forward to never hearing again (1/?): Siloes Iteration Scarcity mindset

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apparently Robert Musil has an essay in which he describes “the love for elegant thinking as ‘a complicated passion for thift’” and I have a new definition of my main taste in music

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finished A.J. Liebling’s Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (delightful and amusing) and am now midway through C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game (insightful , sometimes beautiful, but also maybe a little too “pop” in style at times)

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Always thought that the contrast between the lyrics of “Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold)” and the Clown’s rollicking style displayed a charming insouciance but this is next level

youtu.be

Heart Trouble

YouTube video by Huey "Piano" Smith - Topic

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am not sure I fully understood forty years ago when I first heard this how goddamn tight it is, I was not ready, I might not be now

music.apple.com

Mercy, Mercy by Don Covay & The Goodtimers on Apple Music

Song · 1965 · Duration 2:26

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I probably won’t get to them but I have half a mind to give a test run to these olive oil ginger cookies that David Lebovitz featured in his newsletter (test because I don’t have any candied ginger but figure I’ll get the idea even without it)

davidlebovitz.substack.com

Spicy Olive Oil Ginger Cookies

Zippy cookies that you’ll find irresistible!

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rhode Island at its finest

Providence was to be her first port of call in the United States, and she went by way of Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Madeira, and the Azores-nineteen days. This was the direct express route; other Fabre liners had more circuitous itiner-aries. When I got back to Providence, I was met by a fellow worker on the Journal, who helped me smuggle five botles of champagne and several of cognac past the customs men and prohibition agents. I knew I was home again.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m going nowhere and so happy about it. Reading, cooking pinto beans and cornbread, doing laundry, playing music, might go crazy and watch a movie later, you never know

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Millie has returned to spending the nights in bed now that it’s gotten cooler and she needs someone to keep her warm

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

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Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a collection of his New Yorker essays reminiscing about eating in Paris across his lifetime, and more broadly a love letter to France. It’s delightful

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If I knew how entertaining this book was I wouldn’t have left it unread on the shelf for years

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.J. Liebling on his father: “He had a very good idea of the value of leisure, not having had any until it was too late to become accustomed to it, and a very good idea of the pleasure afforded by knowledge that has no commercial use, having never had time to acquire more than a few odd bits.”

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“What hasn’t gone away in the four years Konigsberg last released new music is her sense of humor (“Play ‘Free Byrd’!” is a great bit already), tight harmonies, penchant for talky asides, and ear for catchy refrains”

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Lily Konigsberg: “Free Byrd”

Read Lily Goldberg’s review of the track.

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Quahog.org @quahog-dot-org.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Postcards from Rhode Island: Newport: ”SURF FISHING ALONG OCEAN DRIVE, NEWPORT, R.I.” Undated.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Driving around your old hometown in the rain, thinking about people who are no longer there, you can’t pretend it’s still summer and you feel like you’ve hung around too long; a great early autumn record

long-beard.bandcamp.com

Means To Me, by Long Beard

10 track album

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is the deadliest of traps for those without tummy privileges (I do not have them)

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pippa is just beside herself wishing you and Pretzel a great day

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Something like Tim, The Replacements Saint Dominic’s Preview, Van Morrison Cheating here, but the Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, 1947-1974 boxed set London Calling, The Clash Hounds of Love, Kate Bush

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Definitely some good things stirring out of the dross of so much late 90s stuff

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That is a very good list for an 18-year-old at a certain moment in time

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