iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21h

credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please watch this. Sex ed doesn't stop rapists, but it helps *everyone else* understand that they need to intervene, and how. Sex ed is crucial for ending rape culture and keeping more people safe. I'm a proud member of the @educateusaction.bsky.social advisory board for a reason.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In other words, it’s not about derivation. It’s about authorship.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He’s emphasizing the distinction between human expression and a machine-generated facsimile of human expression.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' and even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, and they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." 🎯

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Alan Wexelblat (he/him) @awexelblat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There's a really important point in here: the term 'deportation' has become Newspeak. The correct term is "human trafficking" because what this regime is doing fits that description much more than the genteel ideas we hold about 'deportation.'

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 22/09/2026

Damn he really is a good mayor

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m glad they’re doing this. I’m also very frustrated that it took them this long. But I’m glad they’re doing it.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hey, remember in 1783 how Philadelphia built a triumphal arch to celebrate the end of the Revolution and then God used the celebratory fireworks to burn it down and kill people and injure its designer, who came to regard it as punishment for his hubris? Anyway. www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/...

reconstructed drawing of Charles Willson Peale's Triumphal Arch, which burned in 1783. Drawing by Lester Hoadley Sellers, 1969, from details reported in newspapers. In the collection of the American Philosophical Society
https://www.amphilsoc.org/item-detail/peales-triumphal-arch

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s depressing that we can all see with our own eyeballs that fascists simply do not honor “deals,” transactions, promises, agreements, etc., and yet there continue to be people who think that this time it’ll be different.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.

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Feral Kwe -- Elidibus Truther @feralkwe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Scarleteen is, IMO, the best sex, health, and relationship education site on the internet. They've striven to provide the best science-based help and resources for longer than some of you have been alive, and continue to do so. They are so worthy of your help if you're able.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seriously. My overall impression of Silicon Valley is that these dipshits made hating the humanities their entire personalities, then promptly got their brains gutted by dork-ass fantasists like Yarvin and the sex cult guy.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dem leaders: Impeachment is a waste of time that doesn't accomplish anything! GOP leaders: We must seal the House and flee the city to avoid the consequences of this looming impeachment vote

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House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment

Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

She was destined for greatness. Also, I *loved* Widow’s Bay. The witch hunt joke in the first episode makes me laugh every time.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Douthat piece where he talks about the importance of AI closes with a sponsorship notice from a healthcare company using AI to deny claims.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Good god. This certainly says a lot about Anthropic.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My suspicion is that while he’s motivated by money, his aversion to humiliation is even stronger. And after getting his ass handed to him, he’s made the child-like decision that he doesn’t want to do it anymore.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I suspect Kushner’s feeling a bit nervous right now.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

attacking trans people hurts dem politicians and that take is missing from this whole news cycle. dems attacking trans people makes it more likely you will lose, defending trans people makes it more likely they win I want democrats to win so they need to defend trans people

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wow. I’ve been interested in understanding how tech culture evolved to engender all the qualities of a cluster-B personality disorder and this definitely puts some of the pieces together.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the necessary step 1 of rebuilding trust with our allies is prosecuting almost everyone in the trump administration for the countless crimes they have committed against the country and the world

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to reading The Nuance Drought by Natasha Devon, which is out on Thursday. She's a force for good. It's about how living in a world of binary choices and polarising narratives affects communities, society, our physical and mental health. Crucial stuff. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Nuance Drought: Reclaiming Truth and Complexity in a Polarised World

The nuance drought is having a devastating impact on every area of our lives. It dictates the way our politics is done and how the media reports, it affects our physical and mental health, and it impa...

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

One theory is that he pitched some kind of temper tantrum about his hair and a handler tried to fix the situation by running out for some box dye. The other is that he wants to look like Pete Hegseth.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 05/09/2026

I mention this in the piece, but since some folks in my mentions don’t appear to be aware: this is part of a longer trend of religious pushback to Trump’s immigration policies. E.g., around 100 clergy were arrested at just *one* anti-ICE protest in January, and… religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE

(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Goddamn. Saturated, that’s got to be like running around with a full-sized human strapped to your back.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the best thing a new administration could do to cut Big Tech down to size is offer a bounty and immunity to employees who provide evidence of crimes committed by their bosses.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Odds seems pretty high it’s same the group you’re in, which just adds another layer of madness to it all. I know these AI fanatics don’t respect knowledge, but that is such a clearcut example of how important it is that we respect and protect real human expertise.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A doctor once told that there’s a mushroom group on Facebook that’s become the go-to resource in ERs for foraging-gone-wrong incidents, because the concentration of knowledge allows them to identify what kind of toxicity they’re dealing with.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m honestly surprised to see this in the NYT. But glad.

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Kaia @kaiabell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Same. I’m kind of hoping he’ll just keep reusing the name America so those Google maps will be all kinds of fucked up.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The default judgment rural voters will make when this happens is that it must be the Democrats' fault. But that isn't written in stone. Which is why Dems must do something they never do: Go to rural America and attack Republicans. Not just listen and express empathy, but ATTACK.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/08/2026

Part of the whole Musk/Trump et al thing is people with power and money not having the theory of mind to understand why people don't like them, and so doing more and more unlikeable things and expecting acclaim I'm return.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After FDR cleaned up the mess created by Calvin Coolidge and blamed on Herbert Hoover, Democrats spent decades reminding voters what the two parties had done. In recent generations, that basic act of politicking has been deemed impolite by Democratic leaders. That needs to end.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

They coordinate: demonize Piker, make him a symbol of everything everyone fears about Dem radicalism, ask about him on every show, write op-eds about him, drive him into the discourse. We fall immediately into division & internal strife. Panic. Yell at each other. On cue. Again.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

if youre a democrat folding on hasan piker bull shit, why should i think you are going to push through on the hard stuff? do you have any idea the propaganda campaign you will be facing when you try to investigate trump corruption? the ice killers and rapists? court expansion?

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Painting of an Asian emerald dove perched on the branch of a citrus tree by an unidentified Indian 'Company School' artist for the British market (Lucknow or Calcutta, c1775-85), at Christie's by private sale (price on request) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Translucent and opaque pigments with gum arabic, pencil and pen on paper, Persian inscription in black ink and numbered '505' below, Latin identificatory inscription in pencil in the upper left corner, verso plain with '8' written in pencil near the upper edge, mounted, framed and glazed. Dimensions 18¹/₂ x 11³/₈ in. (47.1 x 29cm.)

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

[P] Even ignoring her tremendous contributions to music and entertainment, just spend a few going through at the "Philanthropy" section of her wiki. *That* is how to live a life. RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...

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Dolly Parton - Wikipedia

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