iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Red Dwarf; the shapeshifter episode.

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am irrationally angry that Trump is right about Daylight Savings Time.

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Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very white liberal of me to quote Coates but: he’s right and he’s right to say it: "We, too, are capable of fictions because, as it turns out, oppression confers no wisdom and is rarely self-improving. There is no virtue in being kicked in the face. The virtue is all in what you do after."

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we have enough data to show if you're arresting elderly human rights lawyers you are not the good guys in this story.

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hiss driver @hiss-driver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

had to google this one up so his company's name is not a LOTR reference, it is a Russian bootleg novel reference where Sauron is the good guy web-wp.archive.org/web/20150910...

Thiel's reputation for contrarianism is well founded. Forever the chess player, he revels in trying to outthink the competition, in devising the unexpected move—the seemingly absurd but devastating maneuver that no one sees coming. "Most people think that if something's written, if it's shared by the majority of people, then you'll look like a black sheep for challenging it," says his friend Gary Kasparov, the Russian chess grandmaster. "Peter doesn't have any problem with that." A devoted J.R.R. Tolkien fan from an early age, Thiel is equally enamored with Kirill Eskov's The Last Ringbearer, a retelling of The Lord of the Rings in which Sauron is a beleaguered victim and the elves are bellicosely bent on world domination. "Gandalf's the crazy person who wants to start a war," Thiel explains, "and Mordor is this technological civilization based on reason and science. Outside of Mordor, it's all sort of mystical and environmental and nothing works. Anyway, it's really clever." He's

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mare Island is right there. Stick Centcom in Vallejo.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Interesting Times

“But there are causes worth dying for,” said Butterfly.
“No, there aren’t! Because you’ve only got one life but you can pick up another five causes on any street corner!”
“Good grief, how can you live with a philosophy like that?”
Rincewind took a deep breath.
“Continuously!”

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The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Congratulations to the Houthis for their upcoming status as a nuclear state

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Y'all, I'm feeling good tonight. I think we're going to win. It's going to be hard, and things won't get easier right away. But we're going to win.

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 23/09/2026

Jacob figured it out? Jacob? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's far from my first video game (that title would go to Space Quest 2, Archon Ultra, or Mario World III, depending on how you count 'first'), but I think Diablo 1 was the first game to truly hook me.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had a joke about Exalted, but I rolled enough successes on Manipulation+Linguistics that if I told it, it'd end society as we know it and replace it with something even weirder.

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

20 year old me would be been quite confused; although rather less so than 18 year old me.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

if you make me open an account to use your product and do not immediately provide me an option to receive zero (0) emails I believe you should go directly to jail

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Once again I am asking why this happens to indie games and not big blockbusters where you can fuck the bear or go to strip clubs. And once again I know the answer

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

all life is sacred except for the god damn mother fucking piece of shit mosquito

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ruin a snack by changing one letter: M4Ms

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

out of curiousity, I wonder what the 2008 Green Party presidential nominee is up to these days oh. okay then.

@cynthiamckinney
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WHO IS BEHIND THE RISE IN TRANSGENDERISM?
4000% Explosion in Kids
Identifying as Transgender, Docs Perform Double Mastectomies on Healthy
Number of Children Sent to Gender Clinics Quadruples, Forced to Unlearn Boy-Girl Differences, - TCP
Teen Girls.
National Center for
TRANSGENDER EQUALITY
GLSEN
MARA KIESLING (FOUNDER)
TSER
Trans Student Educational Resources
Magnus Hirschfeld a JEWISH 'sexologist in Weimar Germany is considered the pioneer of transgenderism. He created the Institute of Sexual Research where he performed the first ever sex change surgery. Since then transgenderism has exploded in popularity. Heres who is Leading the push.
SYLVIA RIVERA
LAW PROJECT
ELIZA BYARD (IRECTOR
TLDEF
Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
ELI ERLICK (FOUNDER)
The Talmud, a book of Jewish Laws, recognizes
EIGHT genders.
JILLIAN WEISS/MICHAEL SILVERMAN
(FOUNDERS)
Jewish communities welcome 7-year-dd transgender kids
DEAN SPADE (FOUNDER)

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shintigercurl @shintigercurl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rick Springfield is three years younger than Trump. People age at different rates

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/09/2026

DAMNATIO MEMORIAE folks, more and more people are saying it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i feel like we've as a society forgotten about how stupidly evil Microsoft was in the 1990s/00s. Today they are like the goofy but competent company that makes the software that the boring people at your office use but back then they were hellbent on a mission of ruining computing and almost did it

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

he got him. he finally fucking got him

real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

gaming is AGP. total trans victory

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Auuuulet 🍂👻 @aulet.es · 26/08/2026

"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position."

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A friend was planning to visit me over the holidays. He went to to apply for a tourist visa yesterday. No available appointments for the next six months. I'm pissed. I was really looking forward to this. And I'm sad, because this is embarrassing our country.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 25/08/2026

The Dolly Parton and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

you can't stop apple from putting this in the phone, you can't stop google from putting this in search, you can't tell your boss to go fuck himself if he asks you to use it at work but you can tell the people trying to build a data center in your town to fuck off

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

yeah I think most of the arguments about the specific merits of data centers - both pro and anti - are missing the point it doesn't really matter how good or bad they are for the local community, what they actually are is the only way most people feel they have any agency to push back on tech

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I do have a litmus test for my candidates now and it's that I want them to be genuinely pissed off, not pretend pissed off

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Create the a new federal crime of Grand Corruption, applicable only to executive branch officials at the cabinet level and above, requiring corruption or fraud that substantially compromises the constitutional system or core interests of the US, and is a capital offense.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I assume that after it goes boom and wipes away most of these big companies, LLMs will shrink back to being used for things they’re actually good at, and quite expensively. The list of these things is going to be quite small, mostly highly specialised.

9) Lots of people are operating under the mistaken impression that there's a way to put the genie back in the bottle. there ~never has been.
There is no set of options that includes "Al just goes away."

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If tax cuts for billionaires were ever going to deliver prosperity for working class people, it would've happened by now.

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Kalil @kalilchernov.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Grok, how do I make friends and influence people?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Does Polymarket let you bet on whether or not the CEO of Polymarket will die in the coming week? No? Huh. So you can bet on lots of *other* people suffering, and you can potentially profit by *causing* that suffering. Just not them? They're off limits. OK.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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