iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

This is one of those life changing threads, or at the very least, a lexicon changing one

"You have restaurants that are simply saying, ‘Look, I can’t afford to put salsa on the tables anymore,'” the murder and the war and ICE are all pretty awful, but abolishing our American right to free salsa? Unforgivable.

100

Reposted by Kallastra

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

552808459

Reposted by Kallastra

Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 18h

You can’t make your own decisions because it takes too long or you have other things to do or someone else can do it better or faster. And hasn’t every woman heard that before? Let a guy make your decisions because you are too young/too old, too sheltered and naive, too female for the task.

121

Reposted by Kallastra

Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

151987289

Reposted by Kallastra

Annie Noble @annienoble10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised with a belief that “a leader [should be] the servant of the people.” Me, I am serving as a burrito taxi for my lunch mate How have you shown up in service to your community today? 😄

Chipotle takeout bag seat-belted into passenger side of a car

001

Reposted by Kallastra

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Right, it's not that I disagree that some of the people sentenced to execution are monsters -- many of them are! -- it's that I disagree that we all should be monsters too.

401079146

Reposted by Kallastra

emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

i like the constant stepping forward then turning around & stepping in the other direction that is “wait, i shouldn’t hide from this & it’s my job to be unrelenting in speaking against it” & then “wait, hang on, staring into the sun it self harm” & then “but i don’t want anyone to feel alone” & then

0655

Reposted by Kallastra

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But it’s also true that these systems are just misogynistic. And we’re so busy holding victims to an impossibly high standard that we forget to ask the most basic questions about whether people like police did their jobs effectively.

258784

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵: I don't do large threads almost ever. I don't have a lot to say that's very interesting. But I need to tell you a story, I NEED to tell this story, it's BLOWING MY MIND. [CW Medical trauma/suicidal ideation]

100

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ladies and femme types, have you noticed we spent our whole childhood being warned about the possibility of rape but we now spend our whole adulthood told rape victims aren’t credible ?

010

Reposted by Kallastra

trello @nicky.wiki · 01/10/2026

It's so straightforward to understand that the only form of perceived agency left to a victim is to decide that they weren't a victim at all. To ignore this is to not have spent one second empathizing with any one of the thousands of women who have bravely shared their perspectives. Which, yeah

114013

Reposted by Kallastra

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As Vonnegut wrote, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

441430

Reposted by Kallastra

dame @dame.is · 30/09/2026

the fact that it’s abnormal and disincentivized to express some hope/optimism online from time to time is part of what got us in this mess

11589

Reposted by Kallastra

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's by Artemisia Gentileschi, the great baroque painter/rape survivor. People who have been addressing violence against women for a long time do not enjoy hearing the non-solutions of those who have decided to think about it this week.

278146

Reposted by Kallastra

It's me, SK @hotboredom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Victims are told by people to find a therapist and fix their trauma in private while also being asked to go through another trauma of pressing charges/testifying "so it doesn't happen to anyone else". The community puts the burden on the victim. This doesn't happen to soldiers.

021

Reposted by Kallastra

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jane Doe, you are remarkably brave. I wish you didn’t have to be. “I am Jane Doe.” Do not let them doxx Jane Doe. If you see their name, you did not. Do not punish the victim. I stand with survivors. You will not take away their power. We believe you.

272626640

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

another banger from Kate Manne. (For those with an SA history, please be careful with the first few paragraphs, or approach the piece when you have the support and presence of mind to care for yourself and ask for help if you can’t.) 💕

010

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

entering mountains, older than bones And I am home

A picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the with a blue sky with fluffy clouds and the black hood of a car at the bottom of the frame

000

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My musical aesthetic really starting cohering after picking up a random album for .99 cents at the discount bin in San Goodies. No sense of genre, no hints at what would be on there, but by mere circumstance I finally understood what I liked AI could never RNG a situation such as this

010

Reposted by Kallastra

Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

2335103

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A thing that I have to remember once these horrible triggering stories come out is that the depression and exhaustion is a part of it. We are not flawed, fellow survivors. We are surviving, which takes work.

100

Reposted by Kallastra

Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

10134293769

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ok, pocket friends: I am dealing with a parenting issue. As wrong as it is to ask parenting advice on the interwebs…time to start some discourse…

110

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heinz Doofenshmirtz voice: “Perry the Menopause”

120

Reposted by Kallastra

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.

11973111625

Reposted by Kallastra

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Young people are being told all sorts of advice after incurring huge student loans for jobs at companies that wouldn't hesitate to underpay them or lay them off at any time. They survived mass shooting drills from childhood. They're being given advice that does not reflect the present moment.

239235

Reposted by Kallastra

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

205189415401

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fellow #quilt community in the US: How do I get in on this sort of thing? can we make a nationwide one and cover the DC mall lawn? Is that already in progress?

040

Reposted by Kallastra

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

21188123853

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

can somebody check on Neil Patrick Harris? i’ve been having super oracular dreams lately and I’m worried about him. anyone know what he’s up to?

000

Reposted by Kallastra

Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cunningham's Law strikes again meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunning...

Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

0171

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tinfoil hat theory: they’re raising gas prices so much so they can drop them precipitously come late October.

140

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not gonna lie, as a resident of the DMV, I am decidedly NOT happy with the gleeful tone of some of these anticipating-the-tragedy responses. It’s fucked up and it’s not like people who have to travel for work (lots in this area) have *genuine* alternatives to taking a plane

110

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

idea: A miniature planner notebook that is about the size of an iphone and magnets between your phone and pop socket so you can always have your analog notebook on you. Like the magnet wallets. who’s with me?

111

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For all its downsides, one advantage of social media is learning we aren’t alone in this.

162

Reposted by Kallastra

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

6138793687

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You know that premise where doctor goes to small rural town and has to doctor in a different way? Why not a small town lawyer show? Does that already exist and I can’t think of it?

400

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No spoilers but this finale episode of Reacher is ABSOLUTELY SUCKING, and I just needed to whine about it after what was overall a fairly solid season. Once everybody has see it I will whine with more particularity.

010

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This thread is way more entertaining than it has any right to be, and also somebody needs to turn all these comments into a playlist

040

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

maybe I overwatered my succulents.

A collection of succulents (an aloe, a jade, and something else) in a pot decorated with yellow and green lemons, but the notable thing is there are several large yellow mushrooms sprung up alongside the succulents!

130

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who has the executive function to spread one’s posts thru the day anyways? It couldn’t be anybody here on Ye Olde Bluesky

000

Reposted by Kallastra

Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today in the Sweet Sixteen of the Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs bracket, it’s another battle between two different Ashman/Menken numbers. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

The Ultimate Walt Disney Animation Studios Songs Bracket - Round Four

Decide which songs should move to the Elite Eight.

6149

Reposted by Kallastra

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

and after the union wins? you go back and you tip hard and you show the company it was the workers who made them their money, and that they're nothing without the workers! super simple equation! Solidarity with Starbucks Workers United, 12,000 strong and growing!

81018118

Reposted by Kallastra

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.

Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"

1447619769

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I keep finding myself falling into the trap of thinking of these people like NPCs. But they’re not, they’re people, motivated by…idk, really, because I cannot fathom the levels of hate/racism/money that it would take to NOT FREAK THE FUCK OUT if asked to swear personal loyalty like this

100

Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Holy shit this is an important first-hand account that is absolutely critical reading for Texas voters and for anybody wanting to opine on the Talarico disappointment.

061

Reposted by Kallastra

Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They’re just trying to figure out how to do a “dark and gritty” reboot. What sad is that would be very easy to do that: Dark: lower the lighting a little bit Gritty: have Gritty host

0232