iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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yes yes yes also, I would never write with AI. That's not the point, that's not why I write. I don't write so I have a book in my hand I write because I have ideas I want to flesh out, create, explore. The exploration is a huge part of the process. It changes as its written, & that's a good thing

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11h

i dont think people deluded themselves really…they were told by republicans that “mass deportation” was criminals and the media didnt fact check and democrats moved right on the issue there was no alternative offered to mass deportation, no one even argued against it

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 12h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13h

Despite his best efforts, Trump isn't going to establish a consolidated autocracy before he's gone, thankfully relatively soon. But it matters how much he's repudiated as a disgraceful aberration. Because if not, he's just setting the floor for what the next wannabe dictator can get away with.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 29/09/2026

i relaxed my shoulders and a quarter fell out of my ear

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should invent a google maps integration that detects if you're trying to run errands when a nearby school is letting out and slaps you in the face

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.

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Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com · 29/09/2026

My beautiful old dog on a beautiful September day

Portrait of a greying brindle dog with her nose lifted to smell the breeze

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Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 23h

pov: you need to get up to turn out the light and brush your teeth before bed but your personal sleep paralysis demon won't let you

Close up and slightly blurry photo of Nemesis' face as she is sitting directly on my collarbone/throat. She is an elderly fluffy void with green eyes.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 22h

Once again: anyone who thinks rape victims come forward for any reason except telling the truth at great fucking cost to themselves is a brainwashed bastard

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Truman Chipotle @trumanchipotle.com · 29/09/2026

“Not my circus. Not my monkeys,” said the thinly disguised circus owner after a string of monkey-involved bank robberies.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If any fucker ever says “SI” to me I’m going to insist they are talking about Sports Illustrated.

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My job is to literally make shit up. Bless.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com · 29/09/2026

My beautiful old dog on a beautiful September day

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they had an entire community they could advertise to.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Every conversation about the Cornell case is irritating me because there is no way there was just one victim. Just one report. I need people to stop talking like no one had any idea they were rapists. Go crack open those middle school and high school records.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3. Last but not least we have Mrs. Martel’s list. She is a special education teacher in New Jersey! Mrs. Martel’s List Here: amzn.to/3VWrKLq

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

Today, we opened the Jobs NYC Center at 2 Lafayette Street — a walk-in hub where New Yorkers can find city job opportunities, get application support, and connect with hiring agencies.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Why do the rest of us bother to write jokes?

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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How’s Yukon Cornelius doing? Anybody heard?

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026

Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]

pitchfork.com

Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks

“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oooOOooOOoOoOoo throw trans kids under the bus! Rahm Emmanuel is a good candidate! don't speak too forcefully about Israel committing a genocide! shut the fuck up, you are worse than useless you are croissant dildo, it doesn't do the job and it makes a FUCKING MESS www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0x...

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Veep - Like using a croissant as a dildo

YouTube video by Glenn Van Herrewege

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Barry McKernan @bmckastro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brilliant!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a wonderful image of a Roman face pot from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt! Found in settlements, forts, graves, and ritual contexts, these mysterious vessels still leave archaeologists wondering about their original purpose. Foto: LAD/Sarah Roth

Close-up of a Roman face pot held in someone’s hands. The dark gray vessel features a molded human face with a prominent nose, eye, mouth, and textured hair or headpiece around the rim.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🔊🔊🔊🔊

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Ray @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

*sneezes* oh my bad *peels the wet zyn pack off your forehead*

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For #OliveArtClub, please make art based on this sparrow so well-fed by tourists in Tallinn that it could barely fly. Birds are a good start for drawing animals as they are so poofy and this is the poofiest. All skill levels & mediums welcome, no AI. I took the picture, feel free to share

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moby Dicker

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m creative *creates a monster*

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 27/09/2026

Less than a week until Art on the Avenue 😃 artontheavenue.org

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A woman told me she hated Frankenstein today and it took everything in me not to throttle her and frame a nearby house servant for her death by surreptitiously secreting one of her keepsakes into their pocket while they slept

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