iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jennifer Liao @averagejenn.bsky.social · 20h

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ugh another reason to hate Adrian Brody.

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Paul-tergeist Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 13/10/2026

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have faith in Ryan Coogler.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I genuinely believe most people are kind and helpful--when they are able. But right now, most people have barely enough capacity for themselves and their families. I worry that as things get tougher, few will still have the capacity to look out for others. Which makes everything worse. What then?

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think that David Brooks should maybe shut up about who Ossoff, who grew up among relatives who survived the Holocaust, gets to call a Nazi

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh wow finishing a book and playing cards being so low is sad.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10/10/2026

the fundamental thing wrong with this ai-driven "hyper personalization" pipe dream is that your preferences are constantly changing, primarily in response to experiencing things that are different from your current preferences and expectations, through this little-known process called Living.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

they don't have to for it to be intimidation

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/10/2026

Killing people doesn't unkill other people. It just causes even more dead people. In fact once you realize that, you end up being opposed to *gestures generally at everything going on right now*.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Actually this is who they are. They are the through line of the slaveholders, the secessionists, and the KKK. It’s not a distraction. This is the end goal. They believe this shit down to their very souls.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

This is the proper response & the energy Democrats need to matching. ICE is kidnapping, maiming, & killing people over administrative civil infractions. Like… Imagine getting gestapoed for expired tags on your car. This shit is unconscionable & ICE must be destroyed. Good on Mamdani for saying so.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." - a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities.

npr.org

ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not necessarily. Everyone is different but most people on it crave sweet things less.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What’s a faux millennial voice?

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have that one, but I want the one that makes you clean all the time.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Disabled people deserve healthcare, housing, food and support. They deserve accommodations. They don’t deserve to be treated as “less than” because they can’t work. No one’s worth should be tied to productivity. Only the top 1% benefits from a system that leaves “non productive” people behind.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The worst is when you have to wait for your bag and then recheck it 20 feet later.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

45 asylum seekers imprisoned in Georgia's Folkston ICE detention center went on hunger strike today. Some have been in this concentration camp for three years. They demand immediate release into the US, protection from re-detention and deportation, and reunification with loved ones.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.

100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How is this a “but”. Women who grow up in a culture steeped in misogyny often have internalized misogyny. The problem is the misogyny. You seem to be intent on blaming women though. Huh wonder why.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I used to live in a place where I could walk to two grocery stores, multiple cafes/bar/restaurants, and the beach. I love the area I’m in now but definitely miss being able to walk places.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It was Data for me. I love a kind but emotionally unavailable man.

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Gerd Duerner @gerdduerner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I mean it's one thing to willfully ignore that the guy you are praising on the field is a rapist off the field, but calling him being a rapist an "adversity" he's been through? That's not very subtle signaling that he sees the victims as the real abusers here....

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All fair points. But we teach kids morality in every other aspect of life and don’t assume that they’ll know how to act right out of the gate. That’s how this needs to be framed. You have to teach your kids about other people’s boundaries (and that it’s ok to have their own boundaries).

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You may already be saying this, but that’s the problem. People need to stop assuming their kids won’t do it and direct their efforts into making sure they value and respect everyone and really understand consent and consequences.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like this dude literally lost by 8 million votes after one term, you already regretted it once and then you were like hmmm maybe again though

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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need a party that starts out with a sense of its own convictions: Good government, an equitable and just society, zero tolerance for dictators, capitalist vultures, and foreign genociders. This is basic human morality and people are showing right now that this is what they thirst for.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They definitely made mistakes but I don’t know if they could have done much more in terms of trying to explain their policies. The media was just not interested in reporting on it.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds

The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/10/2026

For me, the act of writing is how I learn what I’m writing about. I don’t know why people want to outsource that.*

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And sign permits are generally more restrictive now.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abolish the death penalty. Not just for Christa Pike and Allan Miller, but for every victim of premeditated state murder who went before and every one yet to come. Retribution is not justice; it is barbarism.

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Slavery is not legal in Malawi.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support

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Lauren @l-aurian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really like them too! Mainly because I really like dates and they also don’t taste as fake as other bars.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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