iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do sort of think that imagining tech bros are in charge of society is the base case issue here. They have exactly the amount of power we give them. So buy a Brick or whatever and stop! This is a short power grab and it can be easily interrupted.

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Charlie Hunter playing D'Angelo's "The Root," wielding a a custom 8-string bass/guitar combo – the upper 3 strings are bass and the bottom 5 guitar–allowing Hunter to play both parts simultaneously He co-wrote it w/ D’Angelo after jamming together to Jimi Hendrix songs during the “Voodoo” sessions

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PSA: This is the last summer weekend for 2026, and it’s probably still warm enough to go swimming outside.

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September in Chicago: perfect, no notes

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

this is really beautiful

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

truly a spark spilt Wisława Szymborska, tr. Agnieszka Salska

Magic is passing away though forces
still exist. On August nights
you do not know if it's a star falling down or what.
And you do not know if that's what ought
to go down. And is it proper still to play wishing games,
see omens? In the astral mistakes?
As if it was still not-the-twentieth century?
Which flash shall swear to you: I'm a spark just spilt,
truly a spark spilt from the comet's tail-lights,
nothing but a spark vanishing behind the cloud-
it's not me who's falling into tomorrow's headlines,
it's that other star whose engines are out.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I for one appreciate how Billy Joel is constantly reworking his hits

ARCHAEOLOGY
WE’VE HAD FIRE FOR
FAR LONGER THAN
WE THOUGHT

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Shout out to @davistint (on instagram), who made these incredible hand-printed signs after seeing posts about our fight for AI protections last week! union journalists 🤝 local chicago artists NO AI USE

A light blue sign with lines alternating blue and red ink reading:

“Chicago deserves authentic journalism not artificial content”

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can’t help but think there have never been more pop girlies (gender inclusive) wearing mantillas to a concert than at the Mexico City dates on Rosalia’s LUX tour.

A sea of people in a dark concert venue looking at the stage. Two people in the foreground are wearing white mantillas.

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A great time to mention it! Getting to publish one of your favorite writers never gets old.

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I guess this is a good time to mention that my next book may be happening pretty soon and that I am very happy to be working with @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social and @lacockrel.bsky.social again. the book has to do with Jeffrey Epstein and the ownership of knowledge.

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Bradford William Davis @bwd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

tomorrow on [eyeblack], a never before seen memo and what it means for Juiced Ball 2.0. plug in now: readeyeblack.com

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 03/06/2026

The greatest living American writer has something to say

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

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Michael @electronicmichael.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"Are you on social media? Do not delete your account. Are you off social media? Do not get an account. But if you post you do not sin, and if a person with no social media joins, she does not sin. Yet those who post will experience distress in this life, and I would spare you that."⚓️🕯️

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This is an excellent rundown of what I was getting at on the Vergecast this week - there just isn’t some competitive market that will generate better experiences for people, and there’s virtually no regulation, so instead we’re going to get real weird litigation forever. America, basically

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

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Nick Moran @nemoran.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Mary Ruefle

Title-Poem
I have become an orchid
washed in on the salt white beach.
Memory,
what can I make of it now that might please you-this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps." Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Listen to your elders and sages: do not do to others what you would not have done to you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Best Picture, no real competition

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/03/2026

"As someone whose kids won’t die fighting in the war, it’s important that you understand the flimsy, morally bankrupt justifications for war, and why it’s vital for you to throw more of your children's lives at this one." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

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The Case for War, by Someone Whose Kids Won’t Die Fighting in It

“The next days will be decisive. The best course for the United States is to spell out clearly to Iran what the paths of escalation — and de-escala...

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Seen in a bathroom stall at DEN.

Scribbled on/in a bathroom stall, the opening lines from Farewell Transmission by Songs: Ohia: The whole place is dark / Every light is on this side of the town / Suddenly it all went down

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

supremecourt.gov

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Read this in print over the weekend. Me and Michelle both in tears by the end.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

the ninja turtles and the power rangers putting aside their differences and teaming up

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12/02/2026

"I am forged of divine gold sourced from the sacred hills of Medjugorje. I was purchased at a Miami-Dade jewelry store that is really a front for a Medicare fraud scheme. As God intended." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...

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I Am Pam Bondi’s Shiny Gold Cross Necklace

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was “accessorize.” I am equal parts holy relic and regional pageant tiara. I...

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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026

No Kings includes Draft Kings

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 05/02/2026

in order for any progress to take place we ALL have to be prepared to see things get better in ways that contradict our beliefs about what's possible and where

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Lisa Ann Cockrel @lacockrel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Excellent advice for much nonfiction, too.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

"they don't deserve our fear" is a profound thing to say imo & I'm grateful for it distrust yes caution yes. fear God maybe (proverbs 9:10 though I have long-winded thoughts about the fear of God). these men terrorizing citizens may be a lot of things but they don't know the first thing about God

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

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segoddard.bsky.social @segoddard.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Also, please feel free to invite Mitt Romney and any other national U.S. political figure from the last 20 years.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

he not busy being born is busy vibing

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 27/12/2025

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

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Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net · 21/12/2025

Tired: DIE HARD is a Christmas movie Wired: FROSTY THE SNOWMAN is a Bergmanesque meditation on mortality and the innate human hope in resurrection

Karen weeping at the senseless murder of her friend by a failed magician

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