iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal? human? water? wind? electricity? other?) what they build with and what they build, their medicine — and so on and on. Perhaps very ethereal people aren’t interested in these mundane, bodily matters, but I’m fascinated by them, and I think most of my readers are too.

Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

But the word is consistently misused to mean only the enormously complex and specialised technologies of the past few decades, supported by massive exploitation both of natural and human resources.

This is not an acceptable use of the word. “Technology” and “hi tech” are not synonymous, and a technology that isn't “hi,” isn’t necessarily '“low” in any meaningful sense.

We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe...

One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

WATCH: “Holy f*ck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” @lapdhq shoot a woman trying to get to her apartment at point blank range with a rubber bullet. Alexandria’s page (the woman who helps her): www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlo...

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Summer 2025 edition

A black and white drawing of a sweating ICE agent, looking over his shoulders at a bunch of disembodied eyes watching him. The text reads WE CAN SEE YOU

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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

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The Yetee 🌈 🕊️ @theyetee.com · 16/05/2025

Mirror mirror… #sneakpeek #dailytees theyetee.com/collections/dai...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 02/05/2025

these people will not rule us forever, and they can barely keep it together right now, there are more of us than there are of them, and if you're going to give up and stare into the void instead of baring your teeth and telling them to go fuck themselves, you're going to lose everything that matters

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Can anyone on here please help me understand what the actual fuck Frank was trying to say with Chapterhouse:Dune? I just finished it and do not understand what point he was getting at. Thank you 🙏🏻 #book #dune #question #amistupidorsomething?

Early 2000s "lol wut" meme. A large green pear with no eyes and mouth slightly ajar on a green field and large white block text reading "LOL WUT"

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/02/2025

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

Delacroix's dramatic oil shows the aftermath of the beheading of Doge Marino Faliero on the famous staircase in the Ducal Palace in Venice.

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kellibean @misst0pia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Really feeling this one lately.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 05/02/2025

This Is Just to Say I have closed the tabs that were in the browser and which you were probably saving for later Forgive me they were numerous so obsolete and so old

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/01/2025

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

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RoninYorch @roninyorch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Badgers, Thomas Weaver 1774–1843.

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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Is this anything?

red banner on yellow: KILL SOCIAL MEDIA - Opt Out of Late Stage Enshittification

yellow banner on red: STOP FORCING A.I. INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING (Nobody Asked for It, Everyone Hates It)

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I love art

Pretty illustration of a pink guillotine with flowers and text reading “reward them for the world they created”

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 03/12/2024

A few of the celestial being artworks I’ve made this year 🙂

A 2x3 grid of 6 artworks with glowing celestial beings in various situations and the same color gradient of purple and yellow.

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Watching Paranoia Agent for the first time, starting episode 2 now. I'm sure it's going to be a totally chill ride all the way through the season. Can't wait to find out more about Lil' Slugger!

A picture of a wall-mounted TV. The screen shows a young boy wearing inline skates, shorts, a hoodie and a hat pulled low to cover his eyes. He is holding a bent golden bat and standing in a field of green grass with a cloud filled sky in the background.

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Dr Rehaminator's Monster Cock @drrehaminator.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

WHO. WHO DIDN'T KNOW. I WANT ACTUAL GOVERNMENT NAMES.

Title that reads "10 Celebrities You Didn't Know Were Gay" and the #6 entry is John Waters with a picture of John Waters

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Pat Loika @patloika.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

A panel from Watchmen. Doctor Manhattan appears in a kitchen on November 10 as a circulatory system as he is reconstituting himself. Art by Dave Gibbons.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

A peek at the live-action reference footage filmed for Tokyo Godfathers (2003), dir. Satoshi Kon, Madhouse Featuring Satoshi Kon as Hana

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 11/07/2023

Still figuring out what gets engagement on this site. How well will feet pics do?

A pair of crossed feet on a carpet with a green blanket in the background. One foot has a text tattoo that isn't fully visible stretching diagonally across it, and a second tattoo in much smaller letters that reads "place tag here" with an arrow pointing to the big toe.

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Currently reading these two. 43% of the way through C.a.T and 11% through T.P.B. Anyone else read or reading these and want to chat about them?

Two books next to each other on a table. On the left is Robert Caro's "The Power Broker" and on the right is Brenda Laurel's "Computers as Theater"

The top of two books with a bookmark in each showing the readers place.

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Most recent completed drawing of mine.

Rectangular celtic knot pattern with purple lines and a 24 pointed star in the center of the knot in red.

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Most recent completed drawing of mine.

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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 20/08/2023

good evening.

"We live in capitalism. It's power seems inescapable, but so did the divine right of kings." Ursula K LeGuin

this text is overlaid a black and white drawing of a tree, at the base of which rests a skull. above it, hooked on the tree as if discarded, is a crown.

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pikat @pikat.io · 19/10/2024

i hail from Old Internet, where we had an ancient adage: "Don't feed the trolls" can we try bringing it back while this place is young and pure

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Finally watched Alien: Resurrection, and some of you need to apologize to Alien 3 for how much shit you talked all these years. 3 was FINE compared to the slop that was Resurrection.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

bluesky servers every time elon fucks twitter up

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Currently reading these two. 43% of the way through C.a.T and 11% through T.P.B. Anyone else read or reading these and want to chat about them?

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Can I somehow @ my father with this one?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2024

i’m glad that the The Law has come after eric adams but listen if adams is getting indicted then jared kushner needs to be buried under a jail

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

I've just finished Nona The Ninth and my brain will never be the same.

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Leo LaCroix @lacroixwatersux.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I really want to post these bits from John Mulaney taking Salesforce to task on LinkedIn, but I'm job hunting still (almost 1 yr!), so instead I'll share with you lovely degenerates here 🖤

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2024

The GOP candidate: I haven’t killed all the people I want to yet, but I’m making a good start. I give puppies rabies as a hobby. Here’s the list of ongoing pogroms I’m trying to get off the ground. My plan to fix the economy is fuck you. The polls: 49/51

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