iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want to see the thumbprints in the clay, now and forever

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 06/10/2026

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

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The Cabin in Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The reason people love the Ea-nāṣir story is less the vitriol and more the fact that we couldn’t be more culturally different from a 4000 years dead Sumerian but we can totally relate. It shows us that no matter our superficial differences people are just people.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Really need tech reporters to stop being credulous to the “Our biggest weakness? Maybe our AI is TOO powerful.” It’s already fucking the economy and environment and being used to murder people in Palestine, but the ol “don’t look at the man behind the curtain” routine works on Tech journalists

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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wintertorta🍰 @wintertorta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

a reminder 🪄 #illustration

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the endless warm drizzle of spring—the ice of Antarctica, falling softly on the heads of the children of those responsible for melting it.

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Help please: This is Christine. She has been standing in St George's Square Hebden Bridge for over 17 years in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She has been told she is no longer allowed to do this and is likely to be arrested. Please RT this for awareness. Photo credit: Morning Star.

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ben @benrs.uk · 17/09/2026

good morning

APStylebook • @APStylebook • 16h

We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing "the" labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.

AP The Associated Press
Replying to @APStylebook

The use of "the French" in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026

sure, everything on earth sucks fucking shit but on the bright side at least i’m not mentally tough enough to handle any of it

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🐺Cold🪦Sam🪾 @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

in 1627 someone published a text called 'Woe to Drunkards' with an honest to goodness Chad knight vs. Virgin fop meme

"In a woodcut on the title-page of 'Woe to Drunkards,' a sermon preached by Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, 1627, the vices of that age are typically contrasted with the virtues of a former one. In the upper compartment we are shown what men were of old by the open Bible, the foot in the stirrup, and the hand grasping the lance; while in the lower, the degeneracy of their descendants is typified by the leg and foot, decorated with a broad silk garter and a large rosette; by cards and dice, and a hand holding at the same time a lighted pipe and a drinking cup with a cockatrice in it. Twenty years afterwards, these types would have been more strictly applicable, with the inscriptions merely transposed."

Excerpt from: Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards, William Andrew Chatto, 2014
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45584

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

romanticize your life! be whimsical! sleep in silk pajamas, string fairy lights through your plants, tear down flock cameras, scatter nails in ICE hotel parking lots, drink your morning coffee out of teacup rose china with a splash of good vanilla, LIVE 💕

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Toby 🇵🇸 @tobestewart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I bet all the people who haven’t been suffering from anxiety for years are feeling pretty stupid now

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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C:\Users\Kim @kimgohlich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

the thing about "separating the art from the artist" is that it comes from academic circles where they were trying to separate an artist's views from an interpretation of their work as an intellectual exercise, not as a way to give people moral carte blanche to support shitty people

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Limestone carving of three goddesses from Roman Ancaster (Lincolnshire). The carving was found at Ancaster in 1831 during grave digging, and is now part of the collections at Lincoln Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 20/08/2026

If the world wasn't burning to ash, this aspect of climate change--revealing the past, the bones in riverbeds, the inscriptions on rocks, "ghost gardens"--would be really cool. As it stands, it feels like a bad omen.

Post from House and Garden Magazine reading "the heatwave is revealing centuries-old ghost gardens at our favorite stately homes." With a photograph of a drought-scorched garden with the remains of old paths and walls visible beneath the dying grass.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20/08/2026

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

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Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Maybe if the AI people yell at me for the 5 millionth time about how I’m not using their dogshit technology that has made everyone’s lives worse I’ll finally start liking it for no conceivable reason.

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Repost to make it die faster

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ominous clouds on our way towards Big Bend. 24”x24” oil. My third attempt at painting this scene- I think I finally got the feeling right.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

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Mike X. Nichols @mikexnichols.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Whenever an actor signed to a Harry Potter project issues a statement

The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown. “They drove a dump truck full of money to my house.”

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Beautiful 900-year-old medieval floor tiles… and I can’t unsee the sliced pizzas! 🍕😂 Chapter House, Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire. 📷 by me #TilesOnTuesday #Archaeology

My photo shows close-up detail of worn medieval floor tiles in the Chapter House at 12th century Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. The earthy-brown coloured tiles feature creamy -yellow coloured intricate floral and geometric patterns, and letters of the alphabet. Some of the tiles feature circular designs divided into wedge-shaped sections which look abit like pizzas cut into slices!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

WOW, new finds from the Ice Age! Two absolutely stunning Ice Age figurines from the Swabian Jura were found, dating back around 40,000 years. The tiny carvings, about the size of a thumbnail, depict two birds, rendered with remarkable attention to detail. Snow grouse, buzzard, or...🧵1/2

A close-up photo of the two tiny figurines.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/07/2026

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.