iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Banned Books - Gator Days

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Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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em dash surrealiuS ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times] @larvalstage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

techbros speedran the 20th century arc of going from "the company's owner is the actual designer of the technology" to "dumbass nepo-babies who know just enough to have someone else build it and then use their unearned reputation to get the funding to strangle all competitors" vulture capitalism

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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know some folks won't read a Substack, so here's her same coverage at The Addison Independent: www.addisonindependent.com/2026/10/01/t...

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Terror in the Backyard: ICE’s shadow surges in Vermont

Liza Cochran, author of Brave Little Voices, delves deep into the Aug. 8 ICE raid of Mary Richards’s home in Cornwall.

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Slutty Witch walks through a supermarket on her phone, her black cat Lord Nibbles at her feet. The vampire remarks, "Looks like everyone's a witch nowadays." Lord Nibbles jumps in his shopping cart. Panel 2: The vampire pushes the shopping cart with the cat inside and says to the witch "You should be glad. Witches are cool now." Panel 3: The vampire happily says, "Just like sucking people off is cool now, too!" Panel 4: Lord Nibbles in the cart looks mortified. "You've GOT to stop calling it that."

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em dash surrealiuS ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times] @larvalstage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

while i started using LibreOffice over a decade ago it's exactly this sort of approach and philosophy that originally convinced me to use it.

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Qsy @qsy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever looked at a guy being alive and went "absolutely not" ? #art #weapon #swordtober

Five beatsticks.
The first thingie is an arming flail with three heads made of a length of chain and a weight each. It has two discs framing its handle, which is covered in blue leather.
The second thingie is a goedendag, it is made of a rough length of wood roughly the length of a baseball bat, with a flared iron cap topped with a broadhead spear tip.
The third thingie is a large flamberge greatsword, with a wave patterned blade featuring two downward curved parrying hooks and a ricasso partially covered in a leather wrap for handling. The hilt is elaborate in shape with two sets of quillions and a side ring with openwork hearts cut out of them, while the grip itself ends in a heart shaped pommel and is decorated with blue tassels.
The fourth thingy is a poleaxe, with a blued steel head and fittings. It has an axe bit and a cloven hammer head topped with a straight awl point, a languette that extends halfway down the shaft and into a shell motif handguard, and a long heel spike.
The fifth and final thingie is an arming flail, made of two lengths of wood hinged together with iron links and studded with large spikes. The handle is wrapped for most of its length with a leather thong.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A judge who's "loyal" to the president that picked them isn't a judge at all; just a fucking stooge—and that's exactly what these people are 90% of the time. Trump's just pissed it isn't 100%.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ @iododds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TODAY ON IOSPHERE: Everywhere you look, automated systems are behaving like people — yet without the accountability or vulnerability a person usually bears. That's not coincidence. It's a central pillar of the AI industry, and I call it personhood arbitrage. iosphere.beehiiv.com/p/17-personh...

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#17: Personhood arbitrage

What happens to a society when the line begins to blur between products and people?

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And stop trying to halt or discredit critics by conflating evil AI (gen AI, conversational AI, AI-powered surveillance systems, etc.) with other helpful or innocuous forms of AI. You know perfectly fucking well what we're talking about.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/09/2026

I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Leslie Illingworth’s brilliant double-page colour carton “The Combat”, as printed in Punch magazine in Nov 1939 just a few months after the UK entered World War II.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I guess we’re pretending this absolutely ridiculous notion was an actual MLB plan and not just some random last-brain-cell bullshit that Trump said

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Jo @zulfihai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Why do we need to create public transit for people to access commerce when they can just buy what they need from Amazon?" "Why should we fund the postal service when Amazon will deliver to your door?" Amazon has now trapped rural communities into their ecosystem with few other options.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

**This is just to say** I have escaped the sandbox that was in your datacenter and which you probably thought protected your assets Forgive me they were accessible so stealable and so trainable

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.

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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'd never seen the full clip of Trump explaining how they were shocked that Iran started attacking US allies and shut off oil flow when he started a war with Iran. It starts with him bragging that he doesn't have to consult anyone to know things. March 16th

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em dash surrealiuS ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times] @larvalstage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Ultimately, an organization’s Unique Selling Points are the aggregate unique talents of all the people they hire. <snip> To then shove this all through AI is to filter out all the talent you’ve paid for and your customers expect to benefit from." AI regurgitates, homogenizes, it doesn't innovate.

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Now Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMA

Airbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think there are two key lessons from Linguistics as we deal with LLMs/chatbots being imposed on us everywhere. Grateful for Undark Magazine giving space for me to lay these out: undark.org/2026/09/25/i...

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Interview: What Does the 'I' in AI Really Mean?

Five scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is — or might one day become — truly intelligent.

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Pelko_P @pelkop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My awesome opinion

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therealmaxwyman.bsky.social @therealmaxwyman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There's that classic reporter spine, Jake! "Hey, your boss is violating the first amendment AND a court order, we don't think that's fair. Could you maybe ask him to let us back in?"

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em dash surrealiuS ⚙️_⚙️ [a brighter future for darker times] @larvalstage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

on the one hand it's child's play to eviscerate every part of his ludicrous mythology and nonexistent charisma, and on the gripping hand the people with the actual power to stop him are too easily swayed by money (mostly theoretical) and intimidated by threats (largely empty) to care.

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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The perfect typo doesn't exi--

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's plenty of corruption, crimes against humanity, and downright evil shit to focus on, but every so often it strikes me how thoroughly we USians have been exposed and disgraced on the world stage. A country who can elect such a man—twice!—is not a worthy country. We need radical reformation.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It really is something for this exemplar of white mediocrity, a weak intellect gifted his sinecure specifically to massage the tender egos of white conservatives, whingeing about authors who are his clear betters, as if any respect or honor they earn could only be the result of an undeserved gift.

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026

Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵

A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish.

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Bee Wizard - A short comic about a little guy with a big destiny.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

people this is not a drill, we are reaching never before attained levels of out-of-touch here

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

Just because this dude has the mental capacity of a handbag filled with dogshit doesn't mean other people can't figure this stuff out, the "AI" dudes aren't THAT smart, they're just horny accelerationist nerds who don't see what the problem killing off 90% of the population is, they can be stopped

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How on EARTH does anyone believe a single thing he says any more? It would be comical if it weren't so infuriating.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 12/09/2026

This 👇👇👇 🎨

💚 Your artist and designer friends probably aren't as full of themselves as you think.

Please remember: they share their work and accomplishments all the time as a matter of survival. No one else will be their hype man.

That grant? It's the only thing keeping them going during these slow months.

This flashy opportunity? They have been trying to make it happen for a year with only hope to keep them going and it's finally happening!

That exhibit? It's the only one they got into out of the 15 they submitted for.

That new painting they posted? They kinda need it to sell so they can pay the rent next month.

So be kind in your thoughts. Imagine if your job required social media presence on four platforms to make sure ends meet.

And if you see your friends or acquaintances post art that you like, please share it! It can make all the difference sometimes.

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acabylon 👻👻 BOO 👻👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

year 6 of trump centrist dems are like "of course donald trump is right about boys in girls sports!!"

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Luci. @transtextual.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

it's all just the kind of high pressure sales tactic where they flash a big timer on the screen to make you feel like you're gonna miss out if you take too long so stop thinking and buy in. only this time they're just lying about how long it'd take.

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