iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead.

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Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Is this mountain out? Oh, yes. Quite. Is that *other* mountain out? Nope.

Mount St. Helens viewed from the northwest, showing the truncated summit, open crater, and recovering forest in the North Fork Toutle River valley below, July 27, 2026. Photo: Chris/Mount St. Helens Archive.

Mount Rainier's glacier-covered slopes are visible through clouds from the Mount St. Helens area, July 27, 2026. Photo: Chris/Mount St. Helens Archive.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

May I interest you in a local credit union?

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For Reasons(tm) I have stayed off news most of the month. 1. Mitch McConnell still breathing? 2. Has anyone been: a. Impeached b. Fired c. Indicted 3. Do we/do we not have a deal with Iran? 4. Any new states dying of dysentery *ahem* cyclosporwhatever? 5. ICE murdered anyone new?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

obligatory portland thunder post: there is thunder occurring in portland oregon

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Joan Sebastian Salguero, the 26-year-old husband & father killed by ICE today in Maine, was at least the 9th person killed by federal immigration agents, and at least the 22nd person shot, during the lawless regime of Donald Trump.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

ICE: "so we murdered another person in broad daylight with total impunity. in our defense we were scared in an abstract way"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026

No. Put Sam Neill back and try again.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Dear neighbors, Fireworks were yesterday. People are trying to sleep. Thnx.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Wait, sportsball is still happening? I thought it was over. You guys were really happy about *checks notes* Green Cape?

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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GeekFilter 🏳️‍🌈🐻 @geekfilter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Something hit me while we were watching tonight's episode...so I made a graphic. And now I feel very old. #TOSSatNight

A graphic with a deconstructed American flag, the silhouette of the enterprise Top down flying up the screen with text underneath reading "For roughly 1/4 of the entire history of the United States there has been Star Trek."

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 05/07/2026

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 05/07/2026

america 250 immersive fyre festival experience

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember when prominent evangelical leaders in this country claimed hurricanes are God's punishment for homosexuality, and Republican lawmakers declined to condemn those claims. I wonder what the National Mall being struck with a thunderstorm tonight means in their view.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I like how BlueSky is live posting the July 4th disaster in D.C. as if it's a sporting event

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Evacuation ordered for events at National Mall as storms gather near Washington ahead of Trump's July 4th speech.

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

what color is the reflecting pool today. my mom wants to know

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ah yes the three genders: LGBTQ+, monster smut, and unhinged

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 04/07/2026

“The Declaration of Independence” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"But how will they know you're a miracle worker?!?"

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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

sorry everyone dealing with heat domes but at this moment Portland Oregon possibly has the most beautiful and perfect summer weather known to humanity

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you’d read this in a sci-fi novel, it would be perfect. “July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the nation. The capital grounds are empty, the crumbling remains of a despot’s carnival baking under the heat and haze. The toxic air above is shifted by nothing save the passes of military jets.”

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dad referred to the jet flyovers as "the sound of freedom", so I guess I'm not participating in the group chat today.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Today the UK celebrates 250 years of independence from the tyranny of the United States of America. Imagine living in a society where the leader can repeatedly break the law and nobody stops them!

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Declaration of Independence threw shade at Trump, 250 years in advance.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/07/2026

Imagine if it happened today

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Laura J @laurajpdx1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'd love an updated version

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/07/2026

Half of the Declaration of Independence is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against King George III and his regime. 250 years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Trump.

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Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump.

It's uncanny.

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻 @punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I want to clarify that I'm not hoping he's going to die or wishing that he'd die. I'm simply asking, in an inquisitive manner, whether he's dead yet.

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Anthony Anderson: There's A Difference

Alt: Anthony Anderson says "There's A Difference." Laugh Track GIF.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 03/07/2026

For America's 250th, I read Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on the House floor—for the first time in history. His speech endures as a mirror & mandate for us all—to confront our inequities while fighting for an America as good as its promise.

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