iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Moving from Ziv to Ahuza (different neighborhoods of Haifa) today. It has all the luxury features you’d want in a 1960s apartment! Such as this “dishwasher”. It pumps water into an upper cabinet and… well, the mechanism isn’t clear what happens next. It drools water back into the sink?

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Michael Vokabre's art stuffs @procyonity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Evening in Acre (עכו عكا) over Mediterranean Sea

Vertical painting, slightly square-ish, with a sunset over the sea and a cafe by the sea, drawn in watercolours with ink lines. In the middle is the the sea with some rocks, a sun to the left, coloured clouds to the right and top, a cable with lights in the middle, and in the bottom are two deck benches with pillows. Two women sit on the bench on the right, the woman on the right with purple-ish headscarf, the woman on the left has long dark red hair. In the distance by the sea walks or dances a young woman with long brown hair, smiling, wearing a long shirt and jeans. There are two more chairs left of her.

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t know where I messed up but my foreign language conversation app is now trying to teach me workplace English. Is this an HR intervention?

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none of your twee spooky names impress me @24shaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

someone on our freecycle’s giving away scout badges and I can’t stop thinking of the stolen valour

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Did the North truly win the Civil War?

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Repost with your home river, Atlanta version

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s like Alston Christmas here at the Technion. Dumpster is full of mattresses, and clothes are strewn about. We are just trying to toss our miniature trash bags to keep our Airbnb ant free

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Last night in Neve Sha’anan

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Work wants me to verify my identity with Duo, but somehow it doesn’t work

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why is there a pool in the middle of a roundabout? I don’t get it. Is the pool on the top floor and really tiny or massive and underground?!

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So the buses here come frequently. They have wifi and usb charging. Some of the low traffic street stops have a screen telling you when the next bus is coming. And at the big stations, they have AC bus waiting chambers.

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Spouse is out acquiring important knowledge: How do buses here work?

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey everyone! We moved to Haifa yesterday, and I also became a citizen. 🥳 I can vote in the October 27 election! This process has been a long journey with many pitfalls, ups, and downs. We are still adjusting. We are living in temporary housing and scrambling to find an apartment

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Autotranslate is taking some liberties here! (The conversation was about playing multiplayer on Baldur’s Gate)

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This isn’t anyone’s fault, not my spouse’s for sure, but there’s something off about the oven where we are staying. It turned the dairy kugel black. 😦

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The books my in-laws have….

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What’s going on in Gowago?

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a “No True Scotsman” joke, right?

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Understanding the data is the first step in the data classification journey.” - AWS documentation 🤔

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Not every shiny metal is gold. Words of wisdom.” - Twin 1

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Hardy Life- Business- und Achtsamkeitscoaching @herrnharder.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Leute, bei allem, was mir heilig ist, ihr müsst eure Kinder von zwei Dingen fernhalten, solange es geht: Gen AI und TikTok (& evtl Social Media generell). Das ist kein Scherz. Wenn ihr nicht wollt, dass sie sich ihr Hirn frittieren, sprecht mit ihnen und reguliert ihren Internetzugang.

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I saw someone promoting ADL <—> Leo Frank conspiracy theories on Facebook. Leo Frank is a bit of a special interest of mine, me being a Jew from ATL and whose folk come from Marietta, and to see the shit people are claiming… I stopped myself from arguing and did a quick search of “adl leo frank”.

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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026

I think about this a lot.

Tim Henke
@TimHenke9
eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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Select all squares with traffic lights

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ken Paxton stole someone’s $1,000 pen. He’ll steal your tax dollars. He’ll steal your healthcare. He’ll even steal your pen. I'll be a Senator who puts money in your pocket — and I’ll never put your pen in mine.

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C.H. Romatowski @chromatowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Important thread for understanding ME/CFS: what is the difference between PEM (post-exertional malaise) and PESE (post-executional symptom exacerbation)?

Four tweets from Todd Davenport

PEM ‡ PESE
That is all. Carry on. ☺️

I took my dogs out for a walk today. My arthritic hip is really acting up now. That's PESE. It came on right after activity it will improve again with rest (until tomorrow, when the dogs want to go out again 😅).
No delay, no prolonged recovery, and no unusual symptoms. Not PEM.

The point is that a whole host of health conditions are characterized by PESE. It isn't specific for ME and ME subtypes of other diagnosable health conditions. Enter PEM-the abnormal recovery response apparently driven by multi-system bioenergetic impairment. It's its own thing.

Confusing PESE and PEM remains an obstacle to recognizing ME, especially against the backdrop of other health conditions that have fatigue as an important component. This remains a challenge to making clinical decisions minimizing harms and creating coherent cohorts for studies.

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The Rational Dispatch @rationaldispatch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In this passage, Hannah Arendt explains how a generalized obsession with "the suffering of the masses" causes political actors to step in and speak on behalf of an abstraction, completely erasing real individuals and giving rise to extreme political cruelty. #HannahArendt #Philosophy #Quotes

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Kid yelled at me when I told him to open up his “web browser” that I should stop calling it that, but he seems even more irate when I tell him to open up his Netscape instead. What gives?

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/08/2026

Water will find its way through cracks in walls and foundations in such a manner that even the most wondrously designed structure may collapse into pile of rubble. Do not attribute agency to the water; rather, denounce the engineers and the builders and the maintainers who failed in their work.

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Rest of the month: Newton -> ATL -> Newton -> Haifa

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Ofherb 🟦🌈🕎🌻🎶🐈 @bestsurvivor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

People with long COVID describe symptoms of brain fog, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, lack of motivation. Scientists have struggled to identify the biology behind all of this. A new study suggests measurable changes in the brain's dopamine system. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new...

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New study offers clues about long COVID’s brain symptoms

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’ve actually taken up learning about Stoicism (as a philosophy) as an indirect result of my illness, and it has been immensely helpful.

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sometimes I’m so embarrassed to like anime

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Liori @liori.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

הטיעון שאי אפשר לשלול טענה על קשר אם הקשר לא הופרך מחקרית הוא כל כך עקום. לפי אותו היגיון אי אפשר לומר ש"גזענות אינה הגורם לצונאמי", ש"חתולים אינם הגורם להתפתחות המוזיקלית בעשור האחרון" או ש"מוסד הנישואים אינו הגורם לרצח העם בעזה".

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This home EEG test is beyond what the members of my family are capable of 😑

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Scarina’s Vault @scarinasvault.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

IT’S CICADA TIME! LET’S SCREAM! ZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRCHKZXXXXXXXXZZXZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRCCCHHHK

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חיינה אדל @harriet75.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

UJA statement on attack in NYC #jewsky

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Andrew Ferguson @dontfuck.men · 17/07/2026

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

A poster for Shrek Rave with a giant green laser 3d head of Shrek wearing sunglasses. The text below says “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The unethical promotion rapid prompting & its variants has harmed autistics a lot--& so has the unethical practice (as in this review) of denying any communication to any autistic who in the past has ever been subject to rapid prompting etc link.springer.com/article/10.1... ABA-based standards, free

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Systematic Review of Authorship in Rapid Prompting Method, Spelling to Communicate, and Variants: Outcomes, Significance and Clinical Implications - Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder...

This is a systematic review of authorship in Rapid Prompting Method (RPM), Spelling2Communicate (S2C), Spellers Method and variants, techniques akin to Facilitated Communication which are increasingly...

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lauren @laurens.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ya know I got the PEM real bad when all I can do is watch a 3 hour 22 minute documentary on the Challenger Disaster.

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