iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The thing I’d do is more switching between kid and adult link instantly to complete certain challenges. Like maybe some version of the magic mirror from LTTP as an item. You don’t get it until just before Ganon’s castle, but there’s fun replay value in using it after you beat the game.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1h

Like I’m not saying we need 3 new dungeons and also if you enter a cheat code you get to explore part of Termina (though a character in the Lost Woods alluding to its existence would be a cool reference). But there’s ways to thoughtfully add to this game.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 2h

I think the physical limitations of the cartridge back in the day were, on balance, a good thing because they forced devs to get creative and make choices. But 30 years later, you have zero technological limitations, it’s baffling Miyamoto doesnt want to do his own director’s cut version.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t see the appeal of an OOT remake without a playable Light Temple or other cut beta areas. If you’re not fulfilling the wish of every 90s kid to see the GameFaqs hoaxes they wasted hours on actually come to life, what’s the point?

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 6h

“Why are the kids suddenly protesting a speaker who calls Islam a death cult being on their campus rather than engaging in a debate?” Because we’ve reached a point where enough kids are either Muslim or have Muslim friends, and they don’t want to fucking debate it.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My take on Twitter is as follows: It was incredibly important during a once-in-a-century pandemic and a simultaneous once-in-a-century social justice movement, for the world and for me personally. My mental health is much better because Elon destroyed it shortly thereafter, the world is not.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Movements are supposed to have different messages for different audiences. The right understands this, lefties/libs either don’t or think it’s disingenuous.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The reason I don’t get sidetracked on lib vs leftist discourse is because both do things. Marriage equality was obtained by some people saying, “This won’t lead to children’s books about two daddies,” and other people saying, “Fuck that, we need educate children so they don’t grow up to be bigots.”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I feel like every piece of popular media does so badly is paint a picture where if you ever have a whiff of the substance you went to treatment for, you’re suddenly an out-of-control “addict” again and all of your progress is gone. I need to read your book, I’d imagine it dispels this.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also, you could prevent most baldness if every 18-year-old man’s GP was like, “Hey, unless your family are all Norwood 1s, you should consider starting finasteride to preserve your hairline.” We don’t because of a few anecdotes of persistent ED which weren’t even necessarily caused by the drug.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Something I think about a lot. No, we don’t have free will in the literal biological sense. But nihilism isn’t the logical next step from that. One person who is driven to not do harm because of their genetics and environment can help create an environment that leads fewer people to do harm.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Canada’s most prominent TERF writing an article in the Daily Wire slut shaming the Cornell survivor is just such an incredible illustration of our current moment.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plus people who live in the district are getting bombarded with HMP ads reminding them that John Braun is scum of the earth, which motivates making a choice.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IMO, ideological voters aren’t known for leaving big ticket races blank, they want agency. A write-in campaign or not having a top-two system and a viable indie/green on the ballot could’ve created this problem for her, but neither of those are the case.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s a wave year, her base is going to open their ballots and vote for the not R option. Whether she survives 2028 is a different story.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s kinda hard for me envision anything like an NYC subway system with this city’s population, but the DC metro feels like a good approximation of what we ought to have.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m looking at their website and that looks more explicitly like a place where dudes who are adept at violating consent under the guise of kink are going to be. It’s two sides of the same coin, but Slutcon seems like it has just such a sad pathetic incel vibe.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think for the dudes who organize these parties, absolutely. I think there’s guys going to these parties that do want genuinely sex rather than control and haven’t unpacked the absolute nonsense that patriarchy has done to them. Not that this excuses their behavior.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Men will literally pressure their female co-workers into “networking” sex parties instead of going to therapy to get over the crippling anxiety that is preventing them from checking out the swingers scene.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Osborn could theoretically barter committees out Dems with, “I’ll negotiate to potentially be your 51st vote when Fetterman is being a dumbass.” The thing he can’t do and get re-elected is be a reliable vote on procedure, because that’s how you get, “He votes with Dems 95% of the time,” ads.

rollcall.com

Who would this independent caucus with? ‘Everybody’

Three independent candidates made the trek to Capitol Hill this week to make a point about AI and data centers, calling on Congress to rein in a “real threat.” They also made a case for another realit...

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This entire discourse started because some dumbass TERF was like trans women can take hormones or have surgeries but the Taliban will never oppress you the way they oppress “real” women. Which is true in the sense that you can’t experience oppression under a regime that executes you first.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think this country is about to sleepwalk its way into an incredibly lopsided midterm with a large number of Trump voters just opting out of the process because they don’t trust anybody anymore. The question becomes how do you build on that so it lasts for more than one cycle. See below.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marcy Kaptur voted for DOMA, and 30 years later she’s doing this. Sure, white working class district blah blah blah. I just can’t imagine spending your entire career consistently being in the wrong side of history to hold on to power.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There weren’t even middle schoolers at the high school keg parties I went to. What the absolute hell are they doing letting in 13-year-olds?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

newrepublic.com

MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yep, like I said, shows some indication, but a ways to go.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pritzker shows some indication that he understands what needs to be done, but he’s still got a ways to go to demonstrate that and we’re all gonna be skeptical about a billionaire. Then again the last President to understand fighting fascists was FDR and he was a product of generational wealth.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only other way out of this is two conservative SCOTUS justices having heart attacks at the exact right time, but even then it’s only a temporary fix.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

LGW says: "It's unclear what impact withholding or releasing these records would have." No, it's not. If a parent is on trial for beating their child when they get detention, it's VERY BAD to have a law on the books that says schools are required to tell said parent when their kid gets detention. /2

As for a child’s “disciplinary records” it is unclear what the impactwould be of withholding or alternatively providing such records when a parent is the subjectof investigation for abuse or neglect. If there were a specific reason for withholding thatinformation from a parent under investigation, presumably the school or other interestedparties could seek a court order restraining the release

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The wild thing that you won't quite glean from this story unless you read the links is that Let's Go Washington's own legal analysis says that parents on trial for abusing their own kids will have access to their disciplinary records, unless the school gets a court order to prevent it. /1

seattletimes.com

Gov. Ferguson warns against ‘under the radar’ ballot initiative

Ferguson joined Democratic Party lawmakers and other allies Thursday in warning voters against an initiative that would modify parents’ and students’ rights in public schools.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Brian Heywood 🤝 Tim Eyman Terrible at writing single-subject initiatives

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Proud of you, and appreciate all of those before me who paved the way. I had friends who were telling me for years, “Ehh are you sure you’re cis,” but it really needed to see lots of trans people living happy lives to admit it to myself. 💕

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LMAO it’s so true. One of the reasons I’m nominally hopeful for the future is that people are going to realize, “Wait haven’t we already banned trans people from sports, why the fuck are they still talking about it?”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I came out late 2021 just as a media obsession with a trans woman doing well at swimming was about to kick the anti-trans panic into high gear in the US. It’s now a much harsher world than the one I thought I was coming out to, but I wouldn’t do anything differently.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One thing that really pisses me off is that I genuinely think, “No, government needs to get the fuck out peoples’ health care decisions and let parents and doctors decide,” would actually win you more votes in Texas than capitulating on this. This is a different issue than sports.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People will be like, “The gays became successful when they dropped the ACT UP tactics for HRC and Will and Grace,” and like anybody with a cursory understanding of movement building knows you never get to the latter without the former.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I enthusiastically voted for Hillary because her filling Scalia’s seat would’ve meant the first liberal majority SCOTUS in my lifetime. But I think many of the people you’re talking about aren’t leftists, they’re ”anti-establishment” white dudes like Joe Rogan and mostly over on X now, not here.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s so fucking good at this. Never been more livid about the natural born citizen clause in the constitution.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I agree it’s real, but scolding people does not solve the problem. It’s the responsibility of candidates to earn peoples’ votes, not the other way around. Hillary could’ve, for example, added single-payer to her platform after the primary, saying, “Bernie showed this has broad support, let’s do it!”

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I broadly agree, except for the part where Talarico’s odds are a coin flip, they’re less than that. He’s the 52nd or maybe 53rd Senator if the wave is big enough. Peltola and Brown are the ones who have demonstrated they have the juice under the right conditions to get us to 51.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Democracy isn't the thing that gets normie voters' attention, true. But you still need to message on it and still move the goddamn Overton Window so we can actually do something about it once in power. That's not primarily the job of aspiring backbenchers, it's the job of leaders.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I mean he's correct that red to blue candidates in marginal districts need to be talking about affordability. I want to hear party leaders talking about democracy, and if I don't hear it, I think we need new party leaders.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The social media staffer who told them to post this on Bluesky is definitely a closet anarchist who is laughing at the QTs.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m sure they could find a rationale to make him the unitary executive of Washington DC, too, so zoning issues won’t be a problem.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You’re thinking too small. Expand the ballroom so that it runs a mile down E-street from the White House to the Kennedy Center.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I mean I agree with you, but I suspect the 6 high priests might find it within them to issue a shadow docket order saying that he is, at least until two years from now when the case gets a full hearing.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Again, the thing Dems should learn from Trump is that the national DC press corps is not your friend. But rather than shouting, “You’re fake news,” you can instead calmly call them out on their bullshit.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In pleading with you all on this website that, “Go knock doors,” is the correct response to a bad election take.

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